'STOP'
A heavy voice resonated in my head, bringing me back to my senses. I looked around; my wounds had started to heal pretty fast, and I realised being protected and healed by an orb shield.
A shadow came over the lady who put me in this state, and someone dropped right behind her with an impact that would've 'rubblified' her, had they landed on her. The area they landed on broke as easily as tearing a paper. Having red eyes glowing with a golden flame and the body of a bodybuilder, they looked angry.
The ground beneath the lady absolutely shattered and turned to mist, pulling the three of us down towards the empty void lying underneath, possibly into the core of the earth.
The someone caught us both, and jumped out of that space with a comparatively lighter impact, but still enough to destroy the surrounding area through shockwaves. With a 360, he threw her somewhere behind, a little far from the other enemy. Sadly, that one as well had regained consciousness.
This someone looked at me, his gaze softened and said, "Wait just a little, son," put me down and went over in a flash without teleportation to the freshly conscious enemy. Throwing the other one on top of the lady, he spoke, "Had I been alone, I would've done greater damage and thrown you both straight down into the core of the earth."
They both stammered. "O- o- ode...." both of them couldn't finish speaking.
Before they could make a move, he raised both his hands to the chest level, the fingertips touching, moved them vertically in opposite directions, made one semi circular arc with both moving clockwise, then spoke :
*Soil magic - Absorb*
The grass grew taller, and held both of them by their feet and hands, such that they could not move. Their mana was being soaked away; I could see the flow of mana from their bodies to the roots. The grip must have been tight too, looking at the way their emotions were visible. The lady, screaming and crying but without sound; the other one trying to hold back to hold back tears. The trees nearby grew aerial roots, which went straight through their hearts, killing them painlessly : a merciful death. Their blood spilled on the ground, went straight through the soil, and their bodies went underneath as well, and then everything turned back to how it was.
It looked as if nothing had ever happened in here.
All this had freaked me out. Never in my previous life had I seen a force this strong and quick. Devastated, I passed out.
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I woke up in mom's arms, just like the day I came into this world. Holding me close, tears in her eyes, everything around back to how it was, she whispered into my ears, "I'm sorry. I was a bit too late."
I was a bit confused as I was getting healed in the orb shield which that man had made, but I noticed, the wounds had started to rupture again and the orb was close to vanishing.
The wounds hurt. Not as much as it did before that man helped, but this body was not ready to handle this amount of physical pain and stress. Had this been my old body, I would have been able to handle much more than this, but this was a fresh and frail body, which annoyed me to the extent that it almost felt illogical, being reincarnated and isekai'd in a different world, even if I was the chosen one.
A lot of things happened in these few days, and there was a lot to think about, but the first step was to console mom that I was fine, and enquire about the man who saved me.
It was not exactly creepy, but unrealistic; the way how he perished those two and saved me, not to mention the inhuman strength. That was something I had hoped to achieve in my previous life *which* I somewhat did but only when I was provided that strength for a limited time as my body couldn't handle that immense power and would've broken apart if the time limit was ignored.
Sniffling, she said, "I'm here, I'm here. I will heal you so well and make the shield so tough you won't ever get hurt. I promise not to let you get hurt till I am alive." With that, she sat on the ground and lay me on her lap; then placed her palm on my chest, and incanted with her eyes closed :
Shield break - calming
Internal healing - maximum input
I could feel the shield pieces falling from my body, making me feel a little lighter, and more energetic with the healing process. I was well worn-out and hence couldn't open my eyes.
"My healing recovers mana as well, but will it be able to recover you to the limit where it will not run out? Will you ever be fine without me?" she said.
"Hey, mom? It's fine. There's still time and room for me to grow. I'll grow so powerful that I'll have limitless mana and if possible, achieve immortality," I said.
She smiled, and caressed my hair but there were tears in her eyes.
"Of course you will, Os," she said. "I will definitly support you in every way I can."
I smiled widely.
She let me down, got up and hand-in-hand, we started towards our home.
That's when it happened.
Out of nowhere, a spherical object dropped from the sky.
My eyes widened.
A blast.
Loud enough to shatter one's eardrums.
So intense, a life got lost.
[Smoke, like that from a smoke bomb.]
Mom started evanescating in front of me, and partway she just vanished.
A tear escaped my eye.
My vision turned red, steam escaping from my ears.
*TERMINATE*
Everything turned white, and I lost.
Twice.