Versatile: Alternate World

Kokadokata immediately raise his staff and a blue glow covered both our bodies. I immediately extended both of my hands and point my palms towards Lucia. As soon as I did that, I saw the MP bar slowly get reduced. When Lucia felt the mana flowing in her body, she immediately starts channeling her magic spell and the surroundings started to get really hot. As for the Freezing Mites, they are not approaching us due to the heat but they aren't retreating either. It was like they are trying to deduce whether it is time to retreat or remain and wait for the meal to finish what it was actually doing.

"Master! I needed more Mana!"

Seeing that my Mp bar is almost empty, I pulled out an Extra Large Mana Potion and chug down the whole potion. Despite the sh*tty taste that I want to puke as a result, I continue chugging it down and resupply the mana I gained to Lucia.

The heat is getting real hot that even the shield that Kokadokata made to protect ourselves from the Freezing Mites is melting. Even though we are in the virtual world, I think I am sweating and I am urged to jump to the nearest pool of water just to cool myself down. Still, that was just a manner of speech as I am not literally sweating.

"Oy, still not done?! The Freezing Mites are already looming over us and it won't be soon before they will swarm on us!"

"Just a little bit more!" Lucia grit her teeth as the flames around her body ignite a lot stronger than before.

My mana is also rapidly being drained that it started to drain twice the amount compared to earlier. However, I continue to supply her with Mana as I also keep chugging down the Mana Potions to resupply the lost mana.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!"

Lucia screamed and as she do so, flames gathered around her body that the surrounding Freezing Mites noticed the swirling flames. Afraid that things will be bad for them, the Freezing Mites started to retreat but it seems that Lucia has no plans of letting them leave.

"You block our way out, so now that you all are retreating, I will also block your way out too!"

FWOOOM!

Flames suddenly engulfed the horde of Freezing Mites and their disgusting noises filled my ears as they were burned to ashes. The stuck Freezing Mites that were stuck in the web saw what happened and just like a colony with a hive mind, they decided to retreat without a second thought away from the area but Lucia has no plans of letting them go.

"Where are you all going huh?"

BOOM!

Lucia throws a handful of flames and like a Molotov Cocktail, the moment it landed on the ground, the flames spread to the mites.

SQUEEEEEEEE!

The flames engulfed the whole area covered with Freezing Mites and just in a few seconds, the loaded Freezing Mites are all converted to ashes, nothing left remaining from them except their ashes.

Lucia is panting hard after she unleashed her abilities. I don't know what ability was but it seems to increase her spell's power to a hundred times however, that was just speculation and I don't know how it works so let's leave it at that.

She slowly fell to her knees as she closes her eyes.

"Lucia! Are you alright?"

"Yeah...just a bit of a headache after using a lot of mana in one go. Don't worry Master, I can recover after a bit of a rest."

"Alright, go back to the summon's area. Bring Cotton with you and the two of you go and rest. Good work, both of you."

Lucia nodded and she returned along with Cotton.

"Your follower is a demon huh? Never thought I would see someone trust a demon like her."

"Are you trying to get rid of Lucia?"

"Huh? What are you talking about, I don't have any reason to do that. Even though she is a demon, she saved our assess out there so I am not here to discriminate against her. Anyways, let's get out of here, with all the ashes of the termites, my skin is tingling just by looking at them."

"You are going to abandon the Frozens?" I asked Kokadokata.

"What can I do? If I don't leave, there will come a time another set of Freezing Mites appear and devour me. Better find a better place for me instead."

We went out of the mines and just as we do, we saw a towering behemoth not too far from us. It was so big that it's towering the mountains and if it is a bit taller, the behemoth can actually reach the skies.

"No wonder the Freezing Mites are so many in this place, the source of them is actually right before us."

He then pointed his staff towards the leg of the towering behemoth and I can feel goosebumps on my body and my skin crawling seeing the amount of Freezing Mites covering the whole leg of the behemoth. No wonder so many Freezing Mites are here, its because the freezing mites are just a lot of them.

"Let's get out of here before those little cretins actually notice us. Without your follower to blow a flame on them, we are all dead meat. Also, it was nice meeting you. I doubt we will meet again but perhaps we will in the future."

After saying those words, Kokadokata disappeared as a bubble popped. He activated his teleport spell and left me alone. I didn't waste my time and pull out a teleport scroll. With the Alpha Rodola Ore in my hands, it is time to turn in the quest and finish it. Not only did I get the objective, I also got a bonus pet. That is a big plus for me.

Anyways, its time to go. Challenging that behemoth is not going to be something I can do right now, so I wouldn't even bother doing so. I tear the Teleport Scroll and returned to the castle.

When I returned to the castle, I saw Almira is arguing with an old dwarf blacksmith. The other blacksmiths seem to be on the side of the old dwarf blacksmith while no one seems to be on Almira's side. However, I can see that Almira is very bored now as she is getting droopy eyes and she keeps on yawning while the old blacksmith keeps on yammering.

"Just because the queen has already recommended and approved of you, as the head blacksmith, I refuse to accept another Head Blacksmith to join! I am the one in charge of all the equipment here and my apprentices are all top-notch blacksmiths! For you to go and start scolding my apprentices like they are your apprentices is unacceptable for me!"

"*Yawn* Really? Even if your apprentices are all doing tons of mistakes? This is why I hate dwarven blacksmiths most of the time. You think you are all top-notch blacksmiths just because you are all dwarves but that doesn't mean you all are free from mistakes. You should be thankful I pointed out mistakes to your blacksmiths like that."

"So what is your point? That you are a much better blacksmith than me?"

"Ugh. Did I ever say that? I can be respectful but you are going too far, you stupid old dwarf. I am respectful until now since you are much older than me but do you think I care about the superiority of the works? Who cares about that? As much as you care about being a top blacksmith, I don't care about that crap. All I care about is to produce top-quality items that anyone can use. What's the use of being the top blacksmith if your creations are all mediocre to trash and full of flaws?"

"What did you say?!"

I decided to interfere this time as dwarven blacksmiths won't back down no matter what just to prove their points. You would never be able to get out of the spiraling issue the dwarf will try to use to his advantage just to get the upper hand and win the argument.

"Master! I have returned. I also got the item you asked me to get too."

Almira's eyes lit up when she heard what I said and started grinning.

"Come here and bring out!"

The other blacksmiths also frowned and looked at me with a weird look in their eyes. I opened my inventory and pulled out the Alpha Rodola Ore before giving it to Almira. Almira received the ore and she nodded in satisfaction.

"Good, Bladeheart. You came just right in time," Almira grinned and she turned to look at the dwarven blacksmith who was mocking Almira earlier.

"Since you are a top blacksmith, then I will acknowledge you as one if you can forge something out of this ore."

And she handed the Rodola Ore to him. I can only shake my head since Almira is already set on humiliating the old man. I can only pray at this old man since even the gods can't save him now from his predicament.