Chapter 5

"Captain isn't it weird? Why are there no monsters showing up? The woman soldier asked

"Why are you worried? Its better this way isn't it?" the captain replied

"Captain, maybe there is a strong and large monster in this area"

They thought that there was a strong monster that is at the top of the food chain in the isolated forest, but little did they know the monster they were talking about was a young man.

The soldiers continued to walk inside the forest, the carriage can't with stand the road, it was rocking so hard so they decided to leave the carriage and walk.

A woman came outside from the carriage.

"Princess Erza, we are sorry for this, but it's the only way to reach the kingdom fast" The woman soldier said

"It's okay Jehanne, and I told you, stop with the formalities, we are not in the kingdom and you are my best friend" The princess said

"As you wish Erza" Jehanne smiled

"Captain Gifardus, Please lead the way"

"Yes, princess"

Gifardus immediately leaded the way, Jehanne was staying beside Erza. The forest was very quiet because of a certain someone.

After an hour of walking, they rested in a plain area, and they saw burned marks at their surroundings.

"Captain? is their a dragon type monster that passed here?" Jehanne asked

"No, this is not from a dragon. Maybe some Adventurers came here lately" Gifardus replied

Talks and laughs can be heard by the soldiers. When Erza was about to stand, she noticed Jehanne's face that something was wrong.

"Jehanne? Are you okay?" Erza asked

Gifardus also notice something was wrong and then he immediately commanded the soldiers.

"Jehanne? What's happening?" Erza asked with a feared tone.

"Monsters, and there are hundreds of them" Jehanne replied with a pale face.

Gifardus started to command his soldiers.

"Form a circle! Swordsmen at the front archers stay behind them! Healers and mages stay in our side!"

They form a circle where the swordsmen was at the first front circle, the archers at the second circle, mages and healers at the third and Erza, Jehanne and Gifardus are at the very center.

The ground was shaking, small rocks started to jump up, at a far distance trees are slowly being trampled.

When the monsters can be seen by their eyes, what they saw was, Forest Jagras, Shakalakas and Girross. There were hundreds of them.

Archers began to fire their arrows while mages began to cast their spells, healers blessed the swordsmen for extra defense.

Their offensive distance attacks was good, but the monsters were still very many.

And after minutes the monsters began to close combat the swordsmen, some archers used their daggers for melee attacks while the others are still firing. Healers was doing their job and the mages too.

Their teamwork was good but they lose in numbers.

The fight was still ongoing and the soldiers started to get tired. The healers can replenish their tiredness but their mana was draining fast.

Then in a moment one soldier fell down to it's foot. He collapsed because of getting fatigued. Thou their position was not disrupted.

After 30 minutes of fighting, the monsters are slowly decreasing, the soldiers felt joy and happiness. They shouted because they survived from the battle.

But the joy didn't last longer, a large monster showed up in-front of them at a large distance while bringing a large numbers of monsters as well.

The moment they saw the monsters Fear, Despair, and losing hope can be seen from their faces. Soldiers started to kneel while Gifardus and Jehanne's face was pale. Even Erza started to accept her death.

"Princess! We're sorry!" Gifardus kneeled while his head in the ground, including Jehanne too.

"It's okay, we can't do anything about it. We won't know when we will die so don't regret about this" Erza smiled proudly.

Looking at Erza's face the soldiers started to gain their morale back. They prepared their battle formation again and fight at all cost.

The large monster did not attack first, instead it roared and the small monsters started and advanced, as if it commanded them.

The monsters quickly rushed towards them, archers was starting to grab the string of their bows, prepared to fire but out of nowhere.

Arrows, javelins and spears made by water and fire element started to pierce through the bodies of monster one by one.

The soldiers was dumbfounded to what they see, as if they witnessed a rain of range weapons and throwables.

They look at each other with a shocked face. No matter where they look, they can't locate the source or the owner of the magic.

At first, they look at their mages, but the mages only shook their head. Gifardus, Erza and Jehanne knows that they did not bring someone that can unleash powers with this caliber.

Screams and howls from the monsters can be heard and the people did not move for an inch while the attack was happening.

And slowly after 2 minutes of firing, all the monsters in the area started to fall.

Only one monster remained, it was the large one. It still did not move from its position.

The monster only look around for a while, then it sense something from above and stared, after few seconds, It used it spiked tail to struck down the tree.

A figure slowly jumped down from the falling tree, the soldiers was stunned that there was a man hiding all this time on that location.