Chapter 47: “Flushing”
Actually, now that she thought of it, her spell just now hadn’t smoked out any players. They just burned along with the forest. There was too much firepower to even create any smoke.
In which case, a water approach would work better for the meadow. If she just flooded the entire thing, that should force all the players out.
“Okay then, [Tidal… Oh?”
Right when she was about to cast her spell, she saw numerous shadows dart out at her from the meadow. As a result of obliterating the forest, she actually did succeed in flushing out some players.
“I thoughtcha were a sorcerer with yer hood up like that, but I see ya got some hardcore armor on too. Well, just goin’ by what ya did, yer still a sorcerer through and through.”
“A flame sorcerer, by the looks of it… But man, that firepower is something else. As long as we watch out for that, we could take him down with enough people… probably.”
“Dunno why you’re so impatient, but why did you show your hand so quickly? If you stand out too much, then other players will just wanna take you out first. Kinda like what’s happening now.”
Apparently, the players who saw Rare’s spell and judged that she was too much a threat formed an impromptu alliance against her. They could have attacked her instead of chatting her up, she thought to herself, but maybe they had some kind of personal policy against doing that. They didn’t seem to have seen her kill anyone prior to casting [Hellflame], so they had her pegged as someone specialized in magic. Since the opportunity had come to her, she wanted to try taking their attacks. She may have to fight players who banded together to oppose her in the future, so this could be a dry run for that.
“[Thunderbolt]!”