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Monotonous Movements
I did consider grabbing another one of the giant undeads from among the 6 here with [Sticky string manipulation] and making another makeshift morning star but, this time Ralf was also nearby and I needed him to keep them all gathered in this area.
So I discarded that plan, and instead decided to cut them down one by one with my sword instead.
Although there were 6 of them, they of course had zero coordination between them and were haphazardly attacking at Ralf so I used my strings to capture one of them from behind.
I dragged it away from Ralf and brought it right in front of me and wanted to take it one 1on1 but…..
Even when I dragged it near to me, it never even moved its eyes away from Ralf and began to walk back towards him to attack.
I had been wondering since the moment I made that first one into the morning star but, these guys are really extremely simplistic in nature.
Perhaps it was partly due to Ralf’s skill becoming stronger as well but, more than that, I think Elphas’ control ability is a bit too good.
He’s able to use so many undeads all at the same time, that too from a far away range but, as a price for that, he can’t make them do any intricate movements.
With sticky strings stuck to its back, the undead wasn’t even able to move forward and yet it kept trying to move its legs towards Ralf regardless. Seeing that, I came to the previous conclusion.
If they don’t aggro towards me even after all this, then taking them all down really will be child’s play. So I stopped wasting time and began slashing away at the 6 undeads.
As expected of ex-warriors, I could tell they had a lot of brute strength, and I partly wished I could have fought them at their prime——but in a matter of moments, the undeads surrounding Ralf had been eviscerated by my.
“As expected of Chris! I had only gathered the ones with the strongest auras but you still defeated them all in a matter of seconds!?”
He spoke with a smile, but his tone seemed like he was almost annoyed by it as well. I couldn’t really tell.
If anything, I was the one annoyed that these undeads didn’t even notice me and were constantly locked on to Ralf.
“Enough with chatter, let’s go and support Esta……….”
I considered praising Ralf as well, but I had a feeling that was exactly what he was hoping to hear so I changed the topic and suggested heading out to support Esta but——
Looking towards her side, a bluish blur was rapidly rushing around the area and had already destroyed almost all of the undeads.
“So much for giving support eh!? Snow’s running wild!”
“Yeah, looks like they’ll be done by the time we get there. And here I thought I had been quick as well.”
“Snow had been doing nothing but rest in Peixa forest for so long after all, I guess it really wanted to let loose as well? I feel like it’s rampaging a bit more than usual!”
“From the looks of it, that might actually be true. I can barely see the afterimages but I can tell it’s really having fun right now.”
Seeing Snow run riot, I continued having such a chat with Ralf as we casually made our way towards Esta.
And by the time we reached her, Snow had already defeated all the undeads that were coming from the inner area.
“Chris-san, Ralf, good job. I’m done here as well thanks to Snow.”
“Yeah, we got a good glimpse of the finale. It really went crazy on them huh.”
“It was letting out its frustrations or something——or at least that’s what it felt like to me anyway. When it came charging from behind me and lunged at the undeads, for a moment even I was unable to recognize it.”
“I hope it didn’t tire itself out too much though……….hey Snow, you still okay?”
“Aurf!!”
The ice armour around its body had already dissipated away and Snow howled while panting happily as white mist came from its mouth.
It really did run out of breath a bit but, it doesn’t look like it has completely tired itself out either which was a relief.
“Looks like it still has plenty left in the tank. Good job.”
“And here I was hoping to show off, but Snow took away all the limelight! I’ve always wondered but are we really sure that Snow’s actually a Snow Panther!? It’s starting to look really different from the normal ones no?”
“We did kill its parent. It has to be one.”
I replied that to Ralf’s question but in truth, even I felt that it might be something very different from a normal Snow Panther.
Unlike the blue spotted fur of its parents, Snow’s fur was silver-ish white entirely with no blemishes.
When it was a child I thought the blue spots would appear when it grew up but, now that it has grown up a lot, it’s still completely pure white.
It’s movement ability was ridiculous, and while it did use similar ice elemental attacks like its parent, both its effectiveness and power are on a whole different level.
……..perhaps it was just an abnormal variety. I’d believe that considering how different it seems from its parent.
“I guess you’re right……….we did pick it up from its home ourselves. Snow has to be a Snow panther. Does that mean it got this strong because it spent time with us maybe?”
“Can’t say for sure. And while I am curious myself, now’s not the time to be discussing all that. Let’s head further inside. If we waste too much time, more of Elphas’ undeads might show up.”
“That’s true. There’s still ways to go. Let’s keep our chats to a minimum and make our way deeper in.”
Leaving the investigations of Snow’s true heritage for later, we turned our focus back to facing Klaus.
We had only just entered the residential district and judging by the map, the road has a lots of twists and turns so we were still far off from the arena.
No time to waste talking, we needed to keep moving or else we’ll end up spending most of our time fighting these undeads.
There’s even chance that he brought some other people other than the Cardinal and his group as well so, we needed to hurry up. And so we picked up the pace and began walking faster to our destination once again.