There was no ti for to react and help Match. So I placed her behind my back and carried the little girl to the carriage.
She weighed like a feather, and her breath beca weak. Although Match was still a growing little girl, she had the heart of a warrior. Seeing her right now made worried. My expression gave away.
"I told you to stay, Match," I whispered while shaking my head. "I do not want you to be involved in this."
I did not want her to be a part in my revenge. She needed to stay away as far as possible in the war, but here she was, resting in my hands.
If this girl had not co for , I would have died from the blast. It was thanks to Match that I made it out alive. But with the cause of her blazed arms.
Match drove the carriage all by herself. No kid could actually have done it, but she did. Match was courageous enough to operate the cart. It may be with the help of her system, but it still was a chivalrous feat from her side.
I can still rember the fiery flas devouring the projectiles aid at . The players had no chance against the orange ignition. Their bodies beca dust and turned pixelated right after telling they died.
Match killed them. It was the first death count she had made. But I planned on not bringing the topic up for the ti being. All that mattered right now was her safety and mine. We had yet to reach the outskirts of Nirvana.
We still needed to escape, bringing with us the erald obelisk. I still contained the viridescent resin inside my pockets. The gemstone refused to go inside my inventory, given that it was a valuable piece of Code. I also had the spare weapon with inside my inventory.
There was also this stave gripped in Match's hands that I stored earlier. I did not know how she got it, but I left that topic for later.
I whipped the rope grasped in my hands and ordered the horses to sprint towards the exit. With the help of my system, the map told that there was a passage parallel from the ingress. It ant that sowhere in the forest's end, there should be a hole that would greet our eyes.
The cart drove to the tracks and passed by multiple elves and players fighting against each other. It was a heated field filled with bloodshed and amputated limbs flying across the skies. The situation looked grim for the players, especially when disadvantages laid upon them. Since there were many elves and a couple of adventurers in their place, those players could not fight them. They lacked the numbers that the elves had.
The long-eared elves also had the upper hand, and used their terrain to their advantage. Despite having the experience to fight, those players did not stand a chance against the rangers.
I was fortunate enough to slip by their attention and raced through the bumpy road. The trees beca my enemy, which kept descending in my direction. The magic attacks that ca from the players razored the forest, leading to the destruction of the place.
I needed to hurry and leave the place alive.
I embraced Match's unconscious body tighter as I made a sharp turn on the right. The carriage quivered in the sudden direction, but it was not enough to tumble us to the ground. I thrashed the cord once again, hoping that these animals would pick the pace. And they did.
The horses clamoured a neigh and rushed towards the mouth of the forest. Upon leaving the woodland, the mountain's bottom welcod my eyes. It was the saving grace we had from this expedition.
We can finally flee from this fiendish place.
I spared a glimpse behind and checked if soone sched to tail us behind. Match and I were fortunate enough to see that nobody followed us. I can never be sure whether that Wolf would obstruct my goal once more.
"We're finally here, Match. Just hang on tight. I will never leave you behind." I announced, and blasted through the narrow wall.
The cart withstood the crash and continued progressing towards the exit. The system also stated that we left Nirvana once and for all. No players trailed our tracks as I controlled the carriage towards the road.
However, Match could not hold on for much longer. Her breaths beca rigid and quick. She had been gasping for air during that escape.
"Hold on for a little longer, Match. We are almost there." I reassured, and caressed my hand on the girl.
Match curled up like a fetus and rested on my thighs. I could not let her nestle at the back, since the cart was shaky during the trip. I did not want to risk her falling from her make-shift bed without my notice.
'I need to go sowhere safe, away from Nirvana,' I thought, and advanced.
The sll of sothing burning caught up to my nostrils and filled the air with dark clouds. As I looked above, the cumulonimbus clouds flew to the mountain, towards Nirvana.
"It seems it is going to rain." Upon expressing my thoughts, a drizzle of tears descended from the heavens. It almost felt like the weather was mourning soone who had died.
I hauled the ropes and stopped the carriage from moving. There was a gigantic tree with its towering leaves that could shield us from the rain. I did not want Match to catch a cold, so stopping by should be a wise decision.
I parked the cart at the bark and placed Match on the leaves. I made sure she was comfortable in her position as I planned, giving her imdiate aid to her wounds.
My eyes greeted the pulsating skin found both at her hands. It almost looked like molten lava that erged from her hands. The warm temperature kept spreading to her body, with the crimson spots showing on her fingers.
The humid and chilly air cooled off the heat coming from Match's hands. It helped ease her pain from extracting any further from her limbs. But it was not enough to soothe her sensation and close her wounds.
"Inventory, inventory! I have a red and blue potion with !" I opened my system and snatched the two flasks from my bag.
Two potions with dissimilar colours materialised in my hands. It was the health potion and the mana potion that the rchant had offered. Beside them was the leftover al that we had not touched since then, but we did not need those nourishnts right now.
I summoned my screen and used [scan] to Match. My system marked Match as my sister, so checking her information beca uncomplicated to . As soon as the window popped up at my fore, I read what the system wrote beside her na.
Two bars with crimson and azure colour addressed my eyes. The scarlet rod identified itself as the health points, and the cerulean one claid it was the mana. Both of the bars reached the left side, showing that Match was in grave danger.
The system also described Match's fingers as "burned". It was a condition that slowly consud her health points to 0. I had an inkling that once the bar hits rock bottom, Match would die and beco pixelated like the others.
[A red potion. It will heal most of the wounds and infections. Will restore your stamina and health points.]
[A blue potion. It will heal your magic capacity and stamina. If you have full mana, the blue potion will expand your capacity within a limited duration. Once your mana falls to 0, you cannot cast any magic. Your body will also feel sluggish.]
An instruction appeared before , with the automated voice narrating its descriptions. I knew that the red and blue potions could heal your health points and mana capacity, but I did not know how they worked. I did not have any reasons to use it, so I beca ignorant about these potions.
"Here, Match. A red potion. Please drink it, okay? It will make you feel better." I raised Match's head and lifted the flask to her lips. Using the force of gravity, I poured the contents of the red liquid into her mouth.
Match willingly gulped everything from the container. After a few seconds, a glowing crimson light covered both her hands. It took the radiance a minute before the light had faded away, revealing her closed wounds.
Her skin improved after drinking the red potion. There were miniature cuts and holes from here and there, but the major burned area covered her wounds. The heat that was spreading to her skin had simred down, showing the steam fluttering above Match's hands.
A terrible bark escaped from Match's lips. She coughed out so blood that got stuck inside of her lungs.
I did the sa with the blue potion and hoped for the best.
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