Chapter: 451
Jay was a little disappointed seeing him use an ability so early, but he didn’t mind – he was curious about his ability.
“Full counter!” he groaned as an immense amount of power coursed through his sword, slashing at the incoming hook.
*Crack!~*
It was sent back at a frightening speed, travelling twice as fast as the hook initial attack of the nestling gatherer.
“Well damn…” Jay had to pause for a moment, seeing his powerful ability.
He took zero damage and instead dealt even more back to the attacker – despite being a swordsman it was like he used a ranged ability. Technically he didn’t, but still.
The hook whistled through the wind and implanted right into the creature’s own head.
Naturally, the creature began to reel in its ‘prize’, only to start ripping twigs and stick out of its own body. It was its own worst enemy.
Everyone grimaced slightly while seeing this; it seemed these elementals truly didn’t feel pain.
It then began chewing on the sticks pulled from its own head; quite a grotesque sight – it wasn’t just cannibalism, it was self-mutilation.
The tall lanky guy with the bow frowned before sending an arrow its way, finally ending its life.
Unknown to the self-mutilating wood elemental, it had engaged in psychological warfare. All of them were thrown off for a moment.
The distraction of the Nestling gatherers has allowed the smaller stick-ball elementals to do some damage now – though not much.
It was only one damage, but if it was allowed to go on, it would add up after some time.
“AHHH!” an adventurer screamed in the field nearby.
A hook was pierced in his shoulder, and he was slowly being dragged towards the sea of spiky stick balls. The more he tried to resist, the more the hook painfully dug into his flesh.
“Hm, probably should have made a formation huh.” Jay shrugged with a head shake before focusing on the battle in his own field once more.
“AHHH!” an adventurer screamed in the field nearby.
The guard in their field immediately severed the segmented wooden cord; the guard moved so fast that it caused a shockwave of air that even pushed the stick-ball elementals back for a moment, sending them temporarily rolling away.
“The power of a level thirty…” the sabre girl next to Jay gasped.
Neither Jay nor the sabre girl could tell if it was an ability or the results of really high dexterity – they were leaning towards ability though, as most people wouldn’t dump all their attribute points into dexterity, and neither had they seen any other high levels moving that fast.
Of course, this simply was speculation. It could even have been the guards equipment giving him a speed boost or extra ability.
Jay glanced back at Paul and the other guard to check their reaction – they weren’t even watching.
Apparently they were already familiar with the speed of that other guard. They were chatting to each other as if it was any other day on guard duty.