Chapter 41 - Queen Brooder (1) (1/2)

"It looks like everybody is here." Cir said with a muffled voice after seeing the other three groups. "What is the situation?"

"The entrance to the nest is on that hill, now that everybody is here, we can decide how to exterminate them." Wulf answered.

D'vina stood up and grabbed her sword while Aleen and Ana followed behind her. Caira and the elf, Elvila, also stood up.

"Are we going to attack the nest directly?" D'vina asked.

The group thought for a moment and Wulf answered. "I don't think it's a good idea. The queen definitively will not leave the nest easily, so we first must find a method to get her out."

"You are right." D'vina nodded. "I can feel some monsters watching us from before we came here, so the queen probably is aware of our presence but chose not to leave the nest. If we attack directly then the queen simply will turtle inside and send monsters to tire us out."

"We are probably missing something." The level five kinal, Cir, said. "This mission has as the goal 'exterminate the monsters'; do the gamemasters want for us to kill more than ten thousand monsters one by one? It will take us forever to kill each monster before we can complete this mission."

Caira shook her head at that moment.

"No, we don't need to kill the monsters one by one."

"What do you mean?" Cir asked curiously.

Caira looked to the three level five before raising her head in pride. "You know that I'm a mage, right? But you don't know that my specialty is widespread destruction. Don't worry, I have a method to get the queen out of the nest."

"Is it so?" D'vina, Cir, and Wulf nodded hearing it.

It was unnecessary to lie in this situation, so they immediately believed her words. Besides, as Cir said, the gamemasters will not make them kill ten thousand lower leveled monsters one by one, so Caira's spells being useful to kill lots of enemies explains the situation.

"I will explain the plan then." Caira said after seeing the others nodding. "I will use my spell to make the queen brooder come out from the nest and then we will kill it. D'vina and Wulf are close-range combatants, so they will attract the queen's attention and receive the brunt of the attack. Me and Cir, on the other hand, are more suited to long-range combat, so we will support and attack from behind."

Everybody nodded hearing it. Caira then looked towards the elf. "Elvila, stay near me and use your skill when the queen comes out."

Elvila nodded.

Once Caira finished speaking, D'vina came close to Aleen and Ana and spoke to them.

"You two will not be useful in the fight against the level five, so stay behind the mage during the fight."

"Understood." Aleen replied firmly.

"Don't lower your guard, boy." D'vina warned Aleen seriously. "We have to concentrate on fighting the level five queen, so we cannot take care of you while the fight is going. The other monsters will definitively attack together with the queen, and many will try to kill you."

Aleen nodded seriously hearing it before smiling and reassuring Ana beside him.

The group then walked towards the nest and stopped two hundred meters away from it.

Once there, Caira walked forward and raised her hand before speaking.

"I'm going to begin."

With that as the signal, Caira's mana began to circulate, and the third spell rune inside her consciousness activated.

Mages must construct a spell inside their consciousness every time they want to advance; such spells are called 'Primary Spells' and they are the most important weapon of a mage.