Isekai For Hire Chapter 48: Eye of the Storm

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Eye of the Storm Naith took five steps forward and set down a trap, small snow flakes falling all around it, the grass beneath it frosting. Harkyn began casting, sweat beading on his brow and arms straining by his sides as icicles formed all around him. This is going to be so cool. Ren was excited for once. I thought you hated fighting? Yeah but this is a dungeon, they’re all System created creatures, not real people. It feels less bad. Harkyn raised his hands in a thunderous clap and the shards all formed into one massive spear of ice. He threw his hands down and the spear went flying into the elemental’s chest. It charged forward, but Harkyn and Naith were already running. “Move!” Naith yelled at Lorena who scrambled to get out of the way of the elemental’s charge. It ran over the trap, sending a thick sheet of ice all over the ground and freezing the elemental in place. It thrashed as it tried to move with no success, every time it broke free it would just refreeze. Lorena stared on as Naith and Harkyn danced on the ice, like the fight was a well practiced piece of choreography to a dance they’d done a thousand times before. Naith weaved between a flurry of ice from Harkyn as she shot explosive arrows exactly where Harkyn froze the elemental. Ren giggled with excitement at the spectacle. Lorena flinched as a massive pillar of ice erupted from the ground in front of her just as a barrage of water smashed into it. She snapped back to reality and was moving, darting to the far corner of the courtyard, out of the path of Naith’s arrows as she commanded the center of the room. Maybe we should focus. Ren’s voice lost a bit of its charm, an edge taking over. The wind roared as the elemental waved its arms in a rage, a frozen shield of ice forming over its body. Waves of rushing water filled the courtyard, taking the place of the hedges. They roared past Lorena at a violent speed, slowly creeping inward. She looked toward Harkyn across the courtyard, he was sliding closer and closer to the rushing wall of water, an intense focus she had never seen on his face as he channeled a spell. She tried to call out but her words were drowned out by the sound. If he didn’t move soon he would be swept away. She ran toward him, sliding across the ice. If she hit him at the right angle she could bounce both of them away from the wall. This seems dangerous. You’d rather he—Ah shit. The wind changed, pushing at her back instead of her face. The unexpected change in force accelerated her drastically, careening her toward the edge as Harkyn drifted even faster toward the water. She was on a collision course with Harkyn and the wall of water. Harkyn stuck his hand out toward Lorena and she did the same. An arrow shot past her, a glowing tether trailing behind it. Harkyn reached out with his other hand and caught the tether, then was yanked toward the center of the room as the arrow bounded back toward Naith. He grasped Lorena’s hand as he flew by at an impossible speed. She landed in a pile at Naith’s feet, Harkyn already casting another spell. They stood in the center of the courtyard, maybe three feet on either side between them and certain death. “What do we do?” “When the shield breaks, interrupt him!” Harkyn yelled back. She remembered her poison lesson, the caustic petals. Her hands shook as she pulled a pouch of the ash out of her inventory and threw her daggers in to coat them. She had maybe thirty seconds before the waves crushed all of them, her hair and armor were already soaked through from the splash of the waves. She attacked with all her might, unleashing combo points into the shield. She didn’t stop when a spiderweb of cracks began to form, the poison working its way through the elemental’s shield. Naith hit each crack with explosive arrows and with just inches between them and the wall of water the shield fell. She struck the elemental with Silent Impact. The wall of water slowed to a gentle stream then drained from the room. Naith g