Chapter 560 - Arrived Back (2)

Every Auron's members were invigorated by Auron's speech. Just like what Auron had said, they had only less than one day of travel before they could reach back to their base camp. After a long week of this mission, they needed something to tone down their nervousness.

When Auron's group was about to leave, all of them heard a bustling sound from the path where they came from. All of them immediately stopped moving. Auron gave a signal for them to hide.

All of them quickly hid, only leaving Auron and the new swordsman alone. The two of them held their own weapon. Auron was currently using his swordsman character and made his mage character hid just like everyone else.

A minute later, a shadow sprung behind from behind the tree and attacked Auron, who was at the front. Auron quickly raised his sword and managed to block the attack.

The shadow was actually a weird monster with the body of a lion and had a scorpion tail. It was like a manticore. Auron frowned, looking at this animal in front of him.

There was supposed to be no wild monster at all in the Bridge World. There was only one possibility, the monster in front of him was a battle mount. Unfortunately, he never saw any of Regalia's people using this manticore which made him confused.

Auron blocked the attack. However, the manticore was powerful. It gave more strength and pushed Auron back. The new swordsman quickly helped Auron.

And, just like what Auron had thought, an arrow appeared from the forest and aimed towards him. Auron dodged the arrow, but the manticore, like had known what Auron did, attacked the location where Auron was fleeing to. Auron was surprised by the mount's intelligence and could not block the attack.

Auron was thrown to the ground by the mount's sheer power. Then, from the direction where the arrow came, four shadows emerged. Three of them directly attacked Auron and the new swordsman.

Auron, who was on the ground, was in danger. He could only roll over and tried to defend against the attacker. Fortunately, the other members who hid didn't stay still. Axton fired arrows while Auron's mage character also used [Fire Ball]. Meanwhile, the cleric gave her heal spell to Auron.

Cedric, who was nowhere to be found, appeared behind the archer at the back and attacked him. The archer had already known this coming and defended against the attack. 

With the long-range help, The three enemies and the manticore jumped back and regrouped with the archer. Cedric, who was dealing with the archer, also fled before he was surrounded.

Auron quickly used this chance to stand up. The two sides were separated. Auron with six people while on the other sides were the four enemies plus one manticore. It was a 6 versus 5 situation.

Auron's group still had the number advantage. However, he didn't want to underestimate the enemies. Moreover, the manticore was quite powerful. 

In the Bridge World, the mount was allowed to be used. However, they were rarely used because at the Bridge World. There was an unknown power that suppressed the power of every monster here, including normal animals like horses. That was also the reason why there was no monster live in The Bridge World.

The people who were in the Bridge World still could summon their mount. However, their mount power would be weakened by half. With only half power, their mount could do nothing in this warzone. Because of that, it was rare to see a mount was summoned here. Moreover, it was very difficult to get a mount. Furthermore, creating it to become a battle mount.

What made Auron surprised was the manticore's power. Even with half of its power left, the manticore was still strong. There were only two possibilities for this, the weakening power didn't have any effect on the manticore, or the manticore's power was very strong that even with only half of its power it was still this strong.

Auron thought that the latter possibility was more likely to happen. There was no way that the weakening power was nullified.

With such a strong mount, there was no way the owner of it was an ordinary person. Auron glanced at the four people in front of him. And, he spotted who was the owner of this mount. It was the leader of the four.

Auron was really sure because the leader's level and equipment were surpassed by the other by a huge margin. Moreover, the other three people seemed to respect the leader. The leader must have a great identity back in the Regalia World.

The leader of the enemies was on the same level as Smite. However, his equipment clearly surpassed what Smite had.

However, the manticore and the enemy's leader were not the only things that surprised Auron. He was confused about how the enemies could quickly catch them.

Auron thought that they should have around three hours lead. Even with Auron's group's resting time, the enemy should not be able to arrive this quickly even if they didn't rest at all.

Auron could see that the enemy seemed to have fatigue because of the lack of resting. However, it was not that heavy.

"How could you chase us this quickly?" Auron asked. He was trying to catch the enemy off guard with this question. While asking this question, Auron already signaled his other members to prepare to attack the enemies.

"You don't need..." The enemy's leader was answering Auron's question. However, before he could finish his sentence, Auron's group already attacked them.

The manticore quickly rushed to the front with the other two members to block Auron's and the new swordsman's attack.

"Be careful of the thief!!!" The enemy's leader reminded his comrade, especially the archer.

The battle was going on. While the two sides seemed balanced, but Auron's side actually could win this battle because they had a cleric on their side.