I was starting to feel uncomfortable with how the spirit looked at me. Since that was the case, I began to attack the spirit sending in beams of plasma toward it.
The spirit submerged into the water and dodged the attack. It came back up and began to attack. Citrus was still observing the spirit, waiting for the chance to find its weakness.
All five of us didn't know how to fight the spirit. Seeing how it dodges our attacks underwater, it would be hard for us to find a way for us to attack it.
With us observing the water spirit, the spirit began to shoot more bursts of water at us. We were in a helpless situation of defending against her attack. At this rate, we would be wiped out.
Stopping her attack, Isabelle created a golden cage trying to capture the spirit. Sadly the water spirit was a liquified monster turned into a liquid state and got out of the cage.
None of our moves were working. There must be a way for us to defeat it. Citrus, who was still trying to find its weakness, had no ideas coming to her mind.
Tina then began to use her insects to attack the spirit, I don't know what she was planning, but I decided to wait for an opening to fire my magic.
With the bugs going to the spirit, I could see the displeased look of the water spirit. Seeing that it was coming, it sent more water, trying to drown the flying insects that Tina had made.
Most of the insects died from the spirit attack, and the surviving insects had attached its body to the water spirit.
Pain could be seen in the spirit. The bugs that Tina had summoned were draining her mana. I didn't expect her bugs to do that, but nonetheless helpful. Distracted by that, I went in for an attack before the spirit could get rid of the insect on her.
Making a barrage of beams, I shoot at her, most of my attacks had killed the bugs, but my magic had hurt the spirit significantly.
The spirit got angry, dived into the pool of water, and began to push away all the bugs on her. All the insects that were on her were drowned, coming back up. It felt like she got stronger from all that rage. She began to shoot more water at us attempting to drown us.
This attack she made was much stronger than the previous one. It took Isabelle and Riley a lot of mana to block everything. They were getting tired from defending against the spirit.
Should we retreat? No, I doubt that they would want to leave despite the difficulty that we were facing. We needed to find a way to finish it as fast as possible.
With Isabelle and Riley finished defending, the three of us began to attack. Like Tina's usual strategy, she sent more insects toward the spirit, and Isabelle made a sharp rod trying to kill the spirit.
Having the two of them attack, I went for a different attack and sent plasma needles, making them small and fast. The three of us had attacked the spirit, but seeing our upcoming attack, she went to the water to dodge everything.
It was getting on my nerves that she could use the water to do many things with it. Not only could she use it to attack, but she could also use it to dodge everything. Is there a way for us to erase the water here?
I had thought of an idea, but it was too risky for me to attempt it. I didn't know whether I should try it or not. If I failed to do so, the chance of us dying to too huge.
With me trying to think of a plan, the water spirit attacked again, but unlike last time she used a different attack. She made a water tentacle using it to grab us.
Riley and Isabelle were trying their best to block all of the attacks. I joined in to ease and made a barrier surrounding us. Suddenly one of the tentacles broke through our barrier and grabbed Citrus.
Fuck, why is it always Citrus? She was held up in the air, being dragged to the water. We needed to do something quickly. I think it was time for me to do my thing.
"Everyone tries to distract the spirit. I have something to make it easier to defeat her!" They didn't know what plan I had in mind, but all they could do was trust me.
I gathered a lot of mana and tried to vaporize every water I could find. Steam was beginning to come out, and the room was becoming hot. With how hot my magic became, I could see some of the water disappearing and turning into a gas state.
The water spirit saw what I was doing and tried to stop me. My attack had already destroyed the tentacle freeing Citrus. Isabelle then made a wall blocking the income attack aimed at me.
I didn't have much mana left. Most of the water here was already drained. I didn't feel too good just as I finished clearing the water. All the mana that I had was gone. I could see the water spirit irritated by what had happened.
She was weaker now that all the volume of water was gone. Isabelle and Tina attacked, making it hard for the spirit to dodge. Every attack they made had landed, the water spirit yelled in pain, unable to do anything against their attack.
It was hard for me to keep my conscious. Citrus and Riley went ahead and fed me a mana potion. The fatigue I had felt earlier was disappearing, but the chances of me using mana again were unlikely.
Watching Isabelle and Tina fight, I saw they were about to kill the water spirit. It was beautiful to see it die from how annoying the way it fought.
Isabelle doing the finishing blow had killed the spirit. All it dropped was a mana core, different from the one we usually see. The mana core was a blue sphere gem that could be used as jewelry. With all of that done, we had cleared the dungeon.
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