Catalina, who was quietly performing her weakening duties, fell into an extremely frenzied mood after the attacker appeared.
Annan didn't think it was to protect himself.
"Your sword!"
The heaviness in his hands reminded Annan that he was still holding a long sword, and he shouted at Katarina's back. Then, he saw Katarina bite off the palm of her hand and pull out a piece of ulna bone from the flesh, with blood on it.
Fog and Growling rushed towards the leader of the attackers - a warrior who emerged from the bushes, holding a heavy sword and wearing plate armor.
Annan understood where Katalina's injury came from.
"Protect Mr. Annan!" Francois did not forget to deepen Annan's impression of him.
Della seemed to blend into the shadows, standing nearby, but Annan subconsciously ignored her existence.
clang--
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 when the attacker appeared and harassed the enemy through the intricate trees. However, because he had to keep an eye on the archers in the woods, he was unable to cause effective damage.
It was Della who really brought death to the enemy. She jumped out from the unknown shadows, cut off the attacker's throat with an unknown grace, and then hid in the shadows undetectably, hiding in the bushes and even the attackers.
They dodged between the shadows and approached the next target so fast that they didn't even have time to say, "Oh my god, I was killed."
"Knight, protect me!"
Michael suddenly shouted loudly, released a shield spell for himself, and prepared to cast a fireball spell.
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 disappeared in a flash.
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 instead grabbed a dagger and stabbed Michael.
When the despicable sneak attack was about to succeed, Michael pretended to chant and 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 could pounce 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, but before Annan could react, Della emerged from his shadow and pushed him down.
The strong wind roared overhead, and the throwing 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, and 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 rush 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. However, the blue halo of the shield technique released spontaneously by the magic robe blocked the blazing heat.
Hearing the painful groan of Della who was pressing on him, Annan turned over to protect her underneath.
When the heat wave dissipated, Annan, who was still in shock, looked at the beautiful elf who almost killed him: "Are you in the same group with them?"
Without the magic robe, Annan would have been roasted into jerky.
But female elves will be even worse.
"Not yet."
Annan's neck tightened, and Klein lifted the two guys who were talking together with one hand. 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 the torn limbs. They were carbonized by high temperature before scattering, forming a radiating scatter around the surrounding area.
of black carbon fragments.
Later, 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. Moreover, the fireball spell was only a low-level spell...
"There are no archers!"
Francois's voice came from the woods now.
The pressure faced by everyone decreased suddenly, and there were not many attackers left, and they even prepared 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 Catalina, 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 attacker's leader's plate armor, bounced, and flew back along the same path -
clang--
The rebounding ax left a scratch on the armor connecting Klein's shoulders.
Facing Annan's surprise, a muffled 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 leader of the attackers from reacting in time. Katarina's long sword pierced the armor at the throat and pushed him to the tree trunk.
"You are stealing my prey." Catalina gasped and stared at Klein coldly.
"You didn't say you were a fanatic."
"Then are you going to arrest me now like a trial court?"
"It doesn't matter, you are a companion anyway."
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 came here with us..." 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..."
"Keep alive!"
Michael shouted as he realized something.
Catalina did not pursue him. She dragged the seriously injured body to carry the body, placed the body in a prayer posture, and performed a blood sacrifice ceremony.
Although it is evil to desecrate corpses, those who want to attack them do not deserve sympathy.
Michael and the others stayed away, and then returned the magic ring that Annan lent him. 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.
"Thanks."
Annan took Dela's handkerchief and wiped his cheek, smelling the fragrance of forest, soil and flowers.
"We are really awesome." Annan couldn't help but sigh.
