The Lord of Elements from a Drop of Water - Chapter 31

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

The city where the Iris family was located was called Wind Riding City. Recently, a group of demons had suddenly appeared in the northwest direction of the city, threatening the safety of the city. They had also attacked the merchants passing by, seriously affecting the daily economic life of Wind Riding City. Therefore, the city lord issued a hunting order, he called on all the mage families in the city to go to hunting mission.

As one of the few veteran mage families in Wind Riding City, the Aaron family, which was Iris’s family, naturally had to respond enthusiastically to the city lord’s order. As the most active member of the family, Iris would not let go of this opportunity to increase her reputation. Therefore, she did everything she could to add her name to the mission list.

Now that the temporary camp of the demon race was right in front of them, Iris’s brother took advantage of everyone’s nervousness about the upcoming battle to make things difficult for Iris. He wanted to kick her out of the team so that Iris would completely lose the qualification to fight for the position of the next family head.

This was the cause and consequence of the farce today.

“Since no one is coming up here, then Irish will be in charge of this operation. You don’t know my strength, so you can’t make a battle mission that suits me… I’m done. Does anyone have any objections?”

‘Since I’m here, I will help Iris gain some reputation. Even the hunting mission is under Iris’s command. Let’s see how the other contenders for the right of inheritance could compete with Iris.’.

“The elites of the family are all here. This is a huge matter. I’m afraid that Iris is still young and can’t take on such a big responsibility. If we make a mistake and lose too many of our elites, then our Aaron family will be finished.”

An elderly man stepped forward and said to Jon, holding back his fear. Jon glanced at him and found that he and Wayne were very close. He should be on Wayne’s side. Then this seemingly fair suggestion night had some fishy intentions in it.

“Iris is afraid of losing the operation, so can someone else guarantee that the operation will be 100% successful and that it won’t fail? With your tiny brains that easily be provoked, you would just lower your own morale even before facing the enemy. I don’t think you’ll be better than Iris. Since you’re afraid, then all of you can just hide behind me. You’re just kids. All of you have to do is not hold me back. I don’t expect you to help me at all.”

Jon looked around and said loudly to everyone, “I still say the same thing. If you are not convinced, then step out and give me some advice. If you can’t beat me, then don’t even dream of commanding me! I only listen to Iris’s commands here.”

When Wayne and the others heard this, their faces darkened. However, none of them really stepped out in anger and fought Jon to the death.

The atmosphere became very tense.

In the end, it was Iris’s uncle, who had the most authority in the Aaron family, spoke. Iris’s uncle was the younger brother of the patriarch and the first commander of this mission.

“I think this monster summoner’s words are quite reasonable. Although iris is still young, she’s very smart. I think she can be the commander. However, Iris does not have enough information on the scene. How about this, let Iris be the deputy commander and discuss with me to make a battle plan together?”

Jon glanced at Iris. Iris nodded slightly at him, and Jon understood that she was satisfied with that person’s proposal.

Jon agreed. His goal was to increase Iris’s authority in the family, and he did not necessarily want Iris to be the commander. Now that Iris had stepped over a group of people who were more qualified than her to take the position of deputy commander, it was enough to her face.

After the matters here were settled, the people of the Aaron family began to move. It took about half an hour for them to join the main force of Wind Riding City. Jon looked up and saw that there were more than a thousand people in this force. All of them were fully armed and had solemn expressions. During this period of time, many inquisitive gazes fell on Jon.

Most of the people present also wore family badges. They were the elites of the major families who had been summoned by the castellan.

“Prepare to push forward.”, Iris received the news from her uncle and walked over to tell Jon.

Judging from Iris’s performance, she was still rather nervous. After all, she had never participated in such a large-scale battle with more than a thousand people. However, after getting close to Jon, she felt reassured. She recalled that in the forest demon’s cave, Jon stood alone with his sword and back facing her. He was so powerful that even 40-50 forest demon could not hurt her at all.

Whispers broke out in the surroundings. They were talking about how ferocious and powerful demons were and what they should pay attention to when fighting them. It was evident that everybody was very nervous.

The in knight commander front of them was the commander-in-chief of this mission. With his order, everybody stopped their private communication and started to march into the forest.

The style of the trees in this world was very similar to that of the primitive forest. The towering trees covered the sky and the sun while the sunlight from the crown of the trees could be faintly seen.

“What a good place for an ambush.”

Jon could not help but sigh as he sniffed the depressing atmosphere of the forest.

“Sir Jon, what did you say?”

Iris did not hear him clearly and turned around to ask.

But just as she turned around, she saw Jon’s expression suddenly change, and he quickly pounced on her!

Whoosh!

She did not understand what had happened until she was pounced on by Jon. But just as she fell to the ground, a wooden arrow was nailed to her head, only 30 centimeters away from her.

“Enemy attack!”

The soldiers’ warning sounds immediately rang out in the team. Some of them even cried out in pain when they were hit by the arrow.

Jon raised his head and looked at the dense branches and leaves on the high ground. Behind the cover of the leaves, the virtual screen marked the attacking objects:

Demon scout, elite level 17.

Description: The most agile and observant race of the demon race. They come and go like the wind and move as fast as lightning. Ding

“Mission unlocked. Kill the demon race.”

There were countless of them. They had suddenly appeared and attacked the human army. The first wave of attacks had caused the human army to suffer a huge loss. If Jon had not suddenly noticed the incoming arrows, Iris might have died under the attack just now!

“Frost Warrior Summon!”

Jon used the frost warrior skill and summoned an elemental creature that was as strong as a low-level commander to protect Iris in his place.

“Don’t use mana! Just leave everything to it to protect you. You just need to maintain my existence!”

Jon instructed Iris.

The human army had already begun to fight against the demon scouts. All sorts of fancy ice and fire wind spells were shot at the demons hiding in the forest. However, because of the dense forest, the trees were damaged a lot, in terms of battle results, they had not made much progress.