Back to the lake 2

Back to the lake 2
The last swift gloom was slain after I had used the energy potion for the second time and the invisibility for the third time.

'you didn't have to do that, in fact you shouldn't have. I'm not the only person you should focus on, there's also yourself'

Vale can be such a moron sometimes, This is the thanks I get for helping his ass and how arrogant of him to think I only worried and focused on him that I forgot myself.

'please don't flatter yourself, I wasn't focused on you at all. I helped because I was nearby and I was assisting anyone I could assist'

An awkward silence followed after I burst his bubble, didn't have time to focus on it as there were some werewolves who were injured. They were given healing potions and anti-poison potions. I'm sure the lake guardian is aware that we've killed the swift glooms so the question is why it isn't doing anything. Maybe it's waiting for us, I mean it's strong and it isn't afraid of us. We basically feel like ants to it so it got nothing to worry about. Discouraging but maybe that's what's good for us right now , being underestimated, Even if well let's be honest we sort of are estimated correctly, that thing is big.

Healing the injured werewolves only took a few minutes and I saw that Vale was ready to continue onwards. The third invisibility potion had worn off and I was visible to everybody. Roseanne and myself were the only ones who looked clean and I felt a few intense stares which I guessed must belong to the ten werewolves from the Crimson pack.

I was invisible but I'm sure they saw Roseanne flying and shooting arrows of light so it wasn't hard for them to guess that I was the one using elements. Ugh what a headache this is, I'll have to talk to Vale and tell him to never ever go ask for help from other packs. I knew that he was going to give them the order to move so I quickly approached him.

"can you do the mind link thing so that we can talk. I'm not a werewolf so I can't initiate it"

'what is it? '

'you guys will have to continue on your own, there's something I need to prepare. I promise that as soon as I'm done ill-'

'okay do what you must'

"...?" well that was... Easy, too easy. I didn't even have to convince him, I guess I now know that I really have his trust.

I stepped aside after getting my answer and as soon as I did they took off. I heard his voice in my head before they disappeared deeper into the forest.

'...I'll be waiting'

I was really worried about them, him mostly. I hope they are able to hold out until I'm done with what I plan to do. I hope what I plan to do works and is enough to end the lake guardian. I'm sort of determined to not let any werewolf die today, at least those from the silver pack. Don't know about the Crimson pack.

I hurried out of the forest but stopped a little further away from it. I had memorized what I had to do which you might think is unnecessary because I have the book in my ugly bracelet but I'm afraid that taking it out at an infected place like this might do something to it. Magical objects tend to be sensitive and have to be treated delicately. Because of how the ground was mostly infected with the poison from the monsters there was no grass. The ground was without grass which was very convenient for me.

I controlled the air to make a small wind blade, I brought my hand towards the wind blade. I bit my lips hard when I felt it pierce my palm but I didn't pull away because the cut had to be deep. Blood, my blood was already dripping on the ground and when I felt that the cut was deep enough I pulled away. At the moment I wanted to do nothing more than to scream because of the pain but I don't have the luxury. On the ground where my blood landed I placed my wounded palm that was still bleeding non stop.

I have done half of what I need to do to complete the first step and what is the first step you may ask : borrowing nature's pure life energy.

I know it sounds impossible right because the ground I'm on right now is grey dry and filled with cracks. It is infected and so there's no way it has life energy. The book also didn't have anything to help with this and so I was forced to improvise. See I believe that the ground in this area is indeed infected but only on the surface. I can control water so I plan to control my blood as it's also liquid to go deep into the ground until I reach the part that is not infected or has yet to be infected. Why did I have to use my blood and not just use water, well I can control water yes but it's not mine and so I fear I don't have that deep of a connection with as I have with my blood.

I have no idea if this thing is going to work or not but I am definitely going to try my best and won't give up without doing everything in hopes that it succeeds.

Controlling my blood felt a bit different, it was like I was controlling an actual part of myself which ferls kinda weird cause it's different from how I control my limbs with my mind. This is with both my mind and my magic.

With my blood sinking deep into the ground I felt how cold and fragile the earth has become. It was dry without any softness, liquid and any small living things. I completely focused on going deeper until I reach any feeling of life, so focused that I was completely open and vulnerable to any enemy. A part of me couldn't really believe what was happening right now, what I was doing but that got replaced by a different comfortable feeling I felt. It made me gasp in both surprise and deligh t, I did it! I found it and I was right!