Kite shouted as he blocked the charging demons with his shield, creating a path, while Hazen, using his summoned creature, and Mitchell, wielding his sword, supported the effort.
“Oops, Ruela. Be careful. I’m casting a defensive shield.”
Since they were only blocking without killing, the demons kept pushing forward. At times, the demons even broke through the wall formed by their comrades and rushed towards Ruela.
“Don’t worry too much about this.”
Ruela swiftly escaped through the opening and struck the charging demons with her staff.
“Well, it doesn’t seem like you can confidently say that it’s enough. You can’t even land a little hit.”
Seeing a demon hit by Ruela and acting unaffected, Raphael pushed the demon outside while sticking out his tongue.
“Click and take a good look. It lost a quarter of its health.”
Ruela retorted, and Raphael quickly agreed, wagging his tail.
“Oh, really. Have you become much stronger than before, Ruela? You don’t need to worry so much.”
As the two chatted, Kite turned around, warning them.
“Don’t let your guard down. It might be fine against one, but it’s dangerous when multiple attack at once.”
No sooner had Kite finished speaking than the party’s health bars in the interface noticeably decreased.
Checking the map, they were still halfway to the point where they expected to encounter the gatekeeper.
After a moment of contemplation, Ruela spoke.
“I’ll provide party healing and use the defensive shield. After that, let’s just run straight to the destination without doing anything else.”
Kite opened the map, marked the destination, and said, “Alright, let’s do that. Tien, once you slow down the demons with movement speed debuffs, Ruela will cast party healing and the defensive shield. Then we run immediately. Got it?”
“Understood. I’ll get ready to run.”
Following Hazen’s words, everyone responded loudly in agreement, and Tien shouted, “Debuffing now. Ruela, get ready for healing.”
As Tien cast the spell, Ruela’s area-of-effect heal spread to everyone.
“Let’s go!”
With everyone’s health bars filled, Ruela shouted while casting the defensive shield.
Listening to the grumbling sounds of the demons as background noise, they all began to run.
“This way. There are not many demons here.”
At Mitchell’s shout, the party slightly adjusted their direction and continued running.
“10 seconds left. Drink the movement speed increase potion.”
Following Kite’s instructions, everyone clicked on the speed increase potion from their inventory.
The running speed of everyone increased. However, just when they saw a familiar open space in the distance, the defensive shield was suddenly dispelled.
“Oh…”
Ruela panicked as she saw the demons rushing toward her in an instant.
Despite the efforts of her comrades to block and protect her, the attention focused on Ruela due to healing and the defensive shield was not easily diverted. The demons relentlessly charged towards her.
Squelch, squelch.
As they passed through the swarming demons, Ruela’s health started to drop rapidly. She tried hard to sustain herself by using Swift Heal on herself, but the healing amount couldn’t keep up with the speed at which her health was depleting. In the midst of her fear, when Ruela was repeatedly using healing skills, Kite swiftly lifted her up, turned around, shielded the demons, and took a step back, concealing her behind him.
After hiding Ruela behind him, Kite successfully diverted the attention of the demons by using all of his aggro skills.
“Kite, just a little more! We’re almost at the boundary.”
Hazen, blocking the demons charging from the other side with his summoned creature, shouted.
“Ruela, don’t heal. It’s okay.”
Kite, continuously using potions from his inventory, spoke.
As Kite’s health dropped dangerously to about one-third, Ruela felt as if her own heart was sinking to the ground. No matter how low-level the demons were, facing such a large horde, even a high-level warrior couldn’t endure.
As the boundary line approached a few steps closer, Tien ran with her, pulling Ruela along. Even while being led by him, Ruela couldn’t help but look back.
“Kite-nim, we’ve arrived in the safe zone.”
At Tien’s announcement, Kite turned his head to confirm their position. Then, raising his sword and shield high, he crossed them.
It seemed like he was about to use a skill that momentarily increased his defense.
A red smoke rose from his body.
Kite knocked away the demons with his shield and then rushed toward them.
The demons that were jammed up at the invisible boundary suddenly didn’t chase after them and wriggled as they crowded together.
Now that they felt safe, everyone sat down and sighed.
“Phew, that was really terrifying. Avoiding the gaze of the overseer is so difficult. Let’s replenish our health first.”
Ruela handed potions she had prepared in the carriage to her comrades.
“I think I should go gather herbs soon. There’s still some left, but at this rate, we’ll run out quickly.”
Kite nodded in agreement, saying, “We should start preparing for war soon.”
“Preparing for war?”
Male lead is a Divorced Husband
She said to him: “Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change it!”
Liu Changning transmigrated into a female cannon fodder character in a female-dominant novel.
After reading the first half of the novel’s plot, the first thing she did upon transmigration was to divorce the Pan Jinlian-style male protagonist she had just married.
She indulged herself, pretending to be ugly and poor.
But as time passed, the way that man looked at her became more and more unusual…
Liu Changning was dumbfounded: Tell me, what makes you like me? I’ll change!
――
This lifetime, Pei Yuanshao was rejected by the same woman twice!
The first time, she drove him away. Forced by the situation, he endured the waves of anger in his heart, yielding and humbling himself.
That person lay slanted on a rocking chair, her sallow face emotionless: “If you don’t want a divorce, go cook!”
Pei Yuanshao’s face was dark and gloomy: “You!”
The second time, after the crisis in Jinling City was resolved, the new emperor sent someone to pick him up. He turned around, stammering: “I… I have to go. If you keep me…”
That person lay on the kang bed, her back to him, as if she had long anticipated this day, crisp and clear: “Goodbye!”
Pei Yuanshao was so angry his fingers trembled: “You… you!”
The mission of family and country made him restrain himself, averting his eyes and turning to leave this broken household.
Two years later, they met again. Seeing her ethereal face, his body shook like a sieve.
“She was originally a ‘she’!”
At the Qionglin Banquet, the top scholar of the imperial examination, a talented person with exceptional speech and conduct, all the unmarried young gentlemen from aristocratic families looked at her with shy and timid eyes.
The peerless imperial official Pei Yuanshao felt the anger in his heart erupt. He pointed at the woman surrounded by the crowd at the Qionglin Banquet, his thin lips slightly curled: “Little sister, I wants that person to be the wife-master of my Mingde Prince Manor.”
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