"Who?" Grylls asked in disbelief as he saw another source of his cast wraps reinforced his already breaking one.
"Hey Grylls! Good to see you are alive." Replied a flying Manbat.
"Silver? Is that you?" Hearing the familiar voice, Grylls guessed the newcommer who has its wings spread over and its upper body covered by hairs.
Having fought a were-tiger Slade earlier and now a hydra transforming woman, he is no longer a greenhorn when it comes to non-human features.
"Well it is good to see you here, but why does it look like you have similar ability as mine?" Grylls asked further as he too focused on trapping Tiamat.
"We can talk about it later, for now what is this thing we are fighting?" Silver dismissed Grylls question and asked one in return.
"She call herself Tiamat, the Dragon Empress. Lara and I think that she is an enhancer with a mythical beast transformation ability. From what we gathered so far it is a Hydra, to kill it we might need to kill all the heads at the same time. Also, the more pillars she destroys the stronger she gets. She started with 1 head and is now going with two heads and a third lump is growing for its third head." Grylls explained while Tiamat is thrashing around to destroy the binding.
"Mythical beast ability?" Silver asked as his eyes shined with expectations.
"Gyaaaaah!" Tiamat focused her aura to strengthen her necks and flexed them.
*booom* The reinforced cast exploded as she finally able to escape from the bindings.
"Another ant to add stain under my tails." Tiamat roared as she spread fire with her breath.
Silver sweeped in Grylls direction as he picked up the latter with his feet using his spider setules on them.
"How are you doing this?" Grylls asked as he looked at the feet sticking on each of his shoulder as they dodged the fire.
"Fight for now and ask questions later." Advised Silver as he let go of Grylls and flew swiftly to Tiamat's direction. 'Kill all the heads at the same time? Let's see if I can sever one.'
Using his air superiority, Silver maneuvered himself to avoid the fire breaths and bites coming from Tiamat.
When he is close enough, Silver used Shu on his wings to strengthen them and then used mini fire explosion on his feet to further increase his speed.
"Wing Blade!" Shouted Silver as he passed through one of the Hydra's neck. Blood spluttered as a large cut appeared on the Hydra's neck but not enough to severe it. "Not enough!" Silver circled back as he again tried to attemp another Wing Blade.
Seeing the flying newcommer circle back for a second attempt on decapitation, Tiamat rushed to a nearby Pillar.
"I'm not letting you destroy a pillar. Wing Blade!!!" Silver roared.
Tiamat faced the coming Silver and readied. Once Silver was close enough, she breath in a large volume of air and roared at the top of her two lungs.
*Roooooaaaaaar*
Silver with his enhanced hearing was shaken and couldn't help but changes his direction midflight.
The sudden change in direction redirected Silver's flight to the pillar just behind Tiamat.
*shiiing* The pillar was cut in half as the top half slowly slid and fall to the ground.
'Just as I thought. Although these pillars absorbs Nen, they do not absorb Nen still attached or controlled by people except mine.' Tiamat contemplated as the lump in the neck finally formed into a third head. "Thank you for the help. If you'd be so kind and cut all the remaining Pillars as well, that would be very helpful."
"???" Grylls grinded his teeth.
"Oooops, my bad." Silver could only apologize as he bowed in Grylls direction after he recovered from the sudden roar.
"What are you even here for? You should have just kept hiding." Grylls spat in disappointment.
"Nevermind that, I just noticed something that we need to verify. We should destroy more pillars!" Silver urged.
"Huuuhh???" Grylls/Tiamat
"Hahahahahahaha. That's it little one, you have finally accepted your fate as a loyal subject of this empress." Tiamat laughed.
"Are you out of your mind? Didn't you just see a third head grow on her after you destroyed a pillar? Do you want to die or something?" Grylls reprimanded Silver's bizarre opinion.
"I have to be sure." Silver flew away and arrived next to a pillar. He then put his hands on it and closed his eyes.
"Oi oi oi. You are not beeing serious are you, brat?" Shouted Grylls as he now faced with a three headed Hydra. 'Now what the hell am I supposed to do?'
"That's it, come to my side and you can work under me as my right hand." Tiamat tempted.
Silver on the other hand focused his senses to the pillar and felt it familiar. It took him 20 seconds to finally know what is it about while Grylls and Tiamat stay still to know what the child decides to do.
'Shit kid, don't make me kill you. My instinct tells me this Hydra is bad news.' Thought Grylls.
'Go on, come to my side. With you destroying these pillars will be swift.' Silently hoped Tiamat.
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Lara jumped off from Aquila and landed near Bradford. "What is it you wanted to show me?"
"It is here, look at the engravings in this shrine." Bradford pointed to the shrine in the middle of the summit. "It wasn't here when we first got here. I'm sure because I looked into it for any traps the first time we got here."
Lara looked at the hieroglyphics all over the shrine and started reading them.
She read and re-read the parts about the pillars just to be sure she got the correct interpretation.
After some time she finally finished reading all of them. "No wonder she is hell bent on destroying these pillars."
"These pillars-" Lara continued.
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"These pillars-" Silver broke the silence.