[Unranked Dungeon]
As Kaido was regenerating himself and extracting out the radiation in his body, he then look over towards the result of his stunt as he saw the huge tree emitting a bright green of light towards its own surface layer. Seemingly the damage done in its trunk were so severe that the tree itself started to act in order to fully heal and expel the radiation.
Of course in comparison to healing magic, the tree's rejuvenation moves in a much slower pace , to the point that it would take quite awhile for the tree to fully return back to its original state. During this time, Lilia and the others finally arrived after finishing their business against the other lower level treants, and came fully prepared to assist Kaido.
"Where's the treant that was leading the enemy units?" asked by Alessandro
"Dead! It was quite a challenge but i manage to kill it" answered by Kaido
"I see.. then the only thing left is to cut down this tree" said by Alessandro
"But how do we do that? the tree itself is super tough" asked by Lilia
"I agree! we just witnessed Kaido literally blasting an huge attack against the tree, but despite that destructiveness, it only was able to take out a chunk from it" added by Shelly
"If that is the case, then we only need a far stronger attack" said by Kaido
As Kaido said those words, he then begun conjuring matter unto his palm as he tries to form a type of power that is so destructive that he was assured that it would be powerful enough to destroy the tree. But conjuring such energy was so hard that it would need a total concentration from Kaido for quit6e awhile in order to just create such component. The component that Kaido was making is the anti-matter energy.
Antimatter, substance composed of subatomic particles that have the mass, electric charge, and magnetic moment of the electrons, protons, and neutrons of ordinary matter but for which the electric charge and magnetic moment are opposite in sign. For example, an electron is a particle of matter, and a positron is its antimatter twin. An electron has a negative charge, and a positron has a positive one. A positron and an electron also exhibit opposite magnetic moments.
Antimatter-matter annihilations have the potential to release a huge amount of energy. A gram of antimatter could produce an explosion the size of a nuclear bomb. However, humans have produced only a minuscule amount of antimatter. That is the reason why it was still hard for Kaido to produce anti-matter.
But as Kaido was fully focused on creating the antimatter particle, the tree itself then sensed the danger in the air, as it was alarmed and begun to shook the ground. As if sensing the creation of anti-matter, the very energy which could kill it, the tree's defensive mechanism became severe as roots rose up from the air and begu8n attacking the raiding team.
With that, Alessandro, shelly and Lilia quickly jump away as they saw the roots raining down from above them in a destructive manner. After successfully dodging the attack, they then remembered that they forgot to pull out Kaido which caused all of them to react in a jolt and rush towards Kaido's aide. But the moment they got to him, they were all surprised to see the roots being completely blocked by a type of barrier that was surrounding Kaido.
Due to that Kaido's concentration wasn't disturb at all as he continues to create the anti-matter particle. Naturally this enraged the tree as it realized that it failed to interrupt Kaido's concentration. With that, the raining attack became even more dangerous and heavy as it pummeled repeatedly against his barrier to the point the dust and earth rose from the ground and begun to obscure the surrounding area.
Not long after, some of the roots begun merging with each other, as they formed a spiral drill spear with an attempt to destroy Kaido's barrier using rotating pressure. In that moment Alessandro and the rest were alarmed as he then begun giving out orders.
"I don't like that drill! we need to protect Kaido.... Shelly! Lilia! destroy as many root you can"
"Understood!"
"Roger!"
Quickly dispersing like a fan, Alessandro, Lilia and Shelly begun attacking the root and taking them down with their own powerful skills.
"Critical strike!!!"
"Gunpoint mastery!!!"
"Crazed Hunter!!!"
As they begun expanding their skills to destro0y the roots, some of the roots continues to pound against Kaido's barrier as they tried to interrupt his creation of anti matter. However in that moment in time, Kaido has now the base of the anti-matter which was apparent to the black orb in the middle of his palm which was giving out a glow of red yellow and orange. Now that he got the base, all he need to do is further enhance it to finally create a weapon made up of anti-matter which could cut down the tree.
Once the base form was formed, the tree then drop down the drill as it rushed towards Kaido win an attempt to puncture through his defenses. But before it could finally reach it's target, Alessandro quickly intercepted in between as he used his short sword and gun in order to counter blow the drill.
Using his skills to counter away the drill, he then used his spare short sword to further pushed back the drill and protect Kaido from getting interrupted in the process. After all if what Kaido claimed was true, then the anti matter is the only power they need in order to cut something as tough as the huge tree.
But as Alessandro tried to fend off the drill, the drill itself completely destroyed his skills with no issue as it plunged towards him and struck him squarely against his sword and gun. It just one contact, Alessandro was blown away, as he crashed unto the ground completely immobile, due to the shock that his whole body received.
With Alessandro down for the count, Lilia then quickly intercepted next as she used her powerful sure kill skill in order to destroy the drill from the side. With the use of her skills that was able to destroy the drill, she then successfully stopped the interruption that the tree was making in order for the anti-matter to not get created at all.
However since the creation process for the anti-matter was not finished yet, the tree begun moving in towards his next attempt as the ground shook violently and sprout out a huge wooden serpent out from the ground and towering above everyone. This time with the use of a wooden serpent, the tree would be able to adjust its movement in order to deal with any type of interruption and at the same time attack its pointed target.
Seeing the huge wooden snake, Lilia couldn't help but curse out loud, as she couldn't believe just how difficult it is just to clear this unranked dungeon.
But time waits for no one. Just as Lilia was cursing out loud from the difficulty6, the wooden snake or serpent then plunged down towards the ground, as it slid across the floor and through the tight spaces, trying to bypass both Shelly and Lilia with little to no confrontation. Of course the moment this happened, both the said person's then noticed the snakes intention as they quickly tried to catch up in order to intercept the serpent itself.
As a person adept in speed, Lilia easily caught up to the head of the serpent, as she took a few strode forwards, before jumping into the air and dropping down a powerful drop kick from above towards its noose. But as if sensing her approach, the snake then quickly pulled back its head, which caused her to miss, before it rose up into the air and plunged with a bite towards her.
In response to this, Lilia quickly blinked away to safety as she avoided being eaten by the wooden serpent, as she noticed the serpent itself dug into the earth upon missing its target. Realizing that the snake was trying to get off her grid, she then ran after it towards the hole that it dug and tried to stop the rest of its body from fully submerging into the hole. However none of her attacks were able to make a scratch on its wooden scales, as she failed her task from stopping it from completely submerging.
In that moment when the wooden serpent was fully underground, she then remembered that Kaido was being targeted by the tree itself and was trying its hardest to stop the person himself from creating this anti-matter energy. Upon realizing that, Lilia quickly turned towards Kaido's direction as she used a boost skill in order to bring herself beside him at the fastest moment.
However just as she was in the state of suspended animation from using her skill, the ground beneath suddenly cracked open as the wooden serpent appeared out of nowhere with mouth opened wide, with clear intention of actually getting to her first before heading towards its original target.
Since she was in that state, Lilia wasn't able to to move away, as she couldn't help but wat6ched herself get eaten by the wooden serpent itself. With no time to react at all, Lilia realized that she was tricked by the serpent in letting go of her guard in order to rush beside Kaido, which led her showing a lot of opening during her suspended animation, which gave way for the enemy to exploit and catch her off guard.
With that in a blink of an eye before anyone could react, Lilia was swallowed whole by the wooden serpent, as she got gulped down and was taken out from the action just like that.
"Lilia!"
As Shelly saw Lilia got eaten by the wooden snake, she then held her knife tightly within her grasp as she took out a crossbow from her sub space storage and rush towards the serpent while firing out multiple range shots. Of course the arrows that was loaded unto the crossbows' wasn't just an ordinary arrows. In fact they are arrows that were enchanted by alchemy and magic combined.
Meaning all of her arrows have different elemental effects which could be effectively use in large battles or boos raids.
The first arrow that she fired off was an exploding arrow, followed by an arrow enchanted with a melting spell that literally melts anything in the spot that it hits. After that the third arrow was a freezing arrow which froze anything that it hits, which was immediately followed by an exploding arrow once more which took off a huge portion of the now fragile spot of its body. Taking not that since Shelly has a hunter skill, her accuracy is somewhere around 80% which is near 100% which mostly makes all of her shots land on the exact same spot.
Naturally the wooden serpent was in anguish from those series of attacks, but before it could even try to escape, Shelly begun firing her crossbow at its throat, which caused its head to rear back from the force of the attack, and prevented it from ever trying to submerge back to the ground. Due to that, the serpent let out a sharp shriek which shook the earth, as it tried to bend its body in order to dodge the arrows.
But the moment it did such series of movements, the earth beneath its body suddenly rose up into the sky as it hold its body in place, as if the earth itself had a mind of its own. In that moment the wooden serpent then noticed that Kaido was looking its way with a calm smile as if trying to tell it that its struggle was futile and apparently he was also the only he held it in its place using his Esper ability.
Based on what it saw, it seems like Kaido wasn't struggling at all in creating the anti-matter, it was as if creating such dangerous energy for him was child's play, the only downside to this is that he needed time to finish creating the anti-matter. In fact Kaido himself could fight and charge at the same time due to his prowess in his psychic. Its just that with the aid from his acquaintances, his job just became easier which caused him to lax a little.
Now that the wooden serpent was trapped by the earth, Shelly then quickly took this chance to ran along the squirming body of the wooden serpent while also leaving behind some explosives on her tracks, as she makes her way towards its head. Once she got to its head, she then jump off its nose, as she pointed her crossbow towards its two eyes and used one of her skills.
"Split Shot"
With the usage of her skill, she successfully hit the two eyes of the snake with a bolt strapped with explosives, as she remotely detonated it during her fall, causing numerous explosions to rung out all over the serpent's body.
Following that she then quickly took out a hook and rope from her storage, as she threw the hook on the opened mouth of the serpent, and swung towards its throat, which gave leeway for Shelly to cut open its throat with a very sharp blade she had in store. With one stab followed by fully slashing down with the use of gravity's momentum, she was then able to open up the serpent's throat which made it possible for Lilia to escape from the insides of the serpent and fall down from such great height.
After getting Lilia out of the serpents insides, Shelly then immediately cuts off the rope that was tied to the hook which its hooked at the serpents mouth, as she free fall together with Lilia herself. Luckily for them, both of them are players, so falling to such great height was nothing new in their experience. As players ,they somehow underwent great change not only physically but also mentally in order to tackle the dungeon. At this point there are only few thing that can scare the players and falling in such height was not among them.
As a finishing blow, the moment both Lilia and Shelly safely landed unto the ground, Kaido used his Esper ability to conjured a huge earthen spear above the serpent's head, as he dropped in on top of it, which literally stabbed through its skull and completely killing the serpent itself. With that, the serpent was then killed with the combination of efforts between them, which cause for their victory.
However the moment the wooden serpent was killed, the ground shook violently once more as if showing its displeasure, as leaves started to fall down the tree tops, and roots begun to move violently in accordance to its emotions. Since the whole area was literally filled with its roots, Kaido and the rest could feel danger all over the place, as the tree itself could attack them in any direction within its own domain.
As if predicting what was about to happen next, the roots then begun rampaging towards them, which caused everyone top be p[re-occupied in defending themselves rather than protecting Kaido himself. Thankfully due to Kaido's barrier, he was somewhat able to block the attacks that are directed at him as he continuously creates the anti-matter, but the same cant be said towards Alessandro.
"Crap! this is really bad"
"Lilia! Where's Alessandro? His currently defenseless!" stated by Shelly as she remembered that Alessandro was knocked out somewhere in this forest of roots.
Hearing her words, Lilia panicked for a bit as she quickly left her [post to search for Alessandro and soon found him being squished in by the pile of roots wrapping around his body. Upon seeing his hesitation, Lilia tried her best to get to him while cutting down the roots headed towards her in a manner of quick attacks.
However despite her great effort, some of the roots still managed to get pass her detection, as it caught her ankle, causing her to get pulled in and smashed unto the ground multiple times in a whiplash. After getting smashed for about the 10th time, the roots begun entangling her body, as one separate root begun choking her out and trying to force her to pass out from lack of oxygen in the lungs.
While Lilia and Alessandro was in a dire strait, Shelly was slowly being overwhelmed by the attacks coming from the huge tree, as the roots endlessly lounge at her as if they were an endless stream of attacks. Not long after some of the roots puncture her two thighs from her blind spot, causing her to be stuck in place, as she soon got covered in roots and her legs being crushed like a juiced fruit.
As the three people got done in by the roots of the three, the attacks heading towards Kaido became heavier, as the roots itself started to crack his barrier from being pounded so hard by continuous strikes of its sharp tip.
As Kaido was witnessing his barrier being slowly broken through, he then finally finished in conjuring his anti matter bomb in a size of his palm, as he can sense a dangerous aura emitting from the element that he has created. As if it was a sign that anti-matter was not to be trifled with, his palm that was carrying the anti matter, started to skin his flesh as his blood dried up and his cells being decayed.
Sensing such dangerous aura, Kaido smiled excitedly, as he produced as he conjured a very hot flames unto his palm, before slamming it to the ground and enacting a fiery solar flare blast all over his surroundings. Because of the heat of the flames which is tantamount to 10 million degrees Kelvin (18 million degrees Fahrenheit), all the roots surrounding him burned itself to ashes, and gave leeway for him towards the huge tree.
Dashing towards the tree in a quick pace, Kaido covered his whole body with a fiery hot whirlwind which burns everything in its path as he took step after step towards the huge tree.
Of course the tree itself tried to attack him and even obstruct his path by its roots alone, however due to Kaido continuous conjuring of solar flare like attacks, its root defenses became completely useless as it simply burned in face of the heat that Kaido had created.
Soon after when Kaido finally arrived before the tree, he then took a huge leap into the air, as the tree furiously tried to defend itself with its own roots, only to be burned down by Kaido's flame itself. Once Kaido bypassed the tree's defenses, he then slammed the anti-matter unto the tree, as the whole space suddenly became white and everything disappeared into a flashing light.
At the first few seconds there was literally no sound could be heard in the surroundings, as the color white took over the whole place to the point that even Kaido couldn't see anything but pure white. The following second a strong wind swept everyone away, before a strong suction force begun pulling them in towards the center of disturbance, and which was followed after by a stronger pushing force which turned everything into black of nothingness. After the space changed color two times already, the ground shook, as the explosion rung out which drowned out all the noise and even took everyone's hearing away from them
Because of the anti-matter explosion, the whole space begun distorting itself like crazy, as the dungeon endured the scale of the attack and tried itself to contain the blast inside the dungeon and not spreading all over the city.
Even all the system user in the planet begun showing signs of error as if they had all, triggered an emergency protocol and momentarily left their host in order to deal with the anti-matter that was forcing its way out of the dungeon's restriction.
Because of this temporary phenomena, the whole world was is panic upon momentarily losing their system and sensing all the dungeon's going haywire due to the events happening ins ide the unranked dungeon.
No matter what, due to what Kaido had did of introducing his world's version of anti-matter, everyone was in a chaos as the whole world begun paying even more attention towards the unranked dungeons.