But that was easier said than done. The creature had a massive amount of health, and Li still had no idea what its abilities were. He knew he would very likely have to resort to an Ultima-class spell of firepower, but during the cast time for such spells, he would have to go into his true form.
In any case, Li had to scope out the situation a little more, possibly see if he could take it down without resorting to his Ultima-class spells, and to do that, he needed to ensure the adventurers were not in harm's way, not only to safely scope out the abomination's powers, but to get them out of range of any collateral damage in the case that he did decide to use an Ultima-class spell.
The surging crash of heavy waters rolling overhead began to simmer down, the constant, dim roar fading into a streaming trickle. Replacing that ruckus was instead the immense groaning of the Dark beast amalgamation in the distance as it began to move, its form fully stabilizing.
