Gloria lay down to sleep sighing, while she sighed as she caressed one of her contracted creatures, it is an energy beast that she obtained after she went hunting routinely and eliminated its parents, in the process she felt a little bit of remorse and brought it along with its siblings.
When Feicui Long talked to her about giving her contracted creatures, she without hesitation took this little one, which was the one she grew the most attached to, this beast in question is a fire deer and what caught her attention so much is that it is a variant, although a very common variant, called crimson fire deer, and although it may sound strange it was not the fact that it was a variant itself that made her decide but the color…
Since the crimson color resonates greatly with her sword technique, the crimson sword master art is the technique passed down to her by her mother and with which Gloria has cultivated all her life and has learned to grow fond of over these 31 years…
Besides that, in a certain way she felt identified with this little one, in this species the females also possess antlers, unlike other species such as the ice ones where only the females have antlers or the earth ones where only the males possess them.
Caressing the beautiful fur of her deer, she fell asleep in the deepest of dreams…
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The next day Gloria leads her team and the crimson blazing wolves to the next points with the supply caches.
Arianne very curiously spends her time writing down plants, fungi and other things, this is her new hobby, identifying new species she has never seen, perhaps with this Feicui Long would reward her for the information.
Of course this is also of great help to everyone, after all knowing and keeping record of what creatures you may encounter is of high utility, that is why Gloria allowed it as much as possible, as long as it did not delay them further.
While they walk then Arianne tells Gloria: "I think we should be careful, we are moving again in ember wolf territory."
Gloria frowns and says: "Again?, well, you heard her this time walk carefully watching your steps and prepare to hide by climbing the trees."
Everyone nods, one of the reasons for yesterday's delay in addition to the unexpected numbers and the weakness of this team, is that 3 of those caches were in this territory and on several occasions they ran into groups a bit larger than normal.
Forcing them to evade time and time again and take alternative routes to avoid confrontation.
After all although ember wolves are weak individually, when there are 100, 150 their numbers cannot be underestimated at all.
Gloria takes her two-handed sword similar to a claymore and a bastard sword…
Arriving at the first objective the first thing they find is… nothing, they only find the supplies which they collect and then proceed to the next area.
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Seventh cache, impressively they did not find anyone in any of them including this one, Gloria felt a bit uneasy, this is too strange, in a conquest zone they have no one guarding it?
When they were finally preparing to leave and look for more…
The sound of footsteps was heard, Gloria quickly made signals with her hand and grips her two-handed sword with incredible strength.
Seeing a leg covered with round scales standing in a humanoid way, without hesitation she lunges cutting using a technique: "Crimson master cut…"
Soon 3 of the figures that were entering are caught in the act and split in two in that very instant followed by a flash of crimson light.
Gloria does not stop, retaking her stance she sees the other lizardmen stand menacingly, there are approximately about 20… well 17, along with four giant wood-scaled lizards and with about 10 lizard hounds and 5 stalker lizards, a species of flying lizard about the size of a medium dog that specializes in hunting by harassing prey.
Gloria's troops that had already organized then open fire, energy shots, arrows and bolts are launched toward the enemy, even Arianne begins to recite a spell: "With a powerful roar, a blazing fire falls from the skies, devastating and destroying my enemies!, Fireball!"
The lizard warriors take their shields and run toward the entrance climbing the inclined one-way hill, with their shields raised they try to block the attacks while the lizard hounds run at their side at high speed, Gloria smiles to herself, who would have thought that this cache which they thought would be difficult to take due to its terrain advantageous for the defender, would favor them.
Gloria taking her position quickly prepares to launch a new attack, in her beautiful blue eyes a flash of crimson light lights up momentarily and when she sees that two of the lizardmen and three of the lizard hounds cross her imaginary line of reach thanks to her eyes…
Then her sword coated in a crimson energy that flows as if it were alive performs a cut even faster than before, while Gloria says: "Crimson flash!"
In the next instant neither the enemies that were selected nor the allies could see it well, but a bright red line appeared only for a few moments and then once again the split bodies that continued moving for a time due to inertia fell split in two.
One of the lizard women atop the giant wood-scaled lizards shouted an order: "You focus on the weaker mortals!, Arthake, Rithake, Mathake and I, we will take care of the redhead."
Then she gave an indication to her giant lizard which charges at an incredible speed for its enormous size similar to that of a great bull, the horn on the lizard's head made it look more threatening.
Gloria does not change her expression, evaluating the four alphas she realizes that they are very weak barely in the mystic realm grade 3 initial stage, but even so she prepares and gives a final order: "Commander Cathleya, take command of the troops defend while I deal with the leaders!, Andrea and Caroline focus on eliminating the stalker lizards!, do not allow them to reach and bother our ranged attackers!"
Gloria quickly enveloped in crimson energy recites the martial words of a technique: "Crimson blazing light that terrifies my enemies, cover me so I may become the ray of light that vanishes in a blink!, Crimson flashing steps!"
Gloria at a fairly high speed that does not seem to be that of someone of her cultivation realm launches herself onto the battlefield dodging attacks from soldiers left and right…
It is not that she is suicidal, but she knows that it depends on her to prevent those powerful beasts from breaking the allied lines, with her sword in the sheath she takes it again while running in zigzag, to her eyes everyone passes like blurry lines, her speed did not stop increasing.
The lizard alphas quickly furious in challenge cover their weapons in energy of different colors, yellow, blue, white and orange, they try to surround her, but it is as if they were trying to catch a slippery mouse.
In the next instant Gloria appears behind one of the alphas and softly saying: "Crimson flash of the sword…"
A clean cut kills the leader along with her beast, without stopping she quickly runs to another dodging the desperate attacks, retaking her sword from the sheath she repeats the same as before, when she does the second alpha falls dead.
The other two alphas look at each other completely terrified, but it is too late, like a crimson demon Gloria reaches the other and with pff, the third falls, the fourth watches this in horror and says: "Retreat!, Retreat!"
But it is too late, her moments of doubt are taken advantage of by Gloria who appears at her back with one of her eyes lit by a crimson light, Gloria stabs her sword into her chest killing her and her giant lizard.
Then after doing so, Gloria without hesitation runs at her highest speed trying to reach the top of the hill, but in the process she feels her lungs burning, in her breath her own crimson energy is emanated without ceasing, as if it were vapor…
Gloria realizes and says: "Shit not now, not now!, just a little more, just a little more!"
When she is about to reach the top of the hill Gloria almost collapses, she falls leaning on her sword while breathing with difficulty, her body emanates an immense heat so visible that it distorts the air around her, her pale skin now looks with a small crimson touch…
Caroline who is aiming at the last stalker lizard before shooting shouts to Freja: "Freja quick run to rescue Gloria!"
Freja directs her gaze to Gloria and sighing heavily with her shield and her mace after violently smashing the skull of a lizardman breaking it into hundreds of pieces says: "Alright I'm going… Gloria really likes to show off."
With a powerful jump, she jumps into the middle of the battlefield and runs to where Gloria is, she barely makes it, when she arrives she finds a furious lizardman about to pierce Gloria's body with his spear, but Freja with her heavy mace and her brute strength strikes him in the chest crushing it with a crunching sound and sends him flying.
Freja lifts Gloria onto her shoulders and signals to Caroline, Caroline tells the commander: "Quick commander of the order, have everyone fire to make a path for Gloria!"
The commander sees Gloria and nods saying: "Everyone open a path for the leader!"
Energy shots, arrows and bolts rain in that direction facilitating Freja's process, who gently places Gloria against the wall before saying: "Know your limits better, you cannot be putting yourself in those situations."
Then Freja returns to the battlefield, while Gloria tries to regulate her breathing...