Surrounded by several enemies we retreated to a closer formation because the only advantage we had during this fight came from the women of the team, I was not the only one to have difficulty facing these lizards.
I was the worst as I chose a stronger enemy while the other men attacked the most common lizards, Carmilla faced the same type of enemy as me but she was able to bring the lizard to its knees after ripping one of its arms and tearing its body enough for its regeneration not to be able to heal its body.
These lizards really do have a natural affinity for the life element, even those that don't have the life element at their core have great regenerative and stamina capabilities in their bodies, and that just makes me even more afraid of those elite lizards and their leader.
The pack leader must be able to regenerate parts of his body without too much trouble and it must be a difficult task for Ana to damage his body enough to knock him down, because I doubt the lizard will allow a final blow to his body when he does. You can sacrifice a part of your body to save yourself.
These lizards are more intelligent than magical beasts of their level normally are, so it would be extremely wrong and dangerous to think that the lizard that leads all others doesn't have great combat capabilities or wisdom to fight at the same level as a human.
"Wolf, can your poison take care of them?"
"I doubt it, in the best scenario it should weaken them to the point where they can't fight, but I doubt that will happen. These lizards have very high vitality, better strategy and killing as many of them as possible to lessen the numerical advantage they have."
"That's not really a well-developed strategy."
"The difference between our power and theirs is not in our favor, you can deal with their elite and leader but the rest of the team can't."
As Ana discussed leadership strategies with so many troublesome magical beasts, our enemies were already coming within reach. There were about thirty-two magical beasts, but a part of them were still recovering from Tania's fire magic.
"Bury our prisoner, Terra. We're going to need everyone's help to keep the defensive formation going when Carmilla and I take out the lizards."
The fake mage who was now bound by chains was bound by yet another layer of hardened earth, taking off her head which is still covered and the rest of her body is securely attached to the ground. The lizards that came within range of the magic of the group's mage were not unprepared, they all used the earth element to create a very rustic earth maturing over their body, one of them even created an earth shield to protect itself.
They've fought humans too many times they're mimicking the way warriors fight, and there's something very wrong with this pack of magical beasts. Seeing the lizards' extra defense Tania couldn't hold back anymore, I felt as much heat being radiating from her body as the wind from the area is gathering around us.
I drew my bow and fired a high-level explosive arrow into it, to hit the lizards
A barrier of earth was formed in front of us when a firestorm event formed above us, Tania's magic was a magic composed of her elements. Unlike the times I use my fire and wind element together, Tania is literally tangling with her elemental energy elements, surprisingly and quite stable even though it doesn't look like it.
The fire and wind orb that had a radius of about one meter shot towards the lizards covered in earth armor, the elite lizard and five more normal lizards were hit squarely by the fire and wind orb that detonated in an explosion that created a rapid wave of fire that traveled towards the lizards that were after this first probing attack.
The leader who is studying our reaction was hit by a wave of fire that not only scorched his surface scales, but turned the trees that had been felled in that area into a source of fuel so that the wild, hot flames of Tania's magic were active for a while. long period of time.
The deforested forest in front of us has been replaced by a very flashy bonfire, this fire extends for several meters but by luck or Tania's control the flames didn't hit the trees outside the combat zone on that side. Flames of that intensity would be more than enough to start a fire capable of devouring much of this forest.
At the place where Tania's magic blast started two flaming lizards came out of the fire with lots of damage done to their bodies, these were level two lizards but they seem to be strong enough to survive Tania's magic, but their external defenses were down. completely destroyed by Tania's flames, the flesh of their bodies is not only exposed but also badly damaged.
Seeing an easy target, I fire my arrow to eliminate these two lizards that are already very close to death, my arrow pierced the skull of one of them and exploded it destroying and releasing several pieces of iron and bone wounding the body of the other. The surviving lizard falls to the ground bleeding and emitting smoke from its scorched flesh, I doubt it will be able to get up after so much damage.
I looked at Tania to see that more than half of her mana and elemental energy has already been spent in this fight, this spell has level three power from the damage generated by fire being strengthened by the wind element to have enough power to seriously injure the lizards even level three.
I'm pretty sure their leader must have taken some amount of damage and it must only be increasing while they are inside the flames. From the sea of red and green I can see that most of the lizards are running towards us, only a few of them have decided to hide underground to avoid the fire.
"Earth! Build a wall at the start of the flames to block the weak lizards. Water, be prepared to advance against the level three lizards that break the wall, the rest should support you when needed."
A long thick wall rose from the ground where the fire was burning blocking the flaming lizards as Ana ordered. In addition to being ready to use another one of my explosive arrows I also prepared my ray bomb, it is attached to my belt while I am energizing the rune arrangement to use it as a hand grenade if necessary.
The newly erected wall began to quickly collapse several cracks denouncing that the lizards had already reached the wall, but what surprised me was that two elite lizards jumped over the wall instead of breaking it with their leader. If I wasn't facing magical beasts, I would be sure these two lizards were being used as sacrifices to prevent their leader from being ambushed after breaking through the wall.
The condition of the two elite lizards that jumped the wall was much better than the level two lizards that received a direct hit from Tania's magic, their scales were completely black and cracked, but not one of them was missing.
Their defense is really high, but they still take a good deal of damage, their scale defense is pretty destroyed. Even though they can cover their body with a defense they don't have time for their natural defense to recover.
Ana and Carmilla advanced before the black lizards hit the ground, they were already tying them up before the black lizards were ready to defend themselves. These lizards really are sacrifices to keep the leader who already has his fist through the earth wall from being attacked by Ana and Carmilla before he's ready to fight them.
Ana's target was impaled by her sword and when he tried to attack her while her body was still responding after having her heart pierced by Ana's black sword. Amazing that he was still able to attack with such ferocity after having his heart destroyed, but his claws were useless against the shield that blocked his attacks.
Carmilla's confrontation was much longer and more difficult than Ana's, the lizard with the pierced heart was not able to defend against Ana's blow, but the black lizard that Carmilla was facing had enough time to defend itself from the attack of Ana. Carmilla crossing her arms to protect her chest and head.
Carmilla aimed her two sabers covered in aura and wind at the lizard's unprotected stomach, an overlapping cut went up to the lizard's spine which was able to withstand the force of Carmilla's blow that was hit by the enraged lizard's fists.
Carmilla was thrown back by the blow that hit her in the face, a nice blow but it doesn't seem to have hurt her much. The lizard didn't have the time or position to hit her with a very strong blow, Carmilla's aura was enough to block most of the damage to her face.
The lizard was in a much worse situation than Carmilla, when he fell to the ground her body couldn't stand up because of the damage he received. The severe bleeding in his stomach was enough damage that his body wasn't able to heal, but it was still shocking that he was still alive and trying to get up.
His body was practically cut in half and he had a serious injury to his spine, she may have been tough enough to withstand Carmilla's blow, but I doubt she got out without taking too much damage.
"Don't waste time with this garbage, it's already dead, we have bigger problems on that side."
Ana was absolutely right; at that exact moment a huge hole was formed in the wall and a group of black lizards came out of it and their leader was completely fine.
The leader lizard didn't show black scales, but an earthen armor, it seems that all this fire wasn't even able to scratch his body.