“Pff– Ahahhahah! Oh my goodness, little cub, that was fairly a present!” Basic Zhang laughed his butt off as soon as we reunited once more, this time a bit removed from the diner with a view to keep away from suspicion.

We hid behind a home beneath an enormous tree that we had confirmed to be empty. After gathering simply sufficient garments for all of us, I left them a substantial sum of money that I fetched from the orc’s hideout. I’d’ve given them my cash, however primarily based on the seems to be of their cash, they weren’t utilizing the identical forex as we people did. I ought to make sure that to pay again the orcs in a technique or one other.

“Hey, at the very least we acquired what we got here for.” I pouted as I distributed the garments amongst us.

“We may’ve simply stormed proper in, you recognize~ Then you definitely would not must seduce him like that. Or contact his fingers.” Basic Zhang tugged the hem of my gown.

“That will not do. It will make an enormous commotion, and other people will flock round us.” I sighed.

“I can kill each single one among them in order for you me to~” He hummed and took the garments I gave him.

“Then kill their king for me,” I turned my again away from him, “… Sorry, are you able to guys go change some other place? We’d like some, uh, privateness.” I scratched my cheek nervously.

“However I wanna see–“

“Sure.” Basic Emilio instantly grabbed the white-haired basic and dragged him away earlier than he may end his sentence.

I sighed as we ladies proceeded to vary our garments into one thing extra elf-ish. This fashion, we solely wanted to put on a hat or a hoodie to cover our hair and eye color. Nicely, Jeanne and Firiell did not actually need to cover their hair color, however they wanted to cover their eye color nonetheless. In the meantime, I, being a Korean with darkish hair and eyes, needed to tie my lengthy hair right into a bun and wore a cap.

“… How come they’re sporting skimpier clothes than us?” I frowned as I inspected myself from high to backside after we had completed altering.

My inexperienced armor with golden rim simply barely lined my chest with separate shoulder plates and matching gloves, In the meantime, the underside half solely began from my waist down, leaving my neck, my abdomen, and my thighs utterly open.

“Possibly as a result of we took these from villagers, not troopers…” Jeanne additionally sighed when she noticed her personal outfit, which wasn’t very completely different from mine, other than the truth that she had her abdomen lined, at the very least.

“Ack, kinda annoying.” I let loose an extended sigh and crouched down to present Firiell a jacket as a of completion, to ensure that at the very least she was dressed correctly.

Though this outfit was extraordinarily impractical, at the very least I had my brooch with me, which acted as armor. For now, we needed to make do with what we’ve got.

“Mkay, now let’s head to the final effectively, lets?”

——–

‘Splash!’

“Good. Now our preparation is full.” I grinned as I dropped one other ice shard into the effectively.

Though this effectively was positioned in the midst of essentially the most populated housing space, no one suspected us once we strolled round freely, and I assumed that was primarily as a result of I advised Jeanne and Firiell to carry fingers whereas basic Emilio walked beside them. Me and Basic Zhang, nevertheless, walked a bit of bit behind them.

I steered that as a result of upon a brief look, individuals would solely consider them as a daily glad household of three. Households, particularly ones with youngsters, normally arouse much less suspicion and appeal to much less consideration.

“Nicely, what will we do now, little cub?” Basic Zhang, who was leaning on the effectively beside me, requested with a smirk.

“Let’s instantly head in the direction of the citadel. It is freezy-freezy time,” I grinned again at him, “and also you’re gonna assist with the zappy-zap.”

“Gotcha~”

——–

‘Crumple!’

The sound of dry leaves crackling beneath our ft felt so lonely in the midst of the suspiciously calm night time. We had been strolling for hours now, together with the time we spent earlier than reaching the third effectively, and all the best way over right here.

I knew that the citadel was positioned fairly removed from the village, however I did not understand that it was this far, since we rode… Um, perhaps the right phrase was, we had been carried? Nicely, we had been carried by an enormous tree monster the primary time we got here right here.

I nervously gulped after I thought of having to struggle that enormous tree monster, alongside the elf king. And fairly presumably, if issues took flip for the more severe, the remainder of the elves. I wish to keep away from that if attainable, although.

Haa, this was going to be an extended night time, that was for certain.

“Halt!”

A brand new, raspy voice got here from proper in entrance of me. It belonged to a tired-looking elf guard, who was clad with the identical armor I noticed once we first visited this citadel.

I continued strolling ahead because the elf guard known as out for us a number of extra instances. Though we determined to take a bit of detour and approached the citadel from the aspect as a substitute of the entrance gate, it turned out that they’d ready some guards over right here, too.

Nicely, not an issue so long as there weren’t any villagers round, I assume.

“I stated halt!” The guard repeated once more, this time with a wider and decrease stance. His pal, the opposite guard, additionally adopted swimsuit by elevating his defend. Huh, did he assume shields could be helpful towards us?

“No can do, random man.” I raised my hand and a bit of zap got here from behind me, hitting the primary guard till he was convulsing on the bottom for a number of seconds earlier than stopping.

“Wha–“

“Whoops, do not you dare do something to my little cub~”

‘ZAP!’

One other lightning zap got here from basic Zhang’s finger, reducing off the opposite guard’s speech whereas his physique flopped on the bottom beneath us.

“Ooh, thanks, my private stun gun~” I giggled as I teased him, “now, everybody, please assist guard the perimeter as I begin freezing the citadel.”

“Are you certain you are able to do it?” Jeanne grabbed the hem of my gown, stopping me on my observe along with her frightened face, “when you really feel such as you’re working out of mana, you possibly can cease anytime, okay? We will nonetheless return…”

My eyebrows went up after I noticed that she was involved about me, and I smiled, “there can be no must run away, Jean-jean. I am going to get this completed in simply 5 minutes tops.”

“5 minutes?” She tilted her head in confusion.

I simply nodded and walked nearer and nearer to the citadel gate’s wall. I finished for a bit to admire the view of the plush inexperienced vines that crawled alongside the uninteresting brick wall. The tiny vibrant flowers on them stood out in the midst of this dusky night time.

As I flew my gaze upwards, I unconsciously held my breath for a second after I noticed simply how humongous this citadel actually was. I took a deep breath to calm myself down earlier than doubt may begin seeping its means into my coronary heart, and tightened my fists.

“Basic Zhang, did you do the factor I advised you to do?” I seemed on the goofy basic that was poking enjoyable on the unconscious guards.

“After all, little cub~ I will not disappoint you~” He answered with a smile.

“Good, thanks.” I nodded.

Trying again on the wall, I secretly opened my stock and took out the int-buffing scrolls that I had bought. I fastidiously took them out below my gown so nobody would discover, and instantly used all three of them.

[Ding!]

[Intelligence: 130 (+5) –> 130 (+65)]

I grinned as I noticed the large improve in stat. Too unhealthy it could solely final for 5 minutes. I needed to get this completed in that timeframe, which was fairly nerve-inducing. Now all that was left, was to really freeze this entire factor.

I took one other step ahead and positioned my hand on the wall, feeling its damp floor.

“Freeze.”

‘CRACKLE!’

Ice shards shot out from my hand at an explosive price, freezing something and every part they touched. Because the ice grew bigger and bigger, I closed my eyes and began controlling my respiratory.

I targeted my consideration on controlling the ice, directing them to dam all entrances first, from the gate, the doorways, the home windows, and even the air flow, trapping everybody inside.

I may faintly hear the yelling of who I assumed to be guard elves from afar, however I paid no thoughts to it, as a result of I trusted my teammates to have the ability to deal with these guards whereas I did my factor.

“Only a bit extra…” I muttered because the pace of my ice’s development quickly elevated, overlaying half of the citadel from the underside already.

‘CLANG!’

I heard the sound of swords clashing towards one another, however I did not open my eyes even within the slightest. I knew that they’d my again.

‘CRACKLE!’

I may really feel my ice going additional up, just a bit bit extra until I reached the highest…

“Ahahhaha!”

Now basic Zhang’s maniacal chortle was the one which entered my ears. He was in all probability being a bit of trigger-happy, zapping left and proper. Ack, hopefully no elves died from the zapping although, we would have liked an enormous military for the minotaur raid.

‘CRACKLE!’

“Carried out!” I exclaimed as I lastly opened my eyes, gasping for air. I could not consider how tiring it truly was, till I attempted stepping again and every part round me began to swirl.

“Oop! Be careful, little cub~” Basic Zhang instantly appeared and held me up by my shoulder, stopping me from falling.

“Ah… Thanks,” I mounted my standing place, “I used to be a bit of drained, however I needs to be okay by now.”

“Wow, you truly froze the entire citadel…” Firiell stated as her eyes twinkled in amazement.

“We will not relaxation simple but. We nonetheless should ‘speak’ with that king.” I stated in-between my huffs. Once I seemed round me, I observed that there have been fairly an enormous variety of fallen guards round us. They need to’ve observed by now. And absolutely, that elf king, too.

‘BOOM!’

“Ah! That is–!” Jeanne exclaimed in shock when a blast got here from one of many high flooring of the citadel, breaking a piece of ice off of the citadel.

“… He is right here.” I smiled and frowned on the identical time in anticipation as my coronary heart raced.

I knew that he would simply get out of my ice jail, however that did not matter. I wanted him outdoors, anyway. After I rapidly re-sealed the outlet he made, my gaze adopted the floating man that was slowly descending upon us.

Out of nowhere, a smile appeared on his stunning, clean face as his hair that was framing his angular face floated within the air oh-so-gracefully.

“I have been anticipating all of you.”