That bard is such a charmer!

Chapter 47 An Unexpected Enemy

"Be careful!"

Grace sensed something was wrong and quickly pulled Richard behind her.

Immediately afterward, Levin drew his bow and nocked an arrow, turning around with a rather graceful posture to aim at the suddenly appearing hidden door!

However, the next second, he frowned and released the bowstring.

The reason they appeared behind the door was that there were five heavily armored warriors. Their armor was black and red, decorated with spikes, and covered them from their feet all the way to their eyes. It was almost impenetrable and could not be penetrated by the ordinary arrows of the wandering knights.

Of these warriors, the first four wielded longswords, while the last held an octagonal warhammer, its surface occasionally crackling with tiny, dark purple arcs of electricity.

At that moment, this same person glanced at the snake-man's corpse on the ground and sighed:

"Can't even hold on for this short time? That's really disappointing."

He then looked at Richard and the others, a hint of delight clearly in his voice: "However, to be able to deal with them so decisively, it seems you are indeed quite capable...perfect as my sacrifices!"

Sacrifice?

Richard asked coldly, "Who are you?"

The man replied dismissively, "The offering doesn't need to know my name!"

Hey, I'm definitely going to take a look...

Richard used the Eye of Insight directly.

This time, almost everything that flashed before his eyes was a question mark.

The valuable information is only two lines long.

One line reads the other person's name: Harald Cohen.

The other line shows the other person's class and level, namely a level 9 Killer Warrior.

A profession I've never heard of before, and it's at level 9...

Richard's Adam's apple bobbed slightly, and without further hesitation, he pulled out his lute and swept it across the room, adding a poet's inspiration to Grace and the dwarf hammer in the front row.

"Ha, what a boring trick."

Harald saw Richard's movements, then swung his warhammer, unleashing a bolt of purple lightning that shot straight at Grace, who was standing in front of Richard!

Signaled by this, four other heavily armored warriors stepped forward, their heavy footsteps like thunder.

Armed with their tin cans, they charged around, disrupting the Forest Arrow Squad's formation. Two surrounded Hammer, while the other two swung their swords at Levin and Mendel!

The situation instantly became extremely critical.

Grace and Hammer are alright.

The former was immune to the lightning bolt, told Richard to be careful, and then went up to entangle Harald, who was holding the hammer.

The latter is also a heavily armored unit. Although it was a bit of a mess to fight two against one, it was not going to lose for the time being thanks to the dwarf's sturdy body and the poet's encouragement.

But Levin and Mendel were in a terrible situation.

One was a ranged attacker and the other a spellcaster, neither of them wearing much armor. Now that they were being attacked at close range, they could only run around frantically to avoid the attacks, without even a chance to catch their breath!

Levin's hounds wanted to help, but because their teeth couldn't penetrate the armor, they could only frantically run around in circles.

Richard observed for a moment and then made a decision immediately.

He first placed the Vajra Shield on Mendel, who had the lowest agility, and then proceeded to hurl insults at the warriors pursuing Mendel:

"Hey! You big oaf! Why are you wearing such a huge piece of metal on your butt? Are you afraid your teammates will stab your backside with the weight of their two-handed swords, like when you first joined the team?"

opposite.

The warrior first struck the Vajra Shield with his sword, and then, just like Jostan had done before, his head was dazed by the recoil. Then he heard Richard's curses and suddenly became unsteady on his feet.

Of course, Richard's attacks were not enough to completely defeat his opponent.

But this gave Mendel time to escape.

He retreated ten meters in a flash, then turned around and released a level 1 magic spell, Entanglement, which conjured a large amount of vines and weeds that entangled the warrior's feet.

Meanwhile, the vines and weeds spread to the surrounding area, slowing down the movement of the other three heavily armored warriors.

Levin, a ranger known for his agility, seized the opportunity to reunite with Iron Hammer.

With the help of his dwarf friend, he finally pulled out his armor-piercing enchanted heavy arrow and nocked it on his bowstring.

At this point, the front line could be considered initially stabilized.

Richard breathed a sigh of relief, then felt a wave of fatigue wash over him.

He hadn't had a proper rest since defeating the snake-man, and now he had cast a level 2 spell and a level 0 trick in quick succession, so his magic power was running low.

He then took two steps back, just like Mendel, to catch his breath.

Suddenly, the beast's intuition began to frantically alert them!

He rolled to the ground purely on instinct, narrowly avoiding the dagger that emerged from the shadows and was aimed at the back of his neck!

Damn it, there's even a thief backstabbing me!

Where did this person come from?

Richard glanced at the ground out of the corner of his eye and was surprised to find that a second hidden door leading underground had appeared on the ground just a few meters behind him!

Moreover, not only did a thief emerge from inside, but he was also accompanied by two warriors wielding curved swords.

One of them quickly approached him, about to raise his knife and strike!

In a moment of desperation, Richard quickly got up and used a technique from the Flowing Water Rock-Smashing Fist to take the initiative to grapple with his opponent.

Although they managed to lock onto each other's curved blades, they were in turn locked onto each other's bodies. In the end, the two of them fell to the ground together, rolling and fighting as they fell into the hidden door.

The thief who had just arrived and the other warrior looked at each other, then turned around and chased after them inside.

on the ground.

"!"

Grace noticed something was wrong with Richard, but everything was happening too fast, and Harald was entangled with her, so by the time Richard disappeared into the secret door, she was unable to help him.

Harald noticed Grace's anxiety, swung his hammer at her face again, and laughed loudly: "Don't worry, you and your companions will soon be reunited—in the form of corpses!"

Grace dodged the attack, then spoke in an unprecedentedly serious tone:

"If anything happens to him, I guarantee you will all be executed along with him..."

Before she finished speaking, she suddenly pulled her strength to the limit, slashing Harald back repeatedly.

He then quickly turned around and rushed towards the heavily armored warrior who was trapped in place by Mendel's magic. With a thrust of his sword, he sliced ​​off the warrior's head through the gap in the armor!

"what!"

Upon hearing his subordinates' cries of agony, Harald's eyes widened in shock.

Something's not right!

How come this female warrior has suddenly become so much stronger?

Could it be that she is actually a barbarian who has entered some kind of berserk state?

If that's the case...

Out of caution, he re-examined the battlefield and determined that now was not a good time to annihilate the adventurers.

So he shouted out a secret signal, and led the remaining heavily armored warriors back into the original secret door, leaving behind only one sentence:

"You cannot escape; the sacrifices will eventually return to the altar..."

After saying that, he vanished without a trace.

Grace did not chase after him immediately, but instead stayed where she was to regulate her breathing and calm the violent energy within her.

Those two blows were certainly exhilarating, but she also faintly heard Zoya's laughter...

After catching her breath, she asked the Forest Arrow Squad, who were also taking a break, "I'm going down to rescue people, are you coming with me?"

Levin, Hammer, and Mendel exchanged glances.

The current situation has developed in a way that has far exceeded their expectations.

Not only did they encounter an unknown and powerful enemy, but their own female warrior, Grace, also displayed strength far exceeding expectations.

In this bizarre and dangerous situation, should we still go to rescue them...?

"...Of course we'll follow you!"

Without a second's hesitation, the three of them made a decision.

Then, they instructed the still-terrified slaves to find a place to hide, arranged for hunting dogs to accompany them, and then followed closely behind Grace.

Grace nodded and jumped first through the hidden door that Richard had entered earlier.

As soon as she entered, she frowned.

This is because the underground passage clearly has more than one branch, each so deep that the end is nowhere in sight, so no one knows where the person went.

Damn it, did those guys hollow out the whole mountain?!