Cecilia suddenly raised her hand and said, "Stop."
All of the men behind her stopped instantly and lowered their bodies to hide themselves in the brushes.
At the same time, they all carefully looked in front of them to see the monsters that were standing there.
There were only a few of these monsters, but everyone was tense when facing them.
They knew that these monsters were stronger than the average person, so even if they outnumbered the monsters, it would be hard for them to take these few stragglers out. Not to mention that there were many more monsters just a bit further ahead that were currently marching through the woods.
If they made too much noise and were stalled here for too long, it wouldn't take long for them to be surrounded by those monsters.
Cecilia narrowed her eyes to look at these monsters and carefully analyzed them.
Fifteen goblins, ten ogres, fifteen orcs, and two goblin magicians…
She had brought over a hundred guards and ten knights with her, so she should be able to take down this group of monsters with her troops. However, she couldn't help feeling anxious because of the goblin magicians.
Goblin magicians were special compared to the other monsters since they were monsters that could use magic.
What kind of spells they would use would be hard to predict since each goblin magician was different, but there definitely wasn't a single weak goblin magician…There was no doubt that they would suffer if they were to let those goblin magicians cast their spells.
So she would have to take down those goblin magicians first.
But they weren't easy to take down in the first place since they had magic armours around them that were as strong as normal iron armour.
In short, they were a pain to deal with.
However, it wasn't as if they could back down now that they had found these monsters.
The men that she had with her also knew this, so many of them had looks on their faces like they were prepared for death.
After thinking about it for a bit, Cecilia said, "I'll circle around and take down those two goblin magicians, you will surround the rest and take them down one by one."
Her men couldn't help revealing concerned looks when they heard this.
Her adjutant came forward and said, "Captain, let us go with you to take down the goblin magicians."
But Cecilia shook her head to reject this before saying, "No, I'll take care of it alone. I can move faster alone, so I'll be able to get out of there if anything goes wrong."
The knights all revealed slightly hurt expressions when they heard this, but they knew that she was right. Compared to her, their abilities were a bit lacking, so they would just impede her instead of helping her.
So all of them could only wish her luck before moving into position.
Cecilia watched them go before turning in the direction of the goblin magicians.
She slowly moved through the brush until she was in position behind them.
With one last deep breath, she gripped her sword tightly in her hand before suddenly jumping out of the brush.
The monsters immediately turned around when they heard this, but with Cecilia's speed, they weren't able to react at all. By the time that they had reacted, Cecilia was already in front of the two goblin magicians who were standing together and was swinging her large sword horizontally.
The swing was at a perfect angle to cut off the heads of both of these goblin magicians in one single swing.
The goblin magicians had looks of shock on their faces, but they also quickly gathered their magic barrier.
It was a faint layer of blue light that appeared on the surface of their skin.
This was the magic barrier that was as strong as iron armour…perhaps even stronger depending on how much mana was gathered into the armour.
Luckily for Cecilia, this magic barrier was a bit weaker since she had caught them off guard, but that didn't mean that it wasn't strong.
It was as strong as an iron shield still.
As the sword approached the magic barrier, she couldn't help feeling nervous about the result.
But to her shock, there was no resistance at all as she cut through the neck of the first goblin magician. The sword didn't even slow down after it cut right through that neck as it continued to the neck of the second goblin magician.
Then the same thing happened where the second goblin magician's head was lopped off in one clean sweep of the sword.
It was so smooth that Cecilia had lost control of herself in her shock and she couldn't help spinning a bit too much as her sword slammed into the ground beside her.
When she reacted, she found that both of the goblin magicians were lying there dead at her feet.
There was only silence that followed as everyone looked at the two goblin magician corpses on the ground with shocked looks.
Cecilia looked down at the sword in her hand before saying to herself, "Did I really do this?"
Then she couldn't help thinking of the special armour that she had been given by Zwein…
She was wearing this special armour right now even though she felt that it was worthless, but it seemed that she had been wrong. That special feeling that she felt when she put on the special armour was real.
After a pause, the monsters were the first ones to react.
There had been several ogres near the goblin magicians. The moment that they came back to their senses, they immediately swung down at Cecilia with the clubs in their hands.
The plan was to have Cecilia kill these two goblin magicians and then the guards would come forward to block the monsters from attacking her.
But they had been too dazed to come and protect her.
The guards immediately realized their mistake and wanted to charge out to protect her, but it was already too late as the ogres were already on her.
However, Cecilia didn't have a worried look on her face as she faced these ogres.