She still had some doubt in her weapon and she could not afford that gamble. She has to rely on her plan B , which will be just hit and run.
In previous fight with skeletons she has gained some confidence in her fighting as she could sneak attack them.
But there is a problem that is hounds which have good aim with their jaws.
If she is not fast enough then she will be eaten alive.
Second problem is lava dripping from their mouth.
Rika looked in a certain direction where she saw forest-fire and understood that these nature unfriendly hounds are the cause for it.
She got alerted by it and took it as an sign that these hounds are closing by.
"Before sneak jumping upon them I have to reduce their number or scatter them. "She said hurriedly.
"Um.. What should I do? ", she questioned herself touching her chin and folding one hand below her chest.
She started thinking for ways.Thinking for some time she got a small smile on her face indicating she came up with an idea.
Well, it wasn't a complex idea nor she had any confidence in that.
Just because she has resources why not use it? Right. That's what she thought.
Without waiting for any more seconds she started searching stones and a tree where she would not be seen by the skeleton and the hounds.
"I am not sure if hounds can climb the tree. "
Sigh..
"Even if it's possible I can smash their face with the stones.I can face-slap them. "
She looked for a good tree and tried climbing it.
" Hmm it's good and sturdy and has wet wood in it. Nice...nice."
The tree had many side branches on it which made it easier to climb.
"It is easy for me to climb, it is ladder like at some point but it will be difficult for them. Good good... "
Earlier she has stored some big stones and some small stones in her inventory. Upon reaching a certain height from the ground she found a good place to keep the stones on the tree.
The place she chose was not too high and not too low from the ground.
" Nice, from here I can easily aim for their heads...only if my aim is good! ", she chuckled.
After stacking some stones she climbed down and again repeated it two times.
Climb down - collect stones-climb up- search for empty branch- stack-repeat.
When she was climbing down for third time she heard some walking sounds and rustles.
Her attention went in that direction and she stopped her movement and climbed back on her branch.
'Maybe they are close by. ' She was alarmed by the noises.
After looking in the same direction for some time a black silhouette became visible with a sword in one hand and emitting an aura of danger.
It none other than the skeleton.
At the same time from its left in the direction where forest-fire was, came forth the lava hounds.
Upon seeing them...
'They didn't fight with each other? 'she thought in confusion.
'Don't hounds love bones? '
Looking them teaming up she thought...
'Should I start the hunt? '
But there was some problem.
'How can I get their attention? '
They were far away but they were in group.
'Maybe I can scream;they will come running'
'But if I scream I have to go against all four of them. '
Hmm.
Thinking for some time she decided to go with the same plan but instead of screaming loudly she will scream once for 3 second then stop they will come running..
If not she will repeat but for 2 seconds.
And when the are close enough she will distract some of them buy throwing stones in bushes.
'Good may this idea can work. '
Enemies were passing by her as she was hidden.
But when hounds closed the distance their nose twitched and her human odour was smelt by them.
They rushed towards the tree taking the trails of smell from place to place.
As hounds came closer and closer her anxiety began to rise but to no avail she has to fight it .
If not now then never she would have second chance.
She screamed for 3 seconds...
"Haik...hoooo... Haaaa".... In a funny way, which took their attention and all four of them came running in the direction of the sound.
But without wasting a second she threw the biggest stone directly from her inventory aiming for skelton's skull.
Swiiiiingg~Crack~
With a velocity more than 'acceleration due to gravity' the stone descended on the 'scull' cracking it into pieces and giving the skeleton a gift 'eternal rest'.
"Good", she rejoiced.
This sound of cracking alarmed hounds. They started searching for her below the tree.
They being dumb kept circling the tree and didn't looked up.
Taking advantage of the situation she rained stone storm on them first stack...second stack emptied her inventory.
Two hounds were crushed below the stones.
Seeing this, last hound found her and tried climbing the tree like a squirrel. But what to do dogs will always be dogs they cant turn themselves in squirrel.
...
...
...
Upon putting his forelimbs on the tree trunk and hind limbs on ground it looked up the tree.
"Hello houndie how R you! Did you have breakfast? " She said in mocking tone.
She smirked and continued, "If not then take these.. "
Saying this she smashed a stone on his face.
Bang~
The hound cried, "Roooarrr Kyu kyu kyu" and tried runnig away.
But will she let it go? Nope.
"Guests should be treated nicely "she again said in mocking tone.
" Let me show some hospitality to my guest. "
Saying this she threw all the remaining stones and crushed the hound into rubble of stones.
"Thank me later" she bowed, standing on the tree.
"pfft~", She let out a small laughter
"lol they died miserably"she cringed.
"I cleared it without sweating." she shouted making a victory sign. "V"
'Haiz,whatever let's check if they are still alive. '
It was clear by the scene that they all have died but she needed confirmation.
She climbed down and jumped from the tree separating herself from the trunk she crouched down and picked up skeleton's sword.
After picking up the sword she stood up and approached the hounds.
When she closed the distance she saw a hound struggling below stones.
She quickly ran towards it and pierced the sword in its skull killing it struggling.
"It's good that I checked on it or else my lack of attention would have killed me. " she sighed.
She took back her sword from the hound which was stuck in his head...
Swing~
"I should not put a blind eye on it. "
To not ignore other two she moved towards them.
Walking towards next hound she did the same thing.
Next...
She approached third one but it was already dead. To not let it go under her eyes she pierced its scull with her sword.
In this time her rusted sword melted so she threw it away.
"Ah shit here we go again... " she sighed and started thinking about getting a new weapon.