As the three of them stared at the skeleton body for a bit, they quickly realized it was just a dead body with no signs of life.
Looking around, the room was mostly empty. The only things inside were the throne and the skeleton.
"What do we do?" Mary curiously asked.
"Let me check the room first."
Alex raised his shield and sword as he began to walk towards his right, putting his back against the wall and looking around.
The heavy mist of air made him want to puke a little, but he held the urge down as he continued walking along the side.
After walking around all the way to the skeleton itself, he still couldn't find anything living in the room.
It was almost as if it were just a room to rest, with an extra decoration on the side.
However, when Alex began to walk away from the wall and examined the other side, he soon realized what the room was.
There was not a single exit other than the direction they came from. It was a complete dead end with no way forward.
"The room should be safe. But there's nowhere to go besides the skeleton, which might be the clue forward."
As the two of them followed Alex toward the middle of the room, they began exploring the other corners they couldn't see earlier.
Yet, they all came to the same conclusion as Alex, with the skeleton being the only thing that they could hypothetically interact with.
"Should we touch the skeleton?" Sophia asked as she felt it might be the thing they needed to do.
"How about this? You two stand far back and make your spell, and I'll hit the skeleton with my sword."
The two of them nodded, quickly moving all the way to the entrance before Alex ready his weapon.
After waiting for a bit, Alex finally got the signal from the two of them.
With zero hesitation, Alex slashed his swords down right at the skeleton's leg, hoping to get some sort of reaction.
But much to his disappointment, the skeleton didn't move a single bit.
However, it all changes as Sophia and Mary both release their spell right towards the skeleton.
"Bang!"
Despite covering his ear and taking a few steps back, Alex could still hear the explosion going off as it directly landed right at the skeleton's head.
Instead of falling apart, the giant skeleton finally gains some sense of life, with its eyes slowly regaining a blue flame before looking down at them.
"Shit. You two get ready! I'm going to try to lure it away!"
Alex immediately rushed closer with his sword, slashing it before realizing his sword still didn't do any damage.
Still, he didn't stop hitting it until the giant skeleton finally began to move from its throne.
"Bang!"
Alex quickly jumped to the side, covering himself with his shield as another loud explosion landed on the skeleton.
Only its head and the spine were still intact, with the leg and the arm completely blown away to the side.
"Holy shit, what kind of spell did you guys do?" Alex curiously asked out loud as the water began to disappear slowly.
"Just a water tornado. How is this damn thing still alive?"
Sophia and Mary already started casting some sort of wind spell, causing Alex to run as fast as he could towards them.
"What the hell? Can you two warn me this before you cast this spell next time?"
Alex had finally made it back to the entrance, standing next to the two of them as they threw their spell at the skeleton again.
"Sorry... We tried our best to cover you with a barrier, too, though."
"Yeah, a barrier that only lasted a few seconds before I needed to use all my mana."
Mary awkwardly looked away as Sophia's attention was still on the skeleton, trying to crawl toward the throne.
But with no limbs, it was practically impossible for it to move even a single inch.
Another wave of water tornado arrived right at the skeleton, further breaking the skeleton's body part.
The rib cages began to fall out as the water tornado ruthlessly beat the skeleton against the wall.
With every hit, Alex could finally see how the water tornado was working together as the wind dragged the water up into the air.
As the water touches the skeleton at a high speed, it slowly withers away the joint connections until it separates.
It was now only a matter of time before the skeleton disconnected its entire body from the head.
"Sophia, I'm about to run out of mana," Mary warned as she cast her next tornado in rotation.
"I can cover you for a bit. But I can only cast a few myself." Alex answered first, as he already recovered a bit of his mana.
Sophia didn't say anything, but she continued focusing on throwing water cores at the skeleton with her own tornado.
Just as all three of them were about to be exhausted from their mana, the skeleton's spine finally disconnected from the head.
A loud clunk echoed in the room as the head fell onto the ground, with blue flames still spewing outward more than ever.
It was almost as if it wanted to rip the three of them apart but had no power to do anything besides letting its frustration out with the flame.
"Let's finish this together."
The two of them agreed with Alex's idea as they began casting their favorite spell in the air.
Mary's orb of darkness, Sophia's orb of light, and Alex's orb of fireball all began flying toward the skeleton, aiming at its eye.
"Bang!"
A loud explosion went off louder than ever, forcing the three to cover their ear even though they were several yards away.
This time, the skeleton finally died as the flame in its eye began to dim down more and more.
The rest of the bones in the room began to dissipate, leaving a black crystal on the ground.