Back to the present, at this time, a pack of Pans came thickly around. One by one, they let out jangle to call on their herd and to show their prestige to the people in front of them. Thick scales rise up and sharp claws are exposed to warn the enemy that they are ready to tear whoever.
– It’s time! Activate the special function.
Duong shouts, his voice echoing like a signal to wave a battle flag. He knows only if he finds the Pan’s cave, the game is on!
The whip and sword are upgraded from the stones that emit streams of blue energy and gradually the energy flows around them. Seeing that the power of the weapon in their hands has been doubled, both Rin and Nic clench their fists, feel the power of the energy radiated, and then pour all their strength into slashing at the Pans.
But the Pans remain fearless. Rin repeatedly whips wavy in the air, aiming directly at their head and neck, making it impossible for the Pans to approach her. Nic is free to cut through the scales of the little Pans, soon the blade was wet with fresh blood, but they still clung madly, as if they had only a life goal to tear these people apart.
Many attacks accompany by energy waves, sweeping swarms of small pans splatter through the air. The team quickly fought while continuously creating a gap to go deeper into the forest.
The support from Duong’s magic stones is truly amazing. Rin and Nic’s attack power had reached a level that neither of them expected, with only a third of normal strength enough to take down dozens of Pans at once. The Pans keep falling, different from this morning’s battle. At this rate, it won’t be long before the Pan lord will have to show up.
Ari doesn’t intend to keep out of the fight, she is already anxious to test the new power of this bow. But instead of rushing into battle like the others, she takes a step back, choosing a position with enough visibility and open space. She stretches the bowstring and great energies pull out as if to tear the space around it. Aiming at the target, Ari immediately let go of her hand and the arrow tore through the air straight to the Pans within her vision.
The Pans appeared like fountains. The forest road behind them was covered with a dense black. Wherever they run, the dust covers them. The scene behind them turns to hell, with only the greedy monsters showing cruel blue eyes and bloody pointy teeth.
Boom!
A loud explosion resounded as the arrow hit the ground. The ground cracked openly. An explosion with a super strong shock kicked all rocks and almost all of the small Pans within a radius of five footsteps. The conflict was temporarily stopped. Ari sees the damage from her arrow and rolls her eyes in surprise. The young girl glanced at the pans that had just been defeated, then rolled her eyes at the bow in her hand and silently exclamatory.
However, within seconds of the previous ones falling, other small Pans rush out from the center of the cave. Duong and the others attack with force as they enter the center of their lair.
Getting deeper inside, the number of small pans becomes more and more know no bounds, looking down from above they are as populous as an ant hill rushing out into the air. They also no longer rush to attack at the same time, but quickly split up to climb the surrounding cliffs to surround everyone. The five of them are outnumbered by the Pans and gradually gather in a corner.
The place where the Pans make their nest is a closed place with lots of rock, and deep canyons in the forest, where many perennial trees and many obstacles are often chosen by them to create a safe place and easy to defend when being attacked.
Maybe after the transformation, the demonic aura from them has affected the surrounding area and harmed the growth of plants and animals around, so it seems that this is the reason why there are no living creatures around here.
When everyone is surrounded by Pans, they don’t know how to move forward, Duong discovers a gap leading the way through a cliff. Although the path is quite dangerous, the road surface is very small.But with no other choice, they could only quickly and carefully pass.
On one side is a deep mountain pit that only needs to fall to be seriously injured, on the other side is a high cliff that the Pans are also quickly heading towards. Only a short distance but the doctor did not dare to look down. He just dares to follow in the footsteps of the Duong ahead and follow.
Safely crossing the cliffs, they entered a fairly large area, where the bare of this dead land became clearer, a fairly large area appeared with only a huge old tree stump that had ever died.
One sheer-sided tree was all dried up and dead, the trunk is so big, the bark is peeling and rough, and the black mold was in clusters, fortunately, it is very suitable as a defence against the massive attacks of the Pans. At this point, the situation is all very urgent, although the Pans are small in size, they are overwhelming in number. If they counterattack like this even with the support of magic stones, it will be difficult to avoid casualties.
It does not include, the whip and the sword of the Rin and Nic sisters also consumed a lot of energy, along with that, at too close a distance, Ari’s bow and arrow would react too slowly compared to the Pan’s speed. Stay this way, how can they hold out until we find the Pan lord?
They have no time to think, when the Pans get closer to the middle of the land and gained space, they became more and more frantic trying to surround the group of people.
-We’re surrounded!
Ari whizzes, her hands still back-to-back shooting arrows, sweat was wet on both temples and her teeth were clenched together.
On the brink of death, the Pans are gathering more and more towards all, they have smelled the scent of raw meat near at hand and heard the sound of blood rolling off of their bodies in waves, which is their battle signal-the origin of the frenzied hunger.
Rin and Nic moved forward using their weapons to continue holding out, stopping the Pans to buy time. Being pushed too hard, the arrows, the swings of whips and swords are about to be unable to keep everyone safe, Ari hastily turned around and asked Duong:
– Danger!!
– What should we do, mage?
– Everybody comes up here quickly.
Responding to Ari’s question is not Duong’s answer, but the doctor’s voice coming down from above. Ari looked in the direction of the voice and saw the doctor with a chubby body who did not know when he had climbed the big tree behind them, he threw down the roots to pull everyone up.
Immediately, everyone split up to fight against the Pan’s assault while taking turns climbing the tree. Only Ari’s horse is entangled with bulky limbs, so they decide to hang him dangling with a piece of vines. The horse’s face sounded alarmed, its mouth is twisted, and its help-entreating eyes looked towards the owner.
Five men and one horse – six lives as hanging by a thread, the crazy little Pans have gathered, the danger close to the forehead, and the sharp black lumps below were constantly bobbing up and down.
The claws of a series of Pans scratch the dry tree trunks, making unpleasant sounds, like someone is grinding a wooden stick against their ears, one after another, some even step on their companions to climb up.
– There is no time
– like the present.
The doctor didn’t think much of it, so he took out the small tube that Duong had given him before. He took a deep breath and turned to the pans below to blow hard. From the tip of the tube, a burst of blue flames shot out.
The fire rushes down and blazes up furiously, engulfing the small group of Pans that are dense around the base of the tree. The sporadic ones that manage to climb to the middle of the tree received the first burst of fire, falling one after another, and those on the ground cannot help but struggle in pain.
The tall tree trunk burst into flames, creating a pillar of fire several meters high that hinders the progress of the little Pans. Although there were still countless numbers of Pans trampling their comrades through the firestorm, they were all pushed back by the much more intense fire from the doctor’s tube. They roll and writhe in the firestorm, finally turning into fuel for the fire to continue to rise, and then becoming part of the flame. After a while, when the fire is burning down, There are only the Pans lying motionless, in abundance on the ground.
Seeing the results in front of her, Ari is very appreciative, she turns to head praise the doctor:
– You got no kick coming this time.
Although he knows that it is thanks to Duong’s fire tube, he is still very happy, shyness is stamped all over their faces. Afraid that people would lose their vigilance, Duong immediately reminds the whole team:
– The fire can only paralyze them for a while. The Pan lord is still alive, I’m afraid their powers will return soon.
Hearing that, everyone doesn’t dare to go on neglecting, they look around carefully from the top of the tree branch to see if there were any Pans still alive or now.
The atmosphere around them is suddenly frighteningly quiet, a stench mixes in the wind rushing up to their faces.
Although they are high up, it is very convenient to see around, but there are places they will not be able to see. All the time since then, in the distance, hiding in the dark, there is a pair of eyes that are constantly watching everything. It has witnessed, watching its children being taken down at the hands of a bunch of strangers, it’s madly transformed!
