Chapter 89 : Have You Ever Seen
After retracting my chains, I threw them back up into the air with a reverse motion.
The chains began to converge and strike together, using a certain point as the center, continuously reinforcing and wrapping around the perimeter.
Like worker bees serving the queen bee, or ants clustering together when disaster strikes, the chains instantly coalesced into one enormous mass.
"...?!"
The adventurers couldn't ignore such a sight, their faces turning every color imaginable. From my personal perspective, the gathered chains were at least the size of a skyscraper.
It completely exceeded the limits of what Wind Wall could withstand. I manipulated the chains used for movement like wielding a meteor hammer. To the adventurers, the mass of iron chains probably looked no different from an inescapable Five Finger Mountain. All I needed to do was drop it. (TN: Journey to the West.)
Trafalgar and the others had already run away—only the adventurers would be caught.
—BOOM!!!
The earth let out a shocking wail. Under the overwhelming force like Mount Tai crushing down, not a single adventurer escaped alive.
I began recovering my chains and shot out an iron link toward the starting point, hooking around Carol Cat's slender waist.
"Meow—"
"Sorry, pardon the rudeness."
I held Carol Cat as we fell from the air, the retracting chains forming temporary steps in the air that served as jumping points for me, finally landing smoothly on the ground.
"Meow? Anna wasn't going to leave me behind..."
"I never said that."
Asking Sigrdrífa to get on Trafalgar's mount didn't mean I was abandoning Carol Cat.
Sigrdrífa could use the elven detection skill that sensed enemy situations through nature. Her traveling with Trafalgar was more secure.
"Anna... wah meow!"
Carol Cat burst into tears. Did she really think I was going to leave her behind?
Being moved aside, I was quite troubled by another problem.
"Um... could you please not grope around...?"
For some reason, Carol Cat's salty cat paws kept feeling around on my body.
"Where exactly does Anna hide her weapons, meow..."
So Carol Cat was also curious about the principle behind my chains. From a normal person's perspective, you couldn't use items from storage space during combat, meaning the chains I used had to be carried on my person. But chains that could weave together into a skyscraper would be too outrageous to carry around.
Carol Cat was feeling me up and down with the determination to not give up until she found the truth.
"My weapon is rather special... it definitely wouldn't be kept there...! Please stop!"
"Anna got angry, meow..."
"I'm not angry. Anyway, please hold on tight—Tempus fugit (Time, accelerate your flow)!"
I caught up to Trafalgar in an instant while carrying Carol Cat.
"Sorry for the wait, Lord Trafalgar. Is everything well?"
"............"
"Baron Trafalgar?"
"Too many questions at once, my brain can't keep up. Setting aside that abnormal number of chains and how you caught up so quickly... Right now you're... carrying a person and moving at the same speed as my legendary steed?"
"That's right."
I blinked. Lord Trafalgar's question was really hard to understand.
"Is that strange?"
"Isn't it strange? Though it's carrying several more people, my mount is definitely a genuine legendary steed. Even beastkin renowned for their walking speed couldn't match a mount's endurance. Your running speed while carrying someone can match my mount... no, it looks like you still have plenty of energy left. My mount looks quite embarrassing."
Trafalgar said tactfully, though he wasn't expressing dissatisfaction—it seemed like pure astonishment.
But since we had successfully broken through the adventurers' formation in a straight line, these small matters were irrelevant. Let's continue straight ahead at this pace.
After maintaining full speed for about five minutes, Sigrdrífa, sitting behind Trafalgar, sounded the alarm again.
"There are quite a few adventurers ahead... about forty people, and many have mounts."
"Damn, looks like we've run into a guild with backing. Our luck is really bad. Having mounts means they can pursue us. It's difficult to speed up while carrying two people—we won't be able to shake them off."
"Baron Trafalgar, please protect Lily. I’ll deal with the problem."
"By the way, are you okay...?"
Me? Of course I'm fine. What's wrong?
"You've been running alongside a legendary steed for over five minutes... never mind, forget I said anything."
"Carol Cat, Rifa, I need your assistance."
"Meow? Me? I can help too, meow?"
Carol Cat was startled. In terms of combat ability, Carol Cat could probably only bully little girls, so she seemed surprised that she could help.
"Yes, do you know how to use [Falling Star Rain]?"
"I do, meow, but what's the use of that?"
Falling Star Rain: A relatively easy magic for archers to learn. You shoot arrows into the sky, then the arrows explode and scatter into countless tiny arrow-like raindrops that fall over a very wide area.
The description sounds impressive, but the skill's biggest flaw is that its damage is laughably low.
The skill description says it falls like raindrops, and its damage really is just slightly higher than raindrops—like tickling. The reason archers learn this skill has nothing to do with damage. Even a mosquito is still meat, and even the weakest attack is still an attack. Falling Star Rain is extremely convenient for attracting monster aggro over a large area—you could even say it's outstanding for large-scale monster pulling.
When adventurers have the ability to handle large groups of monsters, the archer in the team will use Falling Star Rain to attack monsters in range, then when the monsters approach, team members with outstanding defense like shield users or knights who've learned taunting skills will step up. It's very efficient for grinding monsters.
It's somewhat useful in PVE, but in PVP this skill...
"Please use Falling Star Rain on the adventurers."