Dragon Master: The SSS-Ranked School Belle Asked Me To Contract Her-Chapter 172: Aquatic Life?

After getting into the barrier Aurora made, the group finally had their tense muscles relax. Their heartbeat returned to normal, as they finally had a time to catch a breath.

Though, they did found that they couldn’t breath, surprising them.

"It’s a weird Rune Formation," Aurora said, seeing their confused reactions. "It has air, through which we are talking but not for breathing. That’s why I gave you all the pills."

Elara nodded and then focused on Rain again. It didn’t look like she was in danger, even with her cracked body and dark eyes, as her heartbeat was steady and she was showing normal life signs.

However, as someone who had tried to heal her, Elara knew better. Rain was in a critical situation where she would lose her Soul and got corrupted if she wasn’t healed in time.

Even though her mind was getting messed with overuse of her Aspect and Sub-Aspect, Elara still covered Rain with her white flames and tried her best to heal her.

"Tsss! This is worse than I thought," She muttered, as she directed her flames to Rain’s soul where the mist was trying to corrupt her Soul.

Fortunately, Rain had resistance to it so it couldn’t do quickly, but if given enough time, it could corrupt her. After all, Rain was still weak and wasn’t immune to Corruption like Elara.

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"What happened?" Aurora finally noticed her distressed look and asked. "Is she okay?"

"Aghh! She...fuck..." Elara cursed, her soul feeling as if it was splitting apart. Her Aspect and Sub-Aspect countered each other too hard, so her mind felt as if it was being stretched and contracted at the same time.

She couldn’t even focus properly, but knowing it would result in Rain’s death, she steeled her will and continued forward. Her flames lit up Rain’s eyes, burning like a raging flames.

The darkness in them bubbled, struggling to keep itself together against the burning of her flames. She was using both her Aspect and Sub-Aspect simultaneously, one to heal Rain and other to burn the corruption and mist from inside her.

Others didn’t interrupt her, letting her do everything she wanted. They could tell something was wrong with Rain and Elara was trying her best to save her.

’This is bad! She actually dared to devour the mist? Is she crazy?’ Elizabeth bit her lips, her hands clenched. ’I need to keep her alive, at any cost.’

She closed her eyes and opened them after a second. A soft, purple glow covered her eyelids where her insides were full of green glow.

Looking at Rain, she said, "Burn her heart."

Elara flinched, barely registering her words but did as she was told. She had tried to fight the mist, but it seemed impossible without actually killing Rain in the process. Not to mention, each passing second was driving her crazy.

So, she focused her burning flames on Rain’s heart, where she found a small ball of darkness clumped together against her heart.

"Aghh!!!" She screamed, feeling her soul burning as she increased the intensity of the flames, burning every last remnants of the darkness.

All of a sudden, Rain coughed up dark blood, before doing the same thing a few times as mist leaked from her ears, nose and mouth. It took sometime but her eyes returned to normal, while her cracked body also healed in Elara’s flames.

Once she saw that Rain was safe, Elara slumped back as her eyes rolled upwards. She was safe, and her friends were also safe. Knowing that, she allowed herself to relax for a moment and drifted off to sleep.

Aurora looked at everyone, her gaze somber as she thought, ’This might just prove impossible to accomplish. How are we going to defeat that dragon if we are doing this shit here?’

"Boss Aur, right?" Rock said, chuckling at Aurora. "You don’t need to make such expression. Just trust Boss and I’m sure everything will be fine."

"Your trust in him is commendable," Aurora sighed.

"I mean, we followed his plans and survived," Rock shrugged, as if he had not just touched death a few moments ago. "Not a single one of us died, all because of Boss."

Aurora had to say his words were convincing. As she looked at him, she wondered how one can be so simple. He didn’t care about anything, even deathly beings after him.

All he knew was that he needed to trust his boss completely and give his best, no, break his limits and go beyond his best to support his trust. That was all that mattered.

She could see that even if he died doing all this, he would have no regrets.

’But putting so much responsibilities on his shoulder is not good. Why should he bear so much?’ Aurora closed her eyes and thought back to her old days, since she had nothing else to do.

She was probably the only one aside from Elara who understood Veer truly, so she knew how weak he was. He didn’t want any of these responsibilities and he was never a leader type.

He just followed through things because people he loved had expectations from him. He never did anything for himself, except when the time he ran away.

’No! I will not let him shoulder all the burden. I need to improve so that he can use me better, to use me perfectly so that he never feels that burden.’ Aurora thought, her resolve getting stronger.

Something broke inside her, as her aura surged and her eyes turned hazy for a moment. After a while, things returned to normal as she blinked in surprise.

’No Way!’ she was surprised, but much more than happy. ’Yes, I needed this!’

Elizabeth who was sitting in the corner rubbing her forehead saw everything, and flashed a wry smile, thinking, ’What a duo! Well, it’s for the good. Now, she can be of more assist. Still, to Ascend in such a way is just crazy.’

Slowly, time passed with all of them resting or doing their own work. Aurora was mostly focusing on improving herself, so she tried to make a lot of arrows while she had time.

As someone who knew the importance of imagination, she thought she could make much more after having a breakthrough in her imagination.

She could now visualize things much more clearly, and understood things she found difficult to understand previously. She just had an enlightenment out of nowhere, which surprised her but she was happy nonetheless.

As the hours passed, with the Everburning Torch illuminating the small room they had carved on the river’s bottom, the three who were awake had rested enough and were good to go again.

But they waited for others.

Elara was the first one to wake up, as she massaged her head while looking at Rain. A satisfied smile formed on her lips as she said, "I guess she’s fine now."

"She is and V too," Aurora nodded, feeling happier than ever. "We were just waiting for you to check out things on the surface. It’s probably morning already so how about you go and check?"

"Huh?"

"I mean, if the mist is still there, you are probably the only person who can come back alive," saying that, she cast a look on Rain and shook her head. "So, go and see if V’s hypothesis was right."

Elara nodded, finding the reasoning good. Exiting the barrier, she swam upwards and could soon see the surface light. As she came out of the rippling water, she gasped for breath.

Even though she didn’t need to, she was itching to get a mouthful of air. Looking around, she noticed the emptiness and smiled.

The clear sky and the fresh air along with the clear surroundings were the indication that the mist had indeed vanished. It probably had something to do with the sun or the moon, as Veer had Guessed.

’Thats a good thing!’ Elara then took a deep breath and once again begin to swim downwards to give others the good news.

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All of a sudden, she stopped as something entered her area of vision. Frowning, she swam towards it as she couldn’t see it properly due to water.

Coming closer, she finally realised what it was and cursed, ’Fucking hell! Why did I forget about this?’

If they could survive from the mist by hiding in the river, why couldn’t the Aquatica Creatures do the same?

What she saw a giant hammer-head shark, thrice the size of her, in the distance. Fortunately, it didn’t seem to have noticed her so she quickly paddled her legs to make even more distance.

She didn’t know how powerful it was, but fighting an aquatic creature in water was foolish. It was better to avoid it.

Coming back to their temporary home, she told the news of Aquatic life to others, while sitting beside Veer.

"Well, we are fucked, but this is less fucked, I guess."