However, when she was planning to release her arrow in the direction of monsters who started to retreat due to fear, Gracier heard a sudden playful voice that came from her left.
''Oh?! It seems that I'm missing some fun here.''
Naturally, it was Eleonora who appeared who said this.
Every eye was turned into her direction, unfazed she strides forward, and once not too far from Gracier she observed the latter golden bow.
''Nice I never thought you'd been hiding something so awesome.''
Hearing Eleonora's words Gracier chuckled and said looking at Eleonora in the eyes.
''Welcome back it seems you've completed your task.''
''Hooah! What beautiful eyes, however, there are dangerous, especially the golden one. It makes me feel uncomfortable and pressured.''
Eleonora said while diverting her eyes away.
Sebastian and others could not look at Gracier in the eyes because they were feeling intimidated. They couldn't help but smile bitterly when they were finally able to see Gracier at her full power.
Meanwhile, Alex who saw his sister going full power couldn't help but think she was overdoing it.
〖Let's her be. She needs this.〗Silveria advised.
Alex could only chuckle and decided to let her do whatever she wants.
Gracier finally let loose the fire Arrow on the monsters trying to flee.
Boom!
A big explosion occurred sending charred bodies part everywhere.
''Waouh! Too frightening.''
To Eleonora's words, Gracier gave no reply as she kept shooting fire arrow after fire arrow, this time not only at the fleeing monsters but also toward the buildings occupied by the monsters.
Seeing numerous houses were set ablaze, monsters' cries reverberated inside the village creating more chaos a and how could Alex and his men let this chance slip, they started slaughtering monsters.
Eleonora grinned fiercely as she mumbled,
''Time to get a little bit serious.''
Immediately after her words, two black appeared in her hands, they were giving an ominous vibe, when the two black daggers appeared everyone feels a chilling sensation on their back.
Alex who was fighting stopped and looked at the two black daggers with interest.
'It almost looks like Maria's Gift except that this one is black and gives an extremely dangerous vibe.' Alex mumbled as he blocked a monster's attack.
〖What interesting girl with an unusual Gift. Never thought that I'll be seeing those two here.〗Silveria muttered.
From Silveria's words, one could know that she knew the origin of the two ominous black daggers.
'I see. I won't ask anything now but later you'll tell what you know and I won't take no for answer.' Alex said before quickly sidestepped in the opposite direction to dodge a sword strike before swung down Reaper, slicing the Orc swordsman arm holding the sword.
''Bugiah?!"
The Orc cried before stopping as Alex had sliced his throat killing him.
On the other side, Eleonora who just summoned her Gift, disappeared, her figure turned blurry and when she became invisible once again she was dancing in the middle of five orcs, those five orcs didn't last second as they dropped dead onto the ground with a sliced throat.
Alex who was observed Eleonora from the corner of his eyes was astonished by Eleonora's speed, her current speed was different from the one she had when fighting against him. Alex wondered why so? Is it because of the two black daggers?
Shaking his head Alex smiled bitterly as he witnessed his sister and Eleonora taking the spotlight as they continued slaughtering orcs as though they were cabbage. Sebastian, Lucien, Meera, and Golfak were also killing monsters in pairs.
Suddenly, Alex felt left out because he felt others had more kills than him, however, he was wrong, he only felt that way because Gracier and Eleonora have stolen his spotlight, especially Gracier who was playing the pyromaniac setting houses ablaze, not that he was going to admit it.
However, he could still shine, grinning Alex was ready to also join the ongoing Gift's festival.
〖Oh! That my master.〗Silveria said she noticed Alex's grin and knew what this means.
Suddenly, Alex turned around his eyes fixated into the darkness as he readied Reaper.
''Bumo~!?''
An arrow was shot from the darkness and was casually cut down, an Orc Archer raised a voice of confusion as he was pretty sure his sneak attack should have worked, he was the one archer who was not with the other, he was relieving himself the reason why he was not with the others.
Alex kicked the ground and appeared before the still surprised archer, the next moment before he was aware of it, Alex swung down Reaper and the skull of the poor Orc archer was split and he died.
''Let's start with you.''
Alex said and without turning around, as if he was aware of the orc sneakily moving in shadow to target Meera, he summoned Silveria on his left arm and pointed the silver gun in the direction of orc, and fired.
Bang!
Everybody was surprised by the sound, they looked at Alex and were surprised to find a silver object in his hand, only Gracier was not surprised as she had already seen her big brother use his Gift numerous times, he called it a gun.
Eleonora's eyes shined when she finally saw Alex's Gift, however, no matter how much she thought about it she was not able to identify what his Gift is, she had never seen nor read about this kind of Gift, how unusual she thought.
Meanwhile, Meera whom Alex rescued nodded her head and stared interestedly at the silver object before with her group moved to another location.
Conrad who was hiding, came back early and saw Alex's Gift and muttered ''Finally, however, I have never seen this kind of Gift before, I thought Gift can be either sword, spear, daggers, or other types of weapons, I've never seen this type of weapon who can shoot projectile faster than a bow. How unusual, this boy is full of surprises.''
Unaware of others thoughts, Alex moved around while killing monsters with Reaper and Silveria,
Swish! Swish!
Bang! Bang! Bang!
In a matter of seconds, he killed 10 monsters (orcs and goblins). He was like the death reaper harvesting lives.
Gracier and Eleonora looked at Alex's performance before exchanging a look, they both grinned before continuing killing monsters but this time with more vigor.
Eleonora was moving around killing monsters while Gracier was taking care of the runaways monsters.
One hour had passed since the start of the night assault, Alex and his men had killed more than forty monsters with Alex having more kills.
In another location,
Northwest of the Gato's village. Sebastian, Lucien, Golfak, and Meera were fighting against the Orcs.
''Bumoo~!''
Blocking the Orc's sword with a shield he had picked up, a stab was sent out, piercing the Orc's throat.
The Orc, whose throat was pierced, fell to the ground with its neck partially severed.
''Seriously, it seems that there's no end. How are you guys faring?"
Swinging the sword that cut the throat of the Orc to get rid of the blood and flesh that was stuck to the tip, Sebastian called out to the people nearby.
''I'm fine.''
''No problem here either.''
Lucien and Golfak responded, only Meera who didn't say anything, she only nodded her head. She pulled her bow back and shot an arrow.
''Bugi~!?''
An Orc that had approached under the cover of darkness was pierced by several arrows, shot in quick succession by Meera, this time she went with normal arrows, not a magical one.
She turned her head in Lucien's direction, she fired another arrow that automatically killed an Orc swordsman running toward Lucien who was busy taking care of a group of orcs.
Meera didn't bother finishing the earliest orc, she knew pretty well the orc was still alive. She purposely let the orc live for Golfak to kill it.
The reason why she knew the orc was still alive was simple. Ordinary Orcs are basically not equipped with protective gear like armor.
Though it's not that difficult to obtain armor, the biggest reason was the Orc's body. They had muscles with strength several times of a normal person. They also had a thick layer of fat covering them. Let alone an ordinary sword, it's difficult to pierce through the fat even if they were stabbed with a normal spear.
So, when she fired normal arrows even though at first glance, the Orc that had been struck by a large number of arrows may look like it had been turned into a hedgehog, but the arrows had been stopped at the fat and hadn't done any fatal damage.
However, the arrows that had pierced its body would become an obstruction to movement, making it unable to move for a moment, that was Meera's goal, Golfak would use this chance to finish the monster.
''Haah!"
Giving a battle cry, Golfak appeared and pour his MP into his Magic Sword before swinging it down.
''Bumoo~''
Though the Orc tried to block the sword from hitting it, the arrows prevented it from moving and his body received a deep cut. Rather than a cut it, it was more of a chop, the Orc that had lost the lower half of his body, fell to the ground silently, blood and entrails spilling onto the ground.
''Haa, haa, haa.''
Golfak who took down the Orc, stabbed his sword into the ground to support his body, he started to fix his rough breathing. Though he said earlier that he was fine, it was a lie, they have been repeated fight after fight, fatigue started to kick in.
Sebastian appeared in front of Golfak and throw him a potion, without checking it, Golfak downed it not minding the bitter taste. He felt invigorated after the potion went through his throat and circulated inside his body.
''Thank you,'' he said because he knew Stamina potion is not cheap even if its grade wasn't high.
''No, you should thank the leader. It's him who gave it, everyone has one. I've already given the other two their potions.'' Sebastian explained.
Hearing Sebastian's explanation, Golfak smiled bitterly, his expression was complicated, he still hates Alex but not too much, if he were being honest he will say that Alex was a good leader because he even thought about this.
Shaking his head he said, ''Let's go.''
The others nodded their heads before starting running in the direction of Alex and others. The fight was raging on the other side, even they could tell by the sound of monsters' cries.