Chapter 337: An Expected Outcome (2/2)

Whoosh! Whoosh!

Various balls of energy taking on various shapes and sizes soon entered both Melzarin and Felix's bodies, increasing their combat power to the limit. Fortunately, by the time all of the buffs had applied on the two, Eleanor had broken through the two barriers, which meant that she had no momentum left.

Without hesitation, the two of them charged towards Eleanor, with Melzarin at the front. Eleanor, who could feel the combat intent strongly emanating from the two, hastily used the gray flames she had summoned to form a shield in front of her. Unfortunately, she did not expect that the combat power of the two would be so overbearing.

”[Mountain Reformation Scripture: World-Rending Form]!”

”[Cleaving the Myriad Mountains]!”

Swish! Bang!

Thanks to his attack speed being enhanced to insane degrees by Argentum's buffs, the double-handed sword Melzarin was wielding had collided with the shield of gray flames in an instant, blasting all of them away, much to Eleanor's surprise. With a ton of momentum left in the double-handed sword, it made sense that the sword would connect with Eleanor's body and send her flying, though she did try a last-ditch effort to defend.

Whoosh!

With her being flung at great speeds, Melzarin shouted at Felix, who was now dashing to where she would land, ”Give it all you got!”

”Why wouldn't I?!” Felix hastily shouted in response as he made sure to be ahead of Eleanor by a few meters. By the time Eleanor was about to land on the ground, Felix had appeared before him, channeling a great portion of energy in his body to cover his water spear in magic circles.

Not long after, he thrust the spear towards Eleanor, cutting off all her momentum just like that before being flung back to where the three were.

”[Tsunami Piercer Variant: Leviathan Devouring the Seven Seas]!”

Bang!

And just like that, Eleanor was sent flying once more. But this time, she was flying back to where Melzarin and the others were at great speeds.

Just as the three were about to get away from the spot where Eleanor would possibly land, Argentum sent a message to the other three through the connection they had and asked, ”Do you think Eleanor would return back to normal with such an attack?”

”If those attacks don't return her back to normal, then we're pretty much doomed,” Felix said in response as he headed to where they were. Melzarin agreed with Felix's words, adding, ”Those attacks of ours used up a great portion of our energy. In short, it's up to Rosalia and possibly you, Argentum, to fight against the weakened Eleanor.”

”I'm not even great at attacks…” Rosalia could not help but say. As for Argentum, he could only scratch his head. Though, not long after, a thought surfaced in his mind as he asked them, ”On second thought, what if I told you guys that I have a way to stop Eleanor from attacking for a bit, allowing you three to land more attacks?”

”Oh?” In an instant, the curiosities of the three were piqued, wondering how such a weak Pseudo-Animate would have such an overbearing skill in his arsenal. Of course, they went ahead and started to clear up all their doubts, with Felix going first as he asked, ”How much time can you buy for us?”

”I'm not sure since I haven't tried it, but I feel like I could bind her for 10 seconds,” Argentum replied, responding with the smallest amount of time he could achieve with the skill. Nevertheless, the three were left at a loss for words, expecting that he would respond that he could bind her for only a second or two at most. Although they wanted to believe his words, they knew that it would be better for them to doubt his words for now since they didn't want to take any chances.

Then again, they decided that they would use Argentum's method for now, binding Eleanor at the very moment she landed. With that, the four hastily got away from the area where Eleanor would land, watching as Eleanor fell to the ground like a shooting star.

Thud! Bang!

With no surprise, Eleanor landed on the ground with a tremendous amount of force, forming a crater that was about a couple of meters deep and around a dozen meters wide. Since they had visual and auditory confirmation that Eleanor had landed on the ground, Argentum went ahead and used the innate skill from [Sage's Earth Magic] for the first time.

”[Jotunheim Domain]!”

Swoosh!

Within a second, the ground surrounding Eleanor had taken on a shade of light yellow as vines made out of this light yellow energy wrapped itself around Eleanor. After confirming that there was no resistance from Eleanor even after a second, the four of them hastily went closer to where she was, letting out a sigh of relief at the very moment they saw her.

Right now, Eleanor had returned to her original form, the gray dress surrounding her now being the usual shade of red she exuded. Even the gray flame mark on her forehead was nowhere to be seen. Just as Rosalia and Felix were about to get closer to Eleanor, Melzarin stopped the two of them as he said, ”Allow me.”

Although they had no idea why Melzarin stopped the two of them, since they knew he had changed, they decided that it would be a good first chance for him to change Eleanor's impression of him.

Making his way to where Eleanor was, Melzarin went ahead and poked her on the cheek a few times, which surprisingly woke her up.

”Mnghh…” Moaning from the pain she felt all over her body, Eleanor looked around her surroundings, only for her vision to stop as she noticed that Melzarin was in front of her. Naturally, Eleanor tried to distance herself from him as far as possible after that, but unfortunately for her, she was still under the effects of Argentum's skill.

And so, with her body being bound by Argentum's skill, plus the fact that she was too weak to even distance herself to begin with, she shouted at Melzarin, saying, ”Get away from me!”

”Eleanor, I love you! Please be mine!” Contrary to what Eleanor would expect to hear from Melzarin, the latter instead said this, leaving the other four at a loss for words. Argentum, who remembered what he said to Melzarin sometime ago, could not help but do a facepalm as he shouted inwardly.

”Idiot!”

”…” As for Eleanor, she was not expecting these words to come out of Melzarin's mouth at all. Nevertheless, given the current situation she was in, her answer was quite expected.

”What?!”

”No!”