novelzi Chapter 69 Battles!
Chapter 69 Battles!
A few minutes before Audrey's breakthrough...
On Jade's side, she was faced by two giant lizards stronger than the one she soloed before.
"Damn, just looking at them makes me angry". Jade spoke to herself as her eyes started glowing green. But she didn't manage to access her berserk mode transformation. Maybe because her emotions weren't strong enough, though she was pissed off non the less.
"Roar!". Before the beasts could do it, she roared first. Her roar sounded a lot like a tiger's. As soon as the roar reached the beasts, they were stunned in place. Then Jade used her high quickly as she sped toward the beasts. She threw out a slap at one of them, and just as it was about to reach the beast's face, her hand was covered by her beast aura that took the form of a giant tiger claw with long, sharp claws. She then took a swipe at the beast's throat, ripping it off then did the same on the other one all within one second. By the time the stun effect wore off the beasts no longer had throats and choked on their own blood for a few seconds before dying. It was definitely a beastly way of fighting.
"Hmm, I sense a beast core in this one, lucky me!" She spoke to herself as she ripped the beast's chest open and took out a core that glowed with a dirt brown colour.
She then looked around her with a proud expression on her face. She thought that she was the first to finish killing off her beasts, only to see Muku sitting on the head of a beast that had a crushed neck like the one beside it. They looked like they had been strangled to death.
{Okay how's anyone supposed to fight that?.... I'm just glad we're on the same side}. She thought to herself as she walked over.
The two then started watching the other battles...
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Emily's battle.....
Being a mage type with little improvement to her physical prowess, Emily was having a horrible time fighting the giant lizard. She had to always be on guard if she didn't want to suddenly be skewered by the earth spikes. If it wasn't because of Muku intervening in the beginning and moving her out of the way, she might already be dead.
Unluckily for her who thought he was going to finish the battle for her, he didn't. He even looked away from her to signal his stance which made her smile wryly. How did he expect a mage like her to fight this thing that kept on erecting earth spikes wherever you stood?. And so, her struggles began....
The beast wasn't giving her time to concentrate and cast her spells. Which she didn't know was a problem until then; maybe that's why Muku left her alone; she and Hope were the only ones in their group who couldn't cast spells while moving. Which made her current situation a great learning opportunity.
Fortunately, after a while of struggling, she finally got the hang of it. Though she could only do the most basic spells for now.
Chloe's battle...
"Should we tell her to be a bit more serious?". Emily asked the others she was with as they looked at Chloe's battle. Unlike her, Chloe wasn't having any trouble at all, the girl was actually playing around with the lizard instead of ending the battle.
"No, let her have her fun. It looks like she's about to finish it off anyway". Muku replied with a little smile on his face.
From the beginning, Chloe didn't have any trouble with dodging the earth spikes. After a while it kind of got fun for her, dodging them, stepping on them and propelling herself all over the place. Especially looking at the lizard that seemed helpless on how to catch her. Although she was having fun, she was also trying to get better control of her lightning so that she could fight all out without it destroying her clothes.
"Hmm, seems it's about time I end it" She spoke to herself after seeing that four people had already finished their battles.
"Lightning blitz!" She shouted the name of her spell, and her already super-fast speed increased. She started circling the lizard at such a fast speed that all it could see was a blue lightning circle surrounding it, unable to see Chloe's figure at all, until...
Whoosh! Bang! Boom!
Chloe suddenly broke away from the circle, and her tiny lightning-coated punch made contact with the beast's chin, and its head exploded at the top of it. The lizard died on the spot, not even completely sure how it died.
"Wow, the lightning punch worked even better than when I first used it!. I'm really getting stronger huh. Though I still have some work to do with my control". Chloe was extremely happy with her current abilities, but when she looked down at her clothes, her happiness was greatly reduced. Although the situation wasn't as exaggerated as last time when she was left completely naked, her current clothes managed to hold on. Just that they were left looking like rags with many holes on them and there was a lot of smoke coming out of them. But at least everything that should be hidden was still hidden.
She immediately wanted to ask Layla to make a dome for her to change in, but surprisingly, Layla was still in battle. She could only swallow her embarrassment and ask Muku, who happily helped her.
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Layla's battle...
She was perplexed, with her strength, she should have been able to kill the two lizards in less than a minute. But for some reason, she could penetrate their defence. Even considered using her shadow charge, but remembering how it would cause a commission as well as leave her drained, she decided against it and continued to trade spikes with them. She just assumed that maybe they were some sought of unreasonably tough variants.
What she didn't know was that the reason why she couldn't penetrate their scales was because Muku was secretly defending them with his telekinesis at the last moment. Not because he wanted to mess with Layla, but because of Audrey. He knew that as soon as Layla finished her battle, she would kill off Audrey's lizard, which wouldn't be good for Audrey's growth. Especially then when he could vaguely sense that she was close to a breakthrough. Though there was no way he would have guessed that she was going to jump straight onto Rank Two from PR1.
And so, Audrey broke through, Muku killed off Layla's beasts and they made their getaway. No one even found out what he had been doing, though Jade, who had been sitting with him for the longest time, had her doubts. But knowing how it could lead to spanking if she spoke up, she didn't dare say anything...