Bab 1366: Para Penjaga (Bagian 1)
Akhirnya, kelompok mahasiswa itu berhasil kembali ke titik awal mereka saat pertama kali tiba. Itu adalah daerah yang lebih terbuka, dengan aliran air di sebelah kanan di kejauhan, dan jika mereka menuju ke sisi kiri dari tempat mereka datang, di sanalah mereka akan menemukan binatang kodok pertama yang mereka temui. Sebaliknya, untuk menemukan jalan keluar, mereka harus menuju ke arah yang berlawanan, yaitu ke arah tebing dengan aliran air yang besar. Sebelum mereka menuju ke arah itu, Liam melihat kembali ke kaki bukit yang baru saja mereka lewati, dan dengan sistemnya, dia memperhatikan makhluk kecil, sedikit lebih besar dari kaki seseorang, berdiri di tepinya. “Mereka tidak pernah menyerang kami selama kami melawan burung-burung raksasa itu,” kata Liam. “Benar, dan kamu bilang ada sekitar tiga ratus orang yang mengikuti kita. Apakah itu masih berlaku?” tanya Beatrix. Liam menelan ludah sedikit. Jumlah mereka sedikit meningkat. Sekarang sekitar 350. Saya agak khawatir kalau jumlahnya sudah cukup banyak, mereka mungkin akan menyerang saat itu juga. “Jangan khawatir, kita akan keluar dari tempat ini secepat mungkin,” tambah Beatrix. Saat bergerak menuju air terjun, meskipun tidak seorang pun memercayai Bronto, mereka pikir mereka sebaiknya bertanya kepadanya saat mereka menuju ke sana. “Jadi, apakah portalnya benar-benar ke arah ini?” tanya Panla. Sesaat, Bronto menoleh ke arah Raze dan Dame, memastikan apakah mereka dekat dengannya. Mereka memang tidak dalam jangkauan, tapi ia menduga pasti ada alasannya. Entah karena mereka cukup percaya diri bisa menangkapnya meski ia memutuskan kabur, atau tidak. “Kami tidak berbohong,” jawab Bronto. “Portal keluarnya memang ada di arah ini. Kami hanya lupa memberi tahu kalian semua yang kami ketahui.” Raze menatap Liam untuk memastikan dia memeriksa apakah ada kebohongan dalam ucapannya. “Jelaskan,” tanya Luka. “Portalnya ada di depan air terjun,” kata Bronto. “Kalian akan bisa melihatnya dari kejauhan bahkan sebelum kita sampai di sana, jadi kalian bisa memastikannya.” “Tapi kukatakan sekarang, lebih baik kau lari secepat mungkin begitu melihatnya. Dan kalaupun kau melakukannya, kemungkinan besar beberapa dari kalian akan mati.” Kata-kata itu kedengaran seolah-olah hanya untuk menakut-nakuti para siswa, tetapi ketika Raze menatap Liam, dia mengangguk, sejauh ini, Bronto mengatakan kebenaran. Kalau menurutmu burung-burung itu menakutkan, ada monster yang lebih kuat lagi di dimensi ini. Dan mereka berdua sepertinya melindungi portal itu. Kami sudah datang ke sini dua kali, dan setiap kali, kedua binatang buas itu ada di sana. Pertama kali, kami mencoba melawan binatang buas itu.
“They wiped out half of our scouting team before we decided to just jump through. We had evaluated that even with all of our strength, it would have been impossible to kill them.
“The second time, we rushed to the portal but still lost a handful of people. You asked before why we left some of you alive, well, part of that was to have you as bait for the beasts so we could exit with the crystals.”
The students gulped. From the sound of things, the two beasts by the portal were strong, incredibly strong, and they had already struggled with the birds from before.
“Can that happen in a portal? I thought the portal exit and the portal entrance were meant to be the two safest places with the least amount of beasts, or at least lower-tier beasts.”
“Although that is the case ninety percent of the time, it’s not always the case,” Redrick answered. “There are strange cases of things not being in portals before. To put it simply, it’s normal for it to not be normal sometimes.”
What was worrying everyone though, was the beasts. What could they do? Truthfully, they could only think of one thing.
“We’ll fight it,” Dame said. “From the sounds of things, it will be a bit hard, but we should be able to take care of it. And it might be good for us to have a challenge, we haven’t had one in a while.”
The way Dame was casually speaking about it all made him sound like a monster himself.
“When I say ’we’, Raze, I mean we as well. How about me and Liam fight one of them, and Beatrix and Safa fight the other?
“You stay back with the students and protect them, just in case there’s any trouble that comes up. Who knows, Bronto might have something else in store for us.
“If we’re doing well or it looks tough but we’re enough to hold them off, then you push through with the rest of the students,” Dame explained.
There was another reason why Dame didn’t want Raze to fight. He had already shown a lot that needed explaining. However, there was still one thing he hadn’t shown or used, and that was his Dark Magic.
If the beasts were hard to fight against, he would have to use his Dark Magic. Although Raze had explained some issues with Sark Magic, the fact he hadn’t used it at all said a lot.
“I’ve warned you. Even if you are strong, I don’t think you will be a match for those beasts,” Bronto commented.
With that, the students walked on silently until they could see it, the portal in front of the waterfall.
There were a few rocks on either side of the small canal of water they could use to get into the portal.
Being fifty meters away, they stopped and allowed four of the transfer students to go ahead.
“Are you worried for your friends?” Chiba asked.
“Aku tidak khawatir tentang monster-monster ini. Yang kukhawatirkan adalah, jika ada monster sekuat ini, lalu apa level dimensi ini?” jawab Raze.**** **** Untuk informasi terkini mengenai MWS dan karya-karya saya di masa mendatang, silakan ikuti saya di media sosial saya di bawah ini. Instagram: Jksmanga Patreon*: jksmanga
Chapter 1367: The Guardians (Part 2)
The combination of transfer students walked together, while the other students could only watch and silently pray for their success.
As they made their way forward, Liam was curious about something.
“So, what made you choose the groups? Did you think the two of us worked better together?” Liam asked. “Because I’ll be honest, I think I feel safer having Safa on my back. Not saying you suck or anything, but just, with her healing powers and all…”
“Haha!” Dame laughed. “I mean, if you really want, you can head over to their group and I’ll just take care of the beast myself, if you want to be with Safa so much. The truth is though, I just thought this would be a nice competition between us.”
“Competition?” Beatrix raised an eyebrow.
“Well first, remember, they still think of us as mages,” Dame explained. “I know we’ve done some pretty extraordinary things, but I believe they still view us that way, so we should try to minimize how much of the warrior side of us we show.”
“With that in mind, I thought we could do a little boys versus girls. See who defeats their beast first.”
Beatrix thought the idea was a little unfair. Although Safa was a skilled fighter, she was more of a healer than anything else. As for Beatrix herself, she was mainly a Pagna warrior.
There were various skills she couldn’t use, so she had to rely on her special Earth staff or her blood powers, which she didn’t have full control over yet.
“It’s okay. Let the stupid boys have their competition,” Safa said. “It doesn’t matter if we win or lose.”
Beatrix nearly got caught up in the word competition before realizing Safa was right. As for the boys, they could already see that Liam had pulled out his All-Cutting Sword.
Most likely, he was planning to kill the beast in one clean strike. Getting closer to the waterfall, the portal was now only around ten meters ahead. With their Pagna warrior skills and Qi, they could burst through into the portal without much trouble.
Finally, there was movement. From above, on either side of the waterfall, the large rocks appeared to shift. As they moved, a massive serpent-like creature began wiggling its way downward, slithering toward the bottom.
Its long body seemed endless, half of it still remained at the top of the waterfall.
“What the heck is that thing?” Liam asked.
The beast’s body was gigantic in size and appeared to be amphibious in nature. Parts of it were covered in moss, which, when still, made it look as if it were part of the cliff itself.
The scales on its body were reflective, shimmering and blending in with the waterfall as though they were one and the same. But it wasn’t slithering across the landscape.
Instead, it used its clawed, webbed hands to dig slightly into the cliffside as it descended. Its eyes protruded from its head slightly, allowing it near 360-degree vision.
If there had only been one of these things, it would have been frightening enough, but there were two. When the bottom of its massive body finally hit the ground, it raised itself upright, revealing a towering underbelly that faced the group directly.
“Alright, the competition starts now!” Dame declared, activating the power of his gauntlets as he rushed forward. His lightning-infused body surged ahead, aiming to strike the creature straight in the gut.
As Dame closed the distance with his fist, a large twirl of water appeared in front of him and spun into the air. His fist crashed into it, but the water absorbed much of the force.
Even so, he pushed through and struck the beast’s stomach. Lightning sparked from the blow, and the creature screeched in response.
From the side of its body, several clawed limbs emerged, each ending in sharp, pointed tips. They all twisted toward Dame and lunged to pierce his body.
Before they could touch him, Liam sliced off one entire side of limbs with a clean strike, causing about six of them to fall to the ground as he landed beside the creature.
Dame then zapped himself to the floor, avoiding being hit by the remaining legs.
“The creature’s still standing? That’s pretty impressive,” Dame said.
Then, from the cut areas where Liam had sliced its limbs, several more legs emerged, regenerating almost instantly.
“Regeneration… crap. That’s the worst power for this weapon to go up against,” Liam muttered, realizing his sword’s strength was in cutting cleanly, but not much use if the enemy kept regrowing.
The two women on the other side were fighting more cautiously, testing the beast’s capabilities before committing to any large attacks. They wanted to know exactly what made the creature so dangerous, what had given others so much trouble in the past.
As Raze and the rest of the mages watched from afar, they finally realized what it was that made the beasts so special.
“That’s a beast that uses magic,” Panla commented.
“Right, it looks like water magic too,” Luke added. “No wonder they struggled. It has powerful mana, a powerful body, and it must have used that magic to attack anyone who got close.”
While everyone, including Raze, was observing the battle ahead, Bronto was also watching closely. But from his side, he suddenly heard a small croaking sound.
He turned and spotted a small blue creature, a little bigger than his foot, standing upright on two legs with a short tail swaying behind it.
“What the crap are you?” Bronto muttered. “I don’t have much magic, but I can get rid of something like you.”
Although Bronto’s wrists were still frozen, he could manage a small amount of magic. With a flick of his finger, he zapped out a weak electric strike, hitting the small blue creature.
It fried on impact and flopped over to its side, dead.
But immediately after, two more small blue creatures crawled out from behind a nearby bush, making the same croaking noise as the first.
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Chapter 1368: Little Creatures (Part 1)
The students’ concerns remained fixed on the two massive guardian-like beasts towering before them. As the battle wore on, the creatures began tapping deeper into their water-based powers, making it increasingly difficult for the transfer students to get in any real offense.
Circular water portals spun into existence in the air, hovering just half a meter from the beasts’ bodies. They weren’t just defensive barriers; they doubled as lethal weapons. From them, jets of pressurized water blasted out like spears. Each strike was as powerful as a middle-stage warrior’s Qi-infused blow.
There was no room for error now. This wasn’t a test anymore, it was a real fight.
Dame, relying on his hard-body technique, was pushed back hard by one of the sudden blasts. Despite his physical resilience, even he was beginning to feel the strain.
The attacks were fast, blindingly so. Liam had no choice but to rely on both his sword and his system to slash through the high-pressure strikes, barely keeping up.
Damn it, Liam thought, ducking under a jet before slashing upward to counter. At this rate, I’m going to have to use the other weapon. But if I do… can I make it look like magic? Would it even be enough to finish one of them in a single hit?
His eyes flicked to Dame.
Maybe if we work together… If I can slice off the head, that part probably won’t regenerate, right?
He missed the system link-up they used to have. The natural synchronicity between their powers had been incredibly useful during team fights. Now, without that connection, everything felt just a step out of rhythm.
On the opposite side, Beatrix was lining up her attacks carefully. Her blood powers were precise, but this opponent wasn’t giving her many opportunities.
Using a basic, but deadly, technique, blood began to swirl around her wrist, forming a thin ring before launching outward with her strike. Each droplet, no larger than a raindrop, carried an explosive property that expanded violently on impact. It wasn’t exactly an explosion, but the force it delivered was enough to shatter defenses.
When her attacks landed, the swirling water shields would break momentarily, but she couldn’t fire quickly enough to fully break through before they reformed.
As another stream of water roared toward them, Safa jumped forward. Her spear spun with grace and power, deflecting the attack cleanly before she landed beside Beatrix.
“It looks like the boys are struggling just as much,” Safa said, a soft smile on her lips. “So don’t be too hard on yourself. But I think… I’ve got a plan that’ll end this. Are you willing to go along with it?”
Beatrix nodded. “You’ve got my trust.”
While the others fought, the students watching from a safe distance kept their eyes wide open. Despite the danger, none of the transfer students seemed genuinely threatened. It was more like a high-stakes performance, and the others were trying to learn all they could.
Meanwhile, further back near the edge of the forest, Bronto stood still, his eyes narrowed.
He had just electrocuted one of the small beasts that had leapt out from the nearby brush. Now, two more emerged, tiny but twitching with agitation.
Bronto tilted his head, amused.
“What is this?” he muttered. “Did I just fry your kid or something? Now mama and papa are coming for revenge?”
He cracked his knuckles and smirked.
“Too bad. You’re next.”
Electricity danced along his fingertips before he flicked out two bolts of lightning. They hit the small beasts squarely, sending them tumbling to the ground, twitching and lifeless.
He grinned with satisfaction, until he heard it.
A sound, wet, deep, and gurgling. The bushes were shaking again. But it wasn’t just one bush this time.
A whole trail of them.
, ––
Back at the main contest, Safa was already in motion.
Unlike the others, her strategy wasn’t to wear the beasts down, it was to end the fight outright.
She sprinted forward. Beatrix, recognizing the signal, followed closely behind. As they reached the towering creature, Safa raised her spear.
A brilliant white light exploded from the tip, radiating across the entire clearing. It lit up everything, blinding both the beast and the watching students. No one could see what was happening behind the curtain of divine light.
That was the point.
Beatrix drew her sword. With one hand, she launched her blood powers to shatter the beast’s water shields one by one.
Then, kicking off the ground, she surged forward with Qi-boosted strength, slamming her sword into the creature’s chest.
Her blade pierced through.
There was a crack, subtle, but audible. She had struck something critical.
Inside the beast’s watery form, a core had shattered.
The towering creature, once fused even with the top of the waterfall, began to unravel. The water collapsed downward like a crashing wave, its body dissolving into formless liquid.
As the light from Safa’s spear faded, Beatrix stood empty-handed.
Her sword was gone, absorbed, shattered, or simply used up. The only thing left was the collapsed form of the beast on the ground.
Thanks to Safa’s God Eyes, Beatrix thought, she could see the core, the true source of its regeneration and magic. None of us would’ve figured that out without her.
And while she blinded everyone… I got to use my powers freely.
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Across the field, Liam and Dame had noticed the girls’ success.
“Wasn’t that cheating?” Liam muttered, watching the last of the water beast collapse. “I thought we agreed not to use our other strengths.”
But Dame wasn’t about to fall behind.
With a roar, he pushed forward, electrifying his hardened body and charging through the beast’s defenses like a battering ram. He slammed into it, pinning it up against the cliff wall.
Liam didn’t hesitate. He saw the beast’s reaction and where the damage had been focused. His system rapidly calculated the core’s location based on the feedback.
With a sharp leap, Liam sliced through his own beast with a single clean strike.
The monster twitched, and then collapsed into a pile of sloshing water.
Landing softly, the two stood still for a moment, breathing heavy.
They had won, but neither of them looked thrilled.
That thing was tough, Dame thought, eyeing the fading puddles. If I’d been alone… even using my full strength… I might not have made it. This dimension is no joke.
When Liam and Dame jogged back toward Safa and Beatrix, they noticed that the two weren’t looking at them. Their attention was elsewhere.
Eyes wide. Faces tense.
“The students,” Safa said, her voice cutting the air.
All of them turned at once.
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Chapter 1369: Little Creatures (Part 2)
Having finally dealt with the two monstrous beasts that had been blocking the portal, the group believed they had pulled off the perfect plan. With the path cleared, everyone could now pass through the portal without the risk of being blindsided by an attack.
Even better, they had managed to retrieve two powerful Power Stones in the process. Though Raze didn’t need them himself, they would still be incredibly useful for the growth and development of the others. Everything seemed to be going well.
But none of them were prepared for what came next.
Out of nowhere, the entire group was surrounded, by what looked like hundreds of small dinosaur-like creatures. They were no taller than a child’s knee, but their speed, numbers, and ferocity made up for their size. It wasn’t a trickle, it was a stampede. They came leaping, crawling, and screeching, converging from all directions.
Reacting quickly, Raze dropped his hand to the ground and released a strong electric pulse from his palms. Blue-white sparks crackled out in every direction, and the burst of lightning spread like a web. Several of the creatures were instantly struck, paralyzed mid-leap, their tiny limbs twitching.
But it wasn’t enough.
More were coming, dozens, no, hundreds more. Not all of them had been caught in the spell, and even those that had seemed to recover frighteningly fast.
“If it were just a few strong beasts, I could handle it,” Raze muttered under his breath, teeth clenched. “But this many… it’s too much.”
And that wasn’t the only problem.
Damn it. Damn it! Raze thought. What happened here? Did someone provoke one of the beasts following us? Is that what triggered this swarm? Or… is this a response to someone else defeating the guardian?
The students were scattered and panicking. Fear had gripped them tightly. Wild spells flew in every direction, fireballs, ice shards, wind blades. They struck the small beasts, but the creatures weren’t going down easily. Some of them leapt onto the students, their tiny claws digging into exposed skin, leaving bloody streaks wherever they latched on.
If a student was lucky enough to get off a good spell, they could kill one, maybe two of the beasts at a time. But that didn’t matter, the real threat was the sheer volume of them. They just kept coming.
Safa and the others, hearing the chaos erupting behind them, immediately turned back.
“Don’t worry, Raze! We’re coming! We’ll protect you guys!” Liam shouted as he sprinted toward the fray.
“Wait, don’t!” Raze shouted back urgently, launching more lightning from his hands. He was casting spell after spell, his lightning chaining through clusters of the creatures, shocking and paralyzing twenty or thirty at a time.
But those observing him, especially Safa, noticed something troubling, Raze’s spells were unusually slow. Not only that, but their impact felt weak compared to what they’d seen him do before.
“Don’t kill them!” Raze called out. “Subdue them if you can, but don’t kill them!“
And just like that, Safa understood.
He was holding back.
Raze was deliberately weakening his magic. He wasn’t going all-out on purpose. He was reducing the power of his spells, which explained the slower casting and weaker effect. He was carefully adjusting every attack, still trying to immobilize them, but avoiding fatal blows.
Why?
Because of the numbers.
If they killed too many, if they exterminated this horde completely, it would undoubtedly trigger the appearance of the dimension boss. A final guardian of the portal. Something far stronger than what they had already faced.
Crap, crap, crap! Bronto cursed internally, hiding behind one of the stone pillars. If what that kid said is true, then this is all because of me?
Deep down, Bronto already knew. The creatures had been showing up in greater numbers ever since he arrived. Something had triggered their aggression, and he feared it was his presence.
But this didn’t happen last time we came through here… he thought, his mind racing. Regardless, he chose to stay quiet and low. Drawing attention now could only make things worse.
As Liam and the others engaged, it became increasingly clear just how dire things were. He estimated there were around five hundred of these creatures, and more might still be on the way. Unlike Raze, none of them had spells that could paralyze. Their magic was primarily destructive. And if they wanted to survive, they had no choice but to kill.
The worst part?
The students.
They were too panicked to think clearly. Many of them had abandoned any strategy, flinging spells wildly, killing anything that moved. They couldn’t be reasoned with, not in this state. They just wanted to survive.
Eventually, more than three hundred of the small creatures had been killed. Their broken bodies littered the battlefield, some stacked on top of one another, others half-charred or frozen in place.
The students were bruised, bleeding, and panting for breath. Nearly everyone had at least one claw mark somewhere on their body. But the wave seemed to be slowing.
Or so they thought.
Liam scanned the area. “I’m not gonna lie… I don’t like that they’ve stopped.”
“Isn’t it just because we’ve killed so many?” one student asked. “Some beasts are smart, they know when to retreat.”
That’s when the rumbling started.
A deep, earth-shaking vibration spread beneath their feet. It was so strong that everyone could feel it, like the very ground was warning them of something far worse.
“This is exactly what I was worried about,” Raze said grimly, turning his head slowly toward the source of the sound.
All at once, the creatures scattered. The surviving beasts that were nearby stopped attacking and bolted, racing in the opposite direction of the portal, fleeing with instinctual terror.
And then they saw it.
At the top of the waterfall that towered before them, a massive geyser of water exploded into the air, a violent burst that eclipsed the sound of the students’ gasps. The waterfall itself began to slow, as though something immense was blocking its flow.
The rumble became a roar.
And Raze’s voice came, flat and certain.
“This… This is what I feared from the very beginning. Killing that many beasts, it’s summoned it. The dimension boss.”
Whatever was coming wasn’t just another monster. In a portal already filled with dangerous, high-level beasts, this one would be in a league of its own.
And it was here now.
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Chapter 1370: The Abyss That Stands Between
No longer did the group have to worry about the small creatures that had been attacking them. Instead, there was now an even bigger issue at hand.
The dimensional boss had been summoned, and from the looks of it, based on the location it was emerging from, it was stationed directly in front of the exit portal they needed to use.
Everyone stared as something began to form. From the top of the now-silent waterfall, the surface began to tremble, not just with sound, but with presence. The water didn’t merely ripple; it bent and warped unnaturally, as if gravity itself was beginning to unravel.
Then it emerged.
A monstrous figure, half-liquid, half-flesh, rose from the heart of the waterfall like a god called forth from the deep. Towering over the landscape, the creature stood nearly thirty feet tall, yet it moved with a fluid grace, as though the air around it were water.
Its body was an amalgamation of deep-sea horrors. Its slick, scaled hide shimmered with a dark, oil-like sheen. Bioluminescent streaks of glowing blue pulsed along its arms and chest in rhythmic waves. Long, serpentine tendrils hung from its back like flowing kelp, yet they twisted and coiled with a sentient hunger.
Instead of legs, it had a mass of swirling water forming a powerful vortex that allowed it to hover and surge across the battlefield, dragging the land itself with it. Its arms ended in sharp, fin-bladed claws but could morph and reform into tidal whips or piercing jets of pressurized water.
Its face, if it could be called that, was hidden behind a spiraled coral mask, shaped like a twisted seashell, with glowing abyss-blue eyes deep inside, flickering like dying stars.
The enormous creature began to descend from the top and landed right below, crashing heavily into the ground. The stream of water that should have flowed from the waterfall began to slow and then came to a complete stop.
Then the water started to move in reverse and headed toward the creature.
The water was being absorbed by the creature, and it was making its appearance even larger by the second.
“Damn it,” Liam said, gritting his teeth. “If those two beasts from before are anything to go by, this one’s going to be a nightmare. I don’t think we can make this a contest. Safa, do you know where its core is?”
Safa was already ahead of him, using her God Eyes even before Liam had spoken, but she didn’t have an answer she could give.
“The energy, it’s flowing evenly through its entire body,” Safa replied. “It’s almost as if every part of it contains equal mana. I can’t find any kind of core.”
“If that thing can regenerate like the last one…” Beatrix added, her expression darkening, “does that mean the only way to defeat it is to destroy the whole thing?”
The biggest problem was that the dimensional boss was now blocking their only way out. That meant they didn’t have a choice.
“We just have to take it out!” Liam shouted as he charged forward.
Seeing him rush ahead, the others quickly followed. However, just like the times before, the students and teachers watching didn’t have much confidence in them.
Though this group had saved them time and time again, a dimensional boss was on a whole other level, usually far stronger than any other creature inside a dimension. Judging by what they had seen so far, the current dimension they were in had to be one of the highest-level dungeons out there.
The massive creature in front of them looked as though it had limited mobility, but it also resembled a giant, formless blob of a monster.
The first to attack was Beatrix. Blood began to swirl around her fist as she held it out. She then clenched her hand tightly and threw a punch, sending out large, devastating fists of destruction.
But just like with the guardians from before, massive whirlpools of water appeared to defend the boss. Though Beatrix’s attacks seemed to be breaking and shattering these whirlpools, they ultimately did nothing. Not a single strike made it through.
Next, it was Liam and Dame’s turn, or at least they thought it was. The creature suddenly turned its large, coral-like head, and jets of high-pressure water shot out in their direction.
Dame activated his lightning body and tried to dodge, but several jets still managed to hit him. The force sent him flying, his feet skidding across the ground. The impact was so powerful that he didn’t even have a moment to recover before another blast from above struck, sending him crashing hard into the earth.
Safa quickly rushed to his side, thrusting her Lux sword forward, already beginning to heal Dame as much as she could. Against a creature like this, her best role was clear: to act as the strongest support possible, so the others could fight without fear of falling.
Liam, meanwhile, managed to push forward thanks to his sword, but he had only made it a few meters closer before the monster reacted again.
From its body, hundreds of large, thin, winding water tentacles erupted. They were fast, fast enough that it was clear they had a specific target in mind.
They swung toward Liam. He used every skill he had to slice through the tentacles, but eventually, one managed to strike him. Like a whip, it coiled around his body and flung him across the battlefield.
He skidded for a few moments before catching himself and regaining his stance, showcasing his physical strength. But there were just too many tentacles. He was being hit over and over again, and not just him, but the others as well.
They were all trying their best. Safa stood at the center, radiating light magic, healing them each time they were struck.
“The dimensional boss is too strong,” Bronto muttered. “We’re all going to die here.”
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