Chapter 405 - Does intelligence pass down through Genes?

With her feet over inches thick branches, and her palms firmly grasping upon the body of the tree, she saw Eyil slowly drop down on the ground and run away, just like he has been told. Thankfully he didn't show heroism against an entire army alone today, although he did feel guilty about it.

With Eyil possibly over 300 yards away now, she witnessed the Army getting closer and closer without any aims of touching the Forest. Obviously they chose to walk on the softer flat land for the sake of their own feet and Stamina.

The Army is passing about 50 yards away from her, and now that she managed to get a closer look it has become clean and clear that this Army is bigger than she comprehended. Although she had a slightly accurate feeling that this Army won't go over a thousand, they aren't less than 200 either.

Now why did we exactly mention 200? Well an Army of 200 is the easiest for Gaster Kingdom to withstand in exchange of minimal losses. Facing against 200 people, Gaster Kingdom would likely just loose 10-20 Guards. The Fire Controllers being there is the biggest advantage, and the reason why they can escape with minimal losses.

Since she is alone up here, glancing upon the Army. She has gotten the opportunity to think everything through at a better extend, putting Bittore's genes of being a battle strategy goddess, in to use. We all know that Bittore is tremendously smart, but how much did those smarts pass down to Osira?

Let us see, some say that overall intelligence grows on a person along with age. She glanced upon what might be around 400 Soldiers, analyzed how much land they are taking to simply walk, and afterwards took a second to glance at the Forest on her side.

There are some big trees nearly 100 yards away, now to imagine if they catch on fire. How much attention would they drag? With this cold weather, a large forest fire is highly unlikely so what does she has to loose.

She slowly started climbing down the tree, knowing that she might not have enough time since the Army has almost passed by the spot she stalked them on. Climbing down the tree fast enough and without catching any attention is hard, but thankfully the tramples and chit chats across the Army deafened the sounds of crackling branches and raging curses because the branches kept cutting her.

She sneaked from tree to tree, taking seconds to leap from one bark to the other in aims of avoiding detection. It became a bit easy to do so since the Soldiers did not consider Osira and Eyil a threat big enough to monitor the forest.

Running for about 80 yards, she lost track of the big trees she wanted to set on fire. There are so many trees here, and from below it is hard to find a tall tree she saw from a distance of 100 yards.

Considering that she doesn't have enough time, she just decided to set a thick tree on fire. She doesn't know if its the tallest one, and flying up would obviously be a bad idea.

After setting that one tree on fire, she went ahead with the second and then the third. She didn't blow massive fireballs on them, just foot wide ones that have a capability to burn more. She didn't put too much stamina on this, otherwise the fireball would break through the tree instead of burning it.

The trees started burning slowly, and that's her intend. She doesn't want to grab the Army's attention in less than 3 seconds.

The wind and cold did not manage to shun the fire, on the contrary it started spreading wider by the passing second and smoke made its way inbetween the blazing fire.

This is what she was hoping for, to get smoke out of this burning tree, burn it slow enough so she can use the smoke but fast enough so it won't pass undetected from the Army.

She raised one arm above her head and the other straight below her hip, concentrated as much one very nervous lady could and took a deep breath. Upon breathing, she could see the smoke make a sudden shift of direction and head towards her.

She has tried this move countless times, so obviously she can be successful here with one shot. The Fire became bigger and the smoke accompanied it to a further extend, this is what she needed.

Taking in a deeper breath, she found herself surrounded by smoke and saw it spiral around her like an upside down Tornado. Finally, she pulled her arms close to her chest and broke the little Tornado here.

"Fire!" She heard a shout from the army and the panic spread like wild fire amongst the Army.

Regardless of attention now, she has synced in to invisibility so it won't matter if they rush towards or away from the Fire. Her plan is to take their focus towards something entirely insignificant, so she can deliver more damage and use the distraction to buy herself a few seconds.

As most of the Army focused their gaze upon the Fire, she has already made her way out of the Forest and all the way to the bottom left side of the Army, standing 50 yards away from them completely undetected, because she is invisible at the moment of course.

After a short glance she made sure that no one has their gaze focused towards where she is standing, this is why she needed a distraction. She broke out of her invisibility without causing massive smoke as a dramatic entrance. To people who don't understand how this works, seeing someone appear out of thin air like this would be nothing less but Traumatic.

Well perfect, now with a lot of her Stamina scaled as 8/10 towards a Fireball she aimed towards the edge of the Army.

This will burn, a lot. It has the capabilities to scorch through Iron and flesh for 3-5 rounds before leaving terrible wounds on the two next rounds. Regardless, this 5 foot wide Fireball will deal a lot of damage, it will take in at least 10 Victims.

She didn't spear a second to unleash more Fireballs, the first one hasn't reached the Target yet. She did aim towards other directions instead of at the same spot, this will get a bigger grasp of Victims. Life is weird right? Grown up this old and shot down at a mass extend by one person?

The first Fireball hit its Victims, and that's when hauls of pain and panic spread across the Army. For Osira, this is a bit of an instant reminder to fly off.

To fly off and to continue with the next step that is. Standing on her spot is a bad idea since she would eventually be showered with Arrows, and the close combat Soldiers would reach to her. Even a Grand Master isn't fast enough to shoot down 400 people in such a short time.

She flew towards the sky, but she doesn't have any aims to fly away. She flew Higher so Arrows have it harder to reach her, and at full speed she flew above the Army and shot three times before she went all the way across the Army.

These shots killed at least 10 people, but since Arrows aren't flying at the moment it is only a wise idea to return for another round.

She took a sharp U turn, took a second to get a glance of where the best place to shoot is and was quick to notice that some Soldiers have gathered up to a bundle.

Afterwards she saw metal shinning, this isn't a good thing. She shot a four feet wide fireball towards them instantly, and we can consider it that she was lucky to do so because a split second later, several Arrows flew beneath her feet.

The Fireball hit what seems to be the Archers, and a couple of them weren't even given the opportunity to shout out in pain. They got killed instantly and what was left of them was a quarter of bone, flesh and Iron. While the Archers a foot close by got terrible wound marks, to the point where they can no longer focus on performing good enough in battle.

As she flew across the Army one time more, she noticed that screams and shouts have become louder. Confidence struck her, hearing her enemies in panic and in pain.

But when she flew about a hundred yards away, thinking that going back for another shooting would be too dangerous since the Army has likely adapted a hunch towards this situation, they could shoot Osira down be it with emergency Spearmen or obligatory Archers.

Focusing towards the Army, she noticed that at the top right there is a new enemy at bay. And it wasn't a Human, from the looks of it this is a whole god damn Brown Bear.

Afterwards she took a glance at her left and noticed Eyil on the plain field, waving for her attention and afterwards waving his hand above his head towards the forest.