Chapter 134
While Michelle and Alexander were in the basement beneath the tavern, looking for the source of the intense humidity, Kieran, Anastasia, and Ivona were in the jungle, fighting a few huge snakes relentlessly attacking them.
They were already spent, both physically and mentally, because the snakes attacked them early in the evening and didn’t give them a chance to rest throughout the whole night. If they soon didn’t come up with a way to deal with them, they would end up in real trouble.
But the snakes didn’t even give them time to think properly.
Kieran and Anastasia were defending against the attacks while Ivona pumped them with her light element spirit energy to help restore their energy and give them some kind of boost, but she was already exhausted. And as she also had to dodge the attacks of the snakes, her control over her spirit energy was slipping, and the support she could provide got smaller.
Slowly, each of the attacks directed at Ivona was dodged more clumsily, the poisonous fangs of the snakes leaving her by millimeters.
Kieran noticed it, so he set a flaming circle around her to stop the snakes, so she could recover a bit. But that also prevented Ivona from supplying Kieran and Anastasia with her spirit energy. They had to fend for themselves for a while.
Anastasia was somehow fine because she was mostly relying on her physical strength, and her soul energy was only used to strengthen herself and increase her stamina. But Kieran was using a combination of his physical strength and fire element attacks, which drained his stamina much faster. Also, he had to keep the fire circle around Ivona intact, which increased the speed at which he got more and more exhausted.
With the state he was in, more and more holes appeared in his defenses, and as a snake spit some poison on him, he was barely able to move to the side so it wouldn’t hit his eyes and blind him.
But another snake was already behind him, lunging at him to bite.