Each of the snake was a peak rank 2 beast, even if Galitos and Xaratus were only high rank they had experience and would be able to put them in a difficult position and wouldn't die easily. With this plan there was only 7 snakes left to deal with.
However apart from Zach and Taron, none of them had a real combat experience, it made Bea worry about if they were able to deal with them without losing someone. Everyone was nervous but not for the same reason.
Fight started here and there, Bea was giving the snake a hard time, it was the same for Kimstros' snake and the mysterious girl's one. Xaratus and Galitos put each of their snake in a tough position, from the outside it was obvious that the snakes would eventually die but it would take a bit of time.
Zach and Taron started to fight their snake, Zach jumped scythe in hand and sliced towards its neck, the snake dodged, bared its fang and jumped on Zach. However Taron didn't let this happen and punched the snake's body which prevented it from touching Zach.
Zach dashed towards the snake again and tried to slice it another time, however when his scythe's blade touched the snake's scales it did nothing, yet another time his scythe wasn't good enough to be effective.
He put it back in his shadow and decided to fight it bare handed like Taron was doing. Taron had followed Zach and punched the snake just after he tried to slice it, the snake let out a small hiss and recoiled a bit.
Taron didn't deal a lot of damage to the snake but it obviously had an effect which displeased the snake. Zach gathered his void energy in his fist and jumped, the snake bared his fangs another time, this time Zach hit one of the snake's fang.
It greatly vibrated for a second and crumbled, this surprised Taron and Zach himself. 'So this is what I can do since I improved my physical cultivation and void affinity, interesting.' The snake jumped back in fear and hissed loudly.
"Taron, time to go all out on it !" Zach exclaimed and both of them runned towards the snake once again. Each of them punched it again and again, the snake couldn't do anything, Taron punchs were quite annoying but the worst to it was Zach's punch, each of them did a lot of internal damage.
The snake coughed up large mouthful of blood, eventually it couldn't take it anymore and ran away. Zach and Taron wanted to follow it but it dove in the water, so they didn't want to take such a big risk. They looked around the battlefield to see how it was going.
As expected Bea totally destroyed the snake she was against and now she was fighting another one. The fight of the mysterious girl and Kimstros one were nearing their end, they could see that the snakes were about to die. As for Xaratus and Galitos, they were slowly killing their snake and it wouldn't take too much time.
For every other group it was a disaster, every snake was in a good shape, the most they have done was to hold them back from attacking others. As expected of geniuses they were powerful but they lacked experience and coordination to take them down.
There was still 10 snakes alive and the group of 2 became groups of 3, it improved the pressure they put on each snake but it still wasn't enough to bring them down.
Out of the blue the ground started to shake, Bea narrowed her eyes and Zach had a bad feeling, he felt that 3 powerful being were coming towards them. Bea exclaimed. "Finish your fight fast, we have quite the problem coming."
When everyone heard that, they felt a greater pressure than before, the mysterious girl, Xaratus, Kimstros and Galitos put a great deal of energy in a last attack to finish their fight. Everyone else took out a minor trump card to finish their snake.
Like that, one snake after another either fled or died, just as the last was fleeing 3 bigger snakes appeared, they were twice bigger than the peak rank 2 snakes, being 30 meters long and with a head as big as a carriage.
"The low rank 3 !" The one who were the most scared exclaimed when they saw them. 'If Bea can take one, the four of them another and the rest of us stall the last we might have a chance.' Zach thought about how could they deal with them.
As if Bea had read in his mind she gave her orders. "I take one, you four another and the rest of you make it so the last doesn't bother us." When he heard that Zach was impressed, she had quite the judgement and thought about it quickly, he was certain that she would make a great general during the upcoming war.
Most of the one who were tasked to stall the last one were apprehensive as for the others they simply nodded and readied themselves. Zach looked at Taron and nodded, the two of them should be the strongest and the more experienced in the group so it will be the two of them who would lead the fight.
"Follow us, don't put yourself in needless danger and get back if you feel that you will get crushed." Zach shouted, he then looked at Taron and both jumped towards the snake.
Behind the two of them the one who could attack from afar were doing so and the one who couldn't followed them. Taron and Zach went weaponless, Zach's vibrating attacks were more powerful than any scythe he could take out right now, as for Taron he mastered weaponless fight.
Each of them were about to land a punch on the snake however its tail came and swept them away, they landed 20 meters away and both of them were coughing blood. However every attack from the others landed but it didn't done much damage to the snake.
The snake clearly understood who was a threat and who wasn't. Zach gritted his teeth and looked at the snake angrily, he mustered all his power in his legs and put a tint of void energy in them.
"I will try something new, I don't know if it will work but be ready." Zach said to Taron. Zach released the power and nothing happened, Zach simply jumped a meter in front of him.
'Argh ! Not right now !' Zach was more or less panicked, this fail allowed the snake to jump on him, fangs first. Taron saw that and he knew that the thing Zach planned went wrong, he jumped towards the snake's head, he wanted to punch its head to repel it and prevent it from touching Zach.
Taron punch connected and the snake recoiled back it prepared to jump on Zach again, meanwhile Zach prepared to use the same skill again, he hoped to succeed this time.
"I will try again ! I hope this time it will work!" he released the power he stored and this time he disappeared from everyone view and appeared behind the snake.
When Zach appeared again he was confused, he didn't know how he landed there. At first he wanted to appear in front of the snake but ended behind. He used his new technique successfully, he made use of his void affinity to warp from one point to another.
For now he didn't mastered it and will not be able to use it while fighting, he would have to prepare it and so he would become an easy and vulnerable target.
There was another a problem he had on his hands he had to correct it as soon as possible, he couldn't land somewhere random, he had to improve his warp's accuracy.
The snake was as confused as Zach and looked around to find the human boy, it finally saw him behind and used its tail to slam the ground and if it could have Zach on the way it would be happy.
Taron thought that it was Zach's plan so he rushed to punch the snake while it was focused on Zach. Taron and all the other hit the snake, it hissed and started to slam its tail on the ground all around it.
Zach who stepped back because of the tail was looking at the snake, he was waiting for the best timing to rush towards it and give it a vibrating punch, only a punch like this one would be able to deal some damages to the snake.
Suddenly he saw it, it was his timing, he rushed, gathered his void energy in his arm and jumped towards its head.
The snake felt the danger and was about to move out its head, however Zach used his death gaze to make it not move an inch. It worked, the snake felt dread only for an instant but it was all Zach needed to make his punch connect.
The snake felt his head vibrate and was dazed, it almost fainted from the vibrations. However its brain was powerful enough to not let it down. This time the snake went berserk, it slammed on the ground not only with its tail but whole body.
Many of the genius in the squad fell down and others had to save them from being reduced to a meat paste. Zach and Taron were troubled, it was still alive and they had already spend a great deal of energy and stamina.
They had to find something else to put it down for good, they had to find it fast because sooner or later there will be someone that couldn't be saved.