Chapter 178: Monster Queen Elimination(Part 4)
"Okay, good, looks like the pack has been sufficiently whittled down now, it’s time for me to make my move. Quila, stay out of sight and back up the others, I’m counting on you," Instructed Rione, cracking his knuckles before bringing his hammer out of his Storage Ring.
"Understood, Captain, I won’t let you down," Nodded Quila, bringing out her own Relic Armament, the bow Hawkeye, before backing away into the bushes as she formed an ice arrow.
Rione’s team were facing a large pack of Minotaurs, their numbers greater than the Knights had anticipated. They were large, humanoid Monsters with bull-like heads.
While the original plan had been for Rione to conserve his energy and let the others deal with the pack, they had to adjust the plan since the number of Minotaurs was too much to handle without Rione’s assistance.
So, he’d hung back with Quila to support the rest of the team with ranged attacks, steadily cutting down the Monsters’ numbers, the pack now reduced to about a couple dozen, not enough to keep their Queen protected.
"Now, [Lightning Armor]," Chanted Rione, light in erupting around him and wrapping around his entire body as he shot forward rapidly, zipping past the Minotaurs while the other Knights kept them busy, a barrage of ice arrows shooting out of the bushes towards the Monsters as Rione made a beeline for the Queen.
It was larger than the other Minotaurs, it had three crooked horns over the middle of its head in addition to the two horns on either side of its head, its lower body had four hooved legs, and its left arm had a large, drill-like bone spike instead of a hand.
It roared threateningly as Rione closed in on it, before driving its left arm down towards his head. He swiftly whipped his hammer across, a sharp clang ringing out as the head of the hammer struck the side of the large bone spike at the end of the Monster Queen’s arm and deflecting it away.
He then quickly raised the handle of his hammer up defensively as the Monster drove its right fist towards him, slamming against the middle of his handle with a crushing impact.