Chapter 288: Saria: [Raid Boss] (2)

Chapter 288: Saria: [Raid Boss] (2)

It felt like time stopped as the bolt met the blade. Sofia and Saria were so close. Closer than they had ever been for the last fifteen years. Then the bolt exploded.

Sofia was blinded by the explosion. In her hands, she felt the scepter snap, and following it, her own body was cut in half diagonally. The wall behind was also torn open, there was nothing but stone behind. There was no stopping the polearms spatial cut, but inside the explosion, Sofia felt Saria being blown away. And Im not dead. She focused on using [Bone dominus] to reconnect her armor, before half of her body fell away. She couldnt heal for now but it would be faster for the rune to resurrect her later if everything was still there. The two halves of the scepter snapped back together as the light of the bolts explosion faded.

Saria had been blown away quite far, but she was already standing back up, blood dripping from under her mask. Her magical armor was quickly patching up its holes.

The armor is weaker against magic than physical attacks. Sofia noted. Her health was already under twenty percent and dwindling, both her legs and her left arm were no longer connected to her body. But from the outside, she looked unharmed.

For a second, Saria stared at the monster of bones that had just blown her up all the while being seemingly unaffected by her attack.

During this same second, Sofia was struggling to cast [Spine of the Black Sun] as she was quickly losing all her blood inside of her armor. The bone whip appeared just in time for her to strike the ghostly monster birds of Saria that were done dealing with the salamanders and rushed at her instead. The ghosts turned around at the last second, running in all directions except towards her. Right, undead. Nice!

Sofia was calculating her next move, grabbing one of the remaining skulls of the choir and letting herself fall to the ground, but Saria did something unexpected. She unsummoned her weapon. This sounded like an alarm bell to Sofia. Her Sister wasnt the kind to give up, if she was letting her weapon go

As Sofia feared, Saria raised both hands, and two overlapping red circles of light appeared in the arena. The skull she received in the face with a bang, which exploded in a burst of flesh and blood, did not stop her channeling either. Anti-healing. Useless.

Going underground would probably not save Sofia. Do I cancel one?

As Sarias spell activated. Sofia dumped as many bones out of her storage as she could around her just as she landed.

This wasnt to defend herself, but to disguise her imminent death.

Sarias magic erupted. First came a veil of water, like heavy rain, then the second circles magic resolved. The fire burst. As the large quantities of fire and water met, the entire arena exploded.

Sofias death had only been a matter of time anyway, so to be able to make Saria spend so much mana for a single of her unlife runes was a good tradeoff. Still, as she died, Sofia focused on pulling all the bones toward her with [Bone dominus]. When the steam explosion cleared out a bit later, Saria was also badly damaged by her own attack. She looked weak, tired.

Sofia could see this through Pareths eyes who had just reappeared out to cover her exit from the resurrection. His arms were almost usable again.

Seeing Pareth, Saria immediately started casting her two skills again. The red circles appeared once more. All around, the boss arena was crumbling, steel plates fell from the ceiling, everything seemed about to collapse at any moment. Then Sofia, freshly resurrected by her rune, and quickly repairing her armor starting from the outside, stood up from within the pile of bones.

To Saria, it looked like nothing she tried ever did more than prevent her opponent from moving a few seconds. Thanks to Sofias care, her armor looked just as undamaged and clean as it did before the fight. This seemed to shock her sister. How, she mumbled. She took a step back. Intimidated or worried, either way she canceled her skills, suffering some backlash, and started channeling a new skill.

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The dragon breath missed them both, but the arena was impacted again. It finally crumbled.

Tons of steel and rock fell indiscriminately, Sofia, Pareth, and Saria were all instantly buried, deep under seafloor.

What now? Pareth also didnt lose any health, hes buried like me.

Inside a prison of stone, Sofia felt the world shake. She extended her mana senses. Saria was digging in her direction, and fast. Mere stone couldnt stop Dragon claws.

I broke out of a mountain in this form once.

I can dig faster!

Flexing her muscles, Sofia cleared some breathing room by cracking the rocks around her, and she punched up. She was going to keep digging like this trying to reach the ocean. An underwater battle would likely be to her advantage. She simply forgot there was no need for digging. The Sandworm pierced through the stone as if it was sand, and Sofia only needed to grab its ribs as it brought her up to the surface.

It was not long until Sofias surroundings transitioned from rock to sand, and from sand to the ocean. Pareth finally teleported to join her.

Saria will catch up any second.

As the adrenaline fell ever so slightly in this instant of respite, Sofia took a second to digest the memory of her sisters terrifying scream as she transformed. It sounded horrifyingly painful, she had never heard Saria scream like this, not even under the slavers whip.

Feeling the tremors of Saria digging up, Sofia needed to move. She grabbed the sandworm and flew up to the surface. There was nothing but water everywhere Sofia looked. It was dusk; the sun slowly descended in the horizon painting the sky orange.

Is this really a fake world?

There wasnt so much time to contemplate the question. Sofia felt Sarias mana fast approaching.

Flying up as fast as she could, she filled the sandworm with mana.

A hundred and fifty thousand will do.

Sofia attentively observed the magic as it formed, she brandished the giant skeletal sandworm high in the sky..

Todays [Saintess madness] forecast is: Light!