Plasma (2)
A leader's imposing entrance inevitably lifts the soldiers' morale. Especially if that leader is a powerhouse who can sweep away enemy elites like fallen leaves in the wind.
"The leader has appeared!"
"You are all dead!"
"Kill them all!"
The snake bandit group, who had been staring at the hunters with fearful eyes, saw their morale skyrocket the moment Vikendi Salmus appeared.
"Ugh..."
"R-run!"
"Where the hell are you supposed to run, you idiot!"
"Fuck..."
The masters and fairies of the hunters' side, who had been lined up blocking the entrance, were terrified. Their fairies were the same. Fairies weren't afraid of dying themselves. What they feared was the death of their single master.
So how much more so for ordinary soldiers?
"W-we're all going to die here."
"Hic... I don't want to die!"
The soldiers trembled with fear of the impending death.
"Die."
"Aaaah!"
Plasma, pushing inside with his fairy and subordinates, swung his sword at the soldier in front. The sword already had a lot of blood, but it wasn't enough, so Plasma's action was without hesitation.
Clang!
"Ugh... Huh?"
The soldier, eyes closed preparing for the coming pain, opened his eyes slightly when no pain came despite waiting. He saw someone blocking Plasma's sword from behind.
"Are you okay, soldier?"
"Huh?"
"From now on, it will get much more dangerous, so step back."
"Y-yes, yes yes yes!"
At Plasma's words, the soldier ran back in a hurry. Perhaps because he had faced death, his legs gave out, and he crawled backward unable to stand.
"Finally, you've appeared, Plasma."
"As expected, you know me."
"How could we not? We know much more about you than you know about us."
"... We caught you, but it seems some rats are still left."
Plasma's face hardened at Salmus's meaningful words. But soon he smiled. It was a murderous smile full of ferocity and killing intent.
Clang-!
Sparks flew from the swords of Plasma and Salmus touching each other. They entered a power struggle.
"....."
"If you knew I was here, you should have run away. Why are you here? Then you would have kept your life."
Plasma's face hardened from the strong power felt from the sword. But Plasma was still relaxed in contrast.
Salmus, thanks to the sword he held and the stat increase effect of his attribute, his strength stat rose by 8 points, combining with his original 115 to have 123 strength stat.
But even so, it was lower than Plasma's pure strength stat, so he had to lose the strength fight.
"Hah!"
At that moment, a woman swung her sword at Plasma with a sharp cry.
Her name was Sitri, class [Haze Swordsman], the upper class of swordsman class, and Plasma's fairy. She was also 6-star like Salmus.
"What difference does it make if there are two?"
Despite the sword aimed at his neck, Plasma didn't lose his composure. He tilted his head back lightly to dodge Sitri's sword.
"Hehe!"
'Smiling?'
But Sitri was smiling even though Plasma had dodged her ambush. Plasma felt a sense of unfamiliarity at that sight.
'Danger!'
Slurp-
Plasma, sensing something, hurriedly bit his sword and jumped back. At the same time, a thin line appeared on his neck and blood dripped down.
"....."
"Wow! You dodged that? You said you'd be really strong, and you're really amazing?"
Sitri said mockingly to Plasma, but her eyes widened slightly, truly surprised.
"... Yeah. It's not ordinary guys, this is it."
Plasma wiped the blood flowing from his neck and smiled again. From him, killing intent was pouring out right before biting the neck of prey.
Swipe-
"....."
"....."
Plasma was surrounded by 11 masters and fairies including Salmus. Individually, their power was far inferior to Plasma, but since they were composed of 5-star and 6-star, it was worth a fight.
But that was their thought, and Plasma's was different.
"But there aren't that many numbers?"
"What?"
"To catch me..."
Flame-!
Flames adorned Plasma's sword. He shouted while sending flame sword qi at the bandits.
"At least 50 should have come!"
A huge flame sword qi flew like it would burn everything. Sword qi wasn't usually that big. But Plasma's flame sword qi was huge enough to swallow everyone like mage's flame magic.
"Block!"
"Haaat!"
At Salmus's shout, a water attribute master extended his hand from behind. Then a water shield was created in front of Salmus's group. It was the healer in charge of the second battalion of the snake bandit group.
Water extinguishes fire.
The healer didn't doubt that even if it was Plasma, his shield would block it.
Clang-!
"Kuk?!"
That confidence was short-lived, and the water shield he used was easily swallowed by Plasma's flames. The shock made the healer spit blood.
"Huaaat!"
"Hachya!"
But it wasn't completely ineffective. The power of the flames was clearly weakened, and other masters and fairies used skills to cancel them respectively.
Salmus's group successfully blocked Plasma's attack with little damage. The healer spat blood as compensation for his skill being shattered, but it wasn't a big loss in battle.
"Fuck."
One master who participated in the Plasma raid spat out a curse. Because right after blocking the attack, another flame sword qi flew. And behind it, another sword qi.
He was a swordsman but also a mage.
His magic stat was a whopping 147 (136+11) thanks to the stat increase effect of the ring granted by the witch queen.
Proof of that, Plasma continued to send flame sword qi.
Flame-!
Flames covered the ground. Salmus's group resisted the flame sword qi by using skills as much as possible, but eventually had to retreat.
"Aaaah!"
"S-save me!"
Thanks to that, the bandits watching the scene were swept away by the flame sword qi instead of Salmus's group. Their bodies were sliced by the sword qi and burned by the flames.
The sight of bandits screaming in the flames was like a hellish scene.
"Fuck! Fuck! Fuuuuck!"
'Is that a fairy?! Monster!'
The first battalion leader of the snake bandits kept cursing and retreating. Before going to the battlefield, Salmus had told his subordinates to raid monsters with resolve.
At that time, the first battalion leader thought that even if it was a fairy, it couldn't be that much. But after actually facing Plasma's attack, he realized Salmus's words were true. No, rather, he felt that Salmus's words were lacking.
How could that be called a fairy? It's just a monster.
"If they are all gathered like this, it's unbearable, isn't it?"
'What?'
At that moment, the first battalion leader heard Plasma muttering beyond the flames. The voice had laughter mixed in, as if very pleased.
Flame-!
"Ha... Really fuck. If only the damn leader would explain this properly."
A line of flame pierced through the flames burning sand and bandit corpses and flew toward the bandits. At that sight, the first battalion leader cursed Salmus for not explaining Plasma in detail.
So far, the flames Plasma had used were [Attribute Sword Qi (Lv.56/Special)] skill. It was big, but anyway it was sword qi.
But the flying flame was different. It was flying straight at the bandits like a dragon's breath from the top predator among monsters.
It was Plasma's third skill, [Flame Breath (Lv.52/Rare)] skill.
Salmus's group, pushed back by the flame sword qi, naturally had to gather at the hill entrance, and Plasma didn't miss the opportunity to sweep them all at once.
Flame-!
A huge flame ray covered the bandits gathered at the hill entrance.
"Uwk!"
"Kup!"
The masters and soldiers who saw the place swept by the flames felt nauseous. The bandits who couldn't avoid the Flame Breath skill couldn't even scream and burned to death.
The horrific sight was terrifying enough to give nightmares.
Clearly Plasma was on the same side, but the eyes of people watching his back were filled with fear.
Although the world was full of superhumans, to ordinary people it was a story from a distant country. When would they have watched the fights of superhumans?
Swipe-
"Ugh...!"
"Hiiik!"
Plasma, who had burned the bandits in an instant, turned around and people let out gasps.
"....."
But Plasma didn't care whether they feared him or not. He just looked for Pazniri, whom he had been ordered to protect by the sky-like master.
He himself didn't care if he died. But he had to somehow save Pazniri and return her to Baidu.
The reason was simple.
It was because the witch queen, whom he valued more than his own life and loved, had ordered him to protect Pazniri.
In a way, fairies were like robots. Robots that only perform commands input into the program.
From the witch queen's perspective, Plasma, as a fairy, was much more precious than Pazniri. Of course, he didn't want Plasma to die while trying to save Pazniri.
But since Plasma was a fairy, he thought he would somehow fulfill the master's command. Even though it was clear that the witch queen would be sad about his death.
'He descended.'
Plasma sighed in relief inwardly when he saw that Alan and his party members, who had suggested the crazy idea of crawling down the cliff to descend, and Chae Gillard's party who requested support, were not visible.
'It would be good if we fought a little more slowly.'
To prevent the bandits from noticing that Alan's party was crawling down the cliff, Plasma had used excessive force from the first fight.
Fortunately, his overwhelming performance meant that even the enemies and the same hunters' side didn't notice that Alan's group had gone down to the cliff.
It was fortunate for Plasma, who had been worried that if Pazniri didn't want to go down, she would whine.
*****
Kwaaang-!
Hududuk-!
"Ha... Fuck."
At the same time as the explosion sound, the cliff vibrated. Small stones fell from above, giving a creepy feeling down the spine.
Is the cliff going to collapse like this? Fight a little more gently, you bastards! I'm going to die from fear!
"Hoo..."
After hanging on the cliff for a moment to catch his breath, he looked down.
"Ugh!"
"Ugh..."
"Hoo, hoo, hoo..."
"....."
There were my party members, Chae Gillard's party, and Pazniri the commander tied to the fairies' backs. By the way, Pazniri the commander was currently in a state of unconsciousness.
"... Why am I here? Anyway, if I just wait a little longer, Plasma will take care of those bandit bastards, so why!"
Plasma went to deal with Salmus's group, so he suddenly started making a fuss saying he didn't want to go down. In my position, who wanted to deal damage to the Kutlanka before it fully revived as soon as possible, there was no time to persuade him.
"Nexslice you fucking bastard!"
"Kuk?!"
"M-master?!"
So, after knocking out Pazniri the commander's neck with a chop, he started crawling down the cliff.
"Ah fuck. Why did I look down at the bottom."
I looked down at the bottom to check if my party members were descending well, squinted my eyes, and raised my head again. Me, I have acrophobia...