Luella climbed into the carriage, and simultaneously they left the Tien habitat.

Now all they needed was for Mitchel to arrive. They watched with tense expressions as Mitchel rushed toward them.

Mitchel’s speed had drastically dropped while he dodged the attacks from the monster Vincenti, even though he seemed not far from them.

Luella, in deep thought, turned to Hazen and Raphael, who were sitting on the coachman’s seat.

“Do you have an attack that can divert the monster’s attention?”

“Let’s send out a summon.”

As Hazen finished speaking, a summon resembling a stone robot, about 2 meters tall, appeared and dashed toward Mitchel.

Raphael also cast a range magic and said,

“I’ll try to draw its attention as much as I can. Tien, give Mitchel a speed-increasing buff. Judging by his slow pace, it seems the monster has used some kind of trick.”

Luella quickly checked the party window. Just as Raphael had said, a speed-reducing debuff was active on Mitchel’s status.

If her level had been just a bit higher, she could have removed it, but she was powerless at her current level.

Tien selected Mitchel in the party window and gave him a speed-increasing buff. However, it was ineffective, perhaps because the monster’s debuff skill level was higher than Tien’s speed-increasing buff.

Vincenti, who had magically immobilized Mitchel, muttered something and then spewed fire magic.

A massive blaze engulfed Mitchel.

“Ah!”

At Mitchel’s scream, they had no choice but to leap onto the scorched earth.

“Luella, don’t come in.”

After telling Luella to stay away, Hazen dashed toward Mitchel.

However, how could she just wait when she was a healer and the raid was ending?

“Shuna, what’s your name?”

“My name? It’s Shuna.”

“No, tell me your full name.”

“Ah, it’s Shuna Barieni.”

Luella quickly invited Shuna to the party. Shuna looked startled when the window popped up.

“Mistress, what is this?”

“Just press ‘Yes.'”

Confused, Shuna nonetheless did as instructed and gestured in the air.

Seeing that Shuna had joined the party, Luella moved further into the habitat and said,

“Stay right here and don’t move. Got it?”

“Yes, Mistress, don’t worry.”

She looked back as she rushed forward and saw that Shuna had already moved to the coachman’s seat, grabbing the reins and calming the startled horses.

However, when the horses did not seem to calm down, Shuna tore her petticoat and wrapped pieces around their eyes and ears. Having confirmed that, Luella trusted Shuna and sprinted.

Chasing after Hazen, the moment Mitchel came into her sight, she sent her highest-level healing skill toward Mitchel and yelled,

“Stop right here! Just a little more and I can use the return magic!”

Her teleportation range was small because she was still level one.

This was why she needed to level up quickly. It was frustrating to realize her limitations when in a hurry.

Then, Vincenti’s attention shifted momentarily toward Hazen’s summon. Luella seized the opportunity and shouted desperately,

“Mitchel! Over here, quick!”

The summon kept pounding Vincenti with its huge fists, but Vincenti soon refocused on Mitchel and unleashed a gust of wind.

“Ah!”

Mitchel was swept up into the air, his legs tied together.

Vincenti bent his violin like a bow and began firing arrows at him.

Raphael, seeing Mitchel riddled with arrows like a porcupine, sent a firestorm attack.

Just as Vincenti was about to focus on Raphael, Hazen’s summon collided with its body and continued to attack Vincenti with its fists.
Vincenti’s head turned back to the summon as a critical hit landed, and the whirlwind enveloping Mitchel disappeared.

“Now, run!”

But Mitchel, who had fallen to the ground, struggled to get up due to pain.

Luella, seeing Tien and Raphael rushing towards Mitchel, drained all her remaining mana to send a heal to Mitchel.

Fortunately, Mitchel started walking quickly with the help of Tien and Raphael, seeming a bit better due to the healing skill.

As the three came within her range, Luella shouted to Hazen.

“Hazen, come back now!”

Hazen, who was retreating while directing his summon, turned back to see Vincenti’s attention shift to Luella, Tien, Mitchel, and Raphael.

Luckily, Raphael quickly invoked a storm-range magic, blocking Vincenti’s view of them.

In that moment, Hazen entered her range and Luella quickly activated a return spell after confirming the distance to their base with Shuna.

“My goodness, even the carriage has been transported.”

Moments later, they stood in the hall of the familiar Ferros mansion.

The problem was not just them; two restless horses and a carriage had also come in.

Shuna, who had been in the carriage, looked around bewildered.

“It’s magic. We moved like a dragon crossing through space-time.”

As Shuna excitedly uttered exclamations, a distracted voice came from behind.

“What, what is this…”

It seems today’s house servant was Pano, Mitchel’s attendant.

Pano, who was coming out from the reception room, stared blankly at the suddenly appeared carriage.

He looked alternately at them and the carriage, clearly losing his focus. Luella called to such a Pano.

“Pano, Mitchel is injured. Can you bring some blue herbs from the medicine room?”

Pano, surprised by Luella’s words, rushed to examine Mitchel.

“Are you severely injured?”

“It’s fine. Just got hit by a few arrows. Bring the blue herbs as Luella said.”

As Pano headed to the medicine room, Hazen and Raphael helped Mitchel towards the reception room. Luella followed them and made a request to Tien.

“Tien, could you please go to the kitchen and bring some hot water? Take Shuna with you and introduce her.”

Tien nodded and headed to the kitchen with Shuna. After confirming this, Luella entered the reception room and placed the herbs that Pano brought into a bag. She then began to create a new burn-healing potion.

“Pano, also bring some yellow Chacha flowers and green stem grass.”

She had read that Chacha flowers and stem grass made a tea that was good for inflammation and recovery.

Fortunately, that tea was on their list of recipes, so Luella quickly made it with the hot water Tien brought and placed it in front of Mitchel. Then she poured the burn-healing potion over his wound and offered him a pain-relieving potion.

“This will ease the pain. Drink the potion and the tea.”

Mitchel obediently drank both. Then he soon relaxed his grimacing face and smiled.

“It doesn’t hurt anymore after drinking.”

After drinking a mana recovery potion, Luella nodded as she sent another heal.

“Since you’ve also got a heal, your wound will heal much faster. It’s really fortunate it’s just this much.”

“I was really surprised this time. I didn’t think the so-called top-tier would be so strong.”

Hazen hung his head and spoke.

“The attacks were not getting through at all. I was also unable to move; what was that?”

Mitchel then seemed to remember something and asked with a gloomy face.

“It’s binding magic. Most high-ranking Named ones have it.”

“So, they’re not just strong but can also use such magic?”
“Yes. There are those that induce paralysis and those that cause disease. It’s so diverse that I can’t explain it all in words.”

“How on earth do you know and kill them? I saw earlier that their level is 90.”

“You may find it difficult to monitor now because you’re not familiar, but once you get used to the system window, you have to continuously check the debuffs under your own status window during battle. Besides, strategies will be released soon. We have to wait for that.”

There were about three weeks left until July 30th. But seeing the Named state today, it seemed unlikely that there would be any raid teams catching the Duke of Curan on the update day.

Vincenti had demonstrated overwhelming power, and if that was the first key to capturing the Duke of Curan, more hardships were expected. At this point, there was no telling how many more monsters would need to be defeated.

The most effective way to minimize damage was to raise your level sufficiently and follow the strategies of others while watching them.