Chapter 39: The Way of Sacrifice
"......" Alexander watched in silence as Angelista was hit by Dragon's Breath, he could have taken Angelista's place in the crotch of the attack, but after a moment of hesitation, Alexander didn't.
If it had been a few minutes before, Alexander would have stood in front of her in order to protect a terrifying high-level mage like Angelista. But now it is different, Angelista's magic power has been completely exhausted, even if she was strong just now, but at this time she has exhausted her magic power. And a mage with depleted mana is no different from waste on the battlefield. Alexander will rush into the sea of corpses to save the young warriors who are still fighting, but he will not fight to save a waste mage who has no magic powers, because it will not help him in the rest of the battle. What's more, this mage is also a notorious dark elf.
On the other hand, Alexander also understands how much influence he has on the fight. It can be said that he is the spiritual pillar of those warriors who are still fighting, so he must not fall so easily.
I can't save everyone, that's what Alexander learned over the years. It was because he understood this that Alexander preferred to win every battle, because only when the war was won, then more people could live. And in order to achieve this goal, he would rather sacrifice the interests of a small number of people, even their lives.
And this time, Alexander considered the overall situation of the battle and chose to sacrifice the interests of Angelista. Only by not saving her can Alexander be left intact, only if Alexander is intact, he will have a chance to defeat this skull dragon, and only by defeating this skull dragon can more warriors live. It's a very simple logic.
Dragon's breath hit Angelista head-on, and the battered Dark Elves fell powerlessly to the ground strewn with walking corpses.
"Teacher Angelista!" Ineris and Wenresa exclaimed at the same time, they didn't care about the endless sea of corpses outside the city walls, and they both blessed themselves with flying skills and flew out at the same time.
The bone dragon had just suffered under Angelista's powerful magic, and now when it saw that the two small maggots had ignored its existence and were preoccupied with the abominable mage, it let out a roar of rage, and it took a deep breath, ready to blow the two maggots away with the dragon's breath.
But this time Alexander didn't let it go, and the second prince jumped high and slashed at the bone dragon's head with both swords. It was a blow from Alexander, who had thought he would be able to break at least half of its skull, but he didn't expect the bone dragon's skull to be unusually hard. Even if Haoyue could cut iron like clay, this blow only caused a few cracks to appear in the skull.
But fortunately, because of this blow, the bone dragon's breath was biased elsewhere, and this blow not only did not hurt Ineris and Wen Rasa, but caused many of the bone dragon's walking corpse companions to suffer miserably.
The bone dragon didn't care about the life or death of the little reptiles around it, and it let out a roar of rage, turning its head to stare at Alexander with empty dark red eyes.
Alexander was not afraid to face the bone dragon, he took a deep breath, and then burst out with all his fighting energy and entangled with the bone dragon.
Innellis and Wenresa landed beside Angelista to check on Angelista's condition. Surprisingly, Angelista was not as seriously injured as she expected, although she had a lot of frostbite all over her body, her breathing was still stable at this time, and she was not even seriously injured. Together, the two men helped Angelista to her feet, and then staggered back to the fortress.
Back at the fortress, Windresa and Innellis carefully examined Angelista's injuries. As with the judgment just now, Angelista did not have any fatal injuries on her body.
"It could be caused by the emptiness of magic. Inerys made a judgment in an instant, and she took out a super magic potion from her dimensional pocket and poured it into Angelista.
Sure enough, a minute or two later, Angelista opened her eyes. The dark elf cupped his forehead and muttered, "It doesn't feel good when the mana runs dry. ”
"Teacher, are you alright?" asked Wen Resa and Inilis, concerned.
"It's fine. Angelista shook her head nonchalantly: "That dragon breath was blocked by me with a spirit shield at the last moment, and the fall to the ground was completely caused by the drying up of mana and the overdraft of mental power, by the way, how is the skull dragon now?"
"Still there......" Ienerys looked back at the bone dragon that was fighting Alexander. Obviously, although the bone dragon was consumed by Angelista, as a king-level necromantic creature, it still has power over Alexander. At this time, the second prince was defeated in the battle with the bone dragon, and his chest armor had been torn apart by the bone dragon's claws, and under the erosion of the necromantic power, even Alexander's body of light could not recover from his injuries quickly.
"Hurry, hurry, give me five more super magic potions!" Angelista's eyes lit up when she saw that the bone dragon was so powerful. She yelled at Inenrith, knowing that as the most talented apothecary in the Academy, the Super Magic Potion that Enerys had carried was even more effective.
"Mana regeneration doesn't increase with repetition and potions. Enerys reminded, but she took out the potion as Angelista had requested.
"Don't forget, the old lady is a psyker!" Angelista took the potion and drank it bottle after bottle.
Then, the Dark Elf mage sat cross-legged, a bright silver light shining from her eyes. This is a secret method of psionic energy that can only be used by psykers, Angelista uses her powerful spiritual power to forcibly catalyze the body, allowing the body to absorb the magic contained in the magic potion in a very short time. Of course, this move is quite mentally draining, and even Angelista can only be used once in a short period of time.
On the other hand, Alexander was already a little unable to hold on to the absolute power of the bone dragon, the warrior did not have the powerful destructive power of the mage, even with the help of attribute ability, Alexander was just a durable meat shield in front of the bone dragon.
The recovery speed provided by the Body of Light and the Endless Source to Alexander was no longer keeping up with the speed of destruction of the Bone Dragon. Alexander felt pain all over his body, his legs were as heavy as lead, and what he was holding in his hands was not a bright moon, but a mountain.
Alexander's spirit gradually became trance-like, and he subconsciously wrestled with the bone dragon, but the scenes of the past came to his mind: in the church, Kevin taught him swordsmanship and the way of the Holy Light. In the palace, he said goodbye to Ravin and chose to join the army. The battles during the march, at the beginning he mourned the death of each of his comrades, but later, he gradually got used to the death of his comrades, and now, for him, those who died in the battle were just a string of numbers.
Alexander didn't think that the war made him cold, but the war made him understand two truths, the first is that no matter how strong he is, he can't save everyone, he can only save some people, and the second reason is that even in order to save some people, sacrifice is inevitable. It is precisely because of the understanding of these two truths that for Alexander now, salvation has become a very simple numerical comparison - sacrificing the few, saving the majority. Alexander called this logic of his own the way of sacrifice.
"And today, is it my turn to sacrifice?" Alexander thought to himself, he was not afraid of sacrifice, whether it was at the expense of others or himself. In fact, he himself has been sacrificing, hasn't he? Every time he fights, he rushes to the front, and where the battle is most dangerous, he will appear. If it weren't for the attributes of the Body of Light and the Endless Source, Alexander's injuries would have been enough for him to die ten times. And this time, I'm afraid that the attribute ability will not be able to save him.
"This time, I'm afraid I'm going to have to sacrifice my life...... So be it. Alexander watched feebly as the bone dragon's claws grew in his vision, so be it...... Give it up......
No!
Huge and incomparable energy was released from Alexander's body, if it was Alexander who released the Divine Fighting Qi before, then this time, Alexander released the light! The purest holy light! The second prince at this time was as dazzling as the energy body composed of the holy light!
The bone dragon was directly overturned by the sudden burst of energy, and it struggled to its feet, crawled up, and let out a threatening roar at the dazzling being. Only this time, there was an emotion called fear in its roar.
"In order to save most people, anyone can be sacrificed, but their sacrifice must be meaningful!" Alexander raised the bright moon in his hand, his golden hair was flying without wind, and his eyes shone with pure holy light: "I, I will never die so worthless!"
"Wow!" Angelista, who had just finished replenishing her mana, stood up, she looked at Alexander in the distance, and said to Ineriis and Wenresa with a somewhat complicated face, "You two little girls, you are really lucky today. ”
"Huh?" the two girls were a little puzzled.
"Today, you have witnessed the birth of a Sacred Realm powerhouse. Angelista looked at Alexander and muttered.