Observing the situation
Examining the things that were happening around
Examining the things that weren't happening
The conclusion
I need to find a path to run…
Winning is impossible
At least, without using any sacrificial moves.
Is… what I thought until…
"There are three things that the blue wolves are vulnerable against," the mechanical Angel began speaking as she looked at those monsters growling at her,"light magic and anything related to light. If you can use light magic, you have already won half the battle, no matter how powerful they are…
The second thing is Leraneti, a material only available on higher ground or at specific places. Typically, Leraneti is useful for fending off all kinds of monsters, no matter what type they are or how strong they are.
The final thing is the fire element. Although not as powerful as the light element, it is still considered to be one of the effective elements against the blue wolves."
She spoke before charging her sword with that strange energy again and said,"I don't have anymore Leraneti, stranger. So tell me before I keep my hopes up… can you use fire or light magic, or not?"
After her explanation, I recalculated everything all over again,'hmmm speed… shouldn't be a problem… about defence… I might need to leave that open and enhance my reflexes here… stamina will become a problem if the fight drags for too long so I need to finish it fast… as for the attack…'
My left and right eye color then changes to silverish white and purplish orange, respectively. Honestly, using multiple channels and overusing them to their limits while forcing them to channel magic that I generally don't use was putting a toll on me before the fight even began.
The lack of mana in the atmosphere forced me to use my own mana which I am getting from mana regeneration using the spirit magic, which somewhat limited my recovery, too. This situation… is kind of thrilling on its own…
An ecstatic grin forms on my face as my hands begin glowing red with fire and light magic, making the Angel narrow her eyes at me and the wolves take a step back.
Because of the light emitting from my hands, I could see the wolves pretty clearly now. They were blue all right, sharp fangs, deep red eyes, with a tinge of bloodlust oozing out from them. All right… They are strong monsters…
-Dash
I made the first move as I saw an opening among the wolves and…
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
I take out my Scythe, channel my mana into it before slashing those wolves with ease as if they were butter. Surprisingly, using light energy shifted the situation's difficulty level from impossible to hard…
'This is good,' I smile as I slash another one of those wolves.
With my super light fire spirit blood energy mana mode… I was kinda fast… fast enough to match the S class wolves around. The rest was a game of skills, as I needed to make sure to not get caught by the SS-classes and keep killing the S-class ones.
The SS-class ones needed to be separated and then brought down without any disturbance from the S-class ones.
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
I saw that mechanical Angel, hunting the wolves too, using her sword and speed. Seems like her strategy is the same as mine. I saw her swordsmanship for the first time and found out that it was quite simple without a touch of any skills.
She was just using her teleportation ability on top of utilizing the property of the material… what was it called again…ummm… yeah…. Leranati.
'Such a waste of a such a nice sword,' I thought as I observed her using the swo-
-Boom!!!
The SS-class wolf attacked me and I barely dodged it as I sighed… looks like I can't get distracted too much. After all, becoming puppy food wasn't on my to do list.
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
Since that SS-Class was already in my range, I kind of attacked it immediately since it had limited momentum after that attack. Though, I could only cut him using the scythe and not completely snap him into half… well, guess I expected too much from that vulnerability…
'At least, it is strong enough to….' I thought as I
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
Made multiple slashes and destroyed that SS-class puppy from all around in a single instance.
'Guess, it shouldn't take as long as I thought,' I thought as I saw the Angel killing the rest of the monsters at a rapid speed. In fact, at this point, the number of SS-class monsters was more than the number of S-class monsters.
I then got a little bit serious before sensing a certain danger that kind of creeped deep into the very bones of my body. Something is coming… and it's strong…
My eyes darted to that Angel, and she had the same look of urgency that I had. However, rather than running away, she started slashing the other monsters even faster and looking at her strange actions, I too started doing the same.
While it was risky, I left some small opening for the wolves to attack me as bait. They instinctively took the bait and attacked me…
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
Before getting slashed down into pieces by my scythe. Hmmm… one thing that confuses me is…
'Why are these monsters not using any ability? Is it that they can't use an ability… or they simply don't know how to manifest one?' Genuinely confused at their strange behaviour, I kind of ended up questioning the laws that actually governed this place.
'They are different from planet Vermillion's. I can see that all right… but how much? This is going to be painfully annoying, won't it?' I thought as I found that it wasn't as 'easy' as I thought this whole getting the fragment thing would be.
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
-Slash
I kept slashing each and every wolf as fast as I could and before I knew it all the monsters were dead in front of me and I saw that the Angel too was done with the wolves on her side. I observed her clean, spotless dress and couldn't help but admire her swiftness in dealing with the wolves.
'Despite the clear power difference, she could easily handle them with the given weapon… though her excellency in the usage of said weapon could be questioned. I guess, her skill proficiency is high enough to overshadow her lack of skills,' I thought before I saw her taking a glance at me before running in a certain direction and I, too, followed her.
Whatever the thing was that was coming at us, isn't good news and waiting for it to come would be equal to waiting for death.
Running during the night was surprisingly easier using light magic, in fact, it was even better than running during the day. I kept following that Angel for about an hour or so, before a certain cave appeared before us.
As I ran through the forest, I kept checking to see if it was following us, but luckily enough it did not follow us at all and left us for whatever reason it had. While it was good for us, this feeling felt alien to me.
As I entered the cave, I saw the Angel was still moving at the same speed and I, too, followed her. While it could have been a trap to follow her, I certainly don't have much choice in this matter, given how much I lack the common knowledge of this palace.
After following for another hour or so, we kind of reached a wide opening within the cave filled with the same material as the one that mechanical Angel was using… Larenati.
She stopped at a place where we could analyse most of the cave at once. I jumped and reached at a distance away from her and looked at her, wondering what would be her next move.
"You aren't from here, are you?" she asked again, and I sighed before answering,"yeah, I am not."
I saw her making a sudden smirk before she spoke,"how about we make a deal?"
Her expression was quite unreadable at this moment. While I could guess that it had something to do with the kid behind me, I thought it would be better to listen first than act.
"What kind of deal?" I asked with a curious expression and she immediately responded,"Help me with a small task and in return, I will help you overcome the language barrier."
At her words, I was a little stumped but still I curiously asked,"what kind of task?" She then smiled at me before speaking.
"Let's wait till tomorrow morning. I will need your help to kill a certain monster. As for the translator, here catch," she threw a tiny ring-like object that made me question whether I should trust this or not.
Though… I wore it anyway… if it creates a problem, let's deal with it later and also because curses never worked on me anyway, I was more or less relaxed in this situation.
"Mr… can you please put me down?" I heard the voice of the boy as soon as I wore the ring, only to look at the kid tied to my back.
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