YM778.TV Chapter 65: we fight
"Well? Do you sense anything?" Litha asked.
Jael blinked, brought back to the present. "Not yet but wait..." His eyes dilated as he listened intently, then he caught a sound, a bit of cluttering and clattering. "I hear something. Follow!"
He led the way. Even as the swamp tried to sink them they still managed to walk on it with as much dignity as they could muster, they are Iron rank after all.
"Is this where you are leading us?" Tim asked.
Jael had stopped moving immediately they entered the clearing and he nodded. "I\'m hearing movement inside there."
"Are you sure?" Litha asked because what Jael was pointing at was a mold of hard earth joined together several feet taller than them and it took up the whole clearing.
"I don\'t think this is the monster we are looking for." Temur said quietly. "Damn that spirit why don\'t it tell us that there\'s more than one type of monsters here?"
"Too late." Jael sighed because if he could hear then, then this close the monsters inside the nest mold could hear them too.
He was proven right when the nest exploded outward, spraying earth and debris around. Monsters poured out and the clattering Jael had been hearing since finally made sense.
The monsters are shaped like spiders with hard brown skins, six equal legs and ten eyes that circle their head in a ring, and the head itself is a mouth facing up, sharp pincers rose up and down, turning towards the Awakeners.
Cele ran forward and jetted twins bellowing flames at the monsters but all it did was make their body turn red as if they are made of metal. "Impossible! I can melt steel with that!"
"Let\'s retreat everyone." Temur called, fghting here when they don\'t know what else is waiting for them is unwise.
But the monsters, half the size of Temur, refused to let them go as ten of them skittles behind them, they are far faster than the Awakeners and soon surrounded them.
"What should we do now?" Cele asked.
"Come." Green flames bellowed from Jael\'s mouth as he called he three remaining goblins. "We fight!"
Temur didn\'t need to give the go-ahead as everyone flunged themselves at the monsters. Jael took on four by himself and his sword hand cut the air with his numerous fangs flashing.
But the monsters are tougher than they look, their skins are as tough as metal and their spider hands sharp enough to make a hole in a metal, not to talk of their pincers.
Since his sword wasn\'t going through, Jael transformed Hermit into tentacles then he coiled it into a punch and he began to hit the one he was facing. It was a bloody work because he had to crush the monster\'s armour to get at the soft flesh inside.
Sharp legs and pincers clawed at him, tearing his clothes to his flesh but he continued to pound the monster until it could only twitch on the ground.
He turned to the others to see they are not doing much better, Cele has managed to melt part of her monster but the rest was still crawling towards her.
Tim was having the most success, he just lifted two up and began to slam them against each other again and again, using their bodies against themselves.
Dile and Temur are trying their best to slice through their bodies as we but the monsters are tougher than they look.
Litha held her own down with a shield.
Jael shook his head as he turned to his goblins, \'they can handle themselves\'. The goblins are doing far worse take he thought, the two warrior goblins are on the ground while pincers fell on them like fork on dinner.
"Stand up." Jael growled. This would be the first time he would be studying them fight in a real battle and he wanted to know just how capable he could make them do.
He felt a dip in his Unholy magic as the goblins drew it to heal themselves as they stood, one of them caught three of the monster\'s legs from under it and then the goblin rested his body weight fully on it.
And although their body is strong, it still couldn\'t resist a good old bending and with a sharp crunch, three legs bent. The monster hobbled back.
Jael nodded in satisfaction. \'Advantage of undead like this is that they don\'t die easily. If I can keep my unholy magic going like this then I\'m sure I can keep them fighting.
And when they flatter then I can just cancel their summon.
The warchief was having it easier, it easily kept the monster away from it\'s by tearing it slaps. Once the monster got close to it then it would pounced and slap it, the sound ringing like iron on iron.
Jael focused on his connection to the goblins, he specifically focused on one – the warchief then he carefully imagined what he wanted and where he wanted it.
The warchief jumped back and immediately let out an ear splitting roar that tore through the whole forest as if it was air force mixed with razor.
All the monsters froze at once, body stiffening.
"Okay, I\'ve put them in a limbo for now. You can kill them with leisure." Jael nodded.
Temur grunted as his aura infused attack only left a little bit of mark on the monster\'s hide. "It\'s not about killing them! It\'s about how absurdly strong their bodies are."
"You are right." Cele said, turning her flame to melt the rest of her monster\'s body.
"Ehmm, guys?" Litha asked. She sounded as if she didn\'t know if she should panic or not.