These Familiars Are Strange

Huang Tuo covered in flames.

The living armour with guns and the Master Gnome with his special equipment.

It seemed like the others were just casualties that were caught in this battle with the way that they were stuck in between them.

They had no choice but to do their best to protect themselves, but it was clear that they wanted to be anywhere else but here.

The Master Gnome attacked even more fiercely after seeing what he had seen in his scanning equipment.

Huang Tuo couldn't help cursing under his breath, but also wondering about what the Master Gnome had seen through that equipment that it was this hellbent on attacking him.

It didn't really seem to make any sense…

After all, he certainly wasn't the one playing tricks…

But regardless of how he felt, there was nothing that he could say to stop the Master Gnome since there was the language barrier in the way. At the same time, it would have been very unlikely that the Master Gnome would have even listened to him.

Huang Tuo was also one of the ones that wanted to hunt the Master Gnome down.

Since the Master Gnome wasn't backing down, that meant that Huang Tuo couldn't back down either.

But because of this, he left a gap himself.

That power of his came from his familiar, the peacock that he summoned.

However, that peacock didn't actually follow Huang Tuo into battle.

Huang Tuo used the flames around him to fight from range, while also charging into close combat range from time to time. The peacock wouldn't have been able to keep up with Huang Tuo if it were to stay with him.

So what the peacock did was find a safe spot and provide flames to Huang Tuo.

It almost seemed like the peacock was relaxing with the way that it stood there.

It was just that Huang Tuo attracted too much attention that people forgot about the peacock.

All except for one person.

I had been carefully observing everything as it happened and I made sure to move the monsters in a way that minimized our casualties. But of course, it wasn't as if it was possible to completely avoid any casualties at all.

There were just too many people here and there were too many unknown different factors that it was impossible to predict everything.

That was why there were casualties no matter how prepared I was.
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But these were very minor casualties that didn't really affect the power of the monsters that I controlled.

During that time, I had also been paying attention to the different familiars that were summoned.

The main power that a summoner wielded all depended on the kind of familiar that they were able to summon. So those that knew which familiars belonged to which summoner would be able to tell what kind of powers they had.

At the same time, by observing these familiars carefully, one would be able to figure out the weakness of these familiars.

Such as the peacock's weakness.

It seemed like it was only able to provide flames for Huang Tuo and didn't seem like it was capable of using those flames for itself. With the way that it hid in the back, it really seemed like it was afraid of fighting.

In that case…while everyone was distracted, didn't that give me the perfect chance to take down the peacock?

Haung Tuo really was the one that brought the most pressure on me, so taking care of his familiar would help alleviate some of that pressure.

That was why I had snuck up behind the peacock and prepared to take it down.

Only right before I could swing the sword in my hand down at the peacock, it suddenly turned around to look at me and gave a screech.

Huang Tuo immediately turned around when he saw this, but it didn't seem like he was panicking even though I was right on top of his peacock. There was even this faint smile that appeared on his face when he saw this as if he was happy to see me do this.

I quickly learned why he was acting that way as the peacock suddenly burst with flames.

These flames seemed just as strong as the ones that Huang Tuo used and it seemed like it was directed right at me.

I had been too hasty, I had made a mistake.

I thought that the peacock was just a support familiar, but there was no way that was the case. This peacock was capable of fighting, it was just that it had acted like it was a support familiar to draw me out.

I knew that Huang Tuo was already aware that I was here, but I never thought that he would go this far…

But right now, there was no time to feel regret.

After all, the flames that the peacock released were right in front of me and if I didn't figure out a way to deal with them, there was no doubt that I would be burnt to a crisp. I could even feel the heat that was coming from in front of me and this was when it hadn't even reached me yet.

There was no need to doubt the power that was behind these flames.

The peacock was just as strong as Huang Tuo.

I pulled out the trident and gathered water in front of me to face these flames, but the water started to evaporate the moment that it appeared in front of me. Even if I wanted to use the water to block it, it just couldn't resist the heat that was coming from the flames.

All I did was create water vapour in front of me that also retained the heat of the flames.

It just made it worse for me.

As I was preparing to take these flames and use all my defensive options to block it as much as I could, I found that there was something strange happening to the flame.