Chapter 395 White Flame Sage Hand

The voice was reverberating directly in my head and heart. It was the G.o.ddess. I felt a mysterious weight pressing down on my shoulders

And then I started to gradually lose mana.

Ooohh? A Battle Spirit clad in a garment of water?

Is he someone belonging to the twelve distinguished families?

I thought the huge black beast might be a guardian, but

But, hes not wearing an army uniform.

Rather than that, where is this place? The trees growing hereIve never seen those types before

The people close to Rollodeen commented as they pleased. Apparently they havent grasped grasp that theyre currently in a different world.

And then Rollodeen lifted her upper body, trying to look up at the water G.o.ddess. She imposingly stood on her two hind paws.

Nn, nyaa, she meowed.

Lifting one of her front paws, she revealed her pad.

She repeatedly lifted and lowered her front paws as if asking, Want to receive my paw seal nya~?. To me it looked like nothing more than cute cat antics, butmy partner was currently in her huge divine beast form. Thus, it obviously scared the people she had rescued.

But, I understood through my senses. This

should be an ability thats influenced by battle

Do not fret, Divine Beast who received Sadeyula and Gaias blessing. I am no more than an illusion.

The G.o.ddess had apparently read Rollodeens feelings.

Let me answer your question. Just as you thought,

is originally an ability that causes an illusion of me to clad a weapon. This time I have used it as a water call. And I projected my own illusion by using the water in the area and the majority of the mana activated by you

I comprehended from Water G.o.ddess Akreshyss voice. I was looking up above my head. The wheat-colored sun shone through the transparent garment, beautifully illuminating her inner thighs. I had no bad intentions in looking. It was just that I was looking up to her from right below.

Im a guy, too. So I ended up staring at the deepest place between her pretty legs, her crotch. It had a color reminiscent of water. Its shape was rather small, and she wore extremely refined panties which were adorned with frills and highly artistic strings. Seeing how shes a water G.o.ddess, I guess you can call those G.o.dly panties.

Her clothes were similar to Helmes, but the coloring was slightly different.

Hmm, an indecent stare

Oh s.h.i.+t!

I quickly s.h.i.+fted my eyes to Rollodeen.

Nn.

Has Rollodeen realized?

She immediately unleashed a divine beast punch, cutting at air.

Forgive me, Water G.o.ddess-sama. I am indebted to you. But, Helme has

In the meantime, Helme was about to become a single cl.u.s.ter as if imitating a crystal while glowing. Her Yellow Water Ribbon crest had surfaced as well.

Does this mean its related to

?

Did she absorb a part of the demi-G.o.ddess?

Indeed. In order to protect me

The demi-G.o.ddess might have been weakened, but absorbing a G.o.ddess was unreasonable even for your brave kin

Me trusting in her defensive capabilities also played a role, but I guess it was my mistake.

Yes. Im going to be more careful from now on. Are you going to return Helme to her previous state?

Be more careful? Helme, who used to be my kin, is now your bloodkin. Its her duty to protect you. Or to be more precise, the Helme over there is evolving. Itll take time, but I think she will return to normal eventually

Eh? This is the process of her evolving?

How long is it going to take?

In mortal time, itll require a millennium

Thousand years. Id hate to be separated from Helme for such a long time. Rollo is my partner, but Helme is also dear to me as a partner. For a G.o.ddess, such a long time might be no more than a blink of an eye, though.

Id like her to recover quickly. Is that possible?

Itd be impossible for an ordinary person. But, it might be possible for you

So it might be possible for me, huh?

Please tell me the method by all means

Very well. First, soak Helme in the lake over there and expand your sage art across the vicinity while pouring your mana into her. Next, invoke Water Cure after stimulating it with your mana. Then, if you can successfully remove the sc.u.m of the demi-G.o.ddess thats probably clinging to Helmes coreHelme should recover. Lastly, at the moment when you have retrieved all of the sc.u.m, shes going to spit out the demi-G.o.ddesss partsupposedly. This would be the proof of it having succeeded. But, the extreme difficulty

Okay, then Ill get to it at once

It had a nuance of me not really wanting to hear the last part of what the G.o.ddess wanted to say, but I didnt care.

For starters, I touched the metallic cross next to my right eye, booting up the Kaleidoscope. The metallic device, which would pa.s.s on the energy into my eyeball, deployed. It possessed a surface similar to a highly-efficient, intelligent gla.s.s. The attachment near my temple transformed into a just as always.

Frames were added to my existing visual field, and the resolution was enhanced as well. I scanned the wriggling Helme cl.u.s.ter.

High FormA00

Brain Waves: Immeasurable

Bod: Immeasurable

Gender: Immeasurable

Overall Physical Strength: Immeasurable

Elenium Integration: 99809

Weapons: Immeasurable

It was bugged. I scanned the cl.u.s.ter, but the dense mana was so heavily overlapping that it looked like a natural mosaic. I could barely understand that it was a wriggling being.

I deactivated the Kaleidoscope by touching the attachment once more.

Then I carried Helme to the lake. While soaking the Helme cl.u.s.ter with water from the lake at the sh.o.r.e, I poured mana into it.

At that moment, the cl.u.s.ter absorbed the water around it, instantly turning into a humanoid shape. The humanoid floated up while looking asleep.

I activated

and placed the crooked mana hand beneath Helme. Helmes core, a bluish-black orb, was exposed at her chest. Its the same orb she showed me when we formed a contract.

At the same time, pearl-like water droplets kept trickling down along Helmes nude body before falling from the mana hand into the lake.

Small, blue b.u.t.terflies squirmed on the bluish-black orb. This must be the sc.u.m the water G.o.ddess mentioned

I deployed my sage art. It allowed me to gain the sensation of being a part of the surroundings, as if having fused with nature, peculiar to a sage body. The mist of my sage art spread out. It slowly crept onward while creating wave patterns on the lakes surface.

Is it a herald of strong feelings? Though, the mana consumption that feels like its twisting my stomach is the same nonetheless

Different from the usual sage artthe mist looked like a dense blanket of white flames.

After confirming my vicinity, I focused on Helme, strongly believing that Id heal her.

I clad my whole body in Magic Combat Style without ever having attempted to run my sage arts and Magic Hand guided by Thought at the same time. But, I wont lose to the vague a.s.similation with nature.

So as to affirm my own self, I focused on the Magic Shoutaiyin Feijing in order to knead my mana, which was centered beneath my navel, once more. Ill decide it through my inner strength.

On top of that, I silently cast Water Cure, invoking it. A transparent water globe, which was bigger and s.h.i.+ning brighter than usual, manifested in front of my eyes.

The water globe sank into Helmes body as if melting into it. And then I placed my mana-laden on a b.u.t.terfly that was coiled around Helmes core. I carefully grabbed the sticky end of the b.u.t.terfly and removed it by pulling it up from below.

White, burning hands appeared from within the white mist that had a.s.similated with me. The hands were covered by countless white flames, looking like they contained a burning, seething steel core within. The hands and my own hands performed a surgery on Helmes open heart, carefully removing all the stains polluting her core.

The blue b.u.t.terflies moved their sticky wings. They had multiple legs on their bellies like centipedes.

The hands and I threw away these trash bugs of Golgonshura. The instant the b.u.t.terflies came in contact with the white flames of the mist around me, they evaporated.

Alright, most of the cleaning is done.

It was quite a troublesome piece of work. Removing those clinging to the core with tentacles was a major pain.

Piiing

skill acquired

Piiing Conditions for

met Sage Occupation Cla.s.s has gone up

Piiing Your Cla.s.s has gone up from

to

, huh? I reached the next rank after apprentice while being watched by the water G.o.ddess. But, it looks like my spear and sage arts wont fuse yet.

I mean, my combat occupation hasnt evolved even after I killed Golgonshura. Well, seeing how

is an extremely rare combat occupation, it wont go that easily, I suppose. Well, various things might influence it either way.

Combat occupations you cant acquire unless you get woodworking-based skills should also exist.

Suddenly, Helmes throat expanded abnormally. The instant her mouth turned into a huge, round hole,

Guubuuhh!

She vomited some kind of object alongside some water. It was an oval gem which lightly floated on the lake without sinking. Its surface had depressions. Countless trenches ran alongside its surface, forming the shapes of small b.u.t.terflies.

Thereupon, the part of the b.u.t.terflies, which hadnt evaporated after being thrown away, headed for that gem. They were moving as vigorously like starving piranhas

The b.u.t.terfly successively bit into the gems depressions, and furthermore clung to its surface with their legs.

Eventually, the b.u.t.terflies stopped moving after adopting the same color as the gem. Following that, the b.u.t.terfly carvings on its surface revived as if the gem was filled with power. Its egg shape didnt change overly much compared to right after being spat out by Helme. It just lost some of its depressions on the surface, increasing the cleanness of the gem.

I grabbed the gem, pressed it and traced the remaining trenches with my fingers, but nothing happened. I didnt send any mana into it, since itd probably trigger something.

This gem was certainly interesting, but first I had to handle the matter with Helme. She was sleeping while floating above the lake.

Her sleeping face is adorable

I stuffed the gem, which looked like itd become a key, into my pocket.

Thank you for always, I strongly thought while brus.h.i.+ng Helmes hair to the sides. Supporting Helmes body, I carried her like a knight, before lowering her on the ground.

The gra.s.s at the sh.o.r.e was soft, making it a great bed. Helme was snoring lightly.

I wonder whether the surgery succeeded.