The wound was showing up purple to his mystic eyes.


    She was definitely in the early stages of the infection, but after touching her wound, he could feel that it was a little warm and was definitely swelling.


    Pulling her down further, Ss touched her forehead before finally sighing.


    "We''re going to have to stop for a second." He looked back at the rest of the group who were watching him curiously.


    "No! We don''t have time for that!" Jessica tried to pull away, but for some reason, she couldn''t. His arm was hurting a little, but it was Ss'' steel vice grip holding her in ce as if she was nothing but a ragdoll to him.


    "I mean, if you want to die then sure?" Ss let go of her arm before shrugging and continuing forward.


    However, after hearing his words, her face dropped before she stuttered out-


    "Uh. W-Wait!"


    "What?"


    "Why would I die?" She asked.


    "Your would is infected. I''m surprised your healer didn''t tell you." Ss looked back at their healer with a shake of the head.


    "I''m out of mana!" The healerined. She had been healing the entire group before, and she was spent.


    "We''ve been walking for hours. You should have more than enough mana now." Ss narrowed his eyes.


    Maybe it was because Jessica was a little bit of a bitch? Sure, she was an ass to him, but it didn''t seem like anyone liked her.


    "Hmm..." Ss looked back at the wound and began to trace out two spells.


    "Purge." He muttered, killing most of the bacteria around the wound.


    He then analyzed the rest of her wounds and used purge on them as well. He could have used an incantation, but since he hadn''t used one for a couple of years now, he had forgotten most of them.


    After purging all the harmful bacteria and sanitizing her wound, Ss quickly used heal without tracing out the runes or saying anything. Heal was an extremely simple spell, and since Jessica only had w wounds on non-vital areas, it was more than enough to heal herpletely.


    "How do you feel?" Ss asked while rubbing his finger over the ce where the wound was.


    "Hurts a little when you touch it, but otherwise it''s fine." She replied, her eyes averting from Ss'' gaze as a small blush showed on her face.


    "What?" Ss asked.


    "Sorry about earlier."


    ''Apologising? Maybe she hit her head?'' Ss asked himself before shrugging.


    "No problem." He stood, took the bag he was holding earlier, and began to walk again with the rest of the group.


    "We should be close." Jessica pointed out where they were.


    They had walked pretty deep into the forest, and for most of the group, they couldn''t see anything past their feet.


    *Crack*


    "Shit. If we fight it here, we''re done for." Jessica cursed before looking at Ss who still had his ice axes on his back.<novelsnext></novelsnext>


    "Can you gather up all the mist?" She asked.


    ''I already used fire and water, so I won''t be able to use air here. Though, I think water will work for now.'' Ss thought before muttering words under his breath so no one could hear what he was saying, especially the Azure.


    Now, they could see him either, so when he dashed back, he instantly put his hand into the air and created the tier-3 spell.


    Ss was pretty sure that, now that he had reached the topaz core, he could use tier-4 spells the normal way. However, he was choosing not to.


    With his current mana pool, a single normal tier-4 spell would definitely drain at least half his mana reserves.


    Sure, a runic tier-4 spell wouldn''t do that, but he didn''t have enough time to trace one out.


    After a few seconds, they all heard the creaturee closer and close. Branches seemed to be breaking on the way to them, allowing most of them to assume that the creature was enormous.


    However, by then they didn''t have to imagine anymore since the fog was beginning to clear up.


    It was much thicker thanst time, so the water sphere above Ss'' head was already the same size as thest one despite the fog remaining.


    ''I need to get rid of this one'' Ss thought, and when no one was looking, he created tier-three spells from his feet and both his hands at the same time.


    The spheres of water broke into four beforepressing and elongating at the same time.


    With a snap of his fingers, Ss quickly turned them into jagged ice javelins beforepressing them even more with all his willpower.


    Waving his hand, Ss shot all of them at the same time toward the direction of the iing python.


    Ss couldn''t see the python''s mana core yet, but from the pressure it was released, he knew that it was at the very least in the amethyst core.


    No... It felt a little stronger than that.


    When the javelins shot beyond what their vision could see, they all heard the python''s movement halt.


    "Did you get it?" Jessica asked, but Ss raised his hands again and did the same thing to the fog around them... Just for save measure.


    *ROOOOOOOOAAAAAAAR*


    A bloodcurdling roar sent a wave of mana throughout the entire forest.


    The warriors covered their ears with toki before using their hands as well. However, the mage and healer weren''t so lucky.


    Azure fell to her knees and screamed out in anguish as a horrifying amount of pain coursed through her body.


    She felt like her blood had turned intova, making her feel like her entire body was boiling from the inside.


    Her brain was being rattled so much that she was beginning to forget everything about herself, and just a secondter, they all watched as she fell to the ground, brain matter slowly leaking through her ears while blood flooded out of her nose.


    Just like that, she was dead.


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