Hope was quite shocked by what Emily just did. She'd imaged Emily would throw out another exploding attack or sothing like that. But not wasting the window she was given, she quickly released the spell she was preparing as the hole Emily had created was already closing.
"Descent of the poison cloud!" Hope exclaid as a dark green cloud that suddenly appeared in the sky above the spider descended and enveloped it whole.
Most of the poison was stopped by the do but so of it got through the two holes created by Emily's attack, one in the front and another in the back. Even so, the little that got through was quite effective as it had the spider's newly acquired wound to exploit. The spider started feeling dizzy and couldn't effectively attack as before. But that's all the poison managed to do since there wasn't a lot that got through the holes on the do before they closed off.
"Sigh, my elent really sucks when the enemy has a barrier spell". Hope spoke to herself dejectedly. Then her gaze suddenly snapped back in the direction of Layla. All her senses were warning her to run, but since she knew Layla wouldn't harm her, she didn't listen to them and just waited to see what would happen. The spider was taken care of for at least a minute as it fought off the poison's effect after all. As for Emily, she was swiftly taken away by Muku when she was still falling to the ground, so Hope didn't have any worries right then.
"Step out of the way!". Layla rather hoarse voice called out to her and without asking anything she imdiately did. The threatening aura that was coming from Layla who was behind an ice wall was enough to answer any of her questions after all.
Ice cold air gathered in the sky above the battle field casting a shadow on everyone. Interestingly, the air was actually black in color like a raincloud. Hope couldn't help but shiver due to the coldness then it suddenly stopped feeling cold. Muku had stepped in, creating a force field that stopped the cold air from reaching her. To which she smiled broadly while internally thanking her attentive big brother.
"Shadow charged frozen sky lance!" Layla called out and two tre thick and seven tre tall black lance descended from within the raincloud like air descending on the spider that was still disoriented by the poison from Hope.
Just when everyone thought the black lance's sharp end was going to co into contact with the do around the spider...it actually passed right through!. As of there was nothing there.
Stab!
"CRRRRRRR!". The spider queen cried out in pain as it was nailed down by the lance through its midsection unable to do anything other than sceam and kick it's legs all over the place in pain.
A distance away, just like Emily, Layla also fell unconscious and Muku acted again. As soon as she lost consciousness, the lance that was pinning the spider down, imdiately disappeared.
Just before she fainted, Layla heard a voice that made her just as happy as Emily...if not happier.
[50% of Pseudo-Legendary class potential realised...]
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"Did that attack just....". Muku spoke but didn't finish his sentence.
"Ignore the spider's defence?" Jade finished it.
"Yes...yes it did". Chloe replied.
Clearly they were all shocked by what they just witnessed, it might have been even more shocking than when Jade went berserk and soloed the lizard king!.
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Surprisingly the spider queen wasn't dead even with a big hole through her body. It even tried making a getaway then....
Wooo! Stab!
Audrey suddenly appeared in the sky above it and stabbed it right on the head with all her claws. It's do had already disappeared, it couldn't maintain it in its current state.
(A/N: As for those wondering why she's only appearing now...it's definitely not because author-san had forgotten about her until after the battle...I swear!)
Actually at the beginning of the battle, Audrey realised that her close quarters fighting style wouldn't be able to do much when fighting such an enemy. It constantly had a barrier around it, and not to ntion it was a lot stronger and faster than her, so getting close to it with her current strength would be asking for death. So she chose to stay back and only act if the situation required for her to act. And although she didn't need KP for now, she felt that it was better to kill the beast as not everyone will be able fight it like her group, so she was just doing the weaker people in the city a favour. Even in it's current state, it probably could still body a normal rank one evolver.
(A/N: And for those wondering why the spider only used these black arrow once. Well half-step beasts are usually only proficient in one spell. So, it being able to use the arrow even once was already good amazing. And no one would be caught if guard by it after it being used once already so there was no real point to using it again. P.s the Shadow panther was once a Half-step beast that reduced in rank after being injured in a battle)
"I sense a beast core from the spider queen's body". Jade said while looking at the spider queen after they walked over.
"Oh, I'll get it" Audrey said and dug out the core from the beast's chest area, just above the hole. The core was pitch black in color and gave off a sinister air.
"So, what are we going to do with it?" She asked looking at Muku.
"Hmm, we'll leave it to Layla, Emily and Hope to decide, this one is their spoil after all". Muku replied looking at Hope.
"I don't want it, Layla and Emily will decide what to use it for when they wake up". Hope said while shaking her head when Audrey tried to hand it over to her.
"Well okay, and I feel it might be useful to Layla, we'll just wait for them to wake up". Muku said taking the core from Audrey and putting it in his bag which was designated to be the one to use to carry random things by the girls sowhere along the lines. With that, the group left the area....
What they didn't know was that a monster had been watching their battle from the start. Even Jade and Muku sensed nothing.
After the two deaths before, the monster actually deduced that the spider would likely be the next to be attacked and started camping close by. The spider didn't even know that their ruler was living so close to it for around three days. Which was the last ti Muku sensed its presence.
Seeing them go away, a look of amusent appeared in the monster's eyes but it didn't do anything and waited for them to go further away away before coming out of hiding and consuming the spider's body and going away.
It had bigger issues to worry about right now....ti was almost up after all...
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More than a kilotre from the battle scene, Muku's group could be seen sitting in a mansion. They had coincidentally wondered to the area where Chloe's house was. And after Chloe ntioned it, they just had to go see it. Which is where they were right now.
"So you lived in this large place all by yourself?". Jade asked Chloe looking at her with pity instead of envy. While it was envious to have such a big house, there was nothing envious about living in it alone.
"Well, not completely, I did have a personal maid who ca during the day" Chloe said with a slight smile, but it didn't hide the sadness within her eyes.
"Aw, don't worry, you won't ever be alone from now on okay". Jade imdiately stood up and hugged Chloe, Hope joined in as well. Muku and Audrey just looked on with slight smiles on their faces witnessing the beautiful scene.
"Thanks". Chloe said, trying to hold back her tears, but failed. Though after a while she managed to calm down.
"Mmm". Just then, Emily woke up. It had at most been an hour since she fainted. aning she woke up a lot sooner than even Chloe from before by at least three hours.
"So, how much did you realise?". Hope asked excitedly not even waiting for Emily to gain her bearings. Well at this point, to their group, fainting after battle automatically ant potential had been awakened so Hope's question wasn't that weird... though a bit too quick. What they didn't know was that normal people realise 5% at most, at once, so their bodies don't get overwheld leading to going unconscious. Maybe that's just the difference between legends and normal people.
"30%" Emily replied as a smile appeared on her face.
"Woah, congratulations, I'm so envious!" Hope exclaid. She was really happy for Emily. Being as observant as she was, although she didn't say anything, she'd long noticed that Emily and Layla were really frustrated about not having realised any of their potential yet. So knowing that Emily would finally relax a little after this, made her happy. The others also congratulated her after Hope, making Emily's smile even broader, blinding Muku for a second.
Around thirty minutes later, Layla also awoke. And when they heard that she'd awakened 50%. Another round of congratulations ensued. Now only Hope and Audrey were left at the peak.. though unlike the ones before them, neither of them felt too much pressure because of their situation, all they really cared about was being together with everyone else. And they knew that eventually even they would realise theirs, soo there was no need to rush.....
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Back at the school portal.....
98% of it was already blue, aning in a few hours at most.....
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