The healer had reacted quicker than the water mage. Tapping her staff on the ground, she activated the runes on her staff and quickly covered her entire body with a protective shield made out of light.
She still screamed out in pain as blood leaked out of her nose, but other than the painful ringing in her ear, she was mostly fine.
However, as the wave of mana neared Silas, he quickly controlled the water above him to create a bubble and ice around him, spanning a few meters in radius.
Yet, he knew that wasn’t enough.
He saw the ice cracking immediately, and even then, the ice wasn’t nearly thick enough to keep most of the sound outside. It simply protected him from the wave of mana.
That’s when he coursed Earth mana through his mana channels and into his body. After that, the attack now longer did any damage to him, though, the sound was still very uncomfortable, to the point that it hurt a little.
After a few seconds, the roar stopped and they all felt like they could breathe again. It felt like the roar was shaking their internal organs to the point that they all felt like puking. However, they knew that this was not the time.
Jessica quickly took out her daggers while the rest of them brandished their swords.
The healer was quickly healing herself from the nauseous feeling going up her throat, and Silas quickly brandished his ice axes that he quickly cooled again.
It was something he did every five minutes, but now that he needed it for battle, he cooled it again and fixed the small cracks that appeared on it.
The dual axes were much thicker than the ice around him.
It was condensed to a point where it wouldn’t have fully melted even if it had been placed under the scorching sun for a quarter of an hour. However, Silas wanted to be ready at all times, so he continued cooling it every few minutes.
Snapping his fingers, Silas created a fireball magic circle right in front of him. He instantly enlarged the sphere of flames that burned with a bright fiery red, yellow, and orange light.
The ball of flames spun around a single point, slowly be changing color and reaching closer and color to blue.
Silas’ spell upgraded to tier-2, before becoming tier-3 a few seconds later, allowing the flame to reach a pale blue color that illuminated its surroundings.
That’s when they all saw it.
Even Silas couldn’t help but drop his jaw slightly.
“Shit…” He muttered, and all of them were thinking the same thing.
A magenta-colored python appeared before them, its head standing 6 meters above them, and its body spanning for 20 meters at the very least.
However, that was not what shook Silas.
Instead, it was the pristine-amethyst mana core that shone with a bright violet light.
The python opened its mouth and revealed its forked tongue, waving it in the air as it hissed at the humans before it.
Its amethyst core revolved for a moment before a violet-colored mana aura erupted out of its body, followed by a strong wave of bloodlust that made them all freeze where they stood.
Everyone except Silas.
*BANG*
The ball of flames that had narrowed and extended into an arrow made of flames ripped through the air in the form of a blue streak, appearing in front of the python in less than a second.
The python quickly reacted by controlling its mana aura and revolving it around the arrow coming toward it.
Silas watched as the arrow he created was dismembered, inch by inch, ember by ember until it was finally snuffed out.
Extending its mouth further, the python let out a pink mist out of its mouth.
“We need to reform.” Jessica roared.
“We need to retreat!” One of the men shouted back.
“We’ve come this far. There is no way to retreat from this thing. It’s too far and too big. Our best way out is to fight it or scare it off somehow. Both of those options require us to challenge it head-on.” She explained while becoming a blur and dashing around the mist of poison.
The problem was, it seemed like the mist had the same or similar density to the fog around them, causing it to integrate into the fog itself, slowly turning the area around them into a pink atmosphere that would kill them at their first inhalation.
Jessica quickly activated some of the runes on her daggers before swiping at the air and dashing a few meters behind the python.
Her dagger was covered in a silver hue, and when she swiped at the air, she released two arches of air that flew through the pink mist and slammed into the python directly.
*Boom*
*Boom*
A cloud of dust shot into the air, blocking her line of sight, but she was certain that her attack must have at the very least, disoriented the python.
However-
“Jessica, move back!” Silas roared, but it was already too late.
The rest of the group had been retreating away from the purple mist since they wouldn’t do anything to it.
They were hoping Silas would do something, but even he was waiting for the right opportunity.
However, Jessica had jumped the gun. She had attacked the python immediately with her wind slashed, yet the instant they hit the python, Silas realized that it had done nothing.
The python’s scale was too thick and too hard. They glistened under the light of the sunset in the distance, barely piercing through the fog around them.
Silas knew that her daggers wouldn’t even put a scratch on the scale of the python, though, he didn’t really care if she died.
However, Silas knew that she was a valuable asset to the team, and that way he had seen everything going so far, especially after he healed, her, he saw that she had the potential of being a valuable comrade to him.
Breathing in, Silas willed to activate the rune on his ring before coursing fire energy through his body. Sure, he was extremely agile when using wind fusion, but fire fusion was much better for short bursts of movement or strength.
Silas put all his power into his right foot before he eventually dashed forward with all the speed he could muster.
He felt the wind slam against him, yet despite that, he felt like he was moving faster than had ever moved before.
His body turned into a blur as it shot through the air and pierced through the pink mist with so much force that the poisonous fog around him instantly parted.
The python had turned its back and was now facing Jessica while bearing its fangs.
It was inches away from stabbing its teeth into Jessica’s shoulders, but just when she thought all hope was lost, she felt the sunset glisten into her eyes reflecting off two transparent weapons, being held over a figure’s head.
Silas hovered above the python for what felt like an eternity, but after a few moments, he understood what he had to do.
A fire magic circle appeared behind his back and exploded behind him.
Fire energy coursed through his body as he used all the power and strength he could muster to swing his axes.
And before anyone could register what had just happened,
Silas appeared on the ground with a loud bang, kicking up a cloud of dust as his axes dripped with black blood.
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