177 The Nest [5] - Alex's Strength
"Hey! They're strong!" Eclipse said while struggling to get the spiders away from him.
At the same time, Syra was struggling against the swarm of spiders that were coming at her with immense speed, and her shields were beginning to deteriorate.
A fireball suddenly slammed onto her air shields; however, instead of destroying the shield or try to punch through it, the flames went around it, burning any spider in the vicinity.
When the flames disappeared, a red-haired boy smiled at the girl.
He wore black mage robes; however, there were places that weren't covered adequately with the robes, allowing Syra to see black armor underneath that reflected the light from the flames around them.
"Are you okay?" He asked while stretching his hand toward Syra.
Looking up, she could not help but feel like she had seen him before, but right now, that didn't matter. He was helping her.
She could tell that he was with the handsome young man from before that had decided to help them. They were wearing the same robes of the same quality and material. Sure, the handsome young man's robes were a little more roughed up, but that was to be expected.
He was a close fighter, while the boy before he was clearly a mage.
"Are you guys from an hunting group?" Syra asked.
"Is it really time to ask such question?" Alex asked with a smirk before turning around and muttering two words under his breath that Syra barely heard.
"Fire Vortex."
Suddenly, an orange magic circle appeared before him before a candle-sized flame formed.
Within a few seconds, the candle-sized flame began to spin and gain size. However, before it could get too big, the fire span much fasted and shrank to the size of a bullet.
Something whistled through the air and passed by several spiders, but they weren't the target in the first place.
When the flame landed, it didn't land on anything specific. However, that was the point.
Suddenly, flames appeared out of nowhere as a vortex of flames formed before everyone's very eyes.
The flames that erupted from the red-haired boy's spell were a mesmerizing dance of beauty and destruction. They blazed with an intensity that seemed to defy the laws of nature, painting the air with hues of brilliant orange and crimson. Each flicker of the fire was a fleeting moment of artistry, leaving trails of ephemeral embers in its wake.
Like a celestial dance, the flames whirled and spun in a mesmerizing pattern. In graceful orbit around the spiders, the fire never touched them until the moment of reckoning.
A deceptively gentle glow enveloped the arachnids before they were instantly turned to ash.
The beauty of the flames was undeniable, but the devastation they wrought was equally breathtaking. The spiders, once so formidable, now stood no chance against the overwhelming might of the inferno.
And so, the flames blazed on, their brilliance illuminating the cavern's darkness. Each spider that dared to approach was met with the same fate, becoming nothing more than ashes in the wind.
As the last spider succumbed to the consuming fire, the flames began to wane, their brilliance fading like the end of a glorious performance.
Most of the spiders in the area were now dead. The only ones that survived were the stronger ones. Some of the weaker ones did survive; however, that was because they were near Eclipse, and Alex didn't want to burn him like last time accidentally.
"Show off." A feminine voice chuckled from afar, causing everyone who wasn't too busy dealing with the spiders to look over.
Syra looked at her for a moment and widened her eyes in shock.
The girl who had spoken had beautiful cherry-pink hair and mesmerizing ocean-blue eyes.
Somehow, she looked like she might have been older than Syra herself; however, Syra doubted that was the case.
The pink-haired girl had the aura of a warrior, and when she looked into her eyes, she saw a flame that burned wildly with the passion of a hungry beast.
It was a flame that she had only seen in two other people before, and one of them happened to be a pink-haired girl from her town.
Syra wasn't stupid. Nymira herself might have changed a lot from when she last saw her, but many of her features were the same.
However, she couldn't think about that right now.
She had more important things to do.
Looking to the side, she saw Falco, Herla, and Argon dealing with the humanoid spider... Or at the very least they were trying their best to do so.
They were all panting furiously. Their chests were heaving up and down as they threw attack after attack, yet despite how much they tried to fight the creature, no matter what they did, it always felt like the battle was getting harder and harder as time passed.
Argon, with his dual-blade techniques, sent out a flurry of attacks that barraged the creatures. His swords were moving so fast that they would have usually created cuts over the creature's bodies; however, the spider humanoid was not like anything they had seen before.
At first, the attacks had been landing, chipping away at the exoskeleton; however, shortly after, Argon quickly found himself being pushed into a stalemate.
No... He was beginning to be pushed back.
The spider humanoid would block every third attack Argon sent out, as it could predict where it was coming from no matter how much he tried to change it up.
Then, it progressed to every second attack.
And eventually, before Argon could understand what was happening, every single one of his attacks was being blocked by the reinforced arms of the creature before it, but that's not where it ended.
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