Jax arrived beside the moth and held its furry head with his left hand. With his right, he stabbed it into its eyes again. And this ti, he twisted it in there, getting as deep as he could.
The moth squird while Jax cut through the insides of its head, and after he reached deep enough, it simply stopped moving and dropped dead.
Just then, a voice spoke in his head.
Light suddenly shone from the moth as the Navi stones within its body floated out from it. There were three white stones, which Jax grabbed with his other hand.
There was no ti to be in awe or surprised. He needed to leave. However, sothing else caught his attention at that mont.
While the Navi stones were out, the moth's body hadn't stopped shining. Sothing else floated out from it.
A scroll.
Jax's eyes widened as he quickly grabbed it too. He hoped it was what he thought it was, and as if to answer, the voice spoke again.
Jax could tell by the na what the spell did. It was the sa spell that the moth used to wrap its enemies in invisible threads.
'Unseen Constriction,' Jax thought. 'Is it a good spell?'
He had only one spell to learn, so he couldn't decide right away.
The urgency of the situation ca back to Jax when he rembered that he had wasted ti with the spell scroll. He turned around and saw the bear rushing toward him.
He barely pulled his dagger out in ti and rolled backward when the bear stomped through the moth's body, destroying it completely.
The spell scroll fell from his hand, along with two of the opal stones that scattered on the ground as well.
'No...' Jax thought. He couldn't leave it be. He needed those things.
Jax reached for everything but could only reach the spell when the bear rushed back toward him. He had to leave the two stones. With just a single opal stone and the spell scroll, he dodged the bear once again, but it was too close this ti.
There were only so many tis he could dodge like this. Either the bear would figure it out, or he would make a mistake. He was already losing so much blood too. At so point, he wouldn't be able to move as well as he was doing.
The pain alone would incapacitate him.
Jax knew he couldn't hurt the bear. It was obvious from how shallow the cut from the dagger had been. Since running wasn't an option either, and neither was just hoping to dodge every attack, there was only one thing Jax could do.
In the state he was in, where his mind was so very clear, he could see the one path he could take that could save him. He had to learn the constriction spell and use it on the bear.
That would either give him enough ti to run away or even constrict the bear forever, giving him ti to kill it. But Jax didn't want to learn this spell.
A single constriction spell that could be easily gotten rid of was not sothing he wanted to learn, as that one spell would be permanent.
And yet, with the threat of the bear before him, that was all Jax could do.
"Gemma," he called out, his voice calm, like the eye of a storm. "How do I learn this spell?"
"Open it. You will have the opportunity to read it," Gemma answered.
Jax looked at the bear in the midst of turning around again. Then, he got up and ran. He needed the ti to read the scroll. The mont he began running, he unfurled the scroll.
Inside the scroll were runic symbols that seed to make sense to him. He could tell exactly what the spell was at that mont by simply looking at the scroll and not even reading it.
What he grasped from the scroll was that the user of this spell could create threads of the Wind elent to constrict their target. It was a simple spell that didn't cost a lot of Navi either.
It was not a spell Jax would choose to learn if given the opportunity, but he had no choice right now. He had to learn it.
And yet, as he was about to, the words changed.
The symbols on the scroll remained the sa, but the aning inside Jax's head was vastly different now. There was so much information suddenly cramd into his head that he couldn't even properly review it all in ti.
He realized almost imdiately what was happening. It was the side effect of his restriction, 'Single Spell Sorcerer.' Any spell he would learn would be significantly improved.
So, the spell he was about to learn had been improved as well.
Jax didn't have the ti to fully read and consider how good the new spell was in comparison to the original version. However, considering that it had been significantly improved, it had to be leagues better than 'Unseen Constriction.'
The spell had gone beyond being just a constriction-type spell; that much Jax could tell. As for the rest, the situation didn't allow him the freedom to make a decision. It forced his hands.
When the option ca for him to learn the spell, he accepted it.
Sothing happened the mont Jax learned the spell. He felt as though soone took a red-hot iron stamp and stuck it into his mind.
Learning a spell did not co with any pain, but the feeling of sothing new being added to his mind was strong. What was added was the new spell, 'Divine Threads.'
Jax suddenly stopped and turned around. Now that he had learned the spell, he could stop the bear.
He watched the bear approach and lifted his right hand, letting the dagger drop from it, ready to use the spell.
Nothing happened.
Reviews
All reviews (0)