Ustengera, Section 3

The pirates hide their lair in a cove full of reefs and whirlpools. It's hidden, and it's dangerous. There are also many sentry posts and hidden traps around the lair, and the only entrance and exit are also blocked by iron cables, which can be described as easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Unfortunately, this time they encountered a clever enemy. Taking advantage of the pre-dawn darkness and the dense fog that obscured the view, Alice and Xiaoya were in a small boat soon approached the entrance to Pirate Bay. Then, it begins to infiltrate.

The first victim soon appeared.

It was a sentry who had been shot through the heart by an arrow from Xiao Ya while he was napping on the high rock where he was perched. The arrow was so thin that it was quenched with blood-clotting snake venom, and all his life could do was make a soft sound, and it couldn't even alarm a bird.

With the first, there is the second. With the faint sound of arrows, one after another the river pirate sentinels died under Xiao Ya's piercing arrows.

The iron cables under the surface of the water could not stop the boat, and they were stored for the purpose of sounding the alarm bell when the ship passed by. It was a good warning, but Alice's metallic magic didn't work - the chains melted before the boat hit them, and when the boat was clear, they were coupled again.

And in the process of getting closer, the sentry posts of the river thieves were almost cleared by Xiao Ya's arrows.

Now, the only thing left is the gate made of a hardwood fence through guò. And the job is not difficult, it only takes a slight stroke of the sword to be able to cut through the door, and then quietly deal with the enemies inside.

一qiē is very smooth lì look. Xiao Ya even had the leisure to make a triumphant gesture to Alice.

But isn't that a little too smooth?

Even if it's just a bunch of unorganized and undisciplined river pirates, they shouldn't be so alert - after all, they're doing a business-for-nothing with their heads. It can't even be as good as the bandits who fell cold.

'Do you have to be careful?' Alice thought to herself. She felt a little stuff in her chest, and some detail she hadn't noticed was gradually affecting the overall situation of victory or defeat.

This may be a warning sign.

So she reached out and patted Xiao Ya on the shoulder just as he was about to break open the door.

Xiao Ya stopped her movements and made an inquiring gesture to her.

'What's wrong? What's going on?'

She didn't answer, just pointed to her eyes. Then a spell was cast.

Life horizons, open!

The next moment, the scene that appeared on the other side of the field of vision made the girl's heart skip a beat. At the other end of the door, there were dozens of humanoid light clusters densely surrounded!

It's an ambush! They found out a long time ago!

It seems that there is a spellcaster in this group of robbers.

Alice exhaled lightly and made a string of gestures that meant a large number of ambushes and storage of the wizard. Then, she took a sharp step forward, opening the protective barrier.

The next moment, violent fluctuations of magical energy immediately entered her senses.

With a 'boom-', the gate of the water village was blown to pieces by a blazing red fireball. The flames of the explosion and the shards of wood flew everywhere, smashing the calm water into a cloud - the wild wizard on the opposite side probably sensed that the situation was wrong, so he decisively abandoned the trap tactic. If it is used in ordinary times, such a method is not decisive......

It's a pity, a step too slow!

"Seal the river! don't let them ashore!" shouted the black-robed wizard at a high level as a dozen or so fierce robbers rushed towards the barricade with all sorts of long-range melee weapons. They looked frenetic, and their eyes glowed with an abnormal red.

"The movements are a little clumsy, are you seduced?" Alice glanced at the charging river pirates through the dust and mist in front of her, and motioned to Xiao Ya to take care of her own affairs. And she surged forward, stepping on the surface of the water and meeting the robbers.

- Then, start slashing.

The equipment provided by Aphro was really useful. The Furnace Sword was so sharp that it barely resisted even if it was cut in two. And the defensive effect of the scale armor is also first-class, a cold arrow shooting on the shoulder armor only brought a string of sparks, and even the dents were not left.

She killed the front part very lightly, and then more people rushed up.

"I don't understand why a wizard should be involved with robbers. Is this your special hobby?" Alice tilted her head to look at the black-robed guy. She grasped the hilt of her sword in both hands, and with a slash of the wheel, five or six robbers were cut off from the wound in their chests and abdomen that was pulled from the bottom up, and they fell down with a muffled grunt.

"Shut up, little girl!" the black wizard roared angrily, and with a wave of his hand at Alice, an orange fireball swirled and threw at Alice.

However, it was impossible to hit her with such an obvious action, she just flashed to the side, and the fireball passed through her previous position, and then exploded violently in the bandit group, instantly disrupting their already chaotic formation, completely losing the possibility of cooperation.

This is an opportunity.

Alice didn't care about this opportunity—enemies of this level were no different from afternoon tea to her. Not worthy of the honorarium offered by Aphro at all...... Even the sword and armor that were given as gifts were not worthy.

[However...... It's also good to practice other skills by the way. 】

Alice thought to herself. She then swapped her sword in both hands for one, and with a half-moon slash she pushed the approaching bandits out of the way, while the other hand that was free was dyed with a dark blue beam.

'Z-ka-——!'

An arm-thick bolt of lightning slammed into the head of a robber in an iron helmet like a poisonous snake. Before the scorched smoke and crackling sparks popped out, the serpent slammed into another man's shoulder. In the blink of an eye, the blue lightning chain killed six people, their bodies twitching violently like fish pricked by needles, and they fell down in black smoke before they could even snort.

The lightning chain was followed by a blizzard. The swirling vortex of ice and dust like a blade slices flesh and blood like a meat grinder. Even the cold resistance in Nord's bloodline could not save the bandits who were swept up in this demonic energy, and the only thing they could feel in the end was the extreme cold that almost froze their souls.

It was just such a small vacancy, and most of the robbers besieging Alice died. And the rest of the few are just the front foot and the back foot. The girl slashed open the shoulder of the strongest-looking one, and then in a whirlwind, the blade of the sword, still stained with warm blood, sliced half of the other two's heads from the part of the eye.

It was only now that the wild wizard reacted, trying to stop Alice with a few flaming bullets, which he could easily stop.

Alice draws her sword back. The blood foam thrown from the end of the sword cut a straight red blood stain on the uneven ground. She turned her head to look at the man in black, whose face was already white, no different from a dead man.

"Fireballs, flaming bullets...... Charm. Well...... Won't you use something else?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the pale face of the black-clothed wizard suddenly turned red. His eyes widened with hatred and anger as he spoke.

"Pretend!" he held up his hands, and a massive cloud of magical energy gathered above his head. "You who are from the academy and can casually flip through countless secret law books, where do you understand the bitterness and suffering of our free wizards who have no way to learn!?"

"Look, that's what I—Seus Tini gave up his dignity and honor forsake!" he roared, his hands slamming into a cloud of orange-red light!

…… A big fireball.

"The secret technique is...... Spell with both hands?" Alice looked at the black-clad wizard who called herself Seeus Tiny, and for a moment she didn't know what to say.

She sighed softly and silently avoided the 'secret technique'. At the same time, the furnace sword in her hand was silently wrapped in a frost.

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When Alice chose to attract attention with a hard front, Xiao Ya took advantage of the darkness and smoke to sneak quietly over the other side of the river. His movements were light, and no one could detect them when he had Alice's cover.

"I'm a professional. He shouted, and sprang out of the long grass where he was hiding, and in the blink of an eye he pulled a lone robber close into the haystack and stabbed him to death. Then he quickly made several more raids, quietly and silently taking out several of the robbers on this side of the river.

He should be glad that the robbers didn't carry the torches because they had the idea of countering the ambush. If it weren't for that, his small actions wouldn't have been so easy to succeed.

But that's the first step, and there's a lot more to come.

Xiao Ya knows very well what she should do. Since Alice has taken over the task of melee combat, he needs to be responsible for fire cover. And before that, he had to get rid of the bandits' archers...... The first thing he set his eye on was a watchtower near the gate.

The robbers' camp had six watchtowers, four of which were near the gates of the fortress - if the river bandits' camp were to be compared to a wild beast, then these four watchtowers were the teeth of the beast. Of course, the guards stationed on the watchtower are naturally the most skilled archers.

However, Xiaoya knew what to do with them. When he sneaked to the bottom of the watchtower, he had a rope marker in his hand. Then, the archers on the tower shook their bows when they wanted to shoot!

With a 'whoosh-', the rope marker with the counterweight ball wrapped around the archer's neck the moment before he could shoot. Then there was a 'click', and the archer, whose spine had been broken, collapsed. And Xiao Ya also took this opportunity to climb up, and in a blink of an eye, he went up to the watchtower.

Then, open the bow and draw the arrows.

He didn't look at the battle below, because he knew with his ears that Alice wasn't doing anything. Although it is a ping-pong game, it is sometimes accompanied by the sound of swords entering the flesh and spells exploding. But the muffled grunts and screams were rough male voices. It's clear that Alice isn't falling behind.

Well, just do your own thing.

He slammed his bow out, and with a single arrow he shot the archers on the nearby watchtower. And when the poor creature screamed before he died, the second arrow pierced the head of the archer on the third watchtower. Then he fell to his knees, just in time to avoid an arrow from the fourth archer.

"Hmph, is that the level?" Xiao Ya sneered. But I was also relieved.

At least, the guy on the other side won't be able to hurt Alice anytime soon. All you need to do is to extend this 'short time' until it becomes 'infinite'.

Xiao Ya took a light breath and took off the helmet of the archer who had fallen at his feet.

The sound of the battle below gradually became sparse, and I don't know what happened to Alice. She must have killed a lot of people, and I don't know if she was injured......

Xiao Ya narrowed his eyes slightly, and carefully raised the archer's helmet.

Then, just as the helmet was about to emerge from behind the cover on the watchtower, he kicked the archer's corpse to the side, kicking the lying corpse straight to its feet!

'Whoosh-'

An arrow struck at the corpse, piercing its head the moment it stood up.

The next moment, the fourth archer was struck in the neck by Xiao Ya's arrow, and he only had time to let out a 'ho-' sound before he fell.

Xiao Ya exhaled softly. A smile hung on his face.

"Good. Now, let me see how the little girl is doing on her errand. Maybe she needs some help. He picked up an arrow and looked down from under the watchtower.

In the next moment, a violent explosion of the fireball dispersed the fog and darkness beneath the watchtower.

Robbers...... It's dead. Some were cut off, some were cut open, some were scorched by thunder, and some were frozen into pieces. The only remaining wizard in black was also nailed to the pillar after Alice's sword pierced through him. He was spitting red and black dead blood.

Even the pigs in the slaughterhouse couldn't have ended up worse than these guys.

The corners of Xiao Ya's mouth twitched slightly. The taut shoulders quietly collapsed.

He lightly punched the guard tower's bunker plank, not knowing whether to laugh or curse.

"Bah, violent. ”