Chapter 43 - Queen Brooder (3) (1/2)

The queen, however, was not resigned to die like this.

With an angry screech, it directed its gaze to D'vina and activated its second skill, 'Intimidation'.

Light shined in its eyes, and D'vina's body suddenly froze.

"Crap!"

Alarmed, D'vina circulated her mana aggressively to escape from the monster's skill, but the brief instant she stopped was enough for it to counter-attack. The queen used its tail to attack D'vina, trying to cut her body into two. D'vina used her greatsword to defend hurriedly, but the monster strength was greater than she expected. With a grunt of pain, she was sent flying away.

The monster tried to pursue the attack, but Caira next spell was already ready. It was a variant spell created by mixing her first spell, 'Fireball', with her third spell, 'Heat Zone'.

'Detonate'.

The ball of fire exploded on the monster's face, forcing it to protect itself from the explosion. Before long, Cir and Wulf attacks were already before it.

The monster continued to defend awkwardly while crying in pain, but the injuries on its body were increasing little by little. It was obvious that it was going to die before long.

The four level five could not hide the expressions of excitement on their faces while the monster continued to retreat.

Meanwhile, Aleen and the others were defending against the monsters that survived Caira's attack.

The lower leveled brooders were attacking the group furiously, trying to help their queen. Occasionally, some of them were killed by one of the level five warriors, but most of them attacked the group of level one behind the mage.

Aleen slashed with his sword while circulating the mana inside his body. His attack beheaded a level two monster, but one of the monster's claws got to hit him before he could kill the beast.

Fortunately, Elvila's shield protected him from the attack, so he was uninjured. Quickly, Aleen used his sword to defend against another attack and kicked away a beast trying to kill Ana; but another beast used its claws to crush one of the remaining wolfkins, killing it instantly.

The group of survivors had been halved from the moment when the fight began. To be honest, the only reason that so many were still alive was thanks to Elvila's skill, 'Mana Barrier'.

Different from Aleen, Elvila had perfected her first skill greatly, allowing her to create until four barriers at the same time and to change the size and shape of them according to the situation.

Though the barriers were unable to endure the attack of a level five, they were more than enough against level two and level three monsters. Even a level four would have trouble trying to break it in one attack.

Due to it, Aleen could attack the monster without worrying about being injured. Using the thrusting stance, he stabbed with his sword skillfully, killing various monster from the beginning of the fight.

And when a level four monster attacked, Caira would use a spell to kill it quickly before it could cause any damage.

To be honest, Aleen found that the battle was safer than he expected despite the number of monsters attacking. Even now, he could not feel the threat of death thanks to the protection of the barrier and Caira's sporadic spells.

But even with these favorable conditions, the number of deaths on his side continued to increase. Every second another level one would die below a monster's claw, showing Aleen the true terror of this place.

It was something cruel, but it showed Aleen the truth about D'vina words. In this place, you can only depend on yourself.

So, he fought.

Waving his sword, he slashed and stabbed monster after monster while using his skill and circulating the mana inside his body furiously. He made sure to control the amount of mana remaining inside him, but besides it, he only concentrated on killing more monsters.

Soon, his surroundings were filled with corpses and dead monsters.

Aleen did not notice, but Elvila, Ana, and even Caira, were looking towards him with a change in their expressions.

Aleen current state was like a bolt of lightning, cutting everything in his path without stopping before nothing.

His aspect of lightning was activated, and Aleen seemed to understand a bit more about how to use his skill after every use. His breathing became ragged, and sweat flowed down from his forehead, but his legs never stopped advancing, and his hands never ceased to attack. At some point, even the monsters seemed to fear to go near him.

Of course, a great part of the reason behind it was that no attack was able to break Elvila's barrier; and even when her barrier was broken, another one appeared almost instantly.

While the monsters continued attacking and Aleen continued fighting, the group of level five finally cornered the monster.

The queen's body was covered with injuries and two of its claws were gone. It was already near its last breath and its strength was almost spent.

But the price the group paid to reach to this point was not small. During the fight, Wulf's body was impacted by one claw, almost torn apart. He only survived thanks to the defense of one of his skills, 'Steel body', but despite it, three claw marks could be seen on his back.