The meeting
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On the other hand, on the surface of the first floor.
"Ahh, these bastards just keep coming."
"Just hold on a little longer, we're almost there."
"Um."
In a small house in a village 3 Runners were being besieged by Maldeans.
The burly man could be seen defending the door, as Dearly Knight pounded the ground ferociously, he had already made a hole that he could easily hide in, but that didn't seem to be his plan.
"This one I think will be enough."
Dearly Knight handed something to the bespectacled girl, it was the part of the ground that turned into a block.
The girl had improvised a ladder out of the blocks Dearly Knight gave her.
"Help me cut this down."
The girl told Dearly Knight and after placing one last block she immediately began pounding on the wooden ceiling.
"Hey, it's not that I don't trust your plan but...wouldn't it be better to stay underground?"
Dearly Knight asked as he climbed up and hit the ceiling.
"If we did, we would run out of food and starve to death, the best thing to do is run away."
The girl said firmly, she seemed to have as much faith in her words as saying that the sun would rise in the east every morning.
"Come on, get on."
When the roof finally gave way and broke into a block, the girl took the initiative to stay and let the others escape first.
"Go first, I won't go out until both of you are out, you and Galik should let me do my duty as leader at least once."
"...?"
The girl went blank, she thought that those are words that someone who is about to sacrifice himself would say.
"Haha, come out and don't worry about me, I'm Galik Diemcy, these little ones are nothing to me."
The burly man at the gate spoke uprightly, unlike before now an eagle pattern had appeared on his back, glowing with blue light and seemed to surround him with a powerful aura.
"Mmhhh!"
He tossed a looter and smashed it into others coming, seizing that moment before more arrived, he crouched down a bit as he rested both arms.
A pattern resembling a panther began to appear on his legs, the pattern glowing with violet light and standing out on his pants.
"Stop."
The girl with glasses stopped him when she noticed his actions, she didn't know what she would do but she didn't seem to want to follow her plan.
Wosh*
The girl flashed and appeared behind Galik in less than a second, she grabbed him with both hands by the collar of her shirt and pulled him back, during the whole process the girl didn't touch the ground in the slightest.
"But what has-?"
Galik, who was confused by being interrupted by the girl, was suddenly speechless when he turned to look at her.
"Oh God, Julia, can you fly?"
The girl who barely spoke and seemed weak and helpless suddenly used such a cool skill, Dearly Knight was very surprised.
"Uhm, let's just get out of here."
Julia stepped to the ground and leaned forward, closing her eyes and crouching slightly as she grabbed Galik's arm from hers.
woosh*
When Julia opened her eyes, a white aura surrounded her body and she shot out of the hole in the ceiling after grabbing Dearly Knight by her gold pants.
A white light flashed across the entire path of her in the sky.
"Quien!"
"Ugh."
Everything happened very quickly and they could not react, by the time their flight speed decreased allowing them to see, they were already more than 100 meters from the village and more than 70 meters from the ground.
"What incredible speed Julia."
"Yeah, even I can't match up."
Looking at the village in the distance, both men were very surprised.
'Mm, what is that?'
Something on the ground caught the attention of the young Dearly Knight, he looked at a golden figure carrying a shield on his left arm.
In front of him is a blond-haired figure stretching out his hand forward, a strange pattern glows suspended in the air, and a silver figure with golden wings appeared out of nowhere.
"What was that?"
Galik felt a strange aura suddenly appear somewhere.
"Hey?"
He suddenly noticed that his body began to plummet and stopped moving away from the village.
"Ju-Julia?"
"Hey girl, you better stop kidding around."
The aura around Julia had completely disappeared, her eyes were closed and she dropped the load in her hands, she seemed to have fainted.
"Oh shit, he's not kidding!"
"Ah-aaaahhhhh."
The two men panicked when Julia didn't respond, they had been thrown more than 70 meters above the ground, if they fell like that now they would turn into meat sauce.
"I should have fought everything sooner, tsk."
"If I fall from this height it won't break the guild's armor, right?"
"You only think about protecting that armor, haha, if that's how things are going to be, you shouldn't have come with it in the first place."
After those carefree words, Galik embraced Julia and Dearly Knight with his strong arms.
"Mmmh."
Animal patterns were drawn little by little on different parts of his body.
"Falc-oooooooh."
Apparently before he finished activating her ability, Julia in her arms opened her eyes.
A faint white aura surrounded her body and she was suspended in the air, only to be dragged towards the ground by the weight of her companions, slowly descending like a feather.
...
"Hey, I almost died of fright"
"Hahaha, that was awesome, but you should let me show off my skills too."
"Sorry, it's just that no one was willing to cooperate."
After a few seconds of descent, the group of three could be seen resting on the ground.
"Don't apologize, I have you to thank for saving me."
Dearly Knight was a bit sad that he couldn't help earlier and seemed to have become a burden.
"Well, you didn't save me but it was fun."
Galik seemed to still think that he could fight those Maldeans if he put his mind to it.
What he didn't know is that this was just the first wave, raiders are the weakest of all Maldeans and still Galik was being pressured, if he faced the Vindicator or a witch surely he wouldn't be unscathed now.
As for taking on an Evoker, a Ravager, or the Illusionist (who was involved by the Reality Hurts feature)...the result would be obvious.
"Yeah, yeah, you don't have to thank me, by the way...what were you planning to do earlier?"
Julia asked Galik in confusion.
"Y-you, didn't you faint?"
Galik was surprised, before he only felt Dearly Knight conscious, he did not expect that this girl could evade her senses.
"Uhm, I was just concentrating to get my energy back."
"Oh I see, mmm…she was going to cover her fall with my body I guess."
Galik said as he looked away and scratched the back of his head.
"Uh um."
Julia was taken aback for a moment, then she just shook her head as she smiled, both seemed willing to sacrifice themselves for each other.
'Uhm, how naive.'
Julia stopped thinking about it, now she felt closer and seemed satisfied with her companions.
"I think we better get out of here."
Dearly Knight said carelessly, he didn't seem to think about the strength displayed by his companions, he didn't even wonder why some Runners from the first floor can be so amazing.
"Uh, why?"
Julia asked in confusion, but Galik seemed to remember something that gave her goosebumps.
'That strange aura.'
"Before while we were flying I saw something on the ground, it looked like a fight between monsters."
"I agree, I didn't see it but I could feel something strange, it's best to stay away and avoid problems."
"Um."
Although Julia couldn't feel the aura before, there was no reason to refuse to avoid unnecessary things.
Dadaist.*
Some steps sounded to the side, they came from a few blocks below and it seemed that several people were going up.
The 3 took their positions, Galik was in front with his fists ready to strike at any moment.
Julia was behind her and after concentrating for a moment something surprised her.
In the background was Dearly Knight and his armor gleamed in the sunlight.
"...?"
"...?"
When the figures came into view they were very surprised, only Julia seemed to have figured this out beforehand.
Mooo* Mooo*
What appeared was a man in a blue t-shirt and jeans followed by two cows, they all stared at each other and no one seemed to have expected this situation.