Chapter 36
Chapter 36: The calm of an errand boy
The man-eating monsters made weird sounds with their mouths as they moved. They abruptly started running towards the band when the strongest and tallest man-eating monster pointed at them with its club.
Strings of magical incantations sounded out before the monsters had even begun to approach. Bundles of bone arrows flew towards the man-eating monsters out of thin air, and those above the level of magic apprentice even fired out a stronger incantation, bone spears.
Bone spears was a necromancy magic similar to bone arrows, but one had to be at least at the level of a novice mage in order to master it. The power of the spell was also slightly stronger than bone arrows. Bone arrows and spears flew out simultaneously, through the air, making straight for the eight man-eating monsters.
These eight monsters knew to dodge the attacks as they ran, but they weren’t a race known for speed. Some were still hit by the bone arrows and spears.
Except, their bodies were exceedingly durable. The bone arrows only caused them to cry out with pain and temporarily affected their speed, but couldn’t pierce their bodies. Only the bone spears left bloody holes on their bodies, with green blood trickling out of them.
The eight monsters continued to get hurt as they approached, but none of them fully lost the ability to fight. They crashed into the outer defensive perimeter and started attacking the inner ring.
Han Shuo stayed within the defensive ring in an orderly, unruffled manner. His face full of calm, he looked coldly upon the fast approaching man-eating monsters and slowly sized up their battle strength.
“Let the dark creatures attack!” Fanny gave a great shout as her beautiful features turned grave as she saw the man-eating monsters drawing near.
Everyone started directing the outer ring of dark creatures to attack as Fanny’s words rang out. The summoned ghouls, skeletal warriors, zombie warriors, and hate warriors all held their positions firmly, striking out only when the man-eating monsters closed the distance.
Only the strongest and tallest man-eating monster hadn’t been unduly affected. It wielded a studded club and sprinted over like mad, making weird noises and even yelling simple phrases like “I… I will… kill you”.
“We’ve just used the corpse explosion spell and pretty much drained our mental strength. We’ll be unable to use any other high level magic for a while. Everyone run!” Gene’s face grew panicked and he yelled quickly.
Fanny glanced around and urged, “Everyone hurry and leave! Don’t get caught by these monsters.”
Everyone panicked even more after these words from Fanny and Gene. The resources on the side were all forgotten as they all frantically tried to distance themselves from the studded club-wielding, quickly-sprinting man-eating monster.
Except, although the man-eating monster’s speed wasn’t too fast, it was still faster than the students’, particularly as the latter sometimes tripped over the skeletal warrior remains as they panicked. This resulted in completely incomparable speed when compared to the man-eating monsters.
Fanny’s thoughts were with the students as she urged them to leave and hung back herself. The tall man-eating monster, who remembered that it was Fanny who had cast the corpse explosion spell and blown three monsters to pieces, chased after her without a second thought upon seeing that she had fallen behind. Its club was raised high and crashed down towards Fanny.
“Master Fanny, be careful!”
“Watch out! Fanny, behind you!”
Lisa, Gene, and several others all cried out in shock and fright as they saw the club descend towards Fanny from behind.
Fanny turned upon hearing the others’ cries and discovered that the studded club was falling straight at her. The sharp points of the studs sparkled with cold light, and the accompanying whooshing sound gave testament to the strength behind this blow.
Her enchanting face with starkly-white without a trace of color, and her beautiful legs were suddenly without strength. A feeling of mournful helplessness rose within her eyes as the studded club grew larger in her vision.
Clang. Sparks flew everywhere.
Fanny’s beautiful eyes widened as she looked in front of her, a bit lost. Two studded clubs had appeared in front of her at some unknown time, and the two had collided together. The sharp studs had already been flattened at the point of contact, which still emitted some metallic sparks.
She followed her gaze down the opposing studded club and suddenly discovered that Han Shuo had appeared on her left. Both of his hands were tightly grasping the studded club that was completely disproportionate to his body. Veins had popped out on his forehead and arms, and his face twisted in a grimace as he stared fixedly at the man-eating monster.