Chapter 331: Eliminate the Curse
Chapter 331: Eliminate the Curse
"Elena, the Goddess of Light, grandgodmaster, please hurry up and help my big sister. She is in such a state of emergency and is so close to the gate of nothingness." Nell hovered right in front of Elena's face, urging for quick help.
"Calm yourself down, little one. An emergency aid doesn't come with just a swing of a hand, and it's over." Elena patted the little Goddess on the head using her delicate finger.
"But!" Nell grumped, but Elena ignored her afterward.
"That's an extraordinary ability, young girls. Do you understand your surroundings? And for you, child, what are you going to do? The damage from the curse we have suffered is too deep to be healed by anything. Your holy magic is helpless, and you know it." "
Suddenly, a woman's weak voice came from behind. Elysia and the others immediately turned to the source of the sound, but they became shocked afterward. Nell was aghast in an instant.
A white-haired old Granny with skin like burnt wood walked over. She looked like a frail tree woman.
Nell immediately flew towards the old Granny anxiously, but she crashed into Elena's barrier.
"Lifa, Lifa, what happened to you? Are you all right? What do you mean by that? What can we do for you? Please don't despair like that. We have hope for you and my big sister." Nell held her nose in pain, but she didn't care about it. She asked a frantic series of questions out of worry.
"Well, you are still impolite as usual, child." Lifa shook her head and walked to the center of the hall. He casually walked through the dangerous fog.
"So, you are the Goddess of the outside world, the savior as said in the prophecy, hmm..." Lifa inspected Elena, then Vanessa and Elysia. However, she focused much longer on Elysia.
Elysia felt a little nervous because she was being stared at so intensely by the old Granny, thus Elena stood between them to end it.
"What a disrespectful attitude to stare at us deeply like that. So, you are the avatar of the tree of life, Lifa? Two questions from me. Do you know the situation out there? Then, what happened to you and Rhea?" Elena snorted softly.
"Ko-hoho, I'll let you know later. However, now back to you first. The Goddess of Light? Is that your title? Hmm, why did I not find the light domain's in your body. This is strange. Why do I feel that you are an incomplete existence?" Lifa looked at Elena deeply. At the same time, her green eyes glowed slightly.
"A Goddess who has no soul? Many threads of life bind your existence with the girl behind you. It's strange, the girl behind you is clearly a young girl who is still at the Apprentice level, but she has tremendous power." After saying that, Lifa closed her eyes.
"What are you trying to say, old Granny?" Elena frowned and felt a little tense. She didn't know what it was, but this old Granny seemed to have analyzed her and Elysia even further.
'Sister Elena-' Elysia called out anxiously, but Elena immediately interrupted her.
'Don't talk yet, Ely. We are in front of a level 255 Goddess. Maybe she can analyze our conversation.' Elena had a hunch that this old Granny already knows some secrets about her and Elysia.
"Never mind." Lifa shook her head. She knew that she would offend these two extraordinary existences if she spoke more than necessary. Sometimes, it was better to leave things unsaid.
"No soul?" Nell tilted her head as she looked at Elena. She completely didn't understand what Lifa was saying.
"Very well, I don't have the strength to say much today. I will enlighten everything you wanted to know tomorrow. But, can you help my daughter from the deadly curse that swallowed her from within?" Lifa turned to the six-winged Goddess in the semi-transparent green crystal. She stroked the crystal with a gaze full of sorrow.
"Why are you sure we can do it?" Elena sighed in relief because this old Granny couldn't see Elysia's Soul Realm or things she and Elysia didn't want anyone to know.
"Hmm, yes, I'll be there to help. Please tell me what I can do, Lifa." Nell pumped her hands with confidence.
Lifa just ignored Nell. She glanced at both Elena and Elysia with a knowing gaze. "We? Hoho, that's because I know you can do it. At least, I know you can alleviate my daughter's suffering."
"Hmm... Well, it's not difficult, but it's not easy either. Curse energy has spread throughout her body. Removing the curse doesn't mean restoring anything that's been lost." Elena looked at the sealed Goddess with sympathy. She easily agreed to the request only because she knew the flow, exchanging favor.
"I know that. At least, my daughter's Life Energy will not disappear continuously. I have done everything in my power, but this is the best result I have achieved. Please, I am counting on you. I'll give you something great as a form of my gratitude later." Lifa smiled slightly in a pleading voice.
After that, the old Granny turned to ashes and disappeared from everyone's sight.
"Lifa, Lifa?" Nell panicked immediately.
"Please calm down, Nell. You're not acting like the Goddess of Blessings lately. Granny has already said that she doesn't have much strength today to say much." Elysia reminded Nell as she rolled her eyes.
"Ah-um... You're right, Elysia. My apologies." Nell scratched her cheek awkwardly, but that only lasted a moment. "Then, what are you waiting for? Let's save my big sister, as Lifa said."
Elena didn't respond to Nell for a moment. She discussed briefly with Elysia in mind. 'Ely, what do we need to do first?'
'Before we begin, let's get rid of this aura of death and seal a part of this hall. If we look further, this aura is curse energy that will endanger our lives.' Elysia looked around and decided.
'Sigh... We need to act even if we don't know anything useful yet. That old Granny is quite sneaky and annoying. Her eyes are pretty dangerous for us, Ely. It's as if she can see our secret.' Elena sighed and spoke freely. She was confident that her conversation couldn't be overheard by anyone now, not when Lifa was in a weak state.
'Yes, I feel that way too. I don't know what I would say if the Goddess of Life found out everything about us, Sister Elena. It would be too dangerous for us to have our secrets known to others.' Elysia sighed in thought. She completely felt the same way as Elena.
'Yes, you're right, Ely. Very well, we'll be extracting information from this old tree tomorrow. For now, let's help this Goddess of Nature. We came for her after all.' Elena raised her palm and prepared to use her magic.
'En, who would have thought we could meet the real the Goddess of Life. Nell doesn't know about that, unfortunately.' Elysia assumed that there were many things Nell didn't know, or maybe, there were indeed many secrets between the Gods and Goddesses.
Elena made a ball of air outside the barrier. She made it go around the hall to suck in all the aura of death.
The fist-sized air ball quickly turned into a ball no smaller than a truck wheel. After that, Elena condensed it into a smaller ball and threw it out through the exit downstairs.
'Let's cover the area around this crystal with a barrier and create our pure area with another barrier.' Elysia gave suggestions for the next steps. She decided not to do much at this point due to several obvious considerations.
Elena acted according to plan. She sealed the large crystal with a layered barrier, then created a space around the crystal and wrapped it with another layered protection.
A portion of the death aura came from outside, out of nowhere, and also from this crystal, after all.
"Now we have more space. Ely and I will be busy for a while. Please leave us alone." Elena revoked the bubble-like barrier that enveloped them and walked towards the crystal.
"Nell, I'll leave Vann with you." Elysia turned to Nell, then put Vanessa on the floor. "Vann, please stay with Nell for a while. You can ask Nell anything."
"Okay, master. I wish you success." Vanessa nods like an obedient cat. She received a header from her master in return before her master approached the crystal as well.
Meanwhile, Nell floated down and sat on the cat's back. If she was asked to look after the cat, so be it. She knew very well that she couldn't help much.
'Ely, what are we going to do next? Freeing this Goddess from this crystal could be bad if we don't take precautions first. This pitiful Goddess is helpless and still slowly emitting an aura of death.' Elena patted her chin thoughtfully. She saw there were many things they needed to do to help the Goddess of Nature.
'Hmm... Anyway, we need to deal with this death aura problem first. Then, get rid of the curse that draining the Goddess of Nature's Life Energy. Ahh, there is more than one type of curse...' Elysia also pondered for a moment as she analyzed Rhea's whole body with her sacred vision.
Removing the curse of another person would be more difficult than purifying the curse that had attacked them. Not to mention, they were unable to recklessly approach the Goddess of Nature.
Long-distance assistance was the only feasible solution. Still, it would probably take some time to eradicate the curse that consumed the Goddess of Nature's Life Energy.
Elysia and Elena wondered inwardly. What had been experienced by the Goddess of Nature and the Tree of Life during the ancient war one hundred thousand years ago?
In comparison, Rhea and Lifa suffered much worse than Nell, who had only suffered a slump in overall strength.