Chapter 200: Helia's Complain
He felt bad for the girl even though she didn't treat him well at the start. But He knew why she hated him, it was because she had a mental trauma from her childhood about her brother who died at the hands of humans.
He kept caressing her back as the girl was shaking and crying uncontrollably, the intoxicated gas effect was causing her to let all her guilt and sorrow escape without any barrier.
As time passed, her crying reduced as she was getting tired and her delicate heart felt lighter, The blonde-haired beauty fell asleep in his warm embrace.
Rio placed Helia carefully beside Nyla on the bed and moved away from his middle seat which was between them. He took out two pillows to put their head on it and brought a blanket to cover their body.
The girls slept peacefully, not aware of the outside as Rio stayed awake standing a few meters away from them and guarding them.
He gazed at the Magenta-haired beauty and used [Heaven's Eyes] innate skill to inspect her.
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[User: Nyla Mailon]
[Race: Human]
[Innate Rank: A]
[Root: Black]
[MANA: 1000]
[Physical Power: 15 + 170]
[Innate stats: 15]
[Yellow: 20]
[Purple: 20]
[Black: 18]
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'Nyla made so much progress in three nights of farming, she is almost close to reaching the red stage. If I didn't go for that Baby's Tears Longevity plant then she may have reached the red stage tonight.
But it shouldn't be hard killing a few more black-stage beasts at her current level and I believe she will be happy receiving one of the fruits from the Longevity plant in the future.'
Rio thought inwardly as he read her profile stats, she was only missing two more black-stage points to reach the red stage which made her insanely stronger than most black-stage warriors.
She was only a peak-level purple stage warrior a few weeks ago but now with the help of her sisters, she progressed like crazy and was close to reaching the red stage.
"Eve, give me the purple lord core of giant shadow viper fox," He asked, thinking to increase his strength as well.
His current stats were a lot lower than Nyla and he didn't want to be a burden to her in the competition. He needed his own strength to face other teams that came on his way of claiming victory.
The Elven monarch beast sent the palm size purple core as it appeared in his palm that he spread to take it.
He circulated his mana and sent it into the lord beast's core which dissolved to enter his body, making him feel stronger than before.
A notification rang in his mind as he absorbed the giant shadow viper fox core.
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[Core of Purple-stage Lord Giant Shadow Viper Fox absorbed. 11 Purple Stats points gained.]
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Hearing the message, his heart became delighted as he was a step closer to the next stage. The boy never expected the lord beast would give him such massive purple stats boost.
With a faint smile, he opened his profile to check his updated stats.
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[User: Rio Havenglow]
[Race: Human]
[Innate Rank: S]
[Root: Purple Stage]
[Core: Purple Stage]
[MANA: 200+200]
[Physical Power: 15+123] (+20% Devlin Might)
[Innate stats: 10+5]
[White: 10+10]
[Yellow: 20+20]
[Purple: 11+10]
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'Nyla's total physical power is 185 while I'm at 165 with the help of Devlin might. This should be good enough for now.'
He closed his profile and sat near the trunk of the tree and waited for the night to end.
The eastern sky was colored with a shade of orange as the morning arrived, drowning the forest below with sunlight.
Helia's eyes shook as they fluttered open, she rubbed her temple, scrunching her eyes.
She looked around and found herself in the middle of the forest, lying on the comfortable bedding beside Nyla.
Helia noticed the crimson-haired boy was a few meters away sitting on the ground, gazing in her direction.
"What happened to us?" She questioned in puzzlement, not able to recall what happened earlier.
"You don't remember anything?" He asked in a surprised tone.
"I fought with that beast. Then Nyla and I were laughing but I don't remember what happened after that and My head is hurting... Arghh...." She spoke and held her temple, groaning in pain as her forehead was aching.
The girl had forgotten most of the things that had happened after she was affected by the blue gas.
"After that, I took you both here and waited for the two of you to wake up." He responded with a faint smile and didn't tell her the whole truth.
Helia nodded but she looked puzzled as she was trying to think and didn't remember anything that he mentioned.
"Why did you not tell us beforehand that you are going to go into the water?" Helia grumbled as she asked the boy, glaring at him as if he had wronged her.
"Would you girls let me go into the lake, knowing there was a lord beast protecting a treasure that's causing all those incidents around the lake and was the main reason for laughing alligator beast?" Rio asked.
"But It could've killed you," Helia complained, rising her tone.
"That treasure's name is Baby's Tears Longevity Plant. It grows a fruit once a month which increases a person's age by hundred years and also their beauty. Just think about it, we can all live longer using this Longevity fruit and you will have more opportunities to bicker with me." The boy told her about the benefit of the treasure in a sarcastic manner.
"What's the use of that treasure if it endangers your life?" The girl asked in a fierce tone.