Having witnessed the whole exchange, Lumia muttered to herself.
“Mr. Shien…”
Melika just stared at Shen’s back with her heart pounding like mad.
Shien had no more effort left to mind such things though.
Even if his true abilities were exposed, he could just toss the blame elsewhere like always. Now isn’t the time to hold back.
Thus, Shien walked toward the attacker.
“You…!”
The attacker seemed to have also realized that Shien was a difficult opponent. Thus, he turned about and got ready to retreat without a hint of hesitation.
This too was part of their standard operating procedures. Kill any that they can without hesitation, and retreat from anyone they can’t. Leave those ones for when they either group up with the main force or stronger comrades.
However, it was definitely a mistake to turn his back on Shien.
“[Lightning].”
A brilliant flash of lightning lit up the night sky and struck the attacker who was getting ready to retreat.
“Aaaahhhhh…!”
The attacker screamed out in agony. Under the assault of the lightning bolt, his entire body was fried to a crisp, turned into charcoal, and fell down onto the ground.
Shien approached the fallen body, picked up the attacker’s dagger, and spoke in a disappointed tone.
“If you couldn’t become unparalleled, don’t go copying someone else’s assassin shtick. How shameful.”
What answered Shien’s words were two other shadows though.
“Kill!”
“Kill!”
The two new attackers had gotten next to Shien at some point. The two simultaneously pointed their hands at Shien, speaking words filled with killing intent while releasing magic power.
It seemed like the who of them were preparing to directly use powerful spells to instantly take Shien down.
At that moment though…
“Hyah!”
Lumia charged toward an attacker and forced him to back off with a powerful punch.
“[Burn Off]!”
Melika had instead released a spell that she had prepared at some time against the other attacker. Fierce flames blasted toward his position, forcing him to abandon his attack and dodge.
“Tch…!”
One of the attackers clicked his tough, raised his hand again as if shifting his target to the girls.
That was also a wrong decision.
“Rip!”
Following a tearing sound, a dagger had suddenly appeared and was nailed on the attacker’s chest.
“Cough…”
The attacker let out a stiff cough before falling over.
Shien maintained his throwing pose as a familiar message appeared in his mind.
「Skill gained – [Throwing] – Would you like to learn?」
It was a skill that was great at sneak attacking from just a glance, so of course Shien would learn and max it out right away.
As Shien finished doing just that, he turned to the final attacker left.
“Hyah! Hyah! Hyah!”
Lumia was pursuing that attacker. While she was out cute shouts, her fists were being swung with the fierceness and speed of a tempest, thus forcing the attack, who was obviously a mage, to focus exclusively on dodging.
“Damn it!”
That attacker cursed. Magic power erupted from his body like he was preparing to cast some kind of powerful spell.
He didn’t realize that he was already a step too late though.
“————This is the breath of heaven————”
Melika’s own magic power surged as she raised her staff into the air and chanted.
“————Oh scarlet spirits of flame, oh transparent reason. With this prayer as kindling, rise from this place————”
The crystal on Melika’s staff shone with a brilliant light.
“[Heaven Fire]!”
The second after, flames rained down from the sky.
“Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom————!”
Spectacular explosions erupted across the entire camp.
The light of the flames lit up the night sky.
The air shook.
As the magnificent scene faded, the rain of flames left charred earth where it had landed.
All that was left there was a corpse.
Only, the feet of that corpse seemed to have been broken by something.
Shien let out a small smile and picked up some new rocks from the ground.
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