Saint & Wanderer

feels the hostility from it. This only makes her more nervous, and as she kills it, she falls down to her knees and pukes as pressure crushes her.

Kurt watches this and has enough.

”ALUM! THATS ENOUGH! ” Kurt yells as he launches a rotating rock bullet at him.

And Alum dodges it without much effort, and the bullet kills the ghoul behind him.

Meanwhile, Kurt realises what he did at the moment of his rage and is filled with regret. But that was not all. He is currently stuck onto Alums ice wall as hed been dragged there by his water threads. Around him were needles of ice that perfectly surrounded his body.

”…. ”

Alum sensed that Kurt had given up, and he let him go. He then looks at the people he ordered to follow him.

”Next, ” Alum calmly says.

— :::: —

In the snowy mountains, a certain Saint heals soldiers affected by corrosion. It was eating them away as their flesh decayed.

Every soldier here fought the ancient dark beast, the Selges. It isn known why it awoke from its slumber, but the soldiers have been sent to seal it away again before it fully awakens.

Of course…. That was the plan.

And unfortunately for them, by the time they arrived, it was already fully awake, heading toward the capital city. So with this in mind, they called reinforcement, and at first, only The Hero was sent, but as it turns out, it was very resistant to anything that wasn light magic.

Hence, they sent their Saint as well.

So in front of said Saint, soldiers cry as they feel grateful for her healing them and restoring them back to health.

There were just too many soldiers for the medics to cleanse and heal. After all, both healing magic and cleansing magic had high mana requirements and took a hefty toll on the caster.

But this wasn too much for their Saint. After all, her mana pool was tremendous.

And in the background, explosions were echoing through the snowy mountain range.

”….I will be going now. More healers have been sent here, ” Amethely says as she looks at the miserable state of the camp.

There are some corpses decaying since the healers here were exhausted and didn have enough mana to save them, and it wasn a pleasant sight or smell.

Still… it wasn something she hadn seen before, and shes a Saint that treats all kinds of injuries. Albeit, this is her first time getting dispatched to a battlefield.

”Thank you, Saint Amethely! ” the soldiers express their gratitude as they cry in tears of joy.

Amethely shakes her head and gently smiles.

”No need to thank me, and rest well. Once all of you get back, spend some of that time with family and friends. ”

Amethely reassures them as she gently gazes at the tornado created by none other than her big sister.

”So have faith in Chely and everyone, okay? ”

As everyone present looks at her with admiration, but she worries for everyone and her sister, who is in battle right now.

She takes deep breaths and strengthens her body with enhancement magic as she materialises her divine blade: The Celestial Construct.

In an instant, she launches herself into the air and flies towards the giant tornado.

Meanwhile…

Chely fights off the colossal Selges that covers itself in darkness as it ejects homing projectiles towards all of them. Each acidic projectile explodes and corrodes the area it lands, or worse, kills or inflicts them with corrosion as they rot away in minutes.

And right now, they are all in Chelys storm barrier as she restricts the area so that the beasts attacks wouldn get out.

But unfortunately for them, Chely was running low on mana, as the barrier had been up for quite a while, which exhausted her by the hour.

Despite her massive amount of mana, she can finish it off. It covers itself in darkness, and the only way theyve been able to massively deal any damage to it is through light magic.

Their mages were getting exhausted as theyd been casting high to mid-level light spells. And little by little, chipping its defences.

Tentacles fly their way and smash on their barriers, and things are getting worse as they run low on high-performance magic cores that generate their barriers.

Also, the mountain terrain made it hard for them to transport powerful magic weapons. Thus they had to rely on long-distance magic artillery.

And thats why they had to keep the beast in place because the magic requirement to charge and fire the acceleration mana gun could take up to 15 minutes between each shot, or they, risk bursting the barrel itself.

The artillery weapon is located in the capital since it is the only one advanced enough to reach this far.

The projectile is also enchanted with light magic, which results in each hit dealing incredible damage to the Selges.

But the problem was that it restored itself back to health before the next round. Their goal was to chip away at it until it couldn regenerate anymore.

But that proves to be pretty challenging since they
e the ones being chipped away with corrosion.

Cleansing and healing that corrosion also requires a lot of mana, hence. They are running low.

And as their barrier is cracking. Then a beam of light incinerates the tentacles, and a hole in the clouds opens up as the projectile reaches them.

But, their barriers have cracks, and the explosion would surely kill them, however… Amethely arrives in time and protects them all.

The explosion of this round causes the foundations of the mountains finally collapse, and the whole thing begins to fall.

”Im terribly sorry Im late, everyone, ” she apologises.

But they just shake their heads.

She smiles as she looks at her older sister charging in for an attack now that its black armour was destroyed.

Amethely chants light into her blade, buffing everyone in the vicinity, including Chely, and they feel incredibly stronger.

She had increased their defence as well as their attacks. She infused their weapons with a high-level infusion spell and clad them in light.

This armour of light had the property of a catalyst and allowed the ones she buffs to chant mana through her as she acted as the source.

All in all, their Saint is one of the most valuable individuals because she can strengthen whole armies. Not only that, her personal combat capabilities are just slightly below The Hero.

”Thanks, Ame! ” Chely yells as she cancels her storm barrier to smack the beast with so much electrical energy that it incinerates the mountains behind the beast.

And of course, it was Amethelys mana she used….

”Sister, please don use all my mana, or youll trouble everyone! ” Amethely cries as she charges in with everyone.

Chely smiles as she hears her sisters complaint.

”Well just have to finish this fast, then! ” Chely shouts.

And, of course, that was possible since theyd been chipping away its armour for hours. That last shell from the advanced mana acceleration canon did its work, as the Selges didn have enough mana to sustain its regeneration.

As they attack the weakened Selges, and its cries echo through the mountains, it blasts itself to make Amethely and the others distance themselves from it.

And then the Selges shrunk in size and converted the body parts into mana, it was now desperate, and everyone except for Amethely and Chely suffocated by the heavy mana in the atmosphere.

A massive energy ball of acid and dark electricity the size of a mountain was above them all.

”A suicide attack! ” Chely angrily yells as she flies towards the massive energy ball.

Even if they kill the beast, if that goes off, they
e all very screwed.

Because with that amount of mana, a blast radius of 7-10 kilometres was very real and wasn a joke.

”Wait, Sister! ” Amethely cries as she grabs Chely.

Amethely stopped her since she knew Chely would try to redirect the attack.

”….What are we supposed to do then! ” Chely responds with frustration.

”With this, ” Amethely says as she looks at her weapon, she changes its shape and expands it.

”But…. ”

”Its okay. I think I got enough mana for it. ” Amethely reassures her.

After all, changing the shape and size of The Celestial Construct required a massive amount of mana.

Amethelys divine weapon. The Celestial Construct is indestructible and can take any shape and be materialised without mana. However, changing its shape on this scale requires so much mana that Chely was scared Amethely would break her mana foundation and be unable to use magic.

But Amethely creates a dome around the blast, and as it goes off, nothing happens.

And the Selges collapse on the spot, lying dead as it had converted its own life force into mana for that one last attack and failed.

Amethely smiles as she looks at everyone cheering, her vision becomes blurry, and she can sustain herself in the air and faints.

Chely has a grim look on her face as she catches the unconscious Amethely.

She broke her mana foundation again….. she mutters in frustration.

Typically, if that were to happen, the person or creature wouldn be able to produce or make mana flow in their body. Or, in the worst case, fall into a coma.

However… for some reason, Amethely recovered every time, but… it couldn be taken for granted that it would the next time.

— :::: —

The next instant Amethely wakes up, she is in the Kilenloths churchs treatment facility. And beside her was Chely.

”…Good morning, Ame, ” Chely greets her with a faint smile.

Feeling weak and sluggish, Amethely sits up as shes being attacked by a headache.

She knows the reason for it; her mana flow is abnormal, and her foundation is broken, so she feels strange.

”Good morning, big sis… what happened to the subjugation? Amethely meekly asks.

”You
e so reckless, ” Chely complains.

”Im… sorry, ” Amethely apologises while looking down in shame.

Chely gets up and is in tears and hugs Amethely.

”….What if you didn wake up? I was worried, you know! ”

And as she cries, Amethely hugs her back.

”Im sorry… for how long was I unconscious? ” she asks.

”5 days… ” Chely replies as she hugs her more firmly.

To be honest, Chely didn think it was necessary to completely block the attack and instead redirect it. But knowing Amethely, shed feel guilty if it took innocent lives by the corrosion it would spread.

”I see…. ”

”We lost some good soldiers, but most survived, thanks to you. ”

”I only did my part… and there was reinforcement on the way…. ” Amethely says to undermine her achievement.

[Shes always been like this….] Chely complains in her head.

”It doesn change the fact you were a major part of it. ” Chely wouldn back down.

”….R-right….. ” Amethely awkwardly says.

”Well, Im glad you woke up before I got dispatched again, ” Chely says as she sighs in relief.

”…Huh? ” Amethely stares at her sister, not fully understanding.

”There was a spatial quake recently, right? And Sir Rigeld appointed me to greet the wanderers who fell through the unfortunate crack. ”

”….I see. Thats rare. ”

”The quake was in the southern plains and should be about 3 days from here, ” Chely continued.

Chely then looks into the distance.

”We will take them in before they get kidnapped by an unethical organisation. After all, if they don bring powers into this world, then their concept is enough. ”

”Right… do they look like us? ” Amethely curiously asks.

”They
e human too, from another world, that is, ” Chely replies.

”I see… they
e like us….. ”

”And apparently, Keilyn said one of them is a tyrant. ”

”Tyrant….? ”

”Thats what she saw in her vision, at least, ” Chely nonchalantly replies.

Amethely then feels slightly conflicted. Are they really taking in such a person?

Seeing her sister slightly gloomy, Chely pats her head and reassures her.

”Don worry. I won let any harm come your way, ” Chely says with a wide grin.

”….I can defend myself even without magic, ” Amethely says as she starts to sulk.

Chely puts her hands on Amethelys face and stretches her cheeks.

”Come on, won you let a big sister be a little cool, at least~!? ”

”Hmpf! ”

Chely bursts out in laughter as Amethey pouts.

”Pft… aha. ”

Amethely was giggling as well.

”Hehe~ then take care of me, big sis! ” Amethely says with an adorable smile.