1 Leon de Ville

| Viridian Forest |

*huff *huff

Sounds of heavy breathing can be heard and it was only getting rougher by the second.

In an open field at a certain region of the forest, three figures can be seen fighting a 2 meter large monster that looks similar to a dinosaur called triceratops, except for the monster in front of them has no horns.

The monster was known as the Iron Head Phantos, a monster which head looks like a shield that is composed of highly compressed iron. In short, it sounded more like a walking mineral than a monster, but the fact that it is very dangerous remains.

An Adult Iron Head Phantos can be considered as a B rank Monster, and from the looks of the monster in front of them, it was certainly an adult.

The figure figures fighting the Iron Head Phantos belongs to two males and a female.

One of the male wears an armor but it does not hinder his movement since it only covers his vital parts, he has a somewhat light-black hair that reaches to his shoulder, luckily though it doesn't obstruct his vision since it was tied into a ponytail. He was holding a sword and shield in his hands which says that he is a knight.

The other male was not wearing any armor instead, he was wearing a green robe which signifies that he is a mage. The green robe represents his element which is wood, this type of element is very useful in using control spells such as bind, that can help lock the target for the duration of how long the caster can last.

And lastly was the only female in the group which was surprisingly their leader since she is the one that is giving orders. In her hands was a long bow made of a special type of wood that can endure any stretch to a certain extent. She was supplying fire arrows to her bow continuously while sending it all towards the Iron Head Phantos.

Their team was considerably balanced since they have a knight that can act as the vanguard, while a wood mage that can act as the support of the team since there are also healing spells in the wood element. And lastly, the archer that will deal with the most damage in their team.

(AN: Sounds like a game, right?)

But no matter how balance their team is, when they are against something that specializes in somethings, especially an Iron Head Phantos which is well known for it's defense, they don't stand a chance.

"Boss, we can't defeat it. It's defense are too high."

The green robed boy man said, his name was Geran. He was having a hard time on binding the monster in front of him since it was extremely heavy was quite powerful. No matter how much mana he puts on the spell, it was still not enough to stop it even for 5 seconds.

Mana also known as Magic Energy, is the energy used to cast a spell, the more money it uses the stronger it is. But this does not apply to everything as more complicated spells cost less mana to cast but have decent powers.

"Sigrid, can you still hold on?"

The woman knew that they won't stand a chance against the Iron Head Phantos, but she has no choice but to kill it or return to the guild empty handed with a mission failure. She will not allow it for her hard earned reputation to be tainted just because of a single B rank monster.

Truth to be told though, everyone in the guild would understand her failure since an Iron Head Phantos can also be considered an A rank monster due to its terrifying defense. So even if she returns now, no one would dare to look down on her but instead, would look up at her since she was able to hold on very long against an Iron Head Phantos.

The man in question, Sigrid, shook his head. If you look closely, you could see that his hand holding the shield is slightly trembling. It is because of the strikes he had received from the monster.

Shina considered for a while whether to continue or not, although she really cares about her reputation she cares even more about the safety of her teammates.

At the end, she still chose to retreat since they can always challenge it later after they had gotten stronger. But when they were about to retreat something unexpected happened.

Sigrid who was facing the Iron Head Phantos was sent flying towards a tree.

"*cough I'm *cough ..alright." Even though he was already sent flying and have blood on his mouth, he still said he was alright.

Seeing him like this, Shina blamed herself for not retreating earlier while they still have the chance.

The Iron Head Phantos Rushed towards the green robed Geran, the speed that it runs was so fast that he can hardly see where it is. With no choice, he randomly cast bind and hoped for the best.

Luckily though, the spell hit the Iron Head Phantos and was able to stop it for about 3 seconds, which was already enough for him to run and take cover while Shina rains fire arrows towards it.

When the arrows landed at its body, it didn't even leave any scratch, it just shows how terrifying its defense are. Although it didn't take any damage, the Iron Head Phantos still felt angry that it was hit so it redirected its anger towards Shina.

Just like what it did to Geran earlier, it ran towards her at an amazingly fast speed, as she was facing what was possibly her last moment in life, Shina draws the string in her bow and shot a much larger arrow that her usual.

It shot towards its head but the result was as expected, Shina accepted her fate and was about to close her eyes when a dark red arrow, that came out of nowhere shot through it's head.

The arrow pass through it's head creating a bloody hole, the Iron Head Phantos stopped about a meter away from Shina as it dropped down on the ground, dead.

It happened so fast that she was unable to react for a short moment, she thought that the arrows was familiar as she had seen it before.

"O-One Hit Asura!" Sigrid exclaimed with admiration.

When she turned her head to look at the direction Sigrid was looking, she saw a young man that has two differen eye colors, one was gold while the other one was red. His dark-brown hair was quite messy but it matched to his eyes.

He was wearing a black coat that has gray linings. There are three straps on the Coat, connected by the core of an ancient machine, known as The Heart of The Relic.

(AN: Actually it is Kirito's Coat in Sword Art Online known as the Blackwyrm Coat see image in the link here: https://swordartonline.fandom.com/wiki/Blackwyrm_Coat)

In his hands was the bow known as the Bow of Destruction, which was said to be a personal weapon of a legendary S rank adventurer.

And that adventurer was the one in front of them, with a smile hanging on his face, one hand holding the Bow of Destruction while the other one was on his pocket.

Leon de Ville.