After two hours of walks and fights through the forest, finally we found our targets. Three bipedal drakes with spikes growing all over their bodies which have a green hide and yellow underbelly. Two are Level 18 and one are Level 16. Just as we found them, the weakest one charged toward us while the bigger two are waiting on the back.
"Send the weakest to probe us, huh?" Ouka asked to no one in particular.
"Guess now they know how to test the water." I replied to her, just for comment.
"Not like it can change anything, though." Layla playfully flicked her whip.
In the middle of our comments, Kiseki and Chikane quickly rushes to the charging beast. Reina also didn't want to lose. She quickly cast some curse to weaken the beast. Our seniors are about to join in the fray but I waved my hand and put a stop on them.
"No kill steal, please. First come first served. Let those girls take down that beast. That also would be a good battle to train them."
"Oh..., okay, fine by us." Ouka agreed and then changed her direction to the level 18 Spiked Beast Drake on the left. I also quickly run over to the Spiked Beast Drake on the right, flinging my quickest spell to land a first hit.
"[Lightning Bolt] !!!"
My lightning strike zap the beast right before an arrow of light shot at it. I turned my head to Misha the Holy Elf who have just sniped the beast.
"I am sorry, senior. That beast is already marked by me. Please don't steal it, okay?"
"Huh? So you can uses Thunder Magic... That is quick."
"E he he.... Thanks for the compliment." Laughing merrily I shot two more [Lightning Bolt] which lands perfectly on the paralyzed Spiked Beast Drake.
"Are you sure you want to fight it? It is a Level 18, you know? That is a whole lot level above you!" Layla warns me. Despite being a bit flirty and quite playful, she sure can be caring and serious in combat.
"It is okay, I also wanted to test on my limit. If I can not fight it one versus one, I will give it for you. We will split the reward for it fifty – fifty by then, how about it?" I try to talk some terms while continuing to zap the beast. After getting close enough, I brandished my sword and slashed its right hand. The beast which is still getting paralyzed from my Lightning Bolts can even move a finger and can only meet my attack head on.
(DDiiiiinnnggggg!!!!!)
The clinking sound like metal clashing against metal reverberated as my sword strikes the beast's hide. Wow, unlike its soft appearance, that beast's green colored hide are unexpectedly hard like a plate of steel.
The Spiked Beast Drake I fight are about to recover from its paralysis. It began to move clumsily and are almost succeed to land a punch with its front limb that is as thick as a tree trunk. Well, as a Level 18 Beast, a Spiked Beast Drake are at least three times more powerful than a normal elephant. Surely getting hit by its punch are no joke for me even though I am only One Level below it.
Zapping it with more [Lightning Bolt], I come close to it again as it is still paralyzed. If its hide are as hard as iron, then how about its underbelly? The yellow skin on its chest and stomach looks soft enough to be stabbed by me. Which I do with the greatest vigor.
I stabbed the Level 18 Spiked Beast Drake yellow colored stomach with my sword. The blade sinked into its stomach and trapped within its tight muscles. My sword can not go any further to inflict any fatal damage and I also can not draw it back as it is getting stuck on the beast's belly. As I see the beast smirked at me while it begin to recover from its limping, I smirked back at it and casted a stream of continuous [Lightning Bolt] to flow in my sword, sending bolts of lightning traveled with my iron sword as it medium straight to the beast's flesh
The Spiked Beast Drake that received my [Lightning Bolt] directly to its intestines jolted fiercely. It tries to roar in agony as its delicate internal organs are zapped one by one with electricity running on my sword that is stuck on its belly. But no sound can come out from its gaping mouth before it fall limply with its eyes gone all white. It is still alive, though. It is only losing its consciousness. As its muscles has now become loose, I can draw back my sword that was getting stuck on its belly and continue to behead the incapacitated beast with three swings of my sword.
And that concludes our battle. As I looked around, I found out that all the girls have been finished taking care of their beast, all of them are watching me fighting the beast alone without a word. Ouka is the first one to break the silence.
"Amazing..., fighting a beast one level above you alone and still can win easily...."
"Unbelievable, right?" "As expected from a man who can defeat the two of us..." Kiseki and Chikane said.
"Hm hm. To combine magic and swordplay in your attack, you sure are a good match for our Ouka." Layla said such an irresponsible and easily to be misunderstood words.
"Wwhh..... Whaaaa....!? Layla, what did you just said!?" Ouka have become flustered, her aura of dignity gone, replaced by lovely gesture of a girl who get embarasssed by a suggestive comment from her friend.
I see today I have looked at many different side of my respected senior. It is kind of cute, honestly. But let's wrap it all for now. As we have defeated our target, we gathered our spoils of war and teleported back to our campus. This time we go together with a [Warp Portal] opened by Misha.