VRMMO: Am I The Strongest Yet?

Chapter 53: Key to the victory

-Swish!

Avoiding the incoming attack of a dark wind, she first used a powerful protactiv Mana shield item to take the least amount of damage, and used a sword imbued with the properties light to attack the dark mage.

Her level was still low and her Mana levels weren't sufficient but she could still use a few of the items that she had.

The general items like accessories and the scrolls were one thing, but she mostly did dealt with the attackls of the dark mage using her high evasion rate.

She was agile even with her comparatively low stats, and even though she had used some potions and buff spell scrolls to temporarily boost herself she was not going to last against the dark mage tens of levels higher than her.

[ "Damn insect." ]

She had many restrictions on her, many of them being from her 'trial' so there was a lot of limitations on her.

-Booooooooooom!

She couldn't just use some high level magic scroll or the holy sword that she had in her inventory. If she could use something like that, there would be no need for her to even go to such lengths and engage in a joint fight with the others.

She would solo kill this little dark mage and that would be it for it's efforts.

However, she was limited to the simple items that she had one star items in her inventory.

-Ooooooooooooong!

Still, she was somehow dealing with the attacks of the mage, dealing some kind of damage that accumulated over time, and using many debuffs on him so that the damage would at least stack over time.

[ "Ughhh! What is this now?!" ]

The DoT strategy as people called it might surely have been effectiove against this one had the debuffs and the accumulation sumilative percentage was decent enough, but at her level and with her limitations, all that she could do was to push the mage away from the place they were in and engage in a brief fight until it was done with her little plays.

-Swish!

The mage was overcvonfident and lazy so she knew it was just conserving his strength for the bigger things that might apper, so she had to take advantge of his carelessness and buy as much time for them as possible…

She was only acting as a distraction afterall. The real key to this quest was the guard captain. So Elio's role here was very important.

"Hey! Guard captain!"

When Alex dragged the dark magician away from them all, Elio carefully made his way to the guard captain through the pool of blood, organs, grusome stuff, and dead bodies…

"Hey!"

The guard captain was unconscious, so he slapped his big face. But he still did not wake up.

The green energy around him was fading away so, Elio thought he was on the verge of death.

And he did not want to do CPR when he was covered in blood like this.

So… he placed Az on top of the guard captain and asked the little slime to cast the magic of the sub category of light attribute- (Volt).

"Muuuu~."

It was a small spell that produced some little sparks of lightning, something that wasn't really used as a CPR substitute, but in the kind of state he was in, the guard captain needed more of a quick shock rather than the touch of another man's lips.

"Go."

"Muuu~!"

The slime was still new to the whole magic thing but there were around nine spells that it could cast after the little training they had done until now.

The spell (Volt) was one of the simple spells that was actually pretty difficult to use even for the people who had the affinity for lightning attribute directly.

But, even with the light elemental affinity, the slime could use the spell. Which, in their current situation, was nothing less than a blessing.

-Oooooooong!

Mana gathered on the white translucent surface of the slime as it produced the spell the same way it had felt it.

"Muuuuu…"

It was very quick.

The way Mana particles gathered and condensed into the shape of a spell circle and then materialized as a few sparks of blue lightning around the surface of its white mucus, was an instantaneous process.

-Zap!

It ended up with a small electrical discharge that made the entire large body of the guard captain jerk upwards.

"Ghaaaap!"

-Ooooooong!

"Ahem!"

His eyes opened wide right after the shock and as if it was on instinct, the guard captain took in a mouthful of air before coughing up some blood as he stood back up while channeling the Mana in his surroundings.

"Have this!"

Elio hurriedly handed him the high grade potion bottle that he had received from Alex a moment ago and without thinking about how this small vial of potion costs a whopping gold coin, he just gulped it all down his throat.

He knew already that the time right now was not right.

He had to go back and fight the dark mage…

-Clank! Clank! Clank!

He could see even with his blood covered eyes that in the distance somewhere, someone was fighting the dark mage with still a significant power level.

If this boy was here, then the girl that he had been trusting a little too much until now must be the one going against that dark mage… but, she was nowhere near strong enough to even fight against him. He knew just how weak both of these young ones were right now… so, he had to go.

"Please wait, captain."

Elio knew what the guard captain wanted to do.

She already told him how he would try to hurry and go help her after taking that high grade potion and recovering a portion of his strength.

It was Elio's job to make sure the guard captain reached her as soon as possible as well… but before he did, Elio had to make sure of one more thing.

"Take these. She said you would know what to do with it."

Alex knew the kind of unique skill the guard captain possessed.

In the entire world, there were rarely any individuals who possessed the innate talent to borrow the powers of the guardian spirits, the natural spirits that were different from the elemental spirits.

"You… how do you-."

"We don't have time for the explanations, captain."

He was tending to him but his eyes had always been focused in the distance, at her and the unfathomable opponent she was facing right now.

There was no time to chit chat, so the guard captain had to do whatever she wanted him to do as quickly as possible.

"...alright."

The things that she had asked Elio to hand over to the captain included a condensed Mana crystal, unique fruit from the east that contained Mana- something one rarely found in the west where they were, and lastly, something that Elio had obtained during his tutorial.

A green glowing flower that possessed a much more ethereal glow to it than what he had seen in the tutorial.

There was a strong natural Mana stored inside of this Jade Lotus, something that now that he could perceive Mana, seemed unrealistic and etherial.

"Thanks."

This flower was something much more important and special than what he had expected.

And in their situation, in the hands of someone who understood its value better than anyone else, these things were practically invaluable…