The Hidden Expert [C57]

While looking backward, Shu Himo frowned, "Phylia, do you too feel that someone is pursuing us?"

Waking up from her thoughts, she paid attention to her surroundings via instinct, "Yes, I believe that someone is indeed pursuing us... What should I do, Master?"

Pondering for a moment, Shu Himo nonchalantly shrugged his shoulders and continued walking, "Do not morph for any reason and just ignore it as if we did not notice, I have the feeling that the one chasing us is way stronger than us, so a fight would be hopeless."

"Okay."

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Meanwhile, around a hundred meters of distance from Shu Himo and Phylia.

'Wow, they noticed me? Not bad.' While feeling pleasantly surprised, the man continued to pursue Shu Himo.

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A couple of hours later, in a plain full of green grass.

Standing up in shock while looking toward a certain direction, Shu Himo did not show signs of moving. What he is seeing now completely froze him.

"How are these balloons?!?"

In the view of Shu Himo, there are hundreds of monsters flying in the sky, but not ordinary monsters: JellyFalls!

Now the sky could be seen full of JellyFalls, seemingly advancing toward Shu Himo.

"So it's not the kingdom that you aim, but me?" With a grim look, Shu Himo thought back at the gem, is it that precious to attract all those monsters?

"System, can you at least give me a quest to kill those JellyFalls?"

[Impossible, this Quest is not valid.]

"Huh? Why would it be not valid?"

[The User will find out quickly why.]

Clicking his tongue in frustration, Shu Himo examined the situation.

'They are all around a hundred meters of altitude, even with hopper, to fight in mid-air would be difficult...'

Taking out the violin, Shu Himo started playing, creating an Illusion Realm.

Soon, the JellyFalls found themselves inside a volcano about to erupt to melt them whole.

But, this time something went wrong.

*Tack*

The sound of something gradually breaking resounded in all the Illusion, while the world seemed full of fractures, about to break.

*Puhh*

As the Illusion Realm completely broke, Shu Himo felt the backslash and spurted out a mouthful of blood.

"Master! Are you okay?" Looking in rage toward the JellyFalls, but knowing she can't morph to fight due to the hidden expert, Phylia is worried about her Master fighting all of those monsters by himself.

"It's fine, it is nothing serious, but it seems I will have to fight mid-air."

Abruptly, one of the JellyFalls charged electricity in its tentacles and aimed at Shu Himo.

Feeling the threat, Shu Himo immediately put back the violin in the storage and used a triple stacked [Hopper], destroying the ground and jumping toward the JellyFall.

The ray of electricity ended up shooting near him, missing Shu Himo barely.

Taking out the scythe while being in mid-air, Shu Himo began spinning and once reached the same height of one JellyFall he cut it in half, killing the first one definitively.

Seeing their comrade killed, more than twenty JellyFalls abruptly charged electricity in rage and aimed at Shu Himo, who did not have any extra uses of [Hopper].

To resolve the problem, Shu Himo stepped on the carcass of the JellyFall, using it as a springboard toward a second JellyFall, dodging all the electricity attacks. As the JellyFall is already dead, the carcass is falling so it could not recharge the [Hopper] uses, this means that if Shu Himo can resist will only depend on his ability to reach the other JellyFall.

The JellyFall noticing that Shu Himo is jumping toward itself immediately moved from his trajectory, but Shu Himo used his scythe as if it was a stake, binding himself to the bell of the JellyFall.

Trying to leverage on the scythe to reach on top of the JellyFall and recharge the [Hopper] uses, Shu Himo accidentally split the JellyFall in half.

"Why is the scythe this sharp..." Lamenting on the sharpness of his own weapon, Shu Himo started falling toward the ground together with the carcass of the JellyFall.

Seeing this as a chance, the other JellyFalls charged their electricity, and suddenly Shu Himo felt aimed by over fifty attacks!

Immediately frowning at the situation, Shu Himo grabbed both parts of the now dead JellyFall and threw it to make it act as a shield.

*Frrrr*

Instantly, Shu Himo heard the sound of something frying while seeing the JellyFall melting due to the high temperature!

Startled, Shu Himo attempted to move from the area, but not having any foothold apart from the now melting JellyFall, he could not dodge!

Phylia, seeing her master in crisis silently morphed a small part of her hand in an enormous net, connecting it with her body only by a hidden point in the hand, not showing the hidden expert the fact that the net is actually a part of her body.

Throwing the net to Shu Himo, she caught him and pulled him back on the ground.

"Thank you!" After thanking Phylia for the save, Shu Himo looked again toward the JellyFalls, while showing a grim expression.

It was this hard just to kill two of them, is it possible to kill all the remaining hundreds?

While pondering how to resolve the situation, Shu Himo suddenly heard a voice from behind, "Acceptable, but you miss one important thing." The voice is from the expert who was pursuing them from behind! Now alarmed, both Shu Himo and Phylia looked warily toward the man, only to find out that it's someone they know!

Shu Himo, after recognizing the man, opened wide his eyes, looking in disbelief, "Brother?"

Ignoring the question from Shu Himo, Shu Eitha coldly pointed his hand toward the hundreds of JellyFalls.

Abruptly, the air seemed to change, and all the JellyFalls clearly terrorized started running away.