042. A Flower Bearing the Cold is Dangerous
Thunderbolt Hammer Greken.
Iron Mace Donota.
The two Seven Wild Monsters do not conceal their menacing aura.
Even though a sword pierced his abdomen just moments ago, Greken's menacing aura does not diminish.
'This won't be easy.'
Elise furrowed her brow.
She had barely managed to pierce that thick defense line just a moment ago, but...
'Those big guys look tough to get through.'
One has an iron club. The other has a hammer.
Just looking at them, it seems like a difficult estimate.
Moreover, above all, aren't the ones wielding those weapons the Seven Wild Monsters?
Elise pondered while holding her sword.
What to do about this.
It was the moment she was pondering.
"Young Lady!"
"Tsk! That was dangerous!"
Someone approached from afar.
Members of the Seven Wolves.
It was Richard and Valadi.
The two men did not hesitate and stood on either side of Elise.
"Young Lady. Are those the two bastards?"
"Hah. Young Lady, you've attracted all sorts of crazy bastards too."
Richard and Valadi each drew their swords.
"Young Lady. Valadi and I will open a path. Go for the neck."
"Hah. Young Lady. I heard what that bastard Bachra was saying just now. What? That we're no match for them?"
The two spoke while laughing.
"Then the North would have been breached long ago."
From the blades of the two, a chilling killing intent and aura ignited.
"Young Lady! Let's go!"
"Let's go, Young Lady."
At the moment the two Seven Wolves readily offered to clear the way.
Elise nodded her head.
Right. If they lay out the board like this, it would be awkward not to make a move.
The moment Elise finished preparing to charge out immediately.
"Let's go!"
"Let's go!"
With the two Seven Wolves taking the lead, they charged forward.
Simultaneously, Elise's figure also dashed out, stepping with the footwork of Dark Fragrance Floating.
The three people, shot forward while bathed in the snowy light of the frozen earth.
And those who meet them are the two Seven Wild Monsters.
Iron Mace Donota.
Thunderbolt Hammer Greken.
The two, holding a menacing aura, meet the three.
"Keuhahahaha! Come on!"
"Wahahahaha! This is fun!"
Donota and Greken, exuding their aura to the fullest, swung their respective weapons.
The moment the weapons of the four people collided simultaneously.
Within that collision, Elise's figure flashed.
And.
'Now!'
The moment Donota's iron club and Greken's iron hammer repelled the two Seven Wolves.
Elise's blade did not miss that opening.
Ssskrt—!
Along with a heavy cutting sound.
This time, Donota's side was sliced.
"Kkeuhk!"
Donota does not lose his smile even as his side is sliced off.
Richard and Valadi, who were repelled in an instant.
And along with them, Elise who had moved to the rear in the blink of an eye.
In that situation, Donota and Greken speak.
"Donota. Hold on!"
"Greken. Be careful. That woman is the real deal."
"I'll smash her head with my hammer."
In an instant, the flow of the battle changed.
It's coming.
It's coming amidst dozens of exchanges of offense and defense.
Greken's hammer flies in to smash Elise's head.
Elise furrowed her brow and held her sword diagonally.
Simultaneously, she lightly twisted the trajectory of Greken's hammer.
'Strong.'
Each strike is powerful.
That's how Greken's hammer could be described.
Then the method Elise must use is.
'There are many methods. Then.'
Among them, the method she can employ right now is.
"Strength."
Elise did not hesitate.
Squeeze out.
Squeeze out with all her might.
Simultaneously.
Twenty-Four Plum Blossom Sword Arts. Twentieth Form. Lingering Scent. Plum Scent Piercing Bone.
The fragrance pierces to the bone.
It comes.
It approaches.
Greken's hammer approaches Elise's face.
Seeing that, Elise did not hesitate.
Rotation.
Rotate the entire body.
Starting from the legs to the waist.
And to the arms.
While rotating the entire body, gather all the strength she possesses to the utmost.
And towards the hammer before her eyes.
Swing with all her might!
Kwaaaaaaaa————!!!
Greken's steel hammer was instantly driven downward.
Simultaneously, the moment Greken's wrist broke.
Elise's bloodshot eyes met Greken's.
And Elise, without hesitation.
Ssskrt—!
Cut off Greken's arm.
"Damn it all...!"
Greken's words were not long.
More important than that is the hammer that fell, rather than the severed right arm.
The moment Greken's left arm immediately reached for the fallen hammer.
Even then, Elise did not miss it.
Thud!
"Argh!"
Greken's left hand was stepped on by Elise's foot.
Simultaneously, Elise did not hesitate.
Thwack—!
Without hesitation, she kicked Greken's face.
Teeth flying out the moment she kicked.
The moment Greken rolled about pitifully.
Elise approached Greken.
"Hey."
Step—.
"How many lines of death have I crossed."
Step—.
"This much."
Step—.
"There's nothing I can't do, right?"
Step—.
Finally arriving before Greken, Elise looked at Greken's face with its missing teeth.
"Kill me...!"
"That's the plan."
Instead.
"With this."
"You damn...!"
Greken's words did not continue.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
The hammer that had fallen out of Greken's grasp moments before.
That hammer, aiming squarely for its owner, fell onto Greken's head.
Greken's corpse, its skull shattering and scattering brain matter simultaneously.
Thud!
Elise casually threw away Greken's hammer like that, then looked at Donota struggling elsewhere.
Not only is he surrounded by two Seven Wolves, but he's also in a critically wounded state.
"Now. Three left."
It won't be long.
"Huuhaa.... Huha...."
A rough breath is expelled.
The Manly Man Bachra.
His entire body was covered in wounds.
"Damn Seven Wolves bastards...."
On the other hand, Kalix and Hugo were not in good shape either.
"Haa.... Shit...."
"It's damn tough...."
Even at a glance, there were many deep wounds.
Not to mention broken bones.
A seemingly crushed appearance was also glimpsed.
In that situation, the moment the three people were each looking for openings.
"Thunderbolt Hammer Greken is dead! The Seven Wild Monsters' Thunderbolt Hammer Greken is deaaaaad!!!"
A shout echoing among the warriors and barbarians.
Hearing that news, Bachra grimaced.
Damn it.
Iron Mace Donota.
He was currently in crisis.
It couldn't be helped.
Greken, who was fighting alongside him, died pitifully with his head blown open by his own hammer.
Damn it.
He himself might end up in a similar state.
However, Donota dismissed such thoughts.
He had to deal with the two Seven Wolves charging at him.
"Come on! I, Iron Mace Donota, will smash your heads!"
"Hah! The one with the smashed head is your comrade!"
"Keuhahaha! Valadi! That's right!"
The moment Richard and Valadi cheered.
Naturally, Elise joined.
"Phew. I'm here."
"Keuhahaha! Young Lady! Feeling reassured? Keuhahaha!"
"Young Lady. Thank you. As Valadi said. It's reassuring."
The moment the three exchanged smiles and positive signals.
"Donotaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"
From afar.
From far away, someone began to approach.
Decapitation Sword Linetta.
Wielding a giant Zweihänder, she was charging forward, reaping the heads of all the Northern warriors in her path as she ran.
Seeing this, the three people, including Elise, nodded their heads.
This, there's no time.
We have to charge in and kill Donota now...!
That was the moment.
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
A deafening roar that shook heaven and earth erupted.
This, could it be?
Elise's gaze immediately turned towards a certain place.
That place was none other than where Kalix and Hugo.
And Bachra had been...!
Kwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!
The moment another roar erupted.
Elise saw.
"Aaaaaaaargh!"
As Hugo's sword shattered, cracks appeared on both his arms.
And Kalix, having taken a fist directly it seemed, was barely standing while clutching his abdomen.
Simultaneously.
"Elise Blaze———!!!"
Bachra, having shaken off the two Seven Wolves.
To be precise, with fatal wounds all over his body and disheveled, charging towards her.
Simultaneously, from the other side, Linetta was also charging.
Elise did not hesitate.
"Kill Donota!"
The moment the words fell, Valadi and Richard.
And Elise moved.
The moment Richard's preemptive attack, called Lightning Flash, first struck Donota.
Elise's blade also targets Donota.
Thud! Thud! Thud!
Amidst the consecutive roars.
Within those sounds, Bachra and Linetta charging.
In that fleeting gap, Elise's eyes met Donota's.
"Come on! Elise Blaze!!!"
The moment his iron club met Elise's sword.
She did not hesitate.
Ssswuuk—!
Elise's action was simple.
Using the iron club as a path, placing her sword against it and instantly performing an upward slash in one go.
The place her blade aimed for was precisely.
Ssskrt—!
"Damn it!"
Donota's hand.
She attacked the very hand holding the iron club.
The moment Donota's fingers dangled limply.
"Take this!"
"Take my sword toooo!!!"
Richard and Valadi charged simultaneously.
While blocking the attacks of the two, Donota couldn't execute perfect techniques as his fingers were crippled.
The gradually shaking trajectory of the iron club.
In that situation, the moment Elise naturally joined in.
Her sword flashed.
Twenty-Four Plum Blossom Sword Arts. Eighteenth Form. Snow Flower. Plum Enduring Snow Cold.
Elise's blade.
Within the trajectory of the iron club that Donota had deployed.
Piercing into the minutely shaken path simultaneously.
Her blade precisely.
Thunk—!
"Keuhk!"
The moment it embedded in Donota's neck.
The plum blossom fragrance that endured this, holding the cold of snow, flowed quietly simultaneously.
Thud—!
Donota's figure collapsed on the spot.
"Donotaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!"
"Elise Blazeeeeeeeeee!!!"
The voices of Decapitation Sword Linetta and the Manly Man Bachra echoed to the heavens.