"Lara, look out!" A shout came out of nowhere and alerted Lara of her suroundings.
"What?" Lara look in shock an commanded Aquila to dodge a tail sweeping in on her. Aquila tried to maneuver itself awayfrom the tail, but there was not enough time to fully escape.
*bam* The tail hit them as Lara and Aquila was launched and separated. A shadow jumped in and caught Lara from falling hard on the floor.
She coughed up a little blood as the her and the man who caught her landed.
"Are you ok?" Grylls worriedly asked.
"Yeah, thanks for the warning. We would have suffered more if not for that." Lara then looked at Aquila who landed not far away.
Due to being a Nen Beast, it didn't suffer any bone damage but its body became less corporeal. "You okay there, Aquila?"
*creeeee* Aquila answered as if saying nothing to worry about.
"How the heck did she survived that?" Lara looked in disbelief at Tiamat who is currently still destroying the pillars.
When she looked closer, she was greeted by a Hydra with two long necks. One with a head and another being dragged as if a dead snake. "When did she got another Head?" Asked Lara in a confused manner.
"Her? I saw it happened. The second head popped out when the Pillar was destroyed." Explained Grylls.
"It did? And yes, her. She said she was the dragon empress that ruled this land more than 4000 years ago. I believe she is an enhancer and what it looks like to be a mythical beast enhancement ability no less." Lara introduced the enemy.
"What is it with the pillars and why is she breaking them with abandon." Lara thought about it and realized something else.
"She is about a meter larger than before!?" Surprise can be seen in her face as he looked around the hundreds of pillars that worked as a maze in the earlier challenge.
"Grylls! We need to stop her! She is getting stronger the more pillars she breaks! And I don't want to think what happens when she destroys every pillar in here! Aquila!!!"
*creeee* Aquilla answered the call as the duo took off again.
"Getting stronger?" Grylls asked in confusion before reality kicks in as he watched the pillars all around. "How much stronger can she get!?" Grylls eyes widened that if it widens another centimeter, it is sure to fall off.
He too then took off after Tiamat. "Oh my God, this is a Hunter level association shit!"
*bang* *bang* *bang* *bang*
Lara started shooting at Tiamat, and as usual She just shrugged it off. This time, lara noticed that the damages her gun is inflicting are getting narrower and narrower. "This can't go on. Grylls! stop her from destroying those walls!"
At this point Tiamat already destroyed 25 Pillars. "I'm trying!!!" Replied Grylls as he conjured cast to wrap around the gigantic tail of the hydra. He then forced it to harden to restrict her movement. "You know, cast wraps tends to ha-"
"Be broken!" Finished Tiamat as she flexed her tail and broke the cast in place. "Weak. If you want to stop me, you should conjure diamonds!" She roared as she broke the 26th pillar with another sweep of her tail.
*booom*
As the Pillar broke, her dangling neck started to rise as a new set of draconic head came out from it.
"What are you doing?" Shouted Lara in disappointment to Grylls.
"My best!" Replied Grylls.
"Well it is not good enough, think better!"
'I'll show you!' Grumbled Grylls. He didn't dare to shout it out though.
"You're struggle is pointless. You should accept your fate!" *haaaaaa*. Tiamat using both of her now two draconic head, breath fire in two different directions. One is aiming at Lara and Aquila in the air and the other to Grylls running around behind the pillars for protection.
Seeing Grylls hiding behind the Nen absorbing pillar, she focused her other head against the eagle flying around.
Having two heads spewing fire on them, Aquila could only escape far out of range.
When the two pest is no longer bothering her, Tiamat slithered to the next pillar.
*boom* *boom*
After two strikes, the 27th pillar was destroyed. Without care, she slithered to the next pillar. Another lump grow on her body.
Aquila flew back and pickup Bear Grylls. "Anything in mind to stop that thing?" Lara questioned Grylls while pointing to the Hydra.
"I don't have anything about that, but there is a myth about Hydra, they are water mythical creatures with 9 heads. To kill them is to cut all heads at the same time." Thought Grylls from all his knowledge.
"However the one in front of us is a fire breathing two headed snake, and we can see a third lump growing which we can only guess to be another head. Earlier when you were about to severe its only head it was frantically destroying as much pillar as it can." He paused while looking at the 'Hydra' then all the hundreds of pillars around them.
"With that we can tell it can be killed and if it were able to destroy all these pillars, it will finallly be a complete 9 headed hydra. It will then be near impossible to kill it." Grylls continued.
"Then we need to hurry and find a way to stop her." Lara says as she commanded Aquila to follow the Hydra. "Can you use your cast to protect the pillars she is attacking?"
"I can try, but I don't think it can delay her for long. You've seen what she has done earlier." Answered Grylls.
"I know, but we have to do something." She then proceeded to charge her gun.
"Fine, I'll do what I can. Better think fast then." With that Grylls used his wrap to swing his way around the pillars.
*boom* *boom* *boom*
At this time already 35 pillars were destroyed and Tiamat is a meter larger again. However the third lump in the neck did not show any signs of growing.
Lara, riding her eagle Nen beast Aquila, faced the mythical beast's back who is currently smashing its 40th pillar. She raised her double dessert eagle and cocked them. "The old saying goes, 'if you can't kill it with one bullet, you can do it with 20'."