I became a vampire princess and then a dragon girl?

Next, we will gradually find out what they are doing here and what means they have for self-defense. The most important thing is whether they have the means to leave here quickly, so that we can decide whether to take action and how to do it.

Elend didn't think that the other party would be so stupid as to leave this hellhole on foot. The eldest daughter of such a wealthy family must have some props with teleportation effects, and he could use that thing to leave when the time comes.

However, the background of the three people following her is still unclear, and they have been silent just now. I need to think of a way to test them later.

It is not difficult to do this in this forest. It only requires a little skill to complete it without anyone noticing.

After all, this place is so dangerous, it is normal for some monsters to come out and attack these young ladies, right?

If all goes well, they can also take the opportunity to gain more trust so that they can take action later.

Although he still had some concerns, Elend had undoubtedly considered Eve and her group as his own.

"Why don't you get out of the way quickly?"

At this time, Eve's voice woke Elend from his sweet dream and returned to reality.

"Yes! Hurry, make way for the young ladies!"

Following Eve's order, Elend immediately led the team to clear a path, and then, as he had said before, he stopped about a hundred meters away after Eve and the others passed by, and followed carefully behind.

While Elend felt that his calculations were going smoothly, Eve also started chatting in the realm of longing.

"They're probably from the slave-hunting team. Xia, do you have any way to notify the elves to be careful about the situation at the border? Don't let anyone take advantage of the opportunity to sneak in."

Right now, the elves are busy rebuilding the World Tree Royal Court, so they may neglect the border.

But how did the human race know this news? Surely it could only have been from the demon god's followers.

"Well, yes, I can communicate directly with Shizu."

"Then I'll leave it to Xia."

"Ok!"

After mentally replying to Eve, Melshia continued to ask with some confusion.

"How did Eve find out they had bad intentions? I can sense some of their thoughts, so I know. How did Eve find out?"

"Well, is it intuition? After all, you'll notice something after interacting with these pretentious people more often. It's better to say that the level of these guys' training is completely incomparable to that of the vampire nobles."

With Elend and his friends' poor acting skills, they would be beaten to a pulp in minutes if thrown into Eve's social circle. Their strong malice is almost written on their faces, and everyone knows what they are doing.

§15 Hidden Hand

"Since we all know they have bad intentions, why did Eve allow them to follow us? Isn't it dangerous?"

"Well, just treat it as a bit of entertainment. Otherwise, it's pretty boring walking around here. Honestly, I'm a little curious about what they can do if they don't get caught up in the disaster and die first."

After comforting Melshia with an indifferent tone, Eve quietly used magic to monitor the group of people behind her. She also shared the information with several people and watched the live broadcast together.

Right now, both sides have their own ulterior motives. Elend and his companions plan to create some accidents to test the strength of Eve and her companions, while Eve and her companions are just watching the clowns' performance for fun.

Just as Eve said, judging by the frequency of natural disasters they encountered, it wouldn't be long before these guys behind them would be caught up in them and die. Let's see how much fun they can bring to them before they die.

Anyway, their fate was already determined. They were just a bunch of slave traders who deserved to die.

About an hour after the two teams started walking together, the overall situation was relatively calm. During this period, another natural disaster occurred, but it was the kind that was easier to deal with. It was a small-scale rain of fire from the sky. The power was not great, only at the level of the lowest level of fire magic, but it looked quite intimidating, and was easily resisted by Eve.

As for Elend and the others behind them, they were not caught up in the fire because they were far away. Only some ignited plants spread towards them and were quickly put out by several people.

In order to reassure Elend and the others, Eve pretended that she had used magic props to defend against the natural disaster, otherwise the fish would have been scared away.

After seeing Eve holding a gem-like object to block the rain of fire falling from the sky, Elend himself still did not move, but his team members had already begun to get restless.

"Boss, should we..."

The scarred man from before once again came close to Elend and asked quietly. At the end of his words, he even nodded towards the backs of Eve and the others in front of him.

"No rush yet. The other three guys haven't shown any intention of taking action yet. We should at least find a way to get them to take action a few times."

Glancing at the man beside him, Elend replied expressionlessly.

"So, should we use that?"

As he spoke, Scarface pointed to his arms, where several small bags were faintly visible.

"...Wait a little longer. Pay more attention to the surrounding traces and confirm the strength of the nearby monsters first."

After hesitating for a moment, Elend shook his head slightly and temporarily rejected the other party's proposal.

The thing in Scarface's arms is a kind of powder that attracts magical beasts. For most magical beasts, once they smell the scent of this powder, they will rush over as if they don't care about their lives. At a distance of 100 meters, the wind magic can be used to sprinkle the powder on the group of young ladies in front without anyone noticing.

At that time, whether these young ladies want to or not, they will need to take action to eliminate the monsters that attack them.

The reason why Elend rejected the other party's proposal was very simple - he was worried that the fish he attracted would be too big and too many, and would swallow them all.

They are currently in an unknown area. It is unknown how many magical beasts there are nearby and how strong they are. If they act rashly, they may get sucked in as well.

Although they also had powder that could repel monsters, they did not want to personally test the effectiveness of the two powders to see which one was stronger.

"Okay, boss, just wait for good news."

After saying that, Scarface walked over to another person in the team and whispered a few words to him, basically asking him to pay attention to the traces left by monsters along the way so that Elend could decide whether to use that kind of powder.

And the secret words they thought no one knew were all heard clearly by Eve.

"Ah, finally there's some movement. You're more patient than I thought."

Seeing Scarface suddenly approach the leader, Eve also turned the magical surveillance over there and listened to the conversation between the two in its entirety.

"Hmm... Looks like they're trying to lure the monster out with something to test us. Do you want to cooperate?"

Although she didn't know what the other party was holding in his arms, Eve roughly guessed what they were going to do based on Elend's answer.

Speaking of which, this medicine that has the effect of luring monsters seems to be a banned drug among humans. After all, once this thing is circulated, using it to commit murder among adventurers is a perfect crime.

It was Warcraft that killed the person, and there is no way to find out who used the powder. After all, by the time the body was discovered, it would have been too late. What is more likely is that even the body could not be found at all, and was thrown into the list of missing persons. It would not be known until some broken equipment was dug out from Warcraft's lair a long time later that people would know who died here.

"Cooperate…"

Seeing her hero in a completely playful state, Istina sighed helplessly and said.

"Let me do it. I can't be too conspicuous, right?"

"Hmm~ Just make it about the same level as before, or even a little higher. After all, they might think Tina is our bodyguard."

With three little lolis and a young girl, ordinary people would easily mistake the young girl for a guard or something like that, after all, she is the only one who looks out of place.

"Okay~ I'll listen to you, brave man~"

"Yeah, I'll leave it to Tina~"

About half an hour passed like this, and the man in charge of observing the traces of the monster quietly came up to Scarface and whispered a few words.

And from Scarface's suddenly excited expression, it was not difficult to infer that they could take action.

"Boss, the monsters here aren't too strong, so it's just right. Shall we take action?"

“…Well, be careful not to get it on you.”

After taking a deep look at Eve in front of him, Elend nodded.

"Don't worry, head. I've used it so many times."

After saying that, Scarface rushed to the back of their team, took out the powder bag hidden in his arms, and began to chant magic in a low voice using the cover of other people's bodies.

After a small ball of colorless wind appeared in his hand, he placed the powder bag inside and opened it. Some colorless fine powder could be vaguely seen scattered out, but it did not overflow under the wrapping of the wind.

"hey-hey."

With a wicked laugh, Scarface threw the wind ball in his hand towards Eve and the others in front of him, and then continued to chant magic, preparing to protect himself and his group in the wind wall to prevent themselves from being contaminated by the powder.

The preparations are complete, now let's see how capable these young ladies are.

§16 Beast Attack

"Ah, they're going to do it."

Witnessing Scarface putting the powder into the wind ball, Eve spoke through the communication magic among them.

"The monsters nearby... well... they're pretty easy to deal with. It seems they're afraid of getting involved. Tina, just don't go too far."

In order to prevent any accidents, Eve also used magic to check what kind of monsters were around them, and from the feedback, it seemed that the ones attached now were all minor characters that were not worth worrying about.

If it weren't for their instinct to hunt prey, they would have been scared away by their pressure.

"Get ready, it's coming."

Watching Scarface throwing the wind ball in his hand towards them, Eve gave everyone one last reminder.

Scarface's technique was quite good. Under his control, the wind ball flew silently over the heads of Eve and the others, then dissipated silently, scattering the powder inside everywhere with the wind.

Eve also took the opportunity to analyze the composition of the powder. As for the conclusion, the way this powder attracts monsters is to make them mistakenly think that there is high-magic food here. Moreover, the cost of this powder should not be cheap. It doesn't feel like something this kind of team should have. Is there any hidden story behind it?

Thinking about the possible situations, Eve began to wait for the monster to attack her, preparing to put on a good show for the people behind her, so that they could see what a real Oscar statuette is.

However, after more than ten minutes, the surroundings were still calm. However, according to Eve's perception, the monsters were getting closer and had no intention of pouncing on them for the time being.

"Ah! I forgot to turn off the pressure."

Eve clapped her hands, finally remembering what she had forgotten, and quickly restrained the pressure she was secretly emitting.

The method of coercion Eve was using wasn't very effective on humans, which was why Elend and the others hadn't noticed it. However, it was extremely effective on beasts like Warcraft, which had sharp intuition. Even with the lure of the powder, they still looked hesitant.

However, something that made Eve even more embarrassed happened after she lifted the pressure - the slightly stronger monsters retreated more vigilantly after her pressure disappeared, and even retreated farther than at the beginning. Although they did not leave, they stared coldly at the remaining monsters with weaker IQ and strength who were trying to approach Eve and the others.

Hmm... quite smart. It seems that the more powerful monsters are planning to use the others as pathfinders.

Well, it doesn't matter anyway. It's enough for the actors to be in place. Anyway, the guys behind don't know how powerful the nearby monsters are. At most, they can guess roughly from some details. They are not the ones who actually fight.

Compared to Eve's leisurely side, Elend was much more worried.

"Did you miss?"

Looking at the scarred face beside him who was a little out of breath due to using magic for a long time, Elend asked in a deep voice with a bad expression.

"Impossible! I've done this countless times, boss! Don't you believe me?"

“…So what’s the situation now?”

Recalling the times Scarface had done this kind of thing, Ellend didn't say anything more. Scarface was his most capable deputy. They had done things like today countless times and had never failed. But an accident happened on this big ticket today.

More than ten minutes have passed. If Scarface didn't fail, then the powder must have lost its effect. In short, there must be something wrong.

"Maybe... they have something on their bodies that repels monsters, just like the medicine we use on our bodies? Or maybe there aren't many monsters around?"

After thinking for a while, Scarface said uncertainly.

"After all, they are a group of rich ladies. The props they carry should be good. So the effect of the powder is not good?"

"..."

Frowning, just as Elend was about to retort, Scarface suddenly pointed to the bushes not far away.

"Boss, look over there! Here they come!"

"Ah."

Looking at the shadows that were about to move in the bushes ahead, Elend's brows finally relaxed.

He said that the powder was not something that could be found on the street, and it would not be completely ineffective. He had paid a considerable price to get the powder.

"Here you are. Remember to act a little panicked and pretend that the magic was triggered by a prop."

"Ah."

sand--

Accompanied by the sound of dead leaves being crushed, a wolf-shaped monster silently pounced towards Eve and the others. After being a step slower, several smaller monsters of the same size followed closely and pounced on them from their blind spots.

boom--

"what--!"

However, just as their fangs were about to reach the group, a faint light shield appeared over them, blocking the attack. Eve feigned panic and a small scream, pretending to be unfamiliar with combat.