My Daughter Left the Nest and Returned an S-Rank Adventurer Volume 7 [Complete] by MOJIKAKIYA

Author:MOJIKAKIYA
Language: eng
Format: epub

Chapter 93: The March through the Mountain Continued

The march through the mountain continued for just over a week. In addition to the abandoned paths, the desolate nature of the land made securing water a struggle. However, they occasionally managed to find a spring or river, and when they couldn’t, they’d simply economize their supply, moistening their throats by chewing on tree roots.

The mana wafting through the air gradually grew thicker. Likewise, their surroundings were starting to seem blatantly wrong. Even the vegetation seemed completely different. It felt as though something was watching them all the while, yet whenever they looked for their supposed observer, they would only find small, blooming violet flowers.

“There! It’s circling behind us!” Angeline roared as she swung her sword at her foe. However, the fiend immediately stopped and jumped back, rendering her swing useless. It let out a peculiar roar, almost like it was sneering at her. The fiend was a manticore—a lion with bright red fur, and a scorpion-like tail. Several of Anessa’s arrows were already sticking out of its body, yet the fiend hadn’t lost the slightest bit of momentum.

Miriam, vexed at all of her magic being dodged, swung her staff. “They’re slippery devils!”

“I’ll be... One of them is trouble enough. Why must we deal with three of them?” Ishmael lamented. The tome floating beside him glowed faintly.

The manticore that had tried attacking from behind was driven off by Marguerite’s sword. These fiends were intelligent; they did not attack blindly, overconfident in their own abilities. Instead, they steadfastly maintained their distance as they waited for the party to wear itself out.

Gritting her teeth, Angeline took a stance with her sword. “Can you do something, Kasim...?”

“Now, now... What to do. If I try grand magic, I get the feeling they’ll just dodge it. We won’t lose, but this is going to take a while.”

“We’ll have to take them out individually,” Belgrieve declared. “So far, they’ve given us trouble because every attack has been coordinated. They may be fast, but we have a good chance of dispatching them one by one.”

Anessa said, “But if we try targeting one, it backs off, and then all three of them attack together.”

“That’s precisely it. Divide and conquer—we launch a targeted attack on all three of them simultaneously, so they don’t have the chance to regroup. Ange, you hold back the one with arrows stuck into it. Kasim and Maggie, go for the one-eyed one. The rest of us will take care of the last one. Let’s go.”

Before anyone could voice an opinion, Belgrieve had bounded off with the greatsword in his grasp. Duncan followed, then Anessa, Miriam, and Ishmael prepared to support them. Marguerite launched at another manticore as fast as the wind, while Kasim began to gather his mana.

Angeline’s lips curled as she faced the last one.

The manticores seemed a tad taken aback—the humans who had been on the defensive suddenly took a completely different approach. They were completely cut off from one another, unable to coordinate.

Certainly, it

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