"Alright, everyone! Phase Two! What should we consider?" Luis asked.
"When it was still hand size, it usually burrows 6 feet underground and attacks with its tongue from below while spitting the corrosive poison through the hole made by the tongue," Julianne explained as the ground suddenly shook
They all dispersed as a flesh-like thing appeared from the ground and it's as wide as a tree in size.
"Be careful! As soon as it retracted its tongue is the time that it spews the poison before crawling away from its position!" Julianne reminded and as soon as she finished speaking.
The tongue retracted as quick as lightning and a dark black liquid emerged from the ground like a fountain and rained among them.
"Guys! I can't control that fluid!" Kyle exclaimed.
Jericho waved his hands as he made an invisible barrier covering them all.
"I can't keep this one any longer!" Jericho exclaimed.
Luis multi-casted barriers of Earth and Light to cover them and Julianne threw an orb at the opening on the ground to make it wider and stop the flowing of the fluid.
She detonated the orb and it made a bigger explosion than it should as it shook the whole mountain above Eristreas.
"Julianne be careful! The poison is also flammable so we need to control the usage of fire!" Luis exclaimed when he noticed the difference.
"That's why! Okay noted!" Julianne nodded.
The ground trembled as the Sky Chasers spread again after taking cover behind Luis's barrier.
The tremble slowly concentrated to Achilleas side.
"Achi! It's heading towards you!" Alyssa reminded.
"Noted!" Achilleas nodded as he prepared himself to dodge.
The trembling intensified as Achilleas quickly dodge away from the place.
"Julianne, now!" Alyssa exclaimed.
"On it!" Julianne rushed as she quickly went to the place where the tongue emerged.
She planted explosive orbs around it as she was quickly pulled by Jericho and a series of explosion rang and the towering tongue wiggled and quickly retracted as Luis stepped out and covered the hole. The place trembled as the fluid which should flow to the hole suddenly take a turn and burst at the opened hole earlier.
"Quick!" Luis exclaimed as Jericho quickly pulled all of them and Luis made multiple layers of barriers to cover them up.
"Jay will be useful when he froze that fluid up!" Alyssa muttered while they were still inside the barrier.
"Then let's try and make one!" Luis exclaimed as he kept reinforced the whole barrier to cover them all inside a large ball.
"I need you Achi to do everything as I say," Luis told the man.
"Yeah, yeah, let's get this finished!" Achilleas replied.
"First, make a steel tube spiraling around the area as large as possible and end it up above the ground in a large funnel," Luis instructed.
"What could it do?" Alyssa asked.
"Trust me with this! Next-" And the barrier suddenly rose as it made all of them tremble within it.
"The tongue pushed us up! I will reinforce the barrier first!" Luis exclaimed as he chanted the Regenerate at the barrier so whenever it was damaged it will regenerate automatically.
"Next, I need Rex to continuously roam a lightning bolt above in circular motion and Jericho should manipulate the closest plants around to fan air towards the center of the coil," Luis instructed.
"What should we do then?" Alyssa asked.
"I will quickly cover all of the holes and before I do, quickly throw fire inside the hole as soon as the toad retracted its tongue!" Luis instructed as he drew what looks like a system in the air using Light energy.
"Any question?" Luis asked.
"How about me?" Kyle asked.
"I will make a system of holes deep down the ground, I want you to circulate the water from Elton River within it. Avoid spilling it to the hole the toad makes so be focused because I will actively close some passages so find a way to circulate it." Then he added another complicated passage on the map.
"As soon as I open the barrier, quickly do the tasks!" Luis firmly stated as he retracted the barrier and all of them fell but the ground was covered with fluid so Luis made an Earth wave to push the fluids away as Achilleas quickly did what Luis instructed. Jericho started to search for flora and started manipulating it.
Alyssa and Julianne are on high alert to quickly react in case the toad attacked. Rex's lightning quickly spun as it made the air of the surroundings colder than it was. Kyle's way of manipulating the water cools down the ground from below. It feels like Luis was making a large size fridge in the area.
"It's time to test this spell!" Luis grinned as he prepared himself to cast the spell whenever the opportunity comes.
The ground trembled as the tongue emerged from the ground and Luis quickly cut it before it hit the funnel made by Achilleas. It retracted and as soon as it did it, the two ladies quickly threw the flames and orbs as quickly as possible and Luis closed it.
"When it explodes we start the plan!" Luis exclaimed.
In a moment, an explosion occurred underground as Luis quickly repaired the water passages that were damaged and Kyle adeptly manipulated the water as if it was flowing naturally. Jericho fanned the whole spiral steel as it slowly formed drips of water and the surrounding area suddenly turned cold and Luis positioned at the other end of the tubing system Achilleas made.
"Astral Winds: Blow of the North!" Luis casted as a surge of cold air flowed through the tube and quickly getting colder and then the explosion made the whole ground opened as it revealed the black toad covered in black fluid and the water from the system all flowed towards the toad and quickly soaked it as the air blew from the funnel and quickly covered the surroundings with frost. The toad was frozen in its place as Achilleas trapped it inside a large steel case and Jericho skillfully squeezed the toad's heart and brain from inside to kill it and Kyle manipulated the water to cover the steel into another layer of ice.
"I will quickly dispatch the Crimson Bubble Blister Guppies at the source of the Elton River. Kyle, I need you for this, come with me!" Luis told them as he walked away while the others managed the toad's corpse.
Alyssa reported the happenings to the Academy and informed them that they will be bringing extremely large evidence.
Luis made a small pond with little opening and Kyle skillfully filled it with water then they poured the bucket of guppies on it. They stayed on the pond to breed and slowly swim out the small opening as time passes by.
They returned to the academy as soon as everything was done and they contacted Jay to meet them at the entrance of the city to maintain the frozen state of the container and the corpse inside.
The people in the city saw the team pulling a big steel container while a person constantly freezes the container from behind.
"What is that?"
"I also don't know but based on their clothes, they are students from Divine Prophecy Academy!"
"Is that a mission given by the academy?"
"Probably? The question is, what is the mission that they ended up bringing that thing?"
"I don't have a clue, what do you think is inside that container?"
"Based on the size? Probably a hill full of herbs?"
"No, I don't think so, why would they need to freeze it constantly if it's just a hill?"
"Then what do you think is inside?"
"A corpse of a gigantic beast?"
"Oh my! Don't tell me they have slain a real dragon?"
"That's our only clue for now."
A few minutes later and a tall gate emerged in front of the team as the gates opened and the deans are waiting for their arrival.
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"Master Icaro!" A man shouted.
"What is it?" The man with a white robe and a witch doctor mask replied.
"There's something wrong with the mutated Green Phase Frog we placed on the Elton River are having some anomalies with its energy signs!" The man reported.
"Let me see!" Icaro went to a room full of floating panels where wavy lines and numbers are constantly changing and pulsing.
"What's happening? Why is this happening?" Icaro asked .
"It seems like someone woke the beast up and they are fighting with it!" A man reported.
"Can you see who was fighting with the beast?" Icaro asked.
"No, master! We can only monitor if it's being injured or if secretes the contaminated fluid." The man replied.
The people inside the room are getting anxious because the life signs of the beast slowly deteriorated as time passes by.
"Master! The quality of the fluids changed!" The man exclaimed.
"Why? How?" Icaro asked.
"We can detect corrosive and flammable quality on it." The man replied.
"It entered the second phase! Forget about it! They are probably close to slaying that thing. Help me prepare the other beast!" Icaro exclaimed.
"Yes, master!" All of them replied as they quickly changed the panels into a new batch with stable statistics.
"You will salvage me from this situation!" Icaro exclaimed while looking at the beast inside a large ice as big as a mountain.