Chapter 113 Demon?

Shaman prepared for the worst as the sudden pressure got closer to her. The dust clouds that were caused by Shaman's attack were finally settling, allowing her to see what was causing the pressure.

Clara was sprinting towards Shaman and at first Shaman did not believe that Clara was the reason behind such a powerful aura until she saw the pair of pinkish red horns.

'Wait Clara is a demon?' Shaman recalled the part of Clara's status where a part of the race section was blocked out.

'Hang on, demons are supposed to only be in the demon lands as they are an isolated nation.' Clara's potential race kept raising more and more questions. To Shaman's knowledge, the demon lands are meant to be closed off and as such demon sightings are very rare.

Clara was getting closer and yet did not show any signs of hostility Shaman was relieved, but still did not let her guard down. However before Shaman could even utter a word, Clara's lightning surged out, sporting a new red colour instead of the usual purple, and in a flash she disappeared, only to reappear with another burst of red lightning right next to Shaman.

"SHIT, did you have to do that?" Shaman's soul almost got scared out of her, almost falling on her back.

"Oho~ ShaSha, did I scare you a bit? My bad, I only wanted to look cool." Clara teased Shaman, causing her to blush a little and cover her face. Clara smirked at Shaman as she found Shaman's reaction very cute and wanted to tease her some more.

'AHHH! What's with these nicknames lately?' Shaman was once again thrown for a loop as she had acquired a new nickname out of nowhere.

"ENOUGH! I have a lot of questions but there is a boss in front of us." Shaman shook her head and switched her attention to the boss.

The boss had been standing there silently recovering from Shaman's attack. In the small amount of time that Shaman was distracted, the boss had already regrown a large chunk of its missing armour.

"Shit looks like we need to kill it with one big attack or hope that it will eventually run out of energy" Shaman did not like how fast it was able to regenerate and was unsure if a drawn out battle would be a good idea.

"It might have a core like the Terikin. If not then we can try combining our attacks together to take it out." Clara's deduction about the core was likely true, as the boss is the accumulation of all the mist, so a core may have formed.

"ShaSha, if you can distract the boss with Wolfy, I will try to look for its core in the meantime. If I can't find it, I'll call you to back me up, and we'll go for a joint attack instead" Clara briefly explained her plan, and Shaman hastily relayed it to Wolfy through Rea.

Clara continued to quickly relay her idea for their combined attack, and by the time she was done, the boss too finished his recovery, its eyes glowing with renewed hatred

"Alright let's go." Clara dashed off using her lightning to for speed and approached the boss

Shaman followed Clara, creating a thin ice layer under herself so she could start ice skating. Although not as fast as Clara, Shaman did not fall behind and kept close. The boss wasn't idle either as he charged towards the two.

Clara and Shaman quickly reached the boss, and immediately began executing their plan.

Clara disappeared once again with her lightning, leaving Shaman and Wolfy to grab the boss's attention.

Just like before Wolfy was on the roof taking advantage of the darkness and utilising the space he had. Unlike last time Wolfy opted to rain down smaller shadow blades instead of a few massive ones.

Wolfy shot out the blades and to his surprise it was more effective than he expected. Although the blades were only able to penetrate certain parts of the boss's body, it was enough to successfully distract the boss. The constant barrage on its joints and weakest links agitated the boss, who switched its attention in search of the source of its annoyance. However since Wolfy was in the shadows the boss was unable to pinpoint his exact location, which only served to aggravate the boss even more.

The boss let out frustrated screeches as it looked around for where the blades had come from but to no avail. Clara had taken this opportunity and appeared above the boss, aiming a powerful lightning strike at where a normal person's heart would be. A hole was blasted right through its chest instantly, but to Clara's disappointment, there was no core.

The boss fell to its knees but thanks to the attack lacking the fire element, the gaping hole in its chest was able to recover significantly faster. Shaman was rather shocked as in merely a few seconds it was already recovered.

Shaman though did not sit still and made her way behind the boss, preparing for an attack. She has already come up with a new fire skill she could use and was going to take this opportunity to try it.

Clara saw that Shaman was up to something and so she decided to up her mental pressure, focusing it onto the boss to keep its attention. The boss felt a sudden increase in pressure, as if gravity itself doubled down on him, preventing him from rising back to his feet.

Wolfy had also seen Shaman's intentions so he decided to try to mimic one of Shaman's skills, [chains of earth] with his shadows. Wolfy had made his way under the boss so he could launch out the shadow chains.

A pool of shadow was created underneath the boss allowing Wolfy to create the chains.

[Shadow chains] bursted out of the ground, entangling the boss further securing its position. The boss tried to move but was completely helpless, for the time being.

Shaman positinted herself close to one of the boss's legs and activated [fire coat]. Using [fire coat] as a base, Shaman made the flames more violent and just like her [wind slash] sent out a [fire slash]. Shaman swung horizontally and the slash flew towards the boss's leg.

The boss however wasn't chained down for long as some of its body turned to mist and picked up its sword. The mist was able to move the sword at high speeds and removed all the [shadow chains] with ease allowing it to get up from the ground. Wolfy, seeing that his chains were gone, went back to the roof and kept a safe distance away.

The boss was nearly back to his feet, when suddenly Shaman's [fire slash] impacted one of its legs, completely cutting through it. The boss fell to the floor as it now only had one leg to support itself.

Clara taking another opportunity to strike the boss rained down a bunch of Lightning strikes in various different spots. Unexpectedly the boss had turned its full body back into a mist state and avoided all of Clara's attacks.

"Tch" Clara got annoyed as her lightning is not as effective to the mist unlike the fire element.

As the boss moved in its mist state, a rain of fire arrows came flying in from the distance. Knowing the danger the boss reacted quickly and managed to dodge the arrows with ease.

"HEYYYY, NEED SOME HELP?" Elysia had finally caught up and attempted to hit the boss but in its misty form the boss was surprisingly agile.

Shaman tasked Rea with filling Elysia in on the plan. Why she didn't do it beforehand? Well that's because Shaman forgot that Elysia was also fighting.

Elysia understood and she continued to keep her distance to provide long range support. Although she wanted to fight with her spear, she suspected it would be ineffective.

Everyone became rather suspicious as the boss had slowly started to cover the area with its mist. Shaman ended up stranded in the middle of the mist and tried using her fire to clear it, the boss would move around it, making any attempts to hit the mist futile.

Clara, who had been out of sight, safely waited outside the mist and quietly observed to see what would happen. Elysia and Wolfy were both too far away from the mist to be affected by it.

Shaman began to worry a little as she was unsure what capabilities the boss had. Shaman was looking frantically around making sure she wasn't missing anything but the boss simply carried on in silence, only making her more paranoid.

'Come on, do something already!' Shaman was desperate for information and without it, making any decision became much harder for her.

The wait did not last long as the mist started to swirl around Shaman, forming a circle around her. Before she could even react, a black dome made out of the metal surrounded Shaman, only to then quickly shrink in size.

Clara had instantly reacted using her lightning to hit the dome that was shrinking on Shaman. Elysia tried firing arrows but the mist would use its own body to block and fizzle each arrow Elysia sent. Wolfy tried throwing a shadow blade at the dome but it bounced off, not even leaving a single scratch.

Everyone's attacks were futile and Shaman disappeared from the boss room.