22. Courage
Push back the clock a bit.
Lilou has been preoccupied with her guard since Sheena joined, and she was worried about it along the way, for fear that Sheena would suddenly act dangerously towards Io. As a result, Io and Sheena are quite relaxed, Io doesn't need to say much, like a bird out of the cage, not to mention how happy, and Sheena, it seems that because of the two elf Lori, she thinks of her sister a little......
Lilu was alone and couldn't be at peace. By the time Io was about to stop and rest, Lilou was about to have a nervous breakdown.
"Lilou, you don't look very good...... Is there anything wrong with your body?"
"It's okay, it's just that my head is a little swollen. Lilou massaged her temples while her eyes remained firmly fixed on Sheena, with a never-relenting stance.
For this persistent elf Lori, Hina could only laugh helplessly. She hadn't thought that this elf Lori would really do what she said, and for a few hours, she really kept paying attention to herself during the journey, and she didn't take her attention off for a moment...... Regardless of the difference in strength, Hina found that if she did want to do something to Io, she would not be able to spare the opportunity and space at all.
As a result, she just felt a little dizzy?
Sheena is a stalker by profession, and of course knows how mentally and energetically it can be to concentrate for long periods of time, especially since it's not at a standstill, but on a fairly fast march. The amount of energy that needs to be expended is growing exponentially.
"Why don't you take a break?"
As soon as Hina proposed Jianyì, she was met with a vicious glare from Lilou, and the meaning in Lilou's eyes was very clear - the source of her own struggle. I don't know who it is! Now that he is proposing to rest, isn't that a kind of provocation?
"No, I can keep this state for three days!"
Can it really last for three days? Lilou doesn't know, but there is a saying: If you lose, you don't lose, and the scene always has to be held up - no matter how long he can actually maintain this state, anyway, blow it up first!
Lilou still regards Sheena as an imaginary enemy, and still hasn't gotten rid of her suspicions. Before that, Sheena offered to "rest", and there was always a sense of a weasel greeting the chicken...... In case she's really the one who's fooling herself into letting her guard down. And then take advantage of the opportunity? Lilou wouldn't dare bet......
Of course, Lilou actually subconsciously forgot one thing - if Sheena really had bad thoughts, with her ability, she wouldn't need so many twists and turns, would she?
Lilou's strength is still far behind. But you can feel it somewhat. The hidden power of Sheena's body is not much better than Luna's. And Luna, if she wants to take Io away from her, will it take a lot of effort?
No, I don't need it.
Kleine still put in twelve points of energy and effort to deal with Sheena, it can only be said that she is born with a kind of vigilance and confrontation for this human woman, right?
"I don't need your sympathy and pity!" Lilu unceremoniously rejected Sheena's kindness, "I still haven't cleared your suspicions. Until then, I won't be stingy with malicious inference!"
This little girl is really wary--but that's normal, isn't it?, Hina was surprised. It was Lilou's hostility towards herself...... How to say it, a little subtle?
It's not quite pure hatred.
Sheena still has a lot of confidence in her "professional" achievements - she is very sure that the kind of hostility against herself in Lilou does not have the hatred of "want to get rid of it quickly", at least, the root that supports this hostility is definitely not hatred.
What the hell is that? Hina didn't figure it out for a while...... Because it's actually strange to say, although Lilou does not hide her hostility towards Sheena at all, she is very strict with the boundaries between the two. Although the attitude is a bit bad, as long as Sheena doesn't take the initiative to talk to her, Lilou won't deliberately sneer at her. If you change to other people of the same age, you must be going to black it when you have the opportunity, right?
"Ahh......h
"It's your attitude that looks calm and carefree~!Hey, it's really annoying......" Lilu glared at Sheena with a completely "blame me" tone very dissatisfied, but in an instant, the expression on her face was suddenly replaced by shock.
Lilou subconsciously looked up at the sky.
"That's ...... Oops!" Hina, who was puzzled by Lilu's actions, also followed Lilu's movements and looked in the same direction, and the next second her expression changed drastically, and her body reacted naturally - directly threw Lilu to the ground before she reacted.
Although Sheena was not the first to notice the anomaly, her reactions, her movements, were undoubtedly much faster than Lilu's...... After all, it's a professional stalker!
"Hmm!"
Hina couldn't help but let out a low muffled snort, her movements were fast, so fast that she even caught up with the inexplicable attack, but because what she did was not dodging, but covering-she was prioritizing the goal of pushing away Lilou, who was too late to dodge, unfortunately, she was not able to completely avoid this menacing attack.
Hina only felt a sharp pain in her back.
She must have largely avoided the attack, it was only a grazing of her back - Sheena was confident in the distance, she was sure that the attack was close to five centimeters away from her back, and it would certainly not be more than 10% off.
Didn't actually hit her body, but was she still "grazed"? Hina endured the intense pain in her back and tried to move her fingers - unaffected, along with her limbs. There is no drag or impact on the activity.
Fortunately, it doesn't seem to have caused a ...... to his combat ability.
"Wow!"
Sheena, who was about to stand up and take a step, suddenly felt as if her legs had been pricked by countless needles as thin as cow's hair. Moreover, it was still a pain from the inside out! Being stimulated by this, Hina only felt as if the base of her thigh was torn, and her body lost her balance, and she fell to the ground.
"Sheena!"
Seeing Sheena's appearance, Io hurriedly ran up to help Sheena, but she had just touched Sheena's hand. She screamed and retreated—she was obviously touching Sheena's hand, but the sensation of touching it was like a piece of red-hot coal! The burning pain was so real. Io looked at his hand, only to realize that his hand was really blistered out!?
This, isn't this an illusion?
"Don't touch me!" Sheena hurriedly stopped Io. "My current body. There is no difference between being poisoned by fire and touching my body directly and being burned by flames!"
Sheena's hand supporting the ground had already caused the grass on the ground to smell of burning. It's grass, not hay, and it's not easy for moisture-rich grass to be ignited, but as Sheena said. Now she is almost no different from a flame. Just physical contact will cause traces of flame burning.
The clothes on her body had already begun to ignite - from the side, Hina's whole body was wrapped in burning flames, which was very scary at first glance.
"I don't have anything to do with it for the time being...... I can't die!" Seeing that Io still wanted to come forward to save herself, Hina couldn't help but be anxious, "It's not me who is ignited now, it'......s just clothes! But for you, it's not something you can laugh it off!"
Io's little hands have been blistered, which shows that Io has almost no way to deal with his body now-it's all like this, Hina doesn't know anything, what is the body of the attack that hit him just now? It is a fire poison, or vice versa, a fire with a toxin nature, its killing principle, its mode of action, is closer to a toxin than a flame. When Sheena was "grazed" by the blow containing the fierce fire poison, the fire toxin seeped into Sheena's body through the wound, turning her body into a hot mass of objects.
Sheena is trying to suppress the spread of fire poison with her own strength, while also trying her best to maintain the functions of various systems, muscles and tissues in her body. You must know that the protein will solidify at about forty or fifty degrees, and the water will boil and evaporate at one hundred degrees, and if it is not controlled, it only takes a minute for Shena's body to be roasted from the inside out like food in the microwave.
Sheena's heart was even more anxious, she never thought that some people couldn't wait for the good news from their side, so they did it themselves!
Could it be that those four guys told each other? Impossible, first of all, although those people are also like Sheena, doing the same thing as "stealing chickens and dogs", but in essence, they will definitely not be the kind of people who will betray the interests and safety of their friends. Taking a step back, in fact, they also have a bad impression of the careerists who "hired" them, so there is no reason to put a hot face on the cold ass.
So how could these people ......
"Forest ...... The forest is set on fire~?"
Io looked in horror at the trees within a radius of nearly 100 meters, covered by the towering fire, and the rising flames completely turned the place where they rested into a cage, a furnace! The sharp rise in temperature immediately made Io feel extremely uncomfortable.
Even if they mobilized the magic power of their whole body to fight against this harsh environment, the children of the forest, who were born to be angry with fire, would be quite limited in such an environment, even if they could ensure safety—to let an elf fall into an environment surrounded by flames, which was close to throwing a straight man into the new sunset.
Ever since she was a child, had Io ever seen such a terrible scene?, and she was immediately shocked by the flames that covered the sky, and she curled up in fear, trembling.
Seeing this scene, Sheena immediately understood what was going on - those people were prepared at all, although the power of this attribute of flame is common, but after reaching a certain height, this can be said to be among all elemental powers. The simplest, crude, most destructive force. In particular, the flames are for the elven race. There is also a considerable restraint...... No matter how powerful the elves are, when facing this overwhelming fire, they will instinctively feel discomfort, which can directly greatly affect their performance.
"These people...... Is it your companion?"
Just as Sheena looked at Io's appearance and wanted to help but couldn't do anything, Lilu, who had been pushed away by her earlier, suddenly asked Sheena faintly behind her.
"Of course not!"
"It's good if it's not...... Just now. Thank you. ”
If these people were really Sheena's companions, then Lilou would be distressed - what Sheena said just now was also saving herself. Lilou asked herself if she couldn't take revenge, even if she was an enemy, even if their methods were ruthless and vicious, Lilu would subconsciously give her soft hand. But think now. Sheena herself confessed. These attackers were not her companions and had nothing to do with her...... Then you can let go of your hands and feet, and you can get real!
Even if you kill it on the spot...... It doesn't matter either!
"Huh?" Hina suddenly noticed that something was wrong - Lilu, as if she was completely unaffected?
Normally, the elves are in this environment, almost no different from zombies inferior to the Chapel of Light, except that powerful zombies can more or less resist the power of the Light. It will not be purified when you step in, and the natural strength of the elves is not low. Enough to resist the fire of the general Cheng dù. But these flames in front of her, even if Sheena is not a professional in playing with fire, can see that the strength of completely covering and swallowing a forest in a few seconds is very different from the natural flames in nature.
Sheena believes that even the powerful elven woman she saw before seems to be the one named Luna, and in such an environment, her combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
If it is a team battle, the elves who have already made all kinds of preparations and countermeasures do not lack the means to extinguish large fires, but relying only on individuals, the means are always limited - it is not a single strong person who has repelled and defeated the demons, but the entire elf race.
Can't be it, these people have long been the high-end combat power of the elf race as an imaginary enemy, right? This time they are really prepared...... However, Lilou's appearance surprised Hina very much.
Lilou didn't look like she was affected by the flames at all - she wasn't like Io, because she was incapacitated by the heat and flames, and not only did she retain a considerable amount of power, but even ...... Hina felt that the power that was entangled and condensed in Lilu's body was much stronger than usual, compared to her in a normal state?
"You're crazy!?"
Noticing the momentum and attitude exuded by Lilu, Sheena was anxious on the spot: "You want to fight those guys alone? Come back, you will die!"
Even if they don't have the courage to face it head-on, they only dare to find an opportunity to do it, but without diamonds, they won't be able to do porcelain work - this kind of Cheng dù's enemy, relying only on Lilou alone, is impossible to win!
Even if she is now showing an inexplicable explosive enhancement, it will not work!
"I'm not stupid, and I certainly don't 'fight' those people alone...... How long will it take for your injuries to recover?"
At this time, Lilou completely faded the greenness and tenderness of Lori's appearance, and the whole person seemed to be a different person, and now Lilu, if you ignore her excessively "young" appearance, is undoubtedly a warrior with an iron will - definitely worthy of the reputation of an elven sentinel.
"Restored to a state capable of fighting...... It takes about ten minutes. ”
Actually, it would take far more than ten minutes to achieve such an effect--but Hina had already guessed Lilou's intentions, and after understanding what Lilu was about to do, how could she still recuperate slowly and with peace of mind? Although doing so would reduce her lifespan by several years, fortunately, she was now in a state of womanhood, and her body was far more than that of a man in her usual state, otherwise, with that body, it was estimated that Hina herself would have to say goodbye to the world after the fight.
“...... You're not lying to me, are you?"
Ten minutes?
Lilu could also see that ten minutes was too short, right?
"I said ten minutes, that's ten minutes—ten minutes, as long as you're alive, I promise I'll fight with you! Don't die before that!"
"I see. ”
From Sheena's gaze, Lilou saw sincere emotion. In this environment, Lilou believes. No matter how clever her disguise is, she can't keep it perfect, and since Sheena dares to say that, it proves that she is a person she can trust.
"Take care to keep His Highness Io safe. ”
"She's your princess......" heard the news from Lilou's own ears, and Sheena was also quite emotional—a day ago, she was going to kidnap this elf. But now. But she turned against her employer for this "goal...... Hawkers, this can't be blamed on her Sheena's poor professionalism, who let these employers. Are you going to wipe yourself out first?
This is self-defense, it is self-defense! Before that, there was no relationship between employer and employment!
"Remember, just hold on for ten minutes!
Sheena told Lilou again and again.
"I don't have much confidence in anything else, but...... I believe. There's no way I'm going to die in the flames! I'm going to conquer these flames today!"
......
"Uh-huh, there is actually a little elf here who can still raise the spirit of war~"
Lilou moved away from Io and Sheena, and swayed some distance in the direction of the attack, intercepting several sinister humans along the way. As for whether it will be a mistake or an omission...... Lilou didn't care at all. Obviously, these attackers were all in the shape of victory, and they were approaching with a leisurely attitude of cutting wheat - as the strongest person, Sheena, was accidentally put into the situation, they must have known about it.
That's why you came over so slowly without fear?
It just so happened that they had wasted a minute doing so...... In other words, I only need to be entangled with these people for nine minutes~ Lilu was full of words before. But that's actually more to give Sheena and Io confidence that they really have a few pounds and a few taels. Lilou couldn't be clearer.
You can't beat it.
But if she didn't leave Io with a thought and hope, in this environment, Lilou was even worried that little Io, who had not seen much of the world, would have a nervous breakdown. The oppression of such a terrifying flame cage for the elves was great, and Lilou also understood that this discomfort and fear came from nature.
Really, even if it were Luna, it would be very affected...... But if it was Luna, it is estimated that she would directly mobilize the power of the Elven Sacred Book and directly extinguish these fires, right?
Forcing yourself to play in an away game that is not suitable for you to play, that is either a show of teas, or a shake M.
Lilou says that her mind is still relatively normal, and she doesn't have any special habits and orientations (double ponytails don't count!), but she doesn't have any dissatisfaction with this away condition, which can be called the most disgusting for the elves.
"Courage is commendable~"
The voice of an old woman shrouded in a robe with a shriveled and piercing voice reached Lilou's ears, making Lilou feel a pang of discomfort from the bottom of her heart—this kind of voice, this kind of tone, is really the black witch with a bad image in those fairy tales!
"I didn't expect that little princess to have such a little girl full of courage by her side...... Hmph, to be able to make her stand here so firmly, it is not just a matter of duty and task that can stabilize her heart - I'm afraid, this elf is still very good friends with our goal, right?"
Courageous for the sake of his friend, overcoming his fears to challenge a formidable enemy, the slender and delicate elf pleased the old evil warlock no matter how he looked - yes, it had to be such a little girl, such a weak but brave little girl, to be tortured and killed, to listen to her painful screams, to be particularly exciting, wasn't it?
"I'm really curious about that little princess, what kind of expression will she have when she sees your corpse~ However, she may not be able to see that this is your corpse...... Oh roar roar ......"
Lilou clenched her fists nervously—the malice in the other man's words was undisguised against her, and it would be a lie to say that she was not nervous when she was directed at such a filthy but horrible malice.
However, she was not afraid.
If she was the only one, maybe she would have been frightened by the other party's terrifying aura by now, right?
Lilou took a deep breath.
[I hear you...... Everyone's voice......]
The sound of the fire elemental. (To be continued......)