Dungeon of Pride, Laplace

The Battle grizzly being a [D] tier and an evolution of battle bears, could use a few more skills than an average battle bear. Thus when an all-out battle started, the situation quickly developed where both the parties were taking sufficient damage.

Even with the intervention of Alvara, these people weren't able to deal a fatal blow to their enemies and a stalemate of a kind was established.

On the other battleground, Chuck and his two teammates were dealing with quite a few battle bears and had difficulty pushing forward while also protecting the Bane Moose behind them. They could only take this slowly and chip away at the battle bears one at a time.

Meanwhile, on top of a tall tree not from the campsite, two people, one man and one little girl were standing on top of a branch overlooking the scene of battle. The two were none other than Simon and Adalinda.

"Hehe, the situation doesn't look good for these humans. If they suffer so many casualties now, it would be no fun later" the little girl commented as her eyes swept every corner of the battlefield.

"That might not be the case, there are still some individuals that are hiding their strength. If they decided to take action, wrapping up that level 259 Battle grizzly wouldn't be a problem" Simon said as his eyes darted towards Cynthia, Alvara and that butler.

His eyes also stopped at Chuck who was fulfilling his duty as an adventurer by stopping all of the battle bears from approaching the Bane Moose.

From what he could see, the man gave a friendly and strong atmosphere to those surrounding him. He also possessed a strong leadership aura that attracted others to him and along with that willpower he had shown back at the Ghastly Winding Forest, the man was quite something.

Without following his gaze Adalinda was naturally aware of who these individuals were, she showed a crafty smile and a bizarre light flashed in her deep pupils for a while.

"Ah! That reminds me, all of the hired adventurers are doing their best to fulfil their duty. Hehe, shouldn't you also be there fighting along with them? If you keep on dilly-dallying, they might think you are dead or have been hiding due to fear".

Her words immediately woke Simon up from his thought process and he immediately realised that he was currently acting as a human adventurer and needs to be there with them. If he acted after all of this was over, the members of the convoy wouldn't look at him favourably.

Although Simon did not care about their opinion, he still needed them to navigate a way to the capital for him. Plus he didn't like the idea of others looking down on him. Thus he needed to at least show his usefulness.

On that note, this little girl too was currently masquerading as a human adventurer and ought to help out. However, since he knew about her personality after a couple of days of travelling together, it was impossible to make this little grandaunt to move even a finger of her for others.

<br/> That is to say, he has to make up for the contribution for the both of them by himself.

The battle immediately became heated after one of the battle bears had fallen in the hands of Chuck and his team. The member of the convoy rejoiced and immediately started putting more efforts on dealing with their side of the enemy.

The Battle Grizzly was also no longer stationary as it repeatedly attacked enemies with claws and skills, injuring quite a few of them in the process. If not for Alvara providing timely support from the backlines these people might have even lost their life.

However, a single person could only do so much, the other strong individuals, were currently had their hands full dealing with the surrounding battle bears. Additionally, she also had the duty to protect the mistress of the blue moon merchant guild at all times and couldn't move away from her position.

If not for that, she would have already engaged with the enemy. But looking at how the others failed at locking down the Battle Grizzly, it did not seem like they would be able to defeat their enemy anytime soon.

Seeing the internal struggle within Alvara, Cynthia who maintained a calm face all this while, gently pushed her back.

"Miss?" the guard commander widened her eyes when she saw Cynthia nodding her head and gently pushing her forward.

"Do what you must to allow the convoy safely travel through the Northern Outlaw Forest. We cannot lose these soldiers at this point in time" Cynthia said, her violet eyes were like two tranquil lakes without any ripples.

"But if I move from your side and if something happens to you I cannot redeem myself even with my death" Alvara hesitated. Her first and foremost task was to guarantee the safety of her miss.

Cynthia gently smiled and held the hands of the guard commander who was also her closest friend.

"Do not worry about me; it's not so easy to take away this life of mine. No matter what other plans my elder brothers have set up, if push comes to shove I'll use that thing" Cynthia reminded.

Alvara finally nodded her head, turned around and focused her eyes on the Battle Grizzly that was acting rampantly on the front lines. She took a step forward, strong yet gentle wind stealthily surrounded her body and the next second she was already in the frontlines.

Intense sparks generated and the surrounding air burst apart when her sword met with the wide claws of the Battle Grizzly.

ROOARR… the force of the attacks colliding forced both the party to take a couple of steps back and disengage.

The Battle Grizzly who had gone on a frenzy, stared furiously at the woman that had interrupted its attacks. Its wide claws were wrapped with a dense amount of wind as it slashed its paws towards her.

The attack that the Battle Grizzly used, was a skill called [Wind Slash] that harnessed the attribute of wind to deal a devastating cut on anything that it connects with.

Ordinarily, the skill was just a Normal base tier skill but due to the incredible arm strength of the Battle grizzly and it being in the frenzy state which further increased its strength, the power the skill could display was on the level of the Normal Superior skill.

Alvara did not slight the attack of her enemy and swiftly used her Gale magic to wrap around the edge of her sleek long sword. The sword was quickly covered in a greenish hue and started vibrating intensely.

Just when the momentum of the pulsating energy in her sword reached its peak, she took a stance and made a clean thrust motion.

Whoosh…

Like a bullet fire from a gun, the Gale magic swiftly took the form of the long sword and sped towards the oncoming attack with an insane speed.

Two attacks of the same attribute collided and the force that was generated out of it created a large shockwave that sent the weak individuals airborne. Looking at the attacks negating one another, it seemed that the attacks of both the parties were on the same level.

However, Alvara who had yet to use the multitudes of her skill bestowed by her class was superior when it came to technique.

Seeing the Guard commander engage the leader of the battle bears and even managing to contain it, the adventurers and guards immediately gave a signal to the reaguards to provide support.

Mana convulsed and different kinds of spells came raining towards the Battle Grizzly who was finally locked in a place.

Meanwhile, at the centre of the formation where Cynthia was, the eyes of the old butler shined mysteriously when he saw the guard commander finally leave her post and leave the mistress of the Serene Palace Merchant Guild unguarded.

His eyes kept on staring at the purple-robed woman and nobody knew what he was thinking.

A painful howl was emitted from one corner of the battlefield and everybody saw another battle bear kicking the bucket with delight in their eyes.

There was no need to mention as to who the person was to take down another battle bear in a short amount of time. Who else could achieve such a feat other than Chuck's party?

As if his actions had lit a fire in everybody, they redoubled their efforts and engaged with the enemy with a similar fervour.

Alvara's pretty face revealed a smile when she saw the mood around the convoy lighting up and stopped diverting her focus on the other parts of the battlefield. She straightened her body like the sword in her hand and placed it in between her chest, her fingers gently swept over the beautiful blade of the sword.

Immediately, fierce howling wind engulfed her and her eyes swiftly took an emerald tinge. Looking at her at this moment, one could see that her whole body of was wrapped in sharp howling winds and the blade she held, was emitting a sharp blade aura.

Tap…

With a simple step, her toes pressed on the ground and her body immediately disappeared in front of the countless number of gazes. The next moment she appeared, she was already in front of the Battle Grizzly.

However, at this moment a peculiar event happened, the Battle Grizzly that had gone into a frenzy, came back to its senses as a peculiar greyish light enveloped its previous crimson eyes.

Even after sensing the approaching Alvara and the threating power behind her sword, it did not dodge and only moved its paws allowing the blade to cleanly penetrate through.

PIERCE…