Chapter 48 Scorched Bird

'BOOM!'

Erend fell over the meadow until he formed a small crater and hit the grass below. But of course, he didn't feel too much pain. Erend immediately got back up and looked at the half-bird humans.

They were still hovering above and staring at him. As if waiting for what he will do next.

An Aarakocra who has a dull blue feather is seen talking to an Aarakocra who has a green and red feather. After that, the green and red Aarakocra flew back towards the caravan.

Erend who had forgotten about the caravan for a moment now remembered. The quest was that he only had to kill the five Aarakocra. But will he just leave innocent humans alone?

Erend had no problem doing something cruel to humans who were wronged like Anna and the people in the government who sent them to the bunker. But for the innocent people, Erend would not let them get hurt and would protect them.

The caravan had stopped after hearing Erend falling. Some of the people inside even came out to look at the meadow.

Erend flapped his wings again and shot toward the two Aarakocras who were about to pounce on the humans. The two Aarakocra spread their arms towards Erend and shot out waves of wind like before.

'BWOOSHH!'

But this time Erend was able to avoid it. He wouldn't be hit by the same trick twice.

The humans in the caravan finally saw what happened. Their eyes widened in shock at the scene above them.

"I-Its Aarakocra!" one of the humans shouted.

"Come on in! Hurry up! We have to get out of here!"

The humans got back into their wagons and started ordering the horses to start running.

Erend who heard it was relieved. If the humans left it meant that he wouldn't have the burden of protecting them.

But the speed of the caravan to leave the scene could not match the speed of the Aarakocra. That meant Erend still had to protect them until they could go further and reach a safe distance.

Aarakocras who was behind Erend did not remain silent watching him. It seemed that they had forgotten about the caravan of humans by now and headed straight for Erend.

Erend will gladly serve them. He started throwing punches at the two Aarakocra in front of him.

They both turned out to have good fighting skills in the air. It seemed they had all been trained to fight in the air.

Well, it's only natural since they are a half-bird human.

While Erend never had the experience to fight in the air. This made it quite difficult for Erend especially when he was facing the five of them at once.

The blue-feather Aarakocra suddenly maneuvered to dodge Erend's punch and circled behind him. He could do that move quickly and agilely to the point that Erend couldn't catch up.

Then from behind him, the blue Aarakocra threw a rope at Erend's right-wing and ensnared him.

'They're trying to knock me down!' Erend gritted his teeth.

Suddenly his left wing was also entangled by a rope. The two Aarakocra who were entangling his wings tried to tighten the rope. But they couldn't because Erend's wings were too hard.

Erend smirked. "These aren't bird wings like yours!"

Erend flapped his wings forward. Due to the force of the flapping of the wings, the two Aarakocra who was holding onto the rope were flung forward.

Then Erend smacked his elbows at the both of them.

'BUAGGH!'

'BUAGGH!'

The two Aarakocra threw backward. But they were still able to keep themselves floating in the air.

Erend flies away from the middle of their encirclement. The five Aarakocra looked at him with more wary eyes than before.

They started talking in their language which Erend couldn't understand.

"What exactly are we dealing with?" The golden-feathered Aarakocra asked.

"No idea. But we have to kill him." The blue-feathered Aarakocra drew his sword. "Let's kill him as fast as we can so we can catch up to the humans!"

The blue Aarakocra attacked first. His four friends followed behind him. Then simultaneously they issued a wind attack towards Erend.

[ Skill activated: Fire Breath (Lv.1) ]

'VWOOOOSSSSHHHH!!!'

Erend immediately spouted fire from his mouth as soon as they flew closer. He didn't want to waste any more time and wanted to end this fight quickly so he could Level up.

The burst of flames startled the Aarakocras. They immediately stopped their pace as fast as they could but they couldn't dodge the flames that were coming so fast toward them.

The blue-feathered Aarakocra was hit by the fire first because he was at the very front. He shouted in a voice that sounded like the voice of a human being in pain.

p The feathers of the Aarakocras burned and a charred smell wafted through the air.

They immediately dispersed. Some were in the air and struggled to put out the fire, some fell to the ground.

Erend immediately lunged at the three Aarakocras who were still in the air.

[ Skill activated: Dragon Claw (Lv.1) ]

Erend pointed his claws at the golden-feathered Aarakocra.

'CRAAT!!!'

The claw pierced his neck and instantly separated the Aarakocra's head from his body.

Erend turned to the two remaining Aarakocra. They saw what Erend was doing but they couldn't do anything but watch Erend lunge toward them and then swing his claws.

'CRAAT!!!'

'CRAAT!!!'

What happened next was predictable. The two Aarakocras couldn't do anything. Erend used his claws and killed them both with one slash each.

The three Aarakocras that had been floating in the air began to fall in a dead state.

The Aarakocras below couldn't fly anymore because their wings had been scorched by the fire.

Erend immediately swooped down and then killed them both in the same way he ended the lives of their three friends in midair.

Erend stood beside the five Aarakocra corpses. He disabled his Skills so that his body turned into a human again.

[ Daily Quest Completed! ]

[ Reward: 100 Exp. ]

[ You leveled up! ]

[ You leveled up! ]

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