NOVGO.NET Chapter 1321 Reborn Of Mist And Bone
Chapter 1321 Reborn Of Mist And Bone
Karl lay perfectly still as his body began to reform out of the mist. Any attempt to move only slowed the process, but interestingly, he could still use skills and channel mana.
Just as long as they didn’t affect his body.
He wasn’t, as he was already low on mana. But when he sensed that one of the others was in danger, he would renew a buff on them, or grant them an [Eternal Lightning] barrier for a few moments.
The time to regenerate an entire body was agonizingly slow, and Karl wondered if part of the issue was that his draconic body was so large.
If it were just his usual form, would he have already coalesced? He had surely regenerated more than a demon body worth of dragon flesh so far.
But thinking was about all that he could do, other than casually looking out for the Golems, and making sure that Cara and Hawk didn’t get themselves into too much trouble.
However, one thing was clear. They were going to need a new Academy. And possibly new Cadets.
Karl didn’t know how secure those panic rooms were, but the scattered lightning and the impacts of the skills used in the admittedly brief battle between him and Oobleck had destroyed every tree for a hundred kilometres, only one building was still standing, and he had no way of telling if any of the teachers were still alive.
There had been a barrier on them at the time of impact, he was reasonably certain. But that didn’t mean much when it was raining Divine Lightning and Mythic Ranked attacks.
Karl had almost forgotten that everything in the Dragon Isles was made of incredibly durable materials, so casual attacks didn’t cause much damage, and the backlash of larger attacks only took out a building or two.
Even the trees and grass were more durable there. The standard lumber axe of the Golden Dragon Nation wouldn’t even put a scratch on most of the trees in the Dragon Isles. Commander Rank lumberjacks with warrior class skills for cutting were the norm there.
Even in Drodh, which was on the low side of the power spectrum for the Dragon Isles, the battle hadn’t completely levelled the city.
Not even the sprawl.
The same could not be said of the Golden Divine Academy. It had been built with nonmagical materials by human craftsmen decades ago, and then repurposed into the academy for the Elites when the program started.
Karl finally felt his scales and blood vessels reform while the last of the black mist solidified, allowing him to slowly get to his feet.
He tried to step gently, as he had crushed a building when he landed, but the battlefield didn’t look as bad as he had expected.
Not entirely because of his own team’s skills, though.
The Divine Lightning hadn’t cared about friend or foe, and the majority of the crabs had been scorched to death when it landed. Rae had managed to dodge the strikes easily enough, and Hawk had simply flown away when the storm started, so he wasn’t directly under the clouds.
Black clouds meant rain, and he was not about to willingly subject himself to that.
Karl shook out his wings, getting rid of the lingering tingle of regeneration as he surveyed the destruction.
[Everyone check in.]
[One Remi, intact and healthy.]
[I’m out of crabs. Turns out they don’t actually make good mounts.] Rae added.
[I’m good.] Hawk agreed.
[That hurt.] Cara complained as she finally got close enough to return to her space.
[What happened to you? Remi, come heal your sister.] Karl asked, beginning to panic as he saw the still bleeding wounds on the Chaos Badger.
[It won’t heal. Give it time and I will regenerate. That Demigod Cat’s claws have the Fundamental Rule of Order imbued into them. ORDER. If I’d have known that, I wouldn’t have stuck around so long.] Cara complained.
That actually explained a lot. Order was anathema to a Chaos Badger, and the Demigod had hit her with a targeted strike intended to be something that she could not easily recover from.
Healing magic wouldn’t fix it because it was intended to be an injury, and that was the proper order of things.
Likewise, Cara’s enhanced healing would not simply remove the lingering
power from her body. Nothing that a Myth could do would remove the power of a Demigod so quickly.
But when she had patched herself up, she could go see Matilda, and the dragon would help her along.
The old lady was just a bit busy at the moment.
[It’s not a total loss, though. We won.] Karl consoled her.
[And now I know what Demigods taste like.] Cara agreed weakly.
Karl focused on Cara’s space and wrapped her in bandages, stopping the bleeding without magic, but leaving the badger looking like a mummy. “Alright, if the targets are gone, let’s check for survivors.” Karl instructed. The Haint Claw rattled in his mind. A strike of Divine Lightning had damaged the living weapon, sending it back into his mental space. But now that his mind was whole again, the Haint Claw was refreshed, and ready to come back out.
Karl thought hard about the places that the students should be hiding, and then realized that only half these buildings had existed when he had gone to school here.
The changes from the upgraded awakening method had brought such a large influx of students that they had needed to massively increase the size of the
Academy compound.
Fortunately, Soul Sight had no problem finding all the buried safe rooms. Someone had been stationed near the top of the stairs, and they were like a beacon, marking the survivors in the rubble.
[The teachers are in the trial grounds. They ran inside to hide when the cat attacked. It might be a bit before they come out.] Rae explained.
That was either brilliant or incredibly lucky.
Nobody really knew what would happen if the trial ground was forcibly destroyed. They might simply be ejected, they could be obliterated along with
it, or even tossed between the planes as [Chaotic Zone] imploded, and the instance went inactive.
Fortunately, they didn’t have to learn today.
[If they’re in the trial, they’re fine. Check the areas that aren’t safe rooms for survivors first. Remi, scatter the healing totems. We will need all that we can
get.]