Actually, Ellie joining this battle herself wasn't just about showing off; it was to test herself and the physical performance of her body after leveling up.
Previously, when she leveled from one to two, aside from that inexplicable Magic Super Evolution trait, she didn't feel a significant improvement in her body's attributes.
However, this time she directly leveled up to five, and considering she might face the Platinum Dragon Lord or Chao Lu later, not being familiar with her leveled-up self could affect the upcoming major battles.
Didn't Ainz say it?
PVP is all about intelligence warfare, but she had very little combat intelligence on the Platinum Dragon Lord and Chao Lu. Therefore, she could only compensate for her lack of information by familiarizing herself with her new level.
After testing, there was a slight improvement this time. Although when she was level one, tearing apart these trashy small skeletons was easier than crushing an ant, this time she clearly felt that her body movements were much more agile than when she was level two. It should be that she felt lighter!
This doesn't mean her weight decreased or anything; accurately speaking, it should be an increase in strength and agility, making her body more flexible! The increase in HP and MP was also very obvious. It's just a pity now that she doesn't have the chance to use those low-level magic spells.
After all, with the precedent of Explosion Magic, although she had already learned quite basic low-level attack magic like Ice Cone, Rockslide, and Light Flash of Creative Trauma.
However, this occasion wasn't the time to test these. If she were to create another annihilation magic with terrifying destructive power similar to Explosion Magic, what if she scared the garrison in Lasa Road Town?
Before meeting the Platinum Dragon Lord and officially clashing, she should try her best to hide herself.
So, apart from using Ice Cone created by Ice Aura to deal with those sticky zombies, Ellie almost always tore apart the other small skeletons by hand. For the current Ellie, a mere flick of a finger could shatter those pieces of trash.
However, while cleaning up these pieces of trash, Ellie still didn't forget... when she first arrived, Sticky Rice Cake was attacked by magic, which meant that among these miscellaneous enemies, there were slightly higher-level Undead Archmages or similar creatures.
But Ellie had almost finished clearing out the remaining miscellaneous enemies and still hadn't found any Undead Archmages. This shouldn't be the case, should it? Undead Archmages shouldn't be able to conceal their aura, right?
They weren't the super-spec ones produced by Nazarick. However, after using her senses, Ellie didn't find any aura consistent with an Undead Archmage. So, who cast the magic that attacked Sticky Rice Cake initially? Or was it not an Undead Archmage that attacked Sticky Rice Cake?
Ellie changed her approach and used one of the Vampire True Ancestor's passive skills, Life Sense... and sure enough, she discovered several living reactions behind the dwindling number of trash Undead... Because they were surrounded by Undead that couldn't be sensed, those few creatures, presumably human, stood out significantly, and although Ellie wasn't highly proficient in using this skill, she immediately noticed them.
It seems they used aura concealment and invisibility to hide themselves. It looks like they wanted to sneak through like this, right? After she joined the battle, no magic was cast at her, clearly indicating that those guys knew the disparity in strength, so they intended to hide and wait for an opportunity to escape.
Hmph! If it were anyone else, they might have gotten away with it, but these guys ran into her, who possesses the Vampire True Ancestor's constitution. It's just their bad luck.
So, Ellie immediately generated a thick, long Ice Spear in her hand and, relying on her wrist strength, directly hurled it at one of the invisible figures.
That guy seemed to notice that Ellie had found him. He even tried to control the small skeletons and zombies in front of him to act as meat shields, but it was useless. The Ice Spear Ellie threw directly pierced through all the small skeletons and zombies in its path, impaling that guy right through.
After all, it was aimed at the part emitting the strongest life force, which was the heart. That guy almost had no reaction before he died instantly.
The others saw their companion killed, yet they still maintained their hidden state. It seems they truly have patience. So Ellie threw a second one, instantly killing another. Anyway, there were still several people left; killing a few to make an example would be good, and it would be easier to interrogate them once caught.
Now they were no longer calm. They clearly realized that Ellie had discovered their presence, so they all dispelled their invisibility and aura concealment, revealing the black orbs in their hands and muttering something at Ellie.
Hmm? Is this their last struggle? By the way, that black orb looks a bit familiar. It feels like it might be that Negative Energy Orb that appeared in the original work? She remembered it appearing when Nfirea was kidnapped, wasn't it used to summon Bone Dragons?
Isn't that thing very difficult for the natives to deal with? How do they have so many? And seeing them holding that thing as if they were chanting something, are they going to summon Bone Dragons?
Good, good! If Bone Dragons appear, then she can legitimately test her magic. So, let them chant. It would have been incredibly easy to stop them from summoning, just give each of them an Ice Cone, but Ellie wanted to directly fight the Bone Dragons to create an opportunity to test her new magic.
Then, the next instant, she expected a Bone Dragon to appear, but unexpectedly, with a whoosh, all those people vanished from Ellie's sight again.
This... this... this is Teleportation! It's not summoning Bone Dragons at all! She was tricked! These guys have no backbone at all, choosing to just flash away!
And even if it's teleportation, why make it look like they're unleashing a big move? What they used was teleportation!! Damn it, she didn't think to prepare for teleportation and let these guys slip away. How infuriating.
Maybe she was too heavy-handed just now? Did she scare them away? Looking at the shattered skeletons and zombie limbs scattered everywhere, and the two corpses she killed, Ellie was not at all happy. Her brilliant and mighty self was actually fooled by those pieces of trash. Really.
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