Chapter 263 Gathering before the group battle  

Amaya's silence skill created an environment around her which calmed everything. Where except her movements nothing else could make any noise.

This skill allowed her to stop and intercept her enemies from chanting any new magic spells. And if there are monsters around, it can also influence them to be peaceful and silent.

With just one spell of hers she spent nearly all her mana, her face turned pale and sweat drops formed over her forehead, but her lips were curled up in a slight smile as she saw Elroy's illusions disappear and the crow which was hovering above them moving away.

'Was that a coincidence or did he know about it?' Amaya wondered as she noticed the crow flying just outside her spell range boundary.

'Interesting' she thought and smiled. magic

Seeing the sudden change in their surroundings, Rebecca and Edward gave Amaya a surprised glance for a few seconds, which she pretended not to notice.

"This spell won't last long. So just kill as many of them as you can." Amaya said, looking at them and closed her eyes, trying to recover her mana.

'If you had something like this, why watch us make a fool of ourselves all this time.' Edward thought internally.

He scoffed at her and then moved in a flash, running into the pack of Roozarks who were still stunned by Amaya's spell. Roozarks main ability was their living in groups and agility if you count, but since now they were standing still confused and lost, it wasn't hard to kill them at all.

In just a slash of his sword Edward managed to kill 2 of them instantly and then he kept moving forward, splashing necks and blood everywhere his steps landed.

Rebecca too started her attacks, but not on Roozarks, but on Elroy who was spitting blood due to the backlash of his skill.

Some spells require constant casting and some could just be used by imagining their effects - it all comes down to their level and mastery.

Elroy had just recently learned this mirage spell, and still lacked the control over it, thus Amaya who noticed it for awhile now, managed to hurt him with her Silence.

"Not so fast, Princess." Qingyue, who was a bit behind Elroy, shook off the effects of Silence, and came between Elroy and Rebecca.

"Let's have a rematch." She said and charged her spear with her mana. "Grow up, Yue." Rebecca said smirking as the purple haired girl turned a bit blue in anger.

"I'll shut your smile once and for all, Princess." Qingyue said while puffing out her plain chest subconsciously.

-hum haha-

Rebecca chuckled seeing her actions, making Qingyue even more annoyed.

Qingyue waved her spear as arcs of mana left her blade and moved to cut down Rebecca. While Qingyue herself moved her legs and gave Rebecca a kick in her stomach, trying to wipe that smirk off her face.

The scene where Rebecca bent down and she slapped her with a backhand or slashed her head with her spear appeared in Qingyue's head, and inevitably her lips curled up in another sneer.

"You're still the same as ever. So unlady-like." Rebecca moved back a step, dodging her kick and shattering her dreamy thoughts.

Then using her momentum instead of charging back to fight, Rebecca just turned around and continued running on her previous path. "See you later, Yue."

Rebecca shouted and disappeared in a flash.

"You _ " Qingyue shouted and tried to follow her, when a scream interrupted her thoughts. Turning around she saw that while she was busy fighting with Rebecca, Edward already cleared their path- and Roozarks, who felt scared to get close to Amaya, turned back and started attacking Elroy.

Seeing her teammate who was fighting 5 of those beasts alone, and was almost dying, Qingyue stopped chasing Rebecca and others and turned back to save her partner.

'I'll see how long you can run, Princess. I'll beat you and that little gobbler together one day.' Qingyue sweared in her heart as she fought against Roozarks, imagining them with the faces of different people she wanted to teach a lesson to.

Rebecca didn't know her thoughts, otherwise she would really laugh and ask, what's the reason to be so mad about - all they did was just a little prank.

She gave her a beautiful dress but with high chest space, and Amy gave her a boy's shirt seeing her plain runway.

There's no reason to be mad for so long over it. Right.

'Grow up' and get over it.

On the other side of the forest.

Amelia, Valtor and Katherine were trying to kill Jaesin and the Grunter hat, when just before their combined attack could kill both of them, a shield made of tree roots covered Jaesin and pulled him back. While ropes made of branches wrapped around everyone's legs and pulled them in the air. Caught off guard, the three of them lost balance and flung into mid air.

But eliminating them wasn't that easy.

The next moment Valtor used his skill 'Shadow Transfer' and teleported directly where his shadow was made. On the ground.

Other hand, Amelia just used her space mastery to teleport away from this trap.

Katherine, on the other hand, was the easiest of them all. Instead of using spells or wasting her mana, she waved her body in the air a few times. Creating high rolling momentum. After some time, she pulled the knife from under her belt and spread her hands whole.

Moving her body again, she raised the knife in her hands, coating it's edges with aura. She cut down the rope binding her legs in one move and fell down the ground.

Before her body touched the ground, she did a flip in the air and landed on her feet. (A perfect superhero landing)

"Be careful, someone's here." Katherine said, as she looked around and didn't find anybody.

Just when Amelia and her were looking around carefully a loud scream echoed in the forest, nearly bursting out their eardrums.

–aahhehhrhrr roar

"Wha_ is that?" Amelia asked as she covered her ears in pain with her trembling hands.

Katherine, who was quick in response, managed to cover her ears with mana to suppress the ringing sensation, looked up towards the raging monster they've been fighting all this time.

Grunter hat who was nearly tired and suspended , healed from all his injuries miraculously. And started beating his chest while jumping wildly, in anger and pain.

On Grunter's head were vines wrapped tightly. And every now and then, sounds of click or clack were ringing out too. Making the monster howl in pain all over again.

'The white elf' Katherine thought, as she looked at Saisha standing over the shoulder at Grunter and pressing her hands over his forehead.

As grunter raised his hands to hold his skull or bash this fly away, trees moved near him and turned to chains, who tied his paws.

The 9 foot beast lost the color in his eyes for a few seconds and then stopped struggling and roaring in pain.

'Did she knock it out, or did she control it?' Amelia wondered as she noticed Saisha too.

But her question was answered when Saisha released the monster, and the Grunter jumped towards Valtor and started attacking them.

'Damn it.' Amelia cursed seeing Valtor's figure flying in the air after suffering a fist to the stomach. Seeing no chance to win it in short terms, she just turned around to leave where she felt her brother's mana.

She had already exhausted herself in previous exchanges , and not to mention as Rio always said, there's no point in fighting a losing battle. Or showing all their tricks in trials like this.

Ignoring a challenge is always better than losing it. (Said by a guy who fought and got beaten)