Arc 3 - Chapter 8: Fairy in the Burning Village (2/2)

She couldn't deny that she wanted to kill him, but she also couldn't deny that he was right, Yurine's job was as difficult as he said it would be. She had to focus on carrying Yu as she moved, keep up the healing magic and fight her opponent, making sure that Yu's condition did not worsen.

It was the first time she had to do so many things at once, and she was inexperienced in combat. Although she had easily killed about a hundred people in Capital İlonya before coming here, almost all of them were normal people and with a little training even Yu would have a chance against them in a one-on-one.

Yurine's first serious solo combat experience was against Sharley in Rolderhelm. Against an opponent who knew how to fight like Sharley, she clearly realized her inexperience.

The reason for her inexperience in fighting was that Rie had never asked her to fight. Her mother only wanted her to stand back during a fight and support her with wind magic if necessary.

She also had to cast healing spells when necessary, which was a very rare form of magic.

As a result, Yurine had never had to 'really' fight, she had watched her mother's fights with admiration but had never learned how to fight. Maybe if she had been a more experienced Yurine in the past when she fought Sharley, she might have been able to defeat him.

There was no doubt that his current opponent was more experienced than she was, perhaps even stronger than Sharley. If the other demons wanted to come here and interfere in the fight, his opponent would also have the advantage in numbers. No matter how she looked at it, Yurine was at a disadvantage, in a terrible situation.

"What beautiful eyes you have, red. We love red, it's the color of pleasure."

Yurine knew her eyes were beautiful. It was impossible otherwise, so she ignored the devil's compliment.

"Vile being, perish." Holding Yu in the air with her left hand, she raised her right hand and shouted. "Rhae!"

She didn't actually have to say any words to cast the spell, but saying the words helped her to visualize the spell in her mind and thus to cast it.

As the magic word fell from her lips, the wall of wind that emerged from Yurine's hand in two layers, moving in the form of a shield, slammed into the demon, and the demon flew back, laughing at Yurine's effort.

"The little girl tried to protect her daddy? How sweet of you, I admire your effort."

The devil's eyes were red. It was unclear whether this was the original color of his eyes or whether he was wearing this color because he enjoyed it, but he was clearly having fun.

"Shall we try something like this?"

He never took his eyes off Yurine's and raised the sword, which probably had Yu's blood on it.

Yurine was trying to understand what he was about to do, what did his raising his sword mean? Before Yurine knew it, balls of flame shot upwards from the sword and rose a few meters before descending towards Yu.

"Yu!"

She created a layer of wind over Yu's body to protect him from the fireballs. Yurine breathed a sigh of relief when the fireballs disappeared into the wind before they could land on Yu.

She may not have been able to protect her mother and Yu was partly to blame, but this time it was different, this time she would protect Yu no matter what. Yurine's heart could not bear to lose another person she loved.

Unfortunately, her relief did not last long. When the demon saw the look on her face, he laughed and sent the fireballs at Yu again.

Yurine was alarmed again, she again covered Yu with a layer of wind, and again the fireballs failed to reach his body and disappeared into the wind.

"Is that how you're going to play? You're going to attack Yu and not me?"

Demons were dishonorable, vile creatures and it was said to think the worst of them, but Yurine didn't think it would come to this. She was aware that demons were beings who reveled in human emotions, but would they do this too? Just to see the flustered look on her face, he chose as his target not his main opponent, but the one she was trying to protect.

Yurine thought she was going to fight him one-on-one, but the devil was simply playing with her and did not see her as a real opponent.

"I have to be careful, if I'm not careful, when he attacks me I might think he's targeting Yu again and I'll be vulnerable."

In such situations she was grateful that Emily was at least a mature girl. Thanks to her thoughts, her own thoughts were maturing and she could analyze things more calmly.

Of course, this rarely happened and Yurine's personality was more dominant. That's why she usually acted in her own way, but when it came down to it, she didn't hesitate to use her emotions.

"I can't stay like this forever."

As the demon continued its attacks, he enjoyed watching Yurine's cold sweat as she tried to carry, protect and heal Yu at the same time.

Yurine could not go on like this. If she only defended and used up her mana by applying a healing spell, she would be left unprotected and die along with Yu. If the defense option ended in death, she should at least consider the offensive option, and if she was going to die, she should die trying to live.

"Aral'c!"

She could create the light spell without the help of the magic word if she wanted to, but the light spell without the help of the word would be of low level.

Aral'c was an entry level spell of high level, offensive spells that could be used to damage an opponent. As Yurine improved, she would be able to cast even more powerful spells without the aid of words.

She opened his palm, radiating bright, searing light from her hand, keeping one eye on Yu to ensure his safety.

It was a good thing too, because just before the demon burned and screamed with light magic, it sent its fireballs at Yu again.

Yurine simultaneously kept Yu in the air, continued the healing spell, defended him, and attacked the demon.

Doing so much at once was taxing on her body and soul, she felt her head was going to explode, but in the end, even though she had pushed herself to her limits, she made it through the moment.

When the light emanating from her palm and traveling in a straight line towards the demon, enveloping its entire body, faded and slowly disappeared, the demon was still standing, but it didn't seem to be enjoying itself anymore. On the contrary, his red eyes had turned yellow and his brow was furrowed.

Yurine had succeeded in enraging him and she did not regret it.

The demon was still standing, but not in a good state. Yurine had only thought of it as an idea, knowing that demons are dark beings, she had used straight logic and assumed that light magic would kill it.

Even if she hadn't managed to kill him, as Yurine had assumed, she had hurt him and now she knew that light magic was his weakness. Now it was time to find a way to attack more effectively with light magic, because the only attack spell she had learned was Aral'c.

He looked at the devil. He was covered in burn marks, obviously in pain, and smoke was rising from his skin.

Yurine smiled contemptuously, looking at the demon's pained face. Who was the one enjoying it now?

"Whore seed."

"You... What did you say about my mama?"

Everyone had a red line and crossing it was absolutely intolerable. Crossing the red line was absolutely unforgivable.

It angered her that he attacked Yu dishonorably just for fun when she was his opponent, but it was Yurine's fault for not expecting it from him, as the devil is a vile being.

But there was one issue that Yurine could never, ever, under any circumstances, forgive, and that went far beyond the red line: insulting her mother.

Yurine was not going to ignore him, even if he was a vile being and spoke as she expected him to speak. Even if he was a king, let alone a demon, she could not stand still.

It didn't matter how disadvantaged she was, she wouldn't stop when that line was crossed, even if she was about to die. Yurine didn't have a character like Yu to hold back herself, and right now she couldn't even suppress herself using Emily's emotions.

She wasn't trying to suppress herself anyway. She was not going to stop until she had crushed the demon she faced here today, and she was not forgetting Yu's need for protection in the process.

This time the enraged demon brought his sword into a fighting stance, half of the flames above his shoulders aimed at Yurine and the other half at Yu. The demon rushed at Yurine to take out all his anger in one blow.

"Vixa, Rhae, Minue'e!"

Gone was the anxious and flustered Yurine of before, and in was a calmly casting her spell, but extremely angry Yurine.

With every word she spoke, a layer of wind formed around Yurine and Yu, and they spread out.

The first layer with the word Vixa eliminated the fireballs.

The second layer, formed by the word Rhae, struck the demon running towards her with its sword and threw him into the air.

The third layer formed by the word Minue'e was the most powerful, after Yurine's light spell struck and shattered everything around her, including the demons that had noticed the fight and targeted her, sending her flying meters back.

"I hope Yu won't get angry when I show him the car."

The grass was uprooted, the earth levitated, the arak crystals crumbled as they came towards them, the fireballs were extinguished in the wind, and a great void formed around Yu and Yurine.

Trees were smashed to the ground and even rocks were uprooted, as well as, unfortunately, the houses of the people of roaron. The rinos attached to the wagon were also blown away like demons, probably with broken bodies and moans of pain. Even the roarons had their share of Yurine's fury and were victims of the storm.

The wagons could be repaired and the rinos healed, and since the village had already burned down, the damage to the few remaining houses was not a problem. It was not something she should prioritize anyway; she immediately checked Yu's condition and, seeing that he was still stable, she focused on the demons.

The wind magic had hurt them, turned some of them into black pitch, but not enough to kill them all, and with a few roarons and rinos around, she didn't want to go crazy with wind magic and slaughter them and the innocents with them.

"You'd better close your eyes."

None of the demons took pleasure anymore. They were angry with Yurine and wanted to kill her painfully. Yurine knew she had to kill them all.

She could not underestimate the hatred and capabilities of a demon, she could not allow even one of them to remain alive.

She imagined the mana in her body. The mana produced in the nucleus in the center of her chest would be evenly distributed throughout her body, but Yurine directed the mana in her body to her hand. She was now directing all the mana produced by her nucleus into her hand.

Normally when she did this, she would create a strong wind spell, but now, there was no cold air circling around her arm, instead her white arm glowed gold.

She raised her hand up, she could feel her palm burning, as if the mana was trying to open a rift there to get out of his palm.

Normally this spell would only work to illuminate the surroundings, but by combining it with the Alar'c she had learned, she was trying a new spell for the first time.

"Ulita Alar'c! Golden Light!"

The demons moved to block her, but it was too late, and even if it wasn't too late, they couldn't even get close to them because they were protected by the wind shield.

Her magic, which she called the Golden Light, rose in a straight beam, burning her hand as Yurine channeled the mana. When it reached a sufficient height, it took the shape of a dome, Yu and Yurine were inside the dome, but Yurine could see everything that was happening outside the dome.

The searing Golden Light spread outward from the dome, and the demons that came into contact with the mana that created the light began to melt with ear-splitting screams.

When the light went out, smoke billowed from the remaining demons and Yurine now knew exactly how to kill them. She continued to carry Yu in the air, and walked towards them to hunt down and destroy the remaining demons.