Chapter 824 - Rose’s Power
Alex raised his hand, starting to create his array. The enemies were still too far from them, so he should be able to create one before they arrived.
At the same time, Alex shouted. "We are going to penetrate from the middle to create a way between Rose and that mammoth. After that, you can start surrounding them and push them back like how we usually do."
"Understood." The group shouted and waited.
Rose clenched her bow tighter. It seemed she became tenser as the monsters got closer.
Yet, Alex didn"t say anything despite noticing her situation. She didn"t want Rose to be too reliant on him, so she needed to figure out what she should do.
The five minutes limit was approaching. Alex"s array had almost finished, and the monsters had almost arrived.
Alex and Sherry summoned their Pure Fire, pressuring all those Fire Element Monsters. Although they didn"t focus on pressuring them, the natural suppression was enough for them to slow down their advance.
And that helped Alex to finish his array.
"Sky Spear Array!"
A blue spear appeared above the array. Only with one order from Alex, the spear would hit the monsters, blasting them to smithereens.
Yet, Alex summoned his dragons first, tripling the number of attacks he planned to release.
"Charge!" Alex shouted as the three attacks flew.
He and the others followed right behind the attacks.
Rose looked at the spear hitting the monsters and obliterated it like it was nothing. Her heart began beating rapidly as she pulled her bow while continuing on her path.
She glanced at Alex, who had no change of expression, and took a deep breath. Just like this, the group could penetrate their enemies. The two dragons also widened the path they could take while the rest of his spirits and contracted beasts helped the path to stay open.
When the spear and the dragons were about to arrive at the end of their ranks, Alex made them explode.
*Boom Boom Boom!*
The explosions engulfed many monsters at once. Rose emerged from within the smoke, heading straight toward the mammoth.
*Roar!* The mammoth charged at Rose, wanting to crush her arrogant. It swept its trunk from the left, trying to hit the hand Rose used to pull her arrow.
Rose simply took a glance and activated her technique. Lightning sparked around her boots as she used all of her strength to stomp the ground before using it as a force to arrive right below the mammoth"s head.
She aimed at a specific spot and released her arrow.
"Lightning Arrow!"
The mammoth skin also glowed at this point. The arrow was struggling to pierce the skin and dimmed out after several seconds, exhausting all of its energy.
"Tch!" Evelyn clicked her tongue. She continued making her way out of this giant mammoth and arrived behind the mammoth. "Lightning Arrow!"
She released the arrow again, aiming at the tail this time. Yet, her expectation got shattered once again as the tail brushed the arrow without a problem.
"The skin is too thick… And if my sense was not wrong, the mammoth used its technique to coat its body part with extraordinary thick and hard skin. Unless I shoot it in the most unexpected place… Never mind, I will find its weaknesses first." Rose shook her head and leaped to the air.
Five arrows appeared on her right hand as she pulled them at the same time. The moment it released, only one arrow went straight at the monster while the rest curved a bit, hitting a different spot.
*Roar!*
The mammoth finally finished moving its giant body and swung its trunk again, but Rose never expected that it was too fast.
"What is that speed?" Rose exclaimed in surprise while covering her body with lightning. She spun her body to change her direction and stepped on its trunk, launching herself to the sky.
She created another five arrows and released them randomly, trying to find the body"s weakness.
Rose flew around the mammoth while shooting her arrows continuously.
Unable to accept this, the mammoth turned around and pointed its trunk toward her. He spurted out fire from the two holes on its nose, trying to hit Rose down.
And yet, this kind of attack was easily dodged by Rose. She kept raining the mammoth with arrows, hoping that one of them would at least stick. At that time, she knew she could focus on that spot.
After five minutes, she realized that the strategy wasn"t working. She decided to strike on a single spot instead of five with those arrows, thinking she might not put enough strength on it.
Hence, the struggle started. She struck the mammoth with her original technique that allowed her to take control of her arrows.
But she only found only its eyes and tail were the softest. Hence, she decided to change her strategy and shot another arrow.
When the arrow was only two meters from the target, a Spatial Gate appeared, swallowing this arrow.
Another Spatial Gate appeared right before its eyes.
*Roar!*
The beast roared when its right eye got pierced by Rose"s arrow. Rose truly angered at this time as its body suddenly clad in fire. The fire flared up and formed into a few cyclones that charged at Rose.
"…" She gritted her teeth and flew away to avoid these cyclones, but it kept following her to the end of times.
"What should I do?" Rose asked herself. The fire almost hit her. "Dodging is impossible. At the same time, I can"t shoot at it because the moment I turn around, it will hit me. One hit will be fatal for me… No, I should let it hit somewhere to destroy these attacks. But where?"
Rose looked around. She wanted to use the beast itself to be her s.h.i.+eld, but it would probably be too dangerous in her current state. Hence, she changed her target to the easiest target.
She suddenly dove from the sky and landed on the ground. Taking another glimpse of the fire cyclone, Rose"s feet began to spark.
"Lightning Step!"
The prediction which one would come first truly helped her this time as she kept dodging it in succession. Those fire cyclones that hit the ground exploded, but Rose already pa.s.sed them, so the fire or the shock wave didn"t catch her.
At the same time, Rose pulled her bow and shot out a few more arrows. She utilized her Spatial Gates and let the mammoth confuse.
It seemed the mammoth was extraordinary. The moment he realized he had been surrounded by the Spatial Gates, it swept its trunk again.
Just like how the mysterious guy cut Alex"s Spatial Gate, Rose"s gates were obliterated.
"What?!" Of course, this was the first time Rose saw something like this. But due to her condition, she suppressed the shock and leaped in another direction, shooting one thousand arrows to see whether there was a weakness.
Seeing those many arrows trying to penetrate the skin, she suddenly released something that she never tried.
"Can I do it?" Rose couldn"t contain her smile. Her green bow suddenly glowed blue before a pair of wings appeared on the two ends as if it was adding the shape to increase its power. Five arrows then appeared on her hand as she pulled her bowstring.
However, if one took another close look, they would notice that Rose didn"t use all of her arrows at the same time.
"I am just a simple girl with a straightforward thinking, but I can also think one thing or two." Rose smiled and released the first arrow, sending the other one in a split second. She continued until she succeeded in releasing five arrows in succession.
The arrows looked like a snake that crawled straight toward the mammoth, specifically its tusk.
"My original technique is a guided arrow that I can control according to the program I set before releasing it. However, I try to do it in a rapid-fire this time… And the result." Rose squinted her eyes.
The mammoth coated its tusk with another layer of fire and struck the "Arrow." It was counted as one because the second arrow hit the first arrow"s b.u.t.t. The third, fourth, and fifth arrows did the same, creating a long thin stick.
To Rose"s surprise, the shock wave produced by this clash was the strongest so far. Realizing it might be her strongest attack so far, she pumped her fist and observed the clash.
*Crack!*
A crack appeared on the tusk before the arrow shattered it and hit his body, creating an explosion. Rose couldn"t help but smile as she finally found a way to hit it.
"If I use it again, I—" Before she finished her words, the mammoth emerged from within the smoke and charged at her, swinging his trunk toward Rose.
She widened her eyes and raised both hands, trying to coat her body with lightning, but… "I won"t make it."
The trunk struck her.
"Gah!" The pain followed by numbness was felt by Rose as her body flew because of the momentum. Out of desperation, she checked her hands and gritted her teeth. "It"s not broken, but too numb. I can"t move it."
It was at this time, the master finally made his move.
"That is good enough, Rose. Well done." Alex appeared in front of Rose with his back facing the mammoth. Spiritual Energy stopped her momentum and gently placed her down.
Seeing the interference from Alex, the mammoth erupted in anger. It roared and charged at Alex.
"Master!" Rose wanted to feel relieved when she saw her master, but the mammoth didn"t let her, so she wanted to inform him.
Alex only smiled and snapped his finger. "It"s fine, Rose."
As he uttered those words, an array emerged from the s.p.a.ce World, revealing a whole big array.
Rose opened her mouth in surprise. She had indeed felt the fluctuation of s.p.a.ce Energy around that area, but she never expected it was an array. It turned out that her master was luring the monster to that place.
"Saint Explosion Array."
The red array shone when the mammoth stepped on it. The mammoth realized this and tried to escape, but the array had been activated.
*Boom!*
A huge explosion occurred. The explosion itself was very unique. Despite having a loud sound, it didn"t create a shock wave to its surrounding, breaking the physic itself. At the same time, it didn"t create smoke in the sky. Instead, it made a huge flame pillar, marching its way toward the sky.
*Roar Roar!*
The mammoth seemed to be alive under the scorching fire.
Rose peeked and found out that the mammoth had lost its fang and ears. The body was charred back, and it seemed to be almost dead.
"Master… It"s going to die." Her face became pale. In the meeting, she listened to Alex saying they couldn"t kill the monsters if not together, so she didn"t understand why Alex killed it.
"I am not killing it." Alex only shook his head. His Spirit Eyes was telling him that the mammoth still had a bountiful enemy. Although some parts were destroyed, most of them were outer injuries, so he knew the mammoth still had enough strength to live for even a year.
"Is that so? Is it only an outer injury?"
"Yes." Alex nodded and summoned another array that he had been creating after finis.h.i.+ng the Saint Explosion Array. The moment it was set up, Alex activated it.
"Sphere Chain Array."
Around a hundred chains emerged from a small array, circling around the monster. The mammoth soon became a coc.o.o.n made of chain and restrained it until Alex felt it was over.
At the same time, he took out the token and handed it to Rose. "Since you have injured the mammoth so much to the point I can finish it this easily, how about informing the others that we have finished? You just need to channel your Spiritual Energy to the s.h.i.+ning circle."
As expected, there was only one s.h.i.+ning circle because they were the strongest group out there.
Rose gulped down and took the token carefully. She then followed Alex"s instruction, only to find there wasn"t a change in the token itself.
"Thank you." Alex smiled, knowing it had been transmitted to others.