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Chapter 15 - Reinforcement Tactic

The Knights have fought since dawn. They were fighting in an open grass field, which was currently tainted by blood everywhere. The knights look exhausted; they've been fighting trolls, goblins, and minotaurs for a long time, and among all of those, the most annoying and dangerous one was one of the flying types, a monster that has bat-shaped wings and arachnid legs. It is as big as a human head.

An intelligent arachnoid monster, they called it the head-hunting arachiroptera. They waited and detected an exhausted knight and aimed their heads with their arachna legs, trying to rip the head from the neck. That's why every knight fights in a group to cover each other. But one group has all of the knights already exhausted.

One of the knights said, "Huff huff. I can't do this anymore."

Then, just like an arrow to the knee, two arachiropteras fly toward the exhausted knight's head.

"Guys, hurry!" one of his party members saw.

Three of the knights were all running to try to cover and save the exhausted knight from the arachiropteras, but their legs were giving up. In that instant, all of the monsters were swarming them. That's when they realize they won't make it. But suddenly, multiple green arrows were coming as fast as bullets piercing both of the arachiropteras. Then all of a sudden,

"By the name of the Goddess of Flame, Ifrit, flamestrike!" 

Two lines of blazing flame strikes were created railing from the ground, disrupting the swarming monsters and making time for the knight to retreat.

One of the knights shouted, "The reinforcement party has arrived!"

The reinforcement party has arrived on stage.

Kairos shouts, "Order from Sir Lionel; all of the knights retreat! We take over!"

All the reinforcements then came in for the hassle, switching with the knights.

One of the knights said to Kairos, "You came in time. I owe you one. We'll all come back in one hour, and let's try to finish this in one swoop."

He was the temporary leader for the knight's order since Sir Lionel is in the stronghold. He's been taking charge for the last two days since the monsters caused a nearly fatal wound to the captain after swarming him when the numbers of them suddenly increased. It caused Lionel to have feverish sickness the next day, which he couldn't resist, causing him to be weak.

While fighting a big troll chieftain, Kairos tries to look at the situation as a whole; the number of monsters is ten times more than the reinforcement party. He then thinks,

"We can hold them now because we're fresh. But we need to do something with this number, or else we will be exhausted in a matter of time."

Meyeri then suddenly came in like a mind reader.

"I need to get Cithrel with me. I have an idea to reduce this swarm of monsters."

Kairos then nods. Meyeri flicks her hand and flies to the back rank to find Cithrel.

"Cithrel! I need you to help me."

Cithrel replied while shooting arrows at monsters, "Hi Meyeri, what do you want?"

Meyeri then flicked her hand, cutting all the brown grass nearby with wind magic, making it into a big haystack.

"I want you to strengthen these with your lumina."

Cithrel doesn't understand what she wants to do, but she nods and proceeds to do it. After the haystack was covered by Cithrel's lumina, it became straight and had a piercing property just like a needle.

Meyeri then proceeds to envelop the haystack with her lumine and flick her hand, causing it to disperse.She shouted, "Everyone duck!"

It was a really loud shout. Everyone reflectively ducks, and then Meyeri shots all the needles toward the monsters. All of the shots were nearly fatal, causing either the monster to die or to be fatally wounded.Kairos shouted, "This is our chance!"

The reinforcement party roared and wiped out nearly all of the monsters. Then suddenly, a chill filled the air; all of the experienced adventurers felt it and started to get anxious. A big black cloud appears in the sky, spawning lightning. Then a big shadow, as big as a mountain, spawned.

All the last monsters that were fighting suddenly fled into the forest. They are savage, but they are aware of their own lives, just like the goblins were before. They're afraid of getting caught in the attack of such a giant monster.

Bit by bit, the appearance showed. It is shaped like a human, but there are three heads with one eye each. It has three hands, and its body is enveloped by a powerful black lumina.

Meyeri looks at that monster and instantly responds by smacking the ground with both of her hands and chanting,

"By the name of the goddess of earth, Gaia, Earth Prison!"

A big, spiky wall was made around its feet, trying to trip the enormous giant to buy some time.

Kairos shouts, "Retreat!"