The move’s name itself was cute like a puppy’s bark, but its volume was anything but cute. It made the ground and even the air tremble, violently spreading out shock waves that made me worry for the buildings around us. It was more like a directional sonic weapon than a loud shout.
Her sound wave attack targeted not just one or two of our unwelcome guests but the entire entourage standing before her. Everyone in her line of fire was mangled and sent flying backward. It was as if she’d hit them with a hypercompressed tornado, and it was terrifying to behold. I wondered what it took for her lungs to be able to create such forceful waves. Maybe they’d become superpowered as she’d leveled up so much.
Having completely emptied her lungs, Eldrid took in a deep breath and exhaled. It wasn’t even a cold winter day, yet she breathed out a puff of white air.
“Looks like there’s still half of them to go,” she said.
“Eek!”
Oh, that shriek hadn’t been from me but from that guy they’d been calling “boss.” I wasn’t sure if he’d gotten lucky or if Eldrid hadn’t hit him on purpose, but he hadn’t been in the range of the previous attack and therefore was still alive. It was only a matter of time though since I could see an enraged golden retriever looming behind Eldrid.
“Wh-Who are you?” breathed the big guy.
“Me? I’m a Diver, rank 54, level 48,” replied Eldrid.
“Ah... Uh...”
He could hardly speak. Of course he couldn’t. As I’d mentioned earlier, thugs like him acting tough aboveground in Freida were typically around level 5 to 7. This guy was supposedly level 15, but that was hardly going to make a difference, to be honest. In contrast, Eldrid had the level of some of the most terrifying monsters in this world, and she was an ambitious Diver with a high Diver Rank to show for it. These thugs had an ice cube’s chance in hell of putting up even the slightest challenge for her.
I couldn’t help but wonder how they could be so careless when Divers could be found all around Freida. Anyone could’ve been a Diver regardless of how they looked. Not to mention, she was carrying a huge sword on her back. The only thing she could’ve done to make herself more obvious was to carry a sign that read “I’m a Diver,” so it was completely reckless and brain-dead of them to have opposed her.
“Wh-What’s someone like you doing here...?” he mumbled.
“Where do you think we are? Divers are all over Freida,” said Eldrid, then she angrily furrowed her brows. “Don’t worry. I won’t kill you all the way, only around eighty percent or so.”
She then secured her giant sword to its sheath using a string and charged toward the members of the what’s-their-name family. If you were wondering who won, that’d be a silly question that didn’t even merit a response. It’d been a while since I’d seen humans flying in the air, and it wasn’t like in gag manga where people disappeared into the horizon without actually getting hurt.
It’d all ended so quickly that the word “eventually” wouldn’t be appropriate here, but the whatever family had been completely wiped out. True to her word, Eldrid had beaten them to near death, but they were all still hanging on to their lives. They were in such bad shape that they wouldn’t be up to no good for a while, but at least they got to keep all their limbs intact.
“Well, that was weird,” I said.
“Yeah,” said Eldrid, her shoulders slumped, ears flat, and tail dangling. She was obviously pretty bummed out.
“Well, we got rudely interrupted this time, but let’s go explore around town again sometime,” I said.
“Oh, okay!” she said, perking up suddenly to my surprise, but I was glad to see she was feeling better.
I’d need to think of a place for us to hang out together. Maybe I could take her around Japan like I’d done with Scrael.