บท 250: Saint of the Church of the Sun God
Once the group decided to act, they moved fast.
Following Bloed's lead, they quickly got to the place where the half-step demigod monster was.
It was a cliff several hundred meters tall.
Even from one kilometer of distance, the group could see the half-step demigod monster clearly.
It was a blue-feathered eagle almost thirty meters tall. The eagle was standing proudly on the cliff, rustling its feathers while occasionally using its sharp eyes to look at its surroundings.
The group had to be very careful to avoid being noticed by the eagle's sharp sight.
In fact, on more than one occasion, they got the feeling they were about to be spotted.
Fortunately, the eagle seemed not to be wary of its surroundings. It was so confident in its own strength that it did not bother to watch out for enemies.
"… As expected of a half-step demigod level monster. Even from here, I can feel how strong it is." Rhone sighed in admiration.
"Captain, where are the humans?" Rana asked when she failed to spot the Sun Kingdom's team.
Bloed closed his eyes and focused on the dragonfly he had put in the humans.
"… They are already here." Opening his eyes, he looked at a place several kilometers across them.
Immediately, his bright blue eyes found the people he was searching for.
Six humans, led by a blonde young man, were advancing stealthily towards the eagle.
And Bloed recognized the young man leading the Sun Kingdom's team. Not just him, he also recognized one of his team members.
Back then, when the three countries were negotiating the ownership of the mine, they were the two young men accompanying the general of the Sun Kingdom.
One of them was the one that fought Liu Ying on the arena.
And if Bloed was not mistaken, the other–
"He is a prince, right?" He muttered to himself.
However, that was not important.
"Get ready, everyone," Bloed said to the group. "The battle will start soon."
"What is the plan?" Asked Liu Ying.
"Let's not do it complicated. We will wait for both parties to fight each other. When both parties are weakened due to the battle, we will attack. Rana, Rhone, prepare your long-distance attacks. Aya, Atai, Liu Ying, and I will try to get as close to them as possible without getting discovered."
"""Understood.""" The others replied.
The group moved as soon as they heard the plan. Rana and Rhone got ready to unleash their most powerful magic and sound attacks while Aya, Atai, Liu Ying, and Bloed made use of their stealth abilities to get closer to the place of the fight.
Coincidentally, Aya, Atai, Liu Ying, and Bloed had all pretty good stealth abilities. Aya was an assassin and Atai a hunter. As for Liu Ying and Bloed, they could use Bloed's stealth device to blend themselves with their surroundings.
While Bloed's group was getting ready to ambush the Sun Kingdom's team, the Sun Kingdom's team started moving.
As soon as they reached the cliff, one of the members of the team unleashed a powerful fireball towards the eagle.
Feeling the fluctuations on the mana, the eagle reacted instinctively and avoided the attack.
*Boom!*
The fireball hit the cliff, sending several pieces of rock flying towards the surroundings.
Provoked by the attack, the eagle screeched angrily and dived towards the humans.
Bloed had been curious about how they were going to hunt the eagle. After all, it was a half-step demigod level monster. Moreover, a flying one. It was not going to be easy to defeat.
However, his answer appeared soon.
As soon as the eagle dived towards the group, one of the humans took a step forward. Then, several metallic chains surged from his cloak and flew towards the eagle!
The eagle tried to avoid them, but suddenly, a second human appeared and extended his hand, casting a spell on the eagle that increased the gravity around it several times.
Under the effects of that spell, the eagle was unable to avoid the chains.
*Clank!*
With a metallic sound, the metallic chains wrapped around the eagle's claws and wings. Then, the other extreme of the chains extended towards several enormous rocks nearby and wrapped themselves around them, thus sealing the eagle's flight ability.
*SCREEEEEECH!!!*
The eagle screamed loudly. It tried to use mana to break the chains apart, but they were more resilient than the eagle expected. Even when it used all its strength, it failed to even scratch them.
Furious, it opened its beak and aimed at the humans nearby.
Then, a vortex of icy air descended towards them.
The temperature in the place descended quickly, and several nearby plants froze. The icy attack of the eagle was so strong that it seemed the humans were going to be turned into popsicles.
However, the young man leading the humans smirked.
Then, he took a step forward, and a pair of flaming wings appeared on his back.
Following that, flames so hot that seemed to burn the world itself surged forward, clashing against the ice.
And to Bloed's surprise, the flames of the young man did not lose against the ice of the monster!
Bloed was astonished. The eagle was a half-step demigod level monster, while the young man was just a B-Rank. But even so, the eagle's ice could not gain any advantage against the young man's fire.
"A Saint!? Impossible!" Rana's shocked voice reached Bloed's ears at that moment.
Bloed frowned. "Are you saying he is a saint?"
Rana furrowed her brows before nodding. "I'm sure. His flames are borrowing strength from the Sun God. That is the reason they are so strong."
Bloed wrinkled his brows. He was not expecting this.
Until now, Bloed had met two saints. Charise Amra, the Saintess of the Church of Fate, and Eve Moonglow, the Saintess of Moonlight Glow.
Thus, Bloed knew a little bit about saints.
Priests and paladins relied on their faith to form a link with their gods and borrow a bit of the god's strength, so making their attacks stronger.
But saints were different.
Saints were usually people very attuned to the laws of their god. And due to that, they could borrow much more strength than normal from the god they served.
Sometimes as much as thrice what a normal priest could borrow.
In the case of the young man, although borrowing the strength of the Sun God was not enough to defeat the half-step demigod for himself, it was enough to negate its ice abilities.
That, together with the chains stopping the eagle from flying and the attacks of his comrades, made hunting this eagle monster rather easy.
Bloed frowned. This result was not good for them.
If things continued like this, they would have to fight against a saint with most of his strength remaining plus five other talented B-Ranks.
Even if they could win, victory was not going to come easy.
Thus, without hesitation, he turned part of Leto into his sniper rifle and aimed towards the Sun Kingdom's team.
"Change of plans! Attack now! Don't attack their leader. Focus on the others!"
As soon as he finished speaking, he pulled the trigger, and a ray of light flew towards the humans.
An instant later, the plasma bullet burned the legs of one of the humans to cinders.
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