Emma quickly tries to react, but almost too late, three other spears with a similar glow and three lizardmen very similar to the previous one emerge from the trees attacking her from different angles.
While a deep female voice sounds: "Tashaze, what is it that delays you in finishing off a human?, I cannot believe that you are so useless at ending her, a proud warrior of the shadowed spears should never be inferior to a human."
When Emma prepares to try to reduce the damage to the minimum… A violet light forming a barrier with multiple layers appears around her protecting her and blocking the three attacks, but almost completely breaking leaving only two or three layers.
Without turning around she immediately knows who saved her, it was Molly, Emma swiftly counterattacks the lizardman in front with a kick and using a technique saying: "Emerald Impact!"
An explosion of emerald energy sends that lizardman flying backward and with her spear Emma turns performing a slash to her left making that one retreat, the third who was preparing to attack again is surprised by Emma who forming a pistol shape with her hand says: "Lightning!" and a lightning bolt shoots out from those two fingers.
The lightning strikes the spear giving it a discharge that produces some smoke and light burns, Emma does not waste time and kicks her away and retreats until reaching a safe area.
Emma a bit overwhelmed, but without losing her composure says: "Eh?, it seems you need help from your friends, it is a pity that that does not matter much, it does not matter how many there are, if they do not have the level they do not have it, trash simply will not change its value no matter how much more trash there is."
Emma knows she is boasting, but she has always been good at making people lose their judgment, so she needs to do that… she needs to buy time…
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On the other hand, Lily who had been fighting against the green-scaled lizardwoman since Emma captured the enemy leader smiles saying: "You are more fun than I thought, but what do you think if we get a little more serious?"
Zathare'k looks at her confused: "You are the first who is able to identify among all these that we are women, that is something respectable, but have fun?, you are not our rival, look at those wounds, you cannot continue anymore."
Lily laughs loudly "Hahahaha" and looks at her wounds, which cover her body, they are long and small cuts, even one looks especially ugly and she says: "This?, this is just a scratch."
Then stretching her body she says: "It has been a long time since I found such a fun practice opponent, let me get serious, after all dad always said that it is bad manners to give your opponents an ugly face."
Taking her hands she cracks them while with a savage smile she says: "I am the claws of power that instill terror, my mere existence is to tear and destroy and even if millennia pass I will continue doing so, all to please my lord!, awaken gloves of the millennial forest dragon!"
The gloves that seemed to be completely made of a totally common energetic metal on her hands suddenly begin to take on life and if you look closely, you can notice something that previously went unnoticed and that is that the lines between the scales begin to be seen and two pairs of gems protrude from the gloves, one in the center of each palm and another in the center of each back, all shine with a deep green color…
And with that glow a green light invades Lily's body which begins to recover in plain sight, as if nothing were happening, Lily looks at the shocked lizardwoman and says to her: "So well what do you think?, did you like it?"
Without wasting time Lily moves at an incredible speed enhanced by that green energy that continued healing her and with all her strength launches an attack, the giant wood-scaled lizard tries to block it with a tail strike, but it is useless, Lily's fist this time contains so much force that literally in brute strength it does not push it back, but throws it to the side.
Zathare'k very surprised becomes serious, this human woman already surpassed her in cultivation being in the advanced stage of grade 8 of the mystic realm, very close to advancing in grade, while she herself is barely in grade 7 like Valtoe'ktek, not to mention that those equipments that that human had were already superior before, she could barely win slightly thanks to her precious lizard.
Now with that increase in strength of her weapons and the one she herself received, she is hardly her rival, but she cannot retreat so easily, so using her superior agility she takes her two "sacred" steel swords and begins to use her clan's technique, saying: "Forest dance of swords!"
Her swords are covered in green energy, less deep than Lily's but even so the wood element can be felt coming from them and she begins to cut rapidly, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine and ten, consecutive slashes each one faster, stronger and more difficult to dodge.
But Lily not only did not try to dodge or block but directly with her gloves gathers her strength into one fist and says amused: "Yes, that is it!, more, more fun all this is!, this is how power feels, strength!, savage devastation punch!"
The two energies collide causing a small explosion that blows wind in all directions drawing the attention of everyone around them…
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Clara who is near the fight feels this and says: "Well, it seems things got a little serious over there, I have to hurry to go help my leader, so I am sorry to have to stop this practice here."
She quickly brings her two double swords together causing a whining sound that slowly begins to become annoying to Kasha'ka and her lizard, but very annoying almost causing pain, Kasha'ka without understanding why says: "What the hell?, why are you doing that to your weapons?"
Clara ignores her and continues scraping the blades on both sides until the sound slowly begins to resemble a growl… then it increasingly begins to resemble the roar of a dragon.
When Clara brings the two blades together in the air and then launches a double slash that produces a deafening roar, Kasha'ka realizes the danger and orders her lizard to dodge it with all its strength, the lizard quickly makes a powerful jump backward.
But Kasha'ka does not notice when Clara disappears from the place where she was and soon what Kasha'ka sees is a fierce flash of bronze color with a red touch and feels a burning sensation at her side, touching the wound she says: "What the fuck?, how is this possible?"
Clara does not stop and continues giving light flashes while continuing to attack at a terrifying speed for Kasha'ka, Kasha'ka annoyed orders: "Little one use your abilities!"
Kasha'ka's giant lizard then raises its head and roars and immediately after large roots of the thickness of an adult arm begin to rise from the ground which chase Clara.
Clara smiles and says: "Do you think this can stop me?" crossing her swords again which now can be seen better the change where the blade went from being metallic gray like steel to bronze color with red gems.
When she scrapes them again the roaring sound is produced that breaks the vines into hundreds of pieces sending them flying in all directions, Clara says: "Do you think the roaring fangs of the crimson bronze dragon are a toy that cannot cut wood?"
Then Clara disappears at high speed, followed by which in the place where she was her voice is heard: "Although I am still very far from being able to draw even a quarter of its potential, it is more than enough to deal with idiots like you."
Kasha'ka furiously shouting says: "Damn it!, do not be arrogant human!"
Taking her great axe she begins to spin it at high speed over her head Kasha'ka says: "Celestial whirlwind!" a wild sky blue energy begins to form producing a sound of constant crackling.
Clara mockingly says: "I thought you were going to do an attack you scared me!, but I see that you are only scaring flies."
Then putting on a more serious face she says: "Let me teach you a true technique… Emerald-golden dragon arts, emerald-golden dragon slash!" then both of Clara's swords turn emerald with touches of gold from the energy that surrounds them.
Then when she reaches Kasha'ka she cuts unleashing another explosion of energy on the battlefield.
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Elise for her part continues fighting, although she had always been very introverted and preferred above all things architecture and engineering, being the daughter of one of the three richest families of what was then the barony at that time she had the luck to have good cultivation resources, her cultivation was not precisely bad.
Her weapon similar to a rapier, but with a wider blade to cut better, with a golden hilt with falcon symbols and with an energy gem in the center, was not as flashy nor as powerful as those of that group of believers, but it is unfair to compare members of a religion that extends throughout the entire world and on top of that is the only one protected by the guilds union of mortal races.
Elise was fighting with a lizardman in a relaxed manner, to her own surprise, she is better in combat than she thought, she could predict each attack or reaction of the lizardman and quickly reposition…
Suddenly feeling two energy outbursts almost as if they agreed, both her opponent who is full of wounds and she stop to look in that direction and she says: "Wow they really are letting themselves go… were we not supposed to keep a low profile?"
Elise sighs and resumes her stance it seems she ended up with the most proactive group of all…