Reborn as a Snake! (1.) [REWRITE IN PROGRESS]

          The group fell into confusion. All of them exchanged gazes with one another, before looking back at the woman - all of them very much worried and nervous.

"Hiding a monster? Unsure what you mean by that, but we aren't hiding any monsters."

The woman chuckled before exhaling heavily and looking at them with deep blue, glowing eyes. Afterwards, she lifted her right arm in front of her mouth, as she closed her eyes.

"Very well - If you refuse to bring it out, I'll just force it out myself."

She stated, before suddenly vanishing from sight.
The entire group tensed up, however before any of them could react, Earl was struck down - his armour shattered to bits, before he himself was launched straight into a tree - which snapped in half as soon as he crashed into it.

"Earl!"

The others called out to him, before Alex and Fea began to rush over to him. However, as soon as Alex took just two steps, the woman appeared next to him, glaring at him with shining eyes before pummeling him into a tree as well. Fea quickly reacted, spinning her staff and forming several red circles around her.

"Fire-!"

Before she got to finish her statement, her body was suddenly tied up with blue flames - which constricted her movement and caused the circles around her to shatter.

"Wha-?"

"Magic Casters are always so overconfident in their abilities."

The woman smirked before lifting Fea up high into the air and then creating a whip of blue flames, which she whipped up at the magic caster and tied it around her, before pulling her in a circle, eventually pulling her down and crashing her into the ground - knocking out the magic caster.

Alex just managed to get up from tanking the earlier attack, looking over at Fea and the mysterious woman, his pupils dilating into shock.

"Fea!"

He called out to her, before gritting his teeth. He grabbed a hold of his sword, before dashing at the woman - slashing it at her. The woman easily dodged the initial slash, before using her bare hands to block and reflect the next wave of incoming attacks.

Alex lifted his sword up high, the blade suddenly sparkling with a bright golden light before he slashed it down towards the woman. However, before it could connect, the woman vanished once more - causing the blade to hit the ground and unleash a surge of energy, which caused a small explosion that knocked Alex back.

The swordsman hit the ground pretty hard, however still managed to pick himself up to his knees, while the woman laughed.

"My, my - that's a rarity. Holy Magic?... No - it's a bit inferior, so it must be Light Magic."

The woman appeared just in front of the swordsman, crouching down before lifting his chin up with her right hand - a wide smile across her face as she looked into his shivering and shock filled eyes.

"You're a special one - that's for sure. But - unfortunately - not strong enough to face me."

She finished, before pulling herself back and then kicking the man up into the air via his chin, before once again whipping around her whip made of blue flames, tying it around the swordsman, before pulling him down into the ground - kicking up a large cloud of dust and dirt as he crashed into the ground.

With those three out of the picture, the woman calmly turned to look at the final individual standing - the Elf whose shadow I was currently clinging onto. The elf girl was physically shaking from fear, her eyes darting around as she looked at her friends who had been decommissioned so fast. Not going to lie - seeing how fast she took all of these guys out, made me afraid as well.