Erin was now backed up against a wall with Amy, Pierogi and Garret now closing in on her.
The 3 Pierogi clones moved in to attack Erin, but she blocked with her shadow. While she was distracted, Amy threw out her whip at her, which wrapped around her body, and lit up on fire.
[- 19 HP]
[HP 31/70]
Amy yanked on the whip, but Erin stood her ground, and used the shadow around her body to free herself, the whip falling around her.
[- 8 MC]
[MC 4/100]
Then, she threw a pair of bloodswipes at her, and activated her daze skill.
[Daze successful]
[- 2 HP]
[HP 29/70]
The bloodswipes landed into Amy, and she clutched her chest in pain.
Garret and Pierogi charged at Erin, with Garret swinging punches at her, and Pierogi using her own rapier against her.
That was when 3 arrows had shot out in Garret's direction. With her telekinesis, and bow's active ability, all of them had embedded into his body, causing him to stumble back.
Erin was doing her best to dodge, but got cut a little by the flurry of blows. She didn't have a sword to block any of the attacks.
[- 2 HP]
[- 1 HP]
[HP 28/70]
More arrows flew down from above, with two landing into one of the Pierogi clones, causing them to disappear.
Erin's eyes glowed red, she stared into the eyes of one of the Pierogi's. This was a gamble, as Erin was planning on stealing back her rapier from them. It was basically a 50/50 chance of being the real sword.
[Daze activated]
[Daze successful]
While Pierogi was momentarily stopped, Erin yanked the rapier from their hands only for it to dissipate.
'Crap—!' Erin thought.
Of course, the gamble didn't work out. While Erin was distracted, the real Pierogi stabbed Erin in the back, and had her pinned to her own blade.
[- 12 HP]
[- 3 HP]
[HP 13/70]
"I got you now!" Pierogi exclaimed, looking pleased with themself. It was at this moment that they believed they had won.
Twisting her head, Erin decided to use daze once more, eyes flashing red.
[daze activated]
[Daze successful]
Pierogi's eyes glossed over, and their movements froze for a moment.
Seizing the opportunity, Erin pushed herself out of the rapier, and kicked them in the legs, causing them to fall to the ground.
"Don't forget, I'm not the same as before," Erin muttered, quickly grabbing her rapier back.
As she got up, Erin just barely managed to grab a punch from Garret.
"You know, it isn't exactly fair for us to gang up on you," Garret said, pushing further, "But you did take us by surprise first."
With his free hand, he was about to throw another punch, but Erin lifted her leg up. They both threw their hits as fast as they could, but Erin was faster, and stuck Garret's family jewels as hard as she could. Immediately, Garret clutched where he was hit, stumbling back as he did.
"That's— that's dirty!" Garret groaned.
Garret charged at Erin, holding back tears, when she sliced at the air, using bloodswipe once again to strike Garret, and he fell to the ground.
[- 1 HP]
[HP 12/70]
[+10 EXP]
[A Lv. 4 human has been defeated]
[55/800 EXP]
Turning around, she spotted Pierogi and Amy standing in front of her looking just fine, it was as if she hadn't done any form of damage to them at all.
'I don't get it, I've thrown some strong hits against them, but they're still fine. I could use blood spray, but that might be too strong,' Erin thought.
She recalled just how strong the move had been, being able to kill an advanced tier beast. If she used that move on some fellow students, she might actually kill them. Having a few deaths happen on another planet could easily be explained, but how would she explain it to Quinn?
"Let me guess, you're surprised that we're perfectly fine despite your efforts?" Amy sneered.
Erin stared at the two of them, then mentally activated a command.
'Blood bank, activate!'
[Blood bank has been activated]
[+ 5 HP]
[+ 5 HP]
[+ 5 HP]
…
It was Amy and Pierogi's turn to be in shock as they saw Erin's wounds heal right before their very eyes. Cuts stitched up, and holes closed. While Erin wasn't fully healed, it was enough to unnerve them.
[HP 62/70]
[0/100 ML]
'Just who is she?!' Pierogi thought.
Up above on the cliff side just barely within the shadow void, Layla had been shooting arrows from above. She was careful not to use up her arrow supply, and while Layla wanted to shoot more arrows, the issue was that she was still injured from the burns. This meant she couldn't shoot with good accuracy.
There was another problem. The other team had been constantly getting back up, and it took a moment for Layla to know why. As she kept watch, she had seen a boy slip through the makeshift campsite, healing people. It was likely that he knew where she was at, and was purposely hiding from her view.
'Where is he…?' Layla thought as she looked for the boy who had gone to Amy's side earlier that day.
Once Garret had fallen to the ground, Jerry appeared once again, and quickly, Layla drew back her bow. Except she involuntarily winced from the burns.
'I just need to hit something—' Layla thought, letting go of the arrow.
It flew through the air where Jerry had been squatting over Garret, and crashed into the ground. Layla knew that she didn't aim the arrow right, and had failed the 50/50.
While Jerry was about to heal Garret, he had flinched noticing the arrow, and was about to go back into hiding.
Thinking fast, Layla clenched her hands tightly, concentrating to lift up the arrow, and flinging it into Jerry's leg, causing him to fall.
He started scrambling away from Garret, frantically trying to escape from pain. This time, he had completely forgotten about trying to hide from Layla. Once he was far enough away as to not easily heal the others, Layla shot another arrow into Jerry's legs, preventing him from getting up.
Amy, having seen Jerry get shot in the corner of her eye, looked above to see the source of the arrows.
"Oh that's it, I'm done with this bitch," Amy cursed, "Pierogi, finish this fight!"
Pierogi groaned, "As if I haven't already been trying to do that."
Amy left the fight against Erin, and ran up to the cliff side with Layla.
Noting that Amy was now after her, Layla began shooting arrows at her much more frequently, ignoring accuracy. However, Amy's whip gave her a better speed boost.
A few arrows had missed, but 3 had whipped around the air, and shot into Amy's back.
Amy staggered, she knew that while Layla was still up above, there wasn't much they could do against her. Having aerial support was dangerous, which is why she was running across the rocks. As she did, Amy was jumping onto the next highest one, gaining height.
Then, using the boost in power from her advanced tier whip, Amy jumped up in the air, and blew some wind right underneath her to gain just to stay in the air a little longer.
While in the air, she flung her whip at Layla, just barely high enough to reach her. At the same time, Layla drew back 3 arrows, and shot them at Amy at the same time.
The whip had swiped at two of the arrows, but one more had landed into Amy herself, and she fell to the ground.
Hearing a thud, one of the Pierogi clones turned around, spotting Amy unconscious on the floor.
"AMY!" Pierogi shouted.
Furious, Pierogi, twisted their body around, and charged at Erin on all sides.
With only 4 points of MC left, Erin was prepared to use it one last time to protect herself, when a pair of arrows had whizzed past the air, and landed into the heads of two of the Pierogi clones.
Mentally thanking Layla, this left Erin with only one last clone to deal with.
Pierogi stumbled, feeling the pain of their consciousness suddenly shift to a new body, when Erin sliced her sword against them. They were able to block with their own, and the two clashed, metal against metal. Pierogi was a decent sword fighter, but without their clones to overwhelm Erin, they no longer had an advantage.
To Erin, fighting against one sword user felt… Boring.
Erin pushed further with her rapier, overwhelming Pierogi, causing them to let go of their sword, and for Erin to thrust her blade into Pierogi's body.
[+1 HP]
[HP 63/70]
Then, with the handle of her rapier, she lunged and smacked them in the head with it, knocking them out.