Chapter 35: The Loser II
Lilith was not slow to react.
After hearing the warning from Finn, the warlock girl, whose expression was always as calm as the surface of a lake, turned the staff in her hand and pointed in the direction behind the young paladin, and then saw three red-eyed gray-sideburned wolves jump out from behind a bush and pounce on her at the same time.
A pale arc of light flashed in Lilith's dark eyes.
The crystallized head of the staff in her hand immediately launched a beam of electric electricity at the three gray-sided-sideburned wolves, and the white lightning struck the head of the most advanced wolf, and the rattling current immediately split towards the other two red-eyed gray-sideburned wolves.
For a moment, the three demonic crystal beasts that had been transformed trembled in mid-air in the restraint of electric light, and then emitted a faint smell of burning and fell to the ground at the same time, and the two who were not hit by the electric light quickly got up and ran away.
Lilith looked at the two wolves who had turned and fled, looked down at the corpse of a beast lying motionless on the ground, and then lowered the staff in her hand a little.
The spell she had cast was a lightning chain, a four-ring sorcery that was one ring higher than the lightning beam that the sea dragon Metotis had cast in St. Frenhai, and the effect of the spell was to cast an arc of electricity that dealt air-based magic damage to a target, and after hitting the primary target, split into several other arcs to attack other units around the target.
Lilith's spell repelled the three gray-sideburned wolves who suddenly jumped out and entered the battle.
The black-haired warlock girl, with a flat face, took a small step back and stood back to back with Finn, looking up and around, to see that the spots of light she and the young paladin had seen all the way through the dense forest had reappeared—and in large numbers—in the dense grass around them.
Now she and the young man could be sure that the spots of light they had noticed along the way were not fireflies, but mostly the red eyes of the gray-sidedness wolves.
If it weren't for the fact that the red glow from the wolves' eyes was relatively weak, and the scarlet color was not easily distinguishable from the dark, concealed grass, the two of them might have taken precautions against what they were encountering in advance.
All in all. When both Finn and Lilith noticed that the wolves that had attacked the camp had returned, he had to admit that he had forgotten about it in his hurry while chasing Arya.
He reacted now, and guessed that the alchemist hiding behind the scenes and controlling those magic crystal beasts was probably the poison vine himself.
The wolves did not leave completely after abandoning the invasion of the camp at the behest of the poisonous vines, but returned to the matriarch.
It was a mistake, and he made something he shouldn't have done.
But now is not a good time to regret it.
"Finn, the wolf is coming." Lilith turned half of her cheek, the linen on her dress close to the chain mail worn by the young man back to back.
"I know." Finn frowned, raised his iron sword to warn the losers and poison vines, and whispered a reply to the girl behind him.
At some point, the wolves that had surrounded him and the Warlock Maiden were now pacing out of the surrounding grass and crawling en masse, and they were a little more numerous than they had been when they attacked the camp. Wild and manic scarlet pupils grew clear before their eyes, a scene that seemed like a recreation of their previous night's attack on the camp.
It gives a sense of tension that is being persecuted.
Finn was not blind, he used his spare eyes to keep an eye on his surroundings, and of course he could see the movements of the wolves.
"Can I use the Fireball Technique?" Keeping an eye out for the approaching wolves, Lilith blinked, turned her back to Finn and asked.
“……”
The young man was silent.
If you don't think about any consequences, Lilith's fireball spell is indeed a good way to easily break the siege, after all, the kind of spell that is not too high in rings but has an extremely destructive power, a single explosion in the firelight can send a large number of miscellaneous soldiers into the sky. It's really simple and crude.
However, Finn is naturally not stupid, and the reason why he does not dare to let Lilith throw fireballs is afraid that the warlock girl will make a forest fire in the dagger forest.
You have to know the flame thing. It is easy to spread quickly in densely vegetated forests.
If the Dagger Forest were to burn in the wake of Hurenger's fire, not to mention that their group would be targeted by some of the bigwigs, the burning forest would have turned into a nightmarish cage that would trap all the creatures in the forest, even the innocent villagers who lived in the logging village at the edge of the forest, in a terrible fire.
By then, he wouldn't have been able to stop the fire quickly. Or if he doesn't want to take his companions around him and withdraw from the jungle in time, then what he will face at that time is not only the condemnation of conscience, but it is estimated that there will be a crazy deflection like the camp tendency is out of control, but he will really want to cry without tears.
So the two brown pupils in Finn's eye sockets turned. Then he turned around and took Lilith's free right hand and said, "Follow me." ”
Then pick a direction and start running.
The direction of his escape was the opposite of the loser who had just regained his balance, and several gray-sidedled wolves in the way tried to stop him and Lilith from advancing, but the demonized beasts were no match for the young men who had advanced to the Shadow Knight class.
The arc of the sword sent black flames through the woods, sending several deadly trajectories through the woods, and the five red-eyed wolves paid the price of three dead and two wounded to make way for Finn and Lilith.
Fein took Lilith's slender hand and ran into a grove of trees, and the poisonous vines sat on the loser's tall, broad shoulders and watched the young man and the girl's back, taking advantage of the loser's unsteady standing to escape her sight.
The expression on the face of the black dress and white hair was surprised for a moment, then she came back to her senses, sneered and raised her hand to point forward, and commanded the Demon Crystal Beast Group to pursue through the will of the spiritual level, and at the same time ordered the big-headed monster under her seat: "Loser, catch up with them!" ”
The distorted and curious-looking monster raised its head and shouted a few times, and then raised the four hooves of the horse that were tied to the bottom of its body.
……
"Finn, the wolf is catching up." Lilith ran next to Finn, turning her head to look behind her.
The wolves followed the poisonous vine's command to catch up before the losers, and the red eyes of the crystal beasts lingered like ghosts, and Finn glanced at them with half of his face and offered Lilith two succinct advice.
The two recommendations were-
"Arcane missiles." He said, "Or lightning chains." ”
"Hmm." The warlock girl nodded expressionlessly.
Then, three successive dazzling white arcs of light were launched from the tip of the soul crystal at the top of the wolf soul staff, sweeping through the air, bringing back a crackling explosion and a few wails from the gray-sidedled wolves.
It seems that Lilith prefers devastating offensive spells to Arcane Missiles, which have a superior rate of fire but are not very powerful.
"Where are we going?" After taking out a few of the grey-sidedness wolves that had taken the lead, Lilith put the staff down and turned her gaze back to Finn's side face and asked.
"The environment in the forest is too messy." Finn explained, "It is very bad for us to fight with fewer enemies and more enemies. ”
"So?"
"We're going to a wider place."
As he spoke, the young man suddenly felt his vision widen in the corner of his eye.
He jerked his head back and turned his gaze back to find that he and Lilith had arrived in the Woods Basin, where the loser had spawned. (To be continued.) )