Walking The Wrong Path

Working Hard

However, as he was pushing these monsters back, he saw out of the corner of his eyes, Riveria about to get hit by Udaeus' sword, 'shit!' he thought.

"Ianuae Magicae," he whispered as he teleported to Riveria and in mid air blocked the strike of udaeus. The blow sent him and Riveria flying into the wall but he shielded Riveria by letting his body get hit.

"BELL," Riveria shouted. Bell could swear he heard a rib break.

"Just focus... on him, I-I'm fine," Bell reassured as he pushed off. There was an unnatural quantity of mondsters spawning, as if the dungeon was pouring its resources into killing them. Riveria nodded, although skeptical she had no choice but to trust Bell right now. They both ran back into action, Bell started fighting barbarians while, Riveria finished off her spell, "my name is alf- Rae Laevateinn," she chanted as a wide scale spell fired off at Udaeus almost obliterating it, however, the large scale of it weakened its effect on one monster. It only blew the top left shoulder of Udaeus. Riveria feeling a bit light headed knew, she could at most muster one more spell. She had quite a lot of her power with the strike earlier, she needed to finish this.

She dodged and looked at Bell, who was looking more worn out by the minute, the endless swarm of monsters pouring out on him. "Bell, I need you help for this," Riveria shouted. Bell heard and decided to jump back.

"well, huff, how may I be of assist princess?" Bell asked sweating a bit.

"don't call me that. I need your argodrive skill," Riveria asked, "the amount of mana I have left won't be enough to finish that thing off," She concluded. Bell nodded and soon bells started tolling. They were both pretty much masters at concurrent chanting so it wasn't that difficult to keep on dodging.

"destroy and devour..."

"Harbringer of the end, the white snow. Blow with the wind before the twilight..." They both dodged monsters, Bell even managing to kill some smaller monsters in the meanwhile.

"Spread like poison.."

"Blizzard, the three severe winters, my name is alf..."

"WYNN FIMBULVETR," Riveria froze the Udaeus in place. Bell used this opportunity to jump and...

"DARK REFRACTION," he fired off a black arrow of destruction. The size considerably bigger than usual thanks to argodrive, it evaporated the monster rex without even leaving the magic stone behind. They sighed relieved, but it was ill timed as a sudden pedula that survived came and attacked Riveria.

"RIVERIA," Bell shouted as he saw a defenseless Riveria get attacked. 'shit! she's gonna be poisoned,' he thought as he quickly dispatched of the remaining pedula. Riveria lay on the ground already becoming more and more pale. "Just wait Riveria, I will get you to fixed up, Goddamn it's all my fault," he said. Riveria looked on.

"d-don't... worry..." she said as she felt fatigue and the poison take over and her world turned black. But for Bell, the adrenaline just started pumping, he felt a sudden rise of power and even though his body screamed at him to stop moving he refused to acknowledge and he rose up with Riveria in a princess carry.

"...REIN... HERIAR," he chanted as his body squeezed the last bit of magic his body has to offer and break into his life force. It was time for desperation. He carried her through the floors like never before. Needless to say, he had some difficulty getting through at first, having his weapon on his back, on the brink of a mind down and the fact that he could only kick his opponents, Bell ended up with quite a few injuries to say the least. yet, he continued. He wouldn't let her die to some shitty pedula of all things.

The moments with Riveria flashed by his eyes. The red tip of her ears when she got teased. The crying face that made sure to grab and squeeze Bell's heart and the beautiful and one and only carefree smile she had shown him that night... the way his heart felt like it had skipped a few too many beats. He would be damned if she got harmed. Even while, barely fighting his fatigue and monsters who couldn't care less, he protected Riveria with all his life. Even if it meant becoming drenched in blood and sweat.