With the five of them moving out to our ambushers, I used the freed time to check their identities.
The attacks they directed at us didn't contain any hint of Dark Energy.
And that only means one thing. The people who ambushed us right after coming out of the Portal were natives.
However, even if I realized that, there's no stopping the girls anymore. Their skills, abilities and Pillar Guardians were already moving
"W-what happened? Why are they this strong?!"
Someone shouted from behind the encirclement. Just from his tone, he couldn't believe that their well-timed ambush attacks were thwarted easily.
Seeing how the girls effortlessly turned the situation around, those at the forefront panicked and staggered backward. Some even stumbled and lost their balance, dropping down on the ground.
However, no matter what they do, Fleur's Elemental Spell which produced sharp Water Blades cut through them easily. Some lost their limbs while some got cut cleanly in half.
At the horror of being chopped like vegetables in a chopping board, the crowd of ambushers clad in blue robes while their faces were obscured scattered easily, showing a large flying ship filled with another group, wearing red robes.
If the blue-robed ambushers had the strength of late Rank 3 to early Rank 4 Mortals, the red-robed figures standing neatly at the flying ship had the strength of late Rank 4 to early Rank 5 Mortals.
Following that scene at Fleur's side, the side where Avelin, Zerina, Leianne and Dannae attacked also had the same result. They scattered like birds being disturbed at the top of the tree, each side revealing the same flying ship carrying those red-robed figures.
There's no Transcendent among them, however, their joint spells showed that it could trigger a yellow warning sign from my Adaptability. That's not green but a yellow one. Surely, it was enough to kill a Rank 1 Transcendent if he was hit by their joint spells.
Looking at the red-robed figures atop those flying ships and the scattered blue-robed figures that were wielding a wand or magical staff, they probably have a great Output Enhancing Equipment as well as Spells that could only be cast by a group.
If I recall correctly, the denizens of this world called those walking their Mortal Pathways as Wizards. Supreme Wizard corresponded to a Transcendent and those below had also their own titles like Grandmaster Wizard for Rank 5 Transcendents.
About these color-coded robes that they were wearing or which organization they belonged to, I have no idea.
Since only those blue-robed ambushers at the front scattered after a huge chunk of them died, the red-robed figures atop the flying ships started channeling their Magical Energy to cast another Spell.
The Source Energy of this world is an Elemental-type. Although there's no distinction that categorized different elements, the Magical Energy was transforming itself according to the Spellcaster.
Unbeknownst to them, my Energy Manipulation was already working, covertly restricting the movements of the Magical Energy surrounding this place. To complete that joint Spell they were trying to cast, they needed to pour more of their own Energy to complete it.
"Daisuke, what should we do?" Fleur glanced at me after that counter-attack of hers. At the moment, the Water Elemental Energy could clearly be seen like a stream flowing around her. That's the manifestation of her Transcendent Pathway.
Of course, like me, she also recognized that these ambushers were natives and not the Dark World denizens we're aiming to cut down.
Although there was some kind of reluctance glowing in her eyes, she knew that given the circumstances where they're trying to kill us, we shouldn't hesitate to protect ourselves.
Who knows? Perhaps, they mistook that Portal as a Dark World Portal wherein a Dark World Transcendent would be descending.
Nonetheless, we also couldn't cross out the possibility that these natives already sided to the Dark World like the Noxians and sensing the opened Portal, they organized this group to prevent us from foiling their plans.
We didn't contact Hiroda before coming here or rather I didn't have the means to contact him. On the same note, we didn't have any avenue to send a notice of our arrival.
"They attacked us with the intention to kill... Kill first, questions later." My eyes meet her gaze before answering while raising the volume of my voice to let them hear it as well.
Upon hearing that, the five women had a slight smile on their lips as they all released their Transcendent Aura, subjecting everyone within their range to the pressure of a Transcendent.
Moreover, Leianne and Fleur opened up their respective Domain. Because their Domain could now be categorized as containing the same Water Elemental Energy, the two Domains melded and merged together, raising the effects of their Domains to a new height.
While waves were crashing outwards from the center of the Domain, those inside the range of the Domain were gradually freezing from their feet up by how cold the water was.
The Mortal Rank Elementals and Luxians who arrived with us gripped their weapons tightly while those with Support Elemental Spells started casting.
In a battle that involved Transcendents, Mortal Ranks like them were all grass that could be reaped easily.
"They're all Transcendents! Retreat!"
Interrupting the spell casting of those red-robed figures, that shout rang out followed by white-robed figures jumping out from the interior of the four flying ships.
The four white-robed figures were all Rank 1 Transcendents and compared to the blue and red-robed figures, their faces weren't obscured.
As my eyes scanned through them, all four were native Transcendents.
"Kill them."
And after the four appeared, one more Transcendent in a golden robe flew up high and hovered above us. With that cold voice without any intention to converse to us, his pair of eyes that was filled with overflowing arrogance and confidence cast its gaze onto Fleur.
Although it's hard to gauge his strength, the golden-robed Transcendent wasn't a Rank 2.
These guys were being full of themselves.
They probably hadn't encountered a Rank 2 Transcendent yet.
Let's give them a proper lesson then.
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