“It sounds like a good plan. Ruela should concentrate on healing or providing shields to us. If it gets too dangerous, you can use teleportation.”
When everyone agreed with Mitchell’s proposal, Ruela hesitated for a moment and then handed the bomb she was holding to Tien.
Even with a speed buff, it would be better for someone in a different direction to detonate the bomb. However, what Mitchell said wasn’t wrong. Because she could be so focused on timing the bomb detonations, she might overlook other important things. So, it seemed better for her to concentrate on healing or other tasks.
When Maria’s mansion came into view in the distance, Ruela checked the teleport cooldown. With about 15 minutes remaining, she felt uneasy, but waiting continuously until the cooldown expired was impractical, given Maria’s steadily increasing health.
“The teleport cooldown has about 15 minutes left. If it seems dangerous, you should detonate the bombs as much as possible and escape. Drink a speed-increasing potion along with the movement buff and place the bombs on the ground. Try to run as far as possible from that spot. Maria may immediately launch a magical attack towards that location.”
Everyone nodded with determined expressions, readying themselves for battle once again.
“Bringing Goldie along was a really good decision. It’s unfortunate that we couldn’t receive the health increase effect, but carrying Goldie and attacking would undoubtedly have been too challenging.”
Ruela quickly nodded in agreement with Tien’s words.
Although she had hesitated earlier, wondering if there would be a place to hide him in Maria’s mansion, bringing Goldie turned out to be a wise decision.
“I see the mansion.”
Hazen’s words heightened the tension inside the car.
As everyone took a deep breath, focusing only on the approaching mansion, a mysterious noise, unlike anything before, shattered the quiet atmosphere.
“What’s that sound? It’s like a human scream and also like the howl of a beast… What? It sounds like something collapsing.”
In contrast to the previously quiet street, an inexplicable noise reached them, breaking the silence.
Ruela quickly rolled down the window, leaning out to listen.
“It’s not from Maria’s mansion, is it? It seems to be coming from the opposite side of the lake.”
Hazen turned the steering wheel in the direction of the sound, racing towards the source of the noise. As they approached, the clamor and screams grew louder.
“Huh? Look over there. There’s a fire. People are rushing out, but it doesn’t seem like a simple fire… It’s Maria!”
Tien shouted through the front window, looking at the burning mansion.
“Maria came out. She’s attacking people and houses recklessly!”
Kite also observed outside and said, “Is she coming out to find us? My health has recovered up to 6%. It’s slower than I thought, luckily. Fighting here might cause significant damage to nearby homes. This is bad.”
“Is there any way to lure her back into the mansion?”
Mitchell asked, but Ruela disagreed.
“That’s too risky. Right now, we have to give it our all in the fight, whether we win or lose. Above all, I came forward to protect others, and I don’t want to harm my comrades.”
In response to her resolute answer, Kite, after a moment of contemplation, spoke.
“Ruela is right. It might backfire if we try to move and end up being attacked. However, we can’t completely ignore the citizens either. Let’s lead Maria only up to the park near the lake behind us. That way, the damage to the village will be less, and people can escape easily.”
Although it was a sobering statement, it wasn’t the time to debate conscience, guilt, or morality.
“I’ll shoot arrows from the carriage. If it looks like Maria has spotted us, Hazen, move the carriage to the park.”
It was merely struggling to survive and making efforts to protect precious people.
As Maria’s figure appeared in front, Hazen replied, stopping the carriage.
“Got it. I’ll start moving as soon as you give the signal.”
Before initiating the battle, Kite unfolded the map, marked the directions for Hazen, Tien, and himself, and quickly explained.
“When we reach the park, the three of us will take positions like this. Start attacking when my bomb explodes. Ruela, follow Mitchell and Raphael, and don’t hesitate to use potions if anyone gets hurt. Mitchell, initiate the attack!”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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