D.E.M.O.N.S: Getting Summoned Weekly isn't so Bad

— Lily — (Moments before Kat charged into the rift in space)

Lily could feel the pain and lack of comprehension coming from Kat’s side of things but… Lily found she just didn’t get it. Staring into that broken patch of space she saw possibilities, pathways. A wonderous kaleidoscope of potential and while she wasn’t at the point of manipulating it just yet… the crack seemed to just make sense.

It existed because Hunter had essentially thrown a grenade into the gap between and everything was trying to go everywhere.

Looking at things from Kat’s point of view hurt her brain somewhat. Though not in the same way it seemed to be hurting Kat’s. No, Lily was surprised at just how little Kat seemed to be able to see.

Lily didn’t know if the reason for Kat’s issues were the clashing perspectives of ‘understand nothing’ and ‘understand everything’ which was causing issues for Kat, as she passively took in some of Lily’s understand without any affinity for it.

Lily didn’t know what to say, and didn’t have any time for it either. “NOW!” shouted Hunter as she charged forward, and Kat swiftly followed. Lily could see that Hunter had managed to time things well. Somehow. The rift was closing, possibilities were being cut off. The pathway between HERE and THERE was solidifying.

The fact that Hunter could somehow identify this by feel was a touch scary. Even though Lily could see the potential, she hadn’t realised just how closed off it had become. There was still so much to see…

Lily watched as Kat tried to stick to the path, but it was twisty thing, not meant for those uncertain of the space they occupied. Lily tried feeding more of her understanding towards Kat, and… it seemed to work. Kat’s movements became more certain to Lily’s eyes. The steps timed to better align with the path they needed to take… and then Kat made a mistake.

At least, Lily thought it was a mistake. She didn’t catch what had caused it but soon Kat’s wings blocked her view, and Lily found herself being protected… but from what she didn’t know until the slight pain came through on Kat’s end. Spatial cuts. Lily hadn’t noticed them, and neither had Kat. Discover exclusive tales at freewebnovel

Lily panicked slightly, if she couldn’t see all there was to this rift then what was she seeing? There was already so much, too much, but apparently it was still not enough. Lily tried to calm down as she forced her vision to go through Kat’s eyes in her desperation to SEE.

Kat stumbled, falling into a tumble but Lily kept her mind on the space before her, took in the details that Kat could not, and waited, waited for something she almost didn’t see.

The answer, the correct path. She saw a way out and shouted for Kat to notice. Yet it seemed her girlfriend was blind to this path. Lily felt what she needed to do. *OPEN YOUR WINGS!*

Then, as if that decree alone had righted space, Kat was back where things made sense to mortals, they were hovering far above an open plane, with the drake… that damned drake. Lily’s eyes itched as she took it in. The sleek elegance in its form did nothing to disguise the wrongness it emanated from Lily’s eyes.

It seemed like Kat could feel it too, if what she was feeling from the link was anything to go by. The whole thing seemed to be slowly… eating the space around it? Something like that anywhere. It was distorting things just by existing, and Lily could practically feel the damage it was doing to the world just by walking around. No wonder they needed to take this thing down.

Corrupted or not it was going to cause issues.

Just as Lily had that thought, Kat exploded forward with movement and Lily found herself flipping through the air. It took only a few moments to stabilise herself but that was already too long. Kat was most of her way to the drake and Lily was not pleased with being left behind.

Taking off herself, Lily flew upwards as far as the mists would allow while getting closer to the drake. Lily was still moving closer when she saw Kat get attacked by the drake… and she was paying enough attention to see, and feel the moment Kat got bitten. Pain lanced through the link before Lily could shut it down.

The aftershock enough to disrupt her flight, causing Lily to drop a good twenty metres through the air before her wings could catch her.

*Oh please by ok Kat…* Lily’s dread only grew as Kat was launched into the air, before the drake brought whole mouth around Kat and clamping shut. Lily winced, opening the link just enough to check… and there was no pain. Lily, buoyed by this discovery sped forward even as she sensed a number of mixed emotions coming from Kat, relief being chief amongst them.

Lily knew she needed to help, and started pulling up the sigil for the strongest spell she knew. It was horribly mana inefficient, and she hadn’t perfected the casting making it even worse… but nothing else would do any meaningful damage. The rest of the group was missing, and Lily was willing to shoulder the cost so Kat didn’t have to.

Still, even with Kat’s relief Lily could tell something was wrong. Whatever was happening inside the drake still wasn’t GOOD but… perhaps it was acceptable. It seemed to be to Kat, as her determination spiked.

Purple mist exploded out of the drake, spilling from its mouth in great amounts and Lily felt joy, Kat was going to be fine… but when Kat reformed, Lily’s heart ached at the sight. She could see Kat’s broken arm and wing. Lily poured more mana into the spell in response, feeding it more than it needed to ensure that it went off.

Just as she felt Kat’s emotions shift to some resignation, for Lily knew she wasn’t quite equipped to follow the full speed of the battle, Lily let her spell lose.

Wind exploded around her as the spear was shot off, sending Lily into a tumble. Only the words, [Thank you so much!] and Kat’s feelings of exultation allowed Lily to keep her spirits up. Sure it cost around half of her mana, but the spear had WORKED! Kat would have the time to recover.

Lily needed to use a bit of that time herself, she’d dropped lower then she’d like once she was straightened out again. Climbing, Lily kept watch over the battle and saw that the dragon was quickly managing to pull out the spear. It hadn’t penetrated deeply, only really holding on because it was made of extremely tightly packed paper. The fact that she’d gotten a hit on the eye was luck really.

Sure Lily had been hoping, but a strike to the crystals would have been acceptable to her. They seemed important and it would’ve hopefully distracted the dragon long enough for Kat to recover. Sadly, her crazy girlfriend had other ideas.

Lily could see Kat dash forward, right back towards the dragon’s mouth. Lily wanted to shout and scream over their link, tell her not to be a fucking moron. To not head right back into the belly of the beast, or its mouth in this case. The legs were smaller and much less dangerous, but that mouth full of teeth was clearly Kat’s aim.

Lily wanted to wince as she levelled out at the top of the bubble, trying to work out what spell to use next. She couldn’t keep throwing out giant spears and risk running out of mana. She needed something damaging but smaller and Lily was coming up blank.

Her mental state probably wasn’t helping matters, even as Kat struck the drake from below knocking its head upwards but dealing no visible damage to the damned things scales. Then again, Lily knew she was quite far away. Hopefully there was at least a few cracks… why wasn’t Kat moving.

Lily panicked a bit as the dragon brought its chin back down, slamming into Kat… and she was fine? Again? Lily checked the link and Kat had made herself a hole to fill up with her water form. Lily cheered and got back to choosing a spell. The drake seemed confused for the moment as it raised its head back up to look around for Kat.

It didn’t need to look long because Kat was ready to make use of the opening.

She slammed another first into the things chin, throwing its head back to a similarly lacklustre result. With the drake more of the eastern variety its flexible neck meant that smacking its head around just wasn’t doing much damage. Even as it brough its head back down and Kat hid, ready to repeat the manoeuvre, Lily couldn’t help but think they needed an edge here.

An edge she just couldn’t seem to find. Her other spells seemed to weak, especially from such a large range. *I need to figure something out…*