The Extra's Indifference

(Little bit disturbing chapter.)

My entire right arm was in the red slitted eyes of the mana beast, slowly melting because of the acidic blood of the sneak.

Well, I took out my arm from its eye and I jumped down from the beast's four-meter-high head.

I landed on the ground and fell into my butt. The condition of my body was worse than I thought, which was a bad thing as I was still waiting for the bigger threat.

Hence I took out a healing and blood potion, then drank them in 1 gulp. My internal bleeding caused by the tail strike of the mana beast stopped and my blood replenished finely.

Though the flesh of my arm was still melted. I needed to pour a healing potion to heal this injury and if I didn't heal it for a long time, then the healing potion too wouldn't work and I would need a proper healer.

However, I still didn't pour the healing potion on my melted flesh as there was no need for me to look good, in this forbidden zone.

What would I do with my beauty in this place? Seduce a snake? It would be so hilarious that even I would smile at it.

And it was just an arm, it wasn't like my face melted like Aria's. The lower part of her face melted, making it impossible to discern her lips from her flesh, while her body wasn't different than this.

Well, being ugly like this would lower her morale as normal people care about their looks and Aria was someone who likes to take care of herself to show her charm to me even if she knew that I didn't even care about her beauty.

So, I went to her side as she was laying on the ground, watching the sky with empty eyes, and crouched on her side.

"Good job, my dear Aria. Continue to be like this." I said softly and poured the healing potion on the melted parts of her body.

The healing potion did its magic as her melted flesh returned to its beautiful, rosy self. Leaving behind just the old melted skin on her new skin and flesh that I needed to peel it.

After peeling these skins on her naked body, I held her hand and helped her to get up on her feet.

She was looking at me with tired eyes. It was apparent that she didn't want to deal with a much stronger for than this snake. Though there was some hidden expectancy in her eyes.

Well, the morale of the soldier was the most important thing, hence I decided to reward her lightly.

I pulled her into my arms and pushed her head into my chest, enveloping her petite body with my strong arms.

Then I patted her head lightly and squeezed one of her ass cheeks, massaging it gently, stimulating her desire for me to fuel her fighting spirit.

Its effect was lesser than I thought it would be, as all I could feel was her slightly stronger heartbeat instead of the usual haggard breathing and high body temperature.

'Did she get used to my touch or did the life and death station reduce her desire?' I thought and let Aria go from my embrace.

After that, I took a look at Aria and saw that she was looking at my right arm with a little bit of sadness in her blue eyes.

"Aren't you going to heal it?" She asked and pointed to my arm.

"There is no need to waste healing potion on it."

"I see." Aria nodded with understanding and turned to Amelia, who was still hiding behind a tree and watching us.

"Then can't you use her to heal it?"

"With the [Bloody Healing]?"

Aria just nodded at my question without saying anything more than this.

"Well, there is no need. I will use her if my life is in danger, but it is not worth healing just my arm." I whispered into her ear.

After that, I took out some clothes for Aria as she was naked because her clothes too melted like her flesh and helped her to wear them.

She didn't need my help and I wasn't actively helping her either. I have just helped her to sensually touch her body to encourage her more. Though I didn't know if she got the encouragement I wanted, I knew that her body was excited from the juices that smeared on my hand when I helped her to wear panties.

Anyway, after helping Aria, I turned to the snake, which seemed to be smaller than before.

"Did this thing shrink or did I get affected by a mind or illusion magic?" I asked to Aria for confirmation. Which she just nodded and answered with 'Yes.'

I went near to this mana beast and touched its head, sending my mana and aura inside of it.

There I understood that this mana beast wasn't strong like this before. It was weak, incomparable to its current self but something or someone boosted its strength, making it about to evolve into a mana monster from the mana beast.

Before we attacked, the creature's strength was unstable. As a result of our attack, it unleashed its unstable powers and ultimately shrank in size after its death.

'It will be better to harvest its core before all of its borrowed powers go out from its body.' I thought and stabbed my knife into its 3rd eye, opening its head from the middle.

The mana cores of mana fiends may even be located in their feet, but if they possess a third eye like this snake, it is likely connected to their brain or third eye.

And it was there as I thought. When I plunged my arm into its eye and searched through its sludgy inside, I found a sphere bigger than human head.

I took this out and was about to inspect it.

"Roaaaaar!"

But I heard a roar that was filled with killing intent. The bigger threat that I was waiting for came at last.