Seeing that most of his sacrificial pawns were reduced to that degree, he needed to quickly escape and tell this to his master.

He locked eyes with one of the mages, who seems to know what she needs to do once the plan fails. And they clearly knew what to do now that the tables are turned and they are cornered.

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"What are you doing? Attack them!!"

He yelled to the other three mages… They immediately attacked without concern to themselves. While doing so, the leader of the mages which Evelyn and Chrisfold haven't seen has a scroll in his hand that he was hiding at his back.

Evelyn doubted the leader of the mages action and his last resort.

'He can't be thinking that going all out even if it means they will go down with us will be their last plea?!'

Evelyn's brain was working and was trying to figure out what the mage was thinking.

"Chris… he's trying to escape!"

Evelyn yelled as she sensed and saw that only the three mages were attacking them.

"Shit!"

Chrisfold can't help but curse. He was defending while advancing his attack and casting magic at the same time.

His swift moves to avoid the fire shooting and blasting from the enemy have made the attackers panicked.

Chrisfold heard how maniac the laugh that the leader of the mages let out.

"Ha-hahaha! You think you can win?! I'll take this meeting of ours as a proclamation of becoming an enemy… I'll definitely take revenge for this…"

"Oh no you dont!"

"Then… catch me if you can…!"

Chrisfold quickly casted multiple spells while he ran to them with swift movement. If he can't catch him, he thought that at least he can gravely injure him.

"Ugh!"

She heard Evelyn groan… her mana is depleting as time passes by, he was using multiple spells at the same time, Evelyn was making sure that she would save her father and his Light Legion Army.

A light shines brightly from the leader's mage feet and devouring his whole body.

Chirsfold who was a few feet away from the leader was blinded by the bright light that shone splendidly that the surrounding was painted in light.

He remembered Evelyn's stern task.

'Persist! We need to know who was behind this, or what is their planning. If we can't take him down, then beat him to death!'

As a last result, Chrisfold threw a long spear that was made from his earth magic before the light that came from the teleportation scroll vanished. They heard a moan from the other side.

"Ack! Ugh!"

"Tsk!"

Chrisfold clicked his tongue and Evelyn stopped casting protective spells for the knights at the back, where the attack of the mages can't reach.

Evelyn took the opportunity to attack the remaining three with her long range attack and casted an ice attribute spell.

Multiple ice spears formed from nowhere. It rained down to the mages…

"Cast a barrier…!" one of the mages that was abandoned and helped the leader to escape yelled.

However, the fatigue and lack of mana was evident to the level of the barrier that the mages can cast.

One ice spear was enough to penetrate their barrier and the blue cape was torn.

"Ugh!"

"We don't have enough mana…"

"I'll activate mana explosion…"

Panicked overwhelmed them as the superior that they thought would lead them had abandoned them and fled.

Evelyn didn't wait for them and showered them with ice spears with different sizes.

The mages with no mana left were left to fend off for themselves and ran with all their might, however, Evelyn has already locked them as the target.

Whoosh!

Chuck!

"Ack!"

"Ugh!"

The battle was over with the mages that were left behind died by Evelyn's attack. Chrisfold came over with a person that was drag like a rag.

He snatched the female mage who helped the leader of the mages to escape before Evelyn can also kill her like a skewered meat.

Amidst the chaos and the sudden turn of events, Rolf who was the second-in-command in the Light Legion gathered his knights and started to instruct the things that they needed to do.

As a second-in-command, he needed to ensure that their troops would come back to their land and homes even if it meant that some of them would go back inside a box.

Rolf was still in panic as their General was unconscious and was injured.

"Bring the medicinal kit…!"

Evelyn slowly came to their side after they subdued the female mage and tied her in a tree without her consciousness.

Feeling the presence from behind, Rolf and the knights turn their heads. They saw the woman dressed in black from head to toe. And the black cape that was full of holes, blood and sweat.

"Who are you?"

Hostility was the first to welcome Evelyn in the Light Legion Army. It was a normal reaction given that they almost were wiped up by the ambush of a formidable force.

"Someone that is on your side." Evelyn confidently said.

"Do you think I'll believe someone like you, dressed in some suspicious way?!" Rolf looked at her from head to toe, seeing her look that was suitable for an assassin or an adventurer was making him doubt her.

"Then, trust what you see earlier."

Rolf remembered the desperation in her eyes when she was trying to save everyone in the troop and the Duke from the overpowered lightning spell of the enemy.

Her chestnut eyes that exude a strong will was enough for Rolf to think of them as the benefactor of their lives.

Still, her mask that was covering her lower half of the face and that cat-like eyes was the only thing that they could see up close. He stood straight up and tried to bow as to show his sincerity for saving them but Evelyn put it to a stop by putting her hand up.

"Don't mind me… Just tend the injuries of his grace."

Rold didn't answer as he saw the unknown dread in her eyes. Rolf turned away and kneeled beside the Duke and put a medicinal ointment for the small injury.

However, the Duke's back was slashed and also burned, it came from the dirty sneaked attack of an assassin and that leader of the mage. Evelyn saw her father writhed in pain. She clenched her fist and tried to calm down her trembling nerves.

"Do you have a doctor with you?"

"No, this was supposed to be a small trip and only a small portion of the Light Legion accompanied his grace as he was in a hurry to the Academy."

'Academy?' Evelyn thought and looked back to the Chrisfold who was guarding the female mage that was tied in a tree.

Another groan was heard from her father that made Evelyn wake up from the things that she was thinking.

"We need to do something about his injury first…"

"Yes…"

"Do you have a teleportation scroll?"

Evelyn stood there and let the knights do their work while she folded her arms to her chest. She needed to stop her trembling hands and this was her way of doing it.

She then heard Rolf answer.

"We have a teleportation scroll only for two people."

Evelyn brushed her face in frustration. She wanted to ask why her father didn't use it however, thinking about her father who prioritized honor and his army, there are zero chances that he would use it for himself and abandoned his knights knowing that the enemy was prepared to kill all of them.

She tore her cape and gave it to Rolf, the second-in-command knight. She stopped her sigh from escaping.

Even though he is her father, and even though they aren't close, he was still the person who loved her mother and tried to rescue her from the enemy.

That was enough reason to not let him die in vain.

"Wrap this around him, we should stop the bleeding first."

Rolf nodded and Evelyn said another thing. "You should go with the Duke and use the teleportation magic."

"That was the plan but…"

Evelyn understood what he was worrying about. The troops that were injured and the knight that will be left behind in the Deheldi forest with strong monsters, and the journey that can take two days for them to get out and reach the nearby town was something that was really worrisome for the knight in charge of commanding.

Rolf turned his head and saw her silhouette under the sun's light.

"Then we should get the help from the Academy. We can't let the others be stuck here."

Evelyn turned to Chrisfold and he nodded. And he quickly vanished from his spot. Rolf saw this and turned his eyes to her.

"Don't worry, he's someone that has retired from the Academy. He will definitely get the help that you need."

Seeing that the Duke becomes stable and his breathing even, Evelyn can't help but sigh in relief.

"Haaaa"