While Conrad was fighting against the demon, the others were running away.
In a different location, the figure of Alex's and Gracier could be seen, the siblings were running at a fast speed.
Because Alex's agility was higher than his sister's agility, he held her in princess carry as he runs ahead, sometimes he would use his skill Accel to further increase the distance between them and the monster he hoped was still fighting against Conrad.
Alex couldn't find any reason why that kind of monster would show up, and more importantly why this monster seemed to be targeting him and his sister? Was because of he's otherworlder? Because of him? What was he missing? Alex mused over the possible reasons for this situation but he was not able to come up with a reason as he was missing the key point to understand why they were targeted. It never come to him that it may be because of his sister.
'Silveria, did you have an idea on what going on?' Alex decided to ask Silveria's opinion, maybe she may offer him a clue that would help him piece the whole thing together.
〖Master, I don't know but I can only speculate, I think-〗
However, just as Silveria started speaking she was cut halfway when suddenly the three heard a big explosion in the distance followed by a big cloud rising to the sky.
Even from here Alex and Gracier could feel the forest shaking.
Countless, startled birds flapped their wings and soared into the sky fearfully to escape what they judged to be the close-approaching death, as well as the individuals responsible for this mega explosion who killed countless of their brethren and other harmless animals.
Alex and Gracier knew who was responsible for the current explosion, without doubt, Conrad were one of the responsibles as for the other responsible it must be the two-headed mutated ogre.
Even though Alex would have wanted to know if everything was alright on Conrad's side, he did not have the leisure for that, they must quickly continue running, as for his previous discussion with Silveria, they will continue it later.
〖Master, it coming〗Silveria suddenly said.
Even without Silveria's warning Alex had already felt like the death god was about to claim his life, so threw Gracier in another direction as for himself he jumped back and summoned Silveria.
Gracier was surprised after being thrown like that, hastily stabilizing herself before landing on the ground, she spun around to observe her brother trying to understand why he threw her away, it was then she saw her brother aiming his gun in front of him and fired.
Bang!
Gracier only heard the gunshot not seeing any bullet, suddenly from the other side of the forest a big silhouette using its huge club like a shield to defend against Alex's invisible bullet came out.
The moment Gracier saw the big figure she shuddered, disbelief written all over her face, she had thought they put enough distance between themselves and the monster? So, how can this monster be here? Isn't it was fighting against Conrad? If so was then this monster couldn't be here. They must surely be another enemy who was fighting against Conrad in the two-headed ogre stead reason why the monster was able to catch up with them.
A lot of questions started running through her head, however now wasn't the time to be lost in thought. Gracier quickly came to a decision, therefore she summoned her status and quickly allocated her unused SP and BP.
『[Gracier Alexandra Touch]
「 Rank 4」
Level 33
Class: Fire Empress
Age: 14
Female
Race: High Half-Elf
Experience Value: 50/6600
Magic Power: 1430
Magic: Fire Magic
Attack: 345 (+50 BP) ✒ 395
Defense: 260
Agility: 260
Intelligence: 250
Luck: 260
BP: 0
SP: 0
Gift: Ignia's Bracelet
Skills: [Cooking Level 4] [Sewing Level 3] [Fireball Level 5] [Fire Arrows Level 4] [Meteor (???)] [Fire Snake Level 4] [Flame Shield Level 4 (+ 1 SP) ✒ Level 5] [Presence Detection Level 5] [Chantless Magic Level 5] [Fire Lotus Level 5] [Archery Level 1 (+ 3 SP) ✒ Level 4] (New skill)
Special Ability: [Dragon Eye Level 3 (+ 6 SP) ✒ Level 7]
Titles: [Avenger] [Child of Fire] [The Awakened] [The Diligent]』
After finished to allocate her unused BP and SP she insta-cast dozens of Fire arrows and mentally directed them into the incoming monster's direction.
Meanwhile, Alex was truly surprised as his Phantom Bullet was blocked, he had thought that the monster would be caught off guard by the sudden attack, however, the latter managed to blocked his surprise attack using the big club made from unknown stone like a shield, Silveria's bullet only left a small hole on the big club.
The monster with his two pairs of eyes glared at Alex and planned to squash him with its club, however before he could bring his club down he stopped because suddenly dozen of Fire arrows rained down on him.
Using the chance his sister had offered him Alex jumped back while at the same time shooting at the ogre busy dealing with Gracier's Fire arrows.
Bang! Bang! Bang!
Alex shot three bullets special bullets at the monster, it was three Piercing Bullets, he tried to aim at the left head eyes however, the monster dodged the bullets by tilting its head sideways, however one of the bullets still managed to destroy half of the left head ear.
''Roaar!"
The monster roared in pain as his left ear was injured by a puny human.
Suddenly, something astonishing happened, under Alex and Gracier's eyes, the half-destroyed left ear start to regenerate at a fast speed.
''Wtf'' Alex exclaimed before Accel-ing to reappear elsewhere thus barely managing to avoid a huge fireball spat by the head on the right.
Gracier on the other hand had already used 'Materialize,' transforming Ignia's Bracelet into a golden flaming bow.
Drawing the bow, a one-meter-long fire arrow was created and fired at the mutated ogre who just attacked Alex. She thought of using this chance to catch the monster off guard.
However, the ogre was not surprised by the incoming fire arrow, opening his mouth once again, he spat another fireball that clashed against the incoming arrow.
Boom!
An explosion occurred momentarily blocking their sight, Alex who had his Divine Sense activated sensed something so he kicked the ground and disappeared to reappear in front of a startled Gracier, and pushed her down.
''Big brother, Wha-"
Gracier didn't manage to finish her words as she felt something passing above their heads and,
Baanng!
A big tree who was not far from the two had its upper body destroyed, Gracier couldn't help but shudder thinking about what would have happened if her brother hasn't intervened, she would be dead by now, crushed by a medium-size rock thrown by the ogre. How would have to that even with his sight momentarily blocked, that monster could still attack them.
〖Master watch out.〗Silveria suddenly warned.
Immediately Alex whose Six senses kicked in, held his sister tightly against his chest before rolling in the opposite direction, just as they left their previous location, a huge ice ball come crashing down there, instantly freezing the ground radius two meters (6.56167979ft), even from where they were they could still feel the bone-chilling cold, especially Gracier who was Fire element user.
No wasting even one breath, Alex picked his sister in a princess carry once more and started running not staying here any longer to receive another attack from the two-headed mutated ogre, the monster was too strong for them to fight it head-on, its instinct was too sharp, Alex strongest attack, the Phantom Bullet couldn't be used on the monster because of his instinct. They could only run away while thinking about another possible solution to keep their lives.
Seeing its preys running away, the two-headed mutated ogre was surprised at first because the two managed to avoid all his attacks, however, he started grinning as he watched them run away, the monster decided to give a chase as he felt it would more exciting this way, the more your prey struggles to keep his life, the more excitement you'll gain when you squash him like a bug showing him how meaningless his struggle was.
While thinking this, the two-headed mutated ogre started running after the siblings.
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Nickaido's here with an explanation just in the case some of you may have forgotten about skill level up.
Gracier used 6 SP on her Dragon Eye special ability, thus increasing the level from 3 to 7.
This is how it happened: 2 SP to increase the level from 3 to 5, while the remaining 4 SP added 2 levels.
One must know that starting from Level 5 onwards, you'll need 2 SP to increase your skill point instead of 1 SP you usually use from Level 1 to 5.
I hope this cleared some of your doubts.
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