Chapter 140: Lucky Lizard

Darkness's slow, dragging way of dealing with the Running Lizards made Aqua very dissatisfied; according to Aqua, with her Blessing present, any random veteran Adventurer, even if not an Advanced Class, could take out a herd of running giant lizards faster than Darkness.

"Please, give me another chance to perform!"

Darkness was desperate to be rammed again; her clothes tattered from being trampled by a herd of Running Lizards, she hugged Aqua's leg, hoping this High Priest would heal her.

"Really? You can perform even better than just now?"

Aqua looked suspiciously at the ground, at the Knight girl hugging her leg and not letting go, and asked.

"Of course, as long as I don't use a sword, there's no problem; my Body Technique is quite powerful."

Aqua originally didn't want to agree to Darkness, but after trying to struggle free of Darkness's entanglement to no avail, she acknowledged Darkness's claim about her Body Technique being powerful.

At least, in the situation of pestering desperately for a chance to perform, this Crusader girl did indeed display considerable ground grappling ability.

It's just a pity that, with her M Attribute defective personality acting up, Darkness ultimately went from the advantage of luring new monsters and dealing with a new herd of Running Lizards, to the disadvantage.

"Broly, deal with them."

Aqua ordered; a herd of lured Running Lizards, in less than ten seconds, followed in the footsteps of the previous batch that had already bid farewell to this world, heads bursting one by one as they fell.

"Die, watch me strangle... ugh~"

Darkness forcefully wrapped her arms around a Running Lizard's neck; she clearly had the strength to directly strangle its neck, but in order to draw the surrounding lizards' attacks as they tried to rescue their Leader, she deliberately did not quickly resolve the struggle.

Until Broly acted, Darkness was somewhat stunned by the fact that the surrounding Running Lizards were instantly killed by the boy.

"Do you need me to help you deal with it?"

Broly pointed at the giant lizard in Darkness's arms and asked.

Running Lizard: "..."

At this moment it recalled the slaughterer who had appeared on the plains many days ago, specifically targeting their neighbors, the Giant Frog clan.

At that time, since it had nothing to do with them Running Lizards, they stayed far away; after discovering a wave of thick blood scent drifting from the Giant Frog territory, they just took a long detour to avoid it.

Unexpectedly, after many days, the vanished slaughterer appeared again, and this time the target seemed not to be Giant Frogs, but them Running Lizards.

What a pity; back then not a single lizard stood up to speak for the Giant Frogs, and this time no other Magic Beast came to help them either.

"Broly, can I keep it?"

However, to the Running Lizard's surprise, the Female Knight who had struggled with it for so long spoke up for it at this moment.

"I want to train my combat technique a bit more."

This was a somewhat lame reason, but Broly believed it.

"As I said, you should just deal with the monsters that need to be subjugated."

Aqua complained dissatisfiedly, casually Purifying the large amount of Mana Factors prone to spawning Undead generated by so many lives dying in the same place.

Truly an operation that scattered even the grievances of the solved Running Lizards, making the still-living Running Lizards watching feel a bit afraid.

Broly and Aqua's Master-Disciple combo is a professional team providing a one-stop funeral service for monster deaths.

Not a single monster can escape the Saiyan's hunt on the plains, and not a single monster's grievance can escape the purification of Goddess Aqua's enhanced Purification Divine Art.

Even the corpses left at the end, unless they're the inedible kind, will all be carried back by Broly to eat the meat to the fullest, not wasting a single bit.

But today an exception appeared; Broly let go of the giant lizard Darkness was protecting, and after letting Darkness go play with the giant lizard in her arms off to the side, the commission to clear Running Lizards was formally begun to be executed.

With Aqua's single Monster Attracting Fireworks opening the team, all monsters within a one-kilometer radius that could see the Mana-carrying Monster Attracting Fireworks swarmed toward this direction.

Broly didn't stand on ceremony; after a huge herd of monsters came over, regardless of whether they were Running Lizards, it was one hammer per monster, two hammers for a pair, brushing the swarming monsters with super high speed efficiency.

Compared to Darkness's sluggishness when dealing with a herd of lizards, Broly is a slaughter machine with clean, neat methods of solving monsters; very quickly the monster corpses on that side piled up, turning from a small corpse pile into a small corpse hill.

....... Before one knew it, time had come to Dusk.

"Xiao Ga, after leaving here, don't go near human Cities; there are many Adventurers near human Cities, it's a dangerous place; you should go to the uninhabited Plains from now on, that's where you Running Lizards' Home is."

Darkness had tears in her eyes; under the Dusk, she bid farewell to the giant lizard she had sparred with for a day.

"Gya gya gya~"

The giant lizard seemed to also sense the kindness of this Crusader Female Knight; after running far away it let out a string of gya gya gya cries toward her, as if thanking Darkness for letting it escape the slaughterer's claws.

Look at that corpse pile's shadow stretched long by the Sunset light over there, and smell the thick blood scent around; the slaughterer has killed the attracted monsters around to the point where even the Monster Attracting Skill can't lure new monsters anymore.

For it to survive, how Lucky is that? It's just that as a monster it can't be favored by a Goddess; otherwise the Running Lizards might all think they were favored by the Goddess of Luck.

"Xiao Ga, I'll miss you, miss your kicks, miss your rams, miss your tail sweeps... ugh~"

Darkness's words cut off abruptly; the Running Lizard running far away under the Sunset light was suddenly grabbed by a Bird Magic Beast falling from the sky.

Broly could clearly see from here that the Bird Magic Beast's claws easily pierced through the Running Lizard's body.

This dangerous Bird Magic Beast was attracted by the blood scent, but didn't dare approach Broly's hunting zone, because the same kind that dared go over had already been casually dealt with by him.

It just lingered around, and only struck rapidly when it discovered weak Prey coming out, then quickly fled far away.

"Ah, this is nature's cruelty, please accept my condolences~"

The sudden twist nearly made Aqua laugh out loud, but this Goddess held it in, put on a straight face, patted Darkness's shoulder, and offered a word of comfort.

"Waaah, my Xiao Ga~"

Darkness was truly heartbroken; the Running Lizard that had accompanied her for a day and done grappling training with her had just suffered the Bird Magic Beast's poisonous hands like that.

"Whoosh~"

As the words fell, Broly beside her lost his trace.

The next moment, the Bird Magic Beast flying far away had its neck twisted off.

Broly brought them back, bird and lizard together.

"This lizard isn't dead yet, Aqua Master, could you please help heal it?"

Broly requested.

"Why should I cast Healing on a monster?"

Aqua complained, but still somewhat spoiled her own Disciple, casting Healing on the dying Running Lizard.

"Darkness, you don't need to be sad anymore; with Aqua Master here, the lizard you named won't die easily."

Watching helplessly as the dying lizard was pulled back from the brink of death by a plain and unadorned Healing, Darkness seemed to realize in that moment the true weight of her and this kid Broly becoming friends.

That is truly acting when one should act; Broly's Combat Power is incomparably formidable, and at the same time he has an Assist big-daddy Master backing him up.

"Broly, Aqua, thank you～"

Darkness sincerely thanked them.

"We're all family, what thanks or no thanks talk."

Aqua became somewhat Embarrassed; just now she had still been feeling a bit of Schadenfreude, wanting to watch this Disciple wife's show.

"Mhm, all family."

Broly nodded at the Side in agreement with Aqua's words; Aqua Master and Darkness are both wives, calling it family has not a bit of flaw.

(Chapter End)