The combination of transfer students walked together, while the other students could only watch and silently pray for their success.
As they made their way forward, Liam was curious about sothing.
"So, what made you choose the groups? Did you think the two of us worked better together?" Liam asked. "Because I’ll be honest, I think I feel safer having Safa on my back. Not saying you suck or anything, but just, with her healing powers and all..."
"Haha!" Da laughed. "I an, if you really want, you can head over to their group and I’ll just take care of the beast myself, if you want to be with Safa so much. The truth is though, I just thought this would be a nice competition between us."
"Competition?" Beatrix raised an eyebrow.
"Well first, rember, they still think of us as mages," Da explained. "I know we’ve done so pretty extraordinary things, but I believe they still view us that way, so we should try to minimize how much of the warrior side of us we show."
"With that in mind, I thought we could do a little boys versus girls. See who defeats their beast first."
Beatrix thought the idea was a little unfair. Although Safa was a skilled fighter, she was more of a healer than anything else. As for Beatrix herself, she was mainly a Pagna warrior.
There were various skills she couldn’t use, so she had to rely on her special Earth staff or her blood powers, which she didn’t have full control over yet.
"It’s okay. Let the stupid boys have their competition," Safa said. "It doesn’t matter if we win or lose."
Beatrix nearly got caught up in the word competition before realizing Safa was right. As for the boys, they could already see that Liam had pulled out his All-Cutting Sword.
Most likely, he was planning to kill the beast in one clean strike. Getting closer to the waterfall, the portal was now only around ten ters ahead. With their Pagna warrior skills and Qi, they could burst through into the portal without much trouble.
Finally, there was movent. From above, on either side of the waterfall, the large rocks appeared to shift. As they moved, a massive serpent-like creature began wiggling its way downward, slithering toward the bottom.
Its long body seed endless, half of it still remained at the top of the waterfall.
"What the heck is that thing?" Liam asked.
The beast’s body was gigantic in size and appeared to be amphibious in nature. Parts of it were covered in moss, which, when still, made it look as if it were part of the cliff itself.
The scales on its body were reflective, shimring and blending in with the waterfall as though they were one and the sa. But it wasn’t slithering across the landscape.
Instead, it used its clawed, webbed hands to dig slightly into the cliffside as it descended. Its eyes protruded from its head slightly, allowing it near 360-degree vision.
If there had only been one of these things, it would have been frightening enough, but there were two. When the bottom of its massive body finally hit the ground, it raised itself upright, revealing a towering underbelly that faced the group directly.
"Alright, the competition starts now!" Da declared, activating the power of his gauntlets as he rushed forward. His lightning-infused body surged ahead, aiming to strike the creature straight in the gut.
As Da closed the distance with his fist, a large twirl of water appeared in front of him and spun into the air. His fist crashed into it, but the water absorbed much of the force.
Even so, he pushed through and struck the beast’s stomach. Lightning sparked from the blow, and the creature screeched in response.
From the side of its body, several clawed limbs erged, each ending in sharp, pointed tips. They all twisted toward Da and lunged to pierce his body.
Before they could touch him, Liam sliced off one entire side of limbs with a clean strike, causing about six of them to fall to the ground as he landed beside the creature.
Da then zapped himself to the floor, avoiding being hit by the remaining legs.
"The creature’s still standing? That’s pretty impressive," Da said.
Then, from the cut areas where Liam had sliced its limbs, several more legs erged, regenerating almost instantly.
"Regeneration... crap. That’s the worst power for this weapon to go up against," Liam muttered, realizing his sword’s strength was in cutting cleanly, but not much use if the enemy kept regrowing.
The two won on the other side were fighting more cautiously, testing the beast’s capabilities before committing to any large attacks. They wanted to know exactly what made the creature so dangerous, what had given others so much trouble in the past.
As Raze and the rest of the mages watched from afar, they finally realized what it was that made the beasts so special.
"That’s a beast that uses magic," Panla comnted.
"Right, it looks like water magic too," Luke added. "No wonder they struggled. It has powerful mana, a powerful body, and it must have used that magic to attack anyone who got close."
While everyone, including Raze, was observing the battle ahead, Bronto was also watching closely. But from his side, he suddenly heard a small croaking sound.
He turned and spotted a small blue creature, a little bigger than his foot, standing upright on two legs with a short tail swaying behind it.
"What the crap are you?" Bronto muttered. "I don’t have much magic, but I can get rid of sothing like you."
Although Bronto’s wrists were still frozen, he could manage a small amount of magic. With a flick of his finger, he zapped out a weak electric strike, hitting the small blue creature.
It fried on impact and flopped over to its side, dead.
But imdiately after, two more small blue creatures crawled out from behind a nearby bush, making the sa croaking noise as the first.
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