"Blood Sacrifice: Zeroth Moon," I mutter as I start running even faster than before. I wasn't going to use it earlier for Hygeia's sake, but after conversing with her, I guess I could try using it and see where it goes from there onwards.

Hygeia looks at me for a few moments without uttering anything. She just sits there and observes me and then finally chants something in an unknown language before a calm and cool sensation engulfs my body. While I was still using Blood magic, it didn't feel like it was the same thing at all.

The difference between before and after the chant was apparent; before it felt like my body was on fire from the inside which was constantly draining my powers and after it that sensation had completely vanished. I guess Hygeia used her powers to heal me up to an extent where the side effects of using Blood Sacrifice are reduced to zero.

The fact that she still isn't responding was concerning, and it made me look at her even more intently than before. She gave me a piercing gaze before she finally speaks in a concerned voice,historical

"Why do you have to harm your body like this?"

And I answered it without any hesitation,"I didn't have the luxury to worry about that, my life has always been either kill or be killed, it is way too different from what you can imagine.. though I would rather not talk about it unless necessary," and then I turned my focus at the front as Hygeia sighed a little.

It was at this point that Hygeia slowly muttered in a silent voice,

'But it is not enough for me to get angry at you.. was there anything else involved with you.. maybe another girl?' but I did not pay attention to her as I was too concentrated on following Nyx's trail.

"Do you have a girlfriend?" She asks out of nowhere and I almost tripped before gaining my momentum as I speak,"NO! And where did that come from?"

I think I saw a sigh of relief on her face before she said,"nothing. Just asking."

After that she turns silent for another few moments, but not long after she asks again,"do you have someone you love?" and I sigh at these dumb questions,

"Why are you asking? Are you going to try on me if I don't have anyone? Aren't spirits and other races secluded from the rest of the world to even think about love and other things. Also, I have heard from someone that a spirit should never fall in love with any other being and live their life untethered."

At my words, she once again narrows her eyes at me and I wonder if I said anything wrong. Though she doesn't inquire about anything further and simply just sighs and looks ahead and I do that too..

'This is a bit weird.. I don't even want to think about her falling for me or something.. damn, this is really weird..' I thought as I kept moving forward.

Nyx was not showing any signs of stopping. If anything, she was getting faster progressively and I kind of questioned whether she was really testing me or was running away from me?

There are two possibilities here if looked from the two sides of right and wrong.

One is that she is just checking my worth and seeing if I am worthy of being with her because she might have guessed that Zuriel wanted to bring me with her to their place.

The other is that she is running away from someone.. possibly someone strong... Or maybe running towards someone or something.. something she holds dear. Hmmm.. but if she was running towards someone, I doubt she would be stopping to take Zuriel, let alone an unknown child like Dion, with her.

Thinking along that line I tried sensing around the place to see if anything was chasing us, but I could not find anything in close proximity to us. I tried sensing a bit far ahead too, however there still was nothing which I could label as 'dangerous'

'Hmmm.. is there something that only Nyx can see?' I thought as I kept the whole thing at the back of my mind and made myself extra cautious of my surroundings.

From this point, we travelled through various places at an extremely fast pace. I was following her, and I saw her increasing her speed at every town or turn, getting faster than before and I did too.

The faster she got, the more I checked my surroundings over and over, but still I couldn't find anything coming towards us. At last, because of the whole situation was irritating me, I called for help from Hygeia as I spoke.

"Hygeia, check the surrounding perimeter.. as far as you can, and tell me if you find anything suspicious."

Hygeia, without asking any questions, activated her spell to examine the surroundings, for a few moments she kept looking around... And then..

"AAAAAAAA!!!!!" I heard Hygeia's loud scream as she almost fell off my shoulder and I caught her as I looked at her horrified face while I kept running.. With terror-filled eyes she looked at me and spoke slowly while catching her breath,

"Wyverns.. a hoard of water wyverns.. they are coming in this direction.."

Looking at her shaken eyes, I could more or less make out that the wyverns are something of a dangerous monster and, according to the legends, wyverns are smaller dragon monsters that have the ability to fly.

'So this is why Nyx is running up and above.. but what exactly did she do to make an entire hoard of wyverns follow her?' I thought as I kept running ahead.

I then look at the terrified face of Hygeia and smile at her before speaking as I try to cheer her up,"it is all right.. I have killed a dragon before. Killing a wyvern or two shouldn't be that difficult."

She stares at me before speaking,"there are about 500 wyvern coming in this direction.. are you sure you can deal with all of them?"

"Eh? How many again?" A bit baffled at the number of the wyverns, I ask again to confirm that what I heard was in fact right. She looks at my baffled face as she slowly speaks again,"Five.. hundred."

I then sighed before looking around once again as I tried to sense them, but failed to do so again. I then look forward to see Nyx go farther and farther before I increase my speed again as I look at Hygeia,"I should be able to kill them nonetheless.. though it will take more than power this time.. probably."

Hygeia looks at me in a slightly new light as she gazes at me before nodding at me and then asking,"Is there anything I can do to help?" I look at her before speaking.

"Yeah, just make sure I don't die, okay?"

From that point onwards, I kept running behind Nyx for hours and hours, wondering what her plan was. If I can use her to save both of us, then it would actually save me a lot of trouble.

After a few hours of running, I finally found Nyx stopping at quite a lavish town. I saw her stopping and then throwing out Dion and Zuriel, who seemed to be bewildered as to what was going on.

The area where she threw them was an open altar-like a place from where she could see the wyverns coming. It had a wide area with a few people sitting there enjoying the night view. Though looking at her aura, they immediately moved away from there.

"Lady Nyx.. what's going on?" Zuriel asks with clear worry and fear in her eyes. Nyx, however, didn't utter anything as she moved towards the edge of the altar as she peered in the direction from where the wyverns were probably arriving.

I jumped at a distance away from Nyx reaching behind her. Upon seeing me, she looked at me with a bit of surprise in her eyes before concentrating on those wyverns.

She then raised her hand and pointed her ring finger in that direction as she closed her eyes.

"[Disintegrate]" she spoke and a black wave of air originating from the tip of her fingers began expanding outwards towards the wyverns. It wasn't just one wave, but more and more waves began expanding out of her fingers. Because it was nighttime, I doubt many people could see the large dark waves of energy expanding outwards.

I could only sense the intense magic that was screaming 'danger'. I then turned to Zuriel, who was looking at me with a slight relief before looking at Nyx and Dion was just confused at everything that was happening.

And soon they became visible to the naked eye.. like glittering stars in the night sky, they start blinking at a distance. Making them visible from far away.. though something was wrong.. those didn't look like they were normal water wyverns..

They were skeletal wyverns.. who could use water magic.. just.. just what did I get myself into?