117. Demon King Adra 3

"Shiro!"

Shestia screamed. Her face was twisted in agony.

And at that moment, a crimson light burst forth from Shestia’s body, like an aura.

"Senior!!" Kotone shouts too.

Shestia and Kotone fly toward Shiro.

From the crater, Shiro crawled out. His body glowed faintly white.

"Ugh—ow. Let my guard down. Shouldn’t be looking around during a fight."

And Shiro, though his legs wobbled, managed to stand up.

“Shiro!” Shestia throws herself at Shiro. Her body glows faintly red.

Kotone clung to Shiro too, calling out, "Senior!"

"Ahh, sorry. Got a little off track. But it's fine. The composite of divine and arcane magic is pretty sturdy. By the way, Shestia, what's that?" Shiro said.

Shestia smiled — strange, divine, like a goddess of Firumia — and silently stared at Shiro.

"Shiro, that’s the activation of Shestia’s skill 【Soul Link】. It must’ve triggered from the mental shock you just endured. … Shiro, from now on, Shestia, Kotone, and I will activate a certain skill. After we do, try to enclose the dragon within a barrier and activate Miasma Mana Conversion. We three will form the base of a tetrahedron—the triangle—and you’ll be the apex."

Mitoka approached Shiro and the others, explaining the plan.

"Ah, uh, got it. So, about that skill...?"

"Anyone can see it," Shestia said, glancing at Mitoka and Kotone, and the three of them nodded in unison.

"Then, please take your position. Senpai, you're on top of the regular tetrahedron!" Kotone said.

"Got it," Shiro said, soaring upward into the sky.

Mitoka, Shestia, and Kotone moved to the vertices of a triangle surrounding the dragon.

Then Shestia murmured, "Skill activation: [Red Thread]."

At the moment she spoke, her body glowed brighter red. From her, threads of light stretched out—connecting to Kotone and Mitoka, and linking all three together into a glowing red triangle.

At the same time, identical threads extended from the three of them toward Shiro, connecting to him.

"What... is this?" Shiro was stunned.

He could feel mana flooding into him the instant the threads connected. At the same moment, emotions from the three of them poured into him.

"…!" Shiro was speechless. A surge of emotion welled up inside him—three strong wills striking deep into his heart.

"Shiro, this one’s called [Fated Red Thread]. It’s Shestia’s unique skill. A joint ability between her, me, and Kotone, now that our souls are linked. It amplifies mana, shares mana supply, and allows us to share magical processing capacity—specialized, but powerful," Mitoka explained.

Shestia closed her eyes, focusing her mind.

"Shiro, while this skill is active, please contain the dragon inside the barrier and do something about the miasma. If we can purge it from within his body, his mental state might stabilize!" Mitoka said.

"Got it!"

Using their current positioning, Shiro activated the same regular tetrahedron barrier.

The dragon roared, thrashing violently inside.

The barrier didn’t budge.

Shiro quickly began thinking.

Convert Miasma into magic power—no, can’t do that directly… so the source of the magic stones must absorb Miasma to create the stones. Then, the source of the magic stones… can I make it with the Dungeon Master’s skill?

Shiro first reconfigured the barrier to treat the interior as part of a dungeon. Then he generated the magic stone source near the dragon. Finally, he activated 【Miasma Crystallization】, initiating the process to draw the dragon’s Miasma into the stone.

The moment it activated, black smoke-like tendrils erupted from the dragon, sucked relentlessly into the magic stone source.

“Gyaaah!” The dragon roared. The Miasma bursting from its body felt like needles piercing nerves.

From the pain, it had thrashed wildly at first, but after a while, it collapsed weakly against the barrier’s floor.

Shiro cast 【Calm】, 【Anesthesia】, and 【Heal】 on the dragon.

They maintained the barrier, descended slowly, and reached the ground.

“Ah—ah—ah! It hurts! Aaaah!” The dragon howled, but telepathy began to work. It was regaining consciousness.

“Just a little longer. Hold on! The Miasma removal is working! It should get better soon!” Shiro sent reassurance through telepathy.

He kept the skill active.

After about twenty minutes, the dragon calmed down. Shiro cast 【Calm】 and 【Heal】 again.

“Ah… thank you. The pain… it’s easing a little…”

After a while, the dragon finally settled completely.

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