Sneaking around

Things were starting to make sense… Lucy readily believed them because she had noticed the same thing happening in that area. She said that she had had trouble with ten demons, but she didn't specify how exactly that was the cause… Sigma could guess that a good part of them was because of the skeletons.

"If they are controlling the skeletons, I imagine that you killed a bunch of them. Did their numbers decrease?" Sigma asked. "Also, are they produced the normal way like other monsters?"

"What kind of stupid question is that? Of course not," Lucy asked. "Do you think that a big skeleton mama gives birth to small skeleton babies? That is so retarded."

Lucy had a point that didn't prevent Sigma from feeling like smashing her nose with his elbow… couldn't she just have said no? Sigma felt like he needed to learn more about the world. Otherwise, he will feel like doing the same with a lot more people.

"Actually, Lucy… Sigma lost his memories, so he doesn't know most of the things that are common sense," Ed explained while forcing a smile. "He is looking for someone that might help him recover his memories, and he isn't part of Geolia like us."

"And you believe him? I never met anyone that had lost their memories," Lucy furrowed her eyebrows.

"That doesn't matter. Explain the situation, Ed. We are wasting time here," Sigma said.

"Right, sorry… skeletons aren't like other monsters, and they are either summoned or created using corpses. That is one of the powers that some demons have," Ed explained while checking the map. "I guess the map needs some updates since we didn't know that there was a group of demons here."

"The real problem is that skeletons can be summoned and revived a bunch of times as long as their masters have enough mana, and we shouldn't expect anything less from a group of ten demons," Sabrina rubbed her chin thoughtfully. "Demons have a lot of mana, and I would say that most of them can easily summon around fifty of them every day."

"We managed to fight them over time and eventually decrease their numbers, but when that happened, the demons would always join the battle, and then we would be forced to retreat," Lucy said with her arms crossed without hiding her displeasure. "We lost a lot of people during those battles…"

"Did you ever pinpoint the location of their base?" Ed asked. "It feels weird that they would let you all escape when they were winning the fights… I feel like they have something worth protecting that is better than hunting you all down."

"That is what we thought… but we didn't have time or the chance to confirm that or find their base," Lucy explained.

"How usually do your battles happen?" Sigma asked.

"We would invade their territory, and then they would come at us with their massive numbers. Even while they can fly, we can use the trees around to jump and approach them," Lucy replied. "While using one of our techniques, we can cause a lot of damage to the ice skeletons while also decreasing the power of their attacks."

"Fire armor, huh…" Sigma rubbed his chin thoughtfully.

"How do you know that? You said that the old man didn't teach you that much…" Lucy looked at Sigma with eyes filled with suspicion.

"That doesn't matter. It seems that they are flying around in a large area. We should be able to snipe them from a distance if we sneak around their territory," Sigma said. "Do you think that they are good at detecting presences?"

"I don't think so… so they only find us because of our large numbers," Lucy explained.

"What about the demons?" Sigma asked.

"There is a lot that we don't know about the demons, but I guess tracking isn't one of their main abilities…" Ed said.

"We will find out then," Sigma said. "Sabrina will use her magic to hide us under a pile of snow after I snipe some of them. If things get out of hand, we will escape using the horses, and Ed and Lucy will look after them from a distance. If we focus on harassing them instead of a total confrontation, we should avoid some difficulties for a while."

"That won't be enough to deal with demons, and we will only end up doing less than my troops," Lucy said.

"That will be enough for now. There is no need to hurry," Sigma shrugged since he could just use that chance to keep leveling up.

Lucy looked impatient, but the others convinced her to watch and see what would happen if they followed Sigma's idea. If anything, they will only lose a bit of time. Still, that wasn't one hundred percent true since Sigma would buy time for his real plan…

In any case, the group silently approached while using the trees around to hide from the enemies. Some of them were looking around, but since they were constantly moving, they also constantly changed the position of their blind spots. Still, they stopped five hundred meters away from their territory and left Ed, Eclair, and Lucy behind with the horses.

Sigma and Sabrina moved ahead after she made something like a thin igloo and then covered it in snow. The secret of it was the fact she could split the igloo in all directions, so Sigma would have the chance to attack pretty much whenever he wanted.

Using that, they crossed three hundred meters, and then Sigma saw around three enemies flying around, and then he told Sabrina to stop.

[The spell Fly was added to the skill list.]

After visualizing their flying patterns for a few seconds, Sigma quickly summoned three arrows and then prepared to fire them in a quick succession. He thought that he would have to focus for a while, considering the distance, but he felt confident a lot sooner than expected, and then he fired the arrows. Even before the first had landed, he had already fired the others and felt confident in them.

[You got 120 experience points.]

[You got 120 experience points.]

[You got 120 experience points.]

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