When we felt reassured by the fact that the last elite lizard was about to die by Carmilla's blades, we didn't know that the biggest threat was not being contained by Ana but by a very weak prison of the earth element.
Unbeknownst to me, the fake mage we captured had not only woken up but she woke up at the perfect moment to catch us unnoticed, after the level two lizards' suicidal blow that did not major or serious injuries to the team but unfortunately, they were troublesome injuries.
The earth element of these lizards has the problematic traits of petrification which is one of the most problematic traits to face, especially in the form of explosions caused by suicidal lizards their burnt scales are great projects to cause the petrification effect, even better than their bones.
When the team focused on protecting themselves from the suicidal lizards when no one noticed that the magical beast that disguised itself as a mage had been released from its prison, not one of us thought that this magical beast would be the biggest problem in this fight.
Obviously, she was a special magical beast but her combat power wasn't her strongest trait or even her role she was a unit where her power was focused on disguise and when that is broken this type of enemy just turn trash normally but we were wrong this time always to an anomaly in nature.
Behind us a figure still covered by a dirty cloak got up without making almost any noise, the earth 'melted' around him but that silence didn't last long. A few seconds after this figure rose, I felt the fluctuation of mana and elemental energy, it was a combination of earth and life element, but this element was chaotic and aggressive.
This was the first time I felt and soon I will witness the ferocity that the life element can have, after realizing this I understood why so many taboos imposed by the gods on the life element. The properties like consuming, stealing and devouring the life element are frightening because the more you use them the more insane, they get absorbing and assimilating the vital energy of other life forms and a very risky and complicated move to control.
By the time I realized something was wrong behind us it was too late to warn the others, I barely managed to turn around to see several whips of dirt coming towards our team. All these attacks are coming from the same source, the magic beast's body is still covered in a tattered robe that has been damaged by the whips coming out of its body.
The skin that looked human now has a very different appearance, her hand is now a yellowish claw and her arm appears to have its skin faded or petrified, it was like a shell being cracked. These changes really show that this is a magical beast, but it still wasn't scales like the other lizards.
The whips came at an extremely fast speed and as they approached, spikes formed on them, I fired my arrow causing everyone to realize that something was wrong, but that wasn't enough to prevent them from being hit by the magical beast.
My arrow was blocked by one of the whips, opening a hole in the wave of attacks from the monster that was coming towards me, decreasing the power of the attack aimed at me and the team's mages, but unfortunately it didn't change anything for the other team members in the zone. magic beast attack.
Everyone tried to protect themselves from the magic beast's earth whips, but in addition to using my lightning element to protect myself when I retreated back, I threw the lightning element bomb directly at the magic beast. It passed through the gaps between the whips that had been opened by my previous explosive arrow and only detonated as the magical beast tried to protect itself from the unexpected attack.
While the magical beast was hit by the blast of lightning its earth whips had already hit some team members or come very close to those who tried to dodge.
The whips didn't disappear but exploded when their connection was cut as the lightning bomb exploded, the whip in front of me turned into a large project in the shape of a spear and several small spikes that came like penetrating rain towards me.
I had already prepared a large amount of lightning element energy to form a defensive shield in front of me blocking the surprise attack of the explosive whips, even though I successfully defended I was still knocked back by the force of the attack.
When I got up, I noticed that we weren't being attacked, as I sweated my eyes to look for the magic beast, I noticed that it runs away instead of attacking us, the direction it is going it will pass by the side of the flames and go in the towards the center of the forest.
Now that I've had time to see her earth element is changed, it seems that her disguising process takes a lot of her life element. Now her body is filled with the element of life, earth and lots of mana, she is not a special level two magic beast but a level three magic beast the amount of mana she has is slightly higher than the leader lizard she is facing Anna now.
We were lucky that she didn't decide to attack further but to escape, one more wave of her blow half the group could die, and I doubt Carmilla would be able to fight this magical beast head on.
I stood up and looked at the rest of the group and noticed that pulling me and Quinn out the rest of the team in the hit zone of the earth whips explosion. My attention turns to Fim who is lying on the ground, his shield has been pierced and the earth project that hit him has pierced through his shield penetrating Fim's body.
The earth and life element energy in that attack is attacking Fim's body like a wild beast, petrification is attacking Fim's body, but the biggest problem is the life element that is with him. The life element of that magical beast is absorbing End's vitality and using it to strengthen the petrification process, the earth element is getting stronger with each passing second.
I run towards him to remove the blueprint that is the source of this elemental energy, I wrap my hand with my elemental lightning energy to remove the blueprint that pierced Fim's arm and chest. This elemental energy is really wild, even with the lightning protection the elemental energy in the dark earth stake tried to enter my body to absorb my life energy.
After removing the blueprint, the petrification that is killing Fim has slowed down but hasn't disappeared or gotten weaker, it's still killing Fim, but since there's not much I can do I use my lightning element energy concentrated and in the strongest form to destroy the elemental energy in the End wound.
I doubt if my treatment can cure it but it can slow down the petrification, but I managed to destroy a part of the elemental energy that is kept End but I can't continue to do that because if I try to destroy the elemental energy that penetrated deeper into his body, I'll end up doing more damage than help.
At that moment he will lose a good part of the flesh of his chest and arm, even more treatable by healers, but if I try to destroy even more, I will affect the mobility of his arm and injure his heart and a lung. There's nothing more I can do for him, I turn to the rest of my team, Nolan and Tania also got hit by the magical beast.
Upon arriving at Nolan, I noticed that he was quite lucky compared to Fim, he wasn't hit by even a big project like Fim, but he did have several small punctures through his body. The earth spikes have pierced the armor and the likely aura he used to protect his body to several places on his body that have been pierced by the spikes and at each point Nolan's skin is being petrified.
Speed and damage are much lower than End, but the health element is absorbing Nolan's vitality to accelerate petrification. The elemental energy of that beast is indeed something disturbing and deadly, even an extremely small thorn can be a death sentence for someone left untreated.
With the help of my eyes, I pierce all the points the spikes are stuck in Nolan's body, my lightning element concentrating and more than strong enough to destroy the fine spikes as well as the petrifying earth element energy. I didn't miss even one of the petrification points, each hit a black point was left behind on Nolan's body and armor, he groaned in pain every time I pierced his body.
After piercing Nolan's body eleven times, I looked around to see that Abel and Carmilla were doing emergency treatment on Tania who had her arm pierced by a large earth thorn. It was smaller than the thorn that pierced Fim, but it still means her arm was severely affected by the petrification.