Chapter 954: The Self-Proclaimed Sage Grim
"You're getting carried away? I am the 'Fairy Knight Tristan' personally named by Mother! My threads are indestructible, how could someone like you possibly—"
Fairy Tristan laughed triumphantly.
The shield came crashing down like a meteor, shattering the demonic strings she had deployed before her as easily as breaking dry twigs!
"No way?!"
Amidst a flustered scream, Fairy Tristan was sent flying by the shield.
"Someone like you shouldn't disgrace the name of the Round Table Knight Tristan!"
Mash glared angrily at her opponent.
Even Habenyan couldn't help but fall silent, as if seeing Mash this enraged for the first time.
"What a weak Tristan!"
Eiji exclaimed inwardly.
She got instantly defeated by Mash?
Although Mash now possesses strength rivaling that of a Fairy Knight, this Fairy Tristan is just too pathetic!
No wonder Eiji heard the names of Fairy Knights Gawain and Lancelot everywhere, with everyone marveling at their power, while the third Fairy Knight Tristan was rarely mentioned. So this crazy woman is practically invisible among the Fairy Knights?
"But that's not the main issue..."
Eiji swapped to another fairy-brand charger, his expression growing increasingly grave.
Barghest seemed to have noticed the commotion here and was quickly approaching. Eiji had no choice but to summon another light sword to block her path, instantly accelerating his mana consumption rate!
The rate of mana absorption clearly couldn't keep up with the expenditure!
Can't you break through the encirclement faster!
"Or perhaps, as expected, I need to step in myself?"
Eiji hesitated.
Because the opponent's mana circulated through his body before being immediately expelled, his mana flow had become extremely sluggish. To break through the blockade while restraining Melusine and Barghest, he'd probably need to take action personally.
But if he jumped out now, a connection would inevitably form between Sheffield's experts and himself, and his identity would likely be exposed—fairies can instantly discern an opponent's mana scale and characteristics. They identify people by mana traits, an ability retained after the degradation of Fairy Eyes. Eiji, unable to disguise this, would inevitably be exposed!
That's why he had been avoiding Melusine and Barghest instead of appearing disguised as a stranger.
If that happened, his undercover mission in the Fairy Kingdom would probably end—
"Hey now, this won't do. We just reunited and caught up, right?"
Beryl chased after them with clear dissatisfaction, looking headacheedly at Fairy Tristan who had crashed into the ruins.
"Miss Spinel, your threads' greatest advantage is their wide attack range, right? In that case, use those refugees as hostages. Kill them if they don't obey. That way, they won't be able to do anything. You should be able to handle something this simple, right?"
"Oh! I-I knew that! I was just a bit careless!"
Fairy Tristan jumped out from the ruins, glaring furiously at Mash.
"This dress is one of my favorites! How dare you dirty it? I'll ask Mother for your corpse, then turn you into a corpse puppet—crying and screaming in agony forever, a fate worse than death!"
No sooner had the words been spoken than dozens of threads suddenly extended from Fairy Tristan's hands, shooting toward refugees in every direction!
"Don't even think about it!"
Mash rushed forward immediately.
"Don't ignore me now, will you?"
But Beryl stood before her with a smile.
In his hand, he had somehow already grabbed a human child, his thumb's nail pressed against the child's neck, making the child tremble uncontrollably.
"You!"
Mash instinctively halted, glaring at him with an extremely grim expression.
"Darn it, there are too many threads! I can't stop them all!"
Habetrot looked frustrated. As a textile fairy, threads were supposed to be her specialty, but using threads to block threads was simply impossible!
Eiji's gaze sharpened as he slowly crouched into a ready stance.
"Whoosh!"
At that moment, a burst of roaring flames suddenly surged from the distance.
The flames transformed into a curtain, shielding the refugees and startling Fairy Tristan, who hastily retracted her threads before they could be burned.
"It seems you've been entangled with some troublesome individuals!"
The one who spoke in a leisurely tone was a man holding a staff.
He wore a white hood that covered his face, with only two strands of blue hair visible at his temples. His open chest revealed well-defined, muscular physique.
As soon as he appeared, he raised his hand and effortlessly wrote several glowing characters in mid-air.
After infusing the characters with magical energy, an extraordinary mystery erupted, and a fierce gale abruptly swept toward Beryl.
"Tch!"
Knowing he was no match, Beryl threw the human child in his hand as a shield against the gale and retreated backward.
Just as the child screamed, the oncoming gale suddenly softened, catching him and gently lowering him to the ground.
"Thank you for your righteous intervention... Could you be the White Wolf Lord who has been following me since the Nameless Forest?"
Seeing that the two perverts' schemes had failed, Mash finally breathed a sigh of relief and looked at the spell-writing mage as if she had realized something.
"What? So I was exposed from the very beginning? Haha, that's right, it was me! Using Druid techniques, transformation is a piece of cake!"
The blue-haired man muttered to himself and let out a hearty laugh.
"Grimr! You! Could you be Grimr?"
Habetrot hesitated for a moment before shouting with uncertainty but great excitement.
"Yes, yes, that was also me... Though I'd love to catch up, now is not the time!"
The blue-haired man openly acknowledged the name Grimr, his sharp gaze turning toward the two perverts and the Queen's soldiers across from them.
"While that person helps us hold off the two most troublesome Fairy Knights, let's quickly break through the encirclement with the refugees!"
"Understood!"
Mash's spirits instantly lifted.
"Grimr? The Sage Grimr?"
Beryl made a bored, dejected face.
"Seriously? Isn't that the legendary companion and magic teacher of the savior 'Caster'? Why has he appeared again in this era?"
"What should we do, Lord Beryl? That self-proclaimed Grimr seems incredibly dangerous!"
"...Perfect. Let's make a run for it!"
Seeing that even Fairy Tristan looked extremely tense, Beryl fell silent for a moment before cheerfully laughing.
"Huh?"
"Anyway, we're no match for them, and those two Fairy Knights are useless, so what else can we do but run?"
"R-right, this isn't my fault! It's those two Fairy Knights who are completely worthless! Mother surely won't punish me for this!"
Barghest said smugly.
"Soldiers, attack!"
Taking advantage of the chaotic battle, the two quickly slipped away unnoticed.
Hidden in the shadows, Eiji breathed a quiet sigh of relief upon seeing this, then narrowed his eyes.
"Leaving so soon? Come and experience the warm welcome of our Proper Human History!"