Chapter 67: Coordination (1/2)
Boom.
Boom.
Boom.
A series of explosions resounded in the savanna as it kicked up the dust on the ground, creating a thin smokescreen.
Clone Theo went straight to its target and smashed the monster with its shield.
The monster seemed to be a five feet grasshopper. It swung its scythe to cut Theo in two, only to be blocked by his shield.
Meanwhile, Alea faced a monster that had a similar appearance to that of a zebra. But on its skins, she found many thorns that would be able to injure her if she was careless.
Alea took a deep breath and stomped the ground, swinging her sword from above. Her strength completely changed compared to when she wielded the sword with her right hand. The sword cut the zebra like butter even with that hard thorn before she kicked the body from the left, clearing up the path between her and the grasshopper.
Since Theo took its attention, Alea went around it and cut the body in one clean strike before jumping to the air. She said, ”Let's go.”
Theo nodded and continued running like before.
”Seriously, I think we have more hope than earlier… Thanks to the abilities you have hidden this whole time.” Alea couldn't help but praise him. If they truly wanted to kill all five of them, Theo only needed to aim the Magic Bullet toward them.
In fact, the reason why Theo could adapt to her movement so easily must be because of his clone. He had gotten accustomed to fighting with a clone, so he simply treated her as a replacement for his clone.
”Just shut up. I can see the forest, but we will have a problem before entering that forest.” Theo narrowed his eyes.
”Hmm… fifty or sixty.” Alea also understood and checked the monsters. They were a bit spread out, so there must be a way to slip past them.
Suddenly, Alea and Theo said their answer at the same time.
”Left.”
”Middle.”
”Eh?” Theo and Alea widened their eyes, never expecting to have a different opinion.
”Your reason?” Theo asked without hesitation.
”There are multiple monsters behind what you're pointing at. If we go there, we will be stopped by them and swarmed by the monsters we've passed.” Alea let out a long sigh. ”Huft. To think that more and more monsters will come out of the forest later.”
Theo nodded. ”I thought the same thing, but if you see it a little bit, the monsters are relatively leaning to the middle, so we can use them to halt the advance from the middle to right side. That's my plan. Do you have anything that can stop them for a few seconds?”
”I have. It uses up a bit more of my Magic Power, but your plan seems to be better than mine, so we will use yours.” Alea agreed without hesitation after understanding Theo's thoughts.
”Good. This is going to be a bit dangerous, but I will signal you when to use it.”
”Roger.”
Theo then raised his spear as Magic Power fluctuated around his spear.