I've Turned Into A Fox Girl?

Chapter 348: Unexpectedly deadly

<General POV>

Right at the mention of the missing girls, the roof above Himeko and Luna collapsed. Following the falling debris and rubble were the 7 other girls all aiming their weapons at Luna.

Water, fire, earth, lightning, ice, wood and posion coalesced around the girls, each one calling her own element. It coated their weapons and reinforced their outfits which were made to match their affinities.

In the same order of the elements they carried a bow, sword, greatsword, shortsword, daggers, gauntlets and a quarterstaff. With this impressive lineup of gear and abilities, if they were on the same tier as Kiruya it would mean some serious trouble.

Elanor and Silver quickly rushed over to help, not wanting to leave Himeko to 1v7 all the while protecting Luna no matter how strong she was. Clara herself was busy dealing with Kiruya, keeping her way too busy to be of any help.

Elanor quickly manifested roots out of the ground, creating a cocoon around Luna to protect her from the falling debris. Silver used the falling debris to his advantage and faded into their shadows, allowing him to quickly reach the harem girls.

Himeko, seeing that Luna was safe, went on the offensive, sending out a burst of flames destroying any debris that came near her.

"Looks like I do get to have some fun!" Himeko had a wide smile smeared on her face. No longer having to take the back seat, she happily accepted the chance to show off.

"Me and Silver will provide support, so just tell us if you need anything Himeko." Elanor tightly held her fans ready to fight off the fast approaching girls.

"I'll be counting on you two." Himeko lowered herself, preparing to jump in the air to contest the approaching enemy. The concrete below her feet cracked as she pushed off it, launching herself at a speed that was hard even for Elanor and Silver to see.

Appearing right in front of the greatsword girl, Himeko swung her own greatsword that was bursting with flames. The girl panicked being confronted so quickly and tried to parry with her own blade.

The girl had coated her greatsword in earth essentially making it a club. Nonetheless it still added to its weight, which was all the more impressive that she still swung it so effortlessly regardless of her small frame. Their blades crashed, but frankly there was too much of a tier difference between the two, giving Himeko the easy win.

The earth that coated the greatsword shattered and the girl was flung out of the mansion. Her body rag-dolled through the wall and into the ground, making it safe to say she was already out for the count.

Not a moment later, poison gas surrounded Himeko, but she quickly covered her mouth and locked onto the culprit. The latter had already landed on the ground and moved away from the group, looking for the best angle to spread her poison to reach as many opponents as she could.

What she failed to realise is just how strong Himeko was, even after such a display of strength. Still holding her breath,Himeko landed back on the ground and instantly dashed for the poison-using lady.

Before she knew it, Himeko grabbed her by the face and crushed her skull into the ground, instantly dispelling the poison.

As for the others, the water bow fired multiple water arrows at Himeko that were extremely fast. Unfortunately, no matter how fast her arrows were, the flames that raged around Himeko's sword were so hot that they evaporated before reaching her.

"Sorry, but you are too weak, missy." Himeko laughed. Normally water is her weakness, but this little water would only evaporate before even getting close to her.

Silver took this chance to pop out of the shadows behind the bow user and use the back of his scythe to hit her in the head. This knocked her out, causing her to fall to the ground and kicking her out of the fight.

Still, the other side wasn't taking it lying down as the harem member with Lightning was already charging at him. She moved at lightning speed, but it was not as fast as Clara. She tried to slice Silver's neck, but he merely moved back to avoid her blade.

He then coated his hand in shadows to create a blade and stabbed her in the stomach. The girl coughed up blood and dropped her shortsword to the ground, almost hitting the other girl who was just defeated.

Silver then dropped the girl and retreated back into the shadows. He hadn't stabbed her anywhere fatal, but he doubted she would be moving anytime soon.

"Tch, what is this shit?" The girl with the sword had bypassed everyone and tried to focus on getting to Luna. However, her flames were unable to burn through the roots protecting her.

"Even my gauntlets do nothing." Another one of the girls slipped by and tried to destroy it with brute strength, but to no avail.

"You'll need to try harder than that." Elanor stood across from the two girls with a smug grin, proud of how strong her defence was.

"Fuck, everyone else is getting knocked out cold…" Things were looking grim and the thought of surrendering flashed through their minds, but they couldn't back down now.

"You should move, by the way." Said Elanor snapping open both of her fans. Obeying her commands, branches came shooting out of the protective cocoon. They wrapped themselves around the girls, all the way up to their necks, where the branches grew sharp, pointing at the girls threateningly.

The fire girl didn't hesitate to engulf herself in flames to burn away the branches, but nothing worked. It made no sense to her how her flames were completely ineffective, unaware that Elanor's nature element is of a holy type.

Since all the nature she conjures up is related to holy magic, it is also indirectly related to light magic, making her wood more resistant to flames. Of course, if this were Himeko's flames, they would be turned to ash, but since this girl is a lot weaker, it would take a lot more time to burn the wood away.

As for the gauntlet girl, she surprisingly managed to snap the branches and brute force her way out.

Elanor narrowed her eyes, as it came as quite a surprise that she managed to just break them.

In a fit of rage, the gauntlet girl charged at Elanor with her fists coated in wood. This forced Elanor into close combat, which she has yet to demonstrate, but is what she has been training for.

Her fans were fitted with blades and thanks to Elaina's intensive training, she had gotten a lot better at handling them.

The gauntlet lady threw a punch all the while extending wooden blades out of her knuckles for extra reach. Elanor easily dodged it, but more spikes shot out from the gauntlet's side, propelled directly at Elanor.

The girl wore a smirk, thinking she had caught Elanor, but before the wooden spikes could hit her, they were suddenly cut. Then Elanor disappeared from the girl's vision and, in an instant, a bunch of cuts appeared all over her body.

Her ligaments were cut, and her arms could no longer move. At last she finally fell over, completely paralysed.

Elanor had used her wind and fans to precisely cut the girl's muscles so that she could no longer fight.

"Damn bitch!" The girl could still talk, but all she could do was yell and scream while her face was stuck to the ground.

"Sorry, but you are too slow. Should have figured out that we are way stronger than you." Elanor, though, was annoyed at the girl calling her a bitch, so she shoved her shoe into the girl's mouth to shut her up.

As for the hot head that was still stuck, she was still trying to burn the branches away, but has made little progress. She had charred some of the wood, but by the time she would loosen it enough she would have run out of mana.

Just to make sure that she didn't get out, Himeko walked up behind her, completely unaffected by the flames and hit her in the back of the head with the flat side of her great sword.

"I think that's all of them." Himeko looked around and couldn't spot any more of Freja's harem.

"There should be one more! There was a girl in white who disappeared!" Silver shouted from the shadows instantly putting them all on guard once more.

"Elanor, quickly release Luna!" Himeko then realised the enemy might have gotten into the wooden cocoon somehow, so they needed to make sure she was okay.

Elanor quickly opened up a hole and they rushed to see if Luna was still safe. However, as they looked down the hole, they saw her sitting on the back of a knocked out girl in a white dress.

"Oh, you guys are done out there?"