Deep within the Unnamed Forest, a small party of adventurers had encircled a giant [Earth Bear] and were engaged in combat. [Earth Bears] were classified as a C-class monster by the adventurer’s guild, it was a fierce earth-type monster that could use several earth type magic. Most adventuring parties would walk the other way as soon as they came into sight of one, because [Earth Bears] were quick to anger and could enter a berserk state during which its attack power could reach the level of a B-class monster.
But currently, this [Earth Bear] that towered at around 3 meters in height was being beat into submission by an adventuring party comprised of only eleven girls, four of which were knights, two swordswomen, an archer, a cleric, and what seemed to be three little priestesses just standing around and providing moral support.
If there was a pill to undo an action that one regretted, this [Earth Bear] really wanted one. It found its way into this mess because it couldn’t resist the fragrant scent of the roasting [Deep-sea Serpent] and had come out of its den to forage for food, but quickly regretted it. Even though the adventuring party was small and completely made of girls, the [Earth Bear] would have picked a larger adventuring party to fight any day, as long as it didn’t have to face this party. The knights of this party were like unmoving steel walls that had boxed it in.
The [Earth Bear] was completely unable to escape the encirclement, every time it tried, the knight in whichever direction it tried to break through was able to use their shields to block its path. The furious [Earth Bear] swung its massive paws against the knights’ shields to no avail, no matter how much strength it put into its strikes, it couldn’t break through the knights’ defensive stances, not even moving them from their spot.
The two swordswomen hid behind the cover of the knights looking for their opportunity to strike, whenever the [Earth Bear] began an assault on one of the knights, the swordswomen would take advantage of the gap in its defences to strike. While the black-haired swordswoman wasn’t much of a threat, the silver-haired swordswoman was able to strike six to nine times in the blink of an eye, and her sword was unusually sharp, each of her strikes was able to pierce through the bear’s thick skin and draw out large amounts of blood.
Even the magic attacks of the [Earth Bear] magic attacks were suppressed by the adventurers, whenever it began charging up its magic, the party’s archer was always able to accurately place arrows so that it would be forced to stop charging magic unless it wanted to trade its life. The female cleric kept buffing the four knights, further shifting the balance in their favour, this was no longer a battle, this was completely one-sided abuse!
Of course, Bella wouldn’t care about the thoughts happening within the thick skull of the [Earth Bear], she was enjoying the process of this battle. Previously, she had let her subordinate dark suzerains take the rein in the slaughter of monsters in this area, not giving Bella and the others chance to show their abilities. When faced with a swarm of dark suzerains, even A-class monsters would be unable to escape death, while S-class monsters could only run for their lives before they got swarmed.
The current Bella was experiencing a strange sort of pleasure that even playing Monster Hunter VR on Earth hadn’t given her. It was quite easy to get passionate when fighting such a large monster that she knew couldn’t hurt her. As the party didn’t have any high-damaging range units like mages, Bella and the others were engaged in melee with the [Earth Bear], and each time it struck her shield, Bella was able to feel the shock travelling from the shield.
Every time the [Earth Bear] charged, it was repelled easily by the knights. It had also entered berserk state several times already, but even while under berserk status, its power that had been multiplied several times was still unable to budge the female knights in front of it; they even conversed with each other with smiles on their face!
I’ve had enough! If you all are so fierce, why don’t you go and fight an S-class monster, instead of bullying my C-class ass? With a roar, the [Earth Bear] entered berserk state again, this was its final surge. Its body had already reached its limit and even if Bella and the others didn’t attack, it would collapse soon enough.
Right at this moment, Annie sent an arrow through the eye of the [Earth Bear], piercing through its skull. The [Earth Bear] was immediately silenced and collapsed like a ragdoll to the ground with its mouth open as if complaining to the heavens about the unfairness of life. From the beginning, it didn’t have any chance to survive, Annie’s first arrow would have been able to pierce its skull, the only reason why she didn’t was to let Bella and the other close ranged members of the party practice and improve their cohesion.
The berserk state of the [Earth Bear] was a joke to Bella and the others, not even being able to budge an unmoving knight. After felling the giant [Earth Bear], Angel and Mia went up to harvest, due to Ivy and Susan’s presence they were currently only able to do miscellaneous work.
Ivy and Susan looked at Bella and the other knights emotionally, each monster hunting group’s priority was having a strong knight. If the knight wasn’t strong enough and wasn’t able to block the attacks of the monster, the rest of the party would be in danger. Many groups of monster hunters had been slaughtered because their knights had been killed before the party managed to severely damage the monster.
Although Bella, Eleanor, Dolores, and Roland didn’t carry the mark of a holy knight, Susan estimated that their abilities were definitely higher than that of a normal holy knight. Normal human knights would use “Dou Qi” that they gained through their cultivation to help supplement their defences but Bella and the others hadn’t used any during their fight with the [Earth Bear], meaning that they had repelled attacks of what was effectively a B-class monster with their own strength.
Susan wondered how much strength and endurance it would take to directly defend against a C-class monster that was renowned for its strength. So far, this [Earth Bear] was the one that had lasted the longest, all the other C-class monsters that they had ran into didn’t last more than a couple slashes from Kriss.
All this party needed right now was a good assassin and it would be perfect, although Annie had talent in the field of archery, she was like Roland in that they still had human bodies that would still get tired in long fights. In the fight previously, Roland actually wouldn’t have lasted that long.
It was just that every time the [Earth Bear] attacked Roland, Noesha secretly used time magic to slow it down, causing the force behind its strikes to largely decrease. It seems that Bella needed to have a talk with Roland and Annie; each demon king was able to bestow power on an exclusive maidservant whose power would skyrocket until it reached about 60% of the demon king’s who bestowed power on her.
As the demon king’s power increases, the power of the exclusive maidservant will as well. This was much better than the power that demon kings bestowed to their subordinate evil beings, as if evil beings wanted to get more power than that was bestowed on them initially, they must have enough achievements and merit needed for that amount of power. While the exclusive maidservant only needed to receive power from her demon king once and then their power would be able to keep growing without interference from the demon king.
Bella was currently trying to formulate a plan that would be able to make it so that Kriss wouldn’t be on her opposing side in the future, according to Noesha, Kriss had a chance of ‘darkening’{1}. Should Bella make Kriss ‘darken’ so that she can no longer be a Saviour? This wasn’t the best choice and had a lot of uncertainties, Bella wasn’t sure how likely she would be able to beat dark Kriss if they came to odds.
The current Kriss seemed to love the clothes that Bella designed for her, this might be something that could be useful in the future, it wouldn’t hurt to build up a good relationship first, Bella decided. The party continued on their journey, perhaps it was because of how loud the death cry of the [Earth Bear] was, Bella and the others didn’t run into any more monsters on the way.
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Not long after Bella’s party left the area, another party of adventurers soon reached the area. This party numbered in the hundreds with many cavalry mixed within. They were lead by a female knight with a tall figure and golden locks, her features looked similar to that of Felia and Lisha but it seemed that she was slightly older than those two and gave off a more mature air.
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