The beast used its tail to meet Kayden’s attack and... for a few seconds, a horrible noise of metal being cut was heard by everyone. This took about 5 seconds to finally stop and... the tail was only held on by a tiny strand of flesh.
"The sun shines," said Locke, looking like he had a sun on his back. Kayden didn’t feel anything, but the scorpion felt like he was slowly burning inside. He returned to the ground and stood there. The burning went away and Locke felt like his spell was no longer taking effect.
Again, they started bombarding the scorpion with spells. Its defense was ridiculously high. This time, those responsible for getting him off the ground were a dozen students who were going to use all the mana they had to make a tornado of the same magnitude as Luan’s.
Locke also ordered water mages to start filling the room with water to make it harder for the scorpion to stick to the ground. The animal did not wait still and threw several stones the size of a house at the students. Several were eliminated within seconds without even being able to react.
A few minutes later, a tornado was thrown towards the scorpion. This time, he was prepared and was not easily lifted. However, because of the enormous amount of water on the ground, it was unable to connect directly to the earth after being lifted a few millimeters.
BOOOM! BOOOM! BOOM! Dozens of spells were thrown at him without giving the animal time to defend itself. First Kayden’s beam fell with its maximum force, causing a ton of damage and burning the creature’s internal organs. Then it was Linus’ explosion that opened the scorpion’s armor to the other dozens of different attacks that came at the beast.
It was only a second that she couldn’t step on the ground, but that was enough for the amount of spells to greatly overwhelm her defenses. When the scorpion finally touched the ground, it was already completely dead.
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This fight resulted in 30 casualties on Kayden’s side and that was only because of the ease with which the beast was able to throw several huge rocks at high speeds at the mages.
They had a few hours to recover, but then dozens of level 3 beasts began to climb the abyss. Not even one of them was on the second level. This was brutal for most rooms.
Kayden had been using lightning without stopping for a second this entire time. As his path did not utilize the mana within his body, he did not suffer any extreme wear and tear and was able to support the entire room.
At the end of the day, there were only 5 living rooms left. Of the 15 that started the day, half were eliminated by the sixth-rank beast that rose in practically all points. Kayden’s room was the one that suffered the least amount of casualties, as the animal that came up was specialized in defense.
This time, they could only sleep for a few minutes and were awakened for battle. There was no more room for sleep. Locke was working hard to maintain high morale in this grim situation.
During the night, there was a relief in the number of beasts. This time a few started to rise, but everyone who rose was in the fourth rank. Luckily, Kayden could handle one within minutes and so could Locke.
Because they still had around fifty members at the end of the day, they were able to face the fourth-level beasts smoothly, but they still suffered a casualty of 20 members.
The next day they had a few hours rest. Most rooms only had a few members, with room number two having the most people, mainly because they had a strong mage who specialized in large-scale healing.
Around noon, a howl woke up everyone who was resting, it seemed like a call, which proved correct when hundreds of howls resounded along with the first.
The earth began to shake from afar as hundreds of wolves began to rise from the abyss. The weakest wolf was at the third level, while the average was at the fourth level, but 20% of them were at the fifth rank, with the leader of them being at the sixth rank.
"This is going to be brutal", Kayden commented to Locke as his gaze met that of the alpha wolf, even from hundreds of meters away, the two recognized each other as the strongest on each side.
"I will sacrifice myself and eliminate all the wolves on the third level and some on the fourth that come in the first encounter," said Locke. "Linus, try to use as many spells on a large scale and eliminate a few more. At this time, you should try to take as many beasts along with you before you fall. Kayden, try to deal with the sixth-level beast."
It wasn’t exactly a solid plan but more like a plan for people with no choice. Fear was visible in the air among the teenagers. Kayden sighed at the weakness he was seeing, even though they knew no one was going to die here, they were nervous and anxious, this was pathetic for the elite of the elite.
AUUUUU! Several hundred wolves were running around, all had the same pure white fur and deep blue eyes. The color white dominated the entire plain as they ran forward.
Locke went ahead and rose into the air. A large amount of mana began to rush towards him, his back seemed to glow as he impressively manipulated the mana.
"The sun shines forever," said the boy. With Locke’s sentence, the mana around him began to react strangely, it seemed as if a parasite had infected the region and was spreading from centimeter to centimeter.
Within seconds the wolves began to fall and the smell of burning flesh rose to the skies, wolves were dying by the dozens, and those on the third level were not even able to react before their entire insides were burned.
Kayden was amazed by the spell, the mana was being heated to a strange point and acquiring characteristics of the fire element, as soon as any of the beasts tried to use mana they were burned from the inside.