Teamwork

Arhi , Fasmel , and I are walking toward the exit gate. And this girl Arhi hugged my left hand so suddenly. Fasmel is watching from the right side.

Fasmel : "You just say, you want to marry both of us?"

Grel : "Nononono... You... misunderstood something."

Arhi loosened her huge.

Arhi : "Hmmm... You said it out loud though."

Grel : "Nonono... I said I want you two to be with me in the future, as my sword and ranger."

Arhi : "Heh... It's lying... I did not hear it like that yesterday."

Grel : "It's because you just punish me and force me to do push-ups."

Fasmel is still looking at us. She's laughing.

Fasmel : "What is this... It's interesting..."

Grel : "Where the interesting part is, my arm still feels tired because of it."

Fasmel : *Giggling. "Well, I might need to think about it first." She smiled.

... It flustered me...

Arhi : "Yes, you need to leave me alone." She just grabbed and hugged my hand again.

Arhi : "I can't give this man to you."

Fasmel : "Nevermind, I think I will follow you for a moment until this girl is tired."

Grel : "Umm... Can't we just stop talking about this?" It makes me feel awkward though.

Then we reached the exit gate.

Arhi : "Then I'll grab the horse."

Grel : "Hold on." She is just a few steps from the housekeeper and stopped. She looks at me.

Arhi : "Hm?"

Grel : "I have this shield. It weighs 120kg. The horse will collapse if I ride them."

The horse from far looked scared after seeing my shield aura. One of the horses fainted. The housekeeper is trying to calm the horse.

Fasmel : "What? 120kg?"

Grel : "Yes."

Fasmel : "It was heavier than my sword."

Arhi : "Then what should we do?"

Grel : "You can bring a horse for the two of you. I will just walk."

Arhi : "You not dashing?" She means using dashing power rather than walking.

Grel : "I can't for now. I need to save my remaining power for this training. And you should too."

The time skipped ahead. I keep walking while two of the girls ride a horse and walk beside me. Fasmel is riding the horse and Arhi is behind her, looking at the back.

Arhi : "Why are you not letting me ride the horse?" She sounds disappointed.

Fasmel : "Who will let you do that after you almost killed one horse?"

Ah... She knows about Arhi riding skills...

Arhi : "It's an accident... And it was back then."

I just feel my shield weight suddenly become heavier. The aura power is slowly depleted. It may be around 36kg now. I can still carry this.

Fasmel : "Is your aura just getting smaller?"

Grel : "Hm? Yes, I think."

Fasmel : "Is it not hard for you to carry these shields around?"

Grel : "Well, I could. I only need to cast this aura power and recast it again if it is depleted. And I just do a meditation if I want to carry it again. But this time I need to go there first, Mr. Kim is waiting for us." I stretched out my hand since it was tiring carrying the shield.

Grel : "That's why we need to hurry before my aura is depleted.

Fasmel : "Hmmm..." She paused for a moment.

Fasmel : "Even my sword is not that heavy."

Wait. About the sword. *Looking at both Fasmel and Arhi . I stopped my walk.

Grel : "Ah... You two not bringing any weapon with you?" The horse stopped their movement.

Both of them flinch for a bit.

Then Fasmel pulled the horse and went back toward the kingdom.

Fasmel : "I will go back for a moment!"

Arhi : "Oi! Slow down I'm looking at the back! Oi!" She tries her best to hold the horse saddle.

Arhi seems concerned that she fell off the ground since the horse is running and she is looking at the back.

Grel : "Ehehe... Sorry..." I did not think about it either. And we are already walking quite far from the Kingdom.

Then I decided to walk again.

Grel : "Hmmm... Since it's already almost there, I'll just walk a little bit further."

Time skipped ahead and I arrived on the open field. There was just nothing not even grass, only a road toward the Bulwark kingdom. This field was outside of the Might Kingdom forest, and the size is really big. And from afar, I see Mr. Kim standing at the edge of the cliff. He looked toward the big empty field that doesn't have a road. It was a direction toward the lava mountain. The mountain can be seen in a really small view from there. But if we get closer to it, The mountain is big like how the mountain size looks.

Then he sees me.

Kim: "Hm? So you arrived." While I keep walking toward him since the distance to the cliff is still far.

Then Mr. Kim slid off the cliff and walked toward me.

Kim: "You did not bring them with you?"

Grel : "Aaaa about that... They both will arrive sooner."

Then from afar, there's a horse running toward us.

It's Fasmel and Arhi . And now they got the weapon with them.

The horse got closer and closer, and finally, reached out to us. The horse drifted and stopped pretty fast with the dust below the horse getting splashed. Fasmel jumped off the horse and walked toward us. Arhi falls off to the ground as soon as the horse stops.

Fasmel : "Sorry for waiting. We are ready to start training again Mr. Kim."

Kim: "Hmmm..." He turned back and walked away.

Kim: "I did not ask you to do training. As I said I have nothing to teach."

While Mr. Kim talks, Arhi stands up and clears her shirt from the dust.

Fasmel : "But Mr. Kim, I thought you would be our trainer."

While Fasmel talks, Arhi walks toward us.

Mr. Kim stopped his step.

Kim: "Do you know the reason you are going here?"

Fasmel : "Is it because Grel had promised and we got invited to training together?"

Mr. Kim then starts walking again and getting far from us.

Kim: "Hmmm..."

After quite far of a distance between us and Mr. Kim. He stopped and looked back toward us. His eyes are closed.

Kim: "You still remember how I fought yesterday right?" Then he opened his eyes. It shows how serious he is.

Kim: "Now, you are all working together, and try to hit me three times."

Fasmel : "3 times? Is it not too much?"

Mr. Kim laughs at her.

Kim: "How is the next Candindate of Queen saying that to me? I'm just an ordinary person you know?" He smiled.

Fasmel looks pissed off after hearing that.

Fasmel : "No..." She grabs her big sword from her back. And swing it with two hands. The sword is not looking the same as the sword I see in the arena. Maybe this is her favorite sword she saved.

It looks bigger and probably heavier. It also looks cool.

Fasmel : "I said is it not too much, for you Mr. Kim?"

Her expression kind of mocks Mr. Kim.

Kim: "Hooo... I see... You better be ready."

The wind breathes toward all of us.

Arhi raises her right hand.

Arhi : "Umm... I hit Mr. Kim yesterday, is it counted?"

The horse behind us fell off to the ground after hearing that.

Kim: "Hmmm..." His thinking.

Fasmel : "What did you hit Mr. Kim yesterday?"

Arhi : "I already said that to you. How you forget about that."

Kim: "That was a dirty statement. But I guess I'll take that. Then you all have two more times to hit me."

Arhi giggled while smirking.

Kim: "I will not fall into the same trap you set like yesterday, just saying."

He laughed at Arhi . But then his eyes changed direction and looked toward me.

Arhi : "Hmmm..." Her expression was flattered.

Grel : "Use body aura enhance. Quick." I look at Mr. Kim's gesture, his about to make his first move. He seems to know I already made a steady move since I have an aura within my body and shield.

Fasmel : "Hm? Why? We are not even starting yet."

As expected. Gaining trust as a team is not easy.

And suddenly Mr. Kim dashed behind Arhi .

Kim: "Level 6... Foot speed enhancement." His foot swings with a blue aura on its foot and is about to hit her head.

It was so quick that it surprised Arhi .

Arhi : "So fast!" Trying to turn her head to the back with a surprised expression.

I quickly dashed between Mr. Kim and Arhi using my aura shield that I still have within me.

And his foot hit my shield and his eyes were wide open.

Mr. Kim jumps backward. And the horse running a bit far. They are scared to get hit by it. But did not run away and stopped in the distance.

Kim: "That shield, it feels the same as your father's shield."

His movement might be fast, but his power is not. As long as I can protect the other with my shield, it should be fine.

Grel : "Like I said use your power aura right now."

Both girls looked at me and now understood my assignment.

Fasmel : "Level 8... Power enhancement." Her body becomes infused with red aura power from her. And her weapon is absorbing her aura and becoming infused as well.

Arhi : "Level 6... Speed enhancement." Her body becomes infused with a gold aura. But only her foot, arm, and eyes color changed to gold. And also her bow becomes infused with a gold aura.

I look at Fasmel .

Level 8... Her aura is bigger but the cost is pretty high. I need to be careful to watch her.

I notice Fasmel 's weapon is already infused. So she can multiply her weapon aura, no wonder her sword aura when I sparring with her is big.

Now, I need to see how we will hit him.

But then Fasmel just dashed toward Mr. Kim.

Grel : "Wait!" Ugh... This is hard to handle.

Mr. Kim sees Fasmel dash toward him and stepped back. Her sword hit the ground. It makes the ground gets pushed to the core of the earth and it cracks the first time. Then the first circle crack is pushed down deeper and makes the other outside circle crack.

Kim: "Woopss... The weapon is scarier this time. But you are using the same tactic. It getting easier to notice your attack young queen."

She quickly dashed back to us.

Fasmel : "Did you say something?" She asked me.

Grel : "It will not be working if we attack him like a normal fight. He faster than us, except."

Mr. Kim from afar looking at us.

Kim: "Hmmm... What you three planning..." He can't hear us since the distance is quite far.

Arhi lifted her bow and used the arrow she carried on her back. Then dashed to the right side of Mr. Kim.

Arhi : "Level ½... Arrow enhancement." The tip of the arrow becomes infused with a gold aura.

She aims at Mr. Kim. And shot the arrow. The arrow traveled so fast.

Mr. Kim looks at the arrow approaching him and tries to dodge it.

But then Fasmel comes in front of him. Her sword is above her head and about to swing her sword.

The scene flashback where I told the plan how we make a move.

Grel : "Arhi will dash beside Mr. Kim, either right or left. And shot the arrow from that direction. And Fasmel at the same time rushed toward Mr. Kim and attacked. At this point, Fasmel will have a hard time catching Mr. Kim's speed, but Arhi can. While Arhi keeps attacking her arrow, Fasmel needs to catch the momentum and attack Mr. Kim while I provide a defense for both of you. Mr. Kim will not hit me since there's no point to get me down first for him. And Fasmel ... You should use that power when I call it."

The scene back to the fight.

Kim: "Interesting..."