The mass of dirt and stones collapsed towards them with a rumble and blocked their view. As everybody was panicking or thinking of a way to survive their predicament, Rastel's unusually calm voice rang out.
"Amba"
The 2 meter tall golem suddenly appeared in front of him and without much fanfare, doubled and then proceeded to triple his size!
FWOOSH! RUMBLE!
Using his now massive body, Amba formed a small safe space around the team to shield them from the falling debris. He shrugged off the masses of rubble falling upon him to the sides without a sign of struggle.
The rest of the team had closed their eyes immediately seeing the large shadow unsure of what was about to befall them. Rastel just focused on his mana expenditure to study this new ability that had awakened in the golem and it was huge.
'I won't last very long like this' he frowned to himself as he saw his mana already reaching the half point after just about a minute.
He had over 400 MP due to his race perk which at this stage was monstrous. With that much MP, he would be able to spew out low level spells like water from a hose for about 5 minutes which was more than enough to end anybody at his level in a PvP battle.
But putting his earlier attacks in the battle into consideration, he hadn't summoned this giant version of Amba for more than a minute and half his MP was already gone. That was just too much!
At this point, the collapse had ended and everyone was fine. Amba pushed aside the dirt to form a pathway for them to exit. He looked down at the astonished members of Iron's group who stared at his massive frame with pure shock in their eyes.
Iron gulped down as he stared the golem up and down before muttering to himself. "I think I can take it"
Song who was just beside him had to strongly resist the urge to smack his oppa in the face as he said with a face palm. "No Iron-nim, you would be courting death."
Snow who had quickly resumed trying to heal the injured Doe was staring at Rastel in shock. Even Doe was looking at the golem with awe and confusion.
CLACK! CLACK! CLACK!
Rastel was still thinking about his mana consumption when they heard an eerie clacking of bones. He quickly had Amba downsize himself as they turned their heads to the scene they couldn't see before.
The giant skeletal undead was emerging from the rubble. They could also see the fat necromancer who had lodged himself in the rib cage of the monster to escape suffocating.
The massive undead already had one leg out and was proceeding to fully pull itself free when the necromancer noticed them too.
"How did you survive!?" There was genuine confusion and curiosity in his voice as he asked that question
As the cavern started to collapse, he hadn't hesitated to jump into the frame of the undead for protection. He had then lost sight of them as the dirt fell down from the ceiling and blanketed everything.
After it was over, he had quickly used the huge undead to easily dig his way out and was preparing to laugh out loud at ingeniously killing his enemies before proceeding to escape when he suddenly found them, safe and sound and staring at him with bloody murder in their eyes.
As the person with the farthest range, Sing didn't hesitate to nock an arrow and pull back with great strength before letting it fly straight.
It whistled through the air as it neared the giant with its aim going straight for the overweight elf.
KANG!
The undead moved its arm as it easily deflected the arrow like it was swatting an annoying fly. The necromancer was shocked but could still react to a threat on his life.
Sing hissed as he took out another arrow and prepared to fire.
The necromancer looked at them before looking down at his useless hands and then chuckled almost maniacally.
"Heh Heh Heh, you know what? It doesn't even matter how you survived." His voice echoed out from within the undead's ribs.
Sing snorted and his eyes glittered as he took aim at the necromancer's head and let the arrow fly with a violent red glow around it.
The necromancer talked on like he didn't see the attack. "I will end you all! Right here, I swear it by the gods!"
The other leg of the undead that was stuck suddenly kicked out as a massive amount of dirt flew into the air. The fired arrow struck the blanket of dirt before proceeding to explode and sending bits of dirt everywhere.
BOOM!!!
Iron didn't hesitate to take charge as he called out." Sing, take Snow and Doe to retreat a bit into the trees and protect them. Don't hesitate to give us support if necessary. I will go and try to tank it and you, sleeping beauty, can your big guy still fight?"
At the sound of that, Rastel and Amba's heads simultaneously turned an angle as they stared at him. Rastel was more shocked as he even had his mouth hanged open. 'S…Sl…Sleeping beauty?'
The amount of shock he felt was nowhere expressible. He had expected that he would be recognized considering the circumstances but, is that name sticking!? Would he now have a reputation as "Sleeping beauty" in the game till the end!? What was this bullshit!?
At this point, they heard the unnatural clacking as the skeletal undead charged out from the dispersing dirt at their direction with the necromancer looking at them with unbridled rage!
"NO MATTER WHAT I WILL KILL YOU ALL TODAY! I WILL SAVE YOU FOR LAST YOU DAMNED ASSASSIN!" he yelled out at them as the giant raised its bony fists to smash them into the floor.
Doe's eyes glittered as she watched him charge but her view was quickly blocked by Rastel who had snapped out of his indignation.
He smiled at her as he waved at Snow and Sing to pull her away. "You won't mind me taking him down for you right? I made you a promise, so you just sit back for a while and allow me fulfill it okay?"
She looked at his reassuring smile and actually faltered in her conviction to fight even with the injuries she was enduring from the fight earlier and the necromancer's sneak attack. She allowed Snow to slowly pull her back to a safer location.
"Sing! Get them out of here!" Iron yelled as the surrounding rubble around them trembled. The giant was here!
"DIE YOU BASTARDS!" the necromancer yelled!
Seeing there was no more time to waste, Rastel commanded Amba to step up to Iron's side as the massive fist came at them from above.
"Hit out at it!" Iron yelled out as Amba pulled back his fist and Iron raised up his shield.
Iron glowed a faint blue light and Amba let out a low growl before they both hit out with all their strength!
"DIE!!!" the necromancer's hideous form was now very clear from his perch as the fist came down hard!
BANG!!!
The sound of the clash was loud and short as Amba punched out and Iron hit out with his shield. They both slid back from the attack and were pushed back a few meters but they succeeded.
The giant's fist was rebounded and it also paused in its attack. A couple of cracks suddenly appeared on its fist and that made the necromancer look all the more enraged as he commanded the undead to attack once more.
CLACK! CLACK! CLACK!
The ominous clacking came again as the giant righted its stance to attack them again.
'It's clumsy' Rastel who had taken a step to the side noticed this crucial info. He looked back at Amba and Iron who had been pushed a bit far and noticed another problem.
Iron was looking really beat up!
'This can't go on like this.' Looking at the giant preparing for another strike and the fat necromancer looking down on them with a mad expression, he quickly came to a decision.
'Amba, go all out for a moment and buy me time!' he communicated to the golem through the mental link before grabbing at Iron's fatigue figure and rushing back.
Amba instantly tripled in size once more to match the giant as they started clashing.
"ROAR!!!"
He blocked the incoming punch and landed one towards the giant's ribs but that part seemed to have been reinforced by some type of magic to protect the necromancer.
They kept fighting and Amba actually had the upper hand but he couldn't last in this state for long with Rastel's depleting MP.
Iron tried to resist but he was too weak to even fight off Rastel with his pathetic strength stat. They quickly reached Snow who was ready to receive them as she was eager to heal Iron but Rastel quickly stopped her movements before putting out his request.
"I need you to buff me. I want all the best buffs you have!" he said quickly.
Snow's beautiful face creased in confusion.