Chapter 387 A Father To The Rescue

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My father emerged out of nowhere. Covered by bruises, wounds, blood, and his blazing armor. Blue flames slowly began to heal his wounds, as they quickly covered our bodies as well, protecting us and also relieving our pain and healing our wounds. With this newfound strength, I ran towards Ignatius to pick him up, he was still somehow alive, I could feel our connection weakening though!

"Y-You…!"

The True Demon looked straight at my father's face. His eye boiling with rage.

"You dare slice my arm?!"

The Demon's presence suddenly grew stronger, as his demonic energy aura exploded, shaping into countless spears that were all directed towards my father at an incredible speed. However, father unleashed a domain of flames, which consumed the spears made of demonic energy and made them dissipate into nothing in an instant.

FLUOOSH!

"I can't believe their plan was to use the souls of the people they killed to bring out a monster such as you!" My father roared, clashing against the Demon. "Go back to where you belong, to Hell!"

His blazing sword clashed against the demon's arm, easily slicing it into small pieces. The sword then pierced through the demon's demonic aura, and then reached his chest, slicing through his bones and flesh, and burning through his entire body.

"GRUUUAAAHH…!"

The Demon groaned in agony, but my father mercilessly pointed his blade towards his neck, slicing through it and beheading him!

SLASH!

"Ungh…! Agh…!"

The Demon tried to resist, but it was futile. My father was pissed, and he easily sliced the head of the True Demon, his enormous head rolled over the floor. Everything quickly became still, as I noticed the crack in space slowly closing itself.

We survived…

[Stats have been reversed to normal state]

"Sylphy, hang in there!"

I heard the voice of my mother, as my eyes closed in an instant. I felt too weakened and exhausted, to even respond, as I fell unconscious over the floor.

It felt as if darkness engulfed my mind and my soul.

As I fell asleep, a small part of my consciousness saw something, it was Ignatius.

His eggshell was cracking and falling down, and something was coming from within, a small creature, blazing with incredible amounts of spiritual flames…

Ding!

[Calculating EXP Earned…]

[You earned 266000 EXP]

[Ignatius] earned 345800 EXP]

[Ignatius] has reached Level 6!]

[Ignatius] has reached Level 7!]

[Ignatius] has reached Level 8!]

[Ignatius] has reached Level 9!]

[Ignatius] has reached Level 10!]

[Ignatius] has reached max Level, [Automatic Evolution] has begun]

FLASH!

Ignatius slowly regenerated and was reborn anew, at long last, he seemed to have finally been able to hatch from his egg.

"Sylphy, you overdid it this time… Try to sleep for now."

The voice of Alice whispered into my ears, as I slowly fell asleep.

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When I woke up, I found myself in my bed back in our tent. I was alone, as Aquarina might be in her own tent. I looked around, finding that it might be the next morning. A lot of things ended happening yesterday, the strange cultist-like people summoning that True Demon, and the mysterious masked girl, who face I wasn't able to see. All while my father had to go inside a crack in space to defeat whatever was inside strong enough to inflict so many wounds over his body.

I slowly tried to stand up, quickly falling head-first into the floor, my face slamming over the ground with a loud thud. I sighed a bit after this, as I felt just like that one time against Hell, my entire body was so damaged it ended taking a long time to getting used to move again. My body seems to be incapable of keeping its own weight as of now.

"Ugh… This sucks."

I sighed while trying to get up, but it was getting harder by the second. But eventually, I was able to sit down over the floor, sighing once more. Suddenly, I sensed someone walking towards my tent, I saw little, blue-skinned feet beneath the tent's curtain, as the little Celica entered.

"Ah, Celica…" I sighed, I probably looked like a dried fruit by how tired I might look.

"S-Sylphy! You're awake!" She said in surprise. "You fell asleep for a whole day!"

The little girl ran towards me and suddenly gave me a lovely hug, I couldn't help but hug her back.

"Ah… I slept so long?!" I reacted a bit too late.

"Yeah… two days ago something bad happened in the city, right? You slept since then…" She said.

"Oh… I see." I sighed.

"Come out! We have to tell everybody you woke up!" She said, trying to grab me by my robes and pulling me out of the tent, but that was impossible right now.

"I-I can barley move, Celica. My entire body seems paralyzed and strangely numb…" I said, trying to stop her.

"O-Oh… Are you okay?" She asked worriedly.

"I am, don't worry, little Celica." I sighed, petting her head. Her genuine concern really softened my heart.

"T-Then do I call your parents?" She asked.

"That would help a lot! Thanks." I said.

"Okay! I'll come back with them!" Celica darted outside the tent.

Meanwhile, I decided to look into my Soul Scape, finding Alice there, who noticed I had woken up. She quickly emerged out of the Soul Scape exclusively to reprimand me.

"Sylphy! You've clearly overdone it this time! Did you had to go so far? You should had ran away, not confront those impossible challenges…!" Alice said.

"I'm sorry… I just felt desperate to do what I could to help… I did indeed was too reckless, but if I didn't acted in time, my friends would had died. They helped at the end, so they were not a burden either…" I sighed.

"I mean, I get it but still…" Alice sighed. "Oh well… As long as you understand… It is not as if I can do much about this, it is up to you at the end…"

I felt like Alice had grown a bit tired of me…

"Anyways! There's another surprise I wanted to show you! Ignatius, come here!"

FLASH!

And then, a small creature appeared before my eyes.

"Hahaha! I've finally hatched from my egg, Sylphy!"

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