14 A New Spiri (1/2)

Once again, minutes later, the trees swayed back and forth and a few more Fly monsters came out, however, this time, two flew over at fast speeds towards Niko's group. Both of them focused on Louis and confidence still was shown on his face and body movements as he dodged both fly monsters with ease. It was as if he was an untouchable god.

Before the flies could redirect their attack, Niko commanded the two orbs to attack the monsters.

Extending his arm, both spirits flew towards the fly monsters together.

”Bang”

”Swoosh!”

”Damn it!” Niko cursed as one of the orbs completely missed. The woman moved toward the fly on the ground which was farther away without fear and stomped on it, while the other one focused on Niko and prepared to attack.

”Oh no…” Niko's mind began to be filled with worry as the fly began to flap its wings. Niko tried to move the orbs back to attack him, but both concentration and speed were not on his side.

The fly monster flew towards Niko with an extremely fast speed and as it was about to strike him.

”Foosh!”

The fly caught on blue fire, as its body fell from the air and hit the ground. It spazzed out on the grassy ground as it tried to get rid of the fire, however, it was unable to get rid of it, as it gave in to the hellish pain.

It laid there, lifelessly. The strange thing about the death was the fact that it looked completely fine as there weren't any burn marks on its body. It looked as alive as before.

Niko turned his head and looked at Simon, as he connected the blue flames with him. Simon was panting as if he had just run miles. The huge candle was no longer lit as it looked just like a dirt pillar, with nothing special about it.

”Thank you.” Niko spoke sincerely.

”No… Problem…” Simon panted as his forehead was covered with beads of sweat. He leaned on the dirt pillar which once was the huge candle.

”Was that your secret?” Louis asked with a smirk.

Simon simply revealed a mysterious smile, as if telling Louis that he still possessed much more to offer.

”Thank you!” Maria spoke from the side, bowing and showing a sincere look on her face.

Niko turned to look at her and noticed a small grey oval gem being gripped on her hand. She gripped on the oval gem as if it was her life.

Niko understood that Maria had finally received her gem. She stomped on the fly making it look like mashed green mush. Her legs and hands were covered in green liquid, however, she paid no mind, her mind was thinking only of the gem.

¨Activate it. It's best to train in it right now.¨ Louis said eagerly.

Maria nodded and activated the skill gem as she was briefly surrounded by a silver light.

As this was happening, Niko decided to use [Spirit King's Order] on one of the dead flies.

Niko had noticed that every time he used his skill to summon spirits, he would lose two points in mana power and it would take five minutes for one mana power to replenish. The only reason he was taking the spirit of only one of these flies was that he wasn't done replenishing his mana power yet. After taking one of these flies´ soul, he now only possessed one mana power out of four.

This information allowed him to understand more about the skill, however, it also raised more questions.

¨Will it consumes two mana power every time? How much would it consume if it's a higher leveled monster?¨ Niko wondered as three translucent orbs orbited his body.

The orbs that orbited his body never moved in the same direction as it was always floating in different positions and ways. Niko looked strange with these things floating around him, making him look like a god-like being.

Niko probed Maria and found out her skill was called, [Silver Trapping Net], which if it the name spoke for the skill, trapping a monster would be extremely useful.

After more time of waiting, the trees swayed. However, this time it swayed much less than before as sever been looking monsters flew out. These bees were slightly bigger than the flies and almost the size of a big dog.