Chapter 475 The duke’s visit (16)
Once they started casting spells, it made it a bit easier to identify them.
After all, the magic that they cast…was very similar to the magic that Moon and her elves were using.
It was clear that the other side was either composed of elves or they were related to the elves in some way.
But these spells didn't do anything to Cecilia and Moon's group.
The arrows and swords that they used were made of mithril, which was very sensitive to magic. Not only was it easy to infuse magic into mithril, mithril could also be used to cut right through magic energy.
So they were able to easily dispel all of the spells thrown at them while still putting pressure on the cloaked figures.
The cloaked figures saw that their spells weren't working, so they did the only thing that they could do. They turned around and wanted to run away, but they found that a few of the knights had already circled around and cut them off.
They were completely pinched in here.
When a beast was cornered…they didn't hold back. When a beast was cornered, that was when they were their most terrifying.
Seeing that they had no way out, the cloaked figures looked at each other before seemingly coming to a consensus.
They knew that unless they did something drastic, they wouldn't be able to escape…so they pulled out a scroll.
As soon as this scroll was pulled out, Moon immediately said, "Stop them! That's a fireball scroll! It contains an A Rank Fireball Spell!"
Cecilia narrowed her eyes as soon as she heard this before shouting, "Cover me!"
Then without hesitation, she charged at the cloaked figure that had pulled out this scroll.
The cloaked figure moved back while the other cloaked figures came forward to protect them. They threw all kinds of spells as Cecilia, not caring that they were being attacked from the other sides.
However, not a single one of these spells reached her as arrows flew right past her to scatter all of these spells.
All of these arrows came from a single elf, Moon.
She had given up on protecting herself and focused only on covering Cecilia.
She was able to scatter all of these spells, but there were some that came for her.
The elves around her tried their best, but there was one that caught her arm and knocked her back a bit.
Even then, Moon didn't fall down as she looked at Cecilia with gritted teeth and said, "Do it!"
Cecilia didn't look back once as she put her faith in Moon.
She was able to make it all the way to the cloaked figures and then to their surprise, she suddenly jumped. Before any of them could react, she landed on one of their heads and jumped at the cloaked figure that had run away.
That cloaked figure had almost finished injecting their magic energy into the scroll and was about to cast the spell when…
Cecilia suddenly fell down from the sky with her sword swinging down.
The cloaked figure wasn't able to react at all as the sword cut right through their arms, severing both of them while they were still holding the scroll up to use.
The faint glow around the scroll slowly faded as the two arms fell to the ground.
"Ah!"
A scream of pain rang out before that cloaked figure fell to the ground.
Cecilia quickly picked up the scroll and put it away, but that didn't mean that she was out of danger yet.
Because of her reckless charge to stop this scroll from being used, she was now deep in enemy territory and cut off from the rest of her group. There were some knights behind her who had gone around to stop these cloaked figures from running, but they were too far to help her.
The cloaked figures were only stunned for an instant before suddenly raising their hands to gather their magic energy.
They knew that the only thing that they could rely on was that magic scroll, so they did all that they could to get it back.
They didn't even care that there were a bunch of elves aiming arrows at them or a bunch of knights charging at them, they just focused all of their attacks on Cecilia.
Cecilia knew that she was in a very bad situation, but she couldn't let them get the scroll back.
So taking a deep breath, she braced herself.
It seemed that she was planning on taking all of these attacks head on and blocking them with her body…but there were just too many of them for her to deal with alone.
Before anyone could do anything, the cloaked figures had already finished gathering their mana and pointed their hands at her.
Before anyone could stop it, there were a bunch of spells shot at Cecilia.
All kinds of different spells, fire spells, ice spells, wind spells, earth spells, and everything else, were thrown at Cecilia.
This mass of mana was clearly not something that she could deal with alone.
But she didn't show any traces of fear as she raised her sword as if she was about to cut right through all of these spells shot at her.
The only other thing in her eyes was…a trace of regret.
She shouldn't have been so rash about this.
If she had calmed down, she might have thought of a different way to take care of the cloaked figure with the scroll instead of diving too deep like this.
But in the end, there was no cure for regret.
So all she could do was face these attacks that came her way.
However, before these attacks could reach her…there was a cloaked figure that suddenly appeared in front of her.
This was a different cloaked figure from the ones that were attacking her.
This one stood in front of her, as if they were protecting her.
This cloaked figure raised their arm and a bracelet was revealed that released a bright glow.
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