Chapter 131: Art of Darkveil

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Third-person POV: Moments before

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Four beautiful women were running through the forest; it was the group of Elena, Alice and the twins, Eira and Selene. They were going in the direction pointed out earlier by Seraphina.

While Eira was still struggling in her sister’s arms, and asking for an explanation, why they abandoned a companion, but Selene was holding her tightly, there was no time to explain.

Suddenly Alice, who was in front, stopped and warned the rest…

“Wait, there are people in front and their presence is strong. I don’t think they are students,” said Alice, who had a strong magical detection, stopping the group. Elena immediately took her words into consideration.

“miss Alice, can you tell me the approximate number and strength?”

“This… about ten. Two emit a particularly strong presence, roughly between 6 to 7 metamorphoses. The rest have an energy hovering around four to five metamorphoses.”

“Hum, I understand. For now, let’s go around them and avoid unnecessary conflict.”

“Wait, Elena, they’re heading in our direction, they seem to have noticed our presence.”

“….”

Elena was silent. At that moment, she didn’t understand how they had been detected. She had cast a stealth spell on the group. It was basic and not very strong, but it was imbued with her Blessing, so it shouldn’t fail.

So far, it had never failed. Thinking of an answer she remembered what she heard, from for some reason, always well-informed Seraphina, told her a while back.

[“Remember this, Elena: blessings are not omnipotent.Blessings have different strength depending on the god.Yours is from the god of darkness, a powerful god, but there are still ways to break through your concealment.There are three cases that are the most common: first, abilities.”]

Now, with no choice, Elena began to take things out of the bag that belonged to Seraphina and that she had left in her care.

Elena was a little annoyed that Seraphina was right, even if everything seemed to imply otherwise, but more than that, she was happy that, despite her personality, Seraphina was still as reliable as ever, Seraphina always made her feel complicated emotions.

Elena equipped the girls with what they needed. Seraphina had given her the knowledge of everything they could use and what the things saved for emergencies like this were for, so she divided the equipment among the girls, among them things that originally, belonged to her’s, like Alice’s bow and arrows or Selene’s giant axe.

Most of the things were looted from William’s legacy domain. She didn’t tell him, but Elena knew what she had stolen, as she herself was complicit in hiding it.

They quickly prepared for the inevitable battle. Even Eira knew this was no time to ask questions and concentrated and accepted the equipment she borrowed. Elena on the other hand still kept thinking about what caused her discovery.

[“Second, when the existence range difference is very wide, basically when they have gone through many metamorphoses, they have chances to find you if they are sharp enough.Of course, if you use a powerful spell, you can still overcome that difference.That’s why I’m telling you to use powerful spells when we have our love escapes…erm I mean, our hunts. understand?”]

“Miss Eira and Selene, take care of those who possess strength four and five metamorphosis.”

As the new leader, Elena organized the roles and thought about the capabilities of each.

[“And the third, if that person has a blessing that counteracts yours, a lot of things come into question here, such as the level of existence, the spells you use and the rank of the god from which the enemy receives their blessing.So there is a chance that they will find you.Be careful, blessings come in all forms and functions, even for the same god.”]

“Miss Alice, you take care of one of the stronger ones. I’ll take care of the other. Do not hold back. If there is killing to be done, do not hesitate. They are coming for our lives.”

She had also practiced with Seraphina how to deal with people, since, besides the forest, they used to sneak into the slums and dangerous neighborhoods to deal with human scum.

They didn’t kill them if they didn’t have to, but there were times when they didn’t measure up, which made them both experience what it was like to kill a person.

Still, those guys were the worst of the scum, and no one regretted their death.

Besides the bad feeling it gave them, they got used to it fast. Although Elena remembers that even Seraphina threw up the first time, even though she herself had proposed to do it.

Killing was never a good feeling, but it was necessary; that was the way the world was, and Elena understood it clearly, when she did it….

..

She had no time left to think, as the presences were close, and she could already feel them. Before When they parted, Seraphina sent her a real mental message, made with magic, not that nonsense of couple connection.

She told her that those guys were coming to kidnap them and that, if they were caught, it wouldn’t be a good outcome, especially for Alice, who might die. So Elena didn’t hesitate and headed ahead.

She immediately realized who was the person leading the group. She didn’t know if it was the one who had discovered her, but she felt it was one of the two strongest that Alice pointed out.

Without any hesitation, Elena stepped forward. The group of men and women noticed her approach, The men, at first, did not understand the situation.

They did not think that the students they were to catch would attack first, and even when they understood they only believed that they were girls who did not know the vastness of the world and that they, as their future elders, would teach them the reality.

So Daric, the man who was leading them signaled one of his subordinates to go ahead and take care of this enthusiastic young girl, who would be a good prospect.

Elena was undeterred by her rank. With footwork unique to her art, she moved quickly.

Like a ghost, Elena seemed to intermittently disappear and appear closer and closer, as if they simply couldn’t keep up with her movement because of her speed.

But Elena didn’t do that, even if her main focus was speed, she couldn’t be so fast that Daric and Taryn the two most powerful of the group couldn’t follow her with their eyes. both were people who had reached the seventh metamorphosis.

The reason for this phenomenon was her art acting together with her blessing, which caused the opponent to lose focus on her for a few moments, hiding from her attention, causing the attention on her to dim and even temporarily disappear, this combined with her blessing, was lethal.

It didn’t matter the rank of the opponent. At least for those few moments, she would be dangerous.

Slice!

And by the time the stronger Daric and Taryn, who could barely see Elena, reacted it was too late.

Elena had already gone through the minion that was supposedly enough to suppress the enthusiastic young woman and had cut off both of her arms.

The minion could not even see more than a quick blink of Elena, and had no time to react until his arms were suddenly cut off.

Elena was holding two short black swords, and no one noticed how long she had been holding them or if she had been holding them from the beginning….

Not only that; a few moments later the man had also been pierced in the feet by two arrows that exploded, causing him damage and leaving him immobile and bleeding to death. If he was not treated, he would die soon, so there was one less adversary for the girls to deal with.

It all happened very quickly, and only now did they realize that they had seriously underestimated these beautiful students. Not long after, a rain of green arrows fell on the group of ten.

“Art of Emeralds: Lush Rain.”

Alice, with the second movement of her art, began to sow chaos among the men. The green rain fell, injuring several of them who still didn’t seem to process the situation. Elena took advantage of that and finally approached the man who was her priority target.

’Art of Darkveil: Midnight Blade.’

Mentally visualizing her third attack technique, Elena, like a flashing shadow, approached and, with a diagonal slash, inflicted wounds on Daric.

Unfortunately, Daric was particularly tough, and the wounds were not lethal, which made him finally wake up, and, angry, he shouted:

“!!What do you think you’re doing, you bastar!!?”

His voice was loud and annoying, but that was not all; it was truly irritating and piercing, to the point that Elena began to pour blood out of her ears, Daric , was a blessed warrior, by ’the God of annoying sounds’.

This caused Elena’s eardrums to be ruptured even if it sounded like a simple scream. Now she couldn’t hear anything, but, even so, that didn’t change her aim, and without hesitation, she attacked again.

’Art of Darkveil: Midnight Blade.’

Elena didn’t like to say the name of her attacks unless it was necessary. She felt it was foolish to announce what she would do next, so she specially trained herself to visualize them in her mind, Even if her power was lessened by not saying it.

Another attack landed on Daric wounding him again.

“How dare you attack me you little bitch.I’ll teach you a lesson.!!!!”

“…”

Elena couldn’t believe it, even with her deafness she heard clearly what he said, making her dizzy it was like a mental attack, causing her to lose concentration as well as giving them severe headaches.

Still, she did what she had planned and gained Daric attention,

Still, she did what she had planned and gained Daric attention, so she decided to stand back, while fighting those symptoms, and luring Daric along with her.

Finally, the rest of the girls arrived on stage. Both Selene and Eira, started attacking the relatively weaker but still one or two metamorphosis superior to them.

Taryn, who was the second most powerful, was going to interfere. The situation was starting to get out of control and they had no time to waste, but at that moment….

’A branch? ’Yes, a branch grabbed him by the torso and threw him through the air. It was so sudden that he couldn’t resist.

’what? what’s going on?’

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