CHAPTER 879: SEPARATING THE ENEMY

Clovis and Aileen hid within a building. Meanwhile, Melody rode at the back of Rea, waiting on top of a building. Rin and Kanaria also positioned themselves on the rooftop, just on different buildings.

"Ready?" Clovis asked.

"Second team, in position."

"First team, in position."

"Okay, let’s begin. Rin, Kanaria."

"Got it." Rin drew her bow while Kanaria fixed her aim. They counted down before firing at the same time.

Kanaria aimed for the Tier 7 deer with her Soul Weapon, while Rin wanted one of the Tier 6 beasts.

The beasts didn’t know anything. They suddenly heard a loud ’bang’ coming from Kanaria’s weapon. In that instant, the deer raised its front body to avoid it, but the bullet exploded, blasting him.

The Tier 6 beast also sensed the incoming arrow and managed to survive, but the arrow hit its front foot. The impact was so powerful that it actually broke the foot. Still, for an arrow as strong as hers, it was already amazing to only get this much injury.

The deer let out a cry, alerting the rest of the beasts in the vicinity.

Since there were beasts around their buildings, they could reach Rin and Kanaria right away.

There was even one beast with a large body slamming the building with its body. The middle part of the building crumbled to the ground, but Rin had jumped back as her wings took her to another building.

But this was actually a trap. The building the beast destroyed was the building that Clovis and Aileen were in. They had been waiting in the shadows.

The moment the beast entered, Aileen jumped to the front of the beast and stabbed the beast’s eyes.

"!!!" The beast panicked. It was only a Tier 4 beast, so it couldn’t notice Aileen’s presence until it was too late.

Aileen’s short sword pierced the left eye of the beast.

*Roar!* The beast roared in pain.

"Beast Manifestation Technique, Overlord Slayer." Clovis swung his blade diagonally, cutting the beast’s body when it was still struggling from the loss of one eye.

The beast fell onto the building, which ended up crumbling together with it.

"Tsk." Clovis and Aileen rushed outside. They broke through the windows, only to find dozens of beasts charging at them.

"I will take care of this. You may go now, Aileen. First team, go!" Clovis shouted.

Aileen nodded her head and erased her presence before entering another building. The beasts completely ignored her as if they couldn’t sense her anymore. They all came to Clovis.

However, it wasn’t like he was alone. Suddenly, three arrows hit three beasts at almost the same time, blasting their bodies or heads upon impact.

Then, an explosion hit them as another bullet from the Soul Weapon hit them, killing five beasts simultaneously.

"Draw them in." Clovis hit them one at a time, while some beasts seemed to shift their directions to stop Kanaria and Rin. However, the latter simply leaped to another building or just flew, depending on their situation.

On the other hand, Clovis kept moving back as if he was being overwhelmed while taking on one beast after another. He had to draw the beasts as far as possible.

Despite all these attacks, there was no Tier 7 beast in sight.

It was because the first team had begun to move.

When the Tier 7 beast was about to move, they heard Melody’s report. "100 beasts are coming toward them. The beasts around the first team are about to be directed as well. Hold."

Melody was waiting for the beasts in their direction to reach the Tier 7 beast before saying, "Everything is ready!"

In that instant, Christina activated her unique ability, locking all the beasts around her, including the mutated deer.

"!!!" The mutated deer was surprised by this sudden urge to come in the opposite direction.

His instinct was telling him that there was a person there, but he couldn’t find that person. At the same time, the other side was being blasted by an unknown number of people.

It was facing a dilemma. Should he accept the provocation or should he go to Clovis instead?

When the thought reached his mind, Clovis gave him the answer.

He had already asked the first team to begin.

In that instant, Jay kicked the doors open, while Christina showed herself. Now that the source of provocation had shown herself, the deer realized it was being sandwiched on two sides.

This alone wouldn’t be enough to make the first team more dangerous than Clovis. The deer was still thinking about ignoring them and coming to Clovis instead.

Tianna and Tienna suddenly came up to the rooftop, followed by Luci and Reolf.

"Aooo!" Reolf’s howl showed another provocation. Seeing the strength of Tienna and Tianna as well as Christina, the deer was finally convinced that they were dangerous.

Hence, the deer let out another cry, commanding the surrounding beasts to come toward it.

The movement was noticed by Melody as she gave a report. "Approximately 140 beasts have been directed to our side. You have to worry about 60 beasts. One of the Tier 6 beasts is on our side, while the injured Tier 6 beast is on your side. We’re lucky. Tianna, Tienna, try to kill it before the other Tier 6 beast comes if possible. The rest of you, do it according to the plan."

With this report, the team moved forward.

Since the beasts were coming toward them, Christina focused everything she had on the mutated deer.

The deer charged forward and used its massive antlers to destroy the building in front, opening a path toward her.

"It’s coming!" Christina shouted. She moved forward as the deer reached her and stomped her with everything it got.

Bam!

The concrete road underneath her couldn’t withstand the impact from the stomp and broke apart, but Christina actually withstood the full weight of the beast.

"Warning. The beast has much higher physical strength. I won’t be able to use many of my shield techniques to assist you." Christina warned them.

"It doesn’t matter." Jay had already reached the side of the deer. He swung it up, sending the sword strike toward the deer’s neck. ’Grand Impact.’