34 Rocks vs Magic (1/2)
The girls had no hard time catching up with their prey after all the only the thing they had to do was follow the trail of chaos and dead wolves. All those corpses were killed in a very efficient way, they cause of death was always a blunt trauma, to the head. The girls got more and more active, as they came closer and closer. As the body count of dead wolves reached close 50 wolves, they finally found the source.
Looking at the fight that was currently happening in front of them, they were baffled by the strange weapon, if you even call something like that a weapon, is used.2 Rocks are smashing through the air and directed at the wolf who was currently trying to escape, after the rest of the wolfpack died. As it turned out their target was just another human. He was slightly taller than Samantha, his body was really muscular and judging by his frame alone, they were not sure who they should call the monster here. His frame was twice as big as any men they had seen before. His whole body was shining due to sweat and blood that covered it.
Without any suspense, he directed the threads and crushed the wolves head. He calmly walked up to it looking at the damage he caused before slowly turning his head around facing towards us, who have kept watching while staying as hidden as possible. We emerged out of cover and walked towards the man. There was a slight disappointment lingering in the air, that this adventure ended in seeing amere human fight against wolves. Still, it was quite rare to see a Human NPC this far out in the Wilds. That is why they were willing to show him their goodwill and not killed him right on the spot.
” Hello fellow brethren, what are you doing here so far away from your friends and family,” Samantha said courteously but the man just stared at them without giving any kind of response
”Is he mute or something? ”Eve muttered ” Showing us contempt, when we try to talk to him nicely, it is no wonder humans are so inferior”
All out of a sudden an a sword made out of ice, passed by the head of the man.
”Answer her you filthy creature” Claudia screamed at the men, whose expression has yet to change. ” Answer her”
The feeling of uneasiness Samantha had suppressed earlier on, came back stronger than ever, but she did not feel any kind of dangerous vibe from this men. His face was quite strange It did have any resemblance to the rest of the NPCs that they saw. His brown eyes just kept on looking at them waiting for what kind of action they would end up picking.
” I am not here to hurt or steal anything from you, all I want is some information, afterwards we will just go, nobody has to get hurt here.” Samantha tried to persuade, the unknown men, even if she had to threaten him in order to reach her goal. But to no avail the men did not move on an inch, did not react to any of their words.
” We are you trying to negotiate with a monkey?” Just kill and move on. Eve said with a sweet smile on her face. She was ready to attack if Samantha gave her a sign.
”Why are you contemplating about such an easy decision, that is so unlike you Sam?” Without waiting for the decision, she began to throw a windblade at the men.
That marked the moment, where they saw the men react for the first time, the man was showing a disappointed expression on his face. After the wind blade hit him, without even any attempt of dodging, a little bit of blood was spilling out of the small wound. Nearly at the same time, many small yet sharp ice particle hit his flesh and left many small holes all over his torso. Even after the 2 attacks hit him the man did not move.
Claudia and Eve began to laugh and pointed their fingers at him.
” Look he is so afraid he can not even move right now and he could not even dodge such a weak spell. Come on, will ya at least show us some pitiful screams full of agony, we want to be entertained here” Claudia said with a gaze full of contempt.
The men opened his lips for the first time, but they were left dumbfounded to hear a language, they had never heard before. The man was pulling the rocks to himself in a composed manner. While Eve and Claudia were busy daydreaming about the upcoming fun. Samantha made a shocking observation, that they did not pay any attention to before. A normal NPC gets nearly cleaved in half when the wind blade connects but this one did not even try to dodge like the others. A slow yet mighty attack left only a shallow wound on his body. After the men had finally grabbed his rock again, a slight smile became visible on his face.
Without any kind of warning, as Samantha just barely managed to cast an ice-wall to shield the daydreaming eve. But before she could start the offensive she had to cast another Ice-wall to save her Sister from an attack that came straight from above. The trio realized that this would not be as easy as the expected it to be. So the began to focus, the man was currently just 2 meters away from them. After pulling one rock away, he used the produced force to dodge the next wave of attacks that were targeted at his previous spot.
They are currently working in a formation, Eve uses her wind spells to keep the movement of the enemy in check, while Claudia is trying to use her magic in pincer attacks to corner the enemy, while Samanthas job was to attract the attention of the enemy and to keep him busy as to provoke mistakes.It is a really strong tactic against creatures relying on their instincts, but they were not fighting an animal.
He kept on dodging every attack that came at him, after setting up another pincer attack. Samantha used her magic to create a solid layer of ice so that he loses his footing. Claudia and Eve combine their magic, they speed the mana small ice particle up by empowering it with wind magic. While his escape should have been impossible he simply smashed one of the rocks into the solid layer of ice, while throwing the other rock in front of him he used that rock as a solid surface to jump on and used the force of the other rock to escape the attack.