"!!!" Both the summoner and the familiars took a step back as Nathan switched his stance.
He leaped forth, challenging the ox head-on.
"Kill us? You're not capable!" The ox roared and swung his hammer.
However, his physical ability had been severely limited by Anubis' power.
When the hammer was about to reach him, Nathan sped up and disappeared from the trajectory.
"!!!" The ox's eyes shifted to the right side, almost not being able to follow him. His right hand let go of the hammer, desperately trying to catch Nathan. There was no way he could let him pass and threaten his summoner.
As if knowing what the ox would do, Nathan abruptly stopped. His movement was so light that he could turn or even stop as he liked.
The ox turned his body around so that he could face Nathan, but the latter had already made a single bullet with ena at least ten times that of a normal bullet.
If this was a normal fight, he would have used the Dragon Fist to blast the ox away.
But in this battle, he couldn't really show such a unique martial art. Hence, he formed an explosive bullet and placed it in front of his palm.
After that, he pushed that palm forward, directly hitting the ox's chest. Still, if the explosive bullet hit the target, it would definitely blow away both sides. That was why Nathan actually added another layer of barrier in front of his palm.
"!!!" The ox gritted his teeth as he was too late to actually use the hammer to block this attack.
The bullet hit him and exploded.
"Gah!" The ox spat a mouthful of blood before his body crashed into the wall, broke it, and landed inside the room behind it.
Meanwhile, the barrier protected Nathan from the blast.
A leopard and a panther people hurriedly surrounded Nathan.
Nathan used the movement technique one more time to escape.
"Why is this guy so fast?"
Nathan smiled. The essence of Vivian's movement technique was not the swiftness. Instead, it was the lightness of the step, which allowed him to react to any kind of surprise attack. It could be said that the technique's purpose was mobility, just like how elves traveled in the forest where there were roots sticking out of the ground or unexpected branches that made the terrain unpredictable.
Nathan formed only ten bullets this time, but each bullet contained more ena than all bullets Nathan could previously summon combined. He took advantage of his 100,000 ena for this attack and sent all ten bullets toward the middle-aged woman.
The middle-aged woman clicked her tongue. "Stop them!"
The leopard and the panther people waved their swords, cutting down four of them.
Meanwhile, the lion guy formed a translucent barrier with his ena. Unfortunately, the bullet shattered the barrier, which caused the lion to wave his sword.
To destroy the barrier, two of the bullets disappeared, leaving only four of them behind.
He struck two of them in rapid succession, but it also meant that the remaining two would reach their summoner.
The middle-aged woman leaped to the side while forming a barrier herself. It was much weaker than the barrier the lion created, so two bullets should be enough to destroy and injure her.
But due to her moving to the side, the lion could spin his body in a different direction to reach the bullet between him and his summoner. He struck one more bullet, while the remaining bullet hit the barrier.
The bullet cracked it almost instantly before shattering it.
Fortunately, the barrier actually held on against that single bullet.
The residual force still knocked the summoner to the wall.
"Kh! Watch out!" The summoner shouted, warning the two familiars at the front.
"!!!" The leopard turned around and saw Nathan already approaching him with the same attack that launched the ox away.
However, Nathan abruptly stopped right in front of him and expanded the bullet, using the same technique as Selena's instead.
The bullet expanded almost ten times in size and turned into a cannon instead.
The leopard managed to put his sword forward at the last moment, but the beam pushed him back. His feet slid on the ground as the leopard forcefully knocked the beam upward because he had to protect the summoner behind him.
"Ahhh!" The bullet curved up and pierced through the roof before rising into the sky.
The leopard gritted his teeth. He never thought Nathan's bullet would be this powerful. And they were supposed to be stronger than him.
Every time they wanted to do something, there was always a thought that Nathan might be hiding a trump card, especially his familiar, in the back of their mind, so they couldn't really go all out, wary of the hidden familiars.
Still, the ox was much simpler. After getting overwhelmed by a single attack, the ox didn't have the liberty to worry about it anymore.
He simply came out of the room and slammed Nathan with his massive body.
Nathan activated his barrier to stop the rush and protect his body, but the ox still managed to blow him away. His body, or more like his shield, crushed the wall behind him two times before he noticed there were no more walls behind him.
"!!!" Nathan glanced around, realizing that he had fallen to the first floor. In fact, the area had become a bit more open, as though this place was the main lobby.
In this area, there was no way Nathan could launch a sneak attack.
"Hahahaha! You're going to die!" The ox chased after Nathan and jumped off the second floor, slamming his hammer on Nathan. The latter jumped back to avoid it, but he couldn't skillfully maneuver in the narrow space anymore.
"…" Nathan's expression turned grim. This was the ox's real aim.
"This is our turf. We know this place in the back of our mind. It's time for you to die, invaders." The middle-aged woman became confident again as she waved her hand down. "Kill him!"