281 Initial Clash (1/2)

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Raven never dropped his awareness. When Paul was attacked by Lucy earlier, Raven unfolded all the spying techniques available on his arsenal to search for the culprit. While he didn't understand why Luna was the one who sensed the attack first before him, he still managed to sense that Lucy was releasing some sort of a technique since she appeared.

He kept his mouth shut and observed, the moment he felt that she was trying to isolate them, he ripped the technique apart by using his Destruction Laws to attack the weak point.

”My, my. What do we have here?” Lucy purred with a seductive tone, ”An impressive little lamb, I see.”

Though she sounded a little weird, the team knew that they got her attention now.

”What's your name, boy?” Lucy asked as she continued tracing her scythe.

”Introductions are useless. Either you tell us what we want to know or we force out from you.” Raven stated in a cold voice as he gripped him hammer.

”Oh? Is that so? Forcing it out, you say? Hohohoho…” Lucy muttered with her strange voice, sounding a little bit insane.

She then tilted her head and continued: ”Then we shall see whether you have the ability to do so.”

Lucy abruptly disappeared from her position and when she reappeared she already had her scythe raised high, attempting to hack down at Raven who was at the back of the group. As the gleaming blade of her scythe descended in attempts of slicing Raven in two, a ferocious roar and a piercing shriek echoed inside the cave.

”HAAAAAHHHH!” Paul's throat vibrated he released an ear-shattering roar. As the sound waves travelled towards Lucy, it caused her to falter slightly and made her attack miss Raven, who didn't even bother dodging at all.

A blue barrier appeared at each of the team members, a shield that could protect them nine times against life-threatening attacks and won't disappear so long as Paul is standing.

Ellen's shriek caused Lucy to suffer a headache. Along with her voice, a geyser of flames erupted beneath her feet, nearly sundering her to ashes. Reacting quickly, she retreated a few steps back in order to regain her balance and attempt another attack.

But before she could do so, a blue flash resembling lightning caught up to her in a heartbeat. Lucy placed her scythe in front of her to defend.

*Clang*

The dagger thrown at her ricocheted in the air, Lucy was about to retreat yet again when she saw a blitz of blue flash near the dagger. To her shock, Mark appeared out of nowhere and planted his feet firmly at her skull mask, causing her to fly backwards.

Still the onslaught of the team she called 'Lambs', didn't stop there.

Even in her flight back, she still have to actively defend herself since she could see green flashes of light heading her way.

Lucy could feel a profound sense of danger in these green lights, and being a battle hardened woman she knows that she couldn't block these arrows from Anne, which left her with the only option available to her, dodging. She shifted her weight and used her delicate hands to stop her from flying back and regain her footing.

She then rolled aside to avoid the arrows from piercing her skull and heart. Lucy then got up and received yet another waves of attack, this time coming from Luna who engaged her in a ferocious melee.

Luna's attacks were fast and deadly. With her being using her Light Laws, the speed of her attacks were too much for Lucy to handle. Sparks of clashing metals briefly illuminated the dark cave as the two women clashed with one another.

In between their clash, Luna pulled a surprising move which made Lucy confused. She took a step back and stomped her feet, causing her to leap in the air. Lucy was about to follow her to resume the clash but all of a sudden, she heard this…

”Twisting Decimation.”

Arms manifested in front of Raven, twisting around each other to resemble a battering ram that flew towards the unsuspecting Lucy.

Lucy on the other hand noticed this too late, causing her to bear the astounding weight behind Raven's attack. She shot back like a cannon ball, coughing out blood amidst of her flight back. With a loud sound, she found herself embedded on the walls of the cave, feeling pain all over her body.

”Curses…” she muttered as she dislodged herself from being embedded on the wall. ”What ferocious little brats you are, specially you boys! Is this how you treat a Lady?”