Chapter 177 - Happy Smile While Dying
"Let's go and attack that kid and also let our Monster deal with his Monster. Let's see how they'll fare in a two versus one situation."
Brok suggested in which Step-bro immediately agreed.
Both of them looked back and saw that the monkey had already sprawled to the ground. It was already exhausted and it has already reverted back to its normal appearance. And after the constant assault earlier, it was already full of wounds.
"Go!" Step-bro yelled and immediately ran towards Ban's direction.
Brok followed suit while both of their Summon was now running towards Eva.
"Ban be careful, their Monster has poisons in them!" Emilia suddenly shouted behind them.
She wondered why her Server monkey got defeated that easily. Even though it didn't know how to fight that much, it's appearance shouldn't revert back this soon.
Inspecting closely, she noticed that the blood that oozes out of the wounds of her monkey was actually a mix of red and white. If it was not an indication of poison, then what is?
There's nothing she could do now. She was only betting their life on her Server Monkey and its transformation skill, and yet it was actually defeated easily.
She looked at Ban and could help but feel happy and yet worried about his situation at the same time.
Just like the Step-bro and Brok, she was also surprised when two of the Monsters suddenly disintegrated into particles of lights. When she came to it, Ban was no longer on her side and was instead at the back of the enemies.
She was about to yell for him to come back but she managed to hold herself in the end.
'As expected of a Battle-type Summoner! Support-types like should just really stay out of battle and focus on supporting, huh!'
And with that in mind, her eyes suddenly burned with resolve as she took something from her storage pouch.
It was an instrument. It looked like a guitar as it had a string but it didn't have the shape of one.
It was an instrument called Guqin.
Emilia sat down and placed the guqin on her lap. She closed her eyes and brushed the strings of the guqin in an elegant manner.
A soft sound rang out that was only hearable by her.
Suddenly, her slender hands move elegantly, plucking the strings one by one. The sound produced by the guqin became louder every second that passed by.
At this moment, Step-bro and Brok has already in front of Ban.
Ban also did not stay idle as he tried to retreat away from them. Not because he was afraid of them but because he was worried about Eva.
He wanted to make sure that she was alright first before focusing on the two remaining Dark Guild members. He was also not worried about them as based on the way they move, it was clear that they don't practice martial arts.
He has a clear advantage from them so he was not worried about them at all.
He was more worried for Eva as she was not in her combat form right now.
However, Ban seemed to forget how strong Eva was. She was even stronger than him when she was still at the X-Mortal Rank, how much more now that she has already ranked up?
The next moment, Ban was immediately tongue tied as he saw something incredible.
Eva intercepted the two Monsters and even though the difference in their size was plain to see, she was not afraid even the slightest.
The three of them are all F-Apprentice Rank creatures and yet Eva was still not afraid. After all, she's a queen candidate and two monsters were only of the common type. Their upper limit was only even at F-Apprentice Rank.
Boom!
A sound reached Ban's ears as Eva arrived in front of Step-bro's summon and punched its head with her new skill, the Vital Punch.
With great force, the monster was immediately flung away like a broken kite as it's body rotated in mid-air. When it landed in the ground, it was already dead.
It's neck has been twisted forcefully until it broke.
The moment the Summon died, Step-bro immediately coughed out a mouthful of blood.
It was the backlash for having their summon killed in a battle.
He stopped pursuing Ban as he stared at the corpse of his Monster not far away.
"No!"
Step-bro yelled loudly but unfortunately, his monster would no longer come back. It was already dead in the truest sense.
When a Summoner died, the monster would disintegrate into particles of light to return to the Monster Realm and wait for another chance to be summoned.
However, when a Summon died directly, their body would remain as a flesh and they would no longer have a chance to be summoned back again.
One could only imagine how miserable Step-bro was feeling right now.
However, he did not experience it for so long as a dagger had already stabbed his back.
Ban did not waste the opportunity of him being distracted as he immediately killed him with the Poisonous Butterfly Dagger.
When Ban pulled out the dagger, violet-colored blood and white foams oozed out of the wound created by the dagger.
One might expect for Step-bro's face to contort due to the pain but contrary, he was actually smiling as his body dropped to the ground with a thud.
The illusion he saw must be a wonderful one for him to have that happy smile before dying.
At this moment, only Brok and his summon Rock Goat were left behind.
Ban stared at him intently as he approached him slowly. He flicked the dagger from his hands to get rid of the blood.
Eva also did the same to the terrified goat. It kept on retreating as Eva approached it slowly.
The next moment, Eva and Ban started running.
The next instant they immediately arrived in front of their target.
Just as Ban was about to deliver the final blow, Brok suddenly knelt and smashed his head as hard as he could on the ground to beg for forgiveness.
His goat did the same.
Eva and Ban hesitated and paused for a moment upon seeing their actions.
At the same time, a pleasant yet fierce sound suddenly reaches their ears.
The two no longer hesitated and they immediately struck with all their might.