Chapter 16: Corrupted

I regained my balance as I cast a quick peek at my adversary, who was giving me a moderately impressed look on her face. I willed water into my right palm and a condensed ball of fire in my left.

My mind started to race as I tried to come up with alternative strategies I might use to win, but she had me in a checkmate position.

She wanted to see it so badly; I’d just have to show her.

Mixing water and fire, I create a massive cloud of steam, completely hiding us from everyone.

The cloud of steam vanished quickly, but it did give me enough time for me to make a spear of water. I hastily repositioned myself after tossing the spear of water just as the steam scattered. Of course, Olivia easily blocked my water spear before dashing towards her, just like earlier, I was blown away by a powerful wind wave, there was no way for me to get near her.

“Hah! I must admit that I'm totally persuaded! I see you, Elizabeth." She does a handclap to shatter the hush. She clapped her hands, breaking the silence.

" I believe that should be plenty for a demonstration." I stroked my brow.

“Yes… That is more than enough, she said. She paused for a long moment before turning her attention to me.

"You did pretty well, but there is something amiss in your body, the way you develop mana, and how you use it made your lucius corrupted," Olivia says as she scratchher hair.

"Corrupted?" I respond to her with curiosity.

While approaching us Jack says, "Yes, I had assumpt that in these years I trained you."

"Then why didn't you told me?" I say staring at him.

"I wasn't secure that you had your lucius corrupted, Olivia can tell this because she can feel better the mana from other bodies," he exclaims before turning his gaze to Olivia.

"You can do the ritual right?"

"Yes, I can try but I don't think it's gonna work, her lucius is completely corrupted, after absorbing the impure ambient mana from an early age it could have happened easily."

"What happens if I don't do the ritual?" I ask trying to smile.

"Well, you can become completely corrupted and become a beast or simply die," Olivia says intertwining her arms.

As soon I heard that my expression fell.

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"T-then what should I do?" I ask starting to feel scared about this.

"Just stay still," Olivia exclaims before I feel a powerful surge of mana surrounding her body, I can't help but tremble at this moment. All of a sudden, the mana around her body seeped back into her and my eyes widened.

“Just free your mana from your body. Don’t try to control anything. I’ll restrain you if you can't keep control of yourself, after all those years of absorbing outside mana there is a possibility that you lose control.” she instructed.

After a nod in response, she moves her hand towards my lucius.

Instantly, I began sensing all of my body weakening, like a hot gust of air was flowing in and out of my pores.

As I felt my body reaching its limit, an explosion get me back to see what happened, only for me to see Olivia getting thrown back and Jack with Ava falling back and rolling back as well.

An excruciating pain instantly surges from my body, as if I had an exoskeleton that was pressing itself inside my skeleton. Without even the power to shout my vision dims. All of my vision becomes black, I'm surrounded by the darkness again...

I woke up back in my bed, I sat up feeling surprisingly restored. Sitting to my side, laying her head down on my shoulders was Ava. It reminds me of when I had escorted her back home after saving the elves from the slave traders.

Jack stepped in soon after some time passed and he sat down on the other side of the bed, not bothering to wake up Ava.

“How do you feel kid?” His lips curl into a grin.

“I should be the one to ask this, you and Ava flew after I made that explosion.”

He just let out an embarrassed chuckle. “I have to admit I wasn’t expecting that great of a force. After the explosion finished almost all of the garden was utterly destroyed, if I didn't cover Ava she would be ash at this moment, Olivia thought she was prepared but underestimated you and she ended up with a few not severe injuries."

I move my gaze to ava looking at her sadly.

"Well, now that I ended up speaking about the bad things, now I speak about your lucius." He starts walking inside the room while speaking.

"You can use better your mana now, for example, you had problems absorbing the ambient mana here, now you can absorb it with not many problems, your lucius was obtuse and it couldn't absorb well mana."

"Right, I forgot about one thing. Olivia gave you a tip, while you use water try to imagine to condensate it.

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