The pressure is brewing.
From a data perspective alone, from a theoretical perspective alone, they have the upper hand.
The team of 5 faced only one opponent, and he was injured and disabled. There were three people holding long wooden poles more than one meter long, one person using a simple remote control, and one person using improvisation.
Most armchair strategists would say: "There is strength in numbers, and this combination is enough to ensure victory."
There is indeed power in numbers, but it also depends on who they are.
For a team composed of equally well-trained and experienced men, adding one more member means that the combat effectiveness can be multiplied. If they were facing an opponent of the same level, it would be basically impossible to defeat them unless they made a fatal mistake in their decision-making.
But neither enemies nor teammates are in that ideal situation.
The ghoul stood more than two meters tall. Although it had a relatively slender body, it weighed 90 kilograms. It had no fat and was all muscle. It sprinted at full speed. Most knights with heavy armor and giant shields would be staggered by the rush - that Not to mention the vanguard formation composed of Mira, Sakura, and Yajiro who was weak from blood loss.
As soon as the Luoan girl took over the hand, she noticed that the head of the hoe was swinging. This farmer's family must have lost their land. The precious farm tools had not been maintained for a long time and were dusty and rusty.
Inferior weapons, untrained teammates who are not physically strong enough.
How will it choose? Impact array? Again, attack Lulu on the roof - since the latter had just attacked twice, and the ghoul could clearly leap onto the roof with ease - but more importantly.
——Will there be casualties?
This is the first time.
In the past, there were times when she had to make her own decisions while fighting separately from the sage, but she had never assumed the position of leader.
In the past, our white-haired girls only had to think about their own safety and how to cooperate with their companions. But now that she is in this position, she needs to think about the personal abilities, safety and psychological state of all members as a team.
She tried her best to control all the elements and sort them out calmly like a sage, but when faced with such a threatening opponent who was ready to take action at any time, she couldn't see and listen in all directions.
As a result, the pressure accumulated, coupled with the fatigue and nervous tension caused by the previous battle, Mira slowed down a beat.
"Wha—!" The ghoul rushed directly towards her. As expected, it planned to prioritize the target that had caused the most damage.
Sakura gritted her teeth and tried to attack it with a pitchfork. However, due to lack of combat experience and lack of strength, she deflected the attack halfway, and the staggering pitchfork directly hit the mud 20 centimeters away from hitting the ghoul.
Yajiro reacted and raised the shovel in a superior position - he had just witnessed Mira's chop and knew that such an attack was enough to penetrate the ghoul's bones.
The young master's years of training were not in vain. He held the end of the shovel and launched a swift and sharp attack that accurately hit the Tianling Gai of the charging ghoul. Although it was a dull blade, it was still quite lethal. The shovel hit the monster hard, causing its sprint to suddenly stop - which bought precious time for Mira, who was thinking too much and couldn't react.
"Sorry!" "Concentrate first!" She shouted loudly and waved the hoe, while Yajiro pressed the shovel down hard to control the ghoul to make it easier for the Luoan girl to aim, and shouted at the same time.
"Drink!" The hoe with its center of gravity in front and a sharpened flat blade used to loosen the solid soil can be said to be a combination of blunt and sharp tools, because Mira's crazy twisting of the ghoul can only aim at the biggest target in the end. Back wave.
"Crack!!" "Ouch!!" Although it was rusty and blunt, it still managed to smash in due to its weight and seemed to break a rib.
The ghoul roared in pain - and then swung its right forelimb without claws sideways.
"Crack!!" "Boom!" The hoe pole stuck on its back broke with a sound, and the half of it in the hand hit Mira's own forehead due to inertia, making the Luoan girl dizzy for a moment.
"Death!" The ghoul spoke simple words in Kazuto's language and then twisted his body with a "Click!!" sound, leaving only a wooden pole in the rotten shovel in Yajiro's hand. The broken shovel head and half of the hoe were still stuck in his body, but the ghoul, which had suffered severe injuries to his head and back, immediately turned around with great fury to look at the Luoan girl who had not yet recovered, and pounced on her. The enemy that dealt it the most damage.
Fortunately there were more than two of them.
"Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa" Sakura, who had previously swung empty, held up the pitchfork and screamed with a trill, and rushed over. She accidentally pierced the side of the ghoul who was turning towards Mira with the pitchfork. .
"Ouch!!" The attack part of the pitchfork, which was about as wide as a forearm and almost as long as the entire arm, pierced the soft belly armor and nailed it directly into the mud with the remaining force. Sakura instinctively She let go of her hand, took a deep breath, and stepped back a few steps with a pale face. This unconscious action saved her life, because the ghoul that fell to the ground immediately began to dig around. If she was still standing there, she would definitely be killed. Got scratched.
"Ahem—hiss—" The time the teammates bought allowed the Luoan girl to distance herself, and the three of them retreated to the rear. Fortunately, I was only hit by the remaining inertia. I was slightly dazed for a while and then I reacted without even breaking my skin. But every time like this, she desperately wanted a helmet that was usually not favored by travel adventurers because it was heavy, stuffy, hot, and affected vision.
"You put the pitchfork too-" Yajiro glared at Sakura, but the oiran glared back with a harsher look, making him shrink back: "Are you serious?!"
In one confrontation, 3 pole weapons were used, 2 were lost and 1 was lost.
Only swords and various short-range soldiers were left. The ghouls were clawing and clawing wildly, making it impossible for a few people to get close enough to inflict fatal injuries. Lulu on the roof threw stones several times, but because the weapons were made on the spot, The hit rate and lethality are very low, and several hits only make its roar more angry.
"die!"
"die!"
The ghoul who kept chanting this word in a hoarse Kazuto language caused the surrounding residents to frantically move all kinds of furniture against the door.
Once the doors are closed and the windows are closed, whatever happens outside has nothing to do with them.
If all the surrounding residents come out, they can gather at least twenty or thirty people to fight. If they take out all the things that can be used at home, they will probably win.
But there may be sacrifices, and no one wants the person who dies to be them.
So close the doors and windows, hug your family and hide under the table together. Pray it goes and kills others.
You can't blame them for being cowardly.
It's just people.
People who risk their lives to save strangers are indeed heroes.
But heroes often die young.
You can only rely on yourself.
Yajiro gasped for breath, his hair spread out in all directions. The force he just exerted caused the wound on his arm to open again, and blood soaked into the cloth wrapped around the hemostasis. The heart pumped harder due to strenuous exercise and panting, making it impossible to stop the bleeding. His complexion began to become paler. If the blood loss continued like this, he would be dizzy and cramped.
Sakura's legs were trembling, and she was frightened by the sprint just now. If the useless doctor lady behind her hadn't come to help her, she might have collapsed.
He was the only one left to fight.
Mira's health and remaining stamina, as well as her fighting will and experience, are all the best for herself.
How to do?
She actually knows the answer.
The unscrupulous mercenary's answer is to let his teammates evacuate first and ask for help. The samurai can shoot him to death with bows and arrows, and rush forward and stab him to death with their spears while wearing armor that can resist the attack of its claws. And his teacher could easily kill this monster even if he only held a short knife.
So she should buy time to wait until reinforcements arrive, and the best way is to kick open the doors of these farmers who don't care, rush to their homes, and use the houses as shelters to resist.
She actually knew this answer from the beginning, and it was actually the most correct choice. Because the ghoul was clearly targeting her, it was actually safer to hide in a house and use a bunker for defense than to run defenseless on the street.
And the people in the room may not die, as long as they do it properly.
But she.
After all, I can't let go of this hand.
The farm tools Yajiro brought had not been used for who knows how long. Although they had not been carefully maintained, they were the only source of livelihood for the family.
And their home is also the only shelter from the wind and rain.
She understands what it feels like to be displaced, and understands that even if she is of low status and goes out on the street, she will be cursed, no matter what she does or does not do, she will be regarded as the culprit of bad things, but when she thinks that she still has a home to go back to, she feels that everything has disappeared. What a feeling.
No child wants to play with the Luoans.
She was always alone, watching them play from a distance, imagining how to talk to them and how to become lovable. She thought hard but could never muster the courage to put it into practice - because she was afraid of the consequences of failure. So every time I can only go back dejectedly. But as long as I remember that I have a home to go back to, my parents are here, and I can eat rough but hot meals, I always feel that I can still look forward to tomorrow.
Maybe what you call home has changed, but as long as you have a place to go back to, everything will be okay.
So she couldn't do this, and couldn't deprive others of such a place that they cherished.
"Fool."
The teacher will definitely scold me like this.
"Mira, you are a complete idiot."
"Qiang——" She shook the one-handed knife that was chipped due to overuse.
"You weren't there when I needed you."
"What a terrible adult." "Bang!" The ghoul grabbed the ground with his claws and pulled himself out of the mud. Then he used his left claw to knock off the hoe and pitchfork stuck in his body. , and shook his head to make the shovel fly away.
"Dang Qiang——!" The flying shovel hit the wall and made a crisp sound.
"Ouch!!" A thin layer of black snow accumulated on the ground, and its wounds slowly leaked out viscous body fluids, and it roared at Mira.
"Hiss—" The Luoan girl took a breath and pressed her weight forward.
"Death!" The ghoul lowered his body and tensed his muscles.
"Huh..." She breathed out, keeping her focus steady and applying all the knowledge she had learned so far.
"What are you doing -" Yajiro frowned. He noticed Mira's intention, but how could she stop the monster's charge with her size alone.
"Boom - hoo -" Holding the knife with both hands, he started from the shoulder position where the cassock was slashing.
——It really tried to dodge the attack that had severely damaged itself before.
Flip the wrist, and in the middle of the process, combine another step and twist to convert into a wide-angle horizontal slash - then twist the blade at the moment of impact, deliberately using the wrong way to make the weapon unable to cut, so that the weapon does not cut but It's about slapping the opponent away.
"Bang!!" "Boom——!"
'Successful -' was a technique that the sage once used to stop a crocodile, but Mira had not had time to be happy.
"Shallow!" Yajiro shouted at the top of his lungs.
"呲————!!" Although the ghoul on all fours was knocked sideways, its claws were nailed deeply into the mud and it was not knocked down by this blow.
"Hiss—" The Luoan girl, whose eyes widened, immediately struck back with a diagonal backhand, but the hasty attack failed to work. Instead, the only weapon was easily knocked away by it.
"Whoosh whoosh-dang-!" The one-handed knife that flew out in a spin shoveled away a piece of thin black snow, revealing the khaki ground.
"Wh--" "Drink!" The tiger's mouth felt numb, but Mira immediately took out the knife from her waist and made a slash, but it was easily dodged.
The ghoul, whose face was still full of bodily fluids, stared at her with his black eyes without whites.
Although the expression was invisible, Mira felt the teasing coming from this monster.
It's like a cat that keeps throwing mice into the air until it's dying, lazily dozing next to it, watching the dying mouse still squirming and trying to escape -
This is the kind of margin and calmness of a winner.
The winning rate has dropped to the lowest level.
Lulu was still trying to attack anxiously, but after she threw another stone and failed to hit it, she stretched out her hand and found that the bag was empty.
Yajiro grabbed the dagger and tried to rush up, but he lost his footing and fell straight down. He then tried to get up several times without success.
Ruined.
Can't even defeat a ghoul.
After so many years of companionship and learning, I thought I had at least gradually begun to be able to keep up with that figure.
"Teacher." Mira pursed her lips.
"Where are you..." The voice was trembling.
Time is too late.
Even if he noticed the strange direction, even they themselves didn't know where they ran. The confrontation only lasted ten minutes, how could even the sage make it over.
She knew this, but she still expected the man to come out on the other side with a big sword.
Miracles have been created so many times, so it wouldn't be a surprise if it happens again, right?
But it was quiet ahead.
The snow suddenly stopped, and the throbbing pain caused by the backflow of magic power had also disappeared. It seemed to be related to this, but she didn't want to think about it at the moment.
"Dead." The ghoul spoke Kazuto's language again, but this time with a "da" ending sound, which represents the past tense. This is the highest display of its simple intelligence.
It lowered its body again, not intending to continue teasing, but to definitely eliminate the target in front of it.
"Boom--" An earth-shattering sound sounded on the right side.
"What the hell-"
"Whoosh!" followed by the sound of violent airflow.
"Bang!!!!"
A huge studded wooden stick with astonishing kinetic energy fell from the sky. The blast caused the Luoan girl to close her eyes and her white hair flew wildly. What followed was the sound of metal clashing with heavy armor.
"Boom!!!" The monster that was still in front of the Luoan girl instantly lost its figure, replaced by a body fluid that splashed around like a smashed tomato.
"Garbage." The 2.78-meter-tall woman with long black hair cursed disdainfully, and then kicked the ghoul with its head and half of its body smashed into the air with a "Bang!"
"Yu Lei! Come!" A young woman's voice sounded on the roof, followed by a "click!" in the air, and the falling lightning accurately hit the flying ghoul.
"Boom!" The corpse that instantly ignited into a blazing fire was burned out before it even hit the ground.
"Boom -" The visitor, who was terrifyingly tall and whose weapons looked familiar, turned around.
"Onishin clan." Sakura, Aya and Yajiro were stunned.
"White hair."
"Moon Guard?" There was indifference in the red eyes. Although he was tall, his face was similar to that of a human being compared to what he had encountered before. The warrior with long purple hair and heavy armor looked down at Luo Luo below. Miss An, said so.
"Clear!" A woman with long hair and a red and white dress standing on the roof shouted loudly and then clapped her palms with a "pop!", and the black snow and the remaining body fluids of the ghouls in the venue began to melt. .
"There are also Yi people." Another woman dressed similarly leaned out from behind the female ghost. She squinted at Lulu who climbed down from the roof, then looked at the other people, and wrinkled her slender eyes. eyebrows.
"..." The new person stared at Mira's eyes for a long time, then looked at the one-handed knife that fell on the ground, and finally squinted his eyes and shook his head: "It's the Moon God Guard from Dongdu. ."
"Hmph, Nanman." The tall woman with horns on her forehead made a disdainful voice, turned her head and walked to the other side with a clanking sound of armor. One hand grabbed the Odachi at her waist, and the other hand carried the golden rod on her shoulder. .
"Do you understand my language?" The gentle woman with narrowed eyes turned her head to look at Mira, while the stunned Luoan girl stood there and nodded subconsciously.
"Very good, you are all right. What a strange team. You must be in a tough battle against the evil demon, but don't worry. We are here." She stretched out her hand to touch Mira's shoulder, and the Luoan girl followed closely. I felt a warm current flow into my body, eliminating the remaining pain from the backflow of magic power.
"Sure enough, you have spiritual veins. This must be the reason why the evil demon is targeting you."
"How ironic." She shook her head, and then looked at Ling behind her.
"Sir Doctor." The lady with narrowed eyes lowered her head slightly.
"Miko-sama." Aya responded with the same courtesy.
With just two or three words, the sudden and powerful reinforcements turned around and walked towards the other side as if they didn't care.
"Tetsutsuki, walk slower." The squinting miko said to the ghosts and gods in front of her, while the group of people watched blankly as this powerful team of only three people slowly disappeared at the end of the road.
"Hiss—" Yajiro took a deep breath.
"This is the first time I've seen a miko." Sakura's tone was also filled with emotion and a hint of relaxation.
"You guys?" Mira was the only one who felt that she was kept in the dark. She even forgot to get the weapon back, so she turned around and spoke blankly.
"Those who serve God with their bodies are those who can draw on the power of God." Ling explained, but it only made the Luoan girl more confused.
"Power of God?" She tilted her head.
"——" Miss Doctor stretched out a finger, and then pointed her whole arm to the sky:
"Thunder."
"They almost only stay in Xinjing, but this time they came to Taizhou. It seems that they have heard some rumors."
"But since the witches and ghost troops have already arrived, no matter how many monsters come, there is nothing to be afraid of." Aya shook her head, and the optimism and relaxation on the faces of the other two people who were from the same tribe were obvious to all.
really.
Mira, who finally turned around, realized how big the gap in combat power was - Kazuto's miko's magical ability was almost comparable to that of a magister, and the bad-tempered ghost just now, she After noticing the two deep pits on the ground behind him, he realized that the opponent had jumped over the house and landed directly near the ghoul and struck out.
The atavistic mountain ghosts may be bigger in size, but they have no strength and lack of dexterity and wisdom. Judging from their performance, they are probably unable to compete head-on with real ghosts and gods.
Legendary combat power, and troops like this came to the northern border.
The Moon Country is different from any country it has experienced before. The energy accumulated by this country after thousands of years of unity.
Far beyond the limits of her imagination as a foreigner.
The sound of horse hoofbeats sounded in the distance, and the familiar white figure first appeared panting. After more than half a minute, other familiar faces followed.
"Hiss—hiss—" The panting unicorn paced back and forth to examine Mira's body.
"I'm fine." It kept rubbing until the Luoan girl reached out and touched the side of its face.
"Master!" Lao Qiao jumped off the horse and rushed to the pale Yajiro.
"This subordinate is incompetent." Narumi and the others immediately dismounted and immediately knelt on one knee and lowered their heads.
"It's not your fault, it's my decision to act alone." The weak Yajiro waved his hand.
"Are you okay?" Galeva, who was still not very good at riding a horse, clamped his legs due to the stinging pain in his inner thighs the moment he got off the horse. His words, which were suppressed into a bitter look but still concerned, made Mira happy. He laughed out loud.
She finally looked at Henry.
The sage didn't say anything, just glanced at her up and down, and then breathed a sigh of relief.
"I just scolded you." Mira said confidently.
"Really." And Henry shrugged.
