Chapter 7 – Lily (4)
Mandible! Huh! Ha..!
The party was running through the woods. I ran, barely avoiding the trees that appeared in an instant in front of my eyes.
Occasionally, if there was a Tiger Wolf that got too close, Starchis would wield a torch to make it shrink slightly.
He had long given up on returning to the village.
Other tiger wolves were blocking the way to the village,
There was nothing I couldn’t do more than dragging these tiger wolves back to town.
Lily was scaring the tiger wolves by using her magic to make a loud noise.
Perhaps thanks to that, the pack of wolves hadn’t recklessly attacked.
It was fortunate.
Excluding the monsters in the dungeon, one of the most dangerous things that ordinary people can experience is the Tiger Wolf, but these are still able to buy time to see the liver.
Stachis held his breath and squeezed out his plan.
“Ugh…! Ugh..! Hey guys..! After! Listen up! I think we should be torn apart from now on!”
“Ha, ha, moo, what?!”
She asked him back as Russ caught her breath.
“First..! Miss Lily! Haha again…! Stop after 3 seconds and shoot the biggest attack magic backwards!”
“Ha..! Ha..! I see!”
“If Lily-san fires her magic, let’s all stop together ..! I can’t just use my stamina like this anymore..!”
Kwaaaaang!!
For a moment, the party stops and looks back. Lily had used her magic her. The trees were on fire, and four tiger wolves were running around gnawing at each other with their bodies on fire.
Despite being the largest-scale magic she can wield, she can only handle four because of Tiger Wolf’s massive size.
Still, it wasn’t meaningless. The tiger wolves were once again wary of her magic her and kept a certain distance from the party.
“After..! After..! Everyone take a breath and listen. Don’t give off a tough spot.”
Bien, who was not in good physical strength, wanted to breathe on her knees of hers, but Stachis told her to correct her posture of hers.
“It can’t go on like this. Guys. Whoa..! Everything, everything looks like a beating. Like I said before, it has to be torn.”
“Ha…! Ha…! Absolutely no Chis. Are you willing to take another risk?”
Russ, who at least had the energy to talk because of her good stamina her, asked.
Russ could already read Stachis’ thoughts.
“Never..! Absolutely no!!! I will help you this time too..!”
“Listen, Russ. Vienne and Russ, and me and Lily. Let’s share this. Ha… Haa .. You and Bien run to her horse while me and Mr. Lily kill time. And she just rode her horse back to the city and informed me of this situation.”
“No!! Why are you doing something dangerous again!”
Russ lets out her frustrated cries. Still, Stachis was adamant.
Starchis, who acted like a world champion in trivial matters, never backed down in important matters.
“Russ. I am the leader of this party. If you don’t listen to me now, I’ll banish you when I get back to the city.”
“Suck..!”
It was Russ holding back the tears.
Vien wanted to refuse as well, but her breath was so tight that she couldn’t say anything.
He just wanted Russ to convince him a little more.
“Then stay with me. Divide between me and you, Bien and Lily…”
Russ couldn’t leave him.
And she realized one thing as she turned her gaze towards Lily.
A fact that haunted her all day.
Lily can’t ride her horse.
Oh There is no other way. Russ felt like hitting her head with her hammer.
Starchis sensed that Russ had realized that too.
“Got it? There is no other way now. And in the current situation, Lily-san’s magic is much more effective than yours. Lily, I’m sorry. I think you should be a little more risky with me.”
Lily didn’t hate the fact that she had to become more dangerous even in the midst of her dire circumstances. She liked the fact that she could be around Starchis instead of abandoning Starchis and going to ride her horse.
Lily nodded her head, exhaling her breath without showing her struggle.
-Krrrr
As the party stood still and did not move, the Tiger wolves slowly approached.
A hand supported Lily’s back as she flinched and tried to step back.
‘You can’t show weakness,’ Starchis whispered.
“Russ, Bien. I will believe We have to go quickly.”
Russ was bursting into her tears.
“Why is this happening again… I wanted to protect you this time.”
“Russ. Wake. I will be fine.”
“I still don’t like it… “
“I believe you, Russ. From now on, you must protect Vienne. Understand?”
Russ gritted his teeth and nodded at her.
Seeing that, Starchis felt a little relieved.
“Okay, then I’ll count to three, uh-!”
Someone jumped into Stachis’ arms.
It was Bien.
She hugged Starchis tightly and muttered to him.
“… Please don’t die. Please please… Okay..?”
Starchis smiled and stroked Bien’s head.
“…Miss Lily, I’m sorry. Please worry about Lily.”
“…Sniffly. Lily has you.”
Bien answered slowly to Stachis who was jokingly talking.
“Can you find horses through the dark?”
“…If I remember prayers, I can make a light to see ahead.”
Starchis nodded her head.
He pushed away Bien who had embraced him and looked at the Tiger Wolf again.
Just a few more steps forward and you’ll be within range of each other.
“Ruler. Then again. When I give the signal, you guys count 3 seconds and run back. Mr. Lily. We’ll run beside me.”
“Yes..? The one with the Tigerwolves over there?”
At the place he pointed to, two tiger wolves stood there.
“If we’re going to draw attention to us, we’ve got to make Tiger Wolf attack us. For that to happen, I think he’ll have to get in there and fight a few of them.”
Lily swallowed her saliva. It was a scary plan for her, who always fought in her rear.
She was scared because the current situation was precarious, but in the current situation where she had to act more dangerous than now, cold sweat broke out from her hands.
Her voice didn’t come out, so she nodded, but her hands trembled.
-Widely
Starchis took her hand.
“It’s okay. You can be nervous. I will protect you as much as possible.”
Then, strangely, I felt a little less nervous.
“Ruler!! Let’s go!! Three seconds count!”
Starchis, who had muttered so far that only party members could hear, shouted loudly and confidently.
His voice echoes in the dark forest.
Tiger wolves are wary again.
One.
Two.
Three
Pod!
Without a word, the party is torn in two. While the Tiger wolves were perplexed as to which one to pursue, Lily and Starchis rushed at the tiger wolves on one side.
-Bang!!
What caught the attention of the panicked Tiger Wolf was the sound of Stachis’ tonfa hitting a Tiger Wolf.
The Tiger Wolf, which Starches was aiming for, reacted in an instant and raised his front foot to block his attack, but the front foot broke the moment he blocked it.
With his forepaw broken, Tiger Wolf stumbles and falls backwards.
“Miss Lily, attack him!”
-Perfect
As Lily snaps her fingers, her forepaw breaks and the fur of the Tiger Wolf catches fire.
It becomes a big, bright fire, attracting the attention of all the other Tigerwolves.
Glancing- Starchis rolled his eyes and looked around, but Russ and Vien had already disappeared.
-Great.
He thought Now I just need to spend a little more time here and hide.
Enraged, several tiger wolves came running. Starchis swung the torch in his other hand.
Huong- Huong-
The torch blocked the approach of the Tiger Wolf, leaving behind a red flame in the empty space.
“You just have to hold on a little longer. Until all the Tigerwolves’ eyes are drawn!”
Huung-
Tiger wolves were everywhere illuminated by torches.
Seeing so many tiger wolves thought this would be the end of his life.
-Kreur-Auuuuu!!!
Dozens of wolves howled at the first cry.
And as soon as the seemingly endless cries ended, a huge tiger wolf jumped out of the darkness on the side of Starchis.
He threw his massive body and threw his whole body at Starchis.
– Can we stop it?
While worrying
“Barrier!!”
Tiger Wolf bumped into something right in front of Stachis’ eyes.
And at the same moment Lily fell to her knees.
“Ha..! Ha…! I don’t have much mana anymore..!”
Her Tiger Wolf didn’t stop even when she was talking to Stachis.
As Lily fell to her knees, a Tiger Wolf appeared from behind her and threw her body.
Seeing that, Stachis also jumped at the same time and wielded the tonfa. Unlike before, he had time to put his weight on and he was able to push the flying Tiger Wolf away.
-Bang!!
Tiger Wolf gets hit by a tonfa and is pushed aside, narrowly missing Lily.
Starchis then carried the kneeling Lily on his shoulders. She also drove a tonfa and a torch in one hand.
“Kyaa!”
She then started running into the space that had been created after she swung the torch once.
“Lily-san, be patient..! Where are Russ and Vien? It seems like it’s been a while…!”
Stachis looking ahead and Lily looking back.
Lily was horrified by the sight of her Tiger Wolf running towards her.
“Miss Lily! Come to your senses! Did she get away with Russ and Bien!!”
Starchis slaps her across the cheek as he runs.
“Hey!! Ah!! Yes, wait…!”
And, funny enough, Lily woke up to a tingling pain in her buttock.
Still frightened of her tiger wolves pursuing her to death, she closed her eyes and sprayed all her remaining mana around her.
Then, she has the illusion that her surroundings are getting brighter, and she can see everything. Her eyes started to glow blue.
“Yes… Yes!! I’m running away! I think there are about two of them… Russ’s should be fine with that! And we…”
And at the size of the overwhelming wolf pack in her brightened vision, Lily gulped her saliva. It was bigger than expected.
“It’s okay! Our situation ha ha..! Ha ha…! You don’t have to tell me! Can you find somewhere to hide around?”
“That…! That..! Ah!! Forward from here..! Keep running forward!! There is a place that looks like a cliff, and I think we can jump from there!”
“Yes?”
Starchis wanted to ask more, but her breath prevented her from doing so.
“Starches!! Be careful next to you!!”
When Lily shouts, Tiger Wolf jumps out from the side again. He rolled over and dodged the wolf.
But Lily, who was riding on her shoulder, also rolls over.
“Ship… Barrier!!”
Lying on her floor, Lily stops Tiger Wolf from attacking Starchis, who raises her body.
She squeezed all the mana without mana in her body.
– Cool.
Soon, the burden is so severe that he coughs up blood. As much as the magic he forcibly squeezed out to protect him, the burden on his body was severe. Her vision went round and round, and her eyes went dark, and Lily fainted and collapsed.
“Kuu..!”
Stachis got up safely thanks to the barrier and once again grabbed Lily and ran. This time, he ran with only her, leaving the tonpa torch on the floor as well.
Lily tells Starchis that she just needs to jump off a cliff, she says.
If you go forward, you will see a cliff, she said.
Starchis ran in the dark.
The moon rose brightly, but it did not illuminate the dense forest.
He prayed earnestly that he would not trip over the rocks and fall.
And in an instant, the forest was stripped away and a cliff suddenly appeared before my eyes.
‘All I have to do is jump down!’
Lily’s voice echoed in my head.
Stachis threw himself down the cliff.
