Hero Of Harmony

Chapter 135: Plummeting Between Floors!?

While I was being held within Yuki's embrace, which normally would've aroused me to no end given her voluptuous and muscular figure, she was wearing her armor, so instead of my head resting on her massive, soft breasts, my head was on her cold, hard, metal breastplate, and that wasn't comfortable by any means. However, considering our situation, such thoughts were merely fleeting as I focused on playing dead while my body healed itself, though I couldn't help but frown when I heard soft footsteps approaching us.

I couldn't risk opening my eyes, but luckily, I didn't need to; using [Heroes Gaze], I was able to look through my eyelids along with Yuki's armor and body as I eyed the slowly approaching Lucy, who was sporting one malicious expression.

'She had just killed nearly all of her party members, and she's smiling? What a sick person.' Thought Alexander in disgust and anger as he eyed the smiling Lucy, who stood a few meters away while pointing to her staff.

"Hehe, I'm impressed you managed to survive my Fiery Explosions; each one cost roughly a quarter of my mana to cast. Though it seems like you didn't survive without any casualties, I had intended to kill you first and deal with that brat later, but oh well, it doesn't matter now." Remarked Lucy with a vile grin and a wicked chuckle as she kept her distance from Yuki while eyeing her and Alexander's supposed corpse.

"I-I'll kill you." Said Yuki lightly with venom in her voice as she glared at Lucy while protectively holding Alexander, causing him to inwardly praise her acting skills.

'Heh, that's it, Yuki; wonderful job! While you're stalling her, I'll teleport behind her.' Thought Alexander, stopping himself from smiling as he focused on using the skill [Teleport] to appear behind the unsuspecting Lucy.

"Hahaha, kill me? Maybe if you weren't such a useless brute, I'd take you seriously, but I'm a Mage; I'm superior to you! You never had a chance to begin with!" Declared Lucy with a slightly maniacal laughter as she looked at Yuki with a smile before tightly gripping her staff and channeling a substantial amount of mana into it, causing a large fireball, similar to the previous two, to manifest in front of her blue gem at the tip of her staff.

Feeling a sudden amount of intense heat, I smiled as I had just finished preparing my teleport spell, yet just when I was about to use it to appear behind Lucy, the entire floor suddenly shook while loud cracking noises echoed through the cavern as if something was breaking. However, following that, the floor beneath us suddenly caved in while cracks appeared; with this change, the danger I'd been feeling for nearly a whole day suddenly intensified as my heart rate increased.

However, I couldn't do anything since, all of a sudden, the floor beneath gave way, causing all of us to fall through the ground.

"W-What the hell!?" Yelled Lucy in fear as she fell through the ground, plummeting through the air while Yuki and Alexander were a few meters in front of her.

"Y-Yuki, hold on!" Said Alexander as he grabbed Yuki before their figures suddenly vanished, only for them to both appear standing behind the spot where Lucy was previously standing.

Unfortunately, the problem with teleporting was that you couldn't just change your destination on a dime; you'd need a few moments to change the location, and that's why it's vastly inferior to [Blink] during combat, so despite having teleported both Yuki and I, we both ended up appearing in the air since the floor wasn't just destroyed in a small area.

"FUCK." Said Alexander with an unsightly expression as he and Yuki plummeted through the air, following right after Lucy.

'Well, on the bright side, this isn't nearly as scary as I thought it would be, probably because Yuki and I could survive jumping from a skyscraper.' Mused Alexander as he held onto Yuki while looking towards the ground, which was rapidly approaching.