Walking for a little longer, she finally felt some movements from the humans and realised that they're going to try to hunt her and Lisa.

"Give them a bit of mercy if you can." s.h.i.+ro smiled as Lisandra nodded.

Continuing to walk, they suddenly felt a huge spike of mana as a tier 4 magic circle could be seen in the air.

Fire coagulated into a spear as meteors...o...b..ted around it.

Seeing this, s.h.i.+ro only smiled and flicked her arm.

A semi translucent ice s.h.i.+eld appeared around her and Lisandra.

*BANG!!!!

Colliding against the spear, the s.h.i.+eld stood strong and barely faltered against the spear.

'Hou… to think at 38% recovery, a tier 4 spell is no match for my s.h.i.+eld.' s.h.i.+ro thought with a raised eyebrow.

s.h.i.+fting her hand into a fist, she expanded the s.h.i.+eld and shattered the spear in an instant.

Looking into the distance, she could see the disbelief in the adventurer's faces.

"There seems to be 5 people in their party. Let's give them a small welcome." s.h.i.+ro said with a smile.

"Mn." Lisandra nodded.

Spreading out her wings, she readied her sword and flew towards the party while s.h.i.+ro wasn't too far behind. She was currently using her flight skill to keep up with Lisandra.

"Quickly! Defence formation!" The party leader shouted out as he readied his s.h.i.+eld.

'One s.h.i.+eld user, a sword user, two mages and one healer. Not too bad of a party I suppose.' s.h.i.+ro thought to herself as they're all higher than level 100.

[Soseki LVL 110 Grand s.h.i.+eld Emperor]

[Kenji LVL 112 Astral Sword Sage]

[Chio LVL 110 Solari Grand Caster]

[Kaya LVL 115 Elemental Witch]

[Satos.h.i.+ LVL 110 Arch Healer]

Looking at the two level 100 monsters flying towards them right now, Soseki knew that they were in a bit of trouble.

They had wanted to use a surprise attack in order to get some early damage on this named monster but they didn't expect her s.h.i.+eld to be so strong. Even with the combined might of a Solari Grand Caster and an Elemental Witch couldn't faze her defences.

Casting taunt on the Angelic Maiden, he frowned when the skill failed.

Activating a few more aggro attracting skills, his expression became deadly serious since they all failed.

"This isn't good! She might be immune to aggro skills!" Soseki shouted out in panic as the rest of the party widened their eyes.

"I'll put some buffs on you now, try to intercept her if you can and keep an eye out on s.h.i.+va!" Satos.h.i.+ warned since the Snow Woman was the most dangerous in his eyes.

At least for Lycoris, the Angelic Maiden, they could block her attacks with the s.h.i.+eld. A mage's attack is harder to block should it be an AOE.

"I know! Try to focus Lycoris down first then we'll move onto s.h.i.+va." Soseki nodded.

Feeling power flow into his body, he jumped up into the air and slammed his s.h.i.+eld into Lisandra who managed to block it with her sword.

However, his strength was much greater than what she had thought so she had to twist her body and redirect him aside so that she wouldn't take all the force.

*BANG!

Flipping his body so that he landed upright, Soseki slammed the base of his s.h.i.+eld on the ground as several golden chains shot up in an attempt to bind her.

Seeing this, s.h.i.+ro flexed her fingers and controlled the snow around them to restrain the chains.

"Tch." Clicking his tongue, Soseki looked towards the relaxed s.h.i.+ro who seemed to be controlling all the snow around them.

'd.a.m.n, I may have miscalculated.' He thought in seriousness.

While this was happening, Chio and Kaya prepared a second spell and launched it towards Lisandra. Hopefully, this would stop her from flying, making the fight easier.

The spell was one that would amplify gravity and make it so that spells are harder to use for the target monster.

"Ah…" Raising her eyebrow, Lisandra quickly stabilised herself as she avoided being slammed into the ground.

Raising up her sword, she blocked a strike from Kenji. Unfortunately, the strike had forced her back by quite a bit despite being blocked by her sword.

"Are you ok?" s.h.i.+ro asked softly as Lisandra nodded her head.

Hearing this, the party was surprised to see that the two could actually speak a human language.

"You five, seems like you want to meet death quite eagerly huh? Shall I give you that privilege?" s.h.i.+ro asked as her lips curved into a cruel smile.

Feeling the full brunt of her killing intent, the party froze up for a moment as Satos.h.i.+ activated a buff skill that increases one's will power. That way, they could at least move despite her killing intent.

"Kenji! Chio! Kaya! Target s.h.i.+va! I'll handle Lycoris for now!" Soseki shouted out as the party nodded.

"You know, telling me your strategy is quite foolish isn't it?" s.h.i.+ro tilted her head while raising her hand.

*BOOM!!!

Her mana flared instantly as a wave of cold mist charged towards them.

Activating fire barriers around the three of them, Chio was surprised at how quite her MP was being drained in order to stop the cold mist from killing them.

Understanding that Chio couldn't keep this up, Kenji charged towards s.h.i.+ro and brandished his sword.

"Astral Step." He said seriously as his body disappeared in a flicker of starlight.

*PING!!!!

Widening his eyes, he was shocked to see that an ice spear had intercepted his sword from slas.h.i.+ng the back of s.h.i.+ro's neck.

"Targeting the neck is very rude you know? You should learn how to treat a woman better, boy." s.h.i.+ro chuckled.

Snapping her fingers, ice chains shot out of the ground and wrapped around Kenji as spikes protruded out from the chain links and pierced into his body.

"Arg!" Kenji shouted out in pain.

*BOOM!!

A pillar of fire suddenly exploded from under s.h.i.+ro's feet as the chains shattered apart. Naturally, it was part of s.h.i.+ro's plan since she wasn't too intent on killing this part.

As the fire pillar died down, they saw s.h.i.+ro unscathed.

[s.h.i.+va LVL 100 Snow Woman]

HP: 49,230,000/50,000,000

MP: 92,010,000/100,000,000

Seeing how much MP she still had and how little damage they managed to inflict onto her, the party couldn't help but feel as though this is an uphill battle.

"Well I suppose you've shown me what you can do. Now die." s.h.i.+ro said as she snapped her fingers.

A huge tier four magic circle expanded out from under her as another tier 4 magic circle could be seen above them.

Feeling the sheer amount of mana that was being emanated from her body, the mages in the party paled since they knew this spell was going to be lethal.

"We need to run!" Chio shouted out in a panic.

Within a single moment, a layer of ice appeared on their bodies as dark clouds gathered in the skies.

"Frozen Chandelier." s.h.i.+ro said simply.

Pus.h.i.+ng out from the dark clouds, an ice chandelier could be seen as light reflected from the crystal like sections and blinded them for a short moment.

Gritting his teeth, Soseki quickly activated one of the life saving items he had been saving and sent the party out of the spell's range.

Seeing the party disappear, despite her being able to chase them down easily, s.h.i.+ro disabled her spell and looked towards Lisandra.

"How was it? Fighting against a B cla.s.s s.h.i.+eld type adventurer?" s.h.i.+ro asked with a smile.

"Annoying. I couldn't penetrate his defences." Lisandra replied with a frown.

While she did try to strike at the areas that weren't blocked by the s.h.i.+eld, he would always move his s.h.i.+eld to that location just in time to deflect her sword and hit her straight in the body.

"Well I suppose it's just experience with fighting against s.h.i.+elds. You should have a few spars with Madi when we get back since she's more of an aggressive s.h.i.+elder. If you expose your gaps like how you did with Soseki, she'll capitalise on it and do quite a bit of damage to you so you need to be careful with s.h.i.+elders. The best way to fight them is to include a lot of feints into your attacks." s.h.i.+ro explained as Lisandra nodded.

"Anyways, we got plenty of time for you to practice. h.e.l.l I can probably make a s.h.i.+eld myself and spar with you but it wouldn't be as effective." s.h.i.+ro shrugged.

"However, it seems like we have some visitors so that will have to wait." She continued while looking into the distance. She could sense a few monsters making their way towards them now and it seemed like they were Snow Woman.