"Five hours. It took us five hours to finally take this thing down." Mrazivý said in between gasping for air.
She was sending a glare Marcus' way and letting him know about her irritation. After they had rescued the caravan members it had eaten, they could have left it alone. While the possibility it would come back was not zero, most likely it would have stayed away to recover in the depths of the forest. Their attacks had left it wounded and on the run after all.
"Sorry, Mraz. I didn't think it would take this much effort to kill it after how much damage you, Roxene, Blitz, and Aurelia did to it."
The Cauldron Bloom had proven to be a slipperier foe than expected.
Its attacks were not particularly potent other than its ability to warp creatures directly into its stomach, but its spatial barrier and its ability to teleport away whenever it was about to be damaged made it a nightmare to fight.
