Moonlight and Maple were also surprised when I removed one of their hoods."An elf?! I thought they are extinct!" Moonlight exclaimed.
Maple looks on the other hooded guys and decided to remove their hoods. It was soon revealed that all of the guys who attacked us are all elves. For some reason, we don"t know what to do.
"Did we just killed the last remaining elves in the history?" Moonlight mumbled.
As usual, confusion dawned upon me. This race is something that only in books and games appears. Then I remembered that I still have no slightest clues on most of these guys. I should stop getting surprised again and again from these.
Moonlight checked their bodies one by one. She also pillage the bodies for valuables. After all, finders-keepers. After a few minutes, she throws the last valuables in the stockpile that already formed a mound on the ground. I did not expect her to get so many valuables after pillaging just a few corpses however, looking at these "valuables", I don"t see any kind of valuable material in it. Most of it looks like junk to me.
Approaching the junk, I noticed that most of them seem to be like a gold earing of some sort. I saw Moonlight pull off the earrings of these people out without carefully removing them. A few of them even have a bit of the ear ripped out. Is she trying to disrespect the corpses? I was about to ask Moonlight about it when Maple stopped me.
"Don"t interfere Kazuma. This is the cleansing ritual of these people. After they became evil, they are full of negative energy that will cause these corpses to rise back from the dead and torment whoever left them dead. You should stay a bit farther because the negative energy is just strong enough to kill you if you are not careful."
I did not bother asking Maple for further explanation. Moonlight stood in front of the "valuables" in front of her and started chanting Latin in which I had no idea what she was talking about. But, it seems like the Latin chanting is somewhat a magic phrase because the "valuables" started to glow and red magic circles started to revolve beneath it. Air started to revolve hard enough and causes fluctuations. The negative energy seems to be really dense and even I need to step back just to avoid getting overwhelmed by it.
"Kazuma, get ready. As soon as the Magic Circle"s layers turned 10, prepare for the trouble. This energy tends to attract dangerous individuals and monsters. Since we are in the forest, I guess that this will attract beasts instead."
"Beasts? Does that mean, it will be dangerous to stay here?"
"Yes. We need to do it. Since we are the one acting as guardian to the vulnerable Moonlight, we need to fend off everyone getting attracted to the dense energy."
I gulped as I stare into the Magic Circle. Currently, it"s still around 6 layers. The dark energy in the air is very dense and the air seems to thin out that I feel like its getting harder to breathe. Maple still stood still, her ears twitched from time to time, probably detecting the enemies that seemed to lurk nearby. I didn"t bother Maple and just observed them, though I am ready to attack as soon as possible.Find authorized novels in Webnovel，faster updates, better experience，Please click for visiting.
The magic circle started to increase. From 6 layers to 7 layers. After a few moments, it turned into 8 then to 9. After a few more minutes, the moment of truth started. As soon as the tenth layer appeared, roars of different monsters started to growl around the area.
"Here they come!" Maple shouted and activated her magic around her feet. Her feet were covered with several layers of the magic circle and after that, her feet transformed into metallic shoes that from my guesses would be her unique weapon.
I also heightened alert and looked around the dark. Even in the dark, their yellow and red eyes stare into us, ready to deal with attacks with us. Moonlight is still vulnerable as she still closed her eyes with her arms pointed to the "valuables". The Magic circles are spinning very fast that they look like wheels rotating instead of magic circles.
The incoming attacks appeared out on the shadows and I saw the beasts. Unlike normal animals like tigers and lions, they are much bigger and they looked like huge...rats? My expression turns livid from these rats. I still remember the time these pesky rats chewed one of the wires of my pc causing it to go short circuit and broke down. Now I am seeing a bigger version of them.
Maple quickly gave out lots of kicks as she defended Moonlight from the beasts. The monsters were fast and didn"t bother with us. Instead, they are purposely attacking Moonlight alone. Moonlight might be formidable during her battles but she is vulnerable during this time. And since Maple is doing her best to stop the beasts attacking Moonlight, this means that the ritual cannot be stopped.
I helped out from the extermination and killed enemies one by one by roasting them with intense flames. The rats were easy to kill and with just a few fireb.a.l.l.s to their eyes and mouth, they would immediately burn to death. From the looks of it, their salivas are flammable.
We did quick work with the rats and finished off the last of them.
"Rest for a while Kazuma and recover your mana. The second wave is almost here. We need to prepare for the worst," Maple said as she concentrated to recover her mana.
I did not go surprised this time. Since the heaviness of the negative energy still lingers around the place, I already know that the enemies will still be arriving by waves. I stare at Moonlight who still concentrates on the "valuables". I wonder if the beasts will be more dangerous this time around.