"Is that our monster?" Rana asked with a curious look. "It's so big!"
Bloed nodded. Just from a glance, he estimated that the mole was around five or six meters tall.
To be honest, it looked a bit silly and cute. The round body of the mole made it seem nothing like the deadly monster Bloed's group was expecting.
Even so, the six of them knew they should not underestimate it.
"How are we going to do this?" Liu Ying asked in anticipation.
Bloed thought for a moment before speaking up.
"Rhone, you are in charge of using your sound attacks to disturb it. Rana, use your magic to stop it from going underground no matter what. As for the rest, you already know what to do."
"""Roger!"""
"Very well, let's do it."
The group moved quickly. In less than five minutes, each one of them was in position.
Even now, the phantom mole was still sleeping on the rock. Bloed was not sure if it was because it had not detected them, or if it was just too lazy to move when its enemies were just a bunch of B-Rank kids.
Bloed found it fortunate.
He preferred to have the initiative after all.
Looking at the giant sleeping mole, Bloed's eyes flashed coldly.
"Start!"
"Hahaha, okay!"
The next instant, Rhone howled.
Immediately, soundless sound waves left Rhone's mouth and flew towards the mole, hitting it!
"EEEEEEeeeeee!!!"
The mole let out a high-pitched shriek. It jumped awake and held its head with its front pawns in obvious pain.
As soon as they saw that, the rest of the group moved.
Bloed was the first to attack. With a thought, Oculus released a beam of energy towards the mole's body.
The beam of energy hit the mole. However, the mole managed to react at the last second, using its front pawns to block the beam.
Oculus's beam attack was not so easy to defend, though. The beam of plasma easily burned through the mole's skin, calcinating its muscles and creating a hideous-looking injury.
"EEEEEeeeeeekkkkkk!!!" The mole screamed in pain again. It tried to use its senses to find the enemies that dare to injury it, however, the bothersome soundwaves attacking its body made it unable to focus.
And meanwhile, Aya, Liu Ying, Atai, and Bloed arrived in front of it.
Aya's dagger pierced the mole's right leg, Liu Ying's punched its back, Atai stabbed its left leg, and Bloed used his disintegration saber to attack its heart.
The mole barely managed to avoid Bloed's lethal attack, however, it could not avoid Aya, Liu Ying, and Atai's attacks.
Its situation turned even direr!
With the injuries that it received from Oculus's attack plus the injuries it received just now and Rhone's soundwaves, it was in grave danger!
Aware of it, the mole did not hesitate to jump away and try to burrow on the ground.
But at that moment, Rana's voice sounded.
"[Imprison]!"
Following her voice, several mana chains appeared around the mole, wrapping around its body one after another and stopping its movements.
At the same time, Leto surged towards the mole and turned into several metallic chains that grabbed the mole's legs and emitted electric currents, causing it to scream in pain.
The mole roared. Mana erupted from its body, breaking most of Rana and Leto's chains no even one second after they appeared.
But using the brief time Rana and Leto earned for them, the group intensified their attacks.
In an instant, several attacks rained in the mole increasing its injuries massively.
Bloed did not miss this opportunity. Brandishing his saber, he slashed towards the mole's right leg, severing it completely.
By the time the mole free itself from the chains, it was in its last legs.
With its front paws injured and its right leg severed, it could not even try to escape.
*Eeeeeekkk!* The mole let out a whimper of pain. Then, its body collapsed on the ground.
It was already about to die.
"It was easier than I expected." Liu Ying said with a bit of disappointment.
Bloed nodded. Well, they had targeted the mole weakness, plus used a surprise attack. It would have been strange if it would have not been so easy.
But when he was about to give the last blow, Oculus caught sight of something.
Bloed's expression immediately changed.
"Careful!"
Without hesitation, he ordered Leto to form a metallic barrier around him plus Aya and Liu Ying who were close to him!
The next instant–
*Boom!!!*
A beam of fire fell from the sky.
The beam of fire caused a powerful explosion. It burned most of the trees in the surroundings and created a powerful shockwave that spread on several kilometers.
In the distance, a blonde young man was hovering in the sky with a pair of fire wings on his back and a bow in his hands.
He was the prince of the Sun Kingdom! He had used this opportunity to ambush them!
And his target had been Rhone.
Fortunately, Bloed's warning came in time, so Rhone managed to barely evade the attack. But even so, he suffered heavy injuries.
He definitively could not defend against another attack like that!
And the prince was not done yet.
Calmly, he pulled the bowstring back.
Grinning with a cruel look, he looked at the batkin young man–
"Die."
–And fired another fire arrow.
"Rhone!" Rana shouted and a barrier appeared on the path of the arrow. She did not hesitate to use most of her mana to protect the batkin against this attack.
But to the rabbitkin girl's surprise, the barrier only managed to stop the arrow for one second before it broke.
And–
*BOOM!!!*
Another powerful explosion happened, sending Rana and Rhone flying.
"Damn it!" Bloed cursed to himself. He extended his hand and part of Leto turned into a sniper rifle.
But just when he was about to fire, his expression changed once more.
Because he heard a strange sound coming from the underground.
Instinctively, Bloed rushed towards Liu Ying and hugged her. Then, he ordered Leto to wrap itself around them.
Before he could think in anything else, a thunderous sound much stronger than the ones before shook the place.
Then, the ground collapsed, swallowing the six members of Bloed's team.
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