Chapter 45: Sulking
"Seems we have company," Remarked Colt, turning his attention to the top of the building from which the arrows had come from.
"Yeah, no shit!" Responded Lexia, as she formed a pair of bone daggers in her hands.
"This is as far as you go, Irregulars...we won't let you kill anyone else!" A voice rang out as a pair of footsteps approached from an alley to the left of the building, a couple of figures stepping out as Colt and Lexia turned their attention that way.
"Hm, if I'm not mistaken, you two are Second-Class Knights from the First Squad, aren't you?" Remarked Colt as he recognized them.
"He's right, I've seen their faces sketched in our list...if I remember right, they're not targets, and as Second-Class Knights, they aren't much of a threat to us. But then there's the one who fired those ice arrows at us...they're not showing themselves, which means they likely intend to back these two up from a distance, which is pretty standard for an Archer.
It's probably one of the First-Class Knights of the First Squad, and if I'm right about who it is, then they're not a target either...I don't like our odds in a three-on-two battle where we're going to have to avoid killing our opponents," Lexia thought to herself with a grimace, before she put up her guard as the two Knights who'd emerged from the alley each shot towards her and Colt.
"[Water Slash]!" Exclaimed the Knight charging towards her, swinging a spear across and firing out a rapid slashing wave of water at her.
"[Bone Gauntlets]," She swiftly chanted as she crossed her arms in front of herself, a thick layer of bone forming over her hands and forearms, the water slash striking the bone armor and pushing her back slightly, inflicting shallow cuts across the bony gauntlets, before she flung the bone daggers towards him.
He swiftly halted and swung his spear across and deflected the dagger, before he shot towards her and leapt forward, driving his spear towards her as he closed in on her.
As the tip of the spear came zipping in towards her, Lexia quickly sprang back in response, getting out of the reach of his spear before her eyes widened in alarm as several ice arrows came shooting down towards her the instant she jumped back.
She quickly extended out a couple of bone blades and whipped them outwards as the arrows closed in on her, deflecting them away right in the nick of time, her feet hitting the ground and skidding back before she swiftly extended a bone out of her palm downwards in front of her legs as the Lancer shot towards her and slashed his spear across at her knees as he closed in, the blade hitting the bone she'd extended out, narrowly blocking the slash.