Chapter 99: Battle in the Forest of the World Tree 3
「The experience from the Arachne is definitely equal to 5 orcs.」
After calculating the experience points, we nodded to each other.
Ah ah——in other words, comparing with the Elite Orcs, their power is slightly…… weaker.
Hmm, because we have already become too strong, I can no longer remember the strength of the Elite Orc. And just yesterday, it was still a terrifying enemy.
Lucia: Level 11 Fire Magic 5→6 Skill Point 7→1
Lucia pressed the enter key with her snow-white finger stiffly.
We left the white room.
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With the Fire Elemental protecting Tamaki’s back, they began to create chaos within the Arachne group with just a person and a familiar.
Even the advantage of the battlefield is with Tamaki. On the narrow bridge, there can only be 1 enemy attacking on each side respectively.
As the lower body of the Arachnes are like a spider, so their bodies are wider than a human’s. Because of that, there are signs of congestion in the place where over 20 enemies have appeared.
Good, as long as this continues…...
「So easy!」
Tamaki cried out. Oi, that kind of action is called a death flag.
I don’t know if it was because of the flag she set, or the timing is just right. The Arachnes suddenly retreated and began heading back.
「Huh, what?」
Just as Tamaki was feeling abit troubled——
The Arachnes who were scattered around the bridge, shoot out webs together.
What they shot out, is not the type which has sticky properties and scatters over a wide area, but the long and tough types. These pa.s.sed overhead of Tamaki and stuck onto the tree on the opposite side.
Then the Arachnes jumped together, and using the web as a rope, they began to jump around steadily as though they are on strings. With their figures, some jumped from 10m away while some jumped from over 20m away, towards Tamaki from all directions.
This is…… bad.
「Mia, 《Reverse Gravity》! Lucia use your attacks!」
「Nnn, 《Reverse Gravity》」
「《Firestorm》」
Mia used Rank 7 Wind Magic《Reverse Gravity》, removing the gravity around Tamaki. While Tamaki used the power of 《Fly》 to turn around and grabbed onto the handles on the bridge with her left hand.
Considering the power of gravity, the Arachne jumped diagonally, thinking of pa.s.sing over the target—— Tamaki.
At this time, Lucia’s Rank 6 Fire Magic 《Firestorm》 a.s.saulted over there.
The violent flames torched the web, causing the bodies of the Arachnes to burn. In pain, they could only fly pa.s.s Tamaki and rammed the opposite tree hard.
And finally dropping powerlessly below.
Those that fell, it is a total of 4, 5…… 6. Those fellows had crashed suddenly onto the group and breathed their last, turning into blue gems. The last 3 are still stubbornly sticking onto the tree.
「《Lightning Arrow》」
「《Fire Arrow》」
Mia and Lucia used the lightning arrow and fire arrows, and each of them stuck onto the Arachnes that stuck stubbornly. With these lethal attacks, the Arachnes fell down, obtaining the same ending as their friends.
Tamaki returned to the bridge.
「Woahh—— that scared me to death——!」
「Sorry, Tamaki.」
「No, I was saved. Good judgement, Kazu-san!」
Only 10 odd Arachnes are left, and those are also so scared until they have started retreating.
Taking the chance—— we rushed to Tamaki&rsqu
o;s side. Even though her clothes are abit burnt, but Tamaki still received me with a brilliant smile.
「We did it!」
「Thanks to you. But the enemy have yet…...」
「They are coming.」
Arisu screamed out loudly. I followed her line of sight, happening to see 2 Arachnes in green long robes coming out from a treehole. These 2 monsters pointed towards Tamaki.
「Huh? St...strange…...」
Tamaki’s eyes turned hollow, and her hands relaxes, dropping the white sword on the bridge.
「Tamaki!」
Not only that, her body began to shake, nearly falling down from the bridge on the trees. Arisu rushed over, barely managing to catch Tamaki’s body.
But the effect of 《Fly》 should still be effective on Tamaki, even if she fell, she will be fine.
No….. perhaps it will not be like that, maybe she don’t even have the power to fly.
Just now that was…… I glared at the Arachnes in the green long robes.
「It’s magic! Arisu, use 《Cure Mind》 on Tamaki! Mia, Lucia, attack those Ma…...」
Before I could finish my instructions, Mia and Lucia called out「《Lightning Arrow》」and「《Firestorm》」respectively, and shooting their attack magic.
But the Arachne Mages reached out with both their hands at the same time, and a rainbow membrane appeared before them.
Huh? That —— chills went down my spine.
「s.h.i.t, that is the enemy’s 《Reflection》 .」
I immediately went in front of everyone.
《Lightning Arrow》 and 《Firestorm》 was repelled before the Arachne Mages’ hands, and came back towards us.
If that is so, then I will do that too!
「《Reflection》」
Because of the rainbow barrier that I made, the 《Lightning Arrow》 that Mia released, is reflected back again.
Even if I have the barrier, I can’t guard against the 《Firestorm》, so I can only take it directly…...
Luckily there is the effect of 《Resist Element: Fire》, so I only burnt my hair abit.
The lightning arrows that were reflected twice, attacked the Arachne Mages, and this time, they seemed to be unable to reflect it. The 2 Arachne Mages were pierced by the arrows. They twitched their bodies, crying out in anguish.
That was too close!
Then again, I didn’t expect that monsters can use《Reflection》 too…...
Before that, the reason why Tamaki was dazed, was indeed due to the effect of some magic. Anyway it feels like the symptom is similar to the magic that bewitches the opponent—— which is Rank 4 Fire Magic 《Candle Daze》.
《Candle Daze》 can cause fire to appear on the object they see, making them engross in it.
But this time, I did not see any similar flames near Tamaki, so it should be a different magic.
Perhaps it is a magic that does not belong to what we can learn from our Skill System.
They can use support magic and a magic from another system? No, they perhaps have an unique magic system—— like Arachne Magic for example?
No matter which type they are, they are a troublesome enemy, I wanted to defeat them quickly.
「Fire Elemental, rush in! Tamaki, you…...」
「I am already fine! How dare you all!」
Tamaki picked up her sword.
The Fire Elemental and Tamaki rushed towards the Arachne Mages who had their posture destroyed. The normal Arachnes swamped towards us from the bridge, seemingly wanting to stop us…...
This time I need to call out more guards.
「《Summon Greater Elemental: Wind》」
A translucent beauty with long blue hair answered my call, and appeared before me.
She is the Greater Wind Elemental.
「Use the wind to shake the bridge.」
「Yes, Master.」
She followed my commands and created a storm. The bridge connecting to us, is shaking violently due to the strong winds, and the Arachnes on the bridge felt hard to retreat or advance. Although in the end they will use their threads as ropes to escape, but the few seconds currently is very precious to us.
「Attack the Arachnes. There is no need to defeat them, just let them be in chaos.」
「Understood, Master.」
The Wind Elemental dance in the mid air and attacked the Arachnes on the bridge. The Arachnes shot at the approaching Wind Elementals with arrows.
But in the next second, violent wind appeared in the surroundings of the Wind Elementals. The wind barrier twisted the trajectory of the arrows and not one of them hit the beauty in the wind.
It is the same for spider webs, the white threads that flew that the Wind Elementals were scattered to the left and right.
Even though they wanted to leave the unstable bridge, but it is not good to jump now as they will not know where they will land, and in the end the Arachnes are kept in the same state. The Wind Elemental also did not approach easily, keeping the distance where the spears can’t reach, disturbing the Arachnes.
Very good, she is smart. Now…...
I returned back. Tamaki had reached the Arachne Mages at this timing, and had used her white sword to cut one of the monsters along with its robe.
The Arachne Mage gave out a cry, wanting to put some distance between Tamaki and himself…...
「《Electric Stun》」
The paralysing magic that Mia casted had restrained the Arachne Mages’ movements.
Tamaki gave a cry and swung the sword in her hand. Even so, the Arachne Mage still stubbornly….. Rolled his body. The spider human’s left hand flew and blue blood is scattered in the air.
Tamaki turned her sword in another direction, wanting to follow up…...
「Tamaki, be careful of the 《Reflection》!」
I immediately called out.
At nearly the same time, the Arachne Magic reached out with its remaining right hand, but…...
「I wouldn’t let you have it!」
Tamaki changed the timing when she swing her sword slightly.
First she took half a step and twist, her controlled movements are very artistic. The Arachne Mage took Tamaki’s luring trap and had the rainbow barrier appear before itself.
The barrier that it used had the same effective period as my 《Reflection》, which is just a short while. Once we endured that short period of time, the Arachne Mage will have no more method of protecting itself.
Tamaki did a horizontal slash at the perfect timing, cutting off its head. The Arachne Mage breathed its last and disappeared, leaving 3 blue gems.
「I leveled up.」
Lucia said.
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We were sent to the white room.
This time I had her keep her skill points too. Anyway, I better praise Tamaki’s actions first.
「You can praise me more, Kazu-san!」
I caressed Tamaki’s head and she began to smile happily again.
「But, you should still properly guard against…….」
「I know, I will be careful!」
Did she really understand…… I felt abit uneasy.
Forget it, just by minding these kind of small things, it will not affect too much.
We left the white room immediately.
Lucia: Level 12 Fire Magic 6 Skill Point 3
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We returned to the original place.
Lucia a.s.sisted the Fire Elemental immediately, forcing the other Arachne Mage to its doom. First she used 《Fire Arrow》 to cause damage, then use 《Flame Bound》 to restrain it.
The Arachne Mage also cast magic towards here and shadow hands began extending towards us.
I hurriedly flew to the sky but Lucia was bounded by those hands and began shrieking.
Her pained expression is also very graceful….. Argh, I wasn’t going to talk about this!
「Arisu, use 《Dispel》!」
「Ah, yes! 《Dispel》.」
Arisu used Rank 3 Healing Magic《Dispel》, it has the ability to remove the magic that is present, which is turning everything back to zero. The shadow hands vanished after being in contact with the clenishing light released by Arisu, and Lucia who was released from the bindings, took distance between herself and the enemy.
Good —— I turned my side to the last Arachne Magic. That guy is alone without any protection, and he was attacked by the Fire Elemental until blue blood kept flowing out..
「Mmm, this side too.《Electric Stun》.」
Mia gave the support at an appropriate timing and Tamaki who defeated the first Arachne Mage also came back to enter into the battle.
Now that it has come to this, the Arachne Mage that has his support delayed, no longer had any chance of winning. Finally, the decisive blow was also dealt by Tamaki.
「I feel that I am almost doing nothing…...」
Arisu smiled bitterly.
「I leveled up.」
「Yeah!」
「Nnn.」
3 of them leveled up?