NOVEL NEXT Chapter 8: Preparation for Battle
After a moment of rest, everyone stood up under the command of the leading warrior girl.
Christel has felt that they have been there for at least 3 to 4 hours. Along the way, she has learned a few words, such as Attack, Wait, Back off, and a few more phrases used in combat. Despite being very young, all the girls have excellent combat training, and the younger ones have been improving with combat experience.
Any of these girls would be equal to elites on my blue planet, not below the elites of the Green Beret army, or the Sayeret Matkal and the Maroon Berets. If you give the warriors of the Rogue camp firearms, although it would be hard to say if they would conquer the Monastery, clearing the plains would be a piece of cake.
Christel, though a level 1 novice, has been serving as a support with the help of her magic and homing arrows. In the second half of the progress, the number of creatures from hell has doubled, with two to three hairy colossi now common and not large camps of those red-skinned imps, with two, three, and even four of those red-skinned wooden-staff imps, who can also attack with fireballs from time to time.
And so, in about 4 or 5 more hours, they all stopped in a hallway, on the other side, the size of a football stadium, was what looked like the depths of the cave. Christel, seeing this, was impressed. This place is practically an underground fortress. In Christel's mind, she was already thinking about how she would design this place as a research and development center, with plate doors and well-arranged defenses, it will be an impenetrable place (at least in the mortal realm). Christel fell in love with the place.
All the girls at this point were already looking tired and with blood stains all over their bodies, although with the passage of time, they have not only changed their leather armor, but they have even made new improvised ones with the skins of the Bigfoots. Christel also had to put on leather armor over her already dirty and disheveled pajamas.
The leading warrior girl (Christel still doesn't know anyone's name, although she has heard a few words from the voice of the leading warrior girl, she has continued for now with her first impression nickname system) decided to take a breather before the final push. So she ordered the girls to rest and eat a few meters from the end of the corridor.
Christel stood behind some stalagmites at the end of the corridor and at the entrance to the large space. She also had to think about how they would fight; the six warrior girls have their formation according to the form of attack and movements according to the state of the fight. Christel has more freedom of movement, to serve as support in the combat line or from the rear.
The space in front of Christel is divided into two segments, with one part being about three-quarters of the plain filled with stalagmites, with groups of zombies and skeletons. Christel has been reminiscing about her time playing Diablo II back in the early 2000s. In her memory, she recalls that in the Cave of Evil the creatures she had to clear were Fallen, Fallen Shamans, and Zombies, with one special zombie being labeled as a super-rare mob. Christel initially mistook a skeleton with a blue aura for a blue-skinned zombie called CorpseFire, as it is one of three enemies that drop rare yellow items to help players at the start of their adventure through the lands of Sanctuary.
But along the way, he has seen skeletons! Skeletons are a level above zombies, as they can manipulate basic weapons like a stick, and have a dexterity with a bow and arrow. And not only that, there are skeleton wizards capable of conjuring the elements and even raising the dead with necromantic magic.
So Christel wonders if she isn't at level -INFERNO- 'I'm barely level one!!' Christel has complained in her mind.
Luckily, there are no archer skeletons, much less wizard skeletons, so these skeletons with simple stick weapons, swords and axes, have been a source of experience for the girls. Which, by the way, the fallen (red-skinned imps) use a kind of thick one-handed sword made of some kind of bones. Still, all of these weapons have fallen into the hands of the group of warrior girls - loot - to replenish their weapon supplies and continue without the need to return for lack of weapons.
While thinking about the next plan of action, Christel ate the same jerky meat and nectar canteen as last time. Next to Christel sat the pillow girl, now nicknamed the blue pillow girl, as she has blue locks of hair. As a user of freezing arrows, she and another older girl are the only two archers who shoot freezing arrows. And they have perfected their attacks to shoot their freezing arrows to have control in the combat area.
The girl is the youngest and the most cared for by the group of warrior girls. Due to circumstances, Christel has not analyzed in detail the characteristics and attributes of this group of six warrior girls.
The blue Pillow girl, who is 150 centimeters tall, has noticed the physiques of the girls around her in the times they have changed into leather armor. The lead war girl is at least 181 centimeters tall and has an athletic body with a slim waist and wide hips with a Double D cup, making her the largest girl in the group in every way. 'But my pillow, I mean, the blue girl is at least a C cup which puts her in second place, not bad . . .'
After enjoying a simple meal, Christel used an arrow to draw a poor outline on the ground depicting the room ahead, marking the groups of zombies and skeletons in the first half of the room, and at the -CorpseFire- and his group of zombies and a fallen shaman at the top of the room, there is a 2 meter embankment with steep ramps on either side, there is an altar and an arrangement on the floor where the special zombie and the fallen shaman are. It seems to be doing some kind of ritual and a dark aura of corruption and rot emanates from it.
After finishing, she signaled to the leading warrior girl, who came closer with curiosity. When she came closer, she looked at what was on the floor and was amazed, she had never imagined that something like this could be done. Christel signaled the entrance to the cave on the drawing on the floor, marked six lines that went in the direction pasted on the left side of the room, and marked a solitary line that went along the right side, surrounding all the mobs (Mob is a term in video games that refers to the living, moving entity that is not a player).
Christel knows that the moment they enter the room, they will be seen. This is not a video game, the whole room will be on top of them like in those zombie movies. So the plan is to keep track of their location, by sticking to the wall of the cave on the left side, they will be able to face the enemy, the problem is the bosses that are on the embankment at the back of the room. So she came up with the plan of -Kitear-, an ability in -League of Legends- that does not exist in its programming, where the player attacks and moves to interrupt the pre-programmed attack action, and thus, attack faster. Since this is a real world, this ability is not out of order.
Christel, pointing to himself and the newly marked line surrounding the room, tells the lead warrior girl to take care of the enemies at the back of the room, while they clean up the room below, Christel will keep the bosses upstairs distracted.
The 181-centimeter tall leader warrior girl roughly understood the plan, and she also admired this idea of drawing to plan an attack action. The leader girl explained to the other warrior girls the method of attack, and with a glance, she asked Christel if she was safe with the evil beings at the end of the cave. Christel understood what she meant.
"Leave it to me, I won't get caught." Christel beat her chest on her leather armor while assuring with a firm look. Then the leading warrior girl ordered the others to get ready, and gave a nod of approval to the little golden-haired girl.
"□△▷◇▭ ◎◦ ◦ ◦ " The girl with the blue locks approached and took Christel's hand, with a worried look.
"...Don't worry, everything will be fine, believe in me..." Christel was suddenly astonished, she didn't think that the lap pillow girl would do such an action. 'She didn't fall in love with my truth? But she knows that I have a female body? Even though I am 100% heterosexual man, at least in my soul, my reality does not disappear in this new identity. I am so beautiful that I can also take down the same gender...' Christel awakened her narcissistic genes for a moment until with a signal from the leading warrior girl she woke up from her vain thoughts.
"Aaahh~ . . . " The girl with blue locks was shocked and let out a cry of surprise, seeing that suddenly, she was attacked with a fleeting kiss on the lips, by the girl who is even smaller than her. Christel did not know where she got the courage to do that, but since it was already over, she just chose to give her a hug and move out of the cave trying to be stealthy to the right.
'What's wrong with me!?' Christel refused to admit that she was nervous and ran away, claiming that she was preparing to implement her plan. The girl with blue locks also turned red in the cheeks, and upon seeing the back of the girl escaping, she smiled. She also took courage to do everything possible to ensure that the mission ends successfully.
The two people, unaware, were being secretly observed by the leader of the group. Although it may not seem like it, she does not trust this little girl who suddenly appeared and helped them. A very small girl, with skin so white and clean, hair golden like angels, and the color tone in her eyes, make her very distrustful. It is not the first time that the forces of hell have tried to infiltrate the Rogue camp by posing as a little girl in search of help. But in Akara's record, such a girl had never appeared, so clean and with such striking attributes. In addition, she emanates an aura that feels like light and life. Similar to those travelers - Paladins - who have passed through her camp, but not the same, vitality like that of the Druids, but purer, she feels that, if it were not for this strange girl, they would not have come so far or so fast. She does not know what to do, so she will let Akara take care of it when they get to the camp.
And so, with a wave of their hands, a group of six girls appeared at the entrance of the enormous room. With agile movements, the archers shot arrows at the nearest zombies, two ice arrows were fired at strategic areas, with all the power of the two girls with blue locks, they froze a wide area to slow the advance of the infernal undead creatures.
Christel, I just wait a moment for the –AGGRO- to be fixed and the creatures to advance, to surround them with the concealment of the stalagmites and reach the ramp of the embankment, in her left hand she carried the bow already with three arrows, ready to attack, she also wants to put into practice a sensation that she has felt.
The fight against the raid boss has begun.