Chapter 30 learning from the elvers 3 (2/2)
”...about 30?”
”yeah that's what Victoria told me”
Isabel face turned a shade paler before she gritted her teeth and grabbed the sword hilt hard until her knockers also paled before she asked Mars with a determined expression
”...what should we do?”
as Mars saw how firgeneted she was he had a slight urge to tease her a little but he held back as he also could hear the spiders approaching and looked towards the forest while he answered her
”well me and Victoria are going to kill them all... but what will you do? run away?”
Isabel saw Mars's indifferent attitude and felt like he was mocking her and she gritted her teeth even harder before she yelled back at
”i'm a soldier of Green river, i would rather die then run from some spiders!”
Mars was a little surprised by her yell and looked at her but his surprise quickly turned to admiration as he saw her detriment expedition, and gave an approving nod
”then back me up with magic and don't get close to them... that is unless you want Victoria to hit you by accident”
Isabel gave a nod and let go of her sword as she fell back to the river shore and circulated her mana as she prepared a spell, Mars gave a final pet to Victoria before she melted into her shadow and stood up with eyes closed and waited for the spiders to get closer while he counted them and as he opened his eyes a few seconds later he yelled
”32 of them! in a half circular formation with spiteres in the back.... Isabel can you detect them?”
”no, not unless they come out off stealth”
Mars gave a quick nod and thought for a second before he yelled out a command
”Victoria! focus on the spiters and the ones closing on Isabel, Isabel i will protect you and line up some targets for you to shoot... but keep moving i don't want your pretty face to get melted off!”
hearing Mars call her pretty Isabel's tension lessened somewhat, and as she knew about the hunting habits of stealth acid spiders she was slightly impressed by Mars as she knew he had acutely given the best strategy in a short amount of time, of cause Mars had no idea that his stock just had gone up as he was focused on the sounds of 192 spider legs rapidly moving across trees and the forest floor quickly closing in
”30 seconds! Victoria move behind them”
as Mars yelled he summoned his dragon flame that formed a shield behind him with red-orange flames, and after a few seconds Mars started rapidly firing fire arrows into the forest to trip the spiders ambush, and to bait some of them to come at him before they set up formation
*SCREAM*
4 of the 10 fire arrows hit their mark as told by loud spider screams that sounded like someone rapidly rubbing rusted metal against glass while 4 spider sized fires suddenly appeared
”28 left! here comes some targets”
Mars yelled out to Isabel behind him as he kicked off the ground and rushed towards the still invisible spiders that rushed out from the forest edge, reaching the first spider he slashed off a leg while twisting his body to avoid another one of it's legs
”this one's all yours!”
yelling to Isabel Mars jumped back from the now 5 legged spider that was rapidly becoming viable and just as he stabbed another spider in the head the 5 legged spider had it's head smashed by a football sized rock that hit it like a truck sending spider blood all over the place as it was launched back into the forest
”nice one, here comes two more!”
as Mars yelled out he slid on his knees slashing 3 legs off a spider then quickly jumping up and slashing another in the side before he kicked off again towards the next one while Isabel was slightly overwhelmed she still managed to use a spell that formed a spiked pitfall in the ground under the spider with a cut in its side before she quickly shot the 3 legged spider in the head with a football sized rock
”Victoria one got passed me!”
as Mars was forced to doge one spider managed to get past him and changed Isabel that reacted quickly to Mars's call out and used a spell that scattered pepels like a shotgun, only just gazing the spider as it jumped her before a spear off darkness hit the spider from behind nailing it to the ground in front of Isabel that quickly pulled out her sword and stabbed it in the head before she yelled out to Mars that was glancing behind him
”i got it, focus on the front!”
Mars gave a approving smile before he stabbed a spider in the head while he manipulated the fire shield on his back to bash another spider, instantly turning it into a spider sized bonfire as he quickly jumped to the side dodging a acid shoot from the last spider
”...Victoria do you mind?”
Mars got no answer but 3 darkness spears hit the spider nailing it to the tree it was sitting in
”thank you”
as Mars shook the blue spider blood off his bone sword he looked around checking if any of the spider where still alive
”...looks like that's all of them, are you okay Isabel?”
Mars saw Isabel was bent over forwards with her hands on her knees with a slightly pale face, but she still raised her head with a exhausted smile on her face
”i'm fine, just a little low on mana”