Whoosh!
Slash! Splash!
"What a tough hide!" Audrey spoke with so amazent. She hadn't waited for the boar to reach them, opting to et it midway. She proceeded to try and cut it with her long nails, but she couldn't even break through the skin.
"Well, it's a stage higher than us, so it's understandable that you can't easily break through its skin. Not to ntion, it doesn't seem to have any elents, so its body should be stronger than most," Layla spoke after analysing the approaching boar.
"Can you hold it for a bit, I want to go get sothing?" Audrey asked Layla.
"Sure", they agreed without asking anything.
"Ice hamr!" Bang!
She imdiately summoned a giant hamr that smashed into the side of the boar, throwing it to the side. Her Shadow Charged Ice needed ti to prepare so she couldn't use it on the spot. Even after ranking up, nothing changed about that, maybe it was the world's way of balancing things out. So she could only use her normal ice which couldn't pierce into the boar but was enough to keep it occupied.
"Frozen ground!" Just as the boar was about to get back to its feet she froze the ground around it, making it slippery. And so the boar kept on slipping and falling unable to get up.
"Frozen teor!" A giant ice ball appeared in the sky above the boar. Just because she couldn't break the skin didn't an she wouldn't try her best. Not to ntion, there's a chance she could kill the boar just from internal injuries without wounding its tough skin.
Booom!
The giant ice ball that was around the sa size as the boar fell right on top of it with a loud bang!. Even if it wasn't enough to kill it, it definitely did significant damage to the boar.
"Ice Cage!" Layla didn't let up, she imdiately cast her next spell. The boar was completely sealed in ice.
"Well, this might actually wor.."
Boom!
Just as Layla thought she might be able to freeze it and choke it to death, killing the MR2 beast on her own. It broke out of the ice.
"Or not", Layla spoke in her ever-calm voice. She kinda expected that it wouldn't be that easy, so she wasn't too surprised that it broke out.
The boar was now radiating elentless mana that broke the ice around it rather easily. The ice on the ground that made it slip before was imdiately shattered into countless tiny particles before lting away. All the ice kept on breaking down as it stepped forward. Its eyes were as red as they could be, and yet it wasn't as rushed as before; it slowly stepped forward. Layla couldn't help but feel a little bit nervous looking at its blood-red eyes.
It was at that mont that she realised that it wouldn't be as easy to fight higher-staged beasts as before. While they could easily take care of sa-stage beasts like LR2s, MR2s might pose a bit of a problem. This basically ant they'd likely not be able to do anything to a PR2 and could only run away at that ti.
Boom!
Suddenly, out of nowhere, the slow boar disappeared from Layla's sight. The next mont, it was in front of her with its large mouth wide open, about to take a bite. Which would definitely end her life on the spot. Luckily she reacted in ti and sank into the group just before she was eaten. She then appeared behind the boar before creating so distance between them by retreating.
Although it looked like she sank into the ground, she actually sank into the beast's shadow. Her lesser-used Shadow Elent proved its use again. It wasn't only useful in Shadow Charge spells like so might think. Even if it couldn't physically harm anything that wasn't in the shadow realm. It at least guaranteed that she also couldn't be hurt by anything as long as she entered it.
{Well, that was too close for comf... I'm dead} Just as she was thinking to herself while wiping away so cold sweat, the boar appeared in front of her again. This ti she didn't even have ti to react.
Bang! Boom!
The boar was slamd to the distance by a red figure.
.....
As Layla was battling the boar. Audrey had gone to get so blood. The drawback of her elent was that she couldn't draw it from the air like the others with their elents. She had to get it from bodies. And so she went to get so from the boar Chloe killed. Then, she had to convince Jade to end her fun sooner than she wanted so she could get that blood, too.
By the ti she was done with all that, that's when she noticed Layla about to be killed by the boar. The next instant, she was no longer on the spot she stood before. In the next after that, she was punching the boar's side, sending it away.
"You dare try to kill my daughter!" She scread angrily," Completely forgetting that their side was the one that had attacked the boars first...but whatever, the boars aren't the main characters, so who cares?
At this mont, Audrey's body was completely covered by a tight-fitting crimson armour. That just left her grey eyes and grey hair out. Nothing but anger could be seen in her eyes. Her whole being radiating bloodlust that made even Layla and the others nervous. Let alone the boar, it felt like it was being looked at by death herself.
But it quickly gathered itself after seeing the body of its other mate, who had also been killed. Its anger was reignited again, and it charged forward at the sa speed that Layla couldn't follow.
Bang!
But Audrey wasn't Layla, and she could see the boar fine. While it seed unbelievably fast to a mage-type like Layla, it was nothing special to Audrey who was also a physical type, though also good at magic. Her class falls in the "Battle-Mage" category.
And so, Audrey and the boar began their class. Or it better to say, Audrey began punching it around like a ragdoll. It seems her blood armour not only provided defence but increased her strength by a large margin. But even that wasn't enough to break through the boar's defence. Of course, if she kept on punching it, causing internal injuries, along with the ones Layla caused before, the boar would die eventually, but that would take a long ti.
"Layla, prepare your attack!" Audrey called out to Layla, who had beco a spectator at this point, to prepare her Shadow Charged attack. Though this was after a while, after she cald down a bit from pinching the boar all over the place she rembered that Layla could help.
Layla didn't say anything, but Audrey knew she was heard from the reducing temperature and darkening sky radiating malevolence.
Bang! Boom!
The boar took the split-second chance that Audrey's concentration decreased while talking to Layla to attack. It slamd her away with its head. Before she could get off the ground, it was already on her, its mouth wide open, about to bite down.
That's when two large Blood Hands ca out of Audrey's armour and grabbed the boar's open mouth. One grabbed the top, the other the bottom and forced closed its mouth. Then the blood under her feet springboarded her into the sky, dodging the boar then slamd into the ground head first. It kind of looked like the blood armour had a brain of its own, like Venom; of course, that wasn't the case; it was all Audrey's doing.
The others who were looking on couldn't help but feel that Audrey was super cool and really knew how to use her abilities. Hey, Jade was burning with jealousy. Her Beast Aura could do a lot of things, but it couldn't do that! She started to wonder if she'd be able to find a beast that had such an ability one day. But thinking about how even if she did find such a beast, it was guaranteed that it would have a beast core. Her facial expression imdiately turned dark, but her eyes never left the battle despite her random thoughts. It was just too exciting to look away.
On the other hand, little Elsa had a pout on her face. While the battle was now slow enough for everyone else to see, it was mostly still too fast for her to see much. The most she saw most of the ti were shadows accompanied by punching sounds. Though it's understandable, she wasn't even a rank yet, after all. Now she was even more motivated to rank up.
.....
"Shadow Charged! Frozen Shadow Lance!"
It was at the sa mont Audrey created so distance from the boar that Layla's voice sounded. She was finally done with her spell. The familiar black ice lance that the others never get bored of seeing descended.
The boar imdiately felt dread, all its senses screaming for it to run away. But because boars, like the pigs they are, can't look up into the sky, they couldn't see where the danger was coming from. And so it was confused about where it should run to. Maybe because of the shadow elent involved in its creation, but the black ice was completely undetectable.
The boar only realised the danger was coming from the sky after the Lance's tip ca into contact with its mana. But it was already too late at that point, it was already locked in place and couldn't move. Despite being at a higher stage than Layla, the boar still couldn't break free. It was like all its strength was disbursed or locked away. It just couldn't feel it. Maybe it was smothered by the shadow elent.
"Squuuiii!" The boar cried out in pain as the one-tre-thick lance first made contact with its head. Then, it was killed instantly the mont its brain was broken through by the lance, which continued to descend until it reached the ground. Though by that point the boar was already dead.
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