Chapter 143: A Bad Opponent

"That's... Troubling." All I could see in the distance is the roaring wave of the poisoned sea.

Everything was either burning up in flames or being consumed under the pressure of the sea.

The day that was once a bright sunny day turned dark only in our area.

The thunder bear began unleashing lightning everywhere and everytime the lightning hits the poisoned water, it spreads like wildfire.

An incredibly powerful lightning, a poisoned sea and a large conductor below us that will be incredibly dangerous to stand on.

The combination that I didn't expect is actually pretty good and dangerous.

But we don't have any choice to plan our approach or retreat. Our goal is absolute speed on killing these things. Those two, I bid them goodluck.

We first went to a higher ground, high enough so that we won't touch the poisoned seawater or get the monster's attention.

Everyone of us changed into our Gazer form.

"Feran, Helga, would you?" Greta asked of them.

"We can only put four buffs on all of you, it'll deplete much of our mana when there's a lot." Feran replied.

"Yeah that will be enough."

Feran nodded, "Lightning Resistance, Poison Resistance, Dull Pain, Strength Boost!"

Helga was next, "Regeneration!"

We all jumped down and landed on the rocks that are barely holding on when the current was extremely strong.

The monsters noticed us, the basilisk was the one that attacked first.

Just as I thought it was going to spit out poison at us, it dived head first in the water.

It was circling all around us and I'm trying to follow it. But the thunder bear took this chance and began raining us down with literal lightning.

The dark cloud above us is striking lightning at certain intervals at an incredibly accurate strikes.

I jumped first at the thunder bear and rushed ahead, "DUEL!"

[Afal Reysh vs Uzgooal Buriafel]

[Afal LV. 489: (HP:21,000/22,340)]

[Uzgooal LV. 320: (HP: 40,000/40,000)]

"That's one chunky health." I jumped at its fur but a sudden shock went through all my body. I let go and was falling at great heights. But suddenly, I felt like I was levitating through the air. I looked at the distance and saw Helga's book glowing. It seems that she saved me from falling down the poison.

I was about to signal using my hand to say thanks but it seems that I couldn't move a single joint in my body.

Helga lightly put me on the ground where it's clear. After a few seconds, I can finally move again.

"Everyone, it seems that this monster has a lightning barrier all around it. It'll paralyze you for several seconds."

Neco was panicking, "Then how will we damage that guy? We're all melee users. And getting near it is the only way we can."

"Well... Let's figure it out." I grabbed my necklace, "Doppelganger!"

A perfect copy of me appeared. I looked at it and it instantly understood what I wanted it to do. It dispelled the shapeshift on its arm and used Void's Calling.

The two monsters were then flailing around. They're being slowly dragged to us.

"Basilisk first!" I ordered.

Everyone followed pursuit and we focused our firepower on the basilisk.

When we got near, the basilisk loudly screeched. It looked up then spew a lot of poison like a volcano.

Just as I thought we were doomed, we were saved by Helga's last minute barrier.

But good thing we blocked it. The rocks below us melted.

Greta jumped under the basilisk and began hacking the jaw of its mouth. "ORAAAAAAAA!!!" Her strikes were quick and beastly. With her weapon, Soul Rend, she blasted through the skin of the monster with ease.

She's not as fast as me, but her destructive powers is far greater than mine.

Neco followed up and focused on the body of the monster. He began digging his weapon deep in the monster then running down its body slicing it cleanly.

I jumped on its head and tried to pierce its eye.

But a sudden flash of light came out from its eyes but then... Nothing happened.

We were warned before by Zeta on the basilisk, it can spit an incredibly poisonous poison and its eyes is an evil eye, it shows the enemy horrifying things and brings bad luck. Most of the time it causes death due to shock or something.

"You think this is enough to make me afraid? Hey basilisk, this fear doesn't work on me. But you know what scares me? Myself. Dispel," I took off the shapeshift on my face, "Eye of Cthulhu."

The basilisk began to writhe in pain and began spazzing all over the place. It then fell onto the ground.

"NOW!" I shouted.

We all leapt onto the head and began unleashing all of our attacks on it.

In one combination of us all,

Neco's combo was,"Supersonic!" He then sliced the eyes and the throat of the basilisk.

Mine was, "Hell Flame!" My Deathdance got surrounded by dark red flames and everytime I thrust my sword at the basilisk, I'm both melting and burning the skin.

Greta followed us, "Metal Macabre! Hunter's Fest!" Greta grew in size, but not that much, but everytime she swiped her claws on the basilisk's head, it felt more powerful and amazing. Her attacks diced the body of the basilisk.

After a few moments we completely killed the basilisk. But then...

A sudden lightning struck us all.

"ARGH!" The three of us were in complete agony.

The basilisk then had a dark cloud forming under it and it carried the basilisk back to the thunder bear. It seems that it's its doing. The lightning that we felt has disappeared.

Also my Doppelganger's Void's Calling seems to have ended.

But then, the thunder bear gathered lightning on its hand and struck it down on the basilisk.

"What!?" We were all confused.

The dead basilisk suddenly recovered all of its wounds.

"No freaking WAY!" Neco shouted.

We were all shocked also.

This thunder bear, resurrected the basilisk.

Its form now had a lightning barrier all around it. Its eyes were emitting lightning and the sea that was filled with poison were now suddenly and randomly being shot by lightning from the sky.

"Uh oh..." Greta muttered.

The thunder bear finally acted. It positioned in all fours. The lightning surrounding its body became even more fierce.

The thunder bear then rushed at us. But good thing Helga saved us again with a well timed barrier.

It broke but it deflected one attack. No matter where we had gone when the thunder bear charged, we would've been damaged.

The basilisk then attacked Greta. She was caught off guard because we were focused on the thunder bear.

It wrapped around Greta and began squeezing her tightly while she was being electrocuted. "ARGHHHH!!!"

Even though we got buffed by the Lightning Resistance and Dull Pain, the damage of that lightning is pretty strong.

We rushed to her aid and began attacking the basilisk with all our skills but the lightning barrier that is also on the thunder bear is active on this monster.

Our attacks are getting reflected since we don't have enough strength to pierce through it.

We were helpless. We saw Greta in the grasp of the basilisk and we couldn't save her there.

How can we possibly beat these things?

I looked up only to see the dark sky and the rain falling on us. "D... Dark sky...?" A lightning then struck us all but we dodged it. "Dark sky! That's it!"

Neco looked at me. Confused. "What do you mean!? We have to save Greta!"

"Their source of power comes from the dark sky above us! In other words, that floating black cloud!"

"Then what do we do!?"

"We need to clear that sky!"

"How!?"

"I can blast it with magic! But let's help Greta first! Stand back!" Neco stood back. "Dispel!" I dispelled the shapeshift on my other arm showing Hand of Fury.

I grabbed the basilisk's body and began to pry it out. "ARGHHH!" I was in extreme pain but a green particle was surrounding me. Helga is continuously healing me with her magic. It's all up to me to clear that cloud.

I pulled and pulled away the body of the basilisk and it gave Greta some moving space so she took this opportunity and jumped out.

I let go of the basilisk and punched it sending it flying.

But all I did was not 'punching' it. I only knocked it away. The lightning barrier around it negated all my attack.

"GRETA! Can you fight!?" I asked.

"Yeah. I still can!" She replied.

"Okay! Our goal is to clear the clouds above! I'm guessing that's their source of power! Their bodies will be fully invulnerable if that keeps up! And it seems that thundercloud can resurrect themselves!"

"How!?"

"I'll blast it with magic, distract the thunder bear and the basilisk for me!"

"Got it!" Neco and Greta shouted.