16 Chapter 16

A flash of white light suddenly appeared and it canceled out the fireballs that almost took Cairo's life

A woman with long silky black hair appeared and carried Cairo's body away easily

"Cairo! Are you okay?" Kira asked in concern while controlling the sands at her feet to move her

The familiar security that Cairo had when he was with Kira, John, and the other mages surfaced in his heart. Cairo started losing his consciousness because of the comfort it brought and he can only utter a single world

"P-Pain"

Kira's heart, ache at hearing that from Cairo. She treated the kid like her own younger brother and it also pained her to see Cairo in pain

Another round of fireballs formed and the magic fluctuations from them can be clearly felt by Kira. She moved the sands below her away from where the magic fluctuations are coming

Even without looking at the fireballs directly with her eyes, Kira still managed to dodge

After that, Kira shot a blinding white light above her to notify Adah and the others that enemies are approaching the town

There are already some civilians that were evacuated to safety when Kira arrived. She hands the unconscious Cairo to one of the mages to keep him safe

Arriving at the Townsquare, Kira saw that some of her team were already there while the others are busy helping the normal people to evacuate

"What's the emergency?" Adah immediately asked as soon as Kira arrives. "A group of hundreds of undead are approaching the town. There's a high chance that it was the doing of that Lich from before" Kira answered and the mages' face darkened

"Hmph! He's foolish if he thinks that we are not prepared for his retaliation"

Soon, the undead with stiff and black bodies arrived at the Townsquare too

The sea of ​​undead parted and the familiar lich entered everyone's eyes. In his hand was a long staff with a snake coiled in it

"Long time no see, bitches!" The lich 'greeted' but the mages only looked at him coldly and their powers were ready to erupt any time from now

Kira looked at the lich angrily, this was the person that hurts the person she considered as her younger brother. A rapier appeared in her hand and it was soon coated with a white light

Seeing that, the lich was visibly displeased at how 'rude' Kira was. "Is that how you greet people?"

As an answer, Kira's feet were covered with a white light and her speed exploded. In no time, she reached the lich before a black screen appeared and her rapier was blocked

"Bitch, you destroyed my entrance!" The lich said angrily before using the long staff in his hand to smack at Kira

Kira jumped away to dodge before the undead opened their mouths and fired poisonous miasma in her direction

The other mages also attacked at that time and various magical abilities were shot in the air

However, since the number advantage was with the lich, the humans are slowly getting pushed back

"Hahaha! How stupid! Why do you even have to protect the puny civilians?" The lich loved this kind of result before Adah made her move

The old woman spread a wave of magical energy to the ground and it resonated with red cores buried underneath the sands

Soon, small tremors appeared as the cores controlled the sands around them and formed three meters tall golem

There are about twenty of them, each packed a lot of strength. Just one punch from these sand golems are enough to kill an undead

These golems are different than the ones Adah made months ago. These golems have simple intellect and don't need Adah to continuously control them

The lich's expression visibly darkened. He spent several months to build and strengthen his army of undead but a single punch from the golem was enough to kill his minions, how can he not be angry?

The lich waved his staff and the dead minions floated. He threw them towards the humans that either block or dodge it

"Explode!" The lich shouted and the corpses caused several explosions. This caught some of the mages off guard and they received injuries

"[Wind Magic: Wind Scythe!]" Adah swipe her hands in the air and sharp condensed winds went to attack the lich

The lich tapped the ground with his staff and a hardened sand wall rose from it. With the protection of the sand wall, the lich retrieved a glass vial containing black fogs from his spatial ring

The miasma spread around. When it made physical contact with the undead, their bodies positively absorb the miasma and it made them stronger

However, the same cannot be said for the humans. Kira uses another one of her potions and a white fog clashed with the dark ones

The two canceled each other before she took another potion from his ring and drank it

White light covered the entirety of her body and she jumped high in the air. "[Light Magic: Light Charge!]"

Kira placed her sword in front of her while she descended down to where the lich is. Killing the undead wasn't a wise decision as they can be used by the enemy to injure them

Kira thought that the undead will only explode when they are killed but she was wrong. The lich threw one of the undead to Kira and it immediately started swelling as if it was going to explode any second from now

Without a choice, Kira uses her sword to block and the corpse exploded causing her body to be thrown away for several meters. Fortunately, the potions increase her attributes and she did not receive any injury at that

"Hehe ... don't underestimate Savage Sand Gang! We always helped each other. If not for the other elders being busy, this town will be removed from the world in just a few minutes" the lich said while laughing

Fortunately, at this time, the other mages joined the fight and alleviated some of the pressures

If not for the lich using several powerful magic items, the humans won't be in this desperate situation because of the sand golems' help

"[Shadow Magic: Death Ray!]" The lich pointed his staff at Kira and a black ray was shot from it. From the looks of things, that staff was a powerful weapon too and it enabled the lich to fight toe to toe with several mages

Kira dodged by jumping away but the hateful lich just chased her with the staff and a line of dark sand was formed when the ray hits the ground

"[Mirror Magic: Magic Ray!]" Adah controlled some sands and formed five mirrors from them to attack

The lich only uses the undead's bodies to block and holes appeared on them before he threw it towards the humans

"[Blood Magic: Blood Threads!]" John hold out his hand and tens of threads all made from his blood entered the undead's bodies that were about to fly in their directions

The threads stopped the corpses from moving and they exploded in the middle of the other undead. The explosion injured a lot of the undead and John retracted what remained in his blood threads that were caught in the explosion

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After only a few minutes, Cairo woke up with severe pain in his back. What he saw as soon as he woke up was a crowd of people

They were the civilians in the town and there are few mages that were left behind to protect them

Cairo dragged his aching body and sat on the ground. There's only a piece of cloth that was laid in the ground so that his wounds won't have any contact with the sands

"Can you take the pain?" One of the mages asked when she saw that Cairo is awake

Cairo's body was painful but it was much better than before. It was already bandaged and Cairo can smell a medicinal scent in his body

"I-I'm fine" Cairo answered before looking around him. There are hundreds of people that were fidgeting in fear

"Life is really too fragile" Cairo thought to himself before the formula for the Blood Strengthening Serum appeared in his mind

He felt that he needs to inject himself with it if he wants to continue surviving. What happened before was really dangerous, if it wasn't for Kira, he would have already died

However, can Cairo even depend on Kira his whole life? Of course not! If Kira was even just a second late, Cairo wouldn't be here alive

"With the formula being already available for me, I don't need to start from scratch. What I need is practice. I've never made any medicine before and it would be inevitable that I would fail. To test if my work is safe, I need to inject it into other people "

"But how? Kira and the other mages won't let me do that ... they can protect me but they can also negatively affect my growth. I should really buy prisoners or slaves. I don't want to use innocent humans but I also need to make myself stronger "

Cairo was in deep thought but it was cut with a loud shout that entered everyone's ears

"Enemy Alert!"