"That's quite big of a change, huh."
Said David as he watched the timid girl seemingly transformed into a completely different person.
*Thud!*
Rein slams the other end of her staff on the ground as its head summons three powerful and deadly lightning orbs.
Those three orbs begin to discharge lightning, and at the same time, they begin to take shape of a pack of three wolves with every part of its body being made of white lightning except for the pupils in their eyes that which shows a blood red color.
"Kill him!"
With a roaring voice, Rein commands her summoned creatures to attack David. The pack of wolves roared in unison as they begin their charge.
"Creation and lighting magic, huh? Media!"
David uses his magic to summon five dart arrows onto one of his wrist crossbow. He then aims his arm onto them and fires all five of them at the same time. But the wolves suddenly transforms into a surge of lightning currents flying into the air to avoid his arrows.
"What?"
One of the wolves retakes its form from behind him, while the other two are on both his sides. The three monsters goes in to try and bite his arm, shoulder, and head with their fangs filled with powerful lightning. As a swift respond to their attacks, David performs a double somersault jump to get away from them.
Before landing onto the ground, he created another dart arrow, one that is relatively bigger than the others. He then proceeds to fling the arrow onto one of the wolves Rein created. With great force and speed, David hits one wolf in the middle even before it could react. But...
*Raarghh!!*
The wolf simply shapeshifts into an orb of lightning before returning back into the shape of a wolf like the rest. Not giving David another chance, the wolves leaps onto him right after his foot hit the ground. David however crouches down on the ground and raised his hand up in the air to create a big magic circle.
"Arrow Volley!"
Countless dart arrows shoots upward of David where the wolves are above him. But just like what happened before, the wolves simply transforms into an orb of lightning and flies freely away from his volley of arrows.
"Unkillable monsters... Then all I gotta do is to eliminate the one that's giving them life."
David immediately sets his eyes onto Rein. He stands up and aimed his right open hand directly to the young woman to summon another magic circle.
"...Arrow Shower!"
Arrows of light begin firing from the magic circle and flies towards Rein.
"...!"
Rein responds by calling upon the wolves to form a barrier made of her lightning magic to repel David's arrows.
"A barrier made of the lightning orbs you summoned... You're control with your magic is impressive. But how long can your shield withstand this endless barrage?"
David's rain of arrow continue to try and pierce the shield Rein created. Just as what David implied, how long can her shield take endless damage from a neverending volley of arrows? Before long, Rein realized the answer as her shield is getting weaker and weaker while the arrows of David keeps firing with the same force and strength.
"Haa!!"
Rein tries to strengthen the barrier she created with her staff at the same time she's controlling it to approach David.
Before long, Rein's barrier reached David's range where she can cast a magic to attack.
"Die! Overcharge!"
Casting her magic, she feed the lightning orbs her mana to overcharge and explode right next to David. The orbs exploded, however, the aftermath showed that David was no longer in that spot.
"Haste!"
Only after hearing his voice that Rein realized. David was already on her left, holding a magic arrow with his right hand.
With his speed enhanced with Haste, a martial arts ability, he goes in to stab Rein in her head. It seemed like he had her in that moment, but in that split second Rein still managed to protect herself by creating a lightning barrier a millisecond earlier before the arrow hits her left eye.
As the arrow struck the barrier, not only did a powerful surge of lightning crawls from David's arm onto his body...
"Ack...!"
He was also blown away by it. After being sent away, David acknowledged the strength of the magic barrier she created in that split second. Compared to her summoned wolves, the Overcharge explosion, it was much more sturdier and more powerful than what she used not long ago. Yet, she did not use that kind of strength when she was going on the offensive. That's when David realized that Rein, despite the change in her appearance, is still the same.
"All that talk about killing me and not wanting to die and that sudden change of your look, yet you're still the same."
"Silence! I will not hear any of your chattering!" Rein Shouted.
"I was worried for nothing." David sighed.
Rein creates another magic circle with her staff and shoots a surge of lightning towards David.
"Electrocute!"
Due to what David told her. She fired a more powerful lightning than her orbs earlier. But for whatever reason, she finds David standing still in the line of fire, as if he intend to take her attack head on.
"Tsk...!" Her eyes twitches.
Rein's Electrocute hits David directly.
"If you're going to fight the way you are now in a battle for survival, you'll surely gonna be the one to fall first."
"What?!"
The lightning strucked David. But there were no traces of damage inflicted onto him, except for leaving a mess with his shirt and pants.
"I don't have all the time to deal with someone who wouldn't fight with her full strength."
The crossbows in both his wrists dispersed into air to form the giant magic bow - Austrialis.
"Someone like you shouldn't be standing in the battlefield." Says David as he grabbed the bow he summoned.
He's right hand takes hold onto the base of the giant magic bow, while he uses the other to create an arrow embedded with a more powerful magic than the ones he uses earlier with Media.
"...!"
Rein could tell by the look in David's eyes that he intended to finish her off with that one shot of his magic arrow. Knowing that David is one of the five heroes, one of the strongest adventurers in Reilaea, she realized that her barrier would not be enough to protect her the moment David fires it.
Still, she doesn't have much of a choice. What's far above her and David is the northern barracks where slaves are being abused by the knights of King Castile, as well as other innocent civilians of Kruule.
If she unleashed a powerful magic in an enclosed area such as where they are right now, not only that there's a possibility that she could kill herself along with David, the cave they are in could crumble and the people above ground could get swallowed by a sink hole and could possibly lose their lives.
There is no other exit than the one behind David. The cave they went through to get where they are right now. She doubt that someone who intends to kill his enemy would let her get out in a more favorable terrain for herself to get an advantage against him.
"That's right. it doesn't matter if you're in a tough spot or not, you come into battle knowing those risks. Showing mercy upon your enemies is nothing but foolishness."
As if he just read what she has in mind, David answered her with the reality that mercy is meaningless in the battlefield.
"You...!"
The only choice for her is to attack and hope that her strength is enough to deflect David's arrow. And so, Rein dispersed her summoned orb of lightning to create one that is much bigger and more powerful than the ones she created earlier. At the same time, she continue to charge up the strength of her orb in order to confront David.
"You finally decided to use more of your magic now, huh? Of course, anyone would do the same in that situation." Said, David as he realized what Rein is trying to do. "Come."
"Overcharge!!"
Rein sends the big orb of lightning by slamming it towards David with her staff. The girl watch the orb approaches her enemy. As her eyes meets David's, she sees him standing still once again. He hasn't fired off his arrow, nor he's even in a stance to shoot anymore.
"This is stupid." David let out a sigh.
The magic arrow disappeared before his grip, he released his hold on to his bow which then the bow disappeared into thin-air afterwards.
"What are you...!" Rein grew dumbfounded and worried about what he just did. She has no control of the projectile she just thrown onto David, so it is impossible to reduce its power.
Rein thought taking that orb of lightning will surely kill David, she can't fathom why she decided not to attack anymore. He even decided to turn his back onto Rein, as if he doesn't care about the orb that is approaching him straight on
*Footsteps*
As David closed his eyes and turns away without giving a damn over the rocketing orb, Rein sees a figure suddenly appeared behind him and charges onto the lightning orb with haste.
"What?!"
Rein watches the person deliberately takes on the lightning orb as it discharges intense lightning.
"You barely made it." David told the person who went directly to the orb.
*Stomp!*
The sound of her heel's hitting the ground and the torn up robe wavering echoes through Rein's ears.
"Y-You...!" She stuttered.
"Sorry, I had to take a long detour while dealing with some pests."
After that direct hit with the big orb of lightning, the woman was left with bruises all over her exposed skin, together with injuries and more wounds she got from dealing with the mob of monsters on her way to David and Rein.
"I assume you still have the strength, to confront her alone." David stated.
"Yeah." Susun opens her eyes as she draws her knives from her wrists. "Leave this to me."