These Familiars Are Strange

Even though the others seemed worried about how they would deal with this Kijin, Leaf wasn't actually worried.

Neither were the other members of the World Tree Team.

They all seemed like they were used to situations like this, so they didn't make a move.

That was except for one member of the World Tree Team that stepped forward.

This one member was the youngest member of the World Tree Team and even seemed like their weakest member with the lack of presence that they had. But they didn't hesitate as they came over to Leaf's side.

After coming over, he summoned his familiar.

It was a squirrel that appeared on his shoulder.

This was a tiny little thing that didn't seem to have any powers at all, but the way that people looked at this squirrel quickly changed.

That was because they were shocked by what it did next.

The squirrel suddenly opened its mouth while facing Leaf's familiar.

Leaf didn't stop it at all as it suddenly started to suck in the branches of her familiar.

With the suction force that it had, it didn't take long before many of the branches of the tree were sucked into the mouth of the squirrel. While sucking in the branches of Leaf's tree familiar, the squirrel's mouth became more and more puffed out.

It seemed like it had a mouthful of nuts or something with the way that it puffed out its cheeks, but everyone knew that these weren't nuts.

These were the branches that it had sucked from Leaf's tree familiar.

During all of this, they didn't seem to care about the way that the Kijin continued to shoot out flames.

The Kijin had paused for a bit when it saw the green glow and that the squirrel had been called out. It seemed like the Kijin was paying attention to them to make sure that they weren't doing anything strange.

But in the end, it seemed like the Kijin lost interest in Leaf and her tree familiar.

It didn't even seem to care that the green light around the others was blocking its flames, it just kept releasing flames as if it believed that it would eventually break through.

And the flames that continued to rain down on the green light eventually did…break through.

Only it wasn't because of the power of the Kijin.

It was the fact that the power of Leaf's tree familiar was being weakened because of the fact that the squirrel was sucking in the branches from the tree familiar. Those branches were ones that had leaves covered in green light.

So once those branches were sucked in by the squirrel, the green light that surrounded the others actually faded away a bit.

Everyone looked at Leaf and the member of the World Tree Team with strange looks when they found this happening.

Why would they do something that would make themselves weaker like this?

It didn't seem to make sense at all.

Only those that were sensitive to mana flow could tell that there was mana gathering around the squirrel. This mana seemed to be gathering inside of the mouth of the squirrel, where all the branches were gathering.

Once the squirrel was done sucking in the branches, it suddenly turned to look at the Kijin.

The Kijin had already lost interest in them, so that was why it was focused on sending flames to take down the ones that were fighting its ogre followers. It didn't notice the squirrel puffing its cheeks out and seemingly gathering something together inside of its mouth.

The Kijin only reacted when the squirrel suddenly spat something out.

It could feel the mana that was being released by the squirrel when this thing came out of its mouth.

The thing in question that had been revealed was a thorn that was made of the branches.

Or it was better to say that it was a thorn made from the wood of those branches. It was something that was condensed from the wood of the branches, so there were dense mana fluctuations coming from this thorn.

Once it was shot out, the Kijin immediately gathered its flames to protect itself.

It recognized the danger of this thorn, so it gathered all the power that it could. Continue your journey at My Virtual Library Empire

It was just that the thorn wasn't to be underestimated.

This thorn of wood was a mass of mana that had been compressed to the point where it had actually become as strong as steel. It wasn't something that could be that easily destroyed, even if the flames came from Ifrit.

The thorn was covered in a green light as it flew out and it pierced right through the flames that the Kijin gathered.

It seemed like it was about to head right for the head of the Kijin, but the Kijin was able to move out of the way at the last second. So instead of piercing the head of the Kijin, it actually pierced the shoulder of the Kijin and sent it flying.

When the Kijin landed, it didn't move.

Many even wondered if the Kijin had died just like that.

But in the end, the Kijin was able to get up. It was just that the flame robe that it had gathered was already scattered and it looked like it was on its last legs.

"What a shame it didn't finish it off."

That was what many of the humans said when they saw the Kijin like this.

However, there were many that had eyes filled with greed when they saw this.

Even if the Kijin hadn't been killed with this one attack, it was a fact that the Kijin was weakened because of this. So this was a perfect opportunity for them to take the final blow…

Everyone looked at each other as if they were wary of each other. They were all trying to take the last hit of this Kijin for themselves.

But they didn't see what I saw.

At the last moment, the thorn had deviated from its intended path by the slighted margin which allowed the Kijin to dodge.

The only one that could do that was…