Chapter 6 A Life And Death Battle
With every passing second, everyone's face started getting more and more impatient.
"Aushima it's not the time for you to play pranks, just use the fkinnnn Damm fire spell, we already are exhausted", cried Eve.
Aushima herself became so panicked, no matter what spells she used, she felt like she had lost all the mana in her body and was no longer capable of doing any more spells and she hurriedly said, "I am not joking, can't you see there's something wrong with me, just gimme some time".
" Aushima, are you taking revenge on us for speaking against you, please read the situation our lives will be in danger if you don't do anything", spoke Jasmine with an ugly face.
Soon the spider monsters became excited after seeing the haggard and tiring expressions of the invaders, their basic predator instinct made them even more enthusiastic.
Elandor knew it was time to finally put the nail in the coffin, he faced David's haggard face and spoke, "I think, Aushima never knew high-level fire spells from the beginning, she only showed off using her weak spells and boasted her use to be on your good side. Sorry!"
"David, it was my fault as a support, my job was to keep checking the situation, I should not have believed her lies after repeated reminders from Eve and Jasmine. We should have made her use the high-level spells during practice, if we had done so we would have not fallen for her lies."
David after listening to all had a solemn face.
He faced Aushima, "I never knew you were such a selfish girl, just to be on my good side you lied so much, can't you see ?…you have caused all our lives to be in danger, the difficulty of the quest has already reached D tier and only your spell could have provided enough area damaging effects and burned them in one go."
With so many people blaming her, Aushima felt like falling into the deepest abyss of despair.
Never in her wildest imagination, she would have thought the person who was her everything would be scolding her too much, she could feel the world in her eyes getting darker with every passing second.
"David, believe me ….I ….. I ..have been with you since childhood, there's something wrong going on with my body, believe me!".
"I never lied to you, just give me a chance I will do everything right", she cried out loudly.
"Still speaking lies at this moment, ignore her and first let's get out of the situation", spoke Eve after calming down.
"Yeah the battle is gonna be hard, everyone brace up and do your best so we can survive",roared David.
Soon the group once again engaged with the energetic spider monsters.
The battle was gruesome, everyone traded blows after blows. Soon everyone was panting heavily, there were bruises and cuts on skins of all, the light armour they were wearing was heavily tattered, and even the weapons they had were damaged after attacking the hard outer shells of spiders.
All this while Aushima laid on the ground with blank eyes muttering to herself, "Everything was fine in the morning, so why fkkkinnn now ? Why can't I use mana in my body ? Did someone plot against me?".
Everyone ignored her as in their eyes their own lives were top priority.
It was only Elandor who killed some monsters going her way.
...….
The battle was so intense it lasted till early morning. After suffering heavy injuries they finally managed to kill all monsters. After seeing the final monster die,
David, Eve, Jasmine and Elandor one after another fell to the ground, the night-long battle had drained all their energy.
Elandor breathed a sigh of relief and spoke to himself, "this time I almost died, thankfully I'm with the protagonist, the protagonist's halo and luck saved us. I still can't believe that David still carried high-quality stuff like instant-recovery portions whose cost is enough to buy countless houses."
He still remembered that when they were on verge of defeat and he was about to leave them and run away, David took out four vials and made them drink it. After drinking it they felt huge torrents of energy rushing in their body and they were able to hold on and finally defeated their enemies after their offensive.
"Sure enough the protagonist cannot die so easily", he exclaimed in his mind.
….After resting for some hours soon all started getting up.
They all saw Aushima still laying on the ground.
When she saw the injuries on David's face and his haggard appearance she started sobbing, "I am sorry David, but don't worry I can feel that the problem I had is over now, I can use mana again, she tried to show David her spells again."
But before it could happen there was a crisp sound throughout the silent cave.
Jasmine and Eve had their eyes go so round that they could almost pop out from their sockets, even Elandor could feel the intensity as they all saw how David slapped Aushima.
Aushima put her hands on her right cheek where she was slapped and couldn't muster any strength to speak anything. She felt so wronged, tears were dripping down her cheeks one after another.
"You are my childhood friend so this time I ignore your childish and selfish behaviour but I'm not gonna trust someone like you again and you won't be able to make any decisions affecting our group again and your responsibilities will also be reduced, as who knows what we will do next time after being tricked by you. And I think you should grow up as we are no longer the children we used to be when we played on the streets, I have dreams and goals which I want to achieve in this life."
Not even wasting a time on her he said, "let's go! Our job is done collect the queen spider's remains, we will be able to rank up to silver-ranked adventurers after reporting guild of our battle here, let's first go to the village and collect our reward!"
Soon, the entire group went to the village.
The village chief was so excited to see the party return safely and the entire village broke into a cheer of applause for them.
After collecting money and a quest completion document from the village chief they started their return journey.
Returning was smooth and without any difficulty as villagers had already given them horses and a carriage as a show of sincerity.
All the way the group was very energetic and commended each other's abilities.
Having felt the thrill of death their mind became more mature and discussed various cons and pros of their techniques, they were laughing loudly while discussing how they soon gonna be promoted to silver rank.
Only Aushima was the one who sat on the corner of the carriage quietly with her head down, not daring to face others' blaming eyes.
The effect of the drug was already worn off and she was able to use magic again, she couldn't find anything wrong with herself during the journey and started thinking that maybe she was so scared of spiders that caused her to become too panicked to be able to circulate mana in her body .
Seeing her dejected appearance, Elandor had a big smile on his face and knew his first objective was almost complete.