Chapter 275 - Jack the strong (1/2)

At first, the adventures thought that the little girl Martha was simply playing a joke on them. Perhaps she just wanted to sound brave on her first group quest, it was a common thing that got new adventures killed, trying to do something that they weren't capable of.

Not only that but what she was suggesting just seemed like an impossible task. Then with the look on her face and the fact that her companions who were with her did not react, suggested she was serious.

”I would suggest you all ready your weapons.” Lenny said, ”The moment the ball falls the gas will be released, it will only last a few seconds then we can charge in, a reminder not all of them will be affected and I don't know how long they will be affected for. It varies from beast to beast.”

With Lenny's words, each member started to hold their weapons by their hilt. They still couldn't truly believe she would be able to do it, but felt like they should be ready just in case.

Then Martha started to gather ki in her hands and released it into her bow and finally stored in the arrow. As she let go the arrow flew out strong and fast not letting the weight of the ball or gravity affect it.

It continued to move forward and had eventually hit a Harpy causing the ball to also explode on impact.

The gas was released into the air and the ten or so Harpies next to the one who had been hit, seemed to fall to the ground and bump into each other. Some tried to fly into the sky only to hit their own companions.

Rick saw the opportunity straight away.

”Everyone charge!”

As the group of adventures ran forward, Lenny handed Martha two more balls, she shot two more arrows into different parts of the camps making sure to spread the gas as quickly as possible.

”We need to defeat at least thirty of them otherwise the trip is wasted, do you understand?” Lenny said.

Then suddenly a large figure started to run past them. ”Leave this to me,” Jack said as he turned his head to the other two.

In the past Jack had never been able to control his Ki well, it was just always active all over his body. But even then when his Ki was spread thin, it was incredibly strong and nearly impenetrable. Jack still wasn't able to control his Ki as well but it had gotten stronger.

His speed was far greater than anyone else there and he continued to run forward passing all the other adventures including Rick out front.

”Huh, isn't that the other kid who was with the old man?” Rick thought, ”How is he so fast. We're using Ki and are able to be in front of the others yet he is still faster than us.”

As soon as Jack was in sight of the base, he leapt into the air and slammed down his giant great sword into the ground killing five of the Harpies in one blow. The Harpies who had not been affected by the gas immediately saw the threat and started to surround Jack.

But he continued to be reckless as always, hitting the Harpies out of the air one by one allowing the others to attack him.

”The boy is wild.” An adventurer said, ”He will be killed at this rate look at all those harpies attacking him.”

Martha and Lenny were not worried, although it looked like Jack had been surrounded and was getting hurt, these beasts were only of the basic tier. There was no chance they could do anything to penetrate Jack's skin.

The rest of the ground had finally caught up with Jack and were now engaged with combat with the harpies. The ones that were affected by the gas were easily dealt with as they had remained on the ground, they were only basic tiers and nearly any adventurer could deal with them.

But what made the harpies difficult to deal with, was the fact that they were able to fly, the airborne creatures were difficult to hit and manoeuvred fast.