92 Chapter 91 (1/2)
Leon frowned when he and the others found the desert wolf boss. He heard that the evolved version of those creatures was bigger and could use wind and earth magic. However, he didn't hear that the boss had two heads.
”It is a mutant; be careful not to destroy the line of defense,” Paul said. ” Raise your weapons but only focus on the defense; if we make a mistake, the creature can easily bite the heads of two of us at the same time. This time let's leave the damage in the hand of the archers and the mages.”
Leon was still the only mage in the team, but Paul said that to increase the morale of the troops. Even though they also knew that they only had one mage... Anyway, the front line moved forward as a whole and at the same pace. Only a few of them had a shield, but most of them were used to blocking the attacks of far bigger creatures using swords, spears, and axes.
However, due to the lack of experience and knowledge of the creature, several soldiers got knocked down when the beast charged forward like the wind. Those survivors screamed when the monster's heads approached them, but Leon attacked the beast's eyes to help them.
Leon's was good, and he aimed perfectly, but for some reason, he only blinded one of the four eyes of the creature. The beast screamed and trembled, giving time for the frontline to recover. Leon attacked again, but just like before, his arrows only slightly wounded the beast's faces.
”Is it using magic to prevent critical damage?”
Leon stopped attacking for a bit, and then he noticed, when some arrows fell on the monster's faces, it always moved to the sides before landing. It was wind magic; the creature was emitting an aura that made projectiles move and even lose power. To make matters worse, his attacks weren't causing as much damage as they were supposed to generate.
” Since it can use wind and earth, it can also resist to those… the wind can decrease the power of fire arrows too…”
There was no archer that could around attack with water or ice arrows, but that was undoubtedly the monster's weakness. Unfortunately, Leon couldn't use those.
”Tch… so troublesome.”
Leon could just overpower the creature by changing his earth arrow a little, but it would be suspicious, considering that his first attack only caused little damage. To win, he couldn't use brute force; he had to use strategy since that would be more acceptable in everyone's eyes.
Suddenly creating a single lance using the earth would be suspicious, so Leon decided to put the five arrows in a line and attack like that. The first arrow changed the directions thanks to the wind aura around the beast, but the second pierced the monster's eye. Leon successfully managed to blind the eyes of one head, but it wasn't nearly enough.
The beast quickly found the one who caused the pain and tried to attack Leon, but this time the frontline hold the creature. Arrows fell on the two-headed wolf while it was trying to open the path with brute strength, but those barely scratched the beast's thick fur.