New Eden: Live to Play, Play to Live

Chapter 1025: Called Back To Battle



From the side, Alex's team had engaged in combat as well, Alex already charging back at the dragonkin with no intention of letting him recover from his anger.Nôv(el)B\\jnn

He needed the monster's attention on him, and him only, and he would do anything to ensure that.

With each powerful swing of his sword, Alex was tearing into the monster's flesh, his scales offering little resistance. He was constantly on the move, preventing the dragonkin from mounting a counterattack.

Of course, that didn't stop the gigantic foe from trying to stomp him to death, but it kept its massive weapon out of play.

At least for a while.

But the dragonkin wasn't a mindless beast. It was aware of Alex's tactics and its anger only grew, like a storm on the horizon.

With a mighty roar, it slammed the bottom of its guisarme into the ground before lowering its stance with an open maw.

Alex instantly knew the danger that was about to come, and his head snapped toward his allies.

"Ri-Chū! Stone barricade! Now! Violette, cover them with a bubble of water!" he urgently shouted, as the dragonkin's throat lit up and flames came blasting out its mouth in a torrent of death.

Alex jumped out of the way, being the closest to it, and he realized the attack had never been aimed at him to begin with.

His party was directly in the blast zone, taking the dragon's breath head-on.

Alex trusted his allies to overcome this, and this time the dragonkin was absolutely still, and inflicted more wounds on him.

"If you insist on looking away from me, then you pay the price!" he shouted, making sure the monster could hear him over the roar of flames.

Alex could see from the corner of his eye the cone that the breath attack had spread out to, and he knew he would have to reposition his party, to ensure that if they both did this, it wouldn't end up clipping someone on accident.

The attack lasted about ten seconds, and when it stopped, Alex heard Kary scream out Jonathan's name, so he instinctively turned his head toward the boy's mana signature.

His perfect mana vision allowed him to see something his party members couldn't, and he scoffed at the kid's daring move.

He saw the weapon slash at him, only for the wind around the boy to spin him around like a leaf in the wind, making the attack slide right off the protective bubble he'd made for himself.

Of course, this sent him spinning like a top, but he was unharmed, and that was all that counted.

"He's fine!" he shouted to Kary before focusing his attention back on his own battle.

He looked past the monster's legs and saw the semi-dome-like stone in front of his allies, whose surface had become a molten mess, and he grinned.

"Good job," he whispered, knowing they had reacted fast enough.

Behind the rock formation, two party members of Alex's team looked at Ri-Chū and Violette with fear and awe.

But the fear wasn't caused by them. Instead, it was caused by what they had just managed to stave off with only two spells.

Jin-Sil knew they were strong, but this was an attack on the next level, and she was amazed at how fast they reacted to it. They had already begun casting before Alex even warned them.

As for Liu Yan, he wasn't familiar enough with them to know that, and seeing it in action made him realize how well-oiled these people were as a team.

As for David, he would never admit it to anyone, but he already trusted the girl blindly. When he felt her cast a spell around them, he stood closer to her and waited for the storm to pass.

The stone raised by the druid boy was an added protection that had served his purpose, and he was thankful for it, but he would have stood in the flames with only Violette's protection if she had.

And once the flames sputtered out, he grinned.

"Alright. Since these motherfuckers want to bring out heavy guns, then so will I!" he exclaimed, slapping his hand on his extending shadow.

"Come out, Engvall! Come out, Phaelia!" he chanted, pouring mana into his shadow.

It wasn't long before his shadow ballooned outward, suddenly covering the ground around their entire group, and two hands clawed their way out on each side of the party.

On one side, a bony, gauntleted hand pulled itself up, revealing a deathly pale male wearing rugged plate armour and wielding a halberd as it stepped out of the shadow, towering over the others by almost an entire head.

On the other side, a leathery hand pulled at the ground on which the shadow was projected before revealing a massive feathered wing, followed by a second, and soon after, an entire slightly zombified body of the harpy queen.

Alex and David had taken the time before leaving the hidden cavern to fight the remaining besieging army of kobolds to use her to the fullest, after Jin-Sil had reminded them. Now, they were about to reap the benefits of their actions.

"Alex!" David shouted.

"What?! I'm a little busy over here!" Alex replied, jumping away from a giant foot that tried stomping on him.

"Don't you think it's time to let her out?! I think she's earned her revenge, don't you?!" David answered, giving him a wide, shit-eating grin.

Alex took a second to understand what he meant until the guttural squawking of the harpy queen filled the room.

He grinned back at David and gave him a thumbs up.

'What do you say, Phaelia? You up for a rematch against those who bested you and led you to your ultimate demise?' he asked in his mind.

As soon as he did, a tiny speck of blue flame hovering around his soul blazed up, severing a

tether that had been between it and Alex's soul, and a voice resounded in his head.

'I was waiting for this question,' it replied, confidence evident in its tone.

'Then have at them,' Alex replied, before sending mana into the soul.

It was the easiest summoning he'd ever made on this side, as the soul immediately reacted to

his mana, a testament to where he had gained it.

"Welcome back to the world, Phaelia. Give them hell!" Alex said, as a blast of wind came

flying out of him.

*SCREEEE!*