These Familiars Are Strange

When they heard this, they pulled out their weapons and started moving towards the ogres.

This time, they didn't seem to have as much hesitation as before as they worked with each other against the ogres.

They knew that if they wanted to hunt the Kijin, the most important thing was taking care of these lackeys so they could focus on the Kijin.

As for who would take the credit for killing the Kijin, they would have to worry about that after.

But the thing that drove them the most was the fact that Leaf was able to do all of this on her own. There were still other members of the World Tree Team that hadn't made a move yet, so there was no telling what kind of power they had.

If just Leaf was this powerful, then there was no need to doubt the power that the others wielded.

If they were to move, then they would be in danger.

So it was better to cooperate for now.

But with the flames around the ogres, it wasn't as if they could get too close to the ogres. Without even approaching the ogres, they could feel the heat that was coming from the flames that surrounded them.

The only thing that they could do was use ranged attacks against these ogres.

However, they found that the flames not only burned away the roots that came out of the ground, they also formed a barrier around the ogres. That meant that all of the attacks that they used against the ogres were stopped by the flames that surrounded them.

That didn't mean that it didn't have an effect as the attacks did weaken the flames and allow the roots to survive.

Each attack seemed to drain at the power of the flames that surrounded the ogres, giving more space to the roots to wrap around the ogres.

The Kijin knitted its brows when it saw this before releasing even more flames.

But even then, it seemed that the Kijin was struggling against all of these attacks that were falling on the ogres. Experience more content on My Virtual Library Empire

If it was just a few people, then the Kijin might be able to do something.

With all of these people attacking at the same time, the Kijin just could do nothing but use its flames to protect the ogres.

But since the flames were no longer restraining the roots, that meant that Leaf was able to do a bit more.

When she raised the shield, the roots started to close around the ogres.

The ogres did what they could to resist the roots that were closing around them, but it didn't seem like it was working. It seemed that the roots were just getting tighter and tighter around them, putting more and more pressure on them.

It seemed like it was only a matter of time before the roots would completely crush these ogres.

This certainly would be a terrible way to die.

This tug of war between our side and the monster side continued for a bit longer before finally one of the ogres died. They died because they had been crushed by the root that was wrapped around them.

As if a chain reaction happened, there were several more ogres that were crushed by these roots.

And once these roots crushed the ogres, it seemed that the pressure had been relieved on Leaf as she was able to summon more roots to wrap around the ogres. It seemed that she wanted to end things in one single move.

But the Kijin wouldn't allow that to happen.

The Kijin had only been using these flames until now to resist, but it seemed that it was finally fed up with this.

The flames were suddenly released around the ogres and instead gathered around the Kijin, but that wasn't the only thing that happened.

As soon as the flames gathered around the Kijin, there was this powerful aura that appeared.

This was one that was far greater than the aura that the Kijin released previously.

The flames soon condensed into a figure, but it wasn't a real figure.

It was like a mass of fire with the way that it was shaped.

Leaf knitted her brows when she saw this and then raised the shield, causing the roots to move. She wanted to close the roots that were around the ogres before the Kijin could finish condensing what it was about to condense.

Only she knitted her brows even more when she found that the roots released on their own.

She certainly wasn't the one that had them release themselves, the only thing that could have done that was if the ogres did something or if the Kijin did something.

When the roots were released, one could see that there were faint traces of black flames that were on them.

These black flames were completely different from the flames that the Kijin used previously.

These flames were clearly on a different level.

And at the same time, it was clear that these flames didn't come from the Kijin, but rather from the figure of flames that he condensed.

Once they had been freed of the roots, the ogres didn't hesitate to charge forward with their weapons raised. It seemed that the appearance of this figure of flames had emboldened the ogres.

At the same time, it even seemed to buff them as there were flames that appeared around their weapons.

"Ifrit's avatar." Leaf said all of a sudden to the surprise of everyone around her.

But they didn't have time to process this as the ogres had already reached them.

The only thing that they could do was try to fight back against the ogres, but that was hard because of the flames that were around their weapons. When their weapons met the weapons of the ogres, they actually melted under the intense heat of these flames.

Whatever these flames were, they certainly weren't normal.

Perhaps they really were related to Ifrit, the great spirit of fire like Leaf said.