The number of enemies was pretty high, and they were increasing by the minute, so Zaos couldn't afford to enhance every single one of his arrows. He tried to knock down the riders, but those sons of a bitches managed to block the projectiles. Before Zaos could run out of patience, he saw Aria hitting the horses. While not even her could hit their legs with every single shot, she could make the screen in pain by hitting other parts and occasionally making them fall.
Zaos wanted to kill all the bastards who were on his way, but he decided to follow Aria's example. The assassins tried to run while zigzagging to avoid the bolts, and so of them were skilled enough to approach the carriage and then prepare to throw their swords, but then Aria killed them with enhanced bolts.
"You already know how to use that with a crossbow, huh," Zaos said. "I am truly impressed."
"Well, you showed how to do it dozens of tis," Aria said.
Learning by watching wasn't easy, but since Zaos taught her the basics of enhancing, Aria could easily do it. Regardless, Zaos thought that since they were in a hurry, most of the assassins had forgotten their crossbows, but soon so of them who had the weapons appeared, and then they began to fire at Zaos and Aria. Zaos blocked the projectiles with his sword. Even amidst the dark of the night, Zaos could tell where they were aiming at thanks to Magic Perception.
"This might be bad…" Zaos said. "We can't attack if I try to move my sword like this in such a small space."
Things were already difficult enough since Zaos was exhausted, and he had to consider the carriage shaking while it moved. As if things weren't bad enough, he noticed that so people were running in the woods. Those were probably so assassins who specialized in high-speed movent, and they were as fast as Zaos while he enhanced his legs with wind magic.
"Be careful to the sides," Zaos said. "There are so assassins in the woods, they will probably attack our horses."
"Shit…" Erean said and then tried to move to the front of the carriage, but he couldn't do much in that situation.
Erean was skilled enough, but he couldn't fight properly in such a vehicle. Zaos and everyone else already knew that. That was why they were agonizing over the fact that they couldn't do anything either. A certain idea crossed Erean's mind, but he couldn't bring himself to say it out loud. Making the carriage lighter and using so of his n to slow down the pursuers would do the trick, but those that stay behind will, without a doubt, lose their lives.
"Cover for a second, Aria," Zaos said.
Aria had no idea what Zaos was planning, but she nodded anyway. She tried to slow down the enemies as much as possible while Zaos closed his eyes and then held his sword with both hands while assuming his famous tall guard. He always used that one when he was preparing a big swing. Those who knew Zaos's fighting style recognized that, but they couldn't imagine how he was going to swing his sword in such a small place.
"Fall back and protect your heads," Zaos said after he opened his eyes.
The enemies were already too close, so Zaos and the others won't have much ti to fight or do anything else. Regardless, they obeyed what Zaos said, and soon after, he swung his sword and destroyed a good part of the back of the carriage. At the sa ti, Zaos fired through the blade of his sword a massive wave of wind that cut the riders and the horses nearby the carriage in half.
The wave of wind only stopped after flying for dozens of ters and cutting down many enemies and their horses. Once they saw that, the remaining pursuers slowed down. Without their support, the assassins that were running through the woods also slowed down. They didn't want to be cut in half by sothing they couldn't see either.
Zaos sighed in relief and then turned around only to find his allies with his eyes wide open. They knew what Zaos could do, but every ti they saw it, they couldn't help but feel overwheld by his magic attacks.
"Are we still being followed by the assassins in the woods?" Erena asked after taking a deep breath.
"They are outside my range now," Zaos said. "But I wouldn't say that they won't return, once they regroup, they might try to do sothing else again."
Erean nodded. That was indeed possible. In the end, it seed that they wouldn't have enough ti to scavenge the mansion again. Despite that, the whole group felt happy with the result of the mission. While they did have so hard tis and they still were exhausted, they delivered a massive ntal blow on the enemy's army. They invaded their territory and sent ssages to all the leaders in all islands. Not to ntion, they also sent a ssage to Sairus kingdom capital. Eventually, they will co to help…
"Even if things go as smoothly as possible, we won't receive any help for at least two months," Zaos thought. "Not to ntion, the kingdom will have to use the boats of Vezar to co as fast as possible, this Ferdinand fellow won't let things go our way, so… we still have a long way ahead of us."
While Zaos was thinking about that, so people inside the carriage were looking at him with so concerned eyes. The more they saw Zaos fighting, the less they could see him as a normal human being. The fact that he could split other human beings with his magic and sword skills without hesitation was one of the things that made him look really scared. Among them, Noemi was the one who was looking mostly at him.
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