BXBX NOVEL Chapter 563 562: Tearing Out the Heart
Chapter 563 Chapter 562: Tearing Out the Heart
Mana spilled from my fingertips as I sent a compressed beam of ice straight towards the Crystal Mimic, clashing against its heat and covering its crystalline body in a thin layer of frost that inhibited its movements, buying Leone the time she needed to crack open the crystal spire and tear out the heart of this island.
While water would counter the flames sputtering off of its body easily, the ice was doing more than enough to counteract the heat that the Crystal Mimic tried to bring forth with its various spells.
Additionally, the slow that my frost applied to the monster was what I was truly aiming for with this spell, hoping to keep it slow and chip away at the crystals that comprised its body, my theory of the continual shifts of temperatures to damage the monster one that I hoped was true as well.
After all, when something solid shifts between the high heats of being consumed by fire to the deep chill of being frozen, most of the time that causes quite the damage to that solid\'s structures, especially something that is as frail as crystal can be.
While I kept the original Mimic back, Anput, Jahi and Nirinia fought against theirs with vigor, their blades clashing against the Canine and Demoness Mimic\'s weapons as they held the two Mimics back with their superior techniques and ability to utilize their own magics, while the Mimics fought solely with their desperation and reliance on physical capabilities, which were above ours.
I could hear Leone behind me chopping away at the crystal spire, the Vampire grunting as she created a weak spot on her own before switching her compressed blade to a rotating drill bit, deciding to crack through the crystal with her magic.
Considering we had no real idea on what would happen if we destroyed the heart from range, we didn\'t want to risk just blasting this entire area with high explosive magic since there was no guarantee that the crystal spire would break nor was there a guarantee that the heart would be damaged, so we went for the more likely option of just tearing the heart out.
It would seem that this safer, more guaranteed option held a longer required timeframe to work as we stood our ground for another minute, the Mimics growing more and more crazed as they watched the Vampire slowly make her way through the crystal spire, revealing the beating fleshy orb that was the heart of this island.
Crystal littered the ground around her as she chipped through the spire, widening the opening and allowing herself to slip inside the crystal spire, observing the wrinkled orb for a few moments before resting her hand on it.
The three Mimics all screeched in desperation as they watched her begin to imbue the heart with mana, overloading it and raising its temperature drastically, making it beat wildly before it eventually began to sputter out flames.
Flesh tore apart beneath the onslaught of her mana, sputtering flames into the air and mixing with the reddish silver liquid that splashed onto the ground as the heart continued to be burnt and eviscerated from the inside out.
Screeches mixed with the sound of the flesh tearing apart rapidly as Leone overflowed the heart with her Fire Mana, the whooshing of flames joining the cacophony around us as the entire fleshy orb burst into flames, the outside blackening under the heat.
The flesh sizzled as everything began to burn, and with another drop of mana Leone took a step back, tracing out a spell in a second and hurling a lance through the heart, piercing the flesh and allowing more of that silvery blood to splatter on the ground.
With the heart burning and now impaled by a flaming lance, the Crystal Mimic and its copies fell to their knees, clawing at their heads and screeching loudly as they slowly tore themselves apart, chunks of their crystalline bodies scattering across the ground as they died.
Approaching the heart, Jahi raised her great sword and cleaved it in two, letting the halves plop to the ground and weep blood into the volcano\'s stone, silencing the beating and allowing Anput and I to take a breath and relax our ears.
But, we couldn\'t relax long as the mountain began to shake, each of us looking around before we rushed back towards the entrance of this platform, looking over the edge of the pathway and staring down at the glowing pit below.
Magma began to seep out from the bottom of the pit, returning to its chamber and sloshing around as it began to slowly make its way towards the vent, filling the magma chamber and cutting off our original path.
"Alright, Anput, we need you to take us down the side of the volcano. Let\'s make a beeline straight for the beach!"
Without further adieu, Jahi scooped Leone into her arms and began to rush towards the edge of the platform, returning to our battlefield with the Mimics and scaling the walls quickly, looking for where the Gate was that connected this island to the Empire.
As we stared over the forest below, we saw flames burst from the ground and begin to burn the trees, while the Undead\'s portion of the island was already ablaze, the gases in the air and dead vegetation making it prone to catching fire quickly.
Portions of the volcano were already crumbling away, large boulders rolling down the side and crashing into the forest, knocking down trees and destroying the forest in preparation for the eruption to come.
Looking around, we located the portion of the island that we were familiar with and turned towards Anput, who was scanning the side of the volcano for the best place to descend.
Finding it, she sheathed her blade and began to cast a spell, creating small platforms of rock that we jumped onto as we began to descend, the Jackalkin making platform after platform in mere moments as she guided us down towards the ground.
We reached the forest without issue, and we began our rush through the trees as the island continued to tremble and quake, while the earth burst open to reveal the magma underneath, burning the once lush vegetation and trees to little more than cinders in moments.
Casting a spell of my own, I hastened our movements and rid the air of the acrid tang of smoke, making it easier to reach the beautiful beach that we had come to know over these last few days.
Waiting for us at the Gate was the Marquess and Cali, the two women standing beside the purple Gate and staring at the tree line with narrowed eyes, completely serious as they waited for our return.
Upon seeing us, the Marquess just nodded and gestured towards the Gate, while Cali grinned and slipped inside of it, disappearing from sight.
And just like that, our time on this island came to a close as we rushed through the Gate, not taking a second look back as we transported ourselves back to the Empire.
Back to safety, and back home.
Back to where our family waited for us.