Chapter 139

"Remember this. This time, because you're young and it's your first offense in Axel, we won't detain you. But if you pull this kind of thing again next time, we'll arrest you."

After receiving two hours of education at the police station, Eris was finally released.

"This isn't what I expected."

The Thief girl muttered, feeling somewhat aggrieved. Originally, she had wanted to have a unique encounter with her own Believer, one more befitting of Adventurers.

But the result was being dragged to the police station by the other party and receiving two hours of education on Adventurer professional ethics.

And when this white-haired Goddess came out of the police station and came over to the Adventurer's Guild side, she discovered the person she wanted to find was already no longer at the Guild.

"You mean Miss Darkness? She's already joined Miss Otter's party and went to the Plains this morning to subjugate a Running Lizard horde."

The Frog Horde in Axel suffered a fierce beating from a certain Saiyan. Now, the only troublesome monsters left on the Plains are those big lizards running everywhere.

"Running Lizards. Because they run year-round, their leg muscles have an extremely springy texture. Although some people call this texture tough, I really like the meat skewers fried from those thighs!"

Nominally monster subjugation, actually a fresh meat buffet. Broly wiped his saliva and prepared to make a move to clean up the lizard horde in the Distance.

"Running Lizards, huh? I remember the last time they trampled me at will was two months ago." Darkness revealed a nostalgic look and said, "I am a Crusader. The matter of drawing monster aggro, leave it to me."

"Wait, did you say something strange?"

Aqua asked.

"Here I go. Hey, you bunch of big lizards over there, your running speed is really slow. The old granny I helped across the road has better legs than you."

Darkness didn't answer Aqua's question. She directly used the Taunt Skill, shouting at the running lizard horde over there.

And from the fact that the Running Lizard has "Running" as a prefix, one can know the importance of the word "Running" to them.

After hearing Darkness's insulting words, the entire group of thirty-odd Running Lizards shifted targets and ran straight toward this side, cackling wildly.

Solving this group of big lizards is just a matter of one Energy Bullet. Even considering the need to obtain their meat, it's at most one Punch per lizard. But since Darkness wants to show off, let her show off.

And this is also the reason why Broly, who clearly could solve the commission alone, still brings his own Master along every time. He wants his Master to have a sense of participation, thereby increasing the Happiness Value during the process of completing the task.

"Don't push yourself too hard. If you need help, just say so."

Broly said this and retreated to the Side.

"Geez, the aggro skill should be the one I use."

Aqua felt her already few tasks were snatched away by Darkness. While complaining, she applied various Amplification Blessings to Darkness.

"Eh, such a powerful Blessing effect!"

Darkness could clearly feel her various physical capabilities rising, and was somewhat shocked.

"With such an amazing Blessing, I should also bring out my full strength and let you all see my capabilities!"

Darkness said this, took off the breastplate on her body, shouldered a Great Sword, and stepped forward to meet them.

"The Crusader is one of the strongest melee classes. Although it's a defense-oriented class, I've heard some Crusaders trade away defense capabilities for offensive bonuses. Is Darkness that kind of offensive Crusader?"

Aqua spoke beside her about the situation of this advanced class, the Crusader, and looked expectantly at Darkness ahead.

"Prepare to die, you monsters who run around wildly, sometimes intrude into Wheat Fields, and trample the wheat fields at will!"

Darkness shouted righteous lines and fiercely swung her Great Sword forward. She directly killed the non-existent Lanling Wang with one sword strike.

"Running Lizards, as expected they have some skill. They actually dodged my attack."

Darkness, who had been trampled by a group of Running Lizards, used her sword to support her body and said this.

"No no no, purely your attack timing is the problem, right? Who starts swinging their sword when they're still five or six meters away?"

Aqua was flown out by Broly. After avoiding the Running Lizards' charge, she directly retorted at Darkness's empty sword swing attack.

"That was just a mistake. It's because I've never experienced such a strong Blessing before, so my grasp of the attack timing was off by a bit."

Darkness found a reason and explained.

"Ah, so your mistake was caused by my overly powerful Blessing power?"

Aqua was praised in a roundabout way and generously accepted Darkness's mistake. "To err is human. This is also understandable."

"Rest assured, this time I'll grasp the attack timing properly!"

Darkness raised her Great Sword again and looked at that group of lizards that had turned the corner and were charging this way again.

Three Minutes later...

"Ah, this Blessing is too strong. I've been hit by this group of lizards for so long and still haven't fallen!"

Darkness's body was already full of footprints. Her face was flushed, as if she was deeply intoxicated by this physical trampling.

"Hey hey hey, even if you keep praising my Blessing in a roundabout way like this, I won't be happy. Your sword skill is so terrible it's scraping the bottom of the barrel. Which Mage did you learn it from!"

After being charged back and forth by the lizard horde over ten times, Darkness actually managed the astonishing feat of "passing through the lizards, not a single lizard cut." If her Great Sword had just made a mistake once, she would have been able to hit one or two Running Lizards.

"No, the teacher who taught me swordsmanship isn't a Mage. He's a famous Swordsman."

Darkness still respects her teacher quite a bit. She immediately refuted Aqua's malicious speculation.

"Then how do you explain not hitting a single monster with any of your sword strikes?"

Aqua questioned.

"That's because I have a naturally poor sense of distance."

Darkness explained.

"So, you, this Crusader, actually have no offensive capability at all?"

Aqua asked.

"Hmm, I still have offensive capability. For example, when these lizards hit me, they also receive a corresponding recoil force."

Darkness was still being hit by lizards but forcibly tried to save face.

"Since that's the case, what's the meaning of taking off your own breastplate and lowering your own defense power?"

Aqua couldn't help but start retorting.

"It's because I want to be hit more thoroughly, want to be trampled more thoroughly!"

This kind of blunt truth, Darkness found somewhat hard to say out loud.

"Forget it, I'll have Broly deal with this group of Running Lizards."

Aqua sighed; having interacted for several days now, she could also tell this guy's masochist tendency.

"No, I'm about to finish them off, just let me handle it alone."

Hearing this, Darkness immediately pleaded.

Broly: "..."

Looked at the Aqua Master he was holding in his hand.

Aqua: "..."

Finally, after taking forty-five minutes, this Running Lizard tribe was actually worn down and collapsed by Darkness's super high tankiness.

The fallen lizards looked at Darkness, their eyes showing a look of terror, as if they were looking at some lizard demon.

After all, using the Provocation Skill to force-control them, yet not doing them any harm, merely relying on exhausting physical strength to exhaust them to death — such a guy was something this group of lizards had never seen before.

Killing a lizard doesn't go past a nod to the ground; what grudge, what resentment, could make these lizards who love running so much experience this kind of cruel death by exhaustion?

【It's over!】

Watching the Female Knight's greatsword no longer deflect, falling straight toward his own head, the Running Lizard Leader, as the head, revealed a look of relief in his eyes that was humanized.

(Chapter End)