“You two oldies, we need you two to cover us. Most of us are ranged-based so we can’t distract them,” a young woman told the two in front of her. One was a middle-aged lizard and another was a man with a slime on his head.

“I’ll block his attacks, you two injure his legs!” a man carrying a two-foot shield stood in front with a small axe in his other hand.

Seeing how the man was planning to shield himself from the tall goblin creature’s attack Yuu couldn’t help but warn him, “Don’t block the weapon’s attack directly, it might pierce through your shield.”

Even though Yuu was a mere stranger, the man nodded after hearing his words. Luckily, the creature that was charging at them did not plan to use its large sword, instead, it was going to attack with its empty right hand. Like the other creature Yuu met, the arm that didn’t have the weapon was absurdly huge.

“Gah!” It roared. Coming closer to the man with the shield it slammed its arm down like it didn’t feel any pain or resistance after slamming its arm on it.

The person who was tanking the attack suddenly started to tense up, his foot sunk into the ground while using both hands to push back. While it seems like he could take some more attacks it certainly looked like it drained him.

Not letting any time go to waste, Yuu quickly ran towards the creature and swung the scythe into its bony legs, using it like a pickaxe to dig deep.

Even though it didn’t go in deeply, it caused the creature to stagger slightly, most likely feeling it go past its skin ever so slightly. Though it didn’t take long before it staggered once more as it looked down and saw a spear attacking the same area, causing red yet slightly yellow blood to drip.

Not letting it become a target practice the creature raised its right arm before slamming it towards Jqonle.

Though it didn’t come in contact with any flesh, instead, it felt cold metal touching him. The man with the shield had already gotten close to Jqonle, protecting him from the attack. Though this didn’t stop the creature from using his other hand, the one wielding the sword.

However, it wasn’t just the sword that was about to be swung, the other arm had also risen, preparing to attack him from above while the sword was going to slice him from a horizontal axis. There was no way he could defend from both.

“Gah!” Before it could even attack, flame suddenly appeared on its head, burning off whatever bits of hair remained on it. But the flame wasn’t from those who were preparing their attacks or keeping the enemy nearby at bay, no, the creature was extinguishing the flame while looking at a man with a slime on its head.

Having seen how effective the molotov was to at least deal a small bit of damage and cause the giant to waver, Yuu decided to make more for the battle.

“Distract it for a bit more, my array is almost finished!” a girl hanging in the back yelled.

“Hey dude, I might need you to throw one of those. I don’t think I can withstand multiple attacks,” the man wielding the shield said, wiping off the sweat on his forehead.

Nodding, Yuu grabbed another from Leah, preparing to throw. After seeing how this creature was ruthless and didn’t care for whether it would get attacked, it definitely would not hesitate to attack wildly.

Unlike the previous creature that used magic, this one simply put out the flames with its bare hands. Hopefully, it didn’t have any magic at all, only relying on physical attacks; this was what the group thought.

Staring at the creature, he could see it huffing in anger, standing still, not making a rash move. But even so, the creature’s mind was nothing but a wild beast.

This was further shown by its reaction to words being thrown at it. “Hey, fat ugly green twig! Come if you dare, you brat!” The man with the shield yelled.

The others looked at him with a weird look. What he said was certainly an insult, but it wasn’t a good one.

Nevertheless, the creature grunted before deciding to make a move by charging at them.

Instead of using its arm, it prepared its sword, most likely preparing to thrust it. But as soon as it did, the shielded man dropped guarding and immediately dodged to the right. Just barely dodging, parts of his hair were sliced off while the edge of the shield was actually bent.

Seeing that it raised its arm, Yuu ignited the molotov and threw it at the creature. While the man could defend against the arm, the sword was an entirely different subject. It was possible for the creature to just continue attacking with the sword otherwise.

Yet while the molotov flew through the sky, the creature didn’t even bother looking at it at all before pulling back its sword and slicing it in the air with a crazy accuracy.

After slicing the molotov, it slammed its arm down, causing the shielded man to be unable to run before aiming its sword towards the shielded man.

Yuu panicked as he realized how much he both underestimated the creature and how much he screwed up. While he did have a shield that he could use, it was wooden, being unable to last against either the hand or sword, and he was simply not close enough.

“Gah!” it roared as it felt something tug its leg. A chain made out of dirt gripped its leg, causing it to stumble as it did not expect it at all. While not strong as the creature just broke it with the stuck leg, it gave the man who was being pummeled with attacks to back away slightly.

Looking behind the shielded man, it saw a man with sweat dripping down his face staring at it.

“Crap! It gots its eyes on the magicians!” Yuu thought as he ran closer to them.

While he, Jqonle, and the shielded man were distracting the creature there were three magicians behind who were dealing with other things. One was casting an array, another was supporting the one casting the array, and the last one was ensuring that no enemy came near them.

It was the latter that distracted the creature, but in turn, attracted the attention to them.

“How much longer?” The man who had angered the creature asked a girl next to him.

“Almost!” She said aggressively as sweat dripped down her face.

Trying to distract the creature until the three close-combat adventurers arrived, the man began whispering words, causing the ground to peek out the

ground.

Even though it wasn’t much, the creature stumbled a few times, having to get back up before charging again and again.

This was enough time for the three to catch up with Yuu deciding to go first. He tossed his scythe into the air and grabbed two knives from above.

With the creature distracted he was able to successfully climb onto its back and stabbed its lower back, causing a bit of blood to appear.

While the creature wasn’t built like a tank, it certainly had strong flesh as the knife would only go an inch deep before he had to roughly pull the knife out.

Feeling the pain, it swept its hand around while turning and tossing, trying to off-balance Yuu.

With not much to grab onto other than two knives being sort of stuck into its back, Yuu kept flailing, feeling his arms slowly hurt as he kept slamming onto its back and his head started to hurt from the dizziness that prevailed.

“Falling Mountain!” the shielded man yelled as he jumped up while holding his shield. The shield lit up with a bright light before slamming down on the waist, causing it to roar with pain.

“Die you ugly beast!” Joining in on the attack, Jqonle stabbed it in the leg, causing it to get on a knee.

However, just as the three were to attack it repeatedly, it shot out a roar even louder than before, causing some of the people nearby fighting to stop and take a quick look at what was going on.

Dealing with the annoyance in front of it, it slammed against the shielded man with its arm. But despite his repeated success at keeping it at bay he was blown away, pushing a couple of feet back from where he originally was.

Despite him being thrown, he could be the person with the weakest injury as it attacked Jqonle. But, instead with its strong arm, it instead decided to use the other.

“Jqonle! Run!” Yuu shouted as he saw the creature lift its arm up.

Seeing it preparing to attack, the lizard man immediately sprinted, trying to get out of its range. Despite his effort to be safe, it still was not enough.

As if time slowed down, Yuu could see the sword in the creature’s hand slowly leave its hand. The tip being pointed towards one direction.

Flying through the air, it did not take much time for blood splattered. His heart clenched, both of his hands turned bright red as it gripped the knives with force. The sight that he saw was truly not a pleasant one.

Seeing it, he immediately screamed, “Jqonle!”