I Shall Evolve Everything

A sweep of my tail sent thousands of ice shards into the horde of guards swarming me.

The shards pounding at the horde stopped the flood from nearing but it did not stop their ranged attacks. Just looking up I could see the thousands of arrows and daggers being thrown and shot at us.

the wall of ice fragments was doing a good job of keeping them from hitting me but it didn't keep everything.

There were still tens of daggers and arrows that pierced through my defenses and into the surrounding area.

Luckily out of the ones that passed my defenses only a couple had actually hit my back.

"Nn" the pain of just a couple of daggers and arrows pounding upon my back was unbearable but still I did not move, despite the pain I had something I needed to protect.

Lowering my head I see blood dripping off of my sides onto the ground below and below me, covered by my body was Naomi. She was the whole reason that I had not dodged was that her unconscious form would have been killed by now if I had not done what I had.

I could not allow harm to fall upon her. She had entrusted me with our survival and I would not disappoint.

I grit my teeth and pulled the projectiles out of my back.

With a flick of my wrist and tail I created a shield around us. It would not last for long but that didn't matter. I only needed a couple of seconds.

Quickly I got up, grabbing Naomi in my tail. I wrapped her body so that only her head was poking out of my tail and ran for the trees.

All the while the horde that I had been holding back easily broke the barrier and surged forth attacking us.

I curled my tail so that it was in front of my body, my back taking the brunt of the attacks allowed me to safely carry Naomi to safety.

Once I was at the treeline I leaped onto one of the taller branches and put Naomi down.

After I was sure that they solely focused on me I left Naomi where I had dropped her.

Falling from the tree I created a platform about halfway to the ground angled so that it would protect me from the countless projectiles that were aimed at me.

There was no point in staying on the platform for long, once it had done its purpose i leaped from it and while in the air I targeted one of the guards and shot at him shards of ice enhanced by my aether.

[You-

I quickly dismissed the notification and focused back on the battle. The guard that I had targeted was dead, proving that I could kill them.

Before I had to aim carefully for their throats, or the weak points in their armor, my ice not being sharp enough to cut through the iron armor protecting them.

Now however I did not need to worry about where I aimed, as long as I aimed at their chest with a significant amount of aether enhanced ice they would die.

"I think that's enough"

The voice was quiet but it echoed throughout the battlefield. The projectiles that I had made were dismissed with haste I didn't know I had and the guards that were attacking me dropped dead, their bodies disintegrating into dust.

I dropped from the platform that I had created in the sky, still stunned by the display of power that I had just witnessed.

I had not seen it clearly but I had seen countless spears made of ice accelerated to speeds that I could not see with my eyes.

I was only able to witness the death of one and even then that was only because I was lucky. I had my eye on my next target and was intensely watching it to make sure that my shot hit when Aoif had acted, the spear of ice hitting directly on some weird point on its body and not even a moment after it had hit the guard was dead turned to dust.

…

I spread my aether out creating countless spears of ice. I had already identified the origins of all the veiled guards that were attacking Gabriel and Naomi.

With a flick of my power I released the spears all of them were aimed precisely into the origins of the guards turning them to dust and killing them.

Notifications flooded my vision however I ignored all hit the last notifications.

[You have killed a remnant of the veiled guard.]

[You have gained comprehension and a fragment of the veil(672/1000)]

I had seen enough, the desperate buff by Naomi and the combat prowess of Gabriel, both far exceeded what could have been expected of a tier 8 and 7 duo.

The amount that had been killed by them was in the low tens, not even fifty of the veiled guards had been killed by Gabriel and Naomi.

I couldn't blame them though, it was still impressive how many they were able to fell under the circumstances I had forced upon them.

Gabriel collapsed on the ground as the exhaustion caught up with her, though she was still awake which was good.

I grabbed both her and Naomi and dragged them with me.

I was done hunting for the day and would return the next day after I had hunted a sufficient amount to complete the 1000 kills that were required but for now I would allow them to rest and recuperate while I found us dinner.

"Do you know how to make a fire?" I asked Gabriel, if I was going to cook the food then they were going to make camp.

"Ye- yes" Gabriel was still out of breath, the adrenaline of the fight wearing off and leaving her tired but she was not allowed to fall asleep until we had all eaten.

I was doing something kind, she should appreciate it.

"Good, make the fire and set up camp while I hit our food for tonight."

With that said I left searching for a living animal to slaughter.