Chapter 205 Elf Priest

Shaman and Silver were fast approaching the priest that was submerged in the pool.

'Why the hell is he in there?' Shaman was rather perplexed by why the elf would choose such a location and could only think that it had something to do with the tree.

'There must be something magical about the tree and if not, then the water.' Despite Kiruya saying the big tree was just a normal tree, Shaman started to suspect it wasn't the case.

'I can figure that out after we kill the priest.' Shaman was now in position behind the priest waiting for Silver to be ready.

[Ready]

Getting a message from Rea that Silver was in position, they could now begin their attack.

Shaman came out of the shadow and propelled herself straight towards the priest using her wind.

Silver managed to get up on the tree and was falling from above with a massive shadow scythe too big for him to carry.

Still in her hybrid fox-hybrid form, Shaman made it to the priest in a matter of seconds and slashed down with Kotetsu. Coating it in fire, she was about to reach the priest's head when a transparent barrier blocked her.

For a moment nothing happened, but eventually, a force equal to that of Shaman's attack was reflected back sending her flying.

"Shit it's a reflection barrier. Silver let go of your scythe!" Shaman, figuring out what it was, knew that Silver's attack would have quite the impact, so she yelled for him to let go.

Hearing his mother's orders, Silver did as he was told and let the scythe fall onto the priest on its own. A massive splash of water erupted, and yet the scythe that Silver dropped was sent flying back up, dissipated into nothingness.

Silver landed in the water close by the priest and upon emerging heard that it was chanting something.

"T̵̡͊̏̕͜r̵̡̗̗͎̈́̑ė̴̖̲͖̗̽̿e̷̮͗̅̎ ̸̤̔̃̚̕o̷̖͙͠f̶̪͇̠̐̿ ̸̮͒t̶̰͂h̵͇̭̚͝ę̷̙͙͎͆ ̵͔̏̀̅ǧ̴̗̗̟ō̵̧̦̻͗̒d̷̥͚̖̓͛͜ ̵̡̲̼̒̈̉̓p̶̲̔́͘l̵̡͂̈́͘e̵͈̞̹̎ȧ̸͚͜ṡ̷̢͚͇̟̈́͝e̶̲͓͙̕ͅ ̸̢͚̎̀̒p̴̮̹͍̈͆͐͊ŗ̶͕̈́o̶̮̟̰̫͑̀ţ̸̿ȅ̸͚́c̵̝͉͕̜̒t̴̙̃̽̿̿ ̷͕̞̭͍̋̂ǘ̴͎̄̂̆s̷̹̪͎̣̿."

Hearing something completely incomprehensible, Silver thought it must be the incantation to the barrier and whatever is buffing the greatsword elf.

While Silver was lost in thought, Shaman was sliding on the water leaving a thin layer of ice under her feet wherever she went. Sliding past Silver, Shaman picked him up and got away from the priest as she was concerned for Silver's safety.

"I don't think magic will work, so try to use normal attacks to see if it will get past the barrier." Shaman knew there had to be a weakness and so she figured using an attack with no magic at all might work.

Silver nodded his head. Once they got to the edge of the pool, Shaman dropped him off and continued her way back towards the priest.

Now having an idea of what to do, Shaman approached the priest again, only this time she did not coat her sword in any element.

Slashing down once again, this time there was no deflection and a crack in the barrier was made. This grabbed the attention of the priest that has been ignoring them the entire time, making the barrier flicker.

Silver saw how Shaman was skating and, wanting to do something similar, managed to do it with his shadows. Instead of sliding silver was hovering over the water and glided across it.

Using his shadow as a springboard, Silver jumped up into the air while pulling out his scythe.

Seeing that Shaman's attack was effective, Silver did not hold back and swung as hard as he could.

The scythe lodged itself in the barrier, almost reaching the head of the priest. The elf looked up in shock and fell over into the water beneath.

Due to his concentration being broken, the barrier shattered, allowing Shaman to deliver the final blow.

Quickly putting her hand to the water, she froze it over so the elf could not move. The priest's head stuck out of the ice, wiggling to get his body out while also casting some fire spells.

Shaman slid along the ice winding up Kotetsu to go for the elf's neck. The ice surrounding the priest did begin to melt, but before he could make the gap big enough for him to move, Shaman swung at his neck.

In a desperate attempt, the elf tried to put up another barrier, but this time for physical attacks. However, Shaman coated her sword in wind, replicating the chainsaw effect the dual-wielding elf used.

The barrier broke in an instant and the elf's head was cut cleanly off, coating the surrounding ice red.

"Quickly back to Clara and Elysia." Shaman knew the greatsword elf would be much harder to deal with and the fact no explosions were going off during their fight, she started to become worried.

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<Clara and Elysia POV>

The greatsword elf stood in front of the two girls with a glowing aura, its transformation finally done.

The greatsword it used now looked like a normal sword in its hands, which was terrifying, as the power of its swings will likely be much greater.

"Whatever you do, do not try to block it." Elysia already saw them getting crushed easily, so their best option was to deflect or avoid it altogether.

"Do you want to go long range while I try to keep its attention?" Clara could keep a safe distance with her whips, so her plan was to whittle down the elf till it died.

"If you are confident that you can, that's fine. I will fire whenever it seems like it is getting too much." Elysia agreed and took a step back to prepare a few arrows.

The elf was seemingly done with its transformation as now it was preparing to attack. The greatsword rested on his shoulder and the ground under its feet caved in.

Dashing forward the elf slashed down intending to cut Clara in half. However, using her lightning-enhanced speed, she dodged out to the side. The greatsword crashed into the ground sending dirt everywhere and showing off how impactful the hits were.

'Made the right call to not block.' Clara felt her arms tingle as she could imagine her bones shattering from taking such an impact.

Clara, now standing to the side of the elf, aimed for the ribs with her whips. As they were about to connect, the elf grabbed them with his other hand. Blood seeped through its fingers, but he still yanked on them, pulling Clara close.

However, Elysia fired a few fire arrows that hit both the hand holding Clara's whips as well as the elf's face. Stunning the elf for a brief moment, Clara was able to roll away and get back on her feet while retracting her whips.

Getting back to a safe distance, Clara concluded that going for any attack without distracting it first is going to be futile.

The elf extinguished the flames on its body and shifted its attention to Elysia. Seeing the elf rushing towards her, Elysia freaked out for a moment as she didn't expect to get the attention of the elf.

Clara saw the opportunity to attack and tried to keep up with the elf. Just before the elf could reach Elysia, Clara swung her whips aiming for its feet, intending to trip him.

Successfully wrapping the ankle of the elf with her whip she managed to make him lose his balance and fall forward. This allowed Elysia to move away in time while also firing a few arrows at the elf to see if she could kill it.

Unfortunately, Elysia's fire arrows were not enough and only left slight burn marks despite the fire still going strong.

Getting up from the ground, it seemed like the elf was even bigger and angrier. Smashing its foot into the ground, he propelled himself up in the air.Seeing the gigantic elf hurtling towards her, Clara's first thoughts were of how devastating the strike would be.

As Clara jumped away with all her strength, the elf hit the ground with his sword, causing an explosion of shattered stones. One large chunk of stone hurtled towards Clara and hit her on the back, trapping her on the ground.

Clara got to work on pushing off the rock, but the elf already made his way over and was about to swing down.

"Clara!" Elysia screamed out as she fired explosive arrows, but they did nothing, cementing her fears.

Kiruya was about to jump in and stop the attack from happening, but suddenly a drastic change occurred in the elf. his enhanced body had returned back to normal and the swing it was throwing lost most of its strength.

The strike hit the rock, only cracking it due to the elf's weakened state and actually helped Clara to get out from under it.

Escaping the grip of the rock, Clara took a moment to breathe as she felt like she just had a heart attack.

Shortly afterwards, Shaman and Silver came running to Clara's side, confirming the demise of the priest.

"How are things?" Shaman noticed the rather disheveled look of Clara and gathered that she had it rough.

"Well since you killed that priest the elf is now a lot weaker, just need to finish the job." Clara pointed at the elf, but as she did a large ball of fire engulfed the elf.

"Well, looks like Elysia has got that covered." Shaman chuckled, surprised a little that Elysia didn't start with this move to begin with.