Chapter 308 - 308 Battle Against The Monster Of The Crystal Caverns (2)

'Iron wings of the archangel.'

Casting his tier five spell, Marcus grew six iron wings on his back and repapered, flying towards Mrazivý as fast as he could to prevent this monster from harming her further.

Firing off a barrage of darkness bullets Marcus forced the six-armed lamia onto the defensive trying to keep its attention on him instead of Mrazivý.

Of course, he knew that his tier one spell was not going to be able to really hurt his opponent but, he was shocked to see it not even attempt to block or dodge as it simply let the darkness bullets bounce off its skin.

'I cannot see its level.'

Trying to appraise the lamia, Marcus was in for a rude awakening when he found its level to be too high for him to see.

With the current level of his creature appraisal skill, he should have been able to see the levels of anything up to fifteen levels higher, meaning that this monster was at least level fifty-eight.

However, whether this monster was stronger than him or not, meant nothing because this was not a battle he could back down from.

'Lightning bind.'

Casting a heightened lightning bind, Marcus attempted to restrain the lamia, though it simply shrugged off the spell in an instance.

But at the same time Marcus had also sent out his iron threads and wrapped them around its limbs, as he finished closing the distance.

If his spells would not work from afar, he would get into close combat and try striking it down with his scythe.

Marcus quickly started sending out a frenzy of slashes with his scythe, but the lamia easily ripped through his iron threads and began deflecting Marcus' attacks with its six arms while even dealing counter blows.

Still even as Marcus continued to take a multitude of hits, he never wavered quickly casting all of his buff spells, and slowly catching up with his opponent's speed and power.

Unfortunately, as his power kept increasing so did the lamia's, as it seemed to be enjoying their fight slowly building up and matching Marcus's every move.

Channeling all of his power into his scythe Marcus caused it to enlarge and pulse with darkness and light, using the same attack that he used to kill the blade armed demon.

Yet even as he slashed out with all of his strength the lamia caught his attack with four of its arms before sinking the other two deep into Marcus' torso, faster than he could react.

"UGhhh"

With two of the lamia's and embedded deep into his torso, Marcus felt a horrible pain as the monster began to spread its arms and try to rip him in half.

But just as Marcus was about to go back to his ghost form, Mrazivý who had managed to down a healing potion and crawl away, sent her mercurial ice towards the lamia and began wrapping it around the monster.

"Hisssss."

Feeling some pain for the first time from the intense cold, the lamia turned its head toward Mrazivý and opened its mouth where it began compressing a blast of mana to fire off towards her.

'Soul Devour.'

The monster's attention diverted towards Mrazivý, Marcus knew this was his only chance and activated his soul devour unique skill, eating away at his own soul for a massive increase in power.

"Ahhhhh"

Screaming and putting his all into his attack, Marcus' scythe that had been stopped, began moving again and the lamia who was distracted noticed to late as Marcus sliced through its four arms and into its torso.

The lamia was then blasted away by Marcus' full powered slash, and the attack it was about to hit Mrazivý with went wide and instead blew the roof off of the shrine.

Falling down to his knees Marcus deactivated his skills, which had been putting an enormous pressure on his already damaged form.

'Uh I am going to feel this tomorrow.'

After giving himself a few seconds to recover, Marcus began shambling over towards Mrazivý, who was drinking another healing potion to stop the blood that was flowing out of her body.

"Here let me help."

Holding his hands out towards her, Marcus activated his spirit healing specter power, and a warm glow enveloped his hands before moving over to Mrazivý.

Quickly the horrible wounds that she had began to close up, and the pained expression on her face became calm.

"Thanks Marcus, I feel a lot better now." Mrazivý said as the last of her wounds healed away.

The two of them then stood up and looked at the damage their battle had caused. The once tranquil area was now in shambles, and the music coming from the shrine had been reduced to sporadic ticking sounds.

"I suppose we should head out of here. This place is more dangerous than I thought it would be. If we run into another monster as strong as that one, we may not make it out next time." Mrazivý said, feeling a bit guilty that she had led Marcus to such a dangerous place.

But as she said that Marcus had a sudden realization.

'That monster was at least level fifty-eight, so if we just killed it, why did I not level up.'

However, Marcus' realization came a bit too late, as the lamia using its camouflage ability had snuck back up on them and lunged towards Marcus.

Luckily this time he was better able to react and simply went back into his ghost form allowing the lamia to pass through him.

'Damn it can regenerate.' Seeing that the Lamia had fully healed itself, Marcus knew that they were in for another tough battle, especially because he was still exhausted from using his supreme and unique skills.

"Don't think you can hide from me. I will rip you apart and feassst on your flessssh." The lamia said as it searched for Marcus.

"Frozen coffin."

Yet as the lamia frantically searched for Marcus who it wanted to tear apart for injuring it, Mrazivý had finished up another spell.

Ice began to form all around her and rush towards the lamia, freezing everything in its way, and full encasing the monster.

Except even as it was being surrounded by ice, the lamia merely flexed its muscles and the ice around it shattered leaving it completely unharmed.

It then hissed at Mrazivý before slithering towards her.

'Not this time.'

Reappearing above the lamia's head Marcus began bringing down his scythe as he activated his embodiment of eclipse and soul devour skills.

He was aiming to land a decisive blow slicing the lamia in half from top to bottom, but his opponent had been ready for him.

The lamia had already figured out that both Marcus and Mrazivý were desperate to protect each other and had gone towards her to lure Marcus out.

And with its tail it managed to wrap around Marcus and begin to squeeze using all of its strength to pop him like a balloon.

But the lamia had the same problem as before, as Marcus quickly used his ghost form to escape and then resolidified behind it.

Now he and Mrazivý were flanking the lamia, but he knew he did not have long before his own skills crushed him.

'I did not want to have to do this, but if we die here the tournament will not matter anyway. Soul Bur-'

As Marcus went to activate his final trump card suddenly an immense power began to weight down on him, pushing him to the ground, and knocking him out of his supreme and unique skills.

And the same was happening to both Mrazivý and the lamia, when a loud voice echoed through the area saying, "What the hell did you do to my home."