Chapter 104 The Spark

[Fireball has been activated]

[Fireball has been activated]

[Flame Wheel has been activated]

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Mako used all of his fire-related skills that had a low cost and covered a massive area against the regular Terra beetles. Due to him expanding his reach over the many beetles who were charging at him as well as Bill and Leon, Mako couldn't just deal with one at a time and finish it off.

Instead, he used his abilities to steer and maneuver the beetles so that they would keep their aggression on him while Bill and Leon would be safe and protected.

Bill and Leon had the most difficult job as they continued to use their earth abilities to track the Beetle King's movements by sensing the earth's vibrations as the king moved around. Whenever they would get an opportunity, they would manipulate the earth surrounding the body of the Beetle King to conjure earth spikes and impale them on its body.

The earth spikes weren't strong enough to penetrate through the hard skin of the Beetle King and instead just acted as a barrier to prevent it from jumping out of the ground and targeting one of them.

While they tried to keep the Terra Beetle King to be engaged with them, the king itself could also sense what was going on at the surface and could make out two figures close to one another. The patterns on its body began to glow once again as it regained its original golden glow.

The Beetle King had switched up the abilities once again and now while still remaining underground, The Beetle King started to charge up its attack. The basic logic was that Lightning ability was complemented by the Earth ability.

If the Lightning user had enough power while aiming at their intended target, the attack they would produce could travel through any piece of earth and come out from the other side with the same angle and similar power just as before.

The earth is a conductive material and if enough voltage or in this case power is applied when the skill is cast, then it can travel through any barrier of earth or layers of the ground without any issues at all.

Mako was still busy dealing with more than a dozen regular Terra beetles swarming him from all sides. He was holding his own against all of them and managing to slay a couple of them while keeping them away from Bill and Leon.

Those two were continuously hunting the king with their Earth ability as they couldn't track him 24/7 just because of fast it was moving underground and that they didn't have a digital view of what was going down there either. Bill and Leon could only sense a barely distinguishable outline of the Beetle King and the earth that was surrounding it.

They had both sensed that the Beetle King had finally stopped moving and it was staying in the same position for the last 30 seconds or so. Bill believed that maybe the Beetle King was trying to recover energy to launch another wave of attacks or recover health as the scorching Blade did indeed do some damage to it.

Whatever the reason might be, now that they had it locked down in a single position, Bill and Leon tried to manipulate the earth around the Beetle King to create the sharpest spikes they could so that they could dome damage to it themselves.

However, what Bill and Leon had both failed to realize is that by using the Earth ability, they were only able to sense the general location of the king not his state or energy level.

Right now, the small underground space where the giant Terra Beetle King was camping, was illuminated by a bright and ferocious ball of lightning that was being conjured near its mouth with its two pincers feeding it more electricity.

The ball became larger and larger and glowed brighter and brighter until the beetle couldn't add any more energy to it at all.

By this time, the walls of the small space where the Beetle King was residing had begun to shift as tens of sharp points formed almost immediately and trusted through with as much force as possible.

*SCREECH!*

The spikes were finally able to penetrate the hard exterior and deal damage as blue blood started to leak out from all the areas where an earth spike had stabbed it. The Beetle King let out a screech filled with pain as it bled from 20 different locations at the same time.

Joy and happiness filled Bill's heart as he felt the spikes finally being strong enough to penetrate through and deal some real damage to this beast. This amazing feat was accomplished by Bill and Leon joining forces together.

Before this, both Bill and Leon were trying to stop the Beetle King and attack it using their own earth spikes but individually they lacked the power to deal damage. However, when the Beetle King had become immobile, they used this opportunity to join forces and conjure extra sharp and sturdy earth spikes by combining both of their auras.

A sense of joy and confidence became evident on their faces as they pulled out all the earth spikes so that they could stab it again and again. However, before they could do anything, the Beetle King had finally finished conjuring its strongest attack and it aimed it at the two boys that had caused it so much harm.

The ball of lightning quickly escaped from its mouth and started to travel upwards with great speed and traveling through the layers of the ground with ease. Bill and Leon stomped their feet in a specific motion which was used to repurpose the earth spikes once again but instead of the earth being given command, Bill and Leon felt a small jolt of electricity from under their feet that kept increasing with intensity.

Before they could even realize what was happening, a giant ball of yellow lighting erupted from the ground right in between the two boys. The ball of lightning dispersed as soon as it reached the surface, releasing its charge on everybody that was within range of the attack.

Two massive bolts of lightning erupted from the Ball of lightning as it chained between Leon and Bill dealing massive damage to their bodies. Their screams echoed throughout the cave as they continued to be electrocuted.

Any normal human being would have died on the spot from being electrocuted with such great amounts of electricity; however, both Bill and Leon were ability users which made them naturally a lot stronger and they could take on an inhuman amount of beating, secondly, they had the Earth ability which helped them redirect some of the current back to the ground through their bodies as quickly as possible in order to mitigate damage.

The electrocution lasted for roughly ten seconds, however, the scene afterward was petrifying to look at. Bill and Leon immediately collapsed on the floor as their bodies looked shriveled and burnt. Smoke rose from their bodies and there was no sign of movement by both of them.

Mako watched the entire scene with complete utter shock as he couldn't do anything to help them as he himself was occupied with the Terra Beetles. Watching both of his friends fall over and not move was quite concerning to him.

Without keeping his emotions in check, Mako shouted out in a fit of rage as he subconsciously just released his fire aura in all directions. This wasn't a skill that Mako had mastered or known as just in the heat of the moment, Mako released a fire bubble that quickly spread out and enveloped every single Terra beetle similar to the static discharge skill.

The level 4 fire aura was able to light every single one of the beasts on fire and it quickly dealt a lot of damage as well as killing the ones that were already taken damage.

Free from taking care of the regular Terra beetles, Mako sprinted over to his friends, who still lay flat on the ground, unmoving and unresponsive. Leon was the closest to him and Mako stopped over his body first to examine his body and find out his condition.

Mako had no medical expertise and he didn't what he was going to do if he had to do some kind of procedure to save their lives; however, before he could even begin to try to help his friends, the Beetle King erupted from the ground and made its entry into the cave.

It landed on its gold glowing razor-sharp feet as he hissed at Mako and started charging toward him almost immediately giving him no chance to escape or make a plan.

Just the sight of the Terra Beetle King was making Mako a whole new level of mad as he carefully placed Leon's body on the ground closer to Bill this time and quickly stood up to face the Beetle in their final clash.

'I have to use the fire ability as it is the only weakness that this thing has!' Mako thought as his hand began to envelop in flames.

'But I can't use any of my generic moves, because it knows that it won't do much damage and will walk right through them!' Mako said to himself as he switched his ability from flame to lightning.

'But what is lightning going to do in this case? I can't deal damage or paralyze it because it is stronger than me!' Mako contradicted himself once again as he could think of what to do.

His hands kept switching between lightning and fire as for the first, Mako had no idea how he was even going to compete against this beast. However, he could just give up!

"If I gave up, all three of us will be losing our lives today! And I will not be the one responsible for their untimely deaths without giving it my all, Believe me!" Mako shouted out loud with frustration as he just raised his hands forward and activated his aura to just launch as much of it as possible toward the beast.

However, as Mako had risen his hands up to release as much aura as possible from his hands, his hands were in the middle of transitioning between them. Mako had pulled up his hands forward and directed his aura to completely release itself with no reserve but both his lightning and fire aura were activated at the exact same time.

In a split second, the orange flames and yellow lightning molded together and as a result, a green light started to emanate from Mako's hands. Not even addressing the fact that his hands were glowing green, Mako just directed his aura to be released and to clash head-on with the beast that was almost upon him.

A ray of green light burst from his hands in a straight line as it traveled forward at great speed and instantly collided against the body of the Terra Beetle King.

*BOOM!*