Chapter 121: 121. Back at it (2/2)

Larut couldn't help but yell in frustration. As the only ranger in the group, it was his job to always be aware of the situation around them as well as the enemy's location and numbers. So the fact that he could not sense these ambushing Frost salamanders frustrated him to no end.

”Aine use a defensive spell.”

”Sorry, I'm out of mana.”

”Damn it!”

”I'll intercept them, Larut, cover me.”

”Huh... I'll try.”

Sigh... ”While this was somewhat educational, it's about time to put an end to it, wouldn't you agree?”

For a moment, the party hadn't been able to tell where that voice had originated from, but they soon mentally traced its location and naturally, it was the mysterious merchant know as Lix whose strength was still a mystery to them.

He spoke with such a calm and casual tone that it made them feel like he had only been watching a bunch of idiots play around in the snow. Larut wanted to refute the voice saying something along the lines of, we would be able to handle it ourselves. However, he immediately caught a glimpse of Anne and Aine who were breathing heavily with some level of difficulty as they were almost completely exhausted.

Before he could even think further, the man known as Lix raise an arm and spoke once more, this time, his words only compromised of the incantations of a spell:

”Overtier Max Magic - Flaming Arrows.”

Larut, Aine, and Anne were stunned. They were well aware of the hidden strength of the mysterious merchant known as Lix but had assumed he would be a warrior-type fighter based on his incredibly high physical strength.

However, reality had been a completely different story as it turns out that he was also capable of using magic. Still, they felt a bit of confusion about his choice of spell. It was indeed true that the frost salamanders were incredibly weak against flames and fire-based attacks, but, the flaming Arrows spell was just a spell that summons a few arrows at a time.

While he could kill at least one of the frost salamanders with that, it would only serve to piss the others off and that might cancel out Kylyra's crowd controls skill's effect, which would only serve to make things more difficult for them.

Perhaps he could only use low-tier spells and was only serving as a distraction for his partner Nadine who seemed to be a relatively high magic caster herself. Although she had two halves of a bo-staff strapped to her waist which would suggest that she was also adept at fighting.

Kylyra was in the midst of a brutal and exhausting battle with several large frost salamanders when she heard the spell the mysterious Lix was about to cast. She held no hope in it being of any use in their current situation and she didn't feel like anything would change unless he came down personally to help.

She quickly prepared her skill, Frenzy Crash as a precaution against the inevitable backlash that would create several uncontrolled rampaging frost salamanders. If they were allowed to run rampant without anyone to directly aim their bloodlust against.

However—

What happened next sent chills down their spines and their throats went dry. The rarely bright and sunny winter day has further illuminated the sky in a constellation of arrows.

The sky was lit up by hundreds of flaming arrows that had just appeared out of thin air. It was something that did not seem possible even from a high-tiered spell and yet, here it was.

With a wave of his hands, the arrows flew like they had minds of their own, and not even the tough scales of the frost salamanders could protect them from the onslaught. The arrows penetrated their skin like hot knife through butter and every single fronts salamander on the battlefield was instantly covered in holes as they dropped down to the down lifelessly.

”How... How is this possible.”

Larut voice was shaky as he asked that question even though he did not expect a response. The girls around him didn't seem to understand how one had created hundreds of flaming arrows with a basic Tier 2 spell.

”... Amazing.”

Naturally, the ones most affected by this were the two girls who specialized in magic and understood it way better than him. The twins Aine and Anne were of course, dumbfounded. They were aware of what a metamagic was and what the overtiered meta magic was used for.

”That was incredible, way beyond what our master can do.”

”Agreed, this is the first time I've ever seen something so simple and yet I can't even understand it.”

It was common knowledge that one needed to have a vast amount of mana reserve to be able to use it. However, they were off the impression that it could only increase the strength of a spell by a single tier. Yet, what they saw now had defiled everything they had thought was possible.

”Are you lot alright? You all look a little pale.”

”Huh, yeah— um... thank you.”

Snapped out of her daze by Tyler's words, Kylyra spoke in a stuttering tone that did not suit her personality. The other members of Unrivaled had also snapped back to reality as they were professionals and knew they could not spend much time standing around in a dazed else they would be ambushed again.