With a casual wave of her hand, a yellow ball of light the size of a wooden barrel floated in Ella's hand. Then the ball of light spun and flew rapidly into the sky, as if trying to throw out part of itself. Countless small balls the size of fists were thrown at the robbers like a carpet bombing.
Boom boom boom——
No matter whether it was a house or the ground, wherever it was hit by the "stun bomb", there were dents. Some houses even collapsed directly because they could not bear it. Countless dust mixed with the roar filled the senses. Apart from this, there was nothing to indicate their existence - the robbers had already lost consciousness in the first wave of "stun bombs". As for the collapsed houses, because Ella checked that there was no one living in them before using the area attack, no one else was actually affected.
After the stun bombs were fired and the dust had settled, the appearance of the battlefield was revealed to everyone - the area around was as if it had been stepped on by a giant. Apart from the house where the shield warriors were hiding, there were no buildings left around. There were also little finger-deep pits on the ground. Countless bandits lay motionless on the ground. Although they were still breathing, they were definitely not the type to wake up for a while.
Half of the village has been completely reduced to ruins.
"Well, it's okay if it becomes a ruin. After all, it would be troublesome if other bandits took advantage of it. As for these bandits, we will move them to the Hive with the girls and hand them over to the Semurabi authorities."
“Ah…ah…”
The short, unintelligible words brought Ella back to reality. Since the voice came from behind, Ella slowly turned around.
Lintelina's mouth was now wide open, as if she could swallow the "Angel Crystal" in one gulp. Her face was filled with shock. If one turned their gaze elsewhere, one could see that it wasn't just Lintelina; even the other girls, including Lucia, were shocked. Some of those with weaker mental endurance even knelt on the ground, constantly calling Ella "Goddess."
"Calm down, everyone. I won't use that magic on you. Besides, those bandits aren't dead, they're just unconscious."
"That... that's a fourth-tier magic... 'Holy Light Array'... It's actually... chantless..."
Lintelina couldn't even speak clearly, she just stared at Ella as if she wanted to eat her up in one bite.
"Don't look at me like that! And that's just a first-level spell. Well, never mind. At this rate, the bandit leader won't be here for a while. Let's get the girl out first."
Sighing inwardly, Ella chose to leave Lintelina alone and walked towards the only surviving house nearby and took the girl inside out.
Chapter 64: Lady Entarosphiel
*Genesis 6187 March 20th, 16:21 PM, Morabi City Underground Tower 3th Floor
Ignoring the women chattering about being rescued, Ella, who was floating not far away, sighed slightly. Because the bandit leader was coming too slowly and she was worried that he would capture the girls as hostages on the way, she used multiple "short-distance teleportations" to rescue the girls in all the rooms together.
Not only that, because a place similar to a treasure house was discovered during the rescue process, he used the warehouse to collect the valuables inside. According to the plan, after the girls found their own items, he would hand over all the piles of gold coins including magic weapons to the officials of Semurabi. Although most people might find it a pity, he did not lack these things. What's more, most of them were ill-gotten gains. If he used them without permission, he would always feel guilty.
“Haha—that’s so slow.”
Ella sighed again in a voice that the girls wouldn't hear. After what had just happened, she felt like she had used up all the energy for the first half of the year.
"Lord Entarosviel, is it really okay to let them choose the treasures as they please?"
"Um?"
Ella turned her head and saw that Lintelina seemed to have quietly walked up to her when she wasn't paying attention. She had nothing in her hand except the simple short staff she had given her.
"There are things belonging to you and your family in there, right? Don't you want to retrieve them?"
"In there" refers to the pile of gold coins that Ella had piled up not far away, which were the things looted from the robbers' treasure house. Now the girls are searching for the property stolen by the robbers in it.
Perhaps she was hesitating whether to speak or not, Lintelina looked as if she wanted to say something but hesitated.
If Lintelina were to dress up properly, she would be pretty.
After sighing inwardly for a moment, Ella continued to ask in a cold tone.
"Is there anything you want to say?"
"Ah...um...wouldn't you be unhappy if we were to choose?"
"Unhappy? Why?"
"All proceeds from the suppression of bandits belong to the suppressor. Even the original owner cannot claim them back. This is the custom on the continent. If you are doing this out of consideration for us..."
Lintelina stopped talking mid-sentence, her blue eyes filled with anxiety.
"Hmph, it doesn't matter if I give all of that stuff to you guys, and I was planning to hand it over to the Semorabi officials after you made your selections—"
Fighting the urge to say something like "Don't worry about me," Ella turned her face away to hide her expression.
"Is that so? You mean, it's okay even if we pick something else we like?"
The uneasy expression on Lintelina's face quickly faded, and turned into an appearance that was radiating the light of money.
"That's not what I meant! How did you get the idea that I could just take whatever I wanted...?"
Of course, since he had no intention of wanting this treasure in the first place, it didn't matter to him who got it in the end. Considering the girls' affairs - mainly their future arrangements, it might be better to let them take more.
But when Ella wanted to answer, Lintelina happily ran to the pile of gold coins behind her and began to search for clothes, jewelry and other props to decorate herself.
Unable to help but let out a wry smile, Ella quietly breathed a sigh of relief.
"Well, as long as she's not wearing a sad expression all the time, anything else is fine—no, no, Entarosviel isn't supposed to smile. We need to be more serious here."
After shaking her head, she caught a glimpse of a light spot worthy of attention in her field of vision. With a tense face, Ella looked to the left. Because all the buildings within a radius of 20 meters had been leveled, there was no place for the other party to hide - a short-haired man who was much stronger than an ordinary robber.
"Tsk, I thought it was Mithril-grade, but it's actually Orichalcum-grade?"
The man, who was about forty years old, licked the hidden dart-like weapon in his hand with his tongue. If most people only saw this, they would think that he was a hidden weapon user or something like that. However, according to the "Advanced Identification", he was actually a magic warrior who was good at using magic. In addition to the basic skills of a warrior, his skill list also included two chanting magics, "Deep Wound" and "Destruction".
"Don't go over there, or this magic caster will use area magic."
Seeing that Ella did not respond, the bandit leader smacked his lips impatiently, waved his hand to let his men who wanted to approach him step back, and approached Ella step by step without any concealment.
"Hey, I say, you're probably here alone, right? Even if you're an Orichalcum-rank adventurer, you can't defeat me while protecting the nobles behind you. And your employer won't pay you. So, why don't you join us? I'll give you double the gold, or even more. How about that?"
"If you're just trying to get close to me, then you shouldn't be so secretive."
With a sneer in the manner of Entalosphiel, Ella looked at the short staff hidden in the bandit leader's sleeve. It was now filled with magic power and was ready to cast magic at any time.
"Hmph, so you've already investigated this? Go to hell!"
Realizing his intentions had been seen through, the bandit leader displayed a ferocious expression on his face. He quickly ran to within ten meters of Ella and threw out the hidden arrow in his hand that had been inflicted with the "Deep Wound" effect.
Although "Deep Wound" itself does not cause any damage, it has a very annoying effect - it slows down the healing of wounds and causes the target to die from excessive blood loss. The bandit leader has used this magic to successfully hunt adventurers many times. It does not require hitting the vital parts. Just hit the target and do not give the target the opportunity to use healing magic, and the opponent will slowly die. Especially when the opponent is a magic caster like Ella who is not wearing thick armor, this magic is almost a magical skill.
Of course, this only applies to the bandit leader.
"...You're only at this level. I was foolish to want to see how you combined chanting magic and melee magic. No need to demonstrate any more. Let's stop here."
Without dodging the incoming sleeve arrows, Ella flapped her wings, and the blue hurricane blew away the sleeve arrows at the moment of contact.
"Flash"
"What!? Where are they? Where did they go?!"
When Ella's shadow disappeared from his sight, the bandit leader immediately drew the long sword from his waist and looked around.
"Boss, behind!"
"Tsk, 'Hit!'"
Reminded by his men, the bandit leader unhesitatingly launched melee magic and swung his sword behind him.
"You're also a magic warrior!"
"Is that so?"
Clang!
There was a sound of metal colliding, but strangely no sparks flashed.
In order to fight head-on, the bandit leader turned around, but he saw a scene that he would never forget in his life.
—The longsword enchanted with the [Heavy Blow] magic was caught with bare hands, and the feeling from the longsword was like hitting crimson ore, and even his own knuckles were cracked.
“Damn it!”
He struggled to wrest the sword back from the opponent's hand, but the sword was simply held motionless between the opponent's thumb and index finger - as if it were being held by a pair of iron pliers.
"Don't you realize the difference between us? After killing so many people, you should be prepared to be killed."
It was clearly a pleasant sound, but at this moment the bandit leader felt it was just the whisper of a devil. Apart from making his entire body creepy and hair stand on end, he couldn't feel anything else.
“Who are you?!”
Although most warriors would normally give up their weapons at this time and use other methods to attack, the bandit leader did not dare to do so. He had an intuition that if he gave up his weapons at this time, he would face unimaginable attacks. Therefore, he could only pin his only hope on the long sword, as if as long as the stalemate continued, this sense of security of walking on the tightrope would continue.
However, Ella—or to be more precise, Entarosphiel—would not do that.
Under the effect of "Advanced Strength Boost", Ella gradually infused strength into her thumb and index finger by attaching "Hardened Crystal" magic to her fingertips.
Click, click.
A harsh sound that made people want to cover their ears continued to ring out. If they had to describe it, the people present could only imagine the groaning of the house when a heavy object pressed down on the roof, and the ominous creaking sound echoed in the square that was so silent that even breathing was stagnant.
As if he could no longer bear this torture, the bandit leader gradually relaxed the strength in his hands and began to retreat step by step trembling, the arrogance in his eyes slowly filled with fear.
"Monster...monster..."
Just as he saw, the long sword, which was a magical weapon, was slowly bent. If it was just broken into two pieces, it could be explained as excessive force, but the bending was completely beyond human imagination.
Now the bandit leader couldn't help but think about it from another perspective. If his head was pinched by the other party, would it also become like the long sword, pinched into an unnatural shape, but the whole person could still survive - a punishment that was more painful than death.
"Monster? As you can see, I'm a human who can communicate."
To intensify the fear effect, Ella deliberately cast the "Shock" skill on herself, then stared at the other party with her crimson eyes, so bright that they seemed to be dripping with blood.
『Space Confinement』
The bandit leader, who was retreating step by step, suddenly stopped.
“Aaaaaaa! How could humans, humans have someone like you!?”
"Hoho? Didn't you say the same thing when you treated those kids over there? Didn't they also ask for your forgiveness? Even though they were not at fault?"
“That…that’s…”
The bandit leader could only shift his gaze left and right, but no matter where he looked, he could only see Ella's appearance. Under the effect of the "Shock" skill, Ella was now no different from a demon in his eyes.
A strong feeling of disgust rose in her heart, and she didn't even want to continue this behavior that would imprint fear on the other person's heart. Ella snorted indifferently.
"Hmph, that's enough of my excuses."
“Aaaaaah! No, don’t!”
Without caring about his status at all, the bandit leader screamed and begged for mercy in an unbelievable manner. In the end, he was so shocked that he foamed at the mouth and fainted on the ground.
"Boss!"
"Monster! It's a monster! Shoot! Shoot!"
Even though they were told to shoot arrows, those ordinary bandits did nothing but retreat step by step.
Ella turned around, and because the effect of the "Shock" skill had not yet worn off, the ordinary bandits who had only felt the aftermath suddenly screamed, forgetting even the common sense of "don't turn your back to the enemy" and ran towards the front door desperately. Even though there were countless undead outside, for them now, the fear brought by Ella was far stronger than that of the undead. They would rather cross the undead camp with bare hands than continue to stay by the side of Ella - Entalosphiel.
Finding that the previous deterrent had worked, Ella couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, then waved her hand slightly.
"It would be bad if you guys escaped. You can talk to Sadler later. 'Stun Bomb - Continuous Fire'."
A yellow "stun bomb" with a diameter of at least twenty meters flew to the fifteenth floor, and then once again carpet-bombed the entire village and the undead outside. In just half a minute, all the buildings were reduced to ruins.
"That's it. Anyway, let's just shoot the bandits and take them to Sadler, then take Lucia, Lintelina, and the others to the Hive. That way, everything will be fine, huh?"
As Ella clapped her hands and prepared to return to the girls not far behind her, several light spots on the "Terrain Search" began to move again.
"So, 'stun bullets' are ineffective against the undead... Hey, Eve?"
A grayish-white light flashed, and Eve emerged from the pendant around her neck. However, Eve seemed to know that now was not the right time, so she deliberately stood in the extension line between Ella and the girls, allowing Ella, who was disguised as a girl with white wings, to block her.
Eve raised her head while keeping face to face with Ella.
"Promise."
Being stared at by those captivating red eyes, Ella was stunned for a moment, then blinked.
"Ah, I remember now. Sorry, sorry. I'll take you there right away."
The agreement Eve mentioned was about purifying the undead and replenishing their magic power, and now was the opportunity - if I remembered correctly, there were also bandits in front of the village. Now that the city wall had been destroyed by the "stun bomb", if they didn't go there quickly, they would probably be eaten to pieces by the undead, so this was a good opportunity for Eve to show her ability.
Of course, just in case, I have to stay by Eve's side. After all, so far, Eve has only purified two undead at a time. This is the first time she has encountered undead on such a large scale, so it would be better for me to stay by her side.
"Keep your promise and receive a reward."
Although her face still lacked expression, Ella could feel that Eve seemed very happy. Not only that, Eve even reached out and touched her head with two white ponytails.
"I'm not a child. I won't be happy if someone touches my head or something. Besides, we'll be seen now. Let's hide for now."
"Um."
With a light nod, Eve hid in the Holy Staff again. After confirming this, Ella turned around. Although she felt very sorry, there were indeed some things that needed the girls' help - to help bring back the robbers who were stunned by the "stun bombs" everywhere. After fulfilling her promise to Eve, she would bring them to Sadler for trial.
Unsure whether her actions would scare the girls, Ella controlled her body and slowly floated towards them. If they showed any fear, she would be able to stop in time.
But the fact is, except for those girls who were still in a trance, all of them not only did not show any fear, but instead took the initiative to walk towards Ella step by step. In addition to gratitude, there was also a believer's piety in their eyes. Especially Lintelina who was at the front of the team. Ella could even see some expressions that only girls in love could have in her.
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