Book 5: Chapter 19: Ritual Skill

Book 5: Chapter 19: Ritual Skill

Scarlet

Deciding to put it off till later, I nod my head at Divide and then look up at the cliff, where the reporters are all standing and staring in awe at me. Their cameras flashing repeatedly.

And without hesitation, I order, Cleanup the battlefield!

Yes Your Highness! The Guardians all shout in unison.

Then I transform into nothing but blood and leave the battlefield to head back to the headquarters again.

Seconds later Divider appears in the room, only to see me reforming myself into my lycan form with a grimace on my face. And after just a brief look at my hands, I find black veins beginning to pulse on my skin as heat envelops me.

Your Highness! Divider exclaims while rushing over and helping me stand after I almost lose my footing.

I raise a hand to stop her worrying as I tell her, Its a ritual skill level corruption. And I cant clear it without a ritual skill casting of my own.

She gasps for a moment before frowning as if recognizing the second part of my sentence. Then she asks, You can cure it?

I nod my head and let her guide me to a seat in the office were both in.

Before I can do that though Ill have to figure out how to use a skill in a ritual in the first place, I mutter, to which she quickly begins making some calls, apparently not having ever done it herself. And to neither my own nor Tars surprise, Amelia appears only moments later with a worried look on her face.

Makes sense that Amelia would be the first person to call in this situation.

[Bane of Corruption is now beginning its Ritual Activation.]

All of the Knights around me immediately put their hands on my arms or shoulders, following which I feel their own mana entering my body to be devoured by the skill. A skill that makes a bright red and white light shine from my body.

I let out another mouthful of black blood as cuts leaking more black blood start opening on my skin. But they dont last for long as each of them is immediately healed afterwards thanks to Lycans Regeneration. And then the process repeats over and over again until the light shining from me grows too bright to even see whats going on with my own body.

Soon enough the pain begins to fade, and I feel relief. Then the light starts to fade as well, but not before the skill took almost half of my total mana, along with several times as much mana from the Knights.

Once I can see again I heave a breath of exhaustion and collapse deeper into the chair. As if the chair could swallow me up right now.

I close my eyes and look inwards at the sensation of my reality healing, proving that it didnt take enough damage to be permanent. Meanwhile the wounds across my body finish appearing as well, and my blood returns to its usual red color.

But for some reason I head the others gasping and then applauding, making me open my eyes with a confused look on my face. One that grows even more confused at the celebration on their faces, and the pride on Amelias.

Congrats, Scarlet, Amelia says with a wide smile that only confuses me even more.

Scarlet, you should check your notifications and System Messages, Tar says, making me blink in surprise. Not only at his words but at the exasperation I can clearly hear in them.

Wonder what wait, did I?

Yes, you did, Tar says with a sigh. Congratulations.

A smile stretches across my face, and I immediately open my System Messages, letting them and the notifications flow.The roots of this story extend from novell bìn origin.