Combat Maid Harem
Chapter 346 - Unexpected Ambush

"Lawrend Horiel, you didn't expect that we would know where you had been heading to these past few weeks, huh?"

An assassin with a male figure and a manly voice walked forward. He wore a black cloak with a hoody on his body.

With the dark night, it was hard to see his face clearly. So was the same to the other assassins.

"Bloodflower Assassin Organization?" Lawrend asked.

"Of course. Other than us, who would dare attack the Prime Student of the Undrasil Mage Academy," the assassin replied.

"Who are you?"

Contrary to what you would expect, it was Aleshia that asked the question.

"Aleshia… The upcoming assassin of the Lanika Branch. If you had finished your mission, you would have been invited to the main branch," the man replied.

"Answer my question," Aleshia said.

"You already know that I'm an assassin? What's the point of you asking me that question?" the man retorted.

"Hmph," Aleshia harrumphed.

"Master, should I attack?" Aezel asked.

"Wait. Let them attack first," Lawrend replied.

"Lawrend Horiel, even if you're as strong as an Arch Mage, we are all Arch Mages here with some us Hill Swords," the man said.

"Aren't you too stupid for an assassin? You're blatantly revealing to me your strength," Lawrend mocked him.

"Really?"

Suddenly, the man ran to Lawrend's side without, and he wasn't able to react to it.

"That was a lie. I'm a Mountain Sword," the assassin whispered into his ear.

"!!"

Aezel immediately swung her arm and shot a bolt of golden lightning that hit the assassin's hand.

"Aghhh! What the hell? How are you able to react so fast?"

"Fufufufu. Thank you for giving me a chance to show off to my master."

Aezel's figure disappeared for half a second and reappeared behind the assassin.

"Where!?" the Mountain Sword shouted and looked around.

"You messed with the wrong people," Aezel whispered.

She placed her palm on the back of the man's heart and poured her golden lightning into his body.

*BOOM!*

As she was doing that, his hand suddenly exploded into a bloody mess.

"My hand..! AGHHH! M-MY CHEST…"

The assassin fell to the ground and clutched his chest with his other hand. He could feel his heart beating in a weird rhythm. Her powerful divine lightning altered the way it pumped his blood, causing him to feel pain.

"Die," Aezel muttered.

*BOOOM!*

The ground shook as the assassin exploded into bloody bits.

It took a while to mention all of that, but it actually all happened very fast. The Arch Mage and Hill Sword assassins around them weren't able to react to it.

"S-Senior is dead!?"

"FUCK!"

"Run! She's a monster!"

The assassins dispersed into the forest and ran away.

"Aezel and Elena, don't let any of them escape," Lawrend said.

"Yes, Master," Elena responded.

"Fufufufu. I won't," Aezel replied.

Both she and Elena utilized their divine lightning and pointed to the running assassins.

First, they would use a long-range lightning magic spell that would not deal much damage, but rather, the purpose of these attacks was to incapacitate them.

*ZAPP ZAPP ZAP ZAP BOOM!*

Even though their divine lightning attacks were meant to incapacitate them, some of them that had a really weak defense against lightning magic had parts of their bodies explode.

"AHHH!"

"AHHH!"

"AIIIEEEE!"

The sound of screams resounded all around them. None of the assassins were able to escape Elena and Aezel's attacks.

Especially for Aezel's victims as they were affected by her more powerful divine lightning.

Blood pooled under the assassins as they started to bleed from the gaping holes on their bodies. A few minutes later, the sounds stopped, and the only thing you could hear was the haggard breathing of the assassins that were on the ground.

"Master, do you want a bloody show?" Aezel asked.

"Keep it neat. I don't want to be blamed for this," Lawrend said.

"As per your orders, Master," Aezel responded.

She turned to the crawling assassins and walked up to them one by one. She suppressed the ability of the divine lightning to explode and simply fried their brains with her lightning.

Several minutes later, she and Elena returned to Lawrend's side.

"*Gulp* That's kind of bloody," Lawrend muttered.

Even if he had already killed someone, seeing so many dead people was still a different experience. He shook his head and looked at Aezel and Elena's cute faces.

If they weren't his maids, he would have run for his life. The way they killed these humans was so cold that he felt chills in his spine.

"What's wrong, Master? You look pale," Elena said and walked up to him before caressing his cheek.

"I-I'm fine, Elena," Lawrend replied in a stutter.

He breathed in and out to relax his nerves and took out his flute. He played a short tune on it before a giant white roc exited from the forest and landed at the edge of the Undrasil Monster Forest.

"Human, where are we going?" Clova asked.

"We're going to Lanika City," Lawrend replied.

"Also, do you mind?" Clova pointed her beak to one of the dead bodies.

"Erhhmm… Do whatever you want," Lawrend replied.

He didn't actually understand what she meant. Well, that was his greatest mistake. She lowered her head and gulped the human body inside her mouth, and swallowed it.

"Y-You…"

Lawrend stared at her agape. He didn't expect her to outright eat that assassin's body.

"What? I thought you permitted me? It's food, isn't it?" Clova asked.

"..."

Lawrend tried to open his mouth and explain to her that humans aren't food, but he decided that it was pointless. They were already dead, and they would likely rot out here unless someone took them away.

It was actually eco-friendly for her to eat them.

"How many humans had you eaten already?" Lawrend couldn't help but ask.

"Not many. They rarely reach my nest in the forest. Why do you ask?" Clova looked at Lawrend weirdly.

"N-Nothing.. It was just my first time to see a human get eaten whole," Lawrend replied with an awkward smile on his face.