Versatile System Online

"Uhm, Elina; is everything okay?" Tim asked back, confused of her sudden outburst.

"What okay? Nothing is okay. Im done with having you above my head for everything, acting like my protector. If you are as strong as you show your sister to be, go and help out Ray and Sirius instead of acting like a guard for me. Do something impactful for once," Elina answered back. After which, the line was cut immediately and she heard someone stomping out of the tree's periphery.

"Well, he is gone for now. Hopefully, he helps Ray and until then lets hope for the best," She muttered to herself before looking at Aella.

There was a reason for her recent actions and it was closely related to Aella and she had dealt with it. Right now, it was for her to wait and look at how things turn out to be.

On the other hand,

The battle between Ray and the spirit of the tree continued to rage on. Both of their power was evenly matched but if one observed the battle keenly, they would realize that slowly; Ray was getting weaker and weaker. It was obvious that if the battle went on for longer, it would be none other than Ray who would be on the losing side.

After all, he was using all of his powers to barely match up to the level of his opponent and already, the stress piling upon his mana core was tremendous. The previous cracks had increased several folds while more cracks were appearing on his mana rapidly. Ray knew that he didnt have much time before his mana core gave away due to the tremendous stress applied by his bloodline energy but there wasn't much he could do.

His mother was heavily injured and she needed some time to gather her powers before she started attacking again whereas Sirius, albeit being relieved from the tree's attacks; had already sustained a lot of damage and his current strength was nowhere enough that he would be able to take part in the battle and help Ray out.

In short, the current situation was depressing at best and Ray was simply counting the mere moments he had before everything went down the drain and the reason he was still struggling was because of the Yagdrassil.

Since the start, the ashen tree had been manifesting itself and right now, it was almost done with its descent on Earth and even though the malevolent tree was trying its best to stop the descent by harming Yagdrassil staff in one way or the other, all its efforts were for none.

"Just a bit more," Ray thought as he blocked another strike from the tree's spirit and was sent flying back. As he was sent flying, he couldn't help but feel another tumultuous wave of pain radiate from his mana core.

These waves of pain were radiating more and more frequently and that caused even more of an issue to Ray because the pain made it hard for him to focus on the battle and therefore, he was being hit more than usual.

"Aurora, any suggestions?" He asked but no reply came.

The situation had turned as depressing as it possibly could and even Aurora was silent. After all, the gap in strength was too vast for Ray to cover by any means. The opponent was stronger than a celestial and its body wasn't made up of flesh like normal humans but from sort of strange material.

Every cut or injury that Ray inflicted upon it would heal almost instantly while the skin of his opponent was as elastic as it could. The attacks, however strong they may be; found it nigh impossible to pierce through the man's skin.

As Ray stabilized himself mid air, he turned to look at the man and found him flying at him in full speed. Ray tried to put his spear in front of himself but wasn't able to do so in time. The attack wasn't blocked and he was hit straight on his shoulder.

"Crackkk.."

The sound of ribs cracks and bones shattering was heard as Ray's right arm was shattered and went limp whereas his ribs cracked and broke to the point that a few splinters pierced through his scaly skin and were visible outside.

Ray was sent flying even farther away and this time, he didnt have the energy or strength to stabilize himself. The pain was almost blinding his senses and he felt nothing but a numbing sense of despair.

"I guess, I wasn't strong enough after all," he muttered as he felt light headed. His consciousness was fading away and Ray knew that if he lost his consciousness right now, there wont be anything to safe.

He tried to hold onto his consciousness but even then, there wasn't much he was able to do. Ray was completely spent and right when he thought of using all his power to go for a way of mutual destruction, a clear crack resounded in the middle of his torso.

"Ray, it cracked completely," Aurora's voice sounded as his transformation started to end. The ten minutes he had given himself to bare the stress on his mana core were already gone and he had further stressed his mana core for a couple minutes extra.

That and the injuries he suffered, the mana core wasn't able to bare it and cracked completely. If Ray had the strength and time to observe his mana core right now, he would see his mana core to be completely cracked form middle while mana continuously leaked out of it.

As for the leaked mana, it was slowly forming a fog and being dissipated through his body. Not only damaging his body like a slow poison that slowly overloaded every cell of body but also meddling with further healing of the body by accumulating at critical junctures and blocking the important mechanisms of the body.

One could simply say that the cracking of his mana core was slowly crippling him and it would soon take his life if he didn't stop the flow of mana through his body.

After that, Ray had fallen unconscious. The pain and the injuries made it so that he couldn't endure the suffering anymore and the bloodline energy that was allowing him to endure everything had also receded with no way of being channeled through his body.

As Ray fell to the ground, a pair of soft arms embraced him behind. They slowly lifted him in their protection and brought him back to the ground and softly placed him down as a feminine voice chanted,

[Summoning Magic:- Protector Spirit],

As the woman chanted, a small door was opened and a yellowish light flew out of it. The light was actually a small woman, reminiscent of legendary pixies. The woman was surrounded by a yellow glow that glowed bright enough to make it seem like a yellowish light radiating in the air.

The pixie looked up at Ray's mother and back at Ray as a tear slipped down her cheeks while anger flashed in her eyes but the very next moment, the anger vanished as Ray's mother spoke,

"Keep him safe. I will kill that bastard. He will pay for doing this to my son," As Ray's mother said those words, she looked up in the air and saw the man hovering in the air with a proud expression on his face, as if very happy of his actions.

Ray's mother silently exhaled and then she spoke to herself, "I have hidden my strength for so long. It's time to return and tell them all that the Xander Bloodline still lives in my son and that I am his protector," While saying those words, her presence was changing.

Her strength was shooting through the roof as the aura she gave off suddenly exceeded that of a Calamity Realmed individual and kept on rising until it reached the peak of Celestial Realm.

"I will make you regret your life," Ray's mother screamed as she shot up in the air and appeared right in front of the man, shocking him completely. Her fist made contact with the man's chin as a crisp crack resounded in the air and followed by it, the man's face was sung to the left while a few of his teeth were knocked out as well.

However, Ray's mother didnt stop there. Another punch landed on the man's gut as he crouched in the air and what followed after was a knee kick right at the man's face.

This caused the man's nose to crack and right after that, Ray's mother swung her other leg and did a round house kick that sent the man flying.

Even with so many consecutive attacks, she wasn't satisfied. She was out for blood and she would get it today. This was her goal and she wouldn't stop at anything. A white light descended form the sky as a solemn aura rose from her body and a body armor appeared over her body. The armor was pristine and seemed to be made up of the most unique jade that had been carved by the gods themselves.

Another light fell and a weapon manifested in front of her. The weapon was in the form of a halberd and was of the same material as the armor but the only difference was that it was pitch black.

Holding the halberd, Ray's mother smiled in a sinister manner as she spoke, "Let's get the party started,"