Prelude of Order in a Kingdom of Ice! [Kirahunter & Lynn S-Rank Job]

The shock on Lynn’s face mirrored Simon’s and it was the sound of him calling Zlatan a stupid cat that kept her alert. “...” She had meant to yell at him but she could not find the energy to say anything at the moment. So she just groaned as he approached her, tearing off the sleeves off his jacket. “..what are you doing..?” she tried to say, even though every action hurt her even more. Each syllable causing an unbearable jolt of pain. Her face showed her great agony. It was just an ice arrow. How was it hurting her so much!? Simon explained about something she could barely understand, but in the end she got the jist of it. He told her that he had to deal with the ice monsters outside if both of them wanted to get out of here alive. She nodded slowly, grabbing the sleeves he tore off and supporting her body with her right elbow. As Simon disappeared she groaned even louder, squeezing her eyes tightly as she gripped hard on the weapon that was connected to her still. If she did not do anything, she was going to die either because of blood loss or because Simon could not handle the ice monsters alone and they killed both of them. Shaking away the dark thoughts from her head, Lynn focused her energy on the hand holding the spear then yanked it out sharply to cause the least pain possible. She screamed as blood almost gushed out of her wound as she rolled one sleeve and held it against the wound and began to tie the other sleeve of Simon’s jacket around the injured area to stop the blood. Slowly and painfully she brought herself into a standing position, even if not perfect. She could not fight in this state. She needed energy, so she sat back down on the floor, grabbing the spear that had her blood on it. Furious, she began to consume the ice weapon, then looked around.

Crawling with wings on her back to keep herself lifted, which was the only way she could move, Lynn started to pick up ice objects around the room and consume them. Her eyes began to tear up from the pain as moving caused her so much pain she could not bear to hold in the tears that crying felt like bleeding. What if she passed out? Simon told her to try her best not to lose consciousness, so she could not let that happen at any cost. More importantly, she had to find energy to go and help Simon. He probably would not be able to handle all of them alone even if Zlatan was there by his side. Lynn kept eating any ice objects she could find while she thought of how she was going to help anyone. This made her angrier than she already was, and made her think of how she could not evade the ice arrow in the first place. If only she was not arguing so much with Simon and let him do what he wanted. Lynn’s teeth made a loud clacking sound as she bit down on another chunk of ice in the hopes that she was revitalized in no time. She could hear her friends from above.

Lynn kept consuming any kind of ice she could find around her as she peered through the large window to check on her friends, frequently groaning in pain as this was the only way she could think of to reduce it, but clearly groaning didn’t help in any way but ease her messed up mind. The only thing that was helping her was the restoration of energy from her consumption of frost. It did not heal her injury, but it helped in making her feel less pain from it, and the energy lost from panicking, trying to stop the bleeding and struggling to keep her consciousness. She was more useful with what little energy she had left rather than not helping at all. In fact, what she had been consuming seemed to start working just that moment because her arms felt lighter, so did her head. “Please work, please,” she pleaded, to nobody in particular, and just kept eating until she felt like something was intensifying inside of her. Dropping the chunks of ice, she slowly rose to her feet, and was surprised to find that she could stand properly now. With an amazed grin, she let out a victorious yelp before she doubled over and was back on all fours, frustration washed over her. “Let’s try that again,” she said with a grunt, and with more care this time, she stood, holding the frame of the window in front of her. She could see them from here, the battle where Zlatan and Simon fought the ice monsters.

Breaking off more ice from whatever she could, Lynn kept on gobbling them down, then at one point, when it was enough, Lynn stopped eating altogether and dropped the ice in her hands, her hair was perfectly blue and a pair of wings of ice had sprouted from her back, although they were a bit weak and flapped slowly. She shook her head slightly as if to shake off dust in her hair, then looked down to check on the wound. It seemed to have healed completely, but it probably wasn’t. Force was keeping it at zero pain. Honestly, she didn’t know where to start, or what to start doing. This was her first time experiencing Force and it felt...magical. The fact that her body felt like she had just woken up full of replenished energy made her feel extremely light and happy. Simon had seemed to succeed in killing time for her to heal. The ice monsters looked a bit confused. Lynn decided to use her arrows and willed to summon her bow and arrows, but nothing happened. She couldn’t use magic...why? Wasn’t the purpose of Force to strengthen her spells so she could do more than usual with them? A silent panic attack struck her as she sat back down on the ice. Did she need to eat more? What was this? Lynn didn’t know, she didn’t know that she needed to wait further for Force to be ready to use. She needed to charge. With questions flying around in her head, Lynn sat frozen with panic. How was she going to save Simon or Zlatan if she couldn’t use magic? She had to wait, just a while. Force wasn’t fully activated yet. She needed just a bit more time.

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Simon seemed to have noticed that Lynn was trying to get into Force, because there was no sign of shock or confusion on his face when he saw her. It was as if he was familiar with it, for Lynn thought she caught a hint of expectation from him. After retreating back into the castle, she tried to think of a way to solve this since she was out of ideas on how to continue this. It wasn’t that Force was not working on her, it seemed to need more fuel? Or time? Was time the fuel? What. Reaching for a piece of ice and shoving it into her own mouth, Lynn waited for something to happen. She could feel something happening, but she knew that if she went out there again, she would be as useful as a fly, being unable to use any of her spells in the time being. More ice entered her mouth as she frustratedly fed herself the element of her magic. It was a relief that this place was the ‘kingdom of ice’ because she could find all the ice she needed. It was funny how she had not found a way to make her body immune to ice attacks yet. Maybe she would later when she ranked up and tapped into new ways to strengthen herself, or even learn a new magic altogether. It was just a thought. She couldn’t think of a new magic to learn yet anyway. She was getting a bit bored of doing the same thing. That was what she was like, she liked discovering new things, new magics, meeting new people.

A sudden surge of energy rose from her feet and rushed out of her head. It was incredibly uncomfortable yet soothing in a way that she felt like she was ready to do something about the madness that was happening outside. She heard something that caught her interest, something that was really strange, so she went over to the window and checked to find that something was happening at the base of the castle. What in the world? Something like a tornado, but it was all around the castle. She knew there was no one with wind magic around because their adversaries only used ice techniques, and Simon used some kind of lava magic...and something that made him incredibly fast. He was running around the castle? What for? It was strange because Lynn couldn’t find a reason for him to be running around the castle. Maybe this was a technique she was not familiar with because, yeah she did not use a magic that made her go at the speed of sound, but honestly, this was something new. She wasn’t sure if now was the right time to leave the castle. He didn’t plan on lifting the castle now did he? Couldn’t be the case. So she decided to leave the castle. It was high time she taught those little ice creatures a lesson and showed them who was boss here. This was her domain. And she was going to make it known to them. She flew through the window, out into the battlefield and observed the situation. It seemed everything was enhanced with Force. Her eyesight, her hearing, all her senses. And this lightness. She felt lighter than she ever was.

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