Upon getting in, the twins rushed through the streets while yelling out at the top of their lungs about the mercenaries coming to attack their village. And even though they were precise in their words, confusion lingered in the air still lingered for a while since nobody knew whether to believe them simply by their words.
"Human mercenaries are coming!" Storming into Laura's house the twins yelled out hysterically.
"What?!" Laura yelped, startled by their sudden appearance.
"The mercenary groups that attacked us found our village!" Moving closer to their party leader, the twins pulled her out of her seat on the sofa. "Damien distracted them so we could get in to warn everyone else! We need to go help him!"
With their voices in perfect sync, they grabbed Laura's body and shook her violently by the shoulders. Watching all of this unfold, Rose and the rest were confused beyond all reason. And while it was clear that something had gone wrong, the added hysteria and hastened tone in the twin's voice, made it a lot harder to dissect things properly.
"We've warned the elders and the guards, but we need to help get Damien out our-"
"Garden of illusion: Pheromones of sanguinity," moving closer to the twins, Moriyana put them under a spell to soothe their minds and nerves.
Like marionettes with cut-off strings, their shoulders fell to the sides, and the tenseness on their faces quickly subsided as well. Surprising Laura, Moriyana held her by the arms before pulling her away from the twins.
"What did you do?" Looking in shock at the twins with their mouths drooling like mindless zombies, Laura had no clue what Moriyana had just done to them.
"Give me a second," placing her fingers on Alicia's head, Moriyana quickly scanned through her recent memories and saw exactly why they were freaking out so much.
'She hasn't told anyone that the priest was talking about finding demons, that's good.' Retreating her hand away from the twins, Moriyana snapped her fingers to snap them out of her spell.
"Wha-" Unfortunately, given the disparity in her level and theirs', the twin fell unconscious to the ground the moment they got back to their senses.
'Shit…' Thought Moriyana.
"What happened?!" Getting to her knees, Laura quickly began checking the twin's vitals to make sure they were okay.
In the meantime, Moriyana moved her hand behind her back to relay what she'd seen to her companions. Using a bubble of text made of illusionary mist, she relayed what she'd seen in the twin's memories, however, only Rose and Margarette were able to pick up what the words meant, and the demi-cat duo was left wondering what was happening.
'I really need to learn how to read human text.' Thought Athena, a bit bothered by her insufficiency at this point.
Elevating the situation further, the sounds of screams came gushing in through the open door. With no doubts in their minds, everyone knew that the attack from the mercenaries had already begun.
"Well…" Taking a deep breath Rose made her way towards the front door. "I guess I should make up for scaring your village friends."
Sprouting her wings back up by the door, she glanced back at the others with a weak smile. Moriyana took a step forward to follow her as well, and seeing them both trying to head out to take care of the mercenaries, Margarette walked past Laura and headed to the exit as well.
"Make sure they remember this Laura," being a lifelong diplomat, Margarette couldn't let this opportunity go to waste. "Also you should take Athena and Alice with you and lead injured people away so they can heal them."
With how casually their group was treating this attack, Laura stared at them in both awe and absolute astoundment. After all, how could three beautiful women, of which only one appeared to have any experience in battle, were supposed to fight an army of bloodthirsty mercenaries.
'Why the hell is this even happening?' She thought, still having no clue that the people she was idolizing were the very reason the mercenaries had decided to attack.
Flying out Rose with her wings spread wide open, Rose led the charge for their counterattack. Margarette and Moriyana on the other hand, had to jump off the tree branch since they couldn't out themselves as demons. Once down on the ground, they looked around to find a scatter of mercenaries chasing the elves with all kinds of sharp and blunt weapons.
Assuming that the elves were complacent with the demons, they showed none of them any mercy and brought weapons down on the fleeing elves' bodies. All of a sudden, however, while following one such mercenary with their gaze, they saw a volley of arrows rain down upon the mercenaries.
"The guards," Moriyana mumbled, watching the guards marching forward to engage with the enemy.
"The mercenaries…they're everywhere. We should help the guards!" Margarette exclaimed and then followed by her words, both of them flung themselves toward the enemies.
While the two went to help the guards deal with one horde of brutes, Rose floated above the village scanning through the numbers. Quickly figuring out the approximate number of enemies, she drew a deep breath and blew small ambers before infusing them with her magic. Being in an open space, she couldn't risk using her flames and burning down the village. And so she had decided to create flaming dragon hatchling familiars that would attach themselves to the mercenaries and then burst their bodies into flames.
'This is tiresome…' Restricting herself because of her strength, she was forced to watch the slaughter of elves. Depending on the element of surprise, she had no choice but to burn them all in one go or else they'd be more cautious about the hatchlings.
"Wait…Who is that?" Catching her attention from the edge of her eyes, Rose saw a bloodied elf covered in mud crawling through the village's entrance.
'Is that guy the twins were talking about? Damien?' She thought, but reality was a lot more sinister.
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