Zero ran through, spitting out Holy fire at every chance he got on the Behemoth's back. The Behemoth swerved, turning its body as Zero slammed into the cliff wall. He was suddenly thrown off, with the others on his back latched onto him tightly, sticking their body as close as possible to not get thrown off. He twisted and turned in midair like a cat and landed safely on the ground with a loud thud. He was stalling for time, waiting for the magic circle that the magicians were chanting, and he needed every second he could get.
Jorge, who wasn't so lucky, was suddenly thrown off when Zero landed like a cat. He moved at the last second in a mad scramble to keep from getting squashed from above by the Behemoth's looming foot.
"Look out!" Agnis yelled, she gazed up and saw that the Behemoth was stumbling around as if he was drunk.
The Behemoth was covered in flames from head to toe. Even still, he didn't seem to be as affected by the flames as Zero thought. Instead, he was now a walking ball of fire that made fighting against him that much more difficult.
Another terrifying roar echoed out of the Behemoth's mouth, but thankfully, the number of status ailments wasn't as bad as before. Regardless of their strength, their location made such an attack much worse on their overall force. The cave amplified the sound, while when they were outside, it dispersed. The majority of the people were hit with fear and stunning effect, and even Zero was washed with its power.
With each pounding of its feet, it thrashed in anger. The ground cracked open, making a large number of elven soldiers fall in. Zero scrambled to get a better footing as the ground broke under him. He started to slip into the crevice.
"Zero!" Zeraph, firing arrows, had to shift his weight and grab onto Zero's spine. "Jump to the other side!"
Zero saw what Zeraph was telling him to do; pushing off from the falling rock, he sprung forward and latched on the wall. With great difficulties, he pulled himself up as best as he could. With all the extra weight from those on his back, Zero could feel unbalanced. He gritted his teeth as he dug deeper to stop himself from slipping and falling.
"Gah!" Agnis squeaked in alarm, holding on tightly. "Don't drop us!"
"I'm trying!" Zero grunted back. "Why don't you pull me up then?!"
"Are you kidding me?" Agnis asked, baffled. "With what ability?"
Zero claws dug forward, pulling himself back up. It took a lot more out of him than he thought, but anything was better than hanging from the side anymore. "Then stop complaining." Agnis clicked her teeth.
Zero had to hop and jump around, not to get pulled back down into the open cracks. It wasn't easy, especially because Behemoth kept repeatedly smashing its feet into the ground, creating more.
Half of the elven army and a third of the players were dead. The Behemoth was quickly eradicating everyone without giving anyone a chance to stop it. Then, a blast of powerful earth magic ripped the ground apart further as large tree roots sprouted out from the ground and raced toward the remaining people.
Agnes and Zeraph were hacking back at the roots as they tried to snap around them and Zero. Undoubtedly, anyone dragged down into that pitch, black darkness that lay just below the roots faced a fate worse than death. Even worse, most of that earth magic was explicitly aimed at Zero, Sekka, and Valiant in the hopes of putting them down.
"Valiant!" Sekka called out, with Leafs holding on tightly against her neck. "Send in your army and direct its attention away!" She quickly jumped down off a protruding rock that was shaking underneath her feet.
"Save us first, before ordering him around!" Leaf yelled at her, holding on tight so he wouldn't slip off.
"I'm working on it!" Sekka jumped, wedging herself into the ground with her claws as she pulled herself up. Then, she scrambled onto her feet and bolted toward the Behemoth to battle against it again.
Sekka did a fabulous job blinding and hurting the Behemoth with her light magic. Her golden eyes glowed a brilliant gold, and her scales glistened as light energy swarmed around her in full power. She stood proudly in place, facing directly at the Behemoth's body.
Leaf quickly got up, his hand waving back and forth as he chanted an elven language. Light magic swirled around him, making him glisten like a star. With a wave of his hand, orbs of light erupted from behind Sekka and Leaf. Sekka roared, sending out a blast of energy as the orbs shot off many beams at Behemoth's body. It was as if wings of light were sprouting out from their backs from the orbs, while the rays of light were like feathers being shot at the Behemoth. As the beams hit, explosions fell upon impact, causing the ground to tremble from their magic.
The Behemoth stumbled, catching itself. It roared angrily, twisting its tail around like a whip. Its hammer-like tail thrashed toward Sekka as she jumped out of harm's way. She then landed on the Behemoth's tail before scaling up on it like an agile cat.
Valiant took the initiative to send in rows upon rows of his skeletal army. The Behemoth thrashed around the field, breaking the army into a fine dust. However, even though their attacks weren't strong enough to cause any real damage, they could draw its attention and annoy the Behemoth with their attacks. Every time Valiant was about to get squashed by the Behemoth's feet, he was quickly swarmed by the skeletal army that came in waves to protect him. They would cover his entire body with bone-like armor, creating a cage against the Behemoth's attack.
"Damn, monster!" Valiant spat annoyed that he was almost squashed alive. The Behemoth couldn't completely break apart the thickly reinforced cage that his skeletal army created. Every time one broke, another took its place just as quickly, giving him the safety he needed to escape from under the Behemoth's legs.
Even then, Valiant attacked when he got the chance. His eyes glowed a menacing green glow, making him look more diabolical than before. Reed was standing up on his back as dark magic swirled around her. She was chanting magic rapidly as dark energy poured out of her body, fueling Valiant's own.
Valiant started to glow pitch black as a full adult-sized pair of wings erupted in a brilliant show of black energy. The effects were real enough, even if made purely of that evil-looking energy, and would disappear soon after. He was like a grim reaper who descended on the battlefield, coming to take the lives of many. With a flap of his auric wings, hundreds of magical sigils appeared under and around Behemoth's body.
Each magical sigil sent an assortment of dark arrows toward the Behemoth's body, skewering him on all sides. Sekka and Valiant's attack was one of their best and most powerful attacks, so much so that it took a good chunk out of Behemoth's life.
The Behemoth stumbled onto its knees, blood seeping from its sides, mouth, nose, and even ears. Its eyes darted from Sekka to Valiant, glaring down at them hatefully for harming him. Even with all the magical power that both shot, the Behemoth was still kneeling.
Valiant and Sekka were winded from using such a large amount of their magical energy in one attack, but that didn't mean they would give up the fight. They still had teeth and claws to attack, and that was what they did.
Zero saw the elven army being trampled on by the Behemoth's feet. He rushed forward before ruthlessly slamming into the Behemoth's feet to redirect the stomp away from the elven soldiers. The Behemoth stumbled, as it yelled angrily before correcting its fall. And, when Zero got close to the Behemoth's leg a second time, Zeraph hopped off him with a mad sort of glee and went on his little rampage.
Zeraph scaled nimbly up the Behemoth's leg, using his enchanted daggers to pierce through every step of the way. As he continued to scale up, he left a mess of blood. Then, as he reached the top, he drew out his sword before enchanting it with magic.