“Rattling it!”

I cursed loudly once I noticed that the crouching tree monster had instantly sprouted quite a few branches from its again, proper earlier than fading away, dying from fireplace. There have been most likely at the very least a thousand newly grown branches that had been barely burned.

We had been in a position to subdue it simply because its charge of rising branches was slower than the speed of our fireplace burning it down.

However with its last-ditch try, it managed to summon so many branches that even our fireplace struggled to maintain up.

Crucial factor, though–

“Jeanne!? Firiell? Are you guys alright!?” I flew my gaze to an ice dome that I had created in a rush.

After I realized that the tree monster was about to do some harmful stuff, I reflexively blasted my ice to make a cocoon for my teammates, Jeanne with Firiell, and normal Zhang that I did not even know the exact location of. I simply kinda made an enormous dome round the place he needs to be.

Wait, huh…?

Ack! I forgot to defend normal Emilio! It did not cross my thoughts to make a dome round myself, so naturally, normal Emilio who was caught with me additionally did not get safety!

However then, how come I used to be protected from the branches?

‘Drip.’

“Common Emilio…?” I slowly turned my gaze up from the ice dome over there, to the person who was holding me over right here.

“What?”

My eyes went extensive as I frowned and bit my lip, once I realized that the blood that was dripping on my cheek was normal Emilio’s. He bought hit–no, stabbed by two branches, one on his shoulder and one on his arm.

“Common, you–!”

His again was turned towards the tree monster, completely shielding my smaller physique from the assault, whereas he took two himself, regardless of him already being wounded from prior combating. I used to be about to clutch onto his shirt, however then realized that his shirt had been burned away, so I simply clenched my fist, drawing extra blood from my already bleeding nails.

“You should not do that!” My voice cracked as I reached out behind him and lower off the branches utilizing a makeshift ice dagger, ensuring that the branches stayed inside his wound.

“Do what?” He inquired, nonetheless with a straight face, not like mine that was beginning to distort in fear.

“This! Defending me!” I jumped down from his arms and shortly ripped a few of my already brief skirt to place stress on each of his wounds. Ahh, suppose, Chae! Consider a option to preserve this man from dying! He was mainly flirting with demise at this level.

“I am your normal.” He gave me his cause and winced barely as I utilized extra stress on his wound. Seeing that, I attempted to press his different shoulder all the way down to get him to sit down down, however he simply would not budge.

“Precisely, sure! You are my normal!” I frantically agreed, “that is why you need to be capable of learn the scenario! Your accidents are worse than mine, so it is simply logical to let me take the assault! You realize, primary math? Distributing the loss?” I requested with extensive eyes and heavy respiratory.

He simply raised an eyebrow as I continued to wrap his wounds whereas tying one other cloth above the injuries, in a messy try to reduce the bleeding. On the similar time, I positioned two fingers on his neck the place his carotid artery needs to be positioned, and likewise grabbed his hand to verify for chilly fingers.

“No, that is precisely what a normal needs to be doing,” he replied whereas me weirdly, “generals are there to information and shield their troopers, to not get protected by their troopers.”

“Wha– However when you die, you will not be capable of shield and information extra troopers!” I argued. I used to be by no means comfy with the concept of getting saved by somebody. I hated it. I hated being so weak that somebody needed to willingly shield me.

“If I stored avoiding to guard my soldier, then when will I really begin? And who am I to guage which life is price greater than the opposite?” He answered with a bit of sigh, as if my assertion was a dumb one.

Uh, what? Wait, I really agreed along with his second assertion. I additionally thought it was unfair for me to guage which life was extra necessary. And I’ve stated that too, to Jeanne, particularly. However… Now that I used to be on the receiving finish, I felt so depressing to listen to that. I did not like that somebody needed to cowl for my incompetence.

“Moderately, what are you doing?” He requested, snapping me out of my thought.

“Oh? Ah– I am checking if you are going to go into shock quickly,” I chuckled nervously, “you already know, like, fainting and stuff? Too little blood? Nicely, these sorts of harmful stuff.”

“You do not have to–“

“Shush. Go sit this one out and drink some water or one thing,” I lined his mouth with my hand earlier than he might end talking, “we’ll get it accomplished quick, don’t be concerned. Belief your fellow generals a bit extra,” I smiled, “I will not ask you to belief me, however at the very least belief that Jeanne and that eel bought this beneath management.”

“Do not command m–“

“No. Dangerous. You sit again and that is remaining. You possibly can play dart together with your quills when you’re sitting there or one thing when you wanna struggle that dangerous.” I shortly stepped backwards, and caged him inside a thick ice cage.

“The hell!?” For as soon as, shock was actually obvious on his face. Huh, I assume no person had ever dared to cage a normal like him earlier than, eh? Generals had been actually held in excessive regard again in Alistair, in spite of everything.

“Be good, aight? And do not even attempt to get away, my ice is stronger than your fireplace… For now.” I awkwardly scratched my cheek. Thanks, buffing scrolls!

“Chaerin, cease it proper now.” He growled and pounded on the cage.

“Huh? What? Sorry, dangerous sign, cannot hear you! Discuss to you later, I bought a struggle to maintain, byeeee!” I lifted him up alongside along with his cage utilizing my psychokinesis, and yeeted him away, removed from the place the elf king was battling normal Zhang, however shut sufficient for me to nonetheless verify that he wasn’t lifeless.

“Alright, now as for Jeanne and Firiell–“

“Chae! Look behind you!” Jeanne, the individual I used to be searching for, turned out to be not far. The truth is, she was already operating in the direction of me whereas extending her arm.

“Huh?”

“I see you have killed my pet.”

‘FWOOSH!’

The second I heard that deep, velvety voice, my physique moved by itself and leapt away from my spot.

“You–“

‘Drip.’

I used to be about to curse that elf king, once I realized that he had lower my neck deep sufficient to attract blood, however not deep sufficient to make it spray. I used to be saved by my buffed agility stat this time. Spooky.

“Dude, simply what number of weapons do you’ve got?” I groaned. Alright, now was actually the time to face the boss.

“I can use any weapons that I can get my arms on,” he replied whereas holding up a lovely, darkish inexperienced dagger that had golden engravings on it, “I may even use them in an unorthodox approach.”

‘Fwoosh!’

“Ack!” I yelped as I came across my ft, making an attempt to dodge the dagger that he instantly threw at me.

“That was close– oop!”

Simply as I used to be about to calm down, I observed the dagger that flew previous me instantly circled, altering its course again at me. Luckily, I had sufficient time to deflect it utilizing my hand that I had coated with laborious ice.

“Hoo~” He grinned at me amusedly, “let’s have a look at the way you deal with a number of assaults without delay, we could?”

“Attempt me, you dumb bitch. That tree man is best than you when it comes to a number of assaults.” I scoffed, a bit aggravated.

“Alright, day trip!” Common Zhang instantly landed between the 2 of us, clapping his arms.

“Uh?” I flinched and took a step again in shock. What was he doing, getting in the midst of a struggle?

“No can do.” Erenduill clicked his tongue loudly, which stunned me because it was the primary time I noticed him aggravated to that extent.

‘BAM!’

In a cut up second, the elf king launched himself in the direction of normal Zhang, who blocked him simply with out taking even one step backwards.

Dude, how? Even I, who was standing a couple of meters away from them, needed to step again to stabilize myself from the shockwave. What precisely was normal Zhang fabricated from…?

“You… You’ve got been a trouble for some time!” Erenduill raised his hand and fashioned three inexperienced balls of mana without delay, identical to the one he threw at me earlier.

“Hey eel, mov–!”

“Oops, naughty. Let me preserve that for you,” normal Zhang simply laughed and snapped his finger, when instantly all the balls disappeared into nothing.

Huh? That transfer once more…?

“Once more?” The elf king parroted my thought, “you have been utilizing annoying methods since then… What precisely is your magic?” He frowned.

“Me? My magic is thisssssss~” Common Zhang giggled as his physique cut up into two smaller, watery normal Zhangs, after which into fish-shaped water, and even into straight-up dumpling-shaped water, “I can flip into water and morph into any form I fancy–“

‘ZZAP!’

“–all the whereas doing zappy zaps.”

“… Tch.” The elf king growled as he took normal Zhang’s zap along with his arm.

Now that I thought of it, what precisely occurred throughout their struggle whereas we had been busy burning some wooden? How might normal Zhang sustain… No, wait. Erenduill was the one taking injury, judging by the few bruises seen on his as soon as pristine pores and skin and tattered garments, whereas normal Zhang simply seemed like the same old lunatic he all the time was.

However..? Wh– How?

“Hey, your kingly kingship or one thing, keep there for a minute, okay?” Common Zhang, who was again in his human type, scratched his head, “do not transfer, for only a minute, if you do not need me to lose persistence.”

My eyes went extensive once I noticed that the elf king really stopped shifting and bit his lip, though his stance was clearly aggressive. This clowny eel managed to intimidate that Erenduill?

“Little cub.” His deep, sultry voice made me search for nervously and checked out him, who was now standing earlier than me.

“Y-yeah?” I answered, staring into his eyes that had instantly misplaced their typical playfulness. Not even a smirk was on his face.

“You…”

I gulped as he bent down and tucked my hair behind my ear.

“Um…?”