The three of us remains on guard, making sure the attacker didn't manage to attack us. I look around while making sure that my nose and ears are wide open.
Suddenly, I smell a foul odor and I cover my nose in pain. This catches both Eric and Liza's attention as I try not to wince in pain.
"They know.....how to counter...my nose..." I mutter, not expecting the attacker will counter my sense of smell with this. I heard a bowstring releasing the arrow and I immediately cuts the incoming arrow off.
"The fourth tree...!" I whisper at Liza, who nodded and shots a light ball on the said target, causing the enemy to yell in pain and fall. I really wish I didn't hear the crack and splat sound.
Wait, the magic spell manage to harm them. So, they hid their mana or aura by using other method. I remember some armor has mana detection immunity enhancement. But, I wonder why did they don't have magic damage reduction enchantment. Perhaps Liza's magic was too much for minor damage reduction to even be effective.
"This is getting....us nowhere...." I mutter while grabbing my stone dagger hidden under my shirt. I hear them breathing heavily, which is a big mistake as I toss it at the source of the voice. It did cause them to yelp and Liza, who is quick-witted, shots the man down. That splat will definitely haunt me at night.
"This is taking too slow." Eric said as powerful mana flows out of his body. I try not to react as his sword glows blue. He pulls back his sword before thrusting forward.
"Gale Thrust!" As he said that, a powerful tornado shots out of the blade and rips apart every tree in front of us. I can't help but in awe at the raw strength of the magic spell as Eric swings the sword, causing the tornado shreds everything in the forest, muffled screams can be heard from the tornado. My fur suddenly stood up as I grab an incoming attack out of reflexes and stabs the attacker on a thin air. It turns out to be an enemy as it falls and died.
I took the chance to enter the untouch part of the forest and track down the enemy. I saw one of them struggling to hold onto a tree, so I do it a favor by tossing a rock on its head, knocking them away and let the wind shreds them into a pile of blood as the wind dies out.
I held myself from gagging as an arrow fly pass me, barely miss the mark. I look up and saw a hooded figure jumps down, holding a sword. I grab my dagger to block it, but he pulls out a small knife and try to stab me. Fortunately, I grab his arm and lock us in stalemate.
"You and those nobles will die for killing my squad!" The hooded man snarls as I tighten my grip.
"Fuck off, greedy pig....." I snarls, which caught the man off guard, but he immediately narrow his eyes as it glows blue.
Suddenly, I felt a weird flow from his hand and I start to struggle to hold him back. Aura is a hack, I tell you! I kick him into a tree, and try to stab him, but he manages to hold my throat and slams me into the same tree.
I grit my teeth before stabbing my dagger on his arm, causing him to let go, as I crash into his gut and push him. He slams me into the ground, knocking me down, before grabbing his sword to stab me. I dodge away by roll to my side and get up.
"To think I'm struggling against a Kobold." The man sneered before lightning crackles from his hand. I widen my eyes before I barely dodge an incoming lightning bolt. I took the chance to bolt away, no pun intended, as he continue to unleashes a bolt of lightning to me.
I keep using the remaining tree to take cover, barely dodge every lightning bolt he shot at me. As he held out his hand, I took a gamble by tossing stone dagger at a blinding speed. It didn't pierce his hand, but it did it's job to harm him, breaking his finger.
As he yells, I rush towards him and stabs my dagger into his open mouth, causing him to choke, blood spewing out of his mouth. I pull out my dagger and get rid of his blood by swing it, letting the bandit fall into the ground. I pull the man's corpse and walk back into the camp, just to see Eric and Liza trying to find me.
"Sir Darren, why did you just run into the forest?!" Eric asked in distress. "You could get caught into the spell if Miss Elizabeth didn't told me about it."
"Sorry, I.....thought there'll....be an enemy escape...." I said while rubbing my head. "I....end up.....killing him...." Still can't believe I was numb to it. Did something wrong with my head?
"You're hurt." Liza mutter before casting a spell on me. The pain on my back and throat slowly disappeared, which is nice.
"Thanks..." I said as Liza smiled at me. I look at the dead man and toss it into the ground. Both of them look at him and looks back at me.
"Like I said.....escaped." I said before trying to check on anything that might be hidden underneath the cloak. Turns out, we manages to find a bag of coins with the currency of....ugh, 'Supreme' Kingdom, a paper of a bounty said 'Wanted: Elizabeth Einzworth. Dead. 100.000 Supremacy'.
"....supremacy?" I asked as Eric groan and facepalm while Liza sigh.
"It's a currency in Supreme Kingdom. It is equivalent to the universal currency we mostly used. One Supremacy is equal to one gold coin." ....wow, to think they're this bad. I continue to look before noticing a chain and a bag fill of bird seed.
I don't know about this, but I notices Eric and Liza looks worried.
"What's wrong...?" I asked.
"Those chains and the logo on the bag....it was used for messenger birds." Eric said nervously. "There's a chance that the man might've sent messages to his superior before trying to escape us."
....shit.
To be continued