I became a vampire princess and then a dragon girl?

"Miss be careful!"

As previously discussed, Istina used her body as a shield to block Eve. Complex magic spells flowed from her lips, turning into a force that drove magic power, forming a wall of fire around the few people, replacing the disappearing light shield and blocking the attacks of the monsters.

"How dare you attack me!"

Despite being separated by a wall of fire, Eve's angry yet childish voice was still clearly heard by Elend and the others not far away, causing them to hold back their laughter for a long time, but they still couldn't suppress the sarcastic expressions on their faces.

Ha, where did this naive young lady come from? She can actually say such naive words.

They had previously thought that anyone who could go deep into the Biluo Forest should have some strength or experience. Judging from the other party's appearance, he must have sneaked out without telling his family out of a momentary act of bravery.

"Boss, are we going to take advantage of the chaos now?"

With a smile on his face, Scarface walked over to Elend and made a gesture.

Generally speaking, trigger-type defensive props often have a trigger interval. After being triggered once, it takes some time before they can be used again, so this is a good time to attack.

But compared to his teammates, Elend, as the captain, still shook his head slightly cautiously.

"No, let's go up and help, take the opportunity to build some closer relationships, and see if we can get more information out of them."

"Huh? You're being too cautious, boss. They're just a bunch of rich girls whose hair hasn't even grown out yet. Why are you being so cautious?"

"Do as I say! These people don't seem that simple."

Frowning, Elend stared at the wall of fire not far away. Although he wanted to convince himself, he could not suppress the ominous premonition in his heart, which had saved him from death several times.

Therefore, he chose to remain inactive during the insurance period. As for his team members, although they had some complaints, they still restrained their expressions under his pressure, picked up their weapons and prepared to join the battle in the front.

§17 Countdown

Compared to Elend and the others, Eve and the others in the fire wall were quite relaxed and even had nothing to do. After all, they usually played high-end games, and suddenly returning to this kind of battle situation where they couldn't even cast spells instantly was really relaxing. They didn't know how to continue.

Even the wall of fire that Istina had just released seemed a bit overpowered, at least the monsters outside could not deal with it at all.

"Let me show you how powerful I am!"

He continued to act out his current persona in a pretentious manner, even though it seemed a bit too contrived. However, judging from the magic, the people behind him had basically taken the bait. All he had to do next was cooperate with Elend's actions to dispel his vigilance.

At this time, Istina and the others cooperated very well and launched some attacks from time to time, pretending to try to drive away the beasts.

"Missy! Let's help too!"

Outside the wall of fire, Elend's voice came slowly, and then some sounds of fighting reached Eve's ears.

"Humph, too slow, I can do it myself!"

While saying this, Eve signaled Istina to remove the wall of fire, and began to work together with Elend and the others to besiege the monster.

Since the more powerful monsters were temporarily staying at a distance, the monsters outside the fire wall were quickly wiped out by both sides.

"Miss, are you all right?"

After the battle, Elend ordered his men to check the corpses of the monsters to see if they could find some useful materials, while he approached Eve and asked flatteringly.

"How could these beasts possibly hurt me?"

Eve glanced displeasedly at the people who were cutting up the monster's corpse and replied with disdain.

"Yes, yes. Then do you think we should move closer together? That way, we can help you if something happens."

"I don't need your help! I'll grant your request, but you're still not allowed to get within five meters of us."

"Yes, yes, thank you for your kindness."

"Hmph, if you behave well, I will reward you on behalf of the family after you leave here. Be grateful to me."

After saying that, Eve turned around and stopped looking at the people around who were dissecting the monster corpses, and urged.

"Tell your people to move faster. I don't want to stay here for long!"

"Yes! Did you hear that? Move quickly!"

After shouting to the people behind him, Elend continued to speak to Eve.

"Miss, I'll go help them too. This way we can go faster."

"Hmph, go ahead."

"Yes Yes."

After pretending to be submissive and retreating, Elend came to Scarface's side and discussed with him in a low voice under the pretext of dissecting the monster's corpse.

"Boss, what do you think? I said they are just a bunch of young ladies whose hair hasn't even grown out yet."

"Um…"

Although still somewhat skeptical, Elend nodded.

The other party's behavior was very consistent with that of a spoiled noble lady, but for some reason he always felt that something was wrong. After all, why would a noble lady come to such a place?

But now he was being carried forward by his men. He could suppress their will to take action once or twice, but if it happened more times, he probably wouldn't be able to do it.

"Let's try to find out what magic items they have and why they came to such a weird place to attack."

"Ha, boss, you think too highly of them, don't you? This is probably just some idle quarrel between nobles."

Scarface's words didn't make sense. Elend had indeed seen it with his own eyes, and had also heard about some things that happened among the nobles. Sometimes, for some reason, those high-ranking gentlemen would pay special attention to things that seemed completely unimportant to them.

For example, if two armies led by nobles were fighting, if one side chose to surrender or was defeated and captured, the other side would not pursue the remaining remnants. If the noble himself was captured, he would be kept well fed and well-fed until the family on the other side paid a ransom and released him.

He had been assigned the task of guarding captured nobles before, and to this day he still remembered the luxurious life they enjoyed as captives.

In the eyes of these people who live on the edge of a knife, it would be enough to just kill them with one knife. However, those nobles were particularly persistent and kept shouting nonsense like this was the honor of the nobility. It was obvious that even if they really killed them, no one would know who did it.

If the other party questioned him, he could just blame it on his soldiers' mistake and avoid any future trouble, but he chose not to do so.

"To be on the safe side, let's give it one last try. Even if there's no result, wait until later to see my signal and make your move."

"Hey, okay, I've been waiting for that."

After saying that, Scarface glanced at the backs of Eve and the others not far away and then spoke in a low voice.

"Boss, then I'll go tell the other brothers first."

"Well, let's go."

He took out a rag whose color could not be seen clearly from his arms and wiped the blood off his hands. Then Elend applied the potion to repel monsters on his hands again.

The smell of blood here will soon attract other predators in the forest, and they need to leave here quickly.

After hearing that their boss was about to attack Eve and the others, the others became much more perfunctory in cleaning up the monster corpses.

After all, they are not the kind of adventurer team whose main job is to deal with monsters. What they are going to do next is their main job.

So they quickly gathered together again and followed Elend back to a place five meters behind Eve.

At such a close distance, if Eve and the others didn't have any magic items to protect themselves, they would be absolutely sure to knock them out one by one before they could utter the first syllable of magic.

Before the magician was able to cast spells instantly, the swordsman's ability to suppress the magician at close range was quite terrifying, and the magic spell would often be interrupted by the swordsman's attack before it was completed.

Of course, if you start the game from a long distance, the offensive and defensive situation will be different. The magicians will have enough time to prepare various magics and perform a gorgeous spell combo for the swordsmen, using actions to prove that you are still a magician.

Of course, magicians are naturally well aware of their own weaknesses, so various triggered defensive magic props have emerged to buy themselves casting time in close-range raids. Just like the light shield before, in their view, it is a defensive magic prop.

However, the tragedy is that for the sake of fairness, this kind of prop is banned in the arena battle, and the size of the arena is generally not enough for the magician to complete sufficient preparations. Therefore, in the low-end game, the swordsman still has a clear advantage over the magician.

But in the final analysis, one-on-one combat is not the responsibility of magicians. Where they can truly demonstrate their strength is in one-on-many long-range suppression.

§18 Sneak Attack

After hastily finishing the processing of the Warcraft corpse, Elend and his group continued to advance in the forest a few meters away from Eve and the others. Several experts in the team had a vague tendency to aim at the backs of Eve and the others, waiting for Elend's order to launch an attack.

Meanwhile, Eve and the others were commenting on their performance in their communication channel.

"Hmm... I didn't expect you to be so cautious."

Eve said as her eyes fell on Elende who was closest to them.

"Isn't that right? After all, we are quite suspicious."

Hearing Eve's muttering, Melxia asked curiously.

"Well, generally speaking, these types of people, blinded by money, will lose their minds if they see enough benefits. They'll subconsciously ignore anything that's wrong, but that captain is still a little wary."

"Is this so..."

After explaining, Eve turned her magical surveillance back to the monsters she had just seen.

At this time, the monsters had arrived at the place where the corpses were just located and began to share the food, but no monster tried to follow them. Obviously, the power they displayed was not strong. It was probably because their perception was particularly sharp.

After all, in a place like this where natural disasters randomly reappear, if your sixth sense isn't sharp, you'd probably have died long ago.

At this time, Elend, who was following behind Eve and the others, finally couldn't help it and asked.

"Miss, what are you looking for here?"

In order to avoid Eve's dissatisfaction, Elend quickly added.

"Once we know, we can help you keep an eye out."

"No need, you just need to follow me."

Without even a pause, a cold response reached Elend's ears.

"But we can't protect you well if you're like this."

"No need, I have ways to protect myself."

Eve suddenly stopped talking, turned around and looked at Elende with a little dissatisfaction.

"Or do you want to teach me how to do things?"

"No, no, no, I'm just a little worried about your safety."

"Humph, I don't need you to worry about me. You just need to take care of yourselves, or go back."

After saying that, Eve continued to move forward, and Elend also got some clues from this test.

First of all, the other party is very likely to come here looking for something, and they do have magic props to protect themselves, so they need to be careful when they take action later. However, since the other party did not directly ask them to stay away from them, the prop is probably still charging and cannot be used for the time being.

I still don't know if they have any way to leave here, so I need to think of another way to test the waters.

But it was a bit awkward because he had already caused some dissatisfaction on the other party, so he needed to change his approach next.

Thinking of this, Elend gestured to the team members behind him.

"Ouch—"

Along with the sound of falling, one of the team members suddenly covered his ankle and wailed, attracting everyone's attention. Eve and her group who were walking in the front also looked over with frowns.

"Excuse me, could you please wait a moment while I go check on my team members."

"Ah."

After speaking apologetically to Eve and the others, Elende walked over anxiously and pretended to check on the injuries with the others. After a few minutes, he returned to Eve.

"Miss, he sprained his foot, but someone on my team said he saw some herbs in the place we just passed. Can we ask him to go back and get them?"

"Hmm? Don't you want us to go together?"

"Ah, that's not necessary. After all, it's right here where we passed by a few minutes ago. We can just rest here for a while."

"…Oh well."

With a slight nod, Eve and the others took out their mats and found a tree stump of suitable height to sit down and rest.

And Elend also called a team member as he said, said a few words to him, and then let him run back along the way they had taken before.

While waiting for the other party to return from collecting herbs, Elende also began to try to talk to Eve little by little. As he expected, the other party was a rather arrogant noble lady, so he used the method of dealing with nobles to quickly gain the other party's initial trust, and he also gradually guided the topic in the direction he expected.

"Miss, how are we going to leave this place? Although it's going smoothly now, there's no guarantee that we won't encounter danger later."

"Hmph, you don't need to worry about this. Once we find the thing, I'll teleport you away."

As she spoke, Eve also showed off the ring on her hand. The gem infused with magic power was so dazzling in Elend's eyes. It was like a magic item with the ability to teleport.