I Reincarnated to Another World as a Woman-Chapter 114: Offensive

Maurice returns a few minutes later. His expression is hard to read.

Leila doesn’t notice. She’s too happy knowing her children are safe. When she sees him, she immediately asks, "Well? She’s okay, right?"

"Yeah." Maurice nods. "She’s okay."

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"Are we ready?" Aldriana’s voice comes through the earpiece.

"Arthur here. Ready." Arthur answers. He’s crouched behind a large rock.

"Liam here. Ready." Liam replies. He’s hiding behind a thick tree trunk.

"Julian here. Ready." Julian says. He’s positioned on a high tree branch, gun in hand.

"Maeve here. Ready." She stands atop a massive boulder, close enough to support Aldriana if needed.

As they talked earlier, Aldriana decided they’d been on the defensive long enough.

"It’s time we flip the situation." She said.

Her plan is simple.

She will flood the dungeon with as many high-intensity light orbs as possible, leaving only one zone in complete darkness. To avoid the light, the haelions will instinctively move toward the dark area.

And that’s where they’ll be waiting.

Now everyone is positioned around the designated kill zone, while Aldriana hovers high above, ready to unleash thousands of light orbs.

From the sky, she can clearly see which areas are illuminated and which remain untouched. She can also spot potential cave entrances or shadows that could hide reinforcements.

Everything is in place.

"Okay, here I go," Aldriana says.

She launches thousands of light orbs into the air, sending them spreading throughout the dungeon like a second sky.

Maeve supports her immediately, producing smaller light orbs to fill the narrow crevices and blind spots the larger ones can’t reach.

Now that she knows her resonance is healing, a higher branch of light magic, Maeve is eager to push herself further.

She still remembers what happened to Julian.

The helplessness.

Standing there, unable to do anything while he was hurt.

She never wants to feel that way again.

So she pours everything she has into the light.

Shrieks and screeches erupt everywhere.

The ground trembles. The thunder of thousands of hooves pounds through the darkness, echoing off stone and cavern walls.

Then the first wave of haelions pours into the designated kill zone.

Julian fires immediately.

His movements are calm, almost detached. One shot. One kill. Each blast of heartstone energy lands true, burning straight through weak points with surgical precision.

Arthur doesn’t rush in.

He stays at the edge of the light, sword in hand, cutting down any haelion that strays too close. He fights smart. No charging. No recklessness. Each strike is decisive, lethal.

Liam mirrors him on the opposite flank.

His Aetherion whip crackles through the air, snapping and coiling with fluid precision. Each strike pulls, crushes, or cleaves. Haelions fall before they can even reach him.

There is no chaos.

Only slaughter.

It is a massacre.

This goes on for several minutes. The haelions begin to realize they are being hunted.

Their movements grow erratic. Then they start clicking at one another.

The clicking grows louder. Faster. Layered.

"What is that clicking sound?" Maeve asks, unease creeping into her voice. "Do you guys hear it?"

"I do," Julian replies, eyes never leaving his scope as another pulse of heartstone energy fires.

"Me too," Liam says, tightening his grip.

"Same here," Arthur adds, his gaze scanning the dark zone.

"Yes," Aldriana confirms from above. "Even from up here, I can hear it."

"No, it’s not just the clicking. There’s a... voice... I think. Yeah. A voice embedded in those clicks," Maeve says.

"Huh?" the others respond through the earpiece.

"A voice? Like speaking?" Liam tries to make sense of it.

"I don’t hear anything," Julian says.

Arthur stays silent, listening harder.

Aldriana frowns. "Can you understand what it’s saying?"

Maeve frowns too, still launching smaller light orbs. She carefully uses them to keep the haelions from scattering, her light herding them back into the war zone.

"It’s... hard. Unclear."

She pauses, concentrating.

"It’s like... ’Help us... help us... King.’"

"They’re asking for help?" Julian asks. "From who? Their King?"

"King as in the Dungeon King?" Liam confirms.

"One thing is certain," Arthur says quietly. "I don’t think the Dungeon King is here."

Maeve is stunned by how easily her new teammates believe her. She is supposed to be a stranger to them, yet they accept her words without hesitation. Even when she has no proof. Even when she is the only one who can hear it.

Aldriana frowns.

Why is she the only one who can hear it?

Does it have something to do with her resonance?

Light resonance... is a mysterious one.

"Everyone, stay alert," Aldriana says. "If the King is not here yet..."

Her sentence is cut short by an extremely loud shriek that echoes through the dungeon.

"What was that?" the others ask almost at the same time.

The haelions’ clicking grows louder, faster, more frantic.

"I guess that’s the King’s answer to their cries," Julian says grimly. "Be ready. I think the King is coming." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Arthur moves instantly.

He speeds up, striking faster, cleaner. He intends to reduce the number of haelions before the King arrives. Dungeon Kings are already powerful under normal circumstances. This dungeon is abnormal. He does not want any surprises.

When he voices his intention, the others immediately agree.

"Good thinking, bro," Julian replies, increasing his firing speed.

"Great minds think alike," Liam says, his Aetherion cracking faster through the air.

Maeve says nothing.

She knows her limits. She knows she cannot help with killing. She has no offensive magic strong enough to matter here.

"That’s not true," Aldriana says from beside her.

Maeve whips her head around, startled, only to see Aldriana landing smoothly next to her.

"Sorry. I didn’t mean to startle you," Aldriana says.

"How did you know?" Maeve asks, eyes wide.

"Know what?" Aldriana replies, though her gaze never leaves the war zone.

"Know what I was thinking," Maeve presses.

"Oh. That," Aldriana says casually. "You said it out loud."

"I... I did?" Maeve flushes in embarrassment.

"But I was telling the truth," she adds quickly.

"So am I," Aldriana says, finally turning her attention fully to Maeve. "When I say that’s not true."