Tendrils of azure lightning crackled around my body as I rushed forward with an explosive burst of speed.
Quinn was on my left, keeping up with my speed even as I was using the Lightning Aura.
I drew back my spear while Quinn summoned a pair of daggers. No words were exchanged between us, yet we knew exactly what to do.
As soon as we entered the striking range, we split up – Quinn encircled the colossal serpent from the left, while I covered its right.
Nurous shadow creatures, along with Nero, Anastasia, Kent, and Alia, were already engaging the serpent, providing us clear openings to get close and unleash our attack.
Our plan was clear and simple.
Quinn and I were aiming to pierce both of the cyan serpent's eyes, blinding it, and then make a swift escape.
Yes, there was a chance it could still track us even after it lost its eyes, but we should have bought enough ti for the ships to arrive.
Since there were individual Teleportation Gates on every ship, so instructors from the academy might also be able to co to our aid.
But for either of those to happen, we needed ti. Blinding the monster would buy us the ti we needed, thus that was our plan.
Bolts of lightning crackled beneath my feet, propelling upward into the air. At the sa ti, Quinn also shot up in the air like a rocket.
Down on the ground, the cyan serpent endured the onslaught from the shadow creatures and the unified assault of the Cadets.
Nero noticed our positions and understood what we were trying to do. He stepped in and executed a horizontal slash on its side, his sword engulfed in searing flas.
From the opposite direction, Anastasia threw her glowing fist forward in a blur of golden light. Her punch connected with the serpent's scales and the golden mana around her fist surged forth in a rippling shockwave.
Thwaam—!!
Kabooom—!!
However, even their combined attacks failed to inflict any fatal wounds on the serpent. But they did successfully manage to restrict its movents even if only for a mont.
Up ahead the ongoing fray, Kent and Alia charged at the serpent at the sa ti Quinn and I began to fall down it.
If the serpent decided to focus on Kent and Alia, it would be exposed to our attacks.
If it fixed its attention on us then Alia and Kent would be able to land their blows.
Our coordination was flawless! There was no way for the serpent to escape or even dodge our attacks.
Though we couldn't kill it, we could achieve our objective of blinding it no matter what—
"Huh?!"
Right as I was in the middle of my thoughts, my eyes fell on the cyan serpent.
I saw sothing ancient… sothing primal flickering in its eyes for a split second.
Fwooosh—!!
In the next instant, a tumultuous gale burst forth from the serpent's body. It was like a powerful tornado, sending those in its near proximity flying backward.
I was also flung away, soaring through the air until I collided with a tree.
The impact knocked the wind out of my lungs, leaving disoriented as I fell to the hard ground below.
"What in the..." I managed to draw in a gasp, my vision shaking with a mix of confusion and uncertainty.
Coughing several tis, I raised my gaze to et the cyan serpent's stare. It was... looking at !
In a blur of speed, the serpent lunged at the mont our eyes t each other's.
Why the hell is it targeting specifically? Co to think of it, I was the only one who felt its gaze earlier… So was it only stalking all this ti? But why?
My thoughts were cut short as the cyan serpent drew closer. Gritting my teeth, I intoned the Fire Lance spell.
Suddenly, several javelins forged from swirling, incinerating flas conjured into existence around and shot forward at the serpent like a salvo of missiles.
Kabooom—!!
The fla lances struck the cyan serpent's snout, triggering an immolating explosion that sent forth a sonic boom, shaking the ground beneath .
But I knew this wasn't nearly enough to vanquish a Divine-ranked mana beast. So I mustered strength in my legs and rose to my feet.
Tightening my grip on the silver spear in my left hand, I chanted another spell under my breath – Hellfire Doom.
I felt the mana surging into my right palm as I clenched it into a tight fist and struck the ground beneath .
Thwaaam—!!
As my fist hit the ground, multiple fissures appeared on the surface, all creeping their way toward the cyan serpent who was still hidden behind a shroud of thick plus of smoke that had risen after the earlier explosion.
Behind the veil of thick black smoke, I felt the serpent's presence. It was still looking at . It was still unhurt.
However, before it could launch itself at once again, the creeping fissures reached the ground beneath the plus of rising smoke, causing the terrain to crumble.
Several fountains of demolishing flas surged forth from the cracks in the earth, encircling the cyan serpent as though imprisoning it behind bars of fire.
"Everyone, get the fuck back!" I yelled at my comrades, and they heeded my warning.
Alia and Kent retreated to the left, Anastasia and Quinn leaped to safety on the right, while Nero ran in my direction.
In the very next second, a brilliant explosion blossod before us, the engulfing flas devouring the entire area where the cyan serpent had been, quickly reducing the lush forest greenery to ash and gouging out a deep crater in the ground.
Before the flas of the explosion could even subside, Nero reached and inquired, "Was that everything?"
What the heck did he an by everything?! I had hit that monster with two of my most potent artillery spells in rapid succession! That's what I wanted to retort.
However, instead of taking offense and sparking an argunt, I simply nodded. "Yeah. If that didn't kill it, then there's nothing in my arsenal that could."
"Well, it's not dead," Nero noted.
I glanced at him and shrugged. "Your turn, I suppose."
Nero let out a sigh. "I guess."
Taking in a deep breath, Nero lifted his gleaming crimson sword and aid it at the heavens.
Suddenly, the light of the day dimd as pitch-black thunderclouds shrouded the entire sky.
Sparks of electricity crackled around Nero's sword causing bolts of lightning to streak across the dark gray expanse of the sky.
Gritting his teeth, Nero brought down his sword. In response, the azure lightning bolts in the sky converged into a single point, taking the form of a winged creature – a dragon!
The lightning dragon roared thunderously in the sky before unfurling its wings and descending to the ground at the precise spot where the cyan serpent was hidden behind the shroud of thick black smoke and rising dust.
"What the fuck?!" I widened my eyes and crossed my arms over my head. The scale of that spell would decimate the entire vicinity!
And indeed, it did.
The lightning dragon crashed onto the ground, unleashing fierce winds, a deluge of rain, and a thunderous explosion, utterly obliterating everything in a two-hundred-ter radius.
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