When the smoke that spread through the forest began to dissipate from Quinn and Carmilla's efforts to pay for and control the fire created by Tania, the atmosphere became much lighter even considering the bad situation we are in.
We were lucky because Quinn wasn't injured by the magic beast's attack, without her help I don't think the flames would be brought under control and we would have one more big problem, the fire that Tania created got very wild after feeding on the fallen trees of the forest. they were just about to start propagating when they were held back by Quinn's earth element magic.
But my focus wasn't on the forest on fire but on Tania who created these flames, after treating Nolan who is now covered in burns all over his skin, I went to check on Tania's condition. Thanks to my eyes I have a good understanding of what is happening to victims and my lightning element is one of the best weapons we have to damage the life and earth element that came from the magical beast.
When I checked on Tania she was being treated by Abel while Luke stands guard protecting the group from any threat, even though the level two magic beasts were killed and the completely abnormal magic beast fled to the center of the forest doesn't mean that all the threats disappeared.
The magical beast that we thought was leading this pack is still alive and fighting with Ana, even if she is winning the fight, he can still decide to attack us.
Abel tried his best to treat Tania who suffered a more serious injury than Nolan, but not as deadly as the dying End. Tania had her left arm pierced by a large thorn of earth that was supposed to be formed after a large project like the one that hit Fim broke into smaller pieces.
Tania's wound was inflicted on her forearm, the puncture reached Tania's bone even though it was a superficial bone wound the petrification was only spreading through her bone, flesh and skin. Her situation is good in the sense that not one vital organ is being petrified, but that doesn't mean we can leave her without proper treatment if the petrification continues if it spreads, she will not only lose her arm but the petrification could spread to the rest of her. body.
Even after removing the project and Abel's treatment which consisted of his light element trying to purify the earth element that petrified Tania's body and various herbs and medicines that had very limited effect didn't delay the petrification process too much.
Tania's skin was the least of our problems because she was such a small area, the flesh being petrified and a bigger problem because the area was already petrified and the size of a fist and I would have to rip all that flesh off Tania's arm from only once.
Normally this kind of move would be considered madness, ripping and burning flesh to eliminate a petrification effect is not a viable treatment as it deals a large amount of damage to the victim, but as the life element is draining the victim to strengthen the petrification I don't I have a choice but to rip a chunk out of Tania's arm.
As I did so Tania started screaming in agony as I destroyed a part of Tania's arm ignoring Abel's hysterical questions and threats, who probably thinks I'm crazy since I'm 'destroying' Tania's arm, when I get to the bone I I find myself in a building situation, if I do as I did with End and burn the energy on the surface of Tania's bone wound, I won't be able to eliminate all the petrifying elemental energy, but if I'm more aggressive I can cause serious injury and permanent on Tania's arm.
My elemental energy can damage Tania's bone in a way that she will have a hard time creating a flow of mana through her arm after it is healed, but if I let the petrification propagate through Tania's bone, she might not only lose her arm but she may also experience permanent side effects from the depetrification of her arm.
Either way Tania could lose or injure her ability to create a flow of mana and elemental energy in her arm for the rest of her life, I doubt she'll be lucky enough to be able to make it to town in time to receive treatment. good and fast enough to completely save your arm.
The magic beast's elemental energy is very wild, the larger the petrified area the faster the petrification's and makes me afraid that before reaching the city the petrification may have traveled into other bones and maybe even out of Tania's arm.
I can't take that risk so I pierce her bone with my lightning element, my energy is running low but I have more than enough to destroy the elemental energy of the magical beast that is inside Tania's arm, who is thrashing and screaming in pain while I treat her.
Tania faints with tears streaming down her face in the arms of Abel who held her during the treatment, I hope she doesn't think my choice was wrong. Even if the damage done to her arm is curable, the treatment will not be easy or cheap for her.
After finishing Tania's 'treatment' I hear a sad roar of pain, and looking in Ana's direction I see her killing the supposed leader of the pack. Ana's armor is badly damaged, but she is still in one piece, even though it is full of cracks and dents, the fight with the lizard was difficult for her.
I approached her studying the corpse of the lizard, even dead from exhaustion his organs still seem to be more or less working, this thing is really hard to kill, the magic beast that ran away must be even worse to kill as it can try to suck the vitality of other living beings.
"What happened to you guys?"
"Unexpected enemy, the false mage was much more powerful than we thought. When her form began to change, she unleashed the power of a very unique level three beast, if she hadn't run away for an unknown reason most of us would be dead already."
"Has her form changed and her combat power increased that much?"
"I think she might even be a little stronger than the lizard you just killed, but how she got away is not an issue we have to deal with right now. Knight is extremely injured and I doubt he will survive to the city?"
"What happened to him?! Is it because you didn't start by talking about him?"
Ana runs past me and arrives at End and starts studying her injuries.
"The wound doesn't look too bad, but that's because what's killing the Knight is the elemental energy of the attack and not the wound itself. The earth element is petrifying the knight's body at a very high rate because of the life element that is strengthening him while draining the knight's vitality."
"Damn it!"
"Careful touching him. The life element tries to devour everything that comes close to it."
"What a damn magic beast, how unlucky do we have to find this kind of magic beast. Can you feel how much the petrification has spread inside his body?"
"It's getting to his heart, but one of his lungs is already petrified. Even trying to remove the elemental energy from his body didn't hold much hope for him, by the time I discovered the earth and life element properties of the magic beast, petrification had already penetrated deep into his body."
"Should that be an excuse?!"
"No, he was doomed when the great thorn of earth pierced his chest. The other injured were Spear and Blast, both of them are not life threatening, but Blast's injuries were pretty serious she needs to find a healer as soon as possible, I had to burn a lot of her arm to clean the magic beast's energy, I had to burn her to the bone."
"Are you sure you've cleared all the elemental energy from the two magical beasts?"
"Yeah."
Ana got up leaving Fim who was already unconscious on the floor. Unfortunately, there's nothing we can do to save him.
"We're retreating! Those who cannot walk must be carried by someone whistle to do so, we will return as soon as possible to avoid being attacked by the magical beast that ran away."
Ana took a raincoat she had in her backpack and wrapped Fim in it, hiding her upper half of her body. I thought she would kill him before taking him back to base, I doubt she thinks he can still be saved so the reason must be different.
But I didn't have much time to think, following Ana's order the team began to retreat at high speed. Nolan is able to run on his own, even though he is in a lot of pain in his body it hasn't affected him enough to stop him from running.
Tania is being carried by Abel; her arm is already bandaged to prevent anything from getting into her wound along the way. Abel works very fast.