Gambit Of The Living Weapon

She was inside one of the rooms from the hospital alongside Chloe who showed her where the doctors had placed him.

His condition wasn"t so bad overall. He took a lot of damage from the electricity blast that Xadi released and ended up burning his arms a bit, but it appeared that he was mostly just exhausted.

Chloe explained that he tried to get up again after the blast and with the help of Ellie, they managed to take the wood monster down using the girl"s mirror magic to copy the ability to turn into a metal weapon from Marcus. Attempting to fight after such a heavy hit placed a lot of stress on his body and he probably would not wake up anytime soon.

Marcus himself was also not looking very good. He was the one who received most of the blast from the lightning attack. His blessed energy managed to keep him alive but he also would need to rest for a while before returning back to full health.

Chloe mentioned that Marcus also tried to fight against Xadi for a brief moment after the attack, but the most he could do was save Ellie from a huge ice attack before falling down again.

Lilith became filled with guilt. While the rest of her team was doing their best, she was the only one who couldn"t find in herself to wake up during the battle. Because of her sword attracting part of the lighting attack, she ended up suffering much bigger injuries than the rest and took much longer to recover.

She imagined that Evlin would have tried to heal them but she learned from her journeys that healing magic doesn"t work very well against electric magic. Even if Evlin healed her wounds, the residual energy of the lightning attack would have taken some time to fully go away.

Now the effect was finally gone, but only Lilith had managed to awake while Daren and Marcus were sleeping on the hospital beds with machines checking their pulses and wearing masks to help them breathe.

"How long will they stay like this...?" Lilith asked.

"It"s hard to say..." Chloe confessed, "Damage caused by... Well... Magic... Apparently is much harder to a.n.a.lyze than regular injuries..."

Lilith approached Daren and gently touched his face to remove the hair from his eyes while holding his hand.

"You always try to do everything..." she whispered, followed by kissing his lips.

Chloe showed a small shocked expression, "Oh! Are you two...?"

"He"s my future husband." Lilith cleared up while turning her attention to Chloe, "And the father of my son... And the one man in this world I love more than anything else...", she then looked at Daren"s sleeping face again and returned to whispering, "And I let this happen to him... Right in front of me..."

Chloe didn"t know what to say. She felt the scene was touching but she could tell that the woman in front of her was carrying a lot of baggage. Chloe was reminded of Evlin for a moment, another person who looks like she is dealing with a lot of stuff but tries not to show.

"What are you going to do now...?" Chloe asked, worried that she was interrupting their moment.

Lilith released Daren"s hand and stared at the window.

"Our leader... Or rather... My friend... Is fighting against a dangerous force right now that is threatening her family, and possibly the entire stability of this world...". She then rubbed her eyes and looked at Chloe, "I need to help her!"

"A dangerous force...?" Chloe said, trying to understand.

"A girl that received the blessing of a G.o.d and is being aided by a demon plant... They escaped from my world and are now roaming free in this one... And they are after Evlin..."

The words "my world" echoed inside Chloe"s mind. Lilith had explained to Chloe the whole story so far to the confused woman. About Evlin being summoned to another world, being stuck in there for four years, how she ended up needing to learn magic to survive, and how she finally managed to come back after befriending Lilith and her group after tricking a G.o.ddess into making a portal for her.

And also how one of her enemies ended up following her into this world and started to plot ways to obtains Evlin"s power to herself by threatening everything Evlin cared about.

"Wait..." Chloe made an expression of worry, "So that thing that attacked me... It came after me because of Evlin...?"

"Yes..." Lilith admitted, "Not just you... She also attacked her mother"s house and apparently kidnapped her sister too..."

Chloe started to tremble, "So... You"re saying that this girl... She"s attacking anyone related to Evlin??"

Lilith didn"t thought about it until now, but after Chloe mentioned it, that had indeed been the case. Mia had made her move at every place Evlin was familiar with. Her apartment, her sister"s home, the playground she hangs out with Ellie on, her hospital, and even her therapist"s office. Mia was causing havoc on every location Evlin was involved with.

"Indeed..." Lilith said, now sharing the same worried expression as Chloe, "She apparently made some kind of game with Evlin where she will keep sending attacks at her until the week ends... I worry about any other places she might attack next..."

"Places she might attack...?" Chloe said while holding her chin with her hand.

"Any place related to Evlin is in grave danger right now... That"s why we need to find her and stop her soon!" Lilith mentioned.

"The only place Evlin visits besides my office and the park where she plays with her niece is..." Chloe"s eyes suddenly expanded, "Oh no..."

"What?" Lilith asked as she noticed Chloe"s sudden change in expression.

"My daughter..." Chloe whispered with a weak voice.

"Your daughter...?"

"Evlin... She gives art lessons at the same school my daughter studies on..."

"A school?"

"My daughter... All the students... The whole school might be in danger!!" Chloe said as she started to show a face of panic and began to cover her mouth with both hands.

"Chloe...?"

"I... I need to get her out of there! I need to go to the school and get my daughter away from there!!" Chloe said as she started to move towards the door.

"Wait!!" Lilith held her arm to stop her.

"What!!?? You just told me that every place related to Evlin is bound to be attacked!! I need to make sure my daughter is safe!!"

"Please, just try to calm down..." Lilith said why releasing her hand from Chloe"s arm, "We don"t know if Mia is really planning to go there next."

"But... But... What if...?"

"Don"t worry, I can help you." Lilith said while placing a hand on her shoulder.

"...You?" Chloe asked while gazing at Lilith.

"I have the power to see into the future..." Lilith explained while pointing at her eyes, "If you tell me where this place is while describing what it looks like, I can use my power to make sure if anything will happen to it."

"See into the future...?" Chloe asked while wondering how exactly such a thing was possible, but by this point, she was starting to believe anything was possible.

"Just trust me!" Lilith said.

Chloe could see the resolve in her eyes and decided to follow her advice. She pointed at the direction the school was located and started to describe what the place looked like while also showing some pictures of it from her phone.

Lilith a.n.a.lyzed everything, the color of the building, the size, the number of floors, the distance it would take to get there. Once she was done she stared at the window and started to activate her ability.

Chloe noticed the golden glow on her eyes as she started to look into the future.

Lilith started to see herself rus.h.i.+ng through the city moving towards the school. She finally arrived at a place that matched the pictures Chloe showed her as well as her descriptions. A large red building that looked like a rectangular block flipped sideways. In front of it, there was a pole with a flag of the city at its end, and the entire place was surrounded by a very short fence made of leaves.

"This must be the place..." Lilith whispered. She noticed some of the youngsters looking at her. She probably was sticking out being the only adult in such a youth-populated environment. It could also be that she was walking around with metal bracelets.

She waited a few minutes and observed the school to see if there were any signs of an attack from any kind of beast, but nothing happened. Next, she decided to enter the place and explore it a bit to see if she could find anything out of the ordinary. Once again, nothing happened besides a few looks of curiosity being throw in her direction.

Lilith started to a.s.sume that there was no danger in sign anywhere in the building so she decided to simply advance her power to see further into the future.

The students around her began to move as if they had superspeed and the sun set itself to make the night appear, followed by immediately returning to daytime again. Lilith had used her power to advance exactly one day.

She looked around again and gasped at the sight of the school.

"What in the world??" she said while opening her eyes even wider and examining her surroundings.

The entire school had been burned to the ground and most of the students were buried under the debris. Smoke was rising everywhere and where was once a school now only had a huge crater in the middle of the city.

"Ugh!!" Lilith cried. The shock of the horrific image in front of her was so strong that she ended up turning her power off, making her return to the hospital room. She began to kneel with one leg while holding her forehead. Her face would not stop sweating.

"Lilith? Lilith are you ok??" Chloe asked while trying to help her stand.

"You were right..." Lilith answered while covering her mouth, "The school will be attacked as well..."

"What...?" Chloe bent her knees to look directly at Lilith"s face while holding her head with both hands, "Lilith... What do you mean...? What did you saw??"

"I"m not sure... I need to look again!" Lilith said. She then took a deep breath and stood up to use her power one more time.

Just like before she imagined herself going to the school until she was standing right in front of it. She knew that between her time of arrival and the following day, something was going to happen that would destroy the whole place.

Lilith decided to activate her power one more time, only this time, instead of moving a whole day forward, she moved twelve hours. She looked around and noticed that the place was once again completely destroyed. A whole crater, everything burned, and all the students buried.

"Oh no..." she whispered.

She deactivated her ability again and returned to the room with Chloe.

"Lilith?"

"This is bad..." Lilith said while breathing heavily, "I thought we had some time, but it seems this will happen sooner than I imagined..."

"What will happen?? What did you saw??" Chloe asked while shaking Lilith.

"I"m not really sure yet... That"s what I"m trying to confirm... Please give me some time..." Lillith begged.

"Ok... But please, let me know once you find out."

Lilith nodded at her and repeated the process again. This time she advanced the clock by three hours, and to her shock, the school was still standing.

"Ok... So far so good... Now to find the cause of the attack..." Lilith said while gazing at the building, "Mmm...??"

She then heard a weird sound coming from behind her and turned around to confirm what it was. What was in front of her were two-lizard like creatures with wings approaching from the sky with their mouths wide open ready to release huge fireb.a.l.l.s at the building and at herself that was standing on their path.

"What the h.e.l.l??" she shouted at the sight of a pair of dragons coming in her direction and completely incinerating her as well as the school.

Lilith entered a state of panic and turned off her power to get away from that scenario. She returned to the room one more time and fell on her knees while shaking her whole body.

"Lilith? Lilith, please talk to me!" Chloe said as she crouched by her side.

"This is bad..." Lilith said while staring at Chloe. She just saw two dragons attacking the school and almost burning her alive "We need to find Evlin..."

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