Chapter 152: The whole group's attack strategies
3 days later...
"Haah!"
MARCH! MARCH!
"Fire! Attack!"
Lucas shouted with all his might while pointing forward.
Suddenly, two projectiles came from the back of his head, he didn't even flinch as if it didn't scare him at all.
BOOM!!
The two projectiles while traveling a few meters from each other collided at a single point at a dummy right at the head.
The head was blasted and fire started coming out of the neck region.
"ATTACK!!" Lucas shouted again and an arrow made of ice flew toward the target hitting the green bullseye point.
The arrow didn't even stay as it pierced and hit a tree in the background.
"GO!!!" Lucas shouted the next second yet again as if another of the attacks was already planned.
Nothing happened for a few seconds but then a silhouette in the dark came out of the shadow of the dummy and with the two daggers in hand, he swung them decapitating the upper body from the lower.
The silhouette without any more action fell inside the shadow just like it came without making a single sound.
Lucas took a deep breath satisfied with the progress of the training.
He was standing right at the front and after him were the other melee fighters which surprisingly included Haley too.
After them came all the support and then the ones who couldn't fight but were still important to the group.
"Good, after setting up the dummy again, we will go for it again," Lucas said and started falling back, they had marched pretty close to the dummy.
As at times of attacking the alive, the intimidation part should also be top-notch.
"Alright, Uncle John, would you help us with the synergy again?"
"Sure."
"Let's go, Jerry."
"Hm"
Following John to a more open area, Lucas took off his shirt revealing his aesthetic body with extremely low fat.
Jerry did the same but he looked like the incarnation of a Barbarian from an older age. Enjoy more content from My Virtual Library Empire
His hair was all curly that reached his shoulders. His shoulders and chest were bulky with a lot of dark hair flaunting the strength and savage aura better.
BANG!
Jerry strongly hit the gauntlet on the buckler making a loud sound resound yet it was not for a dumb reason of showing off or intimidation.
SWOOSH!
Jerry ran toward John who himself had taken off his shirt showing a body type unlike any 40-year-old seen on Earth, it was an understatement if he was called just 'fit'.
"COME!" John shouted, a wooded spear at his back and hands clenched in fists. His stance looked normal at one glance.
But if an experienced fighter would want to hit his weakness, there weren't any on display.
Jerry came running and so did John, their eyes showed determination yet their grins showed how much they were going to enjoy this spar.
BAM!!
They both collided, John unarmed while Jerry with his buckler that hit right at John's shoulder which he used in order to stop Jerry at his advances.
John was going to go after the spear at his back when he saw another silhouette just a few inches away.
"Fast!?" John couldn't believe it.
The silhouette came from the side of Jerry with two swords at his hands, the silhouette increased in speed and stopped at a very difficult angle.
Lucas's back was arched backward while one of his hands touched the ground, a sword was just inches away from John's neck that made a cold shiver go down his spine.
"Sigh... I yield." John said with an awkward chuckle.
Lucas with a smile took the sword back and with swiftness got out of his difficult stance.
"Your speed has increased again... The idea of Jerry taking all the attention and your sneak attack is getting better and better."
"Yeah" Jerry chimed in with a grin, "I can't believe we started just a few days ago."
"That strength technique book has really improved my flexibility. If the attack was performed before, I might have cramped myself in battle."
Lucas said with clear delight.
The others looked from the back, their gazes showed the amount of surprise they were feeling.
"That attack was so cool..." Haley said from the side, her sister just a few inches away.
"I know, His muscles move so much with that attack, I couldn't take my eyes off them." Sarah who was with the two sisters said making the other two giggle in the process.
"We know~ we know~" Sandra tried to tease Sarah yet it had no effect, Sarah kept looking at Lucas yet her mind was somewhere else.
'What would have happened if we really kissed that day...?' She thought, her hands at her lips while she closed her eyes to imagine like a simp.
The others couldn't tell what was happening but one thing was clear to everyone, Sarah had a huge crush on Lucas and it didn't seem to be one-sided.
"If you don't make your moves quickly, I might pounce at Lucas before you, you know."
Sarah looked at Haley and then blushed hard to the point her ears were now reddish in color.
'I-It's not like that!"
Sarah had the tendency to get shy real quick. it was as if engraved in her personality.
Meanwhile. Luca, John, and Jerry were discussing their attack pattern.
It had been three days since they had started the group training.
While the supports could take care of most of the creatures before Lucas and he was very happy about it but there were still cases where they were not enough.
This was where Lucas and Jerry's training would come into effect.
With Jerry's big size, it was easy for Lucas to hide if Jerry could take all the attention of the enemy.
Lucas was training the synergy between him and Jerry in order to attack better as they were in fact, the only able front melee fighters left in the group.
Haley was getting good but still, her skill level was not enough for now.
John was much more powerful with his bow and ice arrows that could without any trouble hit a Basilon and pierce it a little with his strength.
The Basilon kid on the other hand had not really been a kid for a few days.
It was now 4 feet in height and could even stand on its hind legs. Its nails had become sharper and with Bill's help.
Lucas even knew about the little guy's only skill. It was 'Iron Claws', the skill that was able to rip apart any creature below level 5 with its capacity for now.
Alas, the Basilon was too dumb to even use the skill.
Lucas and Ella had tried a lot as they were the only ones with whom the Basilon kid was the most comfortable with.
But it was like the creature didn't know much about its skill, to begin with. So in the end, Lucas had come up with a plan.
In order for the Basilon kis to actually level its skill. It would need to have better intelligence and it was impossible for it to know about the skill it had, the hope to have it put points in its intelligence was a total lost cause.
So in the end, Lucas opted for leveling up. Apparently, it was easy to get it inside the party so it had already leveled a bit without actually fighting.
Lucas could not just let it fight as in his eyes, the basilon kid was just a kid that was given birth to just a few weeks ago.
It had even started to eat the meat and the appetite was too much which was good for Lucas as the meat pieces were too much to the point where they had to lessen the share that they were taking and with a bit of tweaking in the promise.
Lucas's groups were now getting the whole other stuff aside from the meat of the creature and no one really cared about it as long as they were getting extra cooked meat pieces that had an increase in stats points for a few minutes.
Lucas was now done with the training with the group and went toward the back of the shelter in order to bathe.
There were a lot of buckets filled with fresh water at the back with a big rock in order to help with bathing. Leather curtains made by John with his leather work skill let everyone have privacy when it came to bathing.
And after bathing, it was the turn for the other skills to be trained, Lucas was already at level 3 of skills proficiency in many, and even the proficiency of the spear was at level 2 with 44%.
It was a huge feat compared to before as Lucas was now accustomed to training with it solo where the breaking of the spear was not much.
And after all this, Lucas went to work with the stone region which was now a network of small caves, and the canal which was pretty much done already.