Conqueror

The manticore's pounce took a lot from me. My bones felt like it broke from that single pounce that I took. That's combined with my Dominion and Baneful Sword... This will be an incredibly difficult fight.

"Dull Pain, Heaven's Touch, Cure Wounds!" Helga casted on me. Less pain felt, incresed healing and some status boosts and a heal to bring me back to full health.

Feran followed up, "Commander's Banner!" He summoned a banner in which gave us all status boosts, "Damage Resistance UP! Chalice Activate!" The water inside Neco's chalice turned dark. "Corrupted Water! Dark Damage UP! Strength Addon! Maximum Health Boost!" He casted on all of us.

"Mad. Alchemist's. LAND!" The manticore's skill suddenly splashed waters of poison that went up everywhere.

"Barrier!" Helga protected us from the poison. 

We looked at the effects and it seems that it corrodes everything that gets afflicted by it seeing by the ground being melted right in front of our eyes.

"Tornado!" The manticore followed up. And it seems to be sucking in the poison from the ground and merging together. But at this rate, its going to spread everywhere.

"Let me out! If we keep this up we won't be able to get out of here!" I told Helga.

"But-" She doesn't want to but she still did it. "Fine!" She opened up a small hole for me in whick I jumped out.

I used the barrier as a leverage to jump for me not to touch any of the poison below. I rushed straight into the tornado, "Baneful Sword, Absorb!" And began to take in every last bit of poison and wind in which I cleared in just about several seconds. I landed right on the ground and jumped again this time to the manticore and threw out the waves of poison residing within my blade by swinging it several times.

"Shockwave!" The manticore deflected all the attacks. "Annoying! Air. Absorption!"

"UguAH-" I grasp my throat and tried to catch air. But nothing came in no matter how much I tried. 

"Barrier!" Helga casted on me and for some reason, I can catch my breath again. "Free Form Barrier!" The barrier stuck to my skin like a thin lining on my whole body.

"I'm going to join in." Neco came out with the same buffs applied to me. 

"Me too." Same with Yefa.

"Are you sure?" I asked of her. "Fire skills are disabled because of Rize."

"I think my punches are strong enough. Well then... Dispel." She took off her Gazer form. "Come, Sinner's Punisher." A painful expression was seen in Yefa's face but it soon disappeared. "Alright." She hyped herself up, "Let's go!" She was the first to take off.

"Negate. Attack." The manticore casted.

As soon as Yefa punched his face, a magic circle appeared but it suddenly broke. As if she pierced through that magic. Giving the manticore a mean right hook which sent him flying across the entire barrier that Rize set up. There's already a crack on the barrier with her single punch.

"You. Broke..." The manticore was visibly seen having trouble standing up. "Through. My. Magic? Impossible."

"Sinner's Punisher. It breaks magic as long as my strength is sufficient." Yefa smiled. She rushed again but this time the manticore had something in mind.

"Each. And. Everyone. Of. You... ANNOYING! Ethereal Wind Guardian!" A small ball of wind formed then soon took shake in the image of a woman. With a single wave of her hand, all of our barriers broke and we found ourselves trying to grasp air.

"ARGH..." Every single one of us were desperately trying to breath.

Then suddenly, a pouch full of stones came flying our way as it landed on the ground. We looked from where it came from and... its Lam?

Helga was the first to grab a stone there and eat it. "AH!" She began to breath again. "Its Marestone, you don't need to breathe if you eat that. But it'll only last for several minutes.

We all rushed over and ate a piece of the Marestones and its true. We don't need to breathe with this. So the wind magic won't work as well at us.

The manticore's summoned wind familiar then greated on what seems to be a lance and a shield. It flew right at us and was about strike Helga with her lance.

"Ba-" But Helga was far too slow. Feran jumped right in front of her. But it was just a useless sacrifice seeing how Neco swooped in and dragged Helga away before she could utter a word.

The lance of the summoned wind spirit struck Feran's stomach as it pierced through the other side. We were all frozen at the sight as the summoned spirit slowly retracted her lance and moved away as Feran fall in front of it.

"BLINK!" Yefa was the first to break the silence and instantly teleported in front of the wind spirit. Using her Sinner's Punisher, she punched the wind spirit. But it raised it shield which absorbed all of the blow. But it broke and sent it flying back at the manticore.

Neco left Helga and brought back with him Feran's unconscious body. Helga's tears fell out but she wiped it off immediately. "Bring him back at the castle. I'm sorry everyone but I'll be retreating with Feran."

The wind spirit launched herself again like a cannonball at Helga with her lance first. Neco tried to block it with his insane reflexes. It was far too fast for us to react.

Neco barely blocked it as the wind spirit's lance were inches away from Helga's face.

But Helga was daring, she grabbed the wind spirit's lance, "You're... the one who did this... GET OUT! OVERHEAL!" Yellow like light surrounded Helga's arms and her eyes flickered with a yellow aura. And in that instant, the wind spirit exploded.

It was unexpected. 

But something was more surreal.

The yellow aura that's surrounding Helga's body is taking a form. Into the same spirit as the manticore released. But this time it held a crucifix and raised it into the air.

The spirit then spoke, "Life's Fountain."

The clouds parted for the giant beacon of light to shine upon us all. All of our wounds were healed, we also got some 100% status boost on everything. 

We then heard some people shouting. We got worried but soon turned into relief.

"My exhaustion from the training is gone!"

"My arm! Its back!?"

"No way! I thought I won't be able to move again!"

"My baby's wound are gone!?"

"I can stand up again!?"

"I can see! I CAN SEE!"

We could hear the people inside the castle all getting crazy and jumpy. So this skill healed all the people that are afflicted with illness and can heal anything?

Rize's body returned to normal but still unconscious.

And the most important of all, Feran's torn stomach were healed to complete full.

Helga let go of the lance of the destroyed wind spirit and blood came running down her hands but soon disappeared from her own healing spell.

"Out... of mana..." She then fell to the ground completely unconscious. 

We were all speechless. What was that power that she just showed us? It was completely unexpected. Everyone's physical wounds and illnesses were all fully returned to normal. 

"What... Was. That. Unknown. Power... Has. Magic. Evolved. Yet. AGAIN!? COME. TO. ME. IFRIT!" But nothing came out. "DAMN. IT! IF. I. HAD. MY. POWERS. I. COULD. HAVE. ENDED. THIS. A. LONG. TIME. AGO. DAMN. YOU!!!"

Damn it... I've let three people nearly die in this fight... Am I really this powerless!? I don't know what I need to do...

Do I have to use it..? I can only control a portion of it but if I use it all... I might just lose control. Argh... no more questioning myself. Three of my allies nearly died in front of me. I won't let this happen again.

I'm incredibly talkative in this state but...I'll just let it do its thing. "Unruly Gemstone!" My eyes turned into a red crystal gemstone and my Gazer form disappeared on its own. 

A skill list of over two hundred skills appeared before me.

This is the skill that I inherited from my bloodline. I hate it but... this is the last thing that I have connecting me with my parents.

So that's why I'll use it like how they used it. To protect their people and allies. And...

The one that they lo....

"Precia! What are you-" Yefa shouted.

"I'm no longer Precia. You're half right about that. But I'm her deepest desires. I'm her most valuable secret." I... 'She' replied. 

"What..?"

"Now then... you're that annoying manticore that harmed my darling didn't you? You aren't allowed to live. For you've hurt him. Come to me, Unruly Sword, Unruly Armor, Unruly Shield.

An armor formed with spiky red crystals, a flamberge-like sword, and a spiky shield were summoned by 'her.' "I'll make you pay!"