The Amber Sword

Chapter 119 – The Final Battle (7)

The scouts quickly reported their information.

The holy grounds of Baern Shyrltaesi was comprised of the Elves’ Goddess Temple and two outer courtyards with walls, and was in the center of the Elven ruins, with other buildings surrounding arranged like an axis around it.

The grand hall of the Goddess Temple was where Hewjil had occupied previously. The back room led to an altar, while the front of hall’s entrance was a corridor that led to the rooms where the Elven Priests stayed at. It also had stairways leading to the top of the Temple.

Amandina chose this place the very moment she saw it.

The mercenaries passed through the ruined walls of the buildings, accepting Amandina’s command to enter the temple. The courtyard within the temple was once filled with Silver Elves who came to pray to their goddess, but now that beautiful and tranquil place was in shambles. The elegant white tiles in the corridors were broken and stained with dirt, and the only thing left intact was the pillars.

The wind blew softly from time to time, passing through the holes within the walls almost like whispers.

In this near silence, three of the Mercenaries of Lopes who set out early were the first to reach the place. They went up to the temple’s rooftop to deposit a hastily made flag made with a spear and grey cloth torn from Brendel’s robes, then went out to the second outer walls of the temple’s courtyards to observe the Lizardmen.

[Fuck, this time we’re in grave trouble!]

He grabbed the last Exploding Crystal and tried to get up while he shook his head to shrug his dizziness, but before he was able to do so, a hand pressed him down.

“Listen carefully.”

Scarlett’s voice sounded like it came from a near and far place at the same time. Even his vision appeared like there were two or three images overlapping each other when he tried to focus on her.

“I’m going to delay that monster and give you some time to escape.”

“What are you trying to do?”

Brendel felt pangs of sharp pain in his spine, and he wondered if it was broken in several places.

“There’s no need to worry about me. I’m also an Acolyte, the most damage that mindless creature would be able to do is injure me if I delayed it for a short while.”

“I think I’m the one who told you about the characteristics of an Acolyte…… Ouch.” Brendel felt her help him up.

“Hmph.”

The girl scoffed coldly in his ear and released him. “The horse is right behind you. Stop wasting time.”

She took up her halberd and turned around to face the monster. It had crashed into a few trees and destroyed them in its charge.

Scarlett took up a stance and placed her spear horizontal to her body and gritted her teeth.

Brendel looked at her back once more before he grabbed the reins of the mithril warhorse and mounted it. There was no time to waste and argue. Scarlett had made her choice and he could only cooperate with her.

This chance would be wasted if he hesitated.

He forced the horse into a furious gallop. There was a loud smacking noise, and when he looked back, he saw Scarlett flying backwards like a piece of rock, colliding into trees with audible snapping noises, before he lost all signs of her.

[Fuck! There’s no way she’s able to hold off a Boss-tier with an unsealed Element at all! This isn’t going to work—]

The monster turned to Scarlett’s direction for a few seconds, when a small crystal knocked onto its head. The explosions happened in front of its face, causing it to turn into Brendel’s direction again.

It was certain that the girl had lost her combat abilities, and thus set its target on the irritating fly. Without a proper order, the Berserk status that it had caused it to kill anything that still moved.

Scarlett’s delay had worked.

Brendel was ready to use his Charge ability. He made the horse run off in another direction and activated his ability, causing the speed of the warhorse to move over a thousand OZ, reaching the peak of his character’s speed in his previous world.

If someone was able to look at him from a hill, they would have seen a blurring silver line cutting through the entire forest.