Chapter 510: S - So… Does that mean it’s not fake?
Camilla was quick to draw a ritual circle in the air, tracing the runes with her finger leaving a trail of mana behind, and the group was freed from the Sirens’ hypnotic screeches.
“This’ll last awhile, but you need to stay within fifty meters so don’t leave the ship,” she explained as the sirens surrounded the mountain they were stranded on. She analyzed the situation for a second before spewing out orders, “My mana is still low so I’ll need you to buy me some time. I see three queens. Gaina and Zevi you take the first to reach us, Linn and Vika you keep the other two away, one each. Pin, Selene, Emma and Sofia, you keep the lesser sirens at bay. I’ll shield anyone who gets in danger. Sofia can finish the last Queen when we get there. Get ready!”
Everyone but Shaily started to channel long casting-time skills as the Sirens approached. Shaily just observed the sirens, trying to locate the queens. They were massive so it was quite easy, each came from a different nearby island.
She was trying to recognize the queens’ elements, which could be seen by observing their anatomy, like the shape of their dorsal fins, the hue reflected by their feathers and scales, and other such minute details.
“Fire sirens, the three of them!” Shaily warned the group as the queens quickly approached, soaring through the air, while the lesser sirens frenziedly crawled up the mountain, their vestigial wings too frail to let them fly for long.
Camilla turned to Emma, the ship’s cook, “Change of plan, you channel [Heart of the furnace] let the others handle the rest.”
It was not long before Shaily’s warning proved itself true, as a sudden storm of ash rose up from nowhere, making the air uncomfortably hot. The face on the closest siren queen’s torso came alive, its eyes lighting up just before a cloud of fiery meteors appeared above the creature and shot toward the ship one by one in quick succession. The fire was weakened when it entered the range of Emma’s spell, and the projectiles ended up bouncing harmlessly against the ship’s protection barriers maintained by camilla.
Feeling safe enough, Shaily focused on her own task, summoning one lightning sprite after the next, and sending them crashing into the lesser sirens. The still wet creatures from the sea were quite brittle, and each lightning sprite’s electrical explosion killed several of them.
‘You have defeated [Siren - lv. 68]’