Chapter 22: Chapter 22 – Intervention

Luke
blinked.

He
was sitting down on a chair, and in front of him was a piece of paper, about
one half of it scribbled with various oddly-shaped symbols.

“Luke?”

Luke
blinked a few more times.

“Luke?
Are you okay?”

Luke
turned his head to the right, only to be faced with a worried pair of eyes as
blue as the ocean.

‘Lala…’

Her
gaze cleared his confusion in an instant.

‘Why
did I blank out? It has never happened before.’

Luke
smiled at the worried Lala.

“I’m
fine. We can continue.”

Lala
sighed a breath of relief and scolded Luke.

“Don’t
worry me like that!”

“Haha,
I’m sorry, I was just lost in thought.”

Lala
pouted.

‘This
girl is really too gullible…’

At
this point in time in the previous loop, Luke still had his guard completely
up, but after only spending a few short hours with her, he realized how out of
place a seemingly innocent person like her was in this world.

He
gradually lowered his guard, and this of course translated to the current Luke
as well.

Luke
glanced at his watch.

‘18:50
o’clock. I need to head out right now if I want to make it to the village
before the massacre takes place.’

“Anyways,
Lala, I have urgent business to take care of. We’ll need to reschedule this
tutoring session.”

Lala’s eyes narrowed for a split second before turning back
to normal.

Luke wasn’t paying much attention to her expression as he
was in the middle of standing up.

As he stood up, he noticed Lala’s gaze.

She was just silently staring at Luke, pressuring him into
explaining himself.

“I really am sorry about this but I must go. It also concerns
the reason of why I blanked out in the first place. I have almost forgotten
about it.”

Luke was mixing in lies with the truth.

‘Why is she so suspicious all of a sudden?’

Lala plainly announced to Luke:

“I’m going with you.”

Luke raised his eyebrows in surprise. This was the last
thing he would’ve ever expected her to say.

He looked at Lala with a stern expression.

“I can’t take you with me, it will be dangerous.”

Lala’s eyes glinted as she put her right hand on her chest.

“What kind of a teacher would I be if I just let my student go
somewhere dangerous when he’s supposed to be in my care?”

Luke was left speechless.

‘She’s… passionate.’

“It seems like you’re going to come with me no matter what,
but I’ll say it once again. It’s going to be dangerous. We may even possibly
die.”

Luke couldn’t help it, so he decided to accept her proposal.

Lala suddenly stood up, swooped her right hand through the
air, and proclaimed:

“I can take care of myself!”

Luke sighed.

‘Yup. Passionate.’

“Fine. We don’t have much time, so follow closely behind
me.”

Lala
nodded strongly.

She
turned around and pointed her open hand towards her bag, probably full of
various supplies.

The
bag turned into a beam of light and disappeared.

‘What
the hell?! Where did the bag go to?’

Lala
turned around, and sensing Luke’s confusion, explained:

“Is
it your first time seeing a storage elemental?”

‘There
was such a convenient elemental?!’

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Luke
nodded.

“Explained
simply, it temporarily transforms material objects into mana, and stores them
inside of your soul. When you need to use what you have stored, the mana
transforms back into its original physical form.”

‘I
still don’t get it. How is it possible to transform something from a physical form
into an intangible one? If mana were to exist on modern day Earth, the society
as I know it would leap centuries, no, millenniums ahead!’

Luke
shook his head and put his jumbled thoughts aside. He had bigger fish to fry.

“Let’s
head out.”

Lala
nodded with a serious expression.

 

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Not
only was Lala able to keep up, but she did so with ease.

‘In
what way could she use the water elemental to move so fast? She was a priestess
of the Water Temple, so movement techniques were probably very basic to learn…’

If
Luke was to be described as a chaotic whirlwind while running, Lala would be
described as a gently flowing stream.

Any
movement she made contained a great amount of elegance.

‘She
would most probably be able to easily outpace and outmaneuver me if we were to
fight.’

Luke
got goosebumps at the thought.

‘I
need to be careful not to provoke the Temples too much before I get stronger.’

If
he was to get to the apex of this world, he would need to face off against the
Temples sooner or later.

Befriending
some of them was also an option, as long as they didn’t get in his way.

The
sun had already set about two hours ago.

The
village would soon appear in front of the pair.

And
so it did.

Lala
glanced at Luke and spoke out first:

“I
can see some lights up ahead. Is that where we are headed?”

Luke
nodded.

The
lights that Lala had mentioned were the ones coming from the various buildings
in the village, particularly from the tavern that Luke was familiar with. They
weren’t too bright but could still be noticed from where the pair was right
now.

‘I
wonder if Boldee was also murdered in the previous loop…’

Luke
hadn’t check Boldee’s tavern in the previous loop.

‘Did
I just forget to check? No… It’s more likely that I just intentionally didn’t
want to check.’

Luke
had a good opinion of Boldee, as he had helped Luke out a lot.

‘Well,
I’ll try to save him this time around either way.’

Luke
wasn’t here to save the villagers.

He
didn’t really care about them, plus one of them had already murdered Luke once for
a very petty reason.

It
just happened to fit his interests to come and stop the massacre from ever occurring.

‘I
want to find out who the hell that guy in the black robe is. I also want his
elemental for myself.’

Luke
had a hunch that whoever slit his throat in Millef while he was asleep had to
be connected to the black robed man.

Their
killing methods were too similar.

Lala
and Luke had finally arrived in the village, and so they started scouting.

Luke
then proceeded to explain what he knew about the black robed man and his bizarre
abilities to Lala.

Safe
to say, he quickly finished explaining as he had very little information.

Lala
nodded, her finger was on her chin, as if she were processing the information
that Luke has given her.

“Hmm…
I think it’s safe to say that we are dealing with someone who is using a shadow
elemental.”

‘A
shadow elemental?! Is that even possible to deal with?’

As
long as there was light, there would be shadows.

It’s
a cosmic rule that cannot be broken.

Or
so Luke thought.

‘I
know that I’m no longer on Earth, but shadows existing without any
prerequisites is just too absurd even to me!’

This
line of thought passed through the head of a man who could conjure wind and
fire out of thin air.

Luke
sighed.

“Do
you have any ideas on how to deal with such an elemental?”

Lala
furrowed her eyebrows.

“There
is something that may just work…”

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