It's My Turn To Protect My Friends

...RARWWW!!!...

"...ROARRR!!!..."

...BOOMMM!!!...

Felin is fighting the Black Weretiger Monster all by herself. At times when she is cornered by monster, Mifumi will use her Prism Shield skill to cast a Magic Barrier around Felin and protect her. Then Felin will use that opportunity to push the monster into the direction of where the trap is.

Felin's body is covered with lightning that keeps on revolving around her. Her eyes were as bright as lightning and her roars were as loud as thunder. Her appearance looks like a savage Beast with nothing on its mind but to defeat its enemy. But even with how vicious Felin looks right now, Vier and Mifumi know that she is not out of her mind.

...Besides, Felin's appearance can't even come up with how frightening her Cat-sith looks right now...

That's Vier and Mifumi thought as they look at the Cat-sith standing on all fours at the top of Felin's head between her cat-ears.

The Cat-sith is so small that it is only the size of a hand. But every time Vier and Mifumi would look at the Cat-sith, the image of a ferocious Beast that is hundreds of times bigger than them appears in their mind. A Beast that can pierce anything with its fangs and cut anything apart with its claws.

...It's terrifying...

Vier and Mifumi can't even compare the Black Weretiger Monster to the presence of Felin's Cat-sith. It will be a joke, or rather, it will be an insult for Felin's Cat-sith to be compared to the Black Weretiger Monster.

...RARWWW!!!...

"Prism Shield!..."

...BAMMMM!!!...

"...ROARRR!!!..."

...BOOMMM!!!...

After Mifumi protects Felin from the Black Weretiger's claws and fangs, Felin punches the monster with her right hand which is covered with lightning.

Felin is fighting the Black Weretiger Monster barehanded. She is not using her Dagger and Knife because those will just be destroyed by the lightning that will move through her hands. But with her current strength, Felin won't even need those right now.

Felin's movement is as fast as when she is using the Lightning Flash skill. Her punch will cause the same lightning explosion as the Lightning Strike skill and her roar can create a shockwave as destructive as the Thunder skill. The lightning explosion will scorch the skin of the Black Weretiger Monster and the shockwave will knock the monster tenths of meters away.

But even with that much strength, Felin wasn't able to defeat much less give a grave injury to the Black Weretiger Monster. And right now, Vier and Mifumi can see an impending problem that their group is about to face.

The blood dripping from the Black Weretiger's mouth, caused by Vier's reckless attack, has already stopped. And soon, Felin won't be able to deal any damage to the monster and she will run out of strength as she's breathing heavily each time after and before he attacks.

"Felin is probably reaching her limits. We need to bring the Black Weretiger Monster to where the trap is before it can fully recover and before Felin collapses."

"Don't worry, Vier-chan. We're already here!"

Mifumi stopped running and put down Vier on the ground so that she could prepare herself to use the trap.

"Mifumi-sama, this place is..."

"Mhm! This is the place where we fought the Web Weaver Monster yesterday. Felin-chan and I set the trap in here. All that's left to do is for Felin-chan to push that monster at the center of the trap."

Mifumi chose this place because of how the Dwarf Cat-eared Elf's trap looks similar to the Web Creation skill of the Web Weaver Monster.

The trap consists of hundreds of Mana Steel String. A string made from the combination of Mana Steel thread and insulated with Web strings from the Monster Materials of a Rank 1 Trap Weaver Monster.

"Release... Web Gauntlet... Felin-chan!!!... I'm ready! Push that monster at the center of the trap!"

"...ROARRR!!!..."

...BOOMMM!!!...

Felin charged straight toward the Black Weretiger Monster and gave it a kick to its body. The explosion of lightning and thunder knocked the monster away and it landed in the center of an open area where Mifumi and Felin set the trap.

The Black Weretiger Monster crushed on the ground. And before it could get back on its feet, the ground in which it landed collapsed and the monster fell into a pitfall that Felin and Mifumi dug as part of the trap.

"Web Control!..."

Right after the Black Weretiger Monster fell into the pitfall, Mifumi used the Web Control skill of the Rank 1 Trap Weaver Monster Core that is equipped on the Magic Item Web Gauntlet. Then the Black Weretiger got pulled out of the pitfall and suspended mid-air by the hundreds of Mana Steel Strings.

All of the loops of those Mana Steel Strings are waiting inside the pitfall. And when the Black Weretiger Monster fell inside, all of those got tied on that monster's limbs, body, tail, head, and mouth.

When Mifumi used the Web Control skill, all the Mana Steel Strings that were tied to the Black Weretiger Monster, looped in the trees and branches, and then twisted and coiled to each other forming a single rope that was connected to Mifumi's Web Gauntlet, lifted the monster, restrict its movement and suspend it mid-air.

"How's that, Mr. Rank 6?!... How does it feel to be restrained by something made from the Monster Materials and Monster Core of Rank 1 monsters?!... It hurts, doesn't it?!... It hurts your pride, right?!"

"Vier-chan! This is no time to retort like that!"

"I know, Mifumi-sama. But I need to say something cool to lift our mood."

"Help Felin-chan first before you do that."

After Felin kicked that Black Weretiger Monster straight to the pitfall, she collapsed right where she was standing.

Vier still couldn't stand up, so she had to crawl onto the ground to get Felin and bring her back to where Mifumi was standing while restraining the Black Weretiger Monster mid-air.

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"...Huff!...Huff!...Huff!..."

"Are you still all right, Mifumi-sama?"

"I'm fine, Vier-chan. Don't worry about me."

The Magic Item Web Gauntlet uses a Monster Core from a Rank 1 Trap Weaver Monster, which has a Dark Attribute. And since Mifumi only has Flame, Wind, Land, and Water Attributes in Magic, she has to endure a rapid decrease of her Mana by using a Magic Item with a Monster Core that has a different Magic Attributes than her own.

The Equipment and Magic Item for the trap were given to her by Vier on the last day of their preparation for the Adventurers Academy Admission Exam. Even if Mifumi doesn't have a Dark Attribute, the Mana consumption of her using the Web Gauntlet compared to Vier is still much lower. That is why Mifumi is the one carrying the Mana Steel Strings Equipment and Web Gauntlet Magic Item.

This trap was supposed to be used in case the Exam included something like capturing a monster much stronger than the Dwarf Cat-eared Elf can handle.

...Well, we are still using it for the same purpose except that it is not for the Exam but to save our lives...

As Mifumi's thoughts wandered at the time when Vier explained the purpose of the Web Gauntlet, the Black Weretiger Monster made another effort to free itself from the Mana Steel Strings.

...RARWWW...

"...Arghhh!..."

"Mifumi-sama!..."

"Don't worry, Vier-chan!... I'm fine!..."

The Black Weretiger Monster will occasionally resist from time to time. It's giving Mifumi a countdown on how much longer she can restrain it.

...RARWWW...

It's making fun of her. It's trying to scare her by showing that it is slowly recovering from the damage that Vier and Felin dealt. That Mifumi won't be able to restrain it once the monster recovers its full strength.

...RARWWW...

...I won't let that happen! We did everything we could just to capture this monster! And I won't let it escape until I'm here standing!..

...RARWWW...

...The Neo Heroes did everything they could so we could have enough time to save Vier-chan...

...Vier-chan held off this monster alone so we could finish setting up the trap...

...Felin-chan gave her best so that we could bring this monster here...

...RARWWW...

...And now, it's my turn to protect my friends...

...I will restrain you until help arrives! I won't let you escape! I won't let anyone be killed by this monster!...

...RARWWWWW!!!...

"Mifumi-sama!..."

"I won't let you take anyone important to me!!!... Release... Web Weaver Monster Core!... Web Creation!... Arghhh!!!..."