Chapter 37 The Tricky Monster
On the frontal battlefield, with Margaret's help, Lidia successfully recovered her strength.
I don't know if it was an illusion, but she seemed to be strengthened by the power of magic, and she felt like there was a steady stream of power all over her body.
There are more and more primitive species on the battlefield, and Lidia can cut down a large number of them by using her sword skills at will, even without charging any force.
This kind of sword skill, which is supposed to be charged up to exert its full power, is originally a long-range attack, and this is where it comes into play.
However, these primitive species seemed to have higher IQs. After facing Lidia's counterattack, they no longer took the initiative to step forward.
They all extended their tentacles and connected them into a huge net, trying to entangle Lydia and Margaret.
Lydia quickly used her sword skills to cut off the tentacles, but it had no effect at all. Those tentacles regenerated quickly, and the speed she cut off could not keep up with the recovery speed of the tentacles.
Seeing that the two of them were about to be caught in one fell swoop, Margaret smiled slightly and conjured a wand from her hand.
The wand was about one meter long and looked like just a curved dry branch. It seemed to have been treated with antiseptic treatment and looked shiny. There was a dark green gemstone inlaid on the top. It was probably unprocessed and had an irregular shape.
Margaret raised her wand with both hands and knocked the end of it heavily on the ground. Then, a huge magic circle appeared at the feet of the large group of monsters, covering them completely.
The pattern inside is quite complex, divided into several levels, and each level has many small magic circles.
Margaret muttered a spell silently, and in an instant, the magic circle burst out with dazzling green light, then turned into a whirlwind, and soon all the monsters were swept up into the sky.
Those monsters were powerless to resist. Although they tried to connect each other with tentacles to avoid being torn apart by the powerful whirlwind, due to the power of magic, they were swept up into the sky and turned into pieces soon after.
Broken limbs and broken arms littered the sky, falling to the ground.
As a result, no matter how strong their self-healing ability is, they cannot recover.
Lydia secretly marveled at how terrifying the power of magic was. It could not only heal the injured quickly, but also destroy a large area of enemies in an instant.
It stands to reason that such a powerful magic would consume a lot of magic power from the caster, but Margaret showed no signs of fatigue at all.
The reason is that among her wands, the most common wands are not inlaid with gems. Magicians often use their own magic power to release power through the formations drawn by the wand.
But for Margaret, she didn't have to consume the magic power in her body at all, but used the gem on the wand instead.
This gem is used to store magic power. Margaret usually injects the excess magic power in her body into it and releases it when necessary.
For experienced magicians, this is the most common operation. Of course, there are more advanced ways to store magic. For example, some wands themselves have huge magic power, or the magic array can be directly used to store magic.
Draw it on a magical piece of paper, and the magic will be released the moment you throw the paper.
At this moment, the remaining primitive monsters saw that a large number of their companions had been wiped out. They knew how to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages. They did not dare to move forward, but kept retreating.
The humanoid monsters behind them were still standing stupidly, their eyes full of confusion, as if they didn't understand why their fellow creatures were retreating.
Obviously, the current battle situation is favorable to Lidia and the others, but she dare not relax at all, because no one can determine whether the demon clan's general attack really only consists of these three waves.
But then, as if her worries were confirmed, there was another commotion from behind the monster group, and this time the movement was so loud that even the ground was shaking.
"...What's going on?" Margaret was a little surprised.
"It seems the big one is coming." Lidia looked solemn.
Then, a behemoth appeared behind the monster group. It was really a big guy. It seemed to be the same kind as those humanoid monsters. After all, they all had the same appearance.
The only difference is that there is only one of this guy, and it is very huge, almost like a mountain.
If you have to describe it, its body height directly exceeds the city wall. Every time its thick legs take a step, the ground will shake, and it can overturn the soldiers on the city wall with just a wave of its hand.
"Oh my God, this size is too outrageous." Margaret looked in disbelief.
"Tsk, how can I beat this kind of thing?" Lidya couldn't help but cover her face.
But Margaret smiled and said nonchalantly.
"Haha, it doesn't matter, Lady Lidia, I will protect you no matter what, even if I sacrifice my life..."
"Margaret, can you please stop saying such things?" Lydia interrupted her impatiently, but when she saw the surprised look on the other party's face, she still felt a little sorry, so she explained, "Stop talking about sacrifice.
Well, I don’t need anyone to sacrifice for me. Although I’m very grateful to you for saving me, our relationship doesn’t seem to be good enough to be worth entrusting each other’s lives with, do you understand?”
"I...I'm sorry." Margaret lowered her head.
"Tsk."
Lidya was unhappy again. She mentioned that she knew a person who always liked to apologize. However, as soon as she thought of that person, she found him running towards her.
"Lidya, are you okay?" Emil said with concern.
"Well, it's okay. Thanks to Margaret, I saved my life."
"Ah? Margaret, why are you here?" Emil felt strange about her appearance.
"Okay, Emil, let's find a way to deal with that big guy first." Daniel suggested.
"But, this is too big. Can we really do it with just a few of us?"
Lidia looked at the huge monster and felt frightened. She probably would be crushed if she rushed towards it.
"Well, maybe it would be troublesome to let Lilith deal with it." Emil nodded, but then changed the topic, "But no matter what, we must defeat it, otherwise the town will be destroyed."
Lidia looked at Emil's determined eyes and couldn't help but admire him. She didn't expect that such an ordinary young man would have no idea of admitting defeat when faced with overwhelming power. How courageous this was.
After a while, the huge monster came in front of everyone. It raised its foot and stepped on it, trying to destroy them in one fell swoop.
Everyone quickly dispersed. While talking just now, Margaret cured Daniel's injury. Now they have all recovered their fighting ability. Emil also called Lilith to come to him.
At this time, when the monsters saw their helpers coming, they immediately regained their morale and began to move forward again, gradually narrowing the encirclement.
However, Margaret looked down on these weak monsters at all. In order to prevent Lydia from being threatened, she directly released magic and blew the entire group of monsters away, eventually turning into debris in the air.
As a result, this huge monster was the only one left on the entire battlefield. It was also affected by the whirlwind, but with its huge body and powerful self-healing ability, it remained unmoving.
Immediately afterwards, Lilith spit out dragon breath at the monster's face. Now it finally felt threatened and quickly covered its head with her hands. In the end, both hands were scorched.
The next scene directly frightened everyone present. The monster saw its hands being burned, and it seemed that it didn't feel any pain at all. Instead, it opened its bloody mouth and bit off its own hand. After chewing it,
After swallowing, its hands actually grew back.
"...Tsk, what a disgusting guy." Lidia couldn't help complaining.
However, this also means that the dragon's breath has no effect on it at all. If it has a weak point, it should be the monster's head, because it can't eat its own head.
So, Emil told the others that it was enough to just keep attacking the monster's head.
However, this monster's IQ is not low. It had long expected that humans would see its weakness, so it concentrated on protecting its head, and at the same time launched a fierce attack on Emil and others with its feet.
Unexpectedly, such a huge monster was extremely flexible and stepped on everyone very fast. Lidia and Daniel were almost stepped on. Fortunately, Margaret protected them with all her strength.
"What can we do? We have no chance to attack at all." Daniel looked embarrassed. Because he kept dodging, he couldn't find a chance to think of countermeasures.
"How about we all spread out and run a little further away?"
Emil suddenly suggested that he observed that although the monster's speed was fast, it also had a limit.
For example, if Emil and the others want to escape an attack, they can just run a little further away. So if they spread out and run away, which side will the monsters chase?
In short, no matter who it is chasing, the remaining people can take the opportunity to attack it.
"Well, I think it's feasible." Lidia nodded.
After reaching a consensus, the four people fled in four directions. Now, the monster was indeed in trouble. It could only chase and kill one person at a time.
However, since it had already dominated the battlefield, it had no worries about being defeated, so it chose someone at random, and that was Daniel.
At this time, Daniel chose to run towards the forest outside the battlefield, because his sword skills could only be used in close combat and were of no use at this time. So when he saw the monster chasing him, he couldn't help but feel lucky that he could concentrate on avoiding it.
Monster attack.
Immediately afterwards, Margaret took the lead in aiming at the monster's head and released a powerful magic. This time the magic circle appeared above the wand, and countless missiles drilled out of it, hitting the back of the monster's head.
Perhaps feeling the violent fluctuations in magic power, the monster quickly reached out to protect its head. In the next moment, all the magic missiles hit its hands.
Seeing that the first attack was useless, Lydia took advantage of the fact that the monster's hand had not had time to recover and decided to use her sword skills. If she was strengthened and could cut down a large number of monsters without charging, what would happen after charging?
Just now when Margaret released her magic, Lydia started to accumulate power, and now it was just completed. She shouted loudly and used her sword skills, aiming directly at the monster's wrist.
The next moment, the monster's newly grown palm broke again, and finally hit the ground heavily, stirring up a burst of dust.
Margaret and Lilith saw this opportunity at the same time. One used magic missiles and the other used dragon breath, both of which hit the monster's head.
In the end, all the attacks hit their targets. When the smoke cleared, everyone found that the monster had stopped and its head had been blown off, leaving only its neck that was constantly spurting blood.
"...Did it succeed?" Daniel also stopped and looked back at the monster.
However, unexpectedly, although the monster's head was gone, it did not fall down and still stood in place.
Faced with such a scene, everyone was extremely surprised. It was obvious that the monster was not dead. Margaret was the first to discover this, and she quickly shouted.
"Everyone, stay away!"
"……What?"
Although Emil was strange, he still tried to stay away from the monsters with Lilith's help, and Daniel and Lydia also followed the advice.
Sure enough, after a few seconds, the monster's body began to undergo changes.
I saw that its neck, which was constantly spurting blood, suddenly retracted into its body, along with its thick limbs, and finally the entire body turned into a huge meat ball.
But the mutation did not stop there. Immediately afterwards, new limbs protruded from the meat ball, but they appeared to be much slender. If you look closely, you will find that they are completely different from the original human-like structure. They are more like using
A beast that walks on four legs.
Sure enough, when the limbs were fully exposed, the monster revealed a new head, but it was in the shape of a wolf.
After the monster transformed, it looked like a huge wolf. It immediately opened its mouth and roared loudly.
The sound was so deafening that the ground around it began to shake and even cracked.
Only then did Emil understand Margaret's words. If they were still near the monster at this time, they would definitely fall into the cracks in the ground. Even if they didn't fall in, their bodies would be blown apart by the sound waves.
Immediately afterwards, the monster stopped roaring and began to run towards Lidia. Not only was it extremely fast, but when its four claws stepped on the ground, it left the ground full of holes.
Margaret quickly used magic to protect Lydia. This time she used a defensive magic that could create a barrier around the target.
Chapter completed!