Chapter 17: Erin Cronoff (2/2)

The eerie dark aura that covered their tails expanded to their entire body and they broke out of the influence of the provocation skill used by Hart and Talen.

Without discrimination, they were about to charge at a random enemy with all their might, but the group was experienced and they knew this already, Jarret and Kela, the two swordsmen in the group attacked the beast from behind, their swords engulfed in an orange glow.

Bang!

Although they had succeeded in halting the beast's random charge, they were doing little to no damage whatsoever, and now that the warthogs were on a rampage, their attacks just made them angrier, Callie shot another light Arrow and created an Arrow Rain, but unlike the last time, the attack did less damage and it didn't even slow the Warthogs down.

While the group did their best to keep the Warthogs at bay, it was painfully obvious that this wasn't going in their favor. ”Erin, Anytime now would be great!” Kela the female Swordsman yelled as she went in for an attack, she made sure to avoid the beast's field of vision, raising her blade high in the sky she made a light jump, ”Accelerate.”

Her blade moved faster than it should, becoming a blur. It descended on the Warthog and bounded it to the ground, although it was obvious the attack hadn't done much damage as the beast soon got up and was barely injured.

”Tsk.”

Erin who had only been standing there with her eyes closed, gently opened them, a tranquil aqua-blue aura enveloped her as her hood came off revealing her beautiful face, her silky dark blue hair fluttered in the wind. She parted her soft lips and uttered a phrase, ”AquaLight”

The tranquil aqua blue aura surrounding her extended to her companion, their weapons each emitting the same aura. The aura seemed to have calmed their nerves, giving them no lack of confidence, their movements became more fluid and seamless.

Their blades were now able to penetrate the skin of the twin-tailed warthogs with ease. Finally able to put up a fight the group got more energetic, Callie shot out four magic arrows that now had a blue glow, Hart couldn't help but smile as he bashed the head of a warthog with his massive shield.

With Hart and Talen now able to do damage, they could finally keep the attention of the beasts without worry, leaving Jarret and Kela to freely do massive damage, Callie and Erin no longer had to do a thing, the others just made quick work of the monsters.

With their years of experience and their great teamwork, even if they had been weaker individually, they would have still easily defeated a few Warthogs. Their only advantage was their defense and without that, they were nothing more than just hogs.

When the last warthog dropped on the ground, the group rejoiced and Jarret retrieved their prey. After extracting the beast crystals from the bodies, the guys carried the warthogs out of the fields before deciding to rest, they didn't want to run into another monster, which would end up wasting more of their time, they knew Erin didn't like staying outside in the sun.

Callie ran over to Erin as soon as the fight was done, she now had her arm in a lock as they sat next to each other by a tree. She sat a little too close for comfort and had a big smile on her face, ”Sooo....?” she said, Erin drank some water out of her pouch, she sighed softly and said, ”So what?” Callie looked at her without blinking then with a sly smile she said ”Hehe... don't pretend you don't know.... did you guys do it last night? how was it? Tell me, tell me tell m...”

Before she had a chance to finish, Kela came out of nowhere and karate chop Callie on the head so hard that she bit her tongue. ”Ouch..... my tongue...”

”Stop asking weird questions”

”I didn't say anything weird...” Callie pouted as she wrapped her arms around Erin pretending to cry.

Kela was getting annoyed by the minute as she watched Callie putting up an act, Erin felt helpless and couldn't help but pat her on the head. ”You're too soft on her,” Kela complained. The guys couldn't help but chuckle at this familiar sight, ”Come on. we should head back, it wouldn't be a feast without some roasted hogs.” Hart said licking his lips.

”Why is it that all you think about is food.”

”It's because he's an idiot.”

”Hey! I think about a lot of things.”

”Like what?”

”I'll have you know, I have a lot of profound thoughts.”

”Haha yeah right, I bet he can't even spell the word profound.”

”Why is everyone picking on me, Callie is the one who's harassing Erin.”

*Clap clap clap... Talen clapped to break up the side chatter, he hadn't said anything the entire time and only ever smiled.

Jarret chuckled, Talen is right, we should head out, it's almost noon.

They soon departed after their short break. Soon they could see the Town in the distance, coming down a hill, they had a good view of the town, that's when they saw it.

”Is that... Are those what I think it is?”