Chapter 4: 4. Hilichurls

Sean follows the tracks of the monsters visible through the elemental sight.

He also searches for additional tracks like bite marks, claw slashes, and even the faint musky scent of the monster's remains. The wind and water have washed away the footsteps, but some tracks remain.

"Relying solely on this elemental sight will dull my other senses." A distant memory appears in his mind.

"Sometime what you see might not necessarily be the truth." This fact seemed to be deeply engraved in his memory.

Sean ventures deeper into the forest. The atmosphere slowly turns gloomy, and darkness shrouds the deeper part of the forest. Due to lack of the sunlight, cold permeates through the entire forest.

Hmm…

Sean frowns as he notices a veil of fog up ahead in his path. The appearance of fog in such a dense forest isn't an abnormal phenomenon. However, his elemental sights show a different scene to him.

The entire fog appears in a tint of blue with a few patches of purple in his vision.

"There seems to be something wrong with this fog. Together with hydro elemental particles, there seems to be something else mixed within the fog." He reaches this conclusion after observing the dense hydro particles scattered throughout the fog.

"I can't take a detour."

Sean wraps a cloth around his nose and walks through the fog.

A few minutes later, his steps falter. Dizziness hits him. Sean's vision turns blurry.

Huff… huff…

He stabs his claymore into the ground and rests against it.

"This fog is inducing sleepiness and hallucinates. At this rate, I will end up falling asleep and becoming food to monsters. I must think of a solution."

Sean regulates his breathing and practices the breathing technique from his memories to regulate the flow of energy in his body.

'Hymn of Mana'

He adjusts his breathing according to a rhythm.

Cough… cough…

Sean coughs violently in the beginning and gasps for breath. But after a few attempts, his body slowly adjusts to the new breathing pattern.

"This is just a temporary solution to regulate my energy. I still must think of a solution."

He releases a heavy breath full of water vapors.

"Hmm… water vapors?" Sean activates his elemental sight and observes the water vapors around him.

A large amount of purple filth is accumulated within the surrounding water vapors.

"This hallucinogen spreads through the water as a medium. What if…"

Sean slightly raises his palm and releases the cryo elemental particles around himself.

The cryo elemental particles freeze the surrounding fog, thus dispersing some of the effects of the hallucinogen.

"It's feasible but not practical. It consumes way too much energy. Still, I can maintain a small layer around my head." He creates a spherical aura of cryo particles around him and moves forward.

"If even I am suffering such a setback despite my training, then I am afraid those villagers…"

Sean picks up his pace and quickly maneuvers through the forest.

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Deep inside the forest,

A brown-haired man with black eyes is engaged in a battle against a few hilichurls. With a dull blade in one hand and a wooden shield in another hand, he blocks the club of a hilichurl. Around eight other people are lying unconscious behind him.

Argh…

The impact from the club slightly pushes him back.

Fwoosh…

He parries the club and slashes his blade at the hilichurl. Electro energy flows through his blade.

Slash…

The sword swing slice apart the arm of the hilichurl. The hilichurl drops the club and screams in pain.

"Mi… mi… biat… biat!!" (I am hit, I am in pain… lots of pain!)

"Ya ika Kundala!!" (This human enemy… must kill!)

"Kundala!" (Must kill!)

"Kundala!" (Must kill!)

The nearby hilichurl shriek in fury and surrounds him.

Slash…

The brown-haired man swings his sword and slashes a gash on another hilichurl.

Bang…

One of the hilichurl throws a stone at him. The stone hits him squarely in the head. Blood drips from his head and he loses focus for a moment.

Swish… swish…

Using this moment, two hilichurl archers shoot arrows at him. He blocks one of the arrows with his shield, but the other arrows stab in his highs.

ARGH…

He loses his balance and falls to the ground. The other hilichurl leaps on him with their clubs.

"Is this the end?"

The brown-haired man closes his eyes in despair.

Whoosh… wheeze… slash… slash…

A great sword coated in blue energy flies out of nowhere. The great sword slashes through the waists of the hilichurls leaping at the brown-haired man.

Swoosh…

The great sword stabs the trunk of a nearby tree.

Hah…

Sean maneuvers through the trees and leaps on top of the archers.

'Mana Blade: Crescent Execution,'

Sean manifests a giant ice claymore in his hands. He performs a horizontal sweeping slash. The ice blade leaves behind a crescent arc of energy and slices apart the hilichurl archers in half.

Splash…

Purple blood splashes on Sean's face.

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Haah…

He wipes the blood from his face and jumps from the tree. Sean launches himself in the air by using the tree branch as a jumping board.

'Mana Blade: Rime-frost Retribution,'

While in mid-air, he summons multiple frost blades of varying sizes. The frost blade rains down on the remaining horde of hilichurl.

"Lata nini… kuzi ika tomo!" (Ice storm… strong enemy help!"

Chaos ensues among the horde of hilichurl. Most of the hilichurl flee in panic.

Haah…

Sean jumps on top of his sword. He uses the hilt of the great sword as a pedestal and slowly lands on the ground.

Swish… Shoom…

Sean immediately pulls out the sword from the trunk of the tree and slices apart a pyro slime thrown towards him.

He turns his attention to the hilichurl and notices a significantly large hilichurl with an axe charging at him.

Clang…

He blocks the axe swing with his great sword. The impact from the axe knocks him back.

'I am no match for him with raw physical strength.'

"Mita!"

"Mita!"

The rest of the hilichurl stops in their track and cheers for the giant mitachurl.

Sean clenches his sword and infuses it with cryo elemental particles. The size and sharpness of the blade increase significantly.

"Ye… mi… muhe…" (You… me… victory)

The giant mitachurl grabs a pyro slime from the ground and smashes it into his axe. Blazing flames rise from the axe.

"Ha… ha… muhe!"

The mitachurl charges at Sean and whizzes his axe to create a blazing fire tornado.

Haah…

Sean takes a deep breath. His eyes turn blue from the infusion of cryo elemental energy. He clenches his great sword and jumps in mid-air.

The Favonius great sword turns into a gigantic ice blade. Sean raises it over his head and performs a mighty vertical slash.

'Arslan Blade Art: Held,'

Clang…

A powerful sound of metal clashing against metal reverberates through the forest.

Time seems to slow down as the brown-haired man and hilichurl hold their breath with wide eyes while spectating the battle.

Swoosh…

Sean completes his slash and lands on the ground.

Crack… crack…

The ice around his blade crumbles bit by bit.

Bang…

With a loud bang, it shatters into countless fragments.

Bleurgh…

Sean spits out a mouthful of blood as a gash appears around his chest.

"Muhe!"

"Muhe!"

The hilichurls cheer in triumph. The giant mitachurl turns around to confront Sean.

"Now!"

Sean wipes the blood from the corner of his mouth and smirks. The mitachurl lowers its head and stares at the giant gash in its stomach. Ice particles freeze the blood around the ice.

"La… Lata!"

Crack… crack…

Countless fragments of ice encase the mitachurl from within its body.

BANG…

The giant body of the mitachurl falls to the ground and shatters into multiple fragments.

"Dala si… dala si…"

Panic ensues in the remaining hilichurl as they flee into the forest.

Huff… huff…

Sean slowly stands up and wipes the sweat from his forehead. He freezes the wound on his chest with ice to prevent bleeding.

"Are you alright?" The brown-haired man extends his hand to support Sean.

"I am fine! You must be Mister Pasha." Sean grabs his hand to support himself.

"I am Sean. The village chief told me about you." Sean mentions Andrei's name.

"Oh! Then you must be the injured knight rescued by Boris." Pasha recognizes Sean.

The duo walks toward the rest of the unconscious group.

"What's the matter? What's happening here?" Sean enquires.

"Sir Sean… it's like this…"

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