Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

PIERCE…

This scene immediately caused wild shouts of joy from the onlookers, but the person in question who had dealt the blow knitted her delicate brows and felt something was wrong.

This act of the Battle Grizzly was completely unlike its previously unintelligent behaviour. Alavar felt something was out of place, however, the Battle Grizzly did not give her time to think over it and immediately pulled its outstretched paws.

The Guard commander was surprised, from its action she could guess that the battle bear was intending on snatching her long sword which was currently inserted in its paws.

She acted swiftly but she was still a moment too late, the battle grizzly swept its other paw and forced Alvara to jump back without being able to retrieve her sword.

'This cannot be, the Battle Grizzly was acting in an extremely intelligent manner as if it was a human with tons of battle experience' she thought internally but the next moment the action of the battle grizzly immediately dissipated all the colours from her face.

The moment the Guard commander stepped back, the battle grizzly suddenly tore his attention from her and focused its attention on the centre of the formation, more accurately on the purple dressed woman.

Its paws were once again engulfed in a threatening amount of wind force that could cleave even a huge boulder apart. The battle Grizzly once again used its skill [Wind Slash] and swept its paws in a huge arc but unlike the previous time where it was focused on Alvara, the [Wind Slash] this time flew towards the centre of formation at a rapid speed. '

'No' the guard commander cried out loud in her heart and ran towards her Miss. But how could her speed be compared to the attack which already upon its target?

Cynthia narrowed her and the hem of her dress rustled from the wind of the incoming attack. her finger touched the jade white space ring in her hand and a peculiar glow was starting to emit from it.

Just when everybody could only watch with wide-open mouth as the attack approached near their client, a sharp whistling sound like that of air being torn apart, rang out and a crimson spear covered in flames appeared in front of the [Wind Slash] as if teleporting.

BOOOM…

When the two attacks confronted each other, the space was immediately brightened followed by a burst of heat that was powerful enough to gouge out the land and scorch it black. A violent hot air forced all the people at the centre of the formation back.

Cynthia took hurried steps back and looked on with a surprised face at the attack that had arrived to block the one intending to take her life. Maybe it was due to the intense heat generated by that spear, but her beguiling face at this moment had a smear of faint red making her even more beautiful.

"Miss are you alright?" Alvara swiftly approached her and asked in concern.

Cynthia who was momentarily surprised, finally regained her bearing and nodded her head "Un, I'm alright but that attack just now…?".

<br/>The Guard commander too was pleasantly surprised when that [Wind Slash] was negated and her eyes searched for the person that had helped them in times of need.

It was not only them, but even the adventurers and guards were looking around for the person who could deflect and attack from a level 259 Battle Grizzly. It must be said that even they who portrayed themselves as strong adventurers dare not take one of its head-on.

Not to mention them, even their entire convoy only had a few people that could match the Battle grizzly in terms of strength. Naturally, these people were quite curious to find out who this person was and why did they never heard his/her name.

While such thoughts ran in the heads of these adventurers, another crimson arrow swiftly pierced through the air and assaulted the Battle Grizzly.

BOOMM… the ground trembled and the air around the monster was immediately lightened up followed by a heatwave that hit everyone that was close to the battle grizzly.

These people coughed dryly for a couple of times before focusing their attention on the leader of the battle bears who at this moment appeared to have a large burnt wound on its chest.

Immediately hurried gasps of surprise rang out amidst the convoy as they feverishly searched the person throwing out such attacks. To be able to hurt such a monster with only one attack, what kind of person was he?.

"It's him" one of the people who seemed to be a mage holding a staff, cried out. At that instant, all the eyes on the battlefield focused on one part of the campsite where multiple tall trees were located.

A black figure quickly jumped down from the branch and appeared in front of many heated gazes.

A young man donned in casual black clothes, nonchalantly walked out and scanned the entire battlefield. His eyes which were dull grey would sometimes flicker with a crimson glint and his face that could only be described as devilishly handsome was unconcerned when these many gazes were fixated on him.

The moment the person revealed their appearance, the members of the convoy felt their jaws immediately hitting the floor. The young man who had injured the battle grizzly with a single attack was none other than the provisional adventurer which they all thought was already dead.

The newbie that they had slighted and looked down upon, at this moment shined the brightest as he displayed his frightening strength.

In one corner of the battlefield where the Bane Moose were located, Chuck's team which had already disposed three battle bears, glanced at the young man who became the centre of attention with only a single attack.

"Hahaha, I knew that crafty old man would never send a person with no potential for this mission. As I thought so, that young man had hidden his strength quite deeply" Chuck's loud laughter and his high assessment of that person naturally attracted the eyes of two of his teammates.

Similar to the feverish gazes that everybody was throwing onto the new entrant, Cynthia's violet eyes and Alvara's dark eyes also seem to be assessing the man at this moment.

Two pairs of alluring eyes that could make any man go crazy with excitement, was at this moment fixated on the tall and lean figure of the young man.

"Miss was right, one shouldn't judge a person just by their appearance" Alvara bit her lips and commented.

She remembered the time when she met the young man at the branch office of their back in the city of Mountmend. At that time after he had left, she had even criticized him saying that he was weak and unsuitable for this mission.

She even doubted the eyes of the old man from the adventurer's guild for providing such a useless person. However, it appeared that the one who was short-sighted was her, the man that she deemed weak, turned out to be strong enough to even injure a Battle Grizzly with a single attack.

"Un" Cynthia simply nodded her head and did not comment further, her violet eyes that looked like pair of stars, was glimmering with an unusual light. The white light that was emitting off of her jade ring, also died down at this moment.

While some gazes were filled with surprise and excitement, naturally there were some filled with hatred and disbelief.

Bignosio who was having difficulty even defeating a single battle bear looked at Simon who had suddenly appeared and snatched all the limelight with naked animosity.

Simon obviously did not care about any of the gazes thrown towards him, his goal behind appearing in front of everyone was just to accumulate enough contribution so that he wouldn't be seen as a burden to the convoy.

Plus if he did not intervene now, it was likely that the battle would soon end with them suffering great casualties. There was still a long way to get to the capital, Simon did not want to see the convoy already losing most of its strength.

Hence he intervened when he saw the battle was about to take a turn for the worst. Of course, he was not an idiot to display his full strength. He did not activate [Mana lines] nor any skills, even the mana behind the flame spears was much less than usual, however, it was enough for the likes of Battle Grizzly who had already been exhausted down by the group of adventurers.

Simon stretched his hand and immediately, three more flame spears started condensing and taking shape in the air above him. 

Each of these flame spears were more than six feet long and burned crimson with a golden tinge in the mix. His mastery over the Flame Magic was starting to reach the peak and if he felt like he could change the shape of the attack from spears to something else.

The flame spears that were conjured by him looked more materialistic than what it was before a few months ago and even the amount of flame that could be condensed within one had increased drastically.

Smiling in satisfaction in his growth, Simon lifted his hand and pointed with his index finger towards the Battle Grizzly who seemed to be howling in pain right now.

Immediately, the three flame spears obeyed his command and swiftly flew over one after the other.

STAB…

STAB…

STAB…

ROAARRR…

the Battle Grizzly screamed miserable when the scorching flame spears stabbed its abdomen, chest and neck respectively. The stabbing pain it felt when the attack connected made it lose its mind in pain but that was just the beginning of its misery.