Chapter 433: Chapter 48: Melee

The third wave of charge came from the girls of The Azure Longsword, their formation divided into three tiers.

Mia and Peggy charged the fastest—by this time, the Holy Temple Knights’ position was in complete disarray, and the two girls chose an angle at random to break into the fray.

Next were Eleanor and Sigrdrifa; as Transcendents leaning towards the Physical Department, their regular running speeds nearly matched the full charge of an ordinary human. However, they deliberately slowed down, using their bodies and shields to protect the girls behind them.

The last to run were Medea, Nora, Thira, and Miel. They weren’t the type to rely on physical strength but could only keep up behind Eleanor and Sigrdrifa thanks to Thira’s Light Body Skill.

Fortunately, by now, the Holy Temple Knights at the front had been so pinned down that hardly anyone had the time to deal with these newcomers to the battlefield.

Yet they were the trump card of this battle.

“Let’s make it quick and decisive,” Eleanor said.

“Of course,” Thira replied with a nod, stretching her hands forward.

Gravity Traction!

Several Temple Knights entangled with the Swordsmen were instantly bound together by a distorted gravity that pulled them horizontally.

Next was a North Wind Axe, freezing the clustered Temple Knights into one icy group.

Lastly came a barrage of flames, bullets, and thunder, obliterating these frozen and defenseless Temple Knights into nothing but debris.

This combination of Extraordinary Abilities had been practiced countless times by everyone. Now, its efficiency in clearing the field was remarkably high. Soon enough, a large area littered with corpses was cleared around the girls.

The anomaly brought about by their participation was quickly noticed by the other Temple Knights.

“Transcendents!” “Kill them!”

The call, origin unknown, made some of the Temple Knights aiming at the Swordsmen turn their gun barrels toward the girls.

More precisely, toward Eleanor.

With Medea’s mass psychological suggestion, before the Temple Knights could decide on a specific target, their subconscious combat focus had already been twisted toward Eleanor.

She, in turn, hoisted her Fine Gold Shield, the bullets clinking against it as she retreated.

“No, aim at the ones behind her…” The second command stopped abruptly as the Temple Knight Commander, who had just given away his position with his shout, was now confronted by Mia and Peggy who had circled to his front.

The Temple Knight Commander decisively raised his Plasma Rifle and pulled the trigger at the two girls.

The superheated plasma burst from the confined gun chamber; even Transcendents of the Flesh Sequence couldn’t resist the scorching and corrosive force of this plasma arc head-on.

“Watch out!” Mia dashed in front of Peggy, hands swiftly touching the ground. Their shadows suddenly rose and spread out, as if a magician’s cape had been lifted, swallowing the incoming plasma globules.

Peggy’s arm reached over her shoulder, palm open toward the opposing Commander.

Plague!

Her spirituality vision swept over his body, and she could see the Commander’s limbs were all replaced with mechanical prosthetics, but his head and torso remained flesh and blood.

First came the intestinal flora upheaval!

The Temple Knight Commander immediately felt an intense cramping in his lower abdomen, as if someone had plunged a knife into his gut and then viciously twisted it several times.

Damn, acute appendicitis? How could this happen now!

His right hand continued to fire the gun, while his left hand pulled out an anesthetic needle and plunged it without hesitation into his abdomen.

Mia kept up the Shadow Curtain, shifting all the incoming plasma blasts into the Shadow Realm, shouting anxiously,

“Is it done yet? If you can’t handle it, let me do it…”

“Quit your yapping!” Peggy rebuked irritably, unleashing her extraordinary ability again.

This time, her target was the Helicobacter pylori in the stomach!

A burning pain immediately emanated from the stomach area, almost preventing the Temple Knight Commander from focusing his mind.

By this point, even the slowest to catch on would realize they were under attack by an extraordinary ability. His left hand drew an anesthetic needle to inject into his stomach while his right, holding the plasma rifle, quickly fetched a shock bomb from behind his waist.

Just as he was about to pull the pin and throw it, a bat suddenly fluttered its wings beside him and bit off his metallic index finger.

He hastily swatted the bat away, his thoughts sinking into urgency. The loss of his index finger meant he had to use other fingers to pull the trigger, greatly reducing the stability and accuracy of his shots.

And the bat was smashed into filthy blood, splattering in all directions.

Not good! The commander, who had been distracted by the dirty blood, belatedly looked up to find Peggy and Mia had vanished from sight.

Almost simultaneously, he felt a sharp pain in his lower back. Mia’s short knife had already pierced his flesh.

A piercing pain shot up his spine to his forehead, causing the Knight Commander to break out in a cold sweat. The blade was coated with a toxin prepared by Peggy, designed to amplify the pain felt by the body and severely disrupt his clarity of thought.

He trembled as he launched a mantis blade from his forearm and viciously chopped towards Mia’s petite figure. She deftly dodged to the side, her dual short knives flitting up and down like butterflies, slashing four rapid strikes in the moment the mantis blade came down, severing both of the Temple Knight’s arms at the shoulders.

What’s happening! The Knight Commander looked at his severed limbs, bewildered.

How could an ordinary-material short knife cut through his military-grade prosthetic limbs!

Of course, Mia had no intention of explaining to him what the “weakness” ability was. She stabbed at his abdomen again, and then made a horizontal cut at his throat. The Knight Commander retreated awkwardly, suffering cuts to his leg and abdomen while a final strike pierced his heart, and he fell to the ground, lifeless.

“Disperse!” Peggy suddenly shouted a warning and dashed out in an instant. Mia, just finishing her rapid assault, had no time to get away and had to immediately disappear into the shadow of the commander’s corpse.

In the next second, a hail of bullets rained down on their former position, kicking up dust and debris.

Mia, merged with the Shadow Realm, watched helplessly as knights in the distance aimed their guns their way, as well as Peggy, who looked terribly disheveled from the gunfire.

Although she appeared disheveled, her gunshot wounds didn’t bleed. More precisely, the blood vessels moved out of the way the instant the bullets tore through her flesh.

“Being immune to physical damage, how nice…” Mia uttered enviously. Peggy’s bullet-proof ability seemed much more impressive to her than hiding in the Shadow Realm.

Before she dwelled on it for too long, the rest of the girls had also redirected their fire, once again disrupting the Holy Temple Knights’ encirclement.

At this moment, the strongest output undoubtedly came from Miel, whose rifle was almost incessantly firing, accompanied by Temple Knights getting shot one after another.

Whether the bullets hit mechanical parts or flesh, they caused the victims to grunt in pain, either staggering or deforming in their movements, allowing the Swordsmen to take the chance to slay them.

Even if any Temple Knights attempted to shoot her first, they were blocked by Eleanor wielding a shield, only to be immediately counter-killed by Miel the next second.

“Just great…” Watching Miel wield her rifle and slay enemies left and right, Eleanor couldn’t help but feel a similar envy.

She realized that she might be the only one in the team without any long-range attack capabilities.

Mia had Shadow, Peggy had Plague, Sigrdrifa was skilled in Frost and Thunder. Thira controlled Gravity, Medea manipulated Flames, and Miel’s sharpshooting was incredibly strong.

Even Nora, as a Healer profession, could summon a Spiritual Body to possess and control enemies. Eleanor had seen more than once where a Temple Knight around them suddenly became paralyzed, then effortlessly killed by Medea or Sigrdrifa.

Only she, lacking effective long-range attacks, could only stand there holding her shield to protect everyone. Although this role was also important, but…

Looking towards the farthest end of the battlefield, where Aske was decimating the Temple Knights to near collapse, she sighed to herself.

I also wish I could… uh, fight side by side with everyone.