Atop the branches of a towering ancient tree.
In her loli form, Qimeng dangled her two fair, tender little legs in the air, swinging them back and forth.
She looked down from her high vantage point, gazing at the green-skinned army scurrying around below like headless flies.
Through that brief clash just now, she had already gauged most of the enemy's strength.
“Hmm, is this the physical capability of the demon race? They really are quite sturdy.”
“That demon from the Ogre Clan earlier actually managed to touch the threshold of a high-ranking demon based purely on raw physical strength. At the same rank, the racial advantage of the demon race is truly disgustingly obvious.”
Qimeng assessed their combat power in her mind.
An army of a thousand was indeed slightly larger than she had anticipated. And judging from the conversation of these green-skinned small fry...
“Oh? So they've targeted the Wood Elves' Sacred Spirit to curry favor with the son of a Demon King candidate?”
“It seems today's show won't end peacefully. But... since you've come to snatch my things, you'd better be prepared to be devoured until not even your bones are left.”
She watched as the stubborn lizardman chief roared, leading his massive army of a thousand magical beasts across the red line ahead.
“My, oh my, what a pity. I was in such a rare good mood today that I specially gave you a chance to live.”
A childish, ethereal voice rang out from above the heads of the magical beasts.
“Wh-Who's speaking?!”
Only at this moment did the magical beasts in the front snap to attention, discovering the little girl sitting high up in the tree canopy.
Instantly, a chill ran down the lizardman chief's spine.
What a terrifying concealment spell!
If this brat hadn't spoken up to reveal herself, not a single one of their thousand pairs of eyes—coupled with his own perception as an Advanced Rank magical beast—would have detected even a trace of her presence!
If she were to use this for nighttime assassinations, he couldn't even begin to imagine the consequences!
“It's a Wood Elf! We've been spotted!”
“What's there to panic about?! She's just a lone little girl. So what if she spotted us? Just run her over! Capture her as our first trophy!”
“Vanguard, charge! Get her!!”
At the chief's roar, over a dozen elite lizardman warriors lunged toward the tree canopy like hungry tigers pouncing on their prey.
Facing this ferocious onslaught, Qimeng merely narrowed her emerald-green eyes. In an innocent, adorable tone, she delivered a brutal sentence.
“Since that's the case... then I assume you are all prepared to face a declaration of war from the Wood Elves, right, everyone?”
“Take her down!!”
Yet in the very next second, the shadows in the dense forest twisted slightly.
Qimeng's petite figure seemed to melt away, merging into the tree shadows and vanishing completely!
It was none other than the Wood Elves' exclusive movement technique, 【Forest-Hidden Walk】!
“What?! Where did she go??”
Before the rushing lizardmen could even react, countless natural spells shimmering with emerald-green light exploded in the air where Qimeng had just been standing!
Slash!!
The 【Wind-Forest Leaf Blades】 condensed from violent mana transformed into an airtight meat grinder.
The dozen or so elite lizardmen rushing in front didn't even have time to scream before their bodies were sliced into countless pieces in midair, raining blood down upon the forest floor!
“Enemy attack!! It's an ambush!!”
The lizardman army of a thousand fell into utter chaos.
However, this was merely the prelude to the battle.
In the ears of all the Wood Elf lolis hiding in the dark, Qimeng's voice rang out, directing them as if she possessed a global radar view.
【Attention all squads, the prey has entered the net. Ten o'clock direction, distance thirty, fire.】
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!!
In an instant, a rain of arrows wrapped in green thorny light shot out from the dense forest, turning the slow-to-react vanguard into pincushions.
【Oh my, the small fry on the right are trying to flank us. Squad Two, cast a Bind spell at two o'clock, and throw in a Thorny Dance gift pack while you're at it~】
【Squad Three, don't slack off. The big clumsy guys are about to charge. Take ten steps straight back, and remember to leave a little present under your feet. Yes, yes, yes, those explosive spores. Let them have a blast stepping on them.】
Qimeng was as relaxed as if she were playing a real-time strategy game, but under her micro-management commands, the lizardmen suffered miserably.
“Damn it! The long-ears are on the left! Cut down the trees and crush them!!”
The lizardman shaman waved his staff hysterically, commanding the giant lizardman soldiers to launch a counter-charge.
Yet when they brandished their steel blades and charged into the bushes, only empty air awaited them.
Under Qimeng's global tracking, the Wood Elf lolis moved like ghosts of the forest.
Whenever they fired off a barrage of natural spells and arrows, they would instantly channel green light beneath their feet, merging their figures into the ancient trees and undergrowth behind them. Appearing and disappearing unpredictably, they fought on the move!
“Bastards! To the right! No, they're behind us too!!”
“You idiots, they're in the trees, ahhhh!!”
Violent vines erupted from the ground, sweeping the fierce lizardmen into the air before they were instantly impaled by the Wood Spike spells that followed.
In such complex terrain where their vision was completely obscured, the lizardmen's numerical advantage of a thousand instead became a liability, causing them to trample each other in utter chaos!
“Curse it! Since when did these long-ears become so good at fighting?!”
The lizardman chief roared in fury. He realized that their casualties were skyrocketing at an alarming rate, yet they hadn't even managed to touch the hem of a single Wood Elf's clothes!
“Is this the power of our Lord... S-So amazing!”
Watching this unfold, the Wood Elves hidden in the tree shadows all flushed red, their faces brimming with unmistakable adoration.
Under Qimeng's all-seeing battlefield direction, the enemy's movements and spellcasting trajectories were anticipated well in advance.
Combined with the perfect synergy of natural spells and 【Forest-Hidden Walk】, this battle was clearly a one-sided hunt of these green-skinned small fry, conducted by the Wood Elves under godlike command!
However, the tide of battle would not remain smooth sailing forever.
“Tsk, is that guy the so-called Advanced Rank magical beast? His hide is certainly thick.”
Observing from her radar-like perspective, Qimeng raised an eyebrow.
The lizardman chief was indeed worthy of being an Advanced Rank combatant. Even under the ghost-like hit-and-run tactics of the Wood Elf girls, he managed to withstand several waves of attacks.
Facing this high-health, thick-skinned elite monster, Qimeng decisively switched tactics. Instead of clashing head-on with the boss, she used their high mobility to bypass him and clean up the surrounding small fry first!
As the number of green-skinned small fry plummeted sharply, the remaining lizardmen were finally snapped out of their panic.
“Do not scatter! Everyone, gather around me! Form a defensive formation!!”
Amidst the chief's furious roars, the surviving elites gathered toward the center, concentrating their strength to deal with the phantom-like stray arrows.
But Qimeng, perched on the tree canopy, merely let out a smug, cheeky smile, confident in her victory.
There was no rush. She would slowly wear them down, like boiling a frog in warm water.
In any case... these guys had no way out anymore.
However, what truly caused a crack to form in the battle was an anomaly on the other side of the battlefield.
The three demon envoys clearly did not care about the lizardmen being beaten to a pulp.
How many pieces of cannon fodder died was completely meaningless to them; their goal was very clear.
The Wood Elves' territory—the valley's Hidden Gate!
Buzz.
With a soft hum, the demon of the Ogre Clan managed to reach the Hidden Gate.
Rate on N.U.
