“I just heard about Mira and Kong,” Killian said as he, Leo, and Alissa came barging through the doors of Milianna’s i the city of Gol. “How are they?”

  “Not good,” Faye said in a hushed tone, worried about disturbing the already frail Ace. “They were in critical dition when we brought them back, but Aunt Milli is in with them now.”

  “With Aunt Milli’s abilities, they’ll be fine, right?” Alissa asked, expeg Faye and Lao nod in agreement, only to find them both lookiant and unsure.

  It had to be remembered that Milianna’s prehension of the Edict of Life had reached the profound stage. Aside from Arianna, whose insights into the ws of light had surpassed most deities, Milianna was the best healer any of them knew.

  For Land Faye to know that and still be so pehe severity of their ditions could be uood.

  “Ace…” Killian said softly.

  “I’m fine,” Ace smiled in an attempt to reassure this younger brother of his. “Alissa and Kong will be fine!”

  Ace said that as though he was trying to vince himself rather than Killian, but whenever he thought back to the dition of both Alissa and Kong when he brought them back, his ving himself was all he could do to keep himself from snapping.

  When Harriet blew herself up, Ace had been too far away to stop Wukong from charging in in his crazed state.

  Ultimately, all he could do was will his fmes to envelope Harriet to tai as much as possible.

  His as had saved many of the mortals closer to the bst, but Wukong…

  When the dust cleared, Wukong’s dition was critical. His skin and flesh had been burnt off in most pces on his body to the point where the whites of his bones were clearly on dispy. Calling his breathing shallow was a severe uatement.

  Aew he had to get him back to his mother’s side as soon as possible, but he was scared about moving him in his dition in case he further aggravated his injuries.

  It was then, whilst Ace was deg on how to proceed, that Amira took matters into her own hands.

  With Ace holding her whilst standing over Wukong’s body, Amira took the ce to use the remnants of her fleeting energy to not only summon her bloodli also use her stro healing spell on Wukong.

  Ordinarily, that would’ve been fine; if anything, she would’ve merely lost sciousness from fatigue, but with the added strain of Maria’s poisonous battle-qi still ravaging her insides, her ditio from severe to worse.

  She coughed a mouthful of inky bck blood before directly losing sciousness as her normally healthy and fwless caramel skin turned deathly pale.

  It was then that Ace threw caution to the wind and took both Kong and Amira in his arms, and shot off at a speed that put his previous top speed to shame.

  His desire to get Mira and Kong to his mother was s that he, without even realising it, made a slight breakthrough, deepening his insights into the Profound Mystery of Explosions.

  Still, in that moment, the only thing that mattered to him was getting his loved oo safety.

  Thankfully, when Amira and the others returo the Pavilion to apply to bee Acolytes, when they received the spell [Force Armour], he received the teique [Pseudo Godrealm].

  With the spherical barrier of fire c them, it prevented any unwanted air resistance from worsening their injuries. Still, there wasn’t much he could do about the jerkiness of his movement teique, especially as he couldn’t afford to slow down, as it would mean they would die before they arrived.

  His jerky movements definitely didn’t help, but thankfully, Ace was able t them bailianna’s ic, where she spent most of her days, before either of them lost their lives.

  The moment Milianna saw their ditions, she urgently, yet still calmly, had Ace lie them both down before having the still frantic Ace wait outside to keep him from disturbing her.

  That was over two ho. And the only thing holding Ace together was the fact that despite being weak, both Amira and Wukong’s auras were still very much alive.

  Suddenly, Ace jumped up as he looked towards the door, where his mother entered from. “How are they? Will they be okay?”

  “Wukong’s stable,” Milianna nodded before a slightly hesitant expression appeared on her face.

  “What about Mira?” Ace asked hurriedly upon notig the expression on his mother’s face.

  “She’s safe for now, but…”

  “But what?” Ace asked frantically.

  “But she, she’s refusing further treatment,” Millianna expined. “She says she wants to battle the poison on her own.”

  “Why did you listen to her?!” Aapped. “Go ba and heal her.”

  This was the first time Ace had ever raised his voice at his mother. His as caught everyone by surprise, aside from the target of his outburst.

  A helpless sigh escaped Milianna’s mouth before she calmly replied without answering his question. “Go in and ask her yourself.”

  Ace’s brows furrowed slightly, but he didn’t say anything further; he simply marched past her and into the treatment room of his mother’s ic.

  Upon going inside, he saw Wukong, though unscious and bandaged from head to toe, still stable, just as his mother said, allowing him to breathe a sigh of relief, at least in part.

  But beside him was Amira. From the looks of it, her dition had barely improved. Her veins were still dark and wriggling inside her, causing unimaginable pain and disfort, but a gentle smile hung on her face when she saw Ace’s face – despite his obvious worry.

  “What’s wrong with you?” Ace whispered sternly, scared his raised voice could worsen her dition. “Why are you refusing treatment?”

  “Look at you… w about… me,” Mira voiced between bated breaths with a weak but gentle smile as she ignored her pain to tease the dark-haired teen.

  “I’m serious!” Ace replied, ign her teasing remarks. “I’m gonna call my mother ba, and you will be treated – This isn’t up for debate!”

  “You’re right… it isn’t,” Amira said, still retaining her angelic smile. “I’ve already decided… I want to fight… ahis… on my own.”

  “Why, though?” Ace asked upon seeing the firm and resolute light in her eyes. “You have nothing to prove!”

  “It’s not about proving anything,” Amira expined. “This is an opportunity for me…”

  Ace listened patiently as Amira expihat when she first used her healing spells, she noticed that she experienced some ued gains. She couldn’t be sure, but she guessed it had something to do with light and darkness being opposite sides of the same .

  As such, she came up with the idea of using the poisonous dark energy inside her to refine her own healing magid use it to prehend the Law of Light’s Profound Mystery Of Purity.

  Aew it was risky, but when he looked into her firm eyes as she told him to trust her, he couldn’t help but step back. First of all it wasn’t his decision to make, and sed, he kly how talented she was. If anyone could turn this disaster into a blessing, it was her.

  As he came out of the room, everyone looked at him expetly. They had heard Amira’s reasoning from Milianna, so they knew what her pn was. Still, they thought it was madness, they could only hope that Ace was able to get through to her.

  But when he came out, instead of addressing Killian and the others, Ace turo his mother with an apologetic expression on his face. “I’m sorry for before, mom.”

  “It’s fine, son,” Milianna smiled, waving her hand dismissively. “I know how much little Mira means to you.

  But more importantly, were you able to get her to ge her mind?”

  A wry smile appeared on Ace’s face as he helplessly shook his head. “She’s already made her mind up; all I do now is believe in her.”

  “So that’s it?” Alissa asked in almost disbelief. “We’re just gon her sit around with poison in her body, slowly killing her?”

  “What do you want us to do?” Ace asked back. “You know how stubborn she is; once she’s made her mind up, not even a sn would be able to ge it.”

  Alissa didn’t respond immediately. Although she wasn’t as close to Amira as Ace, they were still good friends; as such, she uood her friend’s disposition well.

  “So what are we gonna do in the meantime?” Alissa asked, clearly not reciled with leaving things as they are. “Are we just gonhose bastards from the Cult go after what they did?”

  “Of course not,” Ace shook his head as a vicious glint flickered in his eyes. “I io send a message to all of our enemies so they know the price of crossing our bottom line and are forced to think twice before doing so again iure.”

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