Chapter 253: Kim’s Swords
Kim was pretty sure these creatures were harpies, though the mythology about them that she was aware of only had them as female, so the ones that looked more male, as in lack of breasts, made Kim wonder if these were something else entirely or if the mythology was wrong.
Either way, she could tell that while Elin's magic had repelled a good number of them, they were still approaching and weren't going to change their minds about bothering both her and Elin.
Kim gripped her short sword tightly in her right hand. She would have liked to have drawn her bastard sword, but when she had cut it out of the Aquis' body after he'd been killed, the blade had turned a bluish-purple. She wasn't sure if that was merely an effect of having been plunged into the fire dragon's chest, but she wasn't going to take a chance with it until she could get Elmo to check it.
Which was part of the reason she was so driven to find both Elmo and Jonas. The other reason was one she felt but couldn't identify. Almost like she didn't want to lose Jonas 'again' despite not having any memory of having encountered Jonas before. She tried not to think about it too much, since it just tended to give her a headache when she tried.
Kim was satisfied with Elin's attempts to whittle down the harpies' numbers, but she couldn't help but worry that the numbers of these creatures would be too much for her on her own. Or at least too much for her to handle while also keeping them from attacking Elin. If she was by herself, she was confident that she'd have been able to deal with all of them, including the ones that had already fled or been killed by Elin's magic.
As the harpies got close enough, Kim swung her sword at the nearest one even as Elin's Sacred Flare erupted among the group again, making Kim feel like some of her hair was probably getting singed from the closeness of the fire. Not that she cared too much about that in this world.
When her sword bit into the harpies, she felt satisfied that her blade cut through them just like most any other creature. There wasn't any scales to limit how deep she'd be able to cut, like Aquis had had before he burst into flames as a fire dragon, even if he was as he had indicated with his last breath an incomplete fire dragon. One that wasn't a true fire dragon just yet.
Even the feathers felt like they were more of an annoyance as she slashed into the birds, killing each one with each swing of her sword. Kim was pretty sure that their bones were as hollow as a real birds, which made cutting through them that much easier.
Their claws scratched at her armor, not able to penetrate through her, no matter how they screeched and glared at her. Their hatred very clear, even though she didn't really understand if it was directed at her personally for some reason, if they held a grudge against all humans, or if this was solely related to Elin's massacring them before they were even in range to attack.