Chapter: Chapter 245
Can’t take it? You can clearly last much longer!
Inferno didn’t even want to complain. After entering the phase of dynamic combat, Leticia’s magic consumption speed decreased significantly. Dodging attacks was much more energy-efficient than blocking them with shields.
The monster’s oppressive aura was indeed substantial, but its enormous size also greatly reduced its movement speed, not even keeping up with a person strolling.
“This energy fluctuation… why does it feel like it’s powering up for something big?” But soon, the monster revealed its terrifying power.
Upon realizing that its tentacles alone couldn’t deal with the three little bugs in front of it, the monster became enraged. It let out waves of silent roars, forcing Leticia to summon her parasol to block the direct mental attack.
An ordinary person would probably turn into a gibbering idiot the moment they heard this sound.
And this was merely the monster’s roar. From within the mountain-sized black shadow came a faint but terrifying fluctuation that made Leticia’s expression change. Finally, was the monster about to attack?
Leticia found dealing with the tentacles incredibly easy, but she wasn’t as confident facing the monster’s main body’s attack.
Generally, the best way to deal with such an attack was to prevent it from fully charging by interrupting it midway.
But interrupting midway also required the right conditions.
In the current situation, the possibility of interruption was zero. Leticia couldn’t even touch the monster’s main body, let alone interrupt it.
“Watch out! The monster is about to cast a spell!” The only thing Leticia could do was to loudly warn them, urging Bai Ling and Sasha to be alert, so they wouldn’t be caught off guard by a sudden powerful attack.
She couldn’t guess what kind of attack the monster would unleash. It could be a massive energy torrent that pierced the heavens and earth, or some strange single-target sniper-type attack. Leticia knew too little about the monster and couldn’t fathom the thoughts of this already frenzied creature.
The monster’s charge lasted for a full minute, a charging time that raised Leticia’s vigilance to the highest level.
Such a powerful monster charging for such a long time, could its power be small?
Even if Leticia herself charged for a minute, she was confident she could unleash a simplified forbidden spell and instantly blow up a small city.
And the monster’s strength was even greater than Leticia’s. Even if it might lack the skill Leticia possessed, the gap in strength was enough to surpass her.
In other words, was she facing an attack of at least a simplified forbidden spell level?
Facing an attack of this magnitude without charging put a bit of pressure on her.
But the monster didn’t leave Leticia any time to think. Suddenly, an opening appeared on the forehead of the mountain-sized monster, and a pitch-black beam shot straight into the sky.
Then, Leticia felt like she was being targeted.
The monster’s beam lasted only a few seconds, but this was just the beginning of its skill; the real danger was yet to come.
“Don’t stand still, move!” Sweat was already forming on Leticia’s forehead. She didn’t know what kind of attack she would face, but her intuition told her that standing still was the worst choice.
After reminding the other two, Leticia immediately shifted a hundred meters to her right.
The moment she left her original position, a pitch-black beam descended from the sky, piercing the spot where she had just been standing.
Due to Leticia’s evasive movement, the beam missed its target and struck the ground.
Looking at the ground torn open by a huge crater from the beam with a solemn expression, Leticia felt that her best option at this moment was to escape. If this thing hit her, she would definitely be severely injured.
“There’s more?!” Dodging one attack didn’t mean victory; the locking sensation hadn’t dissipated yet.
The petite girl flew around rapidly in the air, relying entirely on her intuition to fly. Terrifying black beams chased her footsteps like death itself.
The beams didn’t just fall from the sky; they appeared from all directions within this space, greatly affecting Leticia’s dodging.
Moreover, as time passed, the beams even learned to predict attacks, targeting where Leticia might move to next.
While the three girls were forced to stop attacking by the beams, the monster’s main body continued to unleash its spells. It clearly thought the current spell was very effective, and so it shot several more beams into the sky in the following time.
Did this skill’s effect stack? Leticia really wanted to curse. Dealing with a few beams initially was manageable, but with the monster constantly adding more, she was now facing dozens of beams surrounding and cornering her.
Dozens of them! Her movement space was almost completely sealed off.
As the weakest among the three, Sasha already felt a significant lack of strength. Even though the number of beams chasing her was much smaller than the other two, these things had almost driven her to a dead end.
Bai Ling’s situation was relatively better. Her solid strength allowed her to appear at ease even when facing the largest number of beams. When there was no other way, she could even slash a beam to shatter it and escape through the gap.
This outrageous display of power made Leticia confirm once again that Bai Ling was a monster.
A familiar energy fluctuation came from the monster; it seemed to have completed another charge and was about to increase the number of beams.
Her limit was approaching. If the monster added two more, Leticia wouldn’t be able to dodge without damage like she was now. She would have to resort to methods like Bai Ling’s – shattering the beams and breaking out through the gaps.
In that case, the magic consumption would be astronomical.
Wait a minute!
Something is wrong!
This time, the monster wasn’t shooting beams into the sky!
Leticia’s face turned ashen. She noticed that the locking on her had increased by another layer, and this layer of locking brought a terrifying feeling.
She saw it. She saw the mountain formed by tentacles slowly open its giant mouth, revealing the terrifying monster hidden within. The monster’s blood-red eyes stared at Leticia, and a black, solidified energy sphere floated before its face.
The monster was going to attack her this time!
Realizing this, Leticia immediately tried to dodge, but the beams locking onto her had already sealed off all her other escape routes, leaving only the front direction unobstructed.
But the front… was the monster.
“Damn it!”
BOOM!
The black beam seemed to tear through space, accurately shooting towards the girl whose movement was completely sealed.
A trace of smugness flashed in the monster’s eyes. No one could survive being hit by such an attack.
Even gods would have a hard time.
The beam hit its target as expected, but the result made the monster feel a moment of confusion. The girl was not vaporized by the terrifying energy torrent; instead, she seemed to have blocked its attack?
Impossible, how could this be possible?
Pressing her hands in front of her, a net woven from golden chains firmly protected Leticia. The black energy flow bombarded the golden net but couldn’t inflict any damage.
“Don’t look down on me, Bai Fang! Give it a good one!” Leticia shouted with all her might.
Seeing Leticia being attacked by the monster, Bai Ling immediately slashed away the beams around her, intending to help. But upon seeing Leticia defend against the monster’s attack with a divine artifact and hearing Leticia’s shout, she immediately stood her ground and raised her longsword.
The familiar star illusion appeared, and the black beams locking onto Bai Ling instantly lost their target, flitting about like headless flies.
Bai Ling’s charge lasted for about ten seconds, and the energy accumulated on her star sword was even greater than the energy within the monster’s beams.
The monster sensed danger and wanted to interrupt its attack, hiding itself back under the energy tentacles. But as it put its plan into practice, it horrifyingly discovered that it could no longer move.
What happened?
Its gaze turned to the beam, and then it saw several extremely thin golden chains extending from the girl’s direction along the beam and attaching themselves to its body. It was these chains that made it lose control over this energy beam.
“Your intelligence is indeed quite low, so just take this hit properly!” Leticia said with a pale face, sneering.
Before she could finish speaking, Bai Ling swung her sword towards the opening.
A river of stars extended from her as a starting point, stretching straight to the monster.
!!!
The monster let out a painful roar. It forcefully broke free from the chains’ control, interrupted its attack, and hid itself back within the black tentacles.
But both Bai Ling and Leticia saw the result of that sword strike.
One of the monster’s eyes was blown to pieces, and a massive wound flowing with starlight spanned its face. In terms of offense, Miss Bai was indeed exceptionally trustworthy.
With a few more blows like that, Leticia felt that this monster could really be made into sashimi by Bai Ling.
If she had to block that blow, she would definitely need Inferno to act as a shield. Relying on herself alone, the best outcome would be severe injury.
Being instantly killed was also very normal.
Of course, if this thing’s charge hadn’t been so massive, and if the monster hadn’t had its actions suppressed by Inferno, it would have had plenty of time to hide itself again.
At least it wouldn’t have suffered such a serious injury.
After fighting for so long, they had finally inflicted some damage that could be considered decent.
Leticia let out a sigh, her body swaying slightly. Taking the monster’s attack head-on had drained her magic too much. If it happened again, she probably wouldn’t be able to hold on.
“Are you alright?” Bai Ling quickly flew to Leticia’s side and supported her.
Shaking her head, Leticia knew this was no time to be brave: “My magic is too depleted… What the heck, this attack hasn’t even stopped yet?”
The familiar locking sensation returned, and Leticia really wanted to curse.
Was this thing autonomous?
And unfortunately, she was now standing with Bai Ling. This time, the two of them would have to face double the beam attacks.
“I’ll take you and go,” Bai Ling was about to lead Leticia to dodge the incoming attacks, but the locking sensation on her suddenly disappeared.
Not only that, but the black tentacles lurking in the distance seemed to have encountered some nemesis and began to flee.
Cool rain trickled onto Leticia’s face. The girl touched her face in confusion. These raindrops had no corrosive effect; instead, they seemed to accelerate her magic recovery?
“This rain contains divine power…” Sasha also flew to the two of them. She looked at the misty rain falling from the sky and said softly.
In her vision, a blue domain had already covered the area where they were standing. The monster’s black storm was being rapidly assimilated by the blue. It was likely that the black storm would soon have a new owner.
The black tentacles touched by the raindrops writhed frantically and dissipated into black mist. Unlike before, these tentacles did not regenerate; it was as if they had been completely annihilated.
“Did our reinforcements arrive?” Leticia curiously looked behind her, but she couldn’t see anything at the moment.
The reinforcements didn’t seem to have arrived in the vicinity yet.
On the monster’s side, however, it seemed to be screaming in a frenzy. Leticia couldn’t understand what the creature was yelling, but its emotions were easy to interpret: hatred and fear.
The monster was afraid?
What was it afraid of?
What was here that was worth its hatred and fear?
Leticia immediately thought of the answer. That deity who called herself Xi had once single-handedly defeated the monster. It was completely normal for the monster to be afraid and resent her.
Had she arrived?
The monster seemed to want to resist Xi’s storm’s erosion of it, but in the end, it was just a slightly more powerful monster. How could it compare to a true deity?
With almost no resistance, the storm above the monster’s head changed owners.
Deprived of the storm’s assistance, the monster immediately lost its main means of attack and defense. The thick tentacles that encased it quickly disappeared into large amounts of black energy. Its enormous and ugly body finally appeared in its entirety in this world.
“I have to say, this thing’s appearance is truly abstract,” Leticia commented as she looked at the monster, whose size had shrunk to that of a small mountain.
With a dark gray body, twisted limbs, and red, turbid eyes, this monster was considered ugly by the aesthetic standards of any race.
It was best to kill such a thing as soon as possible.
Seeing the monster’s true form appear, Bai Ling’s face broke into a smile. She had been playing so passively just now, and now it was finally time for her to get revenge.
Just as she was about to charge forward and fight the monster for three hundred rounds, Leticia pulled her back: “Wait, even though it’s revealed its true form, its body isn’t fragile.”
“That’s right. Its main body is very tough, and I can only suppress its other abilities, but its inherent strength is something I cannot suppress,” a familiar voice came from the sky. A white aircraft hovered in mid-air, and a black-haired little girl carrying a trident walked out of the aircraft.
