Chapter 79 78. Fierce Battle
Kadarina, who was just quietly performing her weakening duties, fell into an extremely fanatical mood after the attacker appeared.
Annan does not think it is to protect himself.
“Your sword!”
The heavy weight in his hand reminded Annan that he was still holding a long sword, and he shouted towards Katarina’s back. Then, he saw Catalina bite off the palm of her hand, pull out an ulna bone from the flesh, and rush towards the leader of the attackers with a blood mist and a low roar - a man emerged from the bushes, holding a heavy sword and wearing a A warrior in plate armor.
Annan understood where Katalina's injury came from.
"Protect Mr. Annan!" Francois did not forget to deepen Annan's impression of him.
Dela seemed to blend into the shadows, standing nearby, but Annan subconsciously ignored her existence.
Dang——
The buzzing in his ears brought Annan back to his senses. Klein, who raised his steel shield, blocked an arrow aimed at Annan.
Katarina took over from Klein to block the leader of the attackers. Because she had no protection, she was covered in bruises, but she grabbed the bone spurs and swung them with increasing enthusiasm. This made the leader, who was covered in her blood, even shrink back in fear, as if he was the one who was seriously injured and on the verge of death.
Francois rushed out of the clearing as soon as the attacker appeared, using the intricate trees to harass the enemy. But because he had to keep an eye on the archers in the woods, he was unable to cause effective damage.
The one who really brought death to the enemy was Della. She jumped out of the unknown shadows, cut off the attacker's throat with an unknown grace, and then hid in the shadows without being noticed, dodging between bushes and even the attacker's shadow, getting close to the next target with speed. So fast that they didn't even have time to say, "Oh my God, I was killed."
"Knight, protect me!"
Michael suddenly shouted loudly, releasing a shield for himself and preparing to cast a fireball.
Klein moved closer to Michael, but still stood in front of Annan.
Two arrows shot at Michael one after another from the trees outside the clearing, and were blocked by the flashing blue shield. Then two screams came from the direction where the arrows came from.
Dela's shadow flashed away.
The threat posed by ranged enemies is significantly reduced.
Michael continued to maintain the posture of casting spells, which caused the attacking assassin to suddenly jump out from the shadow of the dwarf giant's body, and gave up attacking Annan, but grabbed a dagger and stabbed Michael.
When the despicable sneak attack was about to succeed, Michael, who was pretending to chant, waved the staff equipped with a horn——
As we all know, the staff is longer than the dagger.
"He's cheating! Charge forward!"
The leader of the attacker blocked the attack of the mad woman in front of him, kicked her away, and commanded his men before she pounced on her.
Seven or eight figures suddenly rushed out of the swaying forest shrubs, and rushed towards Annan and others in the center of the clearing.
"Lower your head!"
Klein suddenly shouted. Before Annan could react, Della emerged from his shadow and pushed him down.
The wind howled overhead, and the ax thrown by Klein chopped off the right leg of the enemy who rushed in front of him. The unbalanced attacker hit Annan right in front of him.
The face showed wild and ferocious ecstasy, and he rushed towards Annan. Then Klein's shield fell on his back like a rock, and the squeezed blood sprayed from his mouth and nose all over Annan's face.
Klein picked up the shield. As soon as Annan got up, he saw a terrifying fireball two or three feet in diameter coming towards him.
Annan, who was about to pounce to the side, was pulled back by Della and pushed him down again.
“Get down.”
Klein, who was blocking the front, put up a stainless steel shield, and the fireball that hit the shield exploded.
The terrifying heat wave escaped at the edge. Annan and Della, who were lying on the ground, were not spared, but the blue halo of the shield technique spontaneously released by the magic robe blocked the blazing heat.
The pain of Della who was pressing on him sounded in his ears, and Annan turned over to protect her underneath.
When the heat wave dissipated, the frightened Annan looked at the beautiful elf who almost killed him: "Are you in the same group with them?"
Without the magic robe, Annan might have been roasted into dried meat.
But female elves will be even worse.
“Not yet.” Annan’s neck tightened, and Klein lifted the two guys who were talking together one by one. At the same time, Michael shouted:
"This is a return gift!"
Two fireballs were shot out at the same time. One returned the same way, and the other exploded towards the attacker——
This time Annan clearly saw the effect of the fireball spell on the flesh and blood body: the fireball exploded after touching the target, and the same result was also The torn limbs were carbonized by high temperature before they were scattered, forming a scattered black carbon fragments radiating around them.
Subsequently, Annan saw the mottled lines on Klein's stainless steel shield caused by high temperature melting.
Annan found that he seemed to have underestimated the power of the spell. And fireball is only a low-level spell...
"There are no archers!"
Francois's voice came from the woods at this moment.
The pressure faced by everyone decreased suddenly, and there were not many attackers left, and they were even ready to flee.
Klein, who had been taking the damage, straightened up his tall body, grabbed the stainless steel shield, picked up the ax, and approached the shaky but increasingly crazy Katarina.
Annan thought that Katarina, who had lost her mind, would attack Klein, but she just yelled: "Back off!"
It was impossible for Klein to watch Catalina bleed out and die here. He raised his hand ax and threw it at the leader of the attackers.
The rotating hand ax hit the plate armor of the attacker leader, bounced, and flew back the same way——
Clang——
The bouncing ax hit the target There was a scratch on the armor connecting Rhine's shoulders.
Faced with Annan's surprise, a dull mutter of shame and annoyance came from the armor: "Why should I use the hand ax I bought on others?"
Klein's assist still worked. The throwing ax prevented the attacker leader from reacting in time. Katarina's long sword pierced the armor at the throat and pushed it to the tree trunk.
“You are stealing my prey.” Catalina gasped and stared at Klein coldly.
“You didn’t say you were a fanatic believer.”
“Then you want to arrest me now like a trial?”
“It doesn’t matter, you are anyway Companion.”
Klein lowered his head to pick up the hand axe, and Katarina's one eye gradually softened.
Once the leader of the attackers died, the few remaining attackers began to flee.
"These hyenas followed us here..." Michael frowned and said.
Francois was about to catch up with the attackers and eliminate them completely. Annan suddenly remembered the ecstatic expressions of the attackers: "They are not hyenas..."
"Leave them alive!"
Michael shouted as he realized something.
Kadarina did not give chase. She dragged the seriously injured body to carry the corpse, placed the corpse in a prayer posture, and performed a blood sacrifice ceremony.
While desecration of corpses is evil, those who would attack them deserve no sympathy.
Michael and the others stayed away, and then returned the magic ring lent to him by Annan. They found that the boy's face was covered in blood, and he took out a handkerchief.
But Dela also handed over a handkerchief at this time.
"I blew my nose this morning," Michael said, taking back the handkerchief.
"Thank you."
Annan took Dela's handkerchief, wiped her cheeks, and smelled the fragrance of forest, soil and flowers.
“We are really awesome.” Annan couldn’t help but sigh.
(End of this chapter)