(xxviii) The Journey (Yuffie Stanmez, V)
The fog that had been permeating the surroundings cleared and was replaced by an even more oppressive gray-black sky, which seemed like a thick wall, completely blocking out the sunlight. The air www.biquge.info the pen "Fun" Pavilion is not cold, but every trace seems to carry the smell of death.
It was a feeling that is difficult to describe in words, as if it were a toxin that went straight to the heart, which made people feel down, suddenly lose interest in everything, and just want to stay where they are until the end of their lives.
The only ones who were not affected were Alphonse and Lynn. The machine people themselves are not sensitive to psychic power, and the strong bloodline of the dragon clan gives Lin the ability to resist the invasion of this negative magic. She looked left and right, ran quickly to Yuffie, and grabbed her friend's body.
The girl with long pink hair blinked, and the warmth from the outside world slowly woke her up. She pulled her right hand from the blonde girl's arms, put it on her chest and prayed softly. A nearly transparent white glow ignited from her and spread outward for more than a dozen meters, enveloping the entire team, including Ruth and Grace.
The gentle and divine aura dispelled the despair that was entrenched in everyone's hearts, and Lily and Bell came back to their senses and gasped heavily. Grace and the bear also regained their bodies, grunting under their breath, as if expressing slight displeasure.
"It's dangerous." Yuffie exhaled and hugged her friend tighter, "It's good to have you." ”
Lynn laughed happily, "It's nothing. And ah, little Al is very powerful, even if I'm not there, he should have a way, right? ”
Yuffie pursed the corners of her mouth. Not long after she knew that the agency man had just been 'born', Lin had added the word 'little' to his name. Not only that, but during her time in Moon Song City, she was also commensurate with Lady Silvermoon and Hughes, and had a close relationship. This made the girl a little jealous, but also happy for her friend.
"Lilianor, there's movement over there." Alphonse pointed ahead again, "There seems to be a bunch of creatures fighting. ”
Yuffie squinted her eyes, the distance was so far away that she could only see some shadowy black dots, moving from time to time.
"Could it be a trap?" Lily turned her head and asked.
She shook her head, "Not sure, but my gut tells me it shouldn't be." ”
"Then it's almost over!" Lynn put her finger in her mouth and whistled crisply, "Grace, go check on the situation first!" ”
The griffon flapped its wings and ran a few steps, soaring into the air and heading straight in the direction Alvons pointed, followed by Lynn and Ruth the Ferocious Bear. Lily greeted and chased after the rest of the people.
Yuffie unfurls soft wings of light from behind, catching up with the crowd at the front faster than Grace. Immediately afterward, she saw exactly what Alphonse meant by 'movement'.
In the clearing surrounded by a few blackened tree trunks, a white bear, which was larger than Ruth, was surrounded by dozens of creatures that looked like jackals. The jackals' pupils glowed bloodthirsty red, their canine teeth dripping with hot liquid from time to time, and ominous black mist swirling all over their bodies, apparently purgatory creatures. One of them tentatively pounced on the white bear, and was slapped a dozen meters away with one of its paws - but it twitched a few times and struggled to get up again.
The chalky ground was littered with fragments of human limbs, and blood seeped into the chalky sand, turning into mottled gray-black marks. Several shotguns were also scattered around, proving their identity before they died.
Two young grizzly bears hid in the corner of an iron cage, hugging their heads with their front paws and curled up in a ball. The white bear slowly paced around the cage, occasionally letting out a low growl, intimidating the dogs that wanted to attack.
What broke the stalemate between the two sides was a scream in the sky.
Grace dashed down, claws grabbing a jackal's back, and a sharp beak blinded one of its eyes with a single blow. She scurried into the air, raised her front paws, and threw the beast to the ground with all her might.
The poor canine creature screamed and fell straight from a height of tens of meters, wrestling on the ground, and stopped moving.
Lynn, Lily, Yuffie and Ruth then cut into battle. Lily wielded the greatsword as always, easily knocking back the attacking beasts, even disemboweling them; Lynn dodged the blows of several beasts with ease, his palms pressed against their chests and abdomen, and knocked them over one by one with a less powerful but quick spell. Ruth is a perfect example of how different species can be between them, even if they are demonic creatures, as she ferociously plunges her claws into a jackal's body, forcibly tears it in half, and then chews its head in one gulp.
Perhaps it was the nature of purgatory that inspired the cruelty in their veins, and the jackals did not retreat but advanced, swarming and pounced. Yuffie flew in the air and chanted the incantation, pointing his right hand at the ground, drawing a graceful arc.
From where her fingertips swiped, a wall of glittering ice crystals rose from the ground, blocking the way in front of the jackals. A few of the beasts that were running at the forefront couldn't catch up and crashed straight into the 'wall' - by the time they fell out of the other side by inertia, they were frozen into stiff lumps.
Moments later, Bell and Alphonse join the fight. The white bear also let go of its cage guard and pounced on the rest of the herd. With the combined efforts of everyone, the herd of beasts surrounding the white bear was almost completely annihilated within a few minutes, and the few remaining ones finally felt frightened and fled with their tails between their legs.
The huge white bear turned around and walked in front of Yuffie and the others. It closed its eyes, and its body quickly blurred, then completely dissipated into the air. Yuffie rubbed her eyes and noticed that where the white bear had been, a young woman from the Elna tribe was standing.
She was tall and had silver-green hair, which she had dyed about a third of the silver of the northern people, and wore a delicate linen robe, a crown of blades of grass, and a bracelet made of acorns. She tossed her waist-length hair back and stroked the bracelet on her left hand with her right hand, saluting the crowd.
"Ghost, ghost woman!" Bell gasped and clenched the knife in his hand.
"Hell, you're big." Lin glared at the Beron man angrily and pressed his hand hard, "She is the nature messenger of the Elna people, the guardian of the forest who can become one with the beast physically and mentally!" Her eyes shone brightly, "I heard that they are all very powerful spellcasters, but I didn't expect to meet one, it's so happy!" ”
"I'm sorry, ma'am." Yuffie returned the salute in the manner of a witch, then glanced at Bell and said, half-seriously, "If you feel offended, I will help you 'teach' him." ”