Chapter 180: Chapter 180
Sylphid Academy’s entrance stood two soldiers from the armoured woman’s division, standing guard in case more attacks come from the monstrous creatures. One of the soldiers looked at his comrade, “Do you think commander Syndra will succeed?” The other soldier shook his head, “I don’t know. I would like her to succeed, but you see the monstrous creature’s powers before. Even commander Syndra had a hard time dealing with a few of them. I can imagine that their base has a lot more of those monstrous bastards.”
“Haah, I hope commander Syndra succeed. Then, I could finally get home and be together with my family”, the soldier stated. Not long after he said that, he saw something was coming straight at him, “Something’s coming”, he warned. “Get ready; in case something bad happens, you quickly go warn the others”, said the other soldier. The two soldiers were tensed as they watched the silhouette get closer and closer.
As the silhouette got close, the soldiers saw that the armoured woman and her party had finally arrived at Sylphid Academy. Once they were there, the armoured woman and her party were greeted by the rest of the armoured woman’s army. “Welcome back, commander”, the two soldiers that guarded the gate saluted. The armoured woman nodded; she observed the academy and found that the damages were mostly gone. “At ease, men”, the armoured woman said, “Where is the headmaster?” she inquired. “She is in her office, ma’am”, replied one of the soldiers.
The armoured woman looked at the soldier, “I’m going ahead to meet the headmaster. Please provide aid to these people. They are hurt pretty bad.” The two soldiers straightened up their posture, “Yes, ma’am!” After that, the armoured woman left her party and directly headed to the principal Helga’s office. The armoured woman gently knocked on the principal Helga’s office door. “Come in”, Principal Helga’s voice behind the door resounded. The armoured woman opened the door, finding Principal Helga sitting in her office chair, looking at her with complex eyes. Principal Helga gestured with her hands, “Sit”, she said towards the armoured woman.
“Is the operation a failure?” Principal Helga questioned after the armoured woman sat before her. The armoured woman furrowed her eyebrows, “I’m afraid so”, the armoured woman let out a sigh, “I think the bunker was a trap.” Principal Helga frowned, “Is that why the young man with raven hair and the young man with red hair did not come back with you?” The armoured woman’s expression turned ugly, “I’m afraid so. We met with two strong monstrous creatures there. Two which we were not a match for”, the armoured woman said with a sombre tone.
Principal Helga’s expression turned serious as she squinted her eyes, “I find it hard to believe. A spellsword like you, a 3rd Circle Mage, not being able to do anything is quite rare. That means the enemies possess strong monstrous creatures at the 5th Grade or more. If so, then this was deeper than I imagined. Can you tell me in detail what happened?” The armoured woman lowered her head; she explained to Principal Helga what she encountered during her expedition. After telling Principal Helga the entire story, the armoured woman spoke with a sombre tone, “What should we do? No matter what, we need to rescue both Eru and his friend.”
Principal Helga squinted her eyes, “No”, she shook her head, “We need to defend this place with all we’ve got”, Principal Helga spoke with a stern voice. “But, what about those two?” the armoured woman asked with concern. Principal Helga let out a heavy sigh, “We pray to Vaizeu that those two will return alive.”
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“Rargh!” Eru let out a battle cry as he charged towards the giant plant-like monstrous creature with his black sword held up high. The giant plant-like monstrous creature roared; it commanded the plants around itself to attack Eru while he was up in the air. “Shit”, Eru cursed when he saw multiple vines were coming right at him. The vines wrapped around Eru’s body, and since he was in the air, Eru could do nothing but let the vines do their thing. The vines swung Eru in the air before harshly throwing down to the ground.
“Ahack”, Eru couched blood as his body crashed down. The vines were about to raise Eru back up, but the latter brandished his sword. “Oh no, you don’t!” Eru shouted, slashing the vines while coating himself with his raven-coloured aura. “What the—” Eru exclaimed when he could not cut off the vines that were wrapping his body. “Then, how about this, Eruken!” Eru shouted, using Eruken, he multiplied his prowess several times. “Hah”, with Eruken, Eru finally was able to cut off the vines wrapping his body, causing him to once again fall down to the ground.
As Eru tried to get up, he heard Long’s voice from a distance, shouting, “Bastard!” while a red magic circle appeared right in front of him. “Fire Lance!” Long chanted loudly before spears made of flames were launched from the magic circle into the giant plant-like monstrous creature’s body. “Argh”, the giant plant-like monstrous creature groaned before roaring with anger. The giant plant-like monstrous creature’s body shook before three vines shot up from the ground. The three vines wrapped around each other, creating a spear, coming fast towards Long.
“As if I’ll let you hit me”, Long quipped, twirling his red staff; he chanted, “Flame Barrier.” The three vines were burned to crisps when suddenly, another spear vines were coming straight at Long. “A monster is a monster, so stupid and dumb” Long just stood in his place, receiving the incoming spear vines with flames all over his body. The spear vines were burned once again, but the giant plant-like monstrous creature did not let up in creating more spear vines to attack Long. “A battle of attrition? Hah, I welcome you to try”, Long said arrogantly as the flames around his body flared up.
Meanwhile, Eru slipped through the vegetation, trying his best to stay stealthy. “While Long had its attention, I’ll try to get close to the bastard”, Eru thought while crouch-walking slowly towards the giant plant-like monstrous creature. Slowly but surely, Eru was able to get close to the giant plant-like monstrous creature. “Whoa, this is ridiculous, such a gigantic root. How did this thing live here without destroying the entire bunker?” Eru pondered after seeing the giant plant-like monstrous creature’s protruding roots. Eru extended his hand, “I really don’t like doing this, but this will efficiently save up my power.” Determination flashed in Eru’s eyes, “Explosion!”
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A few minutes earlier, the red-haired woman, Zhu Rong, grabbed a bite from her room before heading out to the surveillance room. What was called the surveillance room here is just a room where a dozen of humanoid, monstrous creatures, observing monitoring the static alarms on many floors inside the bunker and the life crystals of the bunker’s guardian. “How are those two?” the red-haired woman asked the many humanoid, monstrous creatures that were there while sitting leisurely on her massive chair. “Report”, said one of the many humanoid, monstrous creatures, “They still haven’t passed the second highest floor.”
The red-haired woman leaned back, “The second-floor underground floor, huh. That’s where the giant plant lives. I’m afraid things will not be as easy for those two. Maybe they are already dead right now.” The red-haired woman sipped a drink from her cup, “Such a shame”, she shook her head. As soon as the red-haired woman said that, a deafening sound resounded in the whole surveillance room.
*BOOM*
A loud explosion noise could be heard from the second underground floor of the bunker in the middle of the forest, startling the red-haired woman. “What happened?” Zhu Rong furrowed her eyebrows while sitting in a massive chair, with many humanoid, monstrous creatures working sideways. One of the humanoid monstrous creatures turned its head towards the red-haired woman with a pale expression on its face, “Reporting, ma’am”, it lowered its head slightly, “The guardian of the second floor’s life crystal dimmed. I’m afraid that it will not last long.”
“What!?” the red-haired woman exclaimed while frowning, “That giant plant is going to die?” The humanoid, monstrous creature nodded, “I’m afraid so, ma’am. Unless we send in reinforcements, the giant plant will die soon.” The red-haired woman’s frowned turned to delight all of a sudden, “Hahaha, amazing, incredible”, she let out a hearty laugh. “No need”, she said towards the humanoid, monstrous creature, “Let it die. It has lived long enough. Besides, I’m getting tired of caring about it every day.” The humanoid, monstrous creature bowed its head, “As you wish, ma’am.”
After that, the red-haired woman leaned back in her chair. She brought out the picture from before, looking at it intensely, “You two are more interesting than I thought. Please make it down here so that I could crush you two personally”, she said with a sinister tone while licking her lips.
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