635 Elf archer!? (2/2)

'Indeed, you're quite beautiful, rather than handsome and cool.' Seiji couldn't help but add that in his mind.

Still, he felt that Hoshi becoming an elf archer was much easier for him to accept than a magical girl.

Hoshi's new archery abilities had great attack power. Every single small monster could be dealt with by a single arrow. Hoshi's arrows also had good DPS against boss monsters. However, there was a slight cost that it would drain his energy.

Hoshi could replenish his energy by absorbing mist through the spell array on his right hand. His spiritual eagles could also absorb mist and replenish his energy, but that was less effective.

Seiji inferred that Hoshi would level up his archery abilities quicker if he absorbed mist with the marking on his hand.

”If you want to level up your elven bow at a quicker rate, try absorbing more mist with the spell array on your hand. If you want to level up your summoned creatures faster, have your spiritual eagles absorb more mist… that's my best guess.”

”Which should I pick?”

”Choose for yourself. These are all your abilities.”

After some consideration, Hoshi decided to focus more on absorbing mist with the marking to level up his new spiritual bow weapon.

Everyone progressed down the direction that Seiji's locator spell pointed them in, killing monsters along the way.

They walked down a particularly long staircase and arrived at an incredibly wide area. At the end of this area was a giant stone door which had a large circle carved into it.

Everyone was rendered speechless by the sight.

”I have an ominous premonition,” Seiji muttered in a low voice.

”I have one as well,” Mika commented.

”The same goes for this humble one.” Hisashi adjusted his eyeglasses.

Hoshi didn't get a chance to comment, because there was a sudden loud sound that came from behind.

Everyone turned around to see that the staircase they just arrived from was now blocked off by a stone wall!

And then, large amounts of black mist poured out from everywhere, speedily forming into a pack of wolves… no, humanoid figures!

All the enemy spiritual monsters were humanoid this time! They resembled armored warriors. They wielded shields and swords, spears, greatswords, bows and arrows, battle hammers, war axes, and so on…

What was with this sudden change of style!!

Although there was previously a humanoid boss monster in the Forest Palace, that was the only one! What was up with so many humanoid monsters suddenly appearing here!?

However, there was no time for everyone to be astonished. Their path of retreat was cut off, so they could only battle.

Seiji instantly cast his [Turtle Armor] barrier spell. This successfully blocked the enemy monsters' long-ranged attacks!

Hisashi threw out the largest Thunderboom spell in his arsenal! Mika attacked with her spiritual gun and black bands! Hoshi shot arrows as fast as he could!

Although this killed a few monsters, there were simply far too many of them. It was quite imposing how many of them were marching in unison towards Seiji and his friends.

In such dire circumstances, Seiji recalled the [Spirit Form Summoning Cards] that he received as a reward from the light novel award ceremony incident… This seemed like an excellent time to use this option!

He immediately opened up his system and used the armored knight card.

Spirit Summoning, [Royal Knight Squadron]!

Numerous spiritual knights that wore full body armor appeared. They were riding tall warhorses, and equipped with spears, swords, and shields.

Mika and the others were rather shocked to see so many powerful appearing knights suddenly materializing right in front of them.

”Don't panic! I summoned these knights,” Seiji told them.

He then gave these knights a command: attack the enemy army!

*Ka-ching!* The knight squadron readied their spears in unison and charged at the enemy knights!

At this moment, Seiji and the others felt a truly heroic aura emanating from these knights. It was as if they were watching a real battlefield.

Sounds of clashing began as the knight squadron rushed into the tremendous number of enemies and began a fierce battle!

”We're going to join them!”

Seiji maintained his [Turtle Armor] barrier as he led the others in charging towards the enemy group!