As we began attacking the wyvern once more, it began glowing with a red aura.
"Rejuvination!" I screamed, warning Nick and Jacob of the upcoming danger.
My warning came a little too late and Nick's arm was viciously severed by the wyvern.
I began desperately healing him to try and get him back into the fight, seeing as now Jacob had double the pressure from the wyvern on him.
Jacob was able to tank thanks to his shield, but eventually it would break. When it broke, that would likely spell our end. I needed a spell that could easily penetrate and explode within the wyvern.
Normally, people would devise spells like this outside of combat, but at this point I didn't have a choice. It was do or die.
I began making a spell in the shape of a long rod until my eyes lit upon one of Atlas's arrows.
Changing the structure of the spell, I now had a pale green arrow floating just above my palm. I was just about to throw it when Atlas yelled at me.
"Make it spin!" He yelled. "That will increase it's penatration!"
It couldn't hurt, so I made it spin and sent it flying at the wyvern's remaining eye.
It flew far faster than I had ever imagined it would, streaking as fast as my eyes could track it to the wyvern's eye. It beamed through the wyvern's eye and into the skull behind it, before violently exploding within.
The wyvern froze in place for a moment, before seizing up. It wasn't dead yet, but it was now a sitting duck.
Jacob hadn't seen the creation of the spell, but he saw the aftermath.
"Nice, Nymph!" He exclaimed, boosting Nick up with his tattered shield.
I hurriedly followed the steps to create my spinning fire arrows to commit the spell to memory. Once a mage casts a spell a certain number of times, they are capable of merely saying the spell name, or making a gesture to cast that spell. Usually, it would be a specific action, but I didn't want to commit it to an action and named it 'Fire Arrow'.
Feeling pleased with both the creation of my new spell and Jacob's praise, I cast the fire arrow into the skull of the unlucky wyvern once more.
The already fractured skull of the wyvern exploded into large pieces from the impact of the fire arrow and the entire skull shattered after it exploded.
Atlas whistled. "Now that's a lot of damage."
I agreed silently and watched the corpse melt into items for us to use.
"That was fast." Jacob remarked, pointing to the third floor entrance. "Looks like he was the floor boss."
Suddenly the significance of the wyvern possessing a consciousness hit me.
"Wait, it was sapient, right?" I wondered aloud. "If it was sapient, then that means that the higher up we go, the smarter the enemies we will encounter."
I looked at Jacob to see what he thought.
"Yeah, but that also poses the question of why he called Nick's fire 'soul fire', and why it said it didn't have a soul of its own." Jacob said.
"Well, I doubt we'll be able to find the answers unless we go to the higher floors and fight the bosses." Nick said.
"That's true, but we should go back to resupply." Jacob said. "We can sell a lot of these drops."
I picked up one of the four sets of wings that had dropped. "Think one dropped for each of us?" I asked.
I then playfully placed one on my back. "Think we could fly with these?" I asked Jacob.
"Probably." He responded. "They have enough surface area to support three of me."
As he spoke, I felt the wings eat through the back of my shirt and fuse with my shoulder blade.