“Flora! Help me!” Boko’s voice sounded distant as he was finally drowned out by the water tornadoes. He was using all of his mana to keep himself steady and could not spare any strength on other spells, so he could only yell as best as he could.
“Help! Help me now!”
Flora heard him. She revealed a cunning grin around the corner of her lips.
“As I said, it’s not polite to call a lady like that.”
“Lady! Lady Flora! Help!”
“Hello? What’s that? I—can’t—hear—you!”
Of course, Flora was adept at spells that transferred people’s voice.
Boko became panicked, “I said help! Help me! Quickly!”
“Oh, you want me to help? I thought you came here because you’re confident. So you went in there by mistake? Aw, poor guy,” Flora commented nonchalantly, which made Boko furious.
He had to bear with it now!
He struggled to dodge another rupture but his cape was torn to shards.
“Yes! I came by mistake and is trapped now! Save me! Please! I beg of you!” Boko was never someone who knew pride or ego, so he could ask for help while totally ignoring his image.
Flora had enough fun with her jokes and she said, “That’s no problem. But you know, equivalent exchange? I can save your life, and you gotta pay a good price for it.”
“My life does not have much value!” said Boko. He was serious about that as he said, “A hundred magic crystals?”
“Psh. Seriously?” Flora stood in the air with her umbrella above her head and looked down at Boko.
“Um,” Boko realized his price was too pathetic. He hesitated before saying, “Two hundred?”
Flora only smiled.
“Three—no, five hundred!” Boko showed a painful look on his tree bark face.
Flora heard about how ‘Dryad’ Boko was a mean bastard before but she never cared much about it. Now, she was not expecting that she actually met a wizard who was SO stingy.
Seeing how Flora was not reacting at all, Boko could not help getting flustered. He asked, “What do you want then? Like I said, my life isn’t worth anything!”
Flora chuckled. “Give me all the Fragments of Eternity you just gathered, and we have a deal.”
“What?! No! I risked my life for them!”
“You won’t have a life soon,” said Flora. She showed a sympathetic look as she said, “You want to use those fragments as your grave fodder? Huh. That’s new.”
Those words made Boko struggle in his mind.
Still, like a miser, he felt extremely reluctant about giving his Fragments of Eternity to someone else.
Flora did not say anything. She just watched as Boko grappled with Death face to face.
“I’ll give you one drop!” Boko’s expression was hard to watch.
No response from Flora. The space rupture turned bigger.
“Two drops? Three!” Boko was almost crying.
Flora gave him a cold look.
As Boko squeezed “eighty percent for you, four drops for me” between his teeth, Flora still kept her sweet smile without speaking anything.
“Good. Eighty percent, in exchange for your life,” A raucous male voice reached Boko’s eardrums.
Flora looked at the newcomer and curled her lips. “Aww teacher. He was going to give me all of them, why do you interrupt?”
It was Sunders. He whispered to Flora, “I have sensed Lady Danae’s aura. She’s trying to locate here from afar.”
If Lady Danae was here, they would not get a single drop of the fragments, let alone eighty percent. That was why Sunders chose such timing to show up.