Dragon Master: The SSS-Ranked School Belle Asked Me To Contract Her-Chapter 156: Saint’s Strength

Veer and his group arrived in a broken building with it’s roof erased from existence and the walls broken down. They huddled behind a wall as this was the last rest point before they meet the Corrupted Salvor.

Rain had inspected the area and there were no Monsters in the town, except for Salvor herself. Apparently, she was sitting on the throne at the centre of the town, and was corrupted to the core.

As they sat there, drinking mana potions and everything that could give them an edge in this fight, Veer turned towards Rain and said, "She’s corrupted, right?"

"I don’t know what that is but yeah," Rain nodded. "She had the same Dark Mist that I devoured and just a few seconds made my mind hurt. It was scary to be honest."

"She’s a Corrupted Saint, after all," Veer sighed. "Corruption probably works by spreading around and we had example of that, so maybe such high level corruption could be spread just by looking at it."

"Highly possible," Aurora said with a nod. "Rain had devoured a portion of Elite Stage Magical Creature’s Corruption so she probably had some immunity and that’s why she was able to look at it for so long."

"Now, that’s a problem," Veer said, as he stood up. "I can deal with Corruption to some extent because of some of my methods. But I doubt I can fight while trying to overcome that."

He took out the Dark Metal Slate and smiled, "Fortunately, this will help us deal with it. Once we use this, Salvor wouldn’t be able to spread her Corruption to us and her power would also decrease."

"How do we use it though?" Elara asked.

"It’s very simple, actually," Veer said, as he looked at the metal slate. "We just need to let Salvor see the Rune on it and it’ll get activated. Atleast, that’s what Ancestor Feng told me."

"Getting closer to a Saint level being...." Aurora smiled wryly. "It’ll be tough."

Veer hummed and climbed on a rock to see past the wall. It was at a position where they could see the town’s centre clearly. His intentions were clear.

’A little wouldn’t hurt, right?’

He raised his head and looked down at town’s centre where a majestic being sat on a Iron throne. His soul shook when his eyes landed on the being.

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Solvar of Aethryms.

She was a towering figure sitting against a throne made from iron spikes. Herentire form appeared forged from living obsidian, veins of fiery crimson pulsing beneath a black, glossy carapace.

Great wings unfurl behind her—seething, translucent membranes that resembled molten embers. Each beat of those wings seems to disperse heat in sharp waves, melting the frost beneath her clawed feet in an instant.

Her visage was alien, almost insect-like, with a pair of eerie, glowing emerald eyes that pierced through the dark. The head was crowned by two elongated, curved horns stretching upward in jagged arcs.

Despite the snow-laden wind howling through the ruins around her, there was a profound stillness to its stance, as though the cold dares not approach too closely.

She wasn’t a Aethrym any longer but a Corrupted beast filled with unholy insanity, murder and hunger. It was as if nothing could defer her from her goals.

As Veer looked at her, Solvar turned her head slightly towards him, her maddening eyes looking dead right in his eyes. He wanted to raise his hand which held the Dark Metal Slate, but his instincts told him otherwise.

He quickly ducked down and holding Aurora in his arms, he shot out of the house. Others saw his actions and without any questions, dashed behind her.

In the next moment, a horrifying white beam passed through the house, turning it into ashes and shaking the whole world around it.

As the dust began to settle down, to everyone’s horror, a giant canyon had been created from that single beam of cold light, as it had cut the ground in half.

Veer gulped, as he looked at the aftermath from a different house. His friends shared his sentiments as they looked at the canyon in dread.

"Is..is that the power of Saint Stage?" Rain asked, her whole body shaking still from the aftermath.

"Sadly, no. That’s just a fraction of what they can do," Aurora smiled wryly. "If I’m guessing right, then Solvar must have detected Veer’s gaze and randomly flicked her fingers at his direction. That’s why she didn’t attack again."

"A flick...of finger..." Rock clenched his fists, imagining the terror a Saint Stage practitioner could cause. His imagination fell short, making him even angrier.

"Chill! Why are you guys behaving as if it’s the end of the world? Well, it is but come on, it ain’t that bad," Veer smiled, while patting Rain’s head to calm her. "It isn’t like that she or anyone else was born with that strength. Just work hard and you’ll get the same strength."

"They will if they get out of here alive and it’s looking impossible," Elara shrugged. "Just this is driving me crazy and I can see my death right there."

"Don’t try to discourage them, bitch," Veer smashed her head with his fist. "If you don’t wanna fight then just say so. I can handle her all alone and win too."

"Huh? Who said anything about backing away? Don’t you dare think you can steal the stage from me, dunbass. I will fight and punch a hole right through her corruption," Elara also punched his stomach in return, as she grinned at him.

Then, she hooked her arm around his neck and laughed, "Let’s die together, haha. I can bet that old man of mine would turn the world upside down."

"If he remained alive, that is."

Seeing them bickering like that, despite the tense situation where their survival was almost non existent, the group also relaxed. They began chuckling at their entices as Aurora said, "I seriously can’t understand how you two fuckers think."

"Think like this, Aur. You wanted to change the world, Right? Well, if that being gets out then the world would definitely change," Veer winked at her.

"Now that you say it like that," Aurora smiled, as she doned her battle suit which resisted the corruption to some extent. "Count me in!"

"There is no way the shield can die later than it’s master," Rock chuckled.

"I’m not dying," Rain rolled her eyes. "Even if the world ends, I’m not dying. But I’m also not letting any of you die so don’t you dare die."

"Seems like my pathetic attempt to rise up a sucide squad worked," Veer grinned and said. "Then, I’ll explain how this will go."

Before he continued, he remembered something or rather someone and looked to his sides. There he found the sixth member of their squad.

Elizabeth stayed silent, making everyone almost forget about her. Sensing the gazes on her, she raised her head and smiled, "See you later."

Everyone was left speechless, as they gave her strange gazes, but only Veer noticed something in her words. He smiled and thought, ’So, there’s a possibility we can win, huh. Good! I’ll do the work to make it happen.’

He clapped his hands and said, "She can’t fight anyway so she’ll just be a burden. It’s better to leave her here. Anyway, so what I was telling was the plan on how should we proceed."

Pointing at his back, he said, "As you saw just now, going anyway near her is asking for death until she has her Saint Stage strength. But you also can’t look at her cuz she’ll sense it."

"That’s the problem. How do we around to use the Runic Slates on her?" Aurora asked.

"We only have one option, really," Veer shrugged. "Rain saw her and she still didn’t attack her. There had to be a reason for that as it attacked me the moment I saw her."

"Maybe it’s because of that mist?" Rain said with uncertainty.

"I doubt as Corrupted Creatures eat each other out," Aurora shook her head. "Their hunger knows no bounds as they’ll eat anything in their way. That reminds me, why is she still there anyway?"

"She’s bound to protect the Seal. Even if she is Corrupted, her soul can’t disobey the role she left behind," Veer said. "Wait! Maybe it’s because I have life force?"

"Hmm, that’s possible. She must have thought that Rain was just a passing by Corrupted Creature so she didn’t bother but you’re a living being," Aurora nodded in agreement. "So, you mean to send her out?"

"That’s the only choice we have. I’ll accompany her thought," Veer sighed in defeat.

"Nah, I’ll accompany her. Didn’t that old man said my flames are special?" Elara waved her hand as she stood up. "I can also heal her if she gets injuried. Well, not like she’ll be in a situation to be heal it Solvar attacked."

"So, I’m going to die, Boss? No! I wanna die with Boss!"