Lumine steeled herself for combat, preparing to charge in once more.
But the shield-bearing Mitachurl immediately stepped in to block her path.
Before Lumine could initiate her attack, the shield-bearing Mitachurl charged forward with its shield once more.
The axe-wielding Mitachurl followed hot on its heels, its massive axe glowing with a fierce red light and wreathed in flames.
Lumine’s expression turned ashen once more.
Yet, sheer muscle memory allowed her to dodge their synchronized assault, flashing around to reappear directly behind the axe brute.
“Blade of Wind…”
Seizing the opportune moment, Lumine extended a hand and channeled her elemental energy.
A destructive sphere of wind materialized and detonated right behind the Mitachurl.
Yet before the wind sphere could strike the axe-wielding Mitachurl, the shield-bearing Mitachurl appeared right in front of Lumine.
The razor-sharp wind blades battered against the wooden shield with loud thuds, looking formidable, yet failing to inflict a single scratch of damage.
By then, the axe-wielding Mitachurl had recovered, swinging its blazing weapon toward Lumine while she was still locked in her elemental skill.
Forced to cut her skill short, Lumine threw herself backward to evade the sweeping arc of the axe.
“Damn it…” Lumine panted, clutching her Silver Sword.
She eyed the two monsters grimly.
“I have to take care of that shield-bearer first,” she thought to herself.
At that instant, a voice rang out from nearby:
“Amber, use a fully charged Pyro shot on the wooden shield!
Lumine, follow up immediately and trigger Anemo!”
*It’s Eve!* Lumine instantly recognized whose voice it was.
“Right!
Use Swirl!” Amber suddenly realized.
“Got it,” Amber said weakly.
Though severely injured, pulling off a charged Pyro arrow was well within her capability.
Besides, she understood what the grass slime was plotting.
Spreading the Pyro element through Swirl to rapidly ignite and burn away the wooden shield.
She had tried using Pyro attacks on the shield before, but a single application wasn’t enough to burn it down completely.
And before she could follow up, the other Mitachurl would charge in, disrupting her.
And during that window, the shield-bearing Mitachurl would use a grass slime to repair the wooden shield.
But things were different now; with Swirl amplification, they should be able to shatter the shield in one go.
Amber pulled her bow to its full draw, gathering searing Pyro energy at the tip of her arrow.
With a sharp *WHOOSH*, a flaming arrow slammed squarely into the wooden shield.
In an instant, flames rapidly spread across the entire wooden shield.
Lumine followed closely behind, dashing right in front of the shield-bearing Mitachurl.
“You can do it!” Paimon watched anxiously from afar.
“Blade of Wind.” Lumine extended a single hand, an Anemo sphere gathering in her palm.
The moment the wind sphere touched the Pyro element on the wooden shield, it was instantly dyed red.
Lumine could feel the intense heat of the fire radiating right from her palm. The source of this chapter is g.com.
Everything happened too quickly for the Mitachurls to react, driving them straight into a stagger state.
“Great, there’s a chance!” Seeing the wooden shield being burned away bit by bit, Lumine said happily.
Just as the wooden shield was about to be broken, at that moment, a downpour suddenly descended from above Lumine.
The flames burning on the wooden shield were instantly extinguished.
“What’s going on?!” Lumine immediately retreated and leaped back.
Just as she was thinking the weather was being uncooperative by raining at a time like this,
She noticed something bizarre: it was only raining directly above the Mitachurls, while the rest of the sky remained completely clear and sunny.
And the Mitachurls, bathed in the rain, became refreshed and invigorated.
At this moment, a burst of gibberish chatter suddenly came from afar.
Lumine’s attention snapped toward the source.
She saw a short, entirely blue Hilichurl holding a staff dancing in the distance.
“Oh no, a Hilichurl Samachurl!” Amber said with a grave expression.
Samachurls were spellcaster-like entities within the Hilichurl tribe, capable of crudely manipulating elemental forces.
“This is trouble now,” Amber felt a great sense of foreboding in her heart.
The current situation had escalated far beyond what Lumine could handle alone.
Normally, monsters of this caliber shouldn’t appear this close to Mondstadt.
Even against two Mitachurls, she could easily handle them under normal circumstances.
But what on earth was going on lately?
The monsters in this single camp were abnormally powerful.
At this moment, the sharp-eyed Amber suddenly noticed that faint wisps of dark aura seemed to be emanating from all the Hilichurls in this camp.
“What in the world is going on here?” Deep confusion filled her mind.
“What should we do now?!” Lumine shouted while still facing the two Mitachurls.
“Lumine, while you still have your mobility, run!
Take the news back to Acting Grand Master Jean in Mondstadt!”
“I’ll cover your retreat,” Amber said, every word heavy with resolve.
She had made a solemn, desperate decision.
With her current injuries, she definitely wouldn’t be able to escape, so she planned to cover Lumine’s retreat and let Lumine go to the City of Mondstadt to fetch reinforcements.
However, before reinforcements could arrive, she might already be dead.
“No, I’m taking you with me.” Lumine readied for battle, aiming the tip of her Silver Sword at the Mitachurls.
In the grass not far away, Eve watched this scene, couldn’t help smiling inwardly:
*A bit interesting.*
With a sudden springy bounce, Eve shot forward and landed precisely around Lumine’s wrist.
“Eve, you…”
At that moment, Eve spoke up:
“Do you know about the theory of elemental reactions?”
“What?” Lumine asked blankly.
“I’ll explain the details later.
I’m attached to your wrist now, and from now on, every single one of your attacks will be imbued with the Dendro element,” Eve continued.
“You must slash them directly with it,” Eve instructed.
“Mm, I know.” Lumine nodded solemnly.
Eve instantly let her gelatinous body flow around Lumine’s wrist, morphing into a sleek white-and-green bracelet.
Right on top of the bracelet were three clusters of small white leaves.
Lumine felt a gentle surge of power filling her right hand.
*Hah!*
Lumine charged forward with her Silver Sword.
Seeing that things were looking bad, the shield-bearing Mitachurl immediately erected its wooden shield in front of itself to defend.
But Lumine was far faster, flashing around to reappear directly behind the beast.
*Hiss…* Lumine slashed directly across the Mitachurl’s back.
Immediately afterwards, a green, seed-like object appeared at the Mitachurl’s feet.
“That’s…
a Dendro Core!!” Amber gasped, her eyes widening in disbelief.
Right!
The Hydro Samachurl’s rain not only allowed the monsters to recover stamina, but also enabled the Hydro element to be applied to the monsters.
And that slime was precisely of the Dendro element, which would trigger a Bloom reaction.
Meaning every time Lumine slashed the Mitachurl with a sword imbued with Dendro energy, a Dendro Core was generated.
“Looks like that slime is far from ordinary!” Amber said gravely.
Relying on her nimble footwork, Lumine dodged the monsters’ onslaught time and time again.
More and more Dendro Cores accumulated around the Mitachurls’ feet, rapidly reaching their maximum threshold.
“Lumine, use your wind blade!” Eve prompted instantly.
“Right.” Lumine gave a slight nod.
Immediately after, an Anemo sphere appeared in the middle of the two Mitachurls.
As the wind sphere spread the Hydro element, it simultaneously vacuumed up all the scattered Dendro Cores on the ground.
*BOOM!*
All the Dendro Cores detonated simultaneously, unleashing a devastating chain reaction that dealt massive damage to the Mitachurls.
And after this attack ended, both Mitachurls collapsed straight to the ground, losing all breath of life.
As for the sheer destructive power of those cores, it was the direct result of Eve’s meticulously calibrated Elemental Mastery.
The damage amount was precisely enough to blow up and kill the two Mitachurls.
The situation had instantly opened up.
With the brutes down, the only thing left in the entire Hilichurl camp was a shivering Samachurl cowering in the distance.
To cut weeds, one must eradicate the roots; Lumine quickly rushed toward the Samachurl and killed it with the fastest speed.