After finishing the mage, before the temporarily recovered portion of her power was lost once again, she healed the severed limbs of her gummy bear and helped both Az and Miss Rin.

After the mage’s death, Sera was freed from the wind barrier, and though unconscious, Alex knew Miss Rin was alright.

She just helped her a little with a potion before she lost her temporary powers completely and sat down beside the conscious body of her partner.

“Does it hurt more than the tutorial?”

He did not see what she did, but he heard everything that was happening. And that much was enough for him to know what had transpired there even with the mage’s body gone.

“Yes…”

He was in pain now. But, after she healed him, she also helped him get back up and sit down beside her.

“Here, this will help.”

If not for the bracelet and the dagger’s skills, he would have been long dead… he might have died without her help as well.

“Thanks.”

He did not like how things went, what that mage tower master said to him, to them, what was happening here just a while ago… he did not like the utter powerlessness he felt at that moment.

It was bitter, it was hot, and at the same time, it was a freezing cold feeling…

His entire body was cold like ice right now. His eyes were looking at their messed up surroundings.

The cold in his body and soul as he saw the shivering slime and the bird hugging his leg, clinging to him with tears wetting the dusty ground intensified even more.

There was a blockage in his throat, something that was not caused by blood from his internal injuries.

The bitter feeling was almost overwhelming…

But the high recovery potion helped warm him up a little.

“How’s Misha and Miu?” He asked with a concerned look as he glanced at the barrier that was still standing in its place.

“I’ll check up on them later… first tell me, does it still hurt anywhere?”

Everyone aside, she was the most worried about him at the moment.

She knew he knew what she did even though he did not have any idea how she did that.

He did not know about the white sword, about her powers, about what kind of trial she had obtained from it, or how this sword even worked.

It was obvious he did not know much since not even some of the highest ranking individuals in the world, even the high rankers, and even those who keep the records of the worldly happenings did not know much about it.

It was a strange and absurd trial, but trial was also the only way she could be with him… or at least, that was the only way until now.

“I’m ok… please go and see if the two of them are alright.”

There was sadness in his eyes, bitterness on his face. He was trying not to bite his lips off any more than he was doing already… his complexion after that traumatic experience was not paler.

His color did not look good, he was still covered in blood like the rest of them, and yet, he was worried about the two young ones instead of his own wounded self.

“I’ll check up on them… you should… try and calm down a little.”

“Yes, don’t worry about me.”

He gave her a helplessly warm smile. A smile that was asking her to go away for now.

“…”

She knew what might be going through his head right now, how he was feeling and the pain in his heart… and she knew he wanted to be alone for the moment, so she kissed his forehead, picked up the little slime and its wand, as well as the bird stuck to his calf and walked to the barrier that was now vanishing.

The time the three of them and the two creatures fought with the mage was much longer than a few minutes.

He was a mage following the path of preservation so, they had engaged in a battle of attrition for over fifteen minutes alone.

He played around with them, underestimating all of them from the beginning to the end, and he paid with his life for his disgusting actions.

“Misha. Miu.”

The young girl was still hugging the gecko, but as soon as she heard her big sister’s voice, she ran right to her and hugged her just as desperately.

This was her first time experiencing something like this, and she hadn’t even seen what had transpired out there.

She was here, in this relatively safer space, so she was fine this time.

But…

“Ughhhhhhh!”

Elio, who could not hold it in him and threw up after thinking back to how worse things could have turned out had she not used those strange hidden powers of hers, knew very well how bad things could have been.

Az almost died, even Sera was taken away from him…

Miss Rin was still unconscious, and the young girl who had done nothing wrong to deserve any of this was now crying in the embrace of the person who saved all of them.

“Aghhhhhhh!”

He was powerless.

Even against a mage tower master of a beginner town, merely a (tier-4) mage that wasn’t even a Master level, he was powerless.

He knew he was weak until now but he never even considered the fact that they would have to fight something like this all by themselves.

And, a mage of his level was practically the weakest existence in the forest that they were heading to…

-Dhum! Dhum!

He fell back to his knees and smashed the dusty ground.

Tears were not present on his face anymore.

There was just anger.

And frustration.

-Dhum!

He could not do anything, again.

Everything was almost taken away from him.

Az almost died… he did not even know how horrible things could have been had Alex died or something other than what had transpired already might have become the variable to this whole scenario.

-Dhum! Dhum! Dhum!

As anger and frustration overwhelmed him, the smashing hands started bleeding…

As the rising sun made its way to the high sky above, what was left on this road now, was a carriage with fallen horses. A woman laying beside a blood stained shield. Voice of a crying young girl… and agonizing screams of a weak man.

One that once again failed to protect what was precious to him…

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