Chapter 23: E-Rantel (2)

The figure removed the hood covering Its head.

Miguel's eyes almost popped out seeing the delicate features of the woman with short blonde hair.

He still can't help but shiver. Who would not shiver after seeing this monster of a human? Seeing her with an ear-to-ear smile. Looking at them as if they are insects or toys to play with.

Her amethyst-colored eyes looking at them like a predator that even the Gold-ranked adventurer team didn't dare to move from their place.

"Hurry! Regroup!"

A man in heavy armor shouted at them, the leader of the Gold Adventurer team. The 6-man team then moved to the formation to stand in front of the strange young woman. They got 3 Frontliners(1 heavily armored, 2 lightly armored.), 1 Priest, 1 Arcane magic caster, and 1 thief.

"Oya~ Why so tense?~" The woman in the cloak said in a playful tone.

Miguel and the others that are not in critical condition and some members of the mercenary brigade started to form a line in front, putting those who are injured behind them.

It's a pretty fragile formation of fewer than fifty men but noble enough to protect their mates behind.

Well, not really. They are just doing this for the show because running away or acting weak is a taint to the reputation of their Mercenary brigade.

The standoff between the Gold-rank team and the strange cloaked woman is still ongoing. The entire atmosphere is unsettling in a way. The undead horde stopped attacking them — in this sector only though — which is... weird.

Amidst the tense situation, the adventurers began to move.

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"Now!" The leader of the team shouted.

"[Magic Arrow]!" The magic caster in the backline cast a weak spell towards her.

She is still wearing the cloak on her body, she wanted the reveal to be a surprise later.

These weaklings are on formation as if they are fighting a monster with long range-attack since maybe they thought she's a magic caster or something.

'I used one of my stilettos. Nevermind, I'll have them recharge after this.'

She just used one of her four stilettos, these stilettos have a special property: they can be enchanted with a single spell up to 3rd tier. Once a spell is cast, the weapon is emptied until "recharged" by a spell caster. Of her four stilettos, one was imbued with [Fireball], and she had just used it earlier.

She then easily dodged the [Magic Arrow] spell from the magic caster.

"Be careful! She's fast!"

'There's no need to use [Martial Arts] for these weaklings. These insects dared to hit me? I, Clementine, one of the strongest of the human race!' Clementine thought, before going to a cat-like stance.

"What the hell she's doing... G-Get ready!" The man in heavy armor said as the two back liner give them buffs.

"Oy~ It's my turn now~"

Under her cloak, she reaches for her Stiletto from her side.

Without using any [Martial Arts], Clementine then launches like an arrow towards the adventurers.

She's fast, the sounds of her cloak resisting the wind as she pass-through it like a bolt, completely passing behind the three frontliners.

"Protect Arthur!" The heavily armored man shouted to the thief — whose beside the back liners — he must be referring to the magic caster named Arthur but she doesn't care.

She reaches the man holding a staff. The one that dared to hit her with his weak spell. There's no time for the man to react as the pointy end of her Stiletto pierce him straight into his eye socket.

"I got a new part of my collection now~"

*Thud* The lifeless body on the earth.

The thief came late with a dagger in his hands. A cloth is covering half of his face but the shocked expression is still evident in his eyes which is quickly replaced with fear.

Clementine already removed the cloak covering her body, showing her very impractical "armor" but that's not it, it's about what the armor is made of.

"T-Those are p-plates..."

The thief is now seeing her "glorious" armor. Her trophy. All made with different plates of Adventurers.

"[Confusion]! Eh?!" The Priest then cast a debuff to her to buy time as the thief is still processing what the hell is he seeing, but...

"—She resisted it?!" The Priest loudly uttered.

"Fufu~" She playfully giggles as she starts walking forward towards the priest.

Clementine is a hero-class. There's no way such weak spells could affect her. With all the training, she received from her nation, she could probably resist most spells of Tier 1 to Tier 3.

Finally, the thief got back to his senses and immediately made a thrusting motion with the dagger in his right hand.

Clementine easily dodges it, and give him a fast poke to his neck, that the thief didn't even feel that he got a hole on his neck.

Clementine cannot help but enjoy the view as the Thief started tumbling down to his feet probably dying.

"Tsk."

Clementine then clicked her tongue as she saw the Priest is about to cast [Light Healing] to the Thief.

She forcefully kicks the ground and launches straight to the robed man.

"Argggh!"

His groan could be heard as her Stiletto connected to him and pierces straight on his chest.

"No~ Don't do that~"

All this happened in less than a minute. The frontliners are shocked for a second and now desperately running back to save their comrades.

The frontliners are now running straight to her, with eyes full of anger.

"Hehe~ This is fuuuun~" Clementine mocks the man as she slowly deepens the stab of her Stiletto on the Priest who can't help but groan more.

"You! I'll make you pay b*tch!"

One of the two lightly armored adventurers shouted in anger. This is what she wants to see, desperate people, desperate to rescue and avenge their comrades.

The man then naively used a [Martial Art] to sped up his arrival.

Within seconds he arrived close to a sword distance away from her. He raises his sword then with all of his might brought it down.

The slash is easily evaded by her but the two comrades of his finally arrived by his side.

"Oh~ You guys are together now~"

The trio is now readying themselves to jump on her now.

"Hehe, ~ Let's have some fun."

The battle of them took some time(a few minutes) before it settled into one by one. For all that time, Clementine slowly picked off the two front-liners, leaving the heavily armored guy alone now.

"Ha. Ha. Ha. You're playing with our lives!" He uttered, It's very tiring to move with heavy armor. And not being able to even hit Clementine.

"—And you killed my brothers! [Limit Breaker]! [Physical Boost], [Ability Boost]..."

"Wow~ you're going all out~" Clementine said as the man continued using many [Martial Arts].

The man is now faster than before, the fight opens with a wide horizontal swing of his longsword.

The man is now drunk in hatred as he irrationally swings his swords and Clementine evading it easily with a smile on her face.

"You coward!" He shouted.

The man is confident that the reason she didn't hit her is that she can't pierce his armor. Clementine smiled grew wider as she thought about it.

Evading the swing of his sword, Clementine moves 20 meters away from him.

"Why are you being so angry and scary?~" Clementine is now going back in her stance.

"Bring it on!" The man replied as he fixes his stance.

"Okay~ [Ability boost]."

The moment Clementine replied, she launches like an arrow but this time, she used a [Martial Art].

The man's armor, the one he's proud of is easily pierced like nothing. Her weapon pierced the chest plate and goes straight to the man's beating heart.

Taking his life in almost an instant.

"You're so proud of this? This isn't even an Orichalcum."

For the whole "fight", there are many spectators. The ones that he just used [Fireball] at earlier are still there.

Looking at her with eyes full of fear.

*Thud* The body of the remaining adventurer fell to the ground.

"Aaa I'm tired now~ Did you guys enjoyed it?~"

The line of men slowly retreated as she looks at them.