Chap 31: A broken heart in the storm
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“I’ll warn you first, Roman Kilian. You will never have a chance to win me.” Rosalyn didn’t say ‘meow’ in her speech anymore, replace by it was the purring sound deep from her throat. It meant she had been serious and frustrated “I give you the last chance to fix your mistake, if you listen to me.”
“It’s your arrogance, sister. You are killing our sibling relationship…” With a swing of his hand, a rapier had been summoned from the air and laid on Roman’s left hand. He pointed his weapon to his sister, looked at her eventually “…today, I hope that we can end this fate.”
Rosalyn was the type of person who acted more than speaking. Without saying anything, her image had been disappeared from Roman’s sight. She was moving around Roman, waiting for the best moment to ambush him.
As expected from the combined power of wind element magic and the feline bloodline within her, her speed was so fast, that even other students were stunned since their eyes couldn’t catch up with her anymore.
However, it was a different case for Roman.
“Passive Codex – Tier 3: Feline's Awaken Instinct.”
"Magic Codex - Tier 4: Wrath of the Storm."
Then, even Roman disappeared as well.
Bang! The crowd went into panic when suddenly, there was an explosion that occurred right at the barrier, causing the flash of golden light sparkling the hall with a terrible noise.
The winds from both Rosalyn and Roman inside the barrier had become two giant tornados rampaging from the hall’s ground up to the sky. They kept impacting each other, roaring a crazy cry that almost broke the ears of the witnesser’s standing around. Without the electric barrier, they believed that they wouldn’t survive if got hit by those crazy tornados.
Meanwhile on the ground, more and more royal guards came to capture Galen. Thanks to the training with Saeza, Galen could handle fighting them all. Since he didn’t have any weapons, he used his own martial arts taught by Saeza. He jumped up, stomped the head of the guards down, and stole their weapon to counter them. Whenever the guards hit on him, he just used Regeneration to heal himself.
Different than one year ago, Galen had been agiler and stronger. Each of his swings of the weapon was very accurate, very eventual that knocked out a group of enemies at the same time. However, how hard he was trying, the guards just came more and more.
Not only dealing with the royal guards, but Galen also had to keep his eyes on Roman, who was needing Galen’s healing in order to win Rosalyn!
With a sky-fallen kick, Galen gave a critical hit on a guard’s head that pushed him to faint down. He looked at the sky, the tornados were still blowing crazily. Until he saw the sign of the thunder mixing with that powerful wind, he could distinguish where Roman was.
“HEAL!” Galen screamed to the sky. A glow of greenery flew to the sky, headed to the center of the tornado.
The lighting by Roman’s magic, combined with Galen’s healing light. They both mixed together to create a beautiful green thunder, cracking non-stop from the sky and trying to destroy Rosalyn’s tornado.
Hearing Galen’s voice from afar who was supporting Roman, Rosalyn felt like her heart had been torn apart. Inside her mind, was an extremely undescribed depression.
‘Galen… why…’
Rosalyn, with her pink irises marked wind element magic pattern, looked at Galen with sadness as if she was going to burst her tears.
‘Why even are you trying to stop me?’
‘No matter how hard I try to approach you, how much I love and treasure you. But you just throw my heart away.’
‘No, no… I don’t want my effort to be in vain!!’
‘I don’t care whether I have to betray Our Highness. If I cannot gain you, I will destroy everything stopping between you and me!!’
‘Galen, please… listen to my feeling, just even once!’
Galen gasped. The tornado of Rosalyn – which had been weakened by the combined power of Roman and his…
…it slowly grew bigger and crazier. Among the chaos, he could hear the scream of Rosalyn.
“Hahaha… Hahaha! HAHAHA!! UWAHHH!!!!!”
The scream was mixed with the mad laugh of hers. However, a few seconds later, her voice slowly changed into the voice of her depressed cry, which gave the crowd a shivered feeling to their spine.
At this moment, Galen had understood everything!
“Kah!! It’s not good!!” Roman had exhausted all his aura energy to cause the pressure and pushed her power down.
But, he couldn’t make it. Even with the support of Galen, Roman didn’t have enough endurance to stop Rosalyn. The combat situation had been upside down and… BOOM! Roman’s thunder exploded on the sky and he began falling into the giant hole.
“No!” Without consciousness, a magic spell appeared right in Galen’s head.
Right at his chest, the seed of Galadriel was shining bright and boosting his power.
“ROOT FRENZY!!”
Everything that happened afterward shocked everyone since this was the very first thing that ever happened in their life.
At first, the crazy earthquake shook the entire academic area. Unlike the impact of Rosalyn, it was too strong that the ground began being destroyed, causing a series of huge and bottomless cracks on the ground.
Then, countless of the roots of the trees rapidly grew up from those cracks. They rose up with extreme speed, right in Roman’s direction.
Galen could imagine the roots by his will. Thanks to them, Roman safely landed on them without any harm.
When everything had ended, everyone dropped their mouth when witnessing the academic building had been invaded by full of trees and vines. Even Galen himself too, since it was his first time casting this overwhelmingly powerful magic spell.
“Wait… this can’t be…” A priest was shocked after that ground-shaking impact “How can a first-year student cast a MYTHICAL TIER 3 MAGIC?!”
“WHAT?!”
Galen slapped himself. It seemed he would be in big trouble from now on since he accidentally used the power of goddess Galadriel. According to what that priest said earlier, it meant he had evolved her seed into Tier 3…?
He then summarized all the skills he had ever got thanks to Galadriel.
- His tier 1 was Heal (Support type), which allows him to heal a single target by directly touching it.
- His tier 2 was Regeneration (Support type), evolved from Heal, allowing him to heal a single target from every distance as his wish. That skill even allows him to heal himself as well. Not only that, he learned a new ultimate skill: Resurrection (Support type) which can revive any dead plant.
- His tier 3 was learning a completely new branch skill: Root Frenzy (Crowd Control – Support type). This skill allows him to summon a huge amount of roots as his wish in a large area. He can even control how hard and how soft those roots become for his flexible combat situation.
This is a damn powerful evolution, he thought. Galen couldn’t imagine how stronger he would be if he could evolve himself into higher tiers.
But now, this is not the time to think about it anymore!
Because Rosalyn was floating herself, approaching Roman who was fainted out. She was going to kill Roman, but Galen was standing outside the barrier and he couldn’t do anything.
“Rosalyn, stop!!” Galen screamed while raising his fist, punched the electric barrier.
The burning smell suddenly attacked his nose. He burst out his aura energy to cast continuous Regeneration to heal himself and tried to pass through it.
Rosalyn’s heart gave her an itchy feeling when Galen called her name. However, the darkness was slowly eating her humanity. Someone was telling her… Galen was just standing on Roman’s side so just ignore him and kill Roman.
In the depression, Rosalyn listened to that stranger’s voice. She was going to cast Judgement to finish Roman, then…
“ROAR!!”
Something was rising from the bottom of the hole with the extreme speed with the roaring sound of the dragon. Rosalyn carelessly didn’t expect it to happen. She directly got hit by that attack, which caused the erupted explosion on-air and knocked her back to the electric barrier.
“Kyah!!” Being shocked by the electric barrier, Rosalyn fell down at the entrance of the Ritual Hall, just distanced Galen by a few footsteps. Her body got paralyzed that she was unable to move anymore.
Liana had saved Roman’s life again. Rosalyn completely forgot that Liana was jumping into the hole earlier.
“Thanks Goddess, I have returned back at the time.” She flew up from the entrance of the giant hole and protected Roman. In the dragon form, she looked at Rosalyn “Rosalyn, it’s over. My draconic meteor has an additional effect that it will drain the aura energy of any tier 6 or lower enemy to zero. You won’t be able to do anything.”
“Haha. Very impressive, you can even know which tier I am, meow?”
“You have made a big mistake when underestimating me.” Liana answered “If you dare to hurt my Galen, I won’t forgive you.”
“I see… Now I understand why Galen chose you instead of me.”
Rosalyn ironically laughed. She laid on the hall’s ground with an exhausted body.
But then, Galen’s voice echoed near from her. Galen had successfully passed through the electric barrier. However, he was exhausted when pouring all his aura energy to regenerate himself from being burnt.
“You are wrong, Rosalyn.”
“…What?”
“I have listened to your voice, your heart within the wrath of the storm.” Galen responded “I’m so sorry for cannot respond to your feeling. But I just want to tell you that to me, you are a great friend, a powerful professor.”
“Galen…” Rosalyn was about to drop her tears when hearing Galen saying that “But… But I even traded my loyalty to my mother, to be beside you…”
“I’m sure within this world, there will be someone who deserves to be your lover than me, Rosalyn.”
Galen gave Rosalyn a gentle smile. He used his last strength, crawled near Rosalyn until his hand reached Rosalyn.
He touched Rosalyn’s cheek which was soaked by her tears, and cast his last magic spell.
“Heal…”
Then Galen’s mind faded away, due to the effect of aura exhaustion.
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