Watching the combat out of reach of the magic beast was quite interesting, the clash between beast and warrior looked more like a fight between two magic beasts Ana's earth armor makes her look like a high level and high-quality golem, and the fact that she is not using her sword or shield to fight the magical beast helps this different image.
Warriors or female warriors should not fight unarmed against magical beasts, hitting a magical beast with their first is the work of a non-warrior monk. I found it weird that Ana was fighting the magic beast unarmed, but when I study the magic beast, I understand why she chose to fight this time.
The magic beast is very different from what I remembered; its transformation is really an amazing skill. Apart from the fact that her body remains at the 'normal' humanoid size the rest of her body has changed in a very violent way.
She is slightly taller than Ana but as she is hunched forward, she ends up looking smaller than Ana, her body was covered in earth armor similar to Ana's more of a much lower quality. After her armor started to break when she dealt blows with Ana, the creature's skin was revealed and it didn't look like a human or lizard skin.
Its skin is a type of checkered leather, very reminiscent of the shape of blade armor, only more compact and actually different from what normally the leather of a magical beast looks like. But that skin of his must look like my term between human skin and a magical beast skin because that should make it easier for her to imitate human skin or try to transform into an even more animalistic form.
The more different something is, the more energy the magic beast's transformation would have to expend, the magic beast's claws are made to pierce and not cut its victims. She is trying to penetrate Ana's armor to inject her petrification ability into Ana's body.
But when the magic beast realized that it couldn't break Ana's defense the magic beast started to kick and use the earth tentacles that were released both from its shore and from the ground around it to attack Ana, the magic beast seemed to want to crush or crush it. suffocate Ana, but she wasn't able to do that.
Even without a weapon Ana's wind element was able to cut through the magic beast's thin tentacles, I recognized the elemental art Ana used to cut through the tentacles that tried to bind her body. Invisible Blade This is one of the arts that I spent a lot of time training because it is extremely useful in a moment of desperation, the ability to create a well-made wind blade when disarmed is very useful.
But the art that Ana is using is on a completely different level, I see all the fundamentals that the Invisible Blade art taught me during training plus Ana's hands are not simply holding a wind blade like when I use it. this art when I am unarmed.
The wind blades are wrapped around Ana's fists, easily cutting through the magical beast's earth tentacles. They are more like extremely sharp green silk threads that cut through everything that passes through them, this is a completely different level from mine, the elemental energy of the wind element that creates these threads not only and they shudder you concentrated in a small form it has some very complex flows of energies that work in harmony to create these blades.
The cost of using this art doesn't seem to be too great, creating the blade should drain a considerable amount of energy, but keeping it active doesn't. When the blade cuts one of the tentacles I see that its energy is drained but the amount is very small.
In a fight like this Ana's defense can heat up any direct hit from the magic beast, but if she were tied by the tentacles she could be in a bad position and the wind blade she uses only on the magic beast's tentacles prevents that from happening.
The magic beast doesn't seem to be able to gain an advantage in a direct fight against Ana, but Ana will not be able to win this fight alone she has less energy and stamina than the magic beast that is replenishing its reserves at a much slower speed than she is. spending more during an attrition fight like this is an amount more than enough to guarantee the magic beast's victory.
But this is not a duel between the earth beast and the earth golem that is beating it with its earth fists, to a mage who has finished his preparations to interfere in the fight without the chance to disturb his fellow golem.
Without my eyes I wouldn't have been able to see the curse Luka cast on the magic beast, I was surprised because I kept my eyes focused on him and the magic beast to see how this doll works. The curse energy appeared inside the magic beast without me noticing how it traveled there, it was as if in my fight a purple energy appeared inside the magic beast affecting it.
Luka's curse was hurting her from the inside out and yes affecting the magic beast's elemental anergy, both the mana and the magic beast's elemental anergy was slowing down because of Luka's curse. It didn't take long after that to see Ana beating up the magic beast with even more violence, before the magic beast would still attack Ana's black earth armor with its piercing claws several times, but now she is spending a lot more time on the ground causing her for her to release more whips to hinder Ana.
This caused the beast to expend its energy at an even greater speed than before even considering that its energy is moving at an even slower speed. But that was just the first of the curses that Luka would use on the magical beast, it didn't take long for the second curse to start to take effect, but this time I could see her going to the magical beast because this curse was stronger than the previous one doing with which she needs much more energy to function on the magical beast.
Luka's magic is created in his staff plus and transferred to the puppet which releases it into the air like a dust which makes the curse's mana and energy much harder to 'see' when not focused looking for it. The energy takes a while to travel through the air, but when it reaches its target, the curse rejoins within the target's body.
This is really interesting, but I also noticed that the time he spends to sweat a curse this way is much longer than it normally would be, I think this is the first weak point of this method the second and that his magic must be in a vulnerable state when traveling by air.
Perhaps a barrier or other magic can interfere with it, causing its magic to never be able to hit its target. Indeed, there are several weaknesses in this way of using the curse element, if this puppet were to become popular it would be easy for organizations to mount defenses to weaken or completely prevent mages who use this form of magic.
I wonder what is the limit of distance that the mage can be from his target for his curse to hit the target, if it is too big it would be a great way to kill someone from a distance or sabotage a base targeting those who are responsible for the protection of a base.
The second curse seems to have the effect of weakening the magical beast's life force, this is an interesting curse because from what I'm able to see it is being burned by the magical beast's life element energy. It's like trying to put out a big fire with a glass of water, but it still helps a lot during battle causing the magical beast to lose its stamina and vitality even faster.
The combat has remained that way for about half an hour before there is the first change to the magic beast, I think she has noticed that she is facing more enemies than Ana who is punching her in the face. The beast tried to run away but Ana didn't allow it, she got to the point where she used the beast's tentacles to pull it back into melee combat.
This was a pretty cool scene, the beast tried to distract Ana with several swipes with its tentacles while trying to run away from her, but she didn't expect to be pulled by Ana.
At the end of the fight the magic beast was under the effect of six different curses, it seems that this puppet allowed Luka to use more than one curse without draining his mind or energy quickly because he was holding several different curses.
The combat at the end was completely one-sided, Ana who had already spent more than half of her energy and stamina was crushing the magical beast to the ground while punching it non-stop. The magical beast wasn't even capable of fighting back, if it weren't for her very abnormal vitality, she should have passed out by now much of her skin was completely broken by the numerous blows from Ana's heavy fists.
The beast's bones cannot regenerate fast enough for it to retaliate against Ana. This is a very unpleasant fate to face.
The magical beast is completely subdued by Ana just before their fight lasts a full hour. With the magic beast defeated Dean went to it while taking out several chains and stakes that were used on the magic beast to both immobilize the beast and keep it alive and not be able to drain the vitality of anyone who approached it.
It would be very unpleasant if the magic beast drained the horse that will carry it to the base, this part of the mission ended without a big problem, but that was already expected the team's combat power and much greater than it would be necessary to take care of. of this magical beast.
Now comes the dangerous part of the quest, finding a secret base that this magical beast was made from must be a pretty tricky place to tackle. Especially if the secret society members are inside the base.