The Only Son Amongst The Daughters Of Eros

Chapter 114 Spamming Objectives for XP • 10

Celestia looked up, and quickly raised only one hand, creating a smaller [Light Shield] that deflected the manbat's attack. The creature hissed and recoiled, only for Nyx's shadowed halberd to pierce through its chest. Stay connected via empire

"Nice call, Phoebe!" Aeric praised, looking at Celestia with the hope that nothing had happened to her. "Keep your focus," he said when she caught his worried gaze.

"They've penetrated, so we're going to have to fight in close range for the ones that make it through."

Aeric clenched his palm around the sword's hilt. "Nyx, prepare yourself."

Nyx smirked. "I don't know about you, Son of Starlight. But I was born prepared."

Misty, positioned at the rear, stayed nervous and quiet as another wave of manbats surged forward. They spat out venoms that only managed to burn through the higher parts of the shield as well.

Some of them breached through and attacked them. Misty's free palm clenched to a fist, and as one of the creatures that broke through sped towards her, she panicked and unleashed a burst of flame.

The fireball shot forward, engulfing the manbat and three others in its radius. The smell of charred flesh filled the air.

When she looked in his direction, she saw that Aeric had not seen what she had done and so didn't compliment her. He was too busy fighting off the manbats that were attacking him.

Her cheeks flushed.

The battle raged on, and it became clearer that Aeric needed more training in fighting. He barely attacked but depended on darting between the front and the flanks, swiping his sword left and right to dispatch any stragglers.

His main aim was to maintain the formation as he had told the girls, to make sure it remained imprinted in their heads until it was the default way to approach Lobbies.

"Nyx, pressure the left harder!" he shouted, seeing a cluster of manbats attempting to regroup. "Keep most of them off me."

"Fancy way of saying you need my help, dear Leader," Nyx replied, her tone smug. Her shadow minions had already been slayed into smoke by this new wave of manbats, but she was already saving up some Divinity for a big move.

She attacked more ferociously though, as Aeric had ordered. One particularly large manbat screeched and lunged at her, but Nyx spun on her heel, held the halberd with both arms and did a beautiful ballet spin, switching from heels to tiptoes and slashing the manbat's throat open.

"Too easy," she muttered, stepping back, spinning her staff and stomping it on the ground.

Still smiling, Aeric walked to her and held her on the shoulder to calm her. "Yeah, it was cool. We all did a great job, including you. But don't celebrate too much. Save that energy for the other Lobbies."

Phoebe immediately straightened, her expression turning patriotic and obedient as she saluted him with a nod. "Okay, Master Aeric!"

Nyx burst out laughing, leaning against her halberd for support. "Master Aeric? Oh, I love that. She's already your loyal little soldier."

"Knock it off, Nyx," Aeric muttered, shaking his head as he sheathed his sword. "Let's move. The next Lobby isn't going to wait for us."

Celestia fell into step beside him, inspecting her hands as she let out a relieved sigh. She then turned to him, catching him staring. Aeric quickly looked away and she smiled. "You did a good job back there. Never knew you were this good at getting people to work together."

Aeric scratched the back of his neck and chuckled nervously. "It's nothing. I just organized them like I would when playing Dungeon LevelingTM on my PlayStation."

Celestia frowned. "PlayStation? What's that?"

Aeric grinned knowingly, hands in pocket. "Don't worry about it."

He turned to the rest of the team. "Alright now, time for harvest. Phoebe, Misty, use a blade and harvest the beast cores. Add them to the bag of supplies and we can move on to the next Lobby."

"Harvest?" Nyx laughed. "They're not real beast cores, you know that? What's the point in harvesting? We can't use them."

Aeric glanced at her. "This Dungeon also isn't a real Dungeon, and yet we're clearing it. If the test is to train us for how to clear Dungeons, then it's obvious that beast core harvesting is a very important part of Dungeon Clearing."

Nyx shrugged, then retreated back to her wall.

"Place your hand on their chests, find a pulsing sensation," Aeric directed Phoebe who had knelt beside a manbat. "It's different from a heart beat, it's more of a pulse. Find it, then open around the pulse and retrieve the core."

Misty seemed to know what she was doing as she successfully took out one. Phoebe pulled one out and raised it to the air. "Got it!" she exclaimed, sampling the green glowing crystal.

Aeric smiled. "Good job, Phoebe. You only have a few hundred more to go."

Everyone laughed.