the other four who went to the 4 smaller mines were finally done clearing the mines of the snakes. they were not harmed but they didn't had good expressions either.
after gray, ethan, eli and sarah were done with their respective mines they quickly went to the main mine which sky and faes were dealing with. they all had good understanding of both sky and faes strength but they also knew their attitudes and behavior, if they didn't hurry then the two of them would begin fighting the legendary snake themselves.
just as the four entered the mine they heard a loud hissing that made them pause in fear. the pressure from this sound was enough to still them in fear, the sound came from the depth of the mine and the four exchanged glances all thinking the same thing.
'their princesses are fighting the legendary snake!'
this thought was enough to bring them out of their terror of the snake as even a bigger fear engulfed them. if they don't get to their princesses now then it will be a disaster.
while the four hurried towards the sound they didn't encounter even a single snake, not even their corpse was visible in the mines or any other indication that a fight had taken place there.
faes and sky had made sure not to leave any ice, fire or any corpse in the mine as they progressed further, as ice can rust the ores after melting and fire can spread along the corpses damaging the ores.
while the four made their way faes and sky continued their fight with the snake. it had only been more than half an hour while they were fighting but neither of the three were serious.
"its time to end this" faes said as she sensed others coming closer to their fighting place. similarly to faes the snake also sensed the newcomers.
the two tiny girls in front of ti were already powerful enough for it to use both earth magic and telekinesis, if others joined them then it was finished. the snake began to turn serious at the thought of the newcomers being similarly strong. it have to end this fight before they joined!
"hssss!" the snake decreased its size further becoming ten meters long from twenty meters long. with the decrease in size its defence and magic capacity increased severalfolds. the scales on its skin had overlapped each other creating even stronger outer skin while with smaller body the snake's speed soared as did its magic.
"baby stay careful others are coming!" faes said as she began using void steps to fight the snake not giving it any chance to concentrate on its magic ability to attack.
"I'm fine just make sure you don't destroy its scales completely! they can be used to strengthen our weapons in the future!"
hearing the reply faes chuckled. she actually had thought something similar to what sky had said.
"and you make sure not to burn it! its already a lot smelly here" faes replied as she increased her ice and fire magic on her sword.
as she thrust the sword towards the snake it used its tail to block it, while the sword lights and ice fire bombs sky was throwing on it were blocked by its increased telekinesis and earth magic making them once again enter a stalemate.
"you really are little troublesome!" faes frowned. if they continued to fight like this with neither side getting an upper hand then it will not end good for them. after all in the end sky was still an infant and she was just a human while the snake was a legendary beast. in terms of stamina and mana the snake was superior than them.
"sister watch out!" sky suddenly shouted but she was little late, the snake had blocked another one of faes attacks using its sword while she was distracted it used a nearby stone which was half a size of basketball to attack faes.
not having time to defend faes was stuck with the stone and was sent flying into the mine wall before falling on the ground. the stone managed to hit her head while the collision with the wall had cause a rib to break.
sky who saw the blood flowing out of faes head was alert as she lost her concentration and her focus shifted more on faes.
"sister faes!" sky ran towards her but faes saw several other objects floating in air advancing towards sky while she was distracted.
"watch out!" faes shouted as she hurriedly used space magic and appeared near sky covering her tiny body with her own just as the other things were about to collide with sky.
in the end with the centre faes was stuck with several more stones and few weapons. few more of her ribs and bones broke while the weapons managed to cut her arm and back.
"sister faes!" seeing that faes was injured severely sky panicked tears forming in her eyes as she held faes.
gray and others also appeared only to see one of their princess injured several weapons sticking from her body and blood flowing from various wounds while other had tears in her eyes hold each other.
"quick cover them and help princess faes heal using the potions and pills!" eli commanded as they noticed the snake about to attack again.
gray and ethan began to attack the snake while eli stood guard near the princesses and sarah began to heal faes using her ice magic and also pulled the weapons out of her body.
after few minutes gray and ethan began to get hurt which elijah noticed and joined them in supressing the snake.
faes had her eyes closed all the while as sarah and sky pulled various weapons out and sky and sarah healed her. sarah had created an ice barrier around them just to be sure while sky had too created her own barrier.
"your highness! can you hear me? please respond, open your eyes" sarah was panicking while watching a half kneeling faes. faes was currently on her knees her eyes closed. she had managed to create a qi shield right before the objects stuck and hence they didn't manage to enter her body and hurt her deeply. the cuts were already healed due to sarah's ice magic and sky feeding her few healing pills and potions.
even after being completely healed faes had her eyes closed remaining motionless still holding sky tightly in her half kneeling position. she was awake the whole time but her anger had risen. it was fine if she was hurt or even sky was hurt but that attack could have killed sky instantly! 'that puny snake dared to kill her baby?' faes was fuming inside as the scene of sky being attacked by various objects replayed in her mind.