Chapter 90: Fooling the enemy (1/2)

The Demon Ultima was puzzled.

'Why his mental interference did not take effect on them? Why are these two able to move in the face of him?'

He could not believe this! Then he noticed the glow that enveloped their bodies.

'T-That girl again! Meddlesome girrrrrl!' He angrily screamed in his thoughts.

In truth, Ice cast a spell that temporarily boasted Yman and Almina's resistance to mental attacks and pressure.

Yman guessed that the enemy would not expect them to dodge his attack at the first encounter.

He believed that proud beings would always look down on the weak and thus the bearer of limitless pride.

After the enemy's attacks were caught by him, Yman assumed that the Demon Ultima would take him first.

To completely evade his attack, Yman had to use Rapid Leap towards Almina, then Almina would use Rapid Leap towards the enemy's back-side while pulling him. With this, the enemy could easily pick their presence.

Fueled by pride, the anger rose in him and therefore he lost his awareness to his surroundings. He turned his back and faced them. He forgot that there was someone who could easily tear his flesh among their group. And that someone was aiming at him — accurately.

Ice was staring at it knowingly, but in reality, she was dumbfounded, everything that happened at the moment was really as that person told them. It was like he already knew how the enemy would react in the battle.

”I-ls this for real?”

Maena heard the Ace muttering in surprise. She sighed inwardly, then chose not to be bothered by it.

However, deep inside, she started to question, 'What is true strength?'

Maena pushed it at the back of her mind for now as she had more important things needed to do!

...

The Demon cried in agony as his body was pierced one after another.

However,

Despite the fact that he was pierced multiple times, Yman noticed that the demon's health points were still at 70% at most.

Yman quickly stood up and signaled Almina for a retreat.

Almina quickly retreated her sword that bore in the Demon Ultima's stomach, when she felt Yman's hand was strengthened his gripped onto hers.

The warmth from it proliferated into hers.

Right now, the guy beside her looked like a real man. Stood taller than her, and with a mature aura around him. She couldn't understand what happened to him, but it wasn't important right now. Because she was very happy at the moment! To be able to hold his hand is like a dream come true to her.

She was caught unguarded when Yman proposed this plan to them. Seeing her flustered and awkward yelped, Yman had to explain that he wasn't taking advantage of the situation. Almina knew about it, but she was caught in surprise, so her face was burning hot.

Regardless,

Yman felt something unusual and immediately signaled Almina to retreat.

Without a second thought, he used Rapid Leap and jumped into the air while pulling Almina with him.

Right after they leaped, the demon stomped his foot on the ground, followed by countless spikes that protruded from it.

Spikes in the form of fangs and with dark red colors raised 3 meters while racing to pierce them. Fortunately, Yman and Almina were already 10 meters above the ground.

But the demon didn't seem bothered with it. He in fact was snoring at them.

”Guehehe, do you think you are successful in your escape? Now let's see if you can stay for long in the air!”The demon had expected them to fall after they reached the highest level of ascending. Later on, they would start to descend.

A while ago, Yman felt a disturbance of dense mana around the demon and on the ground. He felt a bad premonition about it and had to retreat. Even if he had the ability to crumble the enemy's magic-based attack like it was nothing, it was still dangerous to do it when he didn't know what kind of ability the enemy would use.

His decision proved right after he saw those countless spikes raised on the ground.

Yman had no way to make them all disappear.

”Tsk, an area of effect,” he clicked his tongue and mumbled while still on the air.

”Area of effect?” Almina repeated.

”It is a wide-range attack that is able to hit multiple enemies,” Yman explained while twitching his brow.

Almina peeked below and saw the 10 meters radius spikes surrounding the demon. On the other hand, Maena was bombarding attacks of freezing arrows towards the demon. Those arrows were purely made of ice. It was the secondary ability of Maena in learning magic; to be able to materialize an object out of thin air, using the element she was having an affinity with.

The demon seemed to find a way to defend himself from Maena's barrage of attacks. He was using the spikes to block it. The arrows she fired had pierced about 5-7 spikes before it broke into pieces like powder and turned into smokes.

Inwardly, the demon was wondering why ice Elementalist humans are always troublesome. He wanted to skewer their flesh and scattered their innards while bathing from their blood.

The demon eerily thought.

Almina noticed that Maena's attacks had become lesser and lesser. She was probably getting tired by now. Yet, she did not stop.