"She is level 10. Guess that the evil guardians are trained well."
Minjoon is now taking the role to distract the fire guardian while princess Sungmi is tailing her. Minjoon takes a safe distance from her shield and uses his sword to dodge her arrow. But at one point, her shield disappeared.
"Attacking shield!" the girl re-cast her shield.
But her shield won't appear again. Minjoon and the girl are shocked at the same time, but she is faster than Minjoon - she took her arrow and stabbed it on Minjoon's arm before running away from Minjoon's sight. Sungmi takes over - she jumps then runs towards her before she swings her morning star towards the girl's back. It hits her back: the sharp part of its morning star stuck to her back as the girl screams loudly - and when Sungmi pulls it again, she can see the visible holes on her black cloak and blood dripping from the holes. At the next second the girl falls to the ground. Sungmi is chasing her again to attack her, but the phoenix suddenly blocks them and makes her morning star hit the phoenix's leg instead. Myungwoo is chasing the phoenix to slash his axe at the phoenix's body - which hit it perfectly. But as the phoenix turns into ash, they only can see the blood stain on the ground, but the girl has disappeared.Â
"Where is she?" asked Myungwoo in confusion.
"She must be taking advantage of the phoenix blocking us to run away," said Sungmi, "we failed to capture her."
"But at least the phoenix died," said Hyunki while pointing forward, "the alley is open."
"Should we catch her or we move forward?" asked Joochan.
"Let's just move forward. We can't spend too much time in this maze," decided Sungmi, "good job in defeating the phoenix, Hyunki, Myungwoo."
Minjoon is grimacing in pain as he pulls the arrow away from his arm. They are all now looking at Minjoon. His scar, it's quite big, is now bleeding. Sungmi puts her palm on Minjoon's scar but Joochan quickly holds her hand and puts it away.
"Let me. You don't look fit, princess. My energy is not much but I think it won't take too much energy from me to heal it, right?"
