Chapter 281: Booa
"This must be the Booa, right?"
"Yes!" Couma replied. "Only they make noises like this at night."
The cries grew louder, closer, until finally, the creatures emerged from the shadows of the trees. Three feet tall, the Booa resembled giant, golden-coloured hyenas. They didn’t immediately bounce on them. They were each Level 20 like the Yumboes and there were ten of them.
However, there was no doubt in anyone’s mind that they were vastly stronger. ’Levels aren’t the most reliable indicators for strength. Skills, nature or nurture, these things are what truly help gauge strength. The Yumboes are peaceful Elves. These hyenas are predators and nothing more.’
"Pauline?" Kazi asked. "They’re going to pounce. You ready?"
"Yes!" The thin woman clutched her staff and took a deep breath. At the tip of her wooden staff, a magic circle materialized. Two rings and a dot. That was what she wanted to draw.
Too little, too late. The Booas pounced.
Pauline was caught off guard. The Yumboes were not. With a wave of the hand, the Elves all threw wind magic at them and stopped them in their tracks. No, they did more and pushed them back as they threw forward a second arm. Kazi glanced at Pauline who gulped and attempted a second magic circle.
The noble failed. The eight Yumboes were forced to maintain the blast of wind. The Booas tried to keep walking toward them but failed to make distance. Kazi kept an eye on Pauline who looked like she couldn’t try again. Not out of a lack of mana but confusion. Doubt. Too many options were open to her.