Chapter 398 - The Next Enemy (1/2)

Chapter 398 – The Next Enemy

Seeing the statue fly instantly into the air, Belda and Jearl stood there with their mouths agape.

「What the?」「Gaaa?」

I would have to explain it to her later.

「Leave the rest to me! Femm!」

「Wuff!」

I got on Femm and left the rest to Cruz while I chased after the stone statue flying through the sky.

「I’ll take care of the town Al! You take care of the statue.」

Cruz shouted happily as Femm ran through the town.

Femm ran after the flying statue as only a magical king of the wolves could.

We quickly left the town and went into the woods.

After a little more, we found the statue on the ground.

『In pieces again.』

「Well, the magic I lifted it into the sky with, once it left the town, I reversed and made it heavy with.」

『And it hit the ground with a lot of damage.』

「If it’s connected with the magical circle, then it’s outside of its reach now. It shouldn’t move.」

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『It moved.』

「Yeah.」

『Everyone makes mistakes.』

Femm said, with a slightly disappointed voice.

It was a bit embarrassing, so I decided to dispatch it immediately.

I surrounded the statue with a ball of white hot fire. We could both feel the heat from afar.

『That’s so HOT!』

「Back up then.」

With the ball of fire, the statue still moved. It was stone and thus defensive against fire.

Its whole body was in the fireball and it swung its arm at us. The grass around it caught fire.

I dodged backwards and Femm shouted,

『It’s going to cause a fire!』

「I have to take care of the statue first.」

I would take care of any fire afterwards with ice. But I had to keep burning the statue.

『It’s having no effect.』

「Don’t worry, it is.」

『Then I trust you.』

The stone began to turn red. Only a little more.

Just as I was about to cast my next magic.

「I knew it was you, Al.」

「Ah, Luka, what a coincidence.」

「No coincidence. I knew that it was your magic, so I ran away to here.」

「Oh?」

If she ran away from something else then it must have been a strong enemy.

She was answering a quest about something outside of Elkay from yesterday.

It must have been a very strong enemy.

Leah and Leo, who were B ranked adventurers, ran up behind her.

Luka was pretty dirtied up, and Leah and Leo looked worse for the wear.

They also looked like they were very tired.

If it was a hard fight for Luka, then it must have been way harder for the two siblings.

「Leah and Leo, run back to town and tell Cruz and Yureena what’s going on.」