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Chapter 188: Hail Before Storm (4)

"Bareth...?" Shinto muttered out as his eyes scrutinized the chrysalis on the crossing. "He's in there? No... More importantly, Rustly? How come he's in there as well?"

"The cause of this entire situation is due to the man who we fought earlier," Blake stated. "It seems he wanted to defeat the beast with the Ice Queen's Blade which isn't even near its full potential."

"Huh? The Ice Queen's Blade?" Crowelin raised her brow. "Is that not from the Kingdom of Fal? How the heck did he even get it from such a place when it's treated like some national treasure?"

"He didn't give an explanation," Hikari shook her head helplessly. "I'm not sure when it was taken away, but surely we wouldn't have safely gone through Fal's streets without a sudden uproar. So, I believe that it might've been taken as recent as possible."

"...recently," Crowelin murmured. "So within that two days time frame we left Fal to here?"

"Perhaps it was taken two days ago, but, that's not the point of the situation right now," Blake uttered out. "With Bareth coming out at any moment... I would like to ask that all of you cooperate. If it goes well, we will get Rustly back. However... Bareth might put a detriment effect over the plains."

"What do you suggest?" Shinto questioned.

"As I was trying to calmly get my point across to the man earlier, we can subdue the chrysalis if we were to have a purifying flame powerful enough to go against the ice," he explained. "Then with the priest's holy essence combined, it should have enough to get Rustly out of the husk and escape from here."

"Wait... You say escape?" Raina tilted her head. "Just earlier you said we could prevent the worst-case scenario from happening. So, Isn't that the reign of the beast over the plains?"

"The worst-case scenario is us losing Rustly permanently, is it not?" Blake answered objectively. "If we were to widen our goals and stop the beast, then the worst-case scenario at that point would be the reign over the plains. But, that is not our initial goal."

"Um... Yeah... Our is to get Rustly back... But um..." Frey inquired. "Didn't you say this um Berith guy? Baruth? Ah, whatever! Didn't you say that Bismuth guy caused eternal winter here? If that's so... Shouldn't we like also prioritize that?! He's a threat! To this rising temperature which is really cold!!"

"...is that all you care about?" Ethaniel clicked his tongue. "You know if he were to have caused eternal winter, how do you expect the possibility for us to defeat him? That feels way too farfetched."

"It indeed is too farfetched for us," Blake nodded his head. "Thus, instead of dealing with the bigger problem ourselves, we'll leave it up to the people of Fal to deal with it. I assume that it's possible for them as I believe they've dealt with this before."

It was a fact that the main matter at hand was to get Rustly back. It didn't mean defeating the beast and gaining total victory, though. This was because the current strength of the group was weak and even with the help of Hikari and Crowelin, nothing much would change.

"...hmm, are they made aware of the situation at hand?" Hikari thought. "It might be a lost cause to believe in something that is unlikely to happen, even if they have countermeasures..."

"Yeah, I'm with Hikari on this," Crowelin stated. "This village here seems to have been abandoned for a really long time, and with this place being called 'Bareth's Tundra Plains', which is far from the kingdomI can't have that high of an expectation."

"Perhaps so. But even if what you say is true, there is nothing we can do to avail the situation. Thus, we'll only go for Rustly. If you wish to do something regardless, you could go on and inform the kingdom," Blake stated. "But, I doubt they wouldn't know as the atmosphere has gotten that much worse than before."

"..." Listening in on the discussion, a thought came to Shinto's mind. "Why are the beings of divinity so quiet all of a sudden?" After he had initially completed the task of defeating 100 monsters in the area, there was no longer any interaction from the side of divinity. "There's a disaster that's going to happen and I'm not being ordered around to do anything..."

By right, Bareth would definitely be judged as [Greater Evil] by the Judgers of good and evil, yet, even with its near emergence, the beings were as quiet as a needle dropping on the floor.

"...did something happen?" Shinto thought to himself. He remembered that the [Purgatory Blood Queen of the Night] was at the necks of the divine beings, and he had thought a fight might've broken loose. But, that's only to that point. He reckoned both sides wearn't dumb enough to start a war over nothing. "Hmm... If it was just a matter of forcing me to defeat every evil that would appear, I would've gotten a quest by now. But that's good that I haven't. I don't have to worry of any penalties."

With slight relief, Shinto turned towards Blake as he uttered out. "Right, I believe the matter should've gotten across everyone. So... Besides Raina and Hikari, what do you want me and the others to do?"

"For everyone with a pure holy essence attribute on them, helping these two would be perfect," he stated. "As for the rest... Prepare to pull out Rustly at a moment's notice."

"That's it for us?!" Frey cried out. "Wait... Isn't that just me and the slimes?!"

"Well... It seems that everyone else has a pure holy essence attribute on them," Shinto slightly chuckled as he took out the necklace from his neck, soon passing it over to Frey. "Here, have the necklace and talk to them. They've been discussing the topics of Rustly the entire time while we were discussing the situation."

"Um... Alright! So... I'll... Speak with them for cooperation," Frey nodded her head firmly as she turned to the slimes. "Let's do this guys!"

"Ugh... Of all people, you?" Reru seemingly frowned, however, he soon turned around and leapt forward towards the chrysalis. "Well, whatever. I hope you don't ask for an explanation and just put all your strength in getting Rustly out,"

"Yeah, let's do it!" Frey answered.

"Hah..." Reru sighed. "Erith, Minister Yer. You best not say a thing when we get back. Especially you, Minister Yer."

"R-Right...!" Yer frantically nodded his head.

"Of course," Erith agreed.

...

Standing in their positions whilst pointing their weapons at the cocoon, Shinto and as well as the rest all had a certain uneasy face on them.

"...so, we basically cast out all our light related skills at the cocoon and have Raina throw out a big purifying flame spell?" Hikari asked in hopes of confirming her doubts,

"Yes. That's how we'll do it," Blake stated. "With the holy essence weakening its epidermis layer, Raina's spell will force a small gap through the chrysalis and we'll be able to quickly take Rustly whose within it, out before it regenerates."

"Sounds rather simplistic," Ethaniel uttered out. "Will all our spells even manage to do it?"

"I believe so," Blake firmly nodded his head. "Everyone here has plenty of spells that contains pure holy essence, so, even if one isn't powerful enough, in combination, it should all be fine."

"Hmm... Well if you say so... Then I'm starting first," Crowelin nodded her head as her hammer began protruding out small light energy around it. In the next moment, a small burst of light forward over towards the cocoon.

[ Paladin Skill - Shield Holding ]

Following up with her attacks, Ethaniel and Hikari both shot out their skills simultaneously.

[ Judgement Knight Skill - Judgement Pillar ]

[ White Priest Skill - White Silence ]

...

Finally, Shinto who was the last to shoot out his light attribute skills quickly activated [ Sanctum Brilliance ]. Moments after, he began to silently chant out two spells, soon shooting out one that was a blinding light whilst the other was that of a linear line.

[ Shadow Diviner Skill - Divinity Brilliance ]

[ Shadow Diviner Skill - Hallowed Crest Brilliance ]

At the moment of all the lights intersecting against one entity, the cocoon shook greatly. As if wanting to emergence from its slumber. But, from behind the four adventurers, Raina stood at her place whilst she chanted out a spell of flames.

"...blazing through the darkness... I call upon, Flames of Etheral!" Shouting out with a loud cry, the spell [ Flames of Etheral ] burst forth from her staff as he collided against the area weakened by the light attributed skills, thus leaving behind a small hole that was quickly beginning to regenerate.

"...now!" Blake shouted out as he and the rest all quickly rushed towards the small hole that was made by the skills and quickly attempted to pull Rustly out of the cocoon.

"Almost there...!" Frey cried out as she placed all strength into her arms whilst pulling the slime out together with the rest. "And...! Wait... Argh...! I'm losing my balance...!"

Suddenly stumbling down to the ground, Frey brought down the rest with her, and with that, the hole of the chrysalis shut closed.