77 2.32 Fountain of Immortality - Part 3

By this time, most of the statues have stood back up, and it looked like they were trying to surround us with a similar formation as before.

"Now disappear!"

With those words, she released the dark orbs surrounding her towards the floating statues. The movements of these orbs were slow, but the statues weren't trying to dodge them, or showing any kind of reaction in that regard.

'Are they like robots programmed to do just the specific functions?' I thought. Considering how their movements had been until now, there was a possibility of that being the case. Thinking on that possibility the next question that came to my mind was: 'If they are, then who made them? Was it god?'

When the orb reached near the golden statues, the lightning surrounding the orbs became active. And when it right in front of them, the lightning hit them creating a thunderbolt-like sound. This ended up breaking the statues into pieces, but that wasn't all.

The black orb started sucking the air around while pulling the dispersed pieces of statues towards itself even before it could fall on the floor. And at the end of it, what's left was 16 big golden orbs showing no signs of any movement.

"They won't be able to move for a while," Yoru said while changing back to her girl form.

"Nice. Thank you, Yoru."

Her cheeks were a little red when she heard me say that, but I was just being honest here. These statues would have seriously been a pain to deal with if she wasn't here.

'Now, how should we do things from here?' I thought as I looked towards the girls.

They were still unconscious, so it may take a while for them to wake up. And even if they wake up, I couldn't let them climb up with me in their condition.

Now the few options that I had left was to either wait for them to recover, or ask Zagan to take them to his space if possible.

'Wait—'

[Hey Flare, can you hear me?]

[Yes, master. I can also sense someone else near you.]

Despite the calm tone, her words were definitely saying that she wasn't very happy about this. But there was plenty of time to bicker about it later. Right now, I had to ask what I contacted her for.

[Yeah, we can talk about that later. Be—]

Before I could move towards the important part, Flare interrupted me.

[Later? Don't you think we should discuss such things before doing them, master?]

[Yeah, you see, sorry, this just happened. More importantly, how are Drake and Billy doing?]

[They have woken up and are planning to move ahead.]

[Okay, tell them to stay where they are, there aren't any monsters there. This place is like a maze, they will only get lost if they try to move. After that, get ready, I am summoning you here.]

[Okay, master.]

[Hey Zagan. I think I need your help again.]

[What did you get yourself into this time, kid. I thought I was only going to make my entrance again in the final battle.]

[It's just that I messed things up a little bit. Can you pull the girls here to your space for me?]

[My space isn't some kind of Lodging service. But… well, I will just make an exception this time.]

'Man, he is acting all high and mighty all of the sudden,' I thought, but deep down I was glad that he was willing to do it. This will now make things a lot more convenient.

As I was thinking that, Zagan made his usual entrance from the red magic circle that appeared on the floor.

"Made your harem bigger I see," he said looking towards Yoru, who was standing next to me. Despite the casual words and expression, the look on his face was serious.

I just ignored the harem part and brought the conversation to the main topic. "Before you take them, let me call flare to check their condition properly."

I created a fireball with pure yellow Flames. During the training, Flare told me that these yellow flames were phoenix flames that I could use as her master. They could heal people and destroy evil spirits along with the undeads. These flames could also be used to summon her, all I had to do was create a small fireball and say her name.

"Flare."

The fireball started growing bigger by absorbing the surrounding mana. And out of it came flare in her divine form.

"Master, if I may ask. Who is this girl?"

'Woah! You are serious about this, huh?' I thought, but I couldn't say it out loud because I felt like I was being somewhat unfair to her.

"I am sorry. She is a spirit, and now my summon."

"You are awfully trusty masters. I don't have a problem with you having many summons. The problem is, she looks like the moon spirit. But the moon spirit was killed by gods thousands of years ago."

"What do you mean?" I asked looking towards Yoru in confusion.

"I am not sure. There is a possibility that she is the reincarnation of the moon spirit."

'Man, there is so much mystery here all of the sudden now.'

The looks on Yoru's face was saying that she too was clueless about what Flare was saying. We were almost about to reach the top floor of the labyrinth. And there would be sufficient time to think about that after all this is over. So, for now I tried moving the conversation towards what's important.

"I think we can discuss that part later. Can you check if the girls will be okay?"

"Alright."

She still didn't look pleased, but she agreed and flew towards the girls laying on the floor. She touched their skin with her flaming tail and healed the bruises on their body.

"They are alright, but they will need some time to recover," Flare said after she finished checking them.

"Okay, Zagan, please take them to your space. We can do a master-summon chat when all this is over."

"Well, okay."

After saying that, Zagan walked up to the girls and snapped his finger. And with that, the girls and Zagan disappeared.

After he disappeared, I walked towards the passage in the center. It was the passage that would take us to the top of the Labyrinth where Marina was.

"Okay, now let's climb to the top."

: Fountain of Immortality - Part 4