OBS Chapter 4266 The Rebellious Guardian
Chapter 4266 The Rebellious Guardian
Chapter 4266 The Rebellious Guardian
The spiritual influence of the unknown relic still exists, but a small number of the older children, after the arm representing the "mother's" authority was defeated, had already vaguely realized that something was wrong. So Adelina easily made the children believe in her.
Together, they managed to wake up the few children who were still unconscious. The children who couldn't be woken up were carried by the older children in turns. After confirming that everyone was willing to come with her, Adelina looked out into the darkness.
Are we going there?
Little Marika clung to Adelina's sleeve; she was one of those children who had already sensed that something was wrong here.
But Adelina shook her head, first checking her belongings. In her mind, this trip was to reunite with her long-lost mother, so the only keepsake she carried was the conveniently portable [Soul Gem]. However, the Star Dewdrops, Dragon Scale Amulet, Fire-resistant charm, and a small amount of spellcasting materials that Shad had given her were kept in a small pouch tied to her leg.
"Something's not right outside. Please wait a moment."
She tried to appear confident to calm the children. Then, Agelina activated the [Truth] rune from the four core spirit runes: [Communication], [Truth], [King], and [Chaos]. The magic she used next came from knowledge traded between the Witch Council and the Prophet's Association after the "War of Fate"—an ancient yet extremely useful divine spell based on fate.
"Miraculous Technique: Eye of Truth!"
A faint golden halo appeared in Adelina's turquoise eyes. Even before becoming a Ring Mage, Adelina possessed remarkable intuition. After becoming a Ring Mage, she discovered that she also had a powerful talent for perception, as evidenced by her self-awakened magic, [Chaotic Heartbeat].
At that moment, as Adelina cast her spell, her eyes clearly saw the reality in the darkness outside the door. After a moment's hesitation, Adelina nodded. She snapped her fingers, and amidst the children's gasps, two balls of flame floated around her:
"Stay close to me and don't fall behind. I'll take you home."
Excluding Adelina herself, there are 13 children here. Adelina knows she can't take care of everyone, and she can only pray that she can lead them out of here as soon as possible.
"Take quiet steps, don't make too much noise. I won't walk very fast, will I?"
She let the fireball illuminate her and stepped out of the room first. The children followed her, some in fear and some in doubt. Although there were more than ten of them, they were all small and thin, so they squeezed together and the line didn't get very long.
The red butterflies, appearing and disappearing intermittently, followed at the back of the group, but apart from the youngest child, who was being led by the hand by the older child and seemed a little confused, no one saw the pair of butterflies.
Adelina walked at the front of the group, hoping that Marika, who was closest to her, wouldn't notice the increasingly tense look on her face. The eerie atmosphere of the dimly lit, dilapidated corridor wasn't particularly important; what mattered was that Adelina clearly felt that whispers permeated the entire space.
"A location-type relic similar to [The House of the Pseudo-Humans]? How could I be so unlucky?"
Adelina had initially thought that the unknown relic was simply the so-called "Mother," but now, realizing the anomaly in her surroundings, she understood that things were probably not so simple.
However, she still hoped that the current situation was just the powerful relic itself influencing the surrounding environment, rather than that the group had already entered the relic's interior. Therefore, she still pretended to be calm and led the children along the corridor to the stairwell, and then returned to the first floor from the second floor.
The long-abandoned orphanage looked scarier than a haunted house on a rainy day, but Adelina's calm demeanor encouraged the children, who were holding each other's arms, to walk through it together.
No terrifying monsters appeared, nor did they hear "Mother's" voice; they safely reached the first floor. As Adelina pushed open the building door, she worried that what she saw outside wasn't the outside world, but rather the room where "Mother" was.
But thankfully, when the dim sunlight and the dampness of the rainy day seeped in through the crack in the door, Adelina was certain that the world outside was indeed real.
Despite the rain, they quickly left the orphanage building and entered the desolate courtyard. The orphanage had no walls, and the remaining fences did not obstruct the view, so Adelina could tell that this was indeed somewhere in the desolate area between Grayrock Pass and the outer city. She could hardly believe that she had actually brought everyone out.
"Hurry up, let's get out of here first."
She said in the rain that she didn't dare to look back at the orphanage building, fearing that, like in a horror novel, someone might be standing in a window watching them.
The children then ran with Adelina through the rain toward the courtyard gate. Adelina had no control over the rain and her little princess's red hair was plastered to her cheeks, but she did not dare to relax for a moment.
Although she was leading the way, she deliberately slowed down to wait for the children behind her, occasionally turning around to check if anyone had fallen behind. Just as the last child crossed the old fountain in the center of the courtyard, Adelina turned her head back to look at the courtyard entrance, and she felt her heart was about to jump out of her throat.
A woman, easily two meters tall and clad in a long black robe, stood less than ten meters away from Adelina, silently waiting for them amidst the pouring rain. The woman's black robe almost blended into the dim world; Adelina wasn't even sure if she had just appeared or had always been there, she simply hadn't noticed.
But Adelina was certain that she was in the real world, so no matter what the situation was, as long as she could leave this area, she would most likely be able to temporarily escape the influence of the relic.
"I'll hold it off, you guys go first."
The children behind her had stopped, filled with fear and confusion. Adelina, though equally terrified, knew she absolutely could not run away. The four rings of her destiny appeared fully behind her. This time, without her sister's or Shad's help, Adelina realized, just a second before casting the spell, that she had finally faced the day she would have to face life alone:
Fireball - Chaotic Echo!
This is not only about using [Chaos Echo] to enhance the power of basic spells; the moisture that already exists in the environment on a rainy day comes into contact with the three fireballs summoned by Ajerina, and as water and fire consume each other, the power of chaos merges the two together.
At the level of a low-level warlock, the three forward-flying fireballs transformed into an extremely unstable chaotic color before exploding violently in the rain.
But the explosion lasted less than half a second before abruptly disappearing. Adelina stared grimly at the tall woman who had spread her arms wide. It had embraced Adelina's attack, and Adelina's attack vanished.
The tall figure didn't speak, but Adelina seemed to hear someone calling her name, someone hoping to embrace her.
Seeing that Adelina did not move, the figure walked towards her with its arms outstretched. Adelina wanted to cast a spell, but found that she had become stiff and unable to move.
A surge of spiritual energy within her soul yearned to restore her body to normal, but the powerful influence of her "mother" rendered Adelina immobile.
However, Adelina felt a slight pull from behind:
"Hurry, it's coming!"
It was little Marika, trembling, tugging at Adelina's sleeve, and then the girl fell straight down. Not only her, Adelina heard a series of thuds behind her as she fell to the ground; she knew that the children who had escaped with her could no longer go any further.
She cannot save anyone unless she defeats the "mother" in front of her.
A sense of powerlessness at one's own inadequacy, coupled with an ambition to achieve greater power, arose simultaneously. A spiral of fear and resentment caused a stinging pain in the heart unlike anything experienced before. And as the towering figure drew ever closer, under the influence of whispering influences, the power accumulated through a week of study took shape amidst the sound of rain—
Love and protection originate from the order within a chaotic heart. When a stranger bestows a gift upon you, is it truly love, or merely pale malice? The rebellious rebel is not always a stubborn villain.
As the ring of destiny spun, the dark iron-colored spiritual light gathered in one place and inscribed new spiritual runes before the tall figure touched Agelina.
[Agelina, you have inscribed the Black Iron Whisper rune - Guardian.]
[Adelina, you have gained the magical ability - Guardian of Rebellion: Resist damage while granting the source of the damage an attack with the opposite attribute.]
Just before the tall figure clad in black robes made contact with Adelina, it seemed to touch an invisible barrier in front of her.
The malicious attack, which should have devoured all life, was absorbed by the power constructed from the black iron runes. That filthy, gloomy, and destructive malice belonging to the "Mother" was instantly reversed and reshaped into the purest protective power.
A pure white light constructed another maternal figure, then an invisible impact struck the tall, dark figure precisely. The "mother's" figure froze in the rain, then turned into black mist which was completely dispersed by the orderly white light.
The malicious whispers faded, and Adelina, overwhelmed by her spellcasting, forgot her excitement at having defeated a powerful opponent. She stumbled forward and fell into a warm embrace.
The embrace didn't make her feel cold at all. Her blonde hair touched her wet red hair. Dorothy placed her hand on Adelina's back to help her calm her somewhat disordered mind. Adelina, who was on the verge of tears, could feel that the soul inside the writer's body was clearly her sister.
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