[This isn't over... irregular... I don't know how you managed to discover my intentions... but next time you won't be so lucky...]
[That sounds like what a sore loser would say...] - Cloud said with difficulty as he let out a tired sigh.
[Time limit reached... initiating lockdown process...]
"Ugh..." - Cloud let out a groan of pain as he felt his body being imprisoned by hundreds of chains.
Unable to do anything about it, he reverted back to his human form and fell uncontrollably towards the sea.
"Cloud!" - Tio exclaimed as she flew to the blond who had asked for consciousness.
The girls looked at each other because they didn't think it would end like this. They had full confidence that Cloud would be victorious, but they didn't think Cloud would end up this badly.
For the first time since they started the adventure, they discovered one thing... Cloud wasn't as invincible as they thought, he could die just like them, and this was a clear wake-up call that it was time to step up their training even more.
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"Impossible, impossible, impossible!" - Ehit roared as he destroyed everything within his dimension - "How is it possible for that damn irregular to have survived the kamikaze blast of all my apostles, and then a divine attack that consumed almost all of my [divinity]!"
Ehit was about to lose his sanity because everything he had planned, had failed.
"Calm down, calm down, all is not lost..." - Ehit muttered as he took a long breath - "The Irregular also suffered great damage, and that level of power it showed, it's obvious that it exceeds what this world can contain, which means it has to be suffering from the world's restriction, not to mention that that last attack has to have left it extremely damaged."
Ehit gritted his teeth before letting out a sigh - "But I get nothing out of knowing all that, not when I lost all my apostles..."
The mad god growled in irritation, though his expression changed as he sensed a small divine aura in the mortal world - "Wait..."
Paying more attention to this detail, he saw how Eri was still alive and flying in the direction where that human he was corrupting was - "This is perfect, I forgot about that hero... and with that woman still alive..."
A huge, distorted smile appeared on Ehit's face as he felt how the situation wasn't as bad as he thought.
* * * * *
[Kouki...]
"What's wrong now?" - Kouki asked with a frown as he could feel the weariness in the mad god's voice.
[The situation got better for you...}
"What do you mean?" - Kouki was confused with every word that came out of the mad god's mouth.
[The irregular is weakened, that's why I recommend that you take advantage of this moment to get all the power you desire...]
"Perfect... "- smiled Kouki as he started to think - "Although it's still a long way to the shrine."
[There's no need to wait anymore, you can go directly and try to get the remaining sacrifices while you're at it.]
"I still can't get good magic powerful enough to be able to finish the ritual..." - Kouki said with a frown.
[You've got her, she's been with you for quite a while now]
"You mean Nakamura?" - Kouki asked while nodding - "You're right, she has impressive magical power, she's a good catalyst to unleash the full power of the sword..."
[Don't tell her that you're going to use it].
"I know, I don't want the catalyst to disappear" - Kouki replied neutrally - "That's all?"
[I just need to tell you that I won't be able to contact you until you finish the ritual, I've got a few inconveniences...]
Kouki raised an eyebrow and showed an expression of surprise, something that was hard to believe knowing that he had lost them after being under the influence of the cursed sword - "I understand.... How many days will you need to be able to reach my side?"
[I would say between three to four days].
"More than enough time to get the ingredients for the ritual" - Kouki said neutrally.
* * * * *
Two days had passed since the ambush against Cloud's group, which were still in the vicinity of Erisen because they didn't want to suffer another attack, not when Cloud was still unconscious.
"Does anyone know what's going on?" - Kaori asked as she looked at the others in the group - "No matter how many healing spells I cast on Cloud, he still won't wake up and from what I can see, his body is getting some sort of curse that I can't remove."
"Honestly, I'm not sure" - Lyutillis replied as she frowned - "Though I have a few hypotheses..."
"Please continue" - Shizuku said with a frown as she was frustrated. She hadn't helped in the battle and now she was seeing the boy she liked in a vulnerable state.
"Some of you may not know this, but this dimension has a decree, one that prevents the direct appearance of gods after they almost destroyed the world during the divine wars that eliminated almost the entirety of the gods" - replied Lyutillis with a cold face.
"And what does that have to do with Cloud-kun?" - Remia asked with a frown - "He is not a god" .
"He's not a god, but he's a divine beast" - muttered Tio as her eyes widened - "I see..."
"Divine beast?" - Kaori repeated as she looked closely at the sleeping blond with a wince - "Are divine beasts considered gods?"
"No, well, it depends on the level of his divinity," replied Yue while closing her eyes, "And if what Lyutillis said is true, then Cloud's divinity has to be extremely high, I mean, continuously devouring the roots of the world tree is not something that just anyone can do."
"Exactly, Cloud has a huge divinity, to the point that he could compete with low ranking gods, that's why the decree must have affected him" - said Lyutillis while frowning.
"That would explain the pain, but not why he's still not waking up," said Tio as she shook her head, "Unless we're ignoring something."
"Maybe it's the fact that he released all his power" - remarked Meiru while looking around - "From what you have been telling me, he in the whole adventure had not shown all his power, at most he transformed into a dragon and launched high level magical attacks, but he never showed his divinity, maybe this is for a reason unknown to us".
"It's possible, not to mention that he released all his power at the end of the battle to resist Ehit's attack" - Lyutillis added while shaking her head.
The others looked at each other before nodding, after all, these hypotheses made sense.
"How's his mana flow?" - Lyutillis asked with concern.
"I can't feel it," replied Yue as she frowned and looked at Meiru, who quickly shook her head.
"It's irregular, his heart is beating slower and slower" - Tio replied as she frowned - "We need to reactivate his magic core or Cloud could go into an indefinite coma."
"Huh?!" - Kaori let out a startled yelp as she began to lose her composure.
"Calm down, Kaori!" - Shizuku exclaimed as she shook her friend - "If you get upset, you won't be able to help Cloud!"
Kaori fell silent before letting out a sigh - "I'm sorry..."
"Don't worry, we're all the same as you, it's just that we have to control ourselves or we won't be able to do anything about it" - Yue replied as she shook her head - "Please continue, Uncle-san."
"As you have to know, dragons don't have a normal mana network, they flow their mana through their body like blood, using their hearts as a magical 'core'" - said Tio as she watched the girls nod - "The thing is that Cloud isn't releasing mana from his heart, that's why he's in a magical coma, what we need to do to wake him up is for his body to start circulating mana so that his system"
"Mana transfer isn't feasible?" - Shizuku asked as she frowned.
"Impossible, with how huge Cloud's mana pool is, not even all of us together could fill it, besides, both Yue-san and Meiru-san need mana to live, and if they use mana transfer on Cloud, it'll only make us take care of two more people, "Kaori-san can't use mana transfer, Shizuku-san and Remia-san can't either, Lyutillis-san still hasn't fully recovered, and I don't think I can fill even a fraction of the void inside Cloud's magic core."
"So what do we do?" - Kaori asked with irritation because they seemed to be going nowhere.
"It's simple, we have to find a source of mana large enough to be able to increase Cloud's magical power" - replied Yue as she started to think - "How about the divine stone?"
"It's an inexhaustible source of mana, the problem is that Cloud is the one who kept it in his pocket dimension, and if he's unconscious..." - Tio said with a frown.
"We won't be able to get it..." - sighed the girls as they thought of a new solution
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