Chapter 280   - It was them

The city wall no longer seemed too far away for the group and with Lenny's golden circle protecting them, as long as they kept up this pace it felt like they could make it.

The Harpy screeched again and dove down for an attack causing, the golden ball to vibrate.

"How many more attacks do you think that thing can take?" Martha asked.

"I'm really not sure but all we need it to do is last until we reach the city," Lenny replied.

Then the sound of the Harpy attacking the golden ball happened once again, but instead of the regular vibration, a cracking sound was heard. When they looked up, they could see that the golden ball they were in was starting to crack.

"Come on just a few more steps!" Lenny shouted.

The group picked up the pace and ran as hard as they could but the Harpy was still hot on their tail. It dove down once again with both its wings pointed downward, coming down like a spear. This time when the Harpy struck the barrier, the whole thing had smashed.

"Lenny can't you create another one!" Martha shouted.

"That spell required a crystal and preparation beforehand, I only brought one with me, besides I'm not made of money!" Lenny shouted.

Then above, the Harpy started to prepare itself again for its attack, it looked at the person who was at the back of the pack, Rick and had chosen its target.

Rick felt like being at the back of the pack he was most likely the Harpy's next target. He started to pray to whatever forces on the outside world could help him.

Then several screeches form the Harpy was heard.

"look!" Roy said as he pointed up above.

Five Orbs had surrounded the Harpy and out of the orbs came an electrical power, the orb constantly shocked the Harpy freezing it in place. The Harpy was gradually turning black and when it tried to fall to the ground, another shock would keep it air bourne.

The shocks continued until eventually, the Harpy was burnt to a crisp and fell to the ground.

That's when Martha noticed they were about fifty meters from the wall, although they weren't in the city, it seemed like they had come into the range of the orbs that were protecting the city.

As the Harpy lied on the ground dead, the group took a moment to catch their breath. They were all exhausted and worn out from running for their lives. No amount of training could prepare people for this sort of thing.

Then just as the group managed to catch their breath, they noticed Rick doing something, he had walked over to the beast and started carving it into pieces.

"Hey what do you think you're doing!?" Martha shouted.

"Taking what's rightfully mine, this beast tried to kill me so I deserve the beast crystal," Rick said.

"What!" Are you crazy?" Martha replied, "If it wasn't for Lenny in the first place, you would have died."

Rick had finished carving a section out of the beast and had successfully found the crystal. Martha then walked over to Rick and placed out her hand.

"Hand it over now!" Martha said.

This wasn't just any crystal, this was a king class crystal. Something other guilds and adventures could only dream to get their hands on. It was the same price as ten advanced tier crystals, which was 10 gold coins.

But Martha wasn't planning to sell it in the first place, she wanted to make beast equipment out of it, right now the Red wings were focused on increasing their power.

"You want it right? Then take it from me." Rick said with a grin holding the beast crystal proudly in his hand.

Martha didn't want to cause trouble, but something like this was worth fighting over, but at the same time she wasn't sure if she could beat Rick. Rick was a defensive character who used a shield as his main weapon. One of the worst types for Martha to go up against.

"A group like yours doesn't deserve such a thing." Rick said, "You were harbouring a beast within your Guild, if you were able to get your hands on something like this and increase your power, who knows what evil your group would do."

Rick once again looked at the shining crystal, once he returned with something as valuable as this back to the guild, he was sure to get a promotion maybe even up to the position of vice leader. The thought of it was just making him all giggly.

"Luckily that Harpy killed that disgusting beats friend of yours."

Martha was about to shout back at Rick but then she could see a large figure standing just behind him.

"Who did you say was dead?" Jack said, as he snapped the crystal out of Rick's hand.

Rick turned around to see a muscular shirtless man named Jack. He was to slow to react as Jack's foot was already in his stomach and had kicked him away onto the ground.

"Jack you're alive!" Martha said with joy.

"Looks like you managed to defeat the beast, quite impressive." Lenny said, "Perhaps you were stronger than I thought."

While Jack walked over with the crystal in his hand, he couldn't help but look over at the Harpy lying on the floor and before he knew it, his mouth was watering.

"Hey, why don't we take this big bird back with us and cook it up?" Jack suggested.

"Huh, you're not serious are you, maybe if it was a regular harpy but definitely not that," Martha replied.

"What do you mean?" Jack asked

"The higher tier the beast the more black blood the beast contains," Lenny explained. "I'm afraid eating something like that would only cause us death, it's poisonous to our bodies.

Jack then gulped, he didn't feel sick or hurt, in fact after eating the Harpy he felt stronger than ever. Was this because he was a werewolf?

"Come on, why don't we go inside and get some rest," Lenny said.

But as he turned around a spear was being directly pointed in his face, and not just him but the whole group had been surrounded by the Roland guards.

"You are not going anywhere!" The guard said.