I was accidentally injured by God and I just want to be an ordinary person

Of course, there are several prerequisites for the establishment of "Block Counterattack". First, ranged attacks cannot trigger "Block Counterattack". Both sides must use melee weapons. Second, the skills resisted by "Block Counterattack" cannot be area damage. Finally, the damage sustained by "Block Counterattack" cannot exceed the defense value by too much. Only when the above three conditions are met can "Block Counterattack" be successfully triggered.

[To get this skeleton to admit it, the third method is definitely better. As long as I appear strong, I won't have any other ideas.]

As if noticing that Ella was about to attack him, the longsword skeleton cautiously half-crouched, shielding most of his body behind the round shield, while simultaneously retracting the longsword into the corner of his vision—a completely standard posture for waiting to trigger a "block and counterattack."

but--

"Flash"

By the time he was ready, Ella had disappeared from his sight.

"What?"

"It's too late, huh? 'Strike hard'."

He turned the black and white wings and struck the round shield raised by the skeleton with the hilt of his longsword. Then, as if hit by a high-speed truck, the skeleton, which had been half-crouching and ready for defense, was instantly knocked away, and its skeletal body hit the stone wall with a loud bang.

"Eh? You couldn't control your power... I should be fine..."

Worriedly looking at the dust-covered wall in the distance, Ella immediately used "Terrain Search" to confirm that although the negative life force had been reduced, it was not to the point of near-death. Moreover, since skeletons could not feel pain, it would be fine as long as the negative life force was replenished with bone dragon essence afterwards.

"Don't be distracted during the battle!"

"So, when you're launching a surprise attack, don't expose your position like this!"

The opposing spear skeleton leaped and slashed from behind, and Ella used "Dodge" again to avoid it, then stabbed the long sword from the side, preparing to insert it into the gap between the skeleton's ribs to destroy its center of gravity.

After the previous accident, I no longer dare to use force directly. If I use too much force, it will cause serious consequences.

"As expected, 'Spear Throw'!"

Completely ignoring the fact that his falling posture would be disrupted, the skeleton with only the spear in his right hand turned his upper body and aimed the glowing red metal spear at Ella without mercy. Considering the distance between the two of them was less than two meters, this attack was more of a thrust than a throw.

Although she thought that with her current stats of 116, she could just use her body to withstand the pain without any defense, Ella still decided to take defensive action due to the characteristic of "no matter how high the defense value is, the pain cannot be avoided."

Magic Shield

Ding--

The red-glowing metal spear made a crisp sound when it hit the translucent "magic shield". As if it could not withstand such a huge force, the metal spear suddenly broke into several sections and fell to the ground. As for the spear-carving skeleton, it also fell to the ground in an untidy manner due to its unstable center of gravity.

Apart from the initial tentative attack, the offense and defense of both sides seemed to be no different from Ella's one-sided crushing.

"Is this the end?"

After retracting the black and white wings, Ella breathed a long sigh of relief, then reached out and scratched her golden hair. The stuffy feeling brought by the wig was so uncomfortable that she even had the urge to take it off immediately.

"How does Iris insist on always wearing blonde hair... If it's because of me, I'll go find Iris and stop her from doing that."

As a sense of guilt rose in her heart, Ella pulled the spear skeleton in front of her up from the ground. Perhaps thinking about something, the spear skeleton just kept staring at Ella's face - to be honest, it was a bit scary.

"I'm sorry for breaking your weapon. I'll make it up to you later."

"Uh, no, that's not necessary. It's just an ordinary bronze spear, not some high-end one."

The spear skeleton immediately waved his hand.

"Eh? You mean you're not going to use your full strength?"

If that's the case, I'd be in a bit of trouble.

The Spear Skeleton touched the white skull that reflected the sunlight, and his tone sounded hesitant. Even the red light in his eyes was so weak that it could not be seen.

"That's not what I meant. Honestly... although we are Mithril-rank adventurers, due to our personalities, we rarely receive decent missions, so we don't have much money to replace our equipment..."

"No wonder he's still using a bronze spear even though he's level 19."

"Angelina, that's so rude!"

After the battle, Angelica and Eve came to their side, and the longsword skeleton that was initially smashed into the wall was recovered by Lotte. Although the skull had fallen off the cervical vertebrae and broken into two pieces, the body and skull could still move separately. It was a truly fantastical sight.

The skull held in Lotte's hand kept opening and closing its teeth as it spoke to the spear skull.

"Brother, we lost."

"Ah, yes."

The Spear Skeleton turned its gaze to Ella.

"We will agree to your request to serve as your escort, but how long will it take?"

"How long exactly... How about ten years? After ten years, the ghost girl should be able to protect herself, and then you can leave."

"Only ten years?"

The spear-carrying skeleton opened its mouth wide, looking extremely surprised.

The undead have endless lifespans, so they are often hired in units of hundreds of years. They had never expected to be hired for only ten years.

"Ten years is enough. Oh, and this is the Bone Dragon Essence as payment. If you abide by the rules for the full ten years, I'll give you two more."

"This... this is the Bone Dragon Spirit..."

Taking the Bone Dragon Essence covered with purple gemstone, the Spear Skeleton held it between his fingers with trembling hands. The red light in his eyes flickered, and he even kept kissing it against his teeth, looking quite excited. In fact, the Spear Skeleton's stats were increasing at a slow rate, and this kind of increase was something he had not felt for a long time.

Although the undead have endless lifespans and do not feel tired, they also have another flaw - the rate at which they gain experience points is extremely low. A normal person can level up by hunting hundreds of monsters, but for the undead, this number needs to be multiplied tenfold. Therefore, if you want to continue to improve at the level of a spear skeleton without external help or extraordinary talent, the possibility is infinitely close to 0.

As if thinking of something, the spear skeleton immediately turned around and looked at Ella.

"Why would you give it to us? Didn't we fail?"

"Well, just take it. I'd feel bad if I let you guys work for ten years for nothing."

[And you're saying this while still holding the Bone Dragon Spirit in your hands, so reluctantly. You're completely insincere.]

"After all, little Ella can't bear to see others suffer."

"No need for Anjenie to say anything."

Pushing Angelina's head down, Ella continued to feed the skeleton.

"Regarding weapons, I'll give you more suitable magical weapons later. As for the targets to be protected, I'll introduce them one by one tonight. Now... do you have anything you need to pack? If you're protecting those ghost girls, you'll have to stay here for the time being."

"Magical weapons? And you live in such a luxurious place? This..."

The Longsword Skeleton, without a skull, can be seen rubbing its hands together, looking rather embarrassed. This feels unusually human, but since the Skeleton was human in life, it shouldn't be surprising.

In contrast to the sword skeleton's loss of composure, the spear skeleton looked embarrassedly at Angeline who was struggling to escape from Ella's level 116 strength.

“…Actually, we don’t have anything to prepare…”

"Wait, weren't you lying when you said you'd leave all your property behind?! And Ella-chan, let me go! Why are you suddenly so strong?"

Angelica's words made the longsword skeleton turn his face to the side.

"How could you lie? That spear is all the valuables I have."

Since this seemed like an unusually sad topic, Ella decided to interrupt.

"I understand. I'll inform you of the details after the selection. Now, please go to the mansion. I'll send someone to bring the contract documents over in a while."

"Okay, um...can you give me my hand back first?"

"Huh? Ah, of course it's no problem, Eve, just give your hand back."

"Hmm—what a shame."

In response to Ella's words, Eve simply held the skeleton's arm in her arms, as if she was ready to use it as magic power to replenish her body.

"Hurry up and return it to the owner. I'll take you to the underground tower later."

Eve seems to have a very obsessive interest in the undead. When she was in the underground tower, she often devoured the undead that attacked her actively, and she would use "delicious" or "unpalatable" to judge the taste. Generally speaking, skeletons are delicious, while zombies are unpalatable.

"Promise."

Although it was extremely subtle, you could still see Eve pouting her lips slightly - because she usually had no expression, she looked incredibly cute now.

[I've always wanted to use a recording crystal to preserve this expression.]

Putting her inner thoughts aside, Ella nodded.

"Yeah, it's a deal."

"Then, I'll give it back to you."

"Uh...thank you."

As if treating some extremely precious treasure, the spear skeleton carefully took the arm, then aligned one end of it with the base of the shoulder and fit them together. After spending a certain amount of magic power, the arm was reattached. As for the sword skeleton on the other side, it was restored to its original appearance in the same way.

Perhaps out of fear of Eve's presence—his left hand was snatched away just by her touching him—the Spear Skeleton took a step back and asked Ella awkwardly.

"Ella... Lady Ella, what is this ghost...?"

"Her? Her name is Eve, she's just a level 12 ghost, don't worry about her."

"Is that so? I'll keep that in mind. Then we'll head to the mansion and wait for the contract documents from Ella-sama."

"Yeah, no problem. Let's stop here for now. I have some things to do."

After waving to the skeleton that remained, Ella turned and walked towards the magic airship - she suddenly thought of some things that could be improved on Entalosphiel. In addition, with Eve's current magic power reserves, she would probably shrink to the size of a young girl in a short time, so she had to restore Eve's magic power to its best condition.

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*Happy New Year~

Chapter 57: The Daily Life of Semurabi

*创世纪6187年3月20日 上午12:32分 赛莫拉比城郊外

After leaving the mansion, Ella parted ways with everyone and went to the outskirts of Semorabi alone. It was almost noon, and Lotte needed to deliver lunch to other companions, and Angelica also accompanied Lotte. As for Eve, because she had turned into a child halfway, she took the initiative to enter the pendant-shaped Holy Light Staff.

Now, Ella was standing on the top of the hill, trying to fly with her wings in her strongest Loli God appearance.

Ella sighed as her stomach growled.

"The result was still not very successful..."

Casting your gaze into the distance, you can see the city of Semirabi below and the small lake next to it. Many migrating creatures gather at the water's edge like ants. The ground is covered with green weeds, with only a few tall pine-like plants scattered across the plain. If it were dusk now, with the red sky and the sun buried in the distant mountains, it would be quite magnificent.

A damp and cold wind blew up from the hill and blew towards her face. Ella tightened her collar. Although it was spring now, the wind blowing into her neck still made her whole body feel startled.

"After all, it's a bit too cold to eat here..."

After sniffing the scent of grass that entered her nostrils, Ella vibrated her wings again. The reason she thought of learning to fly with wings was because she wanted to add more characteristics to Entalosfiel. There were no winged people in this world - a kind of humanoid creatures with wings - so the pair of pure white wings behind her should be considered a unique thing. If she could successfully drive and fly with wings, combined with her identity as a messenger of God, Entalosfiel would be regarded by others as a creature out of the human category. In that way, no one would associate Entalosfiel with herself.

However, despite this, learning to fly with wings is not an easy task. Although one can control the movement of wings like controlling limbs, it is very difficult to coordinate the wings with the body to achieve the purpose of flying.

In previous attempts, either the force of flapping the wings was too strong, causing the person to lose balance and fly to the end of the sky in an instant, or the force was too weak, which was useless except for causing the body to become unstable and fall to the ground. Just like when he first cast magic, if he paid a little more attention, the power would be amplified several times.

"The Loli God's condition is really difficult... Well, I've gotten the hang of it a bit. If I were to actually use it, I'd use the 'Wings of Hermes' to assist me in flying."

Finally, she came up with a compromise and Ella flapped her wings again.

Wings of Hermes

When his feet were about to leave the ground, a pair of cyan wings grew out on both sides of the boots. Unlike the "flying" magic, the "Wings of Hermes" could make sudden stops or turns in the air at will, making it very suitable for assisting wing flight.

Taking deep breaths, Ella slowly poured strength into her wings, one at a time. Finally, with her golden hair fluttering, she left the ground.

【It's now! 】

Based on my experience from falling countless times before, the moment I left the ground was the most difficult to control. If I used too much force, I would fly to an unknown place, and if I reduced my force, I would fall back to the ground. Therefore, at this time, if I used the "Wings of Hermes" to pause in mid-air, I could adapt to the situation in the air again.

Just as she had imagined, she was now flapping her wings in the air. From the perspective of her constantly floating up and down, she knew that with the strength she had just used, she would definitely fly high into the sky again. Ella couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

"Huh—if I keep trying like this, I should be able to learn it soon. I might as well just fly back and give it a try."

Having made this decision in her heart, Ella controlled the rhythm of her wings, gliding down the gentle hill, and then—

A strong wind blew behind me.

“Eh? Ehhhhh?!”

Under the strong wind, the speed that was originally only slightly faster than running instantly turned into a cheetah-like sprint. There was no doubt that with Ella's current momentum that could be called a dive, it was almost inevitable that she would fall into the mud. If she could react in time and use the "Wings of Hermes" to stop suddenly, it might still be in time. However, when people encounter danger, if they have not undergone sufficient prior training, their brains will be in a blank state of not knowing what to do. Therefore, Ella made close contact with the ground at an unstoppable speed.

However, it is worth mentioning that the moment before Ella touched the ground, her entire body quickly turned into a light purple translucent state.

"Um?"

The expected shock did not come as expected, and Ella slowly opened her eyes. Her vision changed from bright colors to pitch black. In addition, she could see several insect-like creatures passing by. Having experienced this before, Ella immediately realized what was happening.

There was no doubt that Eve used "Ghost Transformation" on herself again, and she passed directly through the ground and arrived underground.

“Wait?”