Magical Journey: The Other Shore Blooms on the Other Shore

Just as Elena was about to fall completely, something firmly grasped her outstretched hand. Elena instinctively opened her eyes in disbelief.

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Qin's eyes were bloodshot. He held Elena tightly with one hand as she was about to fall, and gripped the broom handle with the other.

He exuded a terrifying aura—there was no magical fluctuation on his body, but in fact… he was struggling to control the out-of-control broom.

How did he do that?

He really does know magic...

But why does his magic feel so different?

Then, under the powerful flash of crimson light, the broom gradually calmed down and began to fall rapidly.

The two of them also fell from the sky at supersonic speed, like meteors.

Just as the two were about to crash heavily to the ground and smash to pieces, another powerful crimson light enveloped the surroundings from the center of Qin. Instantly, Elena and Qin's speed was reduced abruptly.

The scene I had imagined—of the car being smashed to pieces—did not occur.

Although it still hurt when she fell to the ground, it was this pain that made Elena realize that she was still alive.

Everything happened so fast that Elena barely had time to react.

"Jin?" Elena looked at Jin, whose eyes were glowing with blood-red light, and was a little unsure what had happened to him.

“Shut up—” Qin roared.

"Ugh..." Elena was so frightened that she covered her mouth and shut it up.

“I told you to shut up—” Qin roared.

I've already shut up, why are you yelling so loudly?

No, he wasn't talking to me.

"I told you to shut up—" Qin frantically swung his sword at himself, but to Elena's astonishment, his self-harm deeply shocked her.

Even so, every wound inflicted by his sword heals at an astonishing speed.

This is a monster...

Or……

"You die—" Qin said fiercely just before she was about to plunge her sword into his heart.

Seeing this, Elaina instinctively waved her wand to stop his suicidal act. She cast a spell to knock his sword away.

No one can accept someone committing suicide right in front of them.

It's one thing if they're complete strangers, but this is the person who just helped me survive.

However, Elena's magic had not yet recovered, and her spells failed to stop Jean from plunging the sword into his heart.

When the sword pierced through, Qin fell into a deep coma.

Blood flowed everywhere—red was everywhere, like a scene from hell.

The numbness hadn't subsided, and the pain in her body made Elena want to lie down and ignore everything, but she still struggled to drag her tired body to Qin's side.

"Don't die—" Elena had no idea what Qin was doing before, but now she guessed that it was a side effect of him casting this special magic.

That kind of blood-red magic—it looks like demonic magic.

Irena tried her best to use the little magic she had left to cast a healing spell.

But it had no effect; any magic injected into Qin's body was like water droplets falling into the ocean.

“His curse…” Elena said with a bitter smile.

He seems to be immune to almost any status magic applied to him.

It also means... that healing... wouldn't work for him either.

The feeling of exhaustion overwhelmed her brain, causing Elena to collapse into a deep sleep.

……

When Elena woke up again, she didn't know how many days had passed.

The first thing I felt when I woke up was that my mouth was dry and I desperately wanted to drink water.

She instinctively reached out to grab something, but instead grabbed a cup. Without thinking, she drank the water inside in one gulp. Whew… I'm alive again…

She opened her eyes groggily, her body still feeling so tired it didn't feel like her own.

The first thing you see is the silent zither standing there.

His eyes finally returned to normal... His once bloodshot eyes really looked like a demon crawling out of the abyss.

Actually, he was the one who handed me this glass of water.

He showed no signs of change, and if it weren't for the bloodstains still around him, Elena would have suspected that everything she saw before falling asleep was a dream.

"Are you alright?" Elena's voice was still a little hoarse. After all, she had been unconscious for so long.

"Thanks to you, I'm still alive." Qin's voice was as indifferent as ever.

It sounds like you want to die.

No, he really wanted to die...

But because Elena stopped him by waving her wand, although the sword still went in, it missed his heart by a few centimeters and did not hit it directly.

Although it caused Qin to fall into a coma, these injuries spontaneously healed because his body had been modified by human experiments during his childhood.

Therefore, he woke up earlier than Elena.

“Thank you…” Elena said.

"You're welcome."

Even in that situation, saving Elena was also saving Qin, since the Yin-Yang Sphere would explode if separated by ten meters, and if Elena wasn't saved, Qin herself would die anyway.

But being rescued is being rescued... that fact remains unchanged.

Moreover, the cost seems to be quite high.

Recalling Jean's manic behavior, Elena's previous complaints about Jean not using magic sooner vanished.

His decision to use magic must have been a difficult one. Who can say what the consequences would be? In that critical moment, he seemed to have made the best possible choice.

The devil's magic...

How did humans learn demonic magic?

But now is not the time to dwell on this issue; let's save it for another time.

Elena touched her now much shorter gray hair and sighed. "I spent so long growing this hair back... Oh well, hair can grow back, but I almost lost my life."

After a short rest, the two prepared to continue their journey. After all, they were in the middle of nowhere, so they decided to find a more established town to rest in.

“The broom is broken…” Just as Elena was about to activate the magic broom, she discovered that the broom had a crack.

It's still usable, but there's a real risk that it might become completely unusable.

Moreover, she was still a little scared and dared not fly at high altitudes, especially with a broken broom.

Then I'll have to walk and find a magic shop to properly repair my broom.

This broom is the one I used when I passed the apprentice witch exam; I've grown attached to it.

Moreover, when I have nothing to do, I often turn the broom into a person and chat with it. You could say that the broom is one of the most important keepsakes in my life.

To survive that disaster along with a broom is nothing short of lucky.

After putting away the broom, Elena straightened her slightly askew triangular hat: "Let's go."

The two continued their journey.

Just as the two were walking further and further apart, a little girl who looked like a magician slowly walked out from the plain that had been stained red by Qin's blood.

In fact, upon closer inspection, it becomes clear that she is not a person at all, but a doll, which is made to be exceptionally realistic, so realistic that even up close one would think she is a real person.

Only magic can reveal her true nature.

After all, it has no heartbeat.

She reached out and touched the dried bloodstains, then smelled them and gave a human-like smile.

"It's even more amazing than I imagined... Jean, don't disappoint me." The doll chuckled, watching the two leave. Of course, none of this was noticed by Elena and Jean.