Editing Skill Tree Goddess:Volume1 Chapter2 (section)

===Part 12===

It was easy to get a hit in on a heavy warrior who used their weight and toughness as a weapon. With a hunter who used a bow or blowgun, you could keep them from firing by getting close. But a light warrior who could use the Evasion Up skill or a dancer whose dancing skills could lower your AGI, even the ability to knock them out with a scratch wasn’t enough. The term “mutual destruction” flashed through Gilbezos Overridge’s mind.

In the final moment, someone took his small hand.

And he was pulled back into the bushes.

Thinking back later, that must have been the very borderline of the skill’s effective range.



''Crash!!



“???”

At first, the tamer with the long whip didn’t understand what had happened.

Her group had lost sight of their target.

“Where did that boy go? Everyone, be on your guard! He can hide anywhere with that tiny body. He might be lurking somewhere, waiting for a chance to strike.”

“L-look up,” said a heavy warrior in an enormous armor, voice trembling. “That light vanishing overhead must be the high elves! We’re going to lose track of them!!”

There had been a blank.

They weren’t moving all that quickly. But even in the short time they weren’t being tracked, the elves had put some real distance between them. The monster hunters felt like a small child watching their balloon float away after letting go of the string.

The tamer dominatrix stood completely still, her alluring lips quavering.

“W-wait, so, what happens now?”

“…”

No one said anything.

They likely didn’t want to answer. They didn’t want to make it real by saying it out loud.

“I paid a fortune in advance to prepare for this. If I don’t get any money out of it, I’ll be buried in debt!!”

Then that was what would happen. In that moment, the hunters became the hunted.

Just for good measure, arrows and magic poured down from the sky.

Like glowing rain.