"This fucker," Anthony cursed under his breath as he saw Davies lay down on his ice-made lawn chair and close his eyes, seemingly asleep, but he didn't have time to dwell on that, and even if he did, there was nothing he could do about it.
Changing focus, he glanced behind him to see if his teammates had gotten in formation and breathed a sigh of relief as they had.
Since they were surrounded by the snow lizards, they couldn't get into the conventional formation where the tank stayed in front with the damage dealers behind him and then the mages/long rangers at the back of the line, so they got into a circular formation instead with Anthony, Jonas, Sakura, Tisha, and Jack forming a circle of their own and Teresa and Arnim staying within the circle so they can be protected by their comrades.
One of the snow lizards lunged towards the group but met a stone wall in the form of Anthony as he had gotten there in time to block the snow lizards' charge.
"Graaaaahhhh!"
Anthony didn't give the snow lizard any time for it to change its attack tactics as he used his strength to push against the lizard, making it lose balance and fall over on its back. Without wasting any time, Sakura and Jack lunged into the air and came down fast on the poor snow lizard, skewering it with their blades and putting it out of its misery.
On another side of the circle, Jonas used the bestiality form of his "lightning cat" blessing as his nails became sharper and his hair stood up as lightning began to arc around him. He used the speed from this form to lunge at another of the snow lizards and in a swift motion, disposed of its eyes, plunging the snow lizard into a world of darkness.
"Screeeeeee!!!" the snow lizard screamed in pain as its eyes were put out of commission.
"Wind Scythe!" Teresa formed a sharp blade of wind and sent it at the blind lizard, but the lizard managed to sense it and wanted to jump out of the way only to find out that its body was rooted to the spot by Tisha's telekinesis ability.
*Schwinng*
Another snow lizard was sent into the hands of Hades due to the team attack of the Imperium League B-Squad.
After they grouped up again, Teresa created a huge whirlwind that was powerful enough to lift the snow lizards into the air. Some of the snow lizards tried to run away from the whirlwind but they got knocked back in by Anthony's shield and Tisha's telekinesis, and when they were finally all being thrown around in the whirlwind, Sakura and Jonas prepared to attack.
"Cursed Crescent,"
Sakura said as she got into a sword stance and swung her sword, sending a wave of sharp cursed energy at the whirlwind, on her side, the lightning strikes arcing around Jonas started to become thicker and longer,
"Kiri… Ahem, Killing Thunder!" he shouted as he gathered the lightning and shot it up into the air with a loud bang. The condensed lightning flew a little distance into the air before rushing back downwards towards the whirlwind.
The cursed energy and lightning struck and connected with the whirlwind at the same time forming a cursed lightning whirlwind, electrocuting and corroding the snow lizards that were being swung around inside the whirlwind.
Davies who was still lying down on his custom-made icy lawn chair opened one of his eyes to look at the status screen to know how many snow lizards they had killed,
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Gate mission
Kill 10000 monsters.
No of monsters killed: 9
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[They're actually quite impressive]
'Inefficient… and loud,' Davies replied to Miya immediately.
[Eh? … what do you mean?] Miya asked, intrigued.
'While their attacks are very effective and they managed to kill all the B-ranked snow lizards without even a single scratch, they're wasting too much mana… though they don't really have that much of a choice if they want to survive in this gate, but they seem to have forgotten that they have to kill 10000 monsters and not a few snow lizards which brings us to my second point,'
'... you don't think such a ruckus would go unnoticed by other monsters, do you?' Davies asked Miya and true to his words, his senses picked up multiple monsters coming towards their location.
The B-Squad, however, hadn't noticed anything and were happily commenting among themselves about how they made quick work of the snow lizards. They weren't aware of the pack of Snow-White wolves rapidly closing in on their location, neither were they aware of the Snow-white wolf that was ahead of the pack and was slowly sneaking towards them.
The wolf was already close enough to attack, but instead of attacking the weakest looking person, the wolf decided to attack the most exhausted looking person, since they wouldn't be able to resist, after deciding that, the wolf lunged towards the sexy looking wind mage.
No one was able to see the wolf until it was too late, and it was too late for anyone to stop it or for Teresa to block or even dodge the wolf lunging toward her with its mouth open wide, showing teeth sharp enough to end her life in less than a second.
"TERESA!!!" Jack and Sakura shouted.
*Krrrr… Schwing* an ice spike suddenly shot out of the snow filled floor, stabbing into the wolf's head and killing it just before it could reach Teresa.
"Shut up… loud mouths," Davies said irritated at their screaming,
"I just told you idiots to pay attention to your surroundings…" Davies's irritated voice rang in their ears as he stood up and began to walk towards Teresa.
Davies didn't stop walking even after moving past Teresa, he continued forward not bothering about the dead wolf on the ice spike, or even bothering to look at Teresa who looked at him with stars in her eyes. Davies only stopped in front of Tisha and then bent his face to her level,
"You… why are you holding back your strength?" Davies asked her with an intrigued tone.
"I- I don't know what you're talking about," Tisha stammered and then looked away with a slight pout. She tried to look angry but only ended up looking cute and increasing Davies's interest.
"With a blessing like yours, you could be dominant in your battles and be the decisive factor of this team, but instead you only focus on controlling the enemy's movement so that your teammates could kill them instead," Davies continued.
"My blessing isn't that strong," still looking away, Tisha tried to deny.
"Nilfheim's rain," Davies used his skill without even looking back, using snowfield sensing to target all the monsters in the vicinity that he could sense.
A thousand ice swords formed in the sky, and then came raining down on all the monsters that were closing in on their location and skewering them to pieces.
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Gate mission
Kill 10000 monsters.
No of monsters killed: 379
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All the members of the B-Squad couldn't believe their eyes as they saw that Davies had just killed 370 monsters with just one move.
"You could do the same… but with your barrier constructs instead of ice," Davies said with his eyes gleaming as he looked at her with a slight smile,
"So, why don't you?"
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