When the beasts charged at Luke and the girls she sneakily moved to the stairs. When she saw the beast that got run through. Its wounds were severe enough that it couldn't get up. When Diana got closer was welcomed by a low growl of the beast.
- Don't worry I will kill you swiftly.
Diana created light inside her hands and fired it at the head of the beast. The beast was howling and squirming on the floor trying to get up. Finally, Beast got on all fours and looked at her, and tried to run away. Diana didn't allow it to run away and started following it. With longer exposure of the beam containing ice element that started to accumulate frost on beast fur and decreased its speed.
Finally beast understood that running away is futile and tried to attack Diana. She started kiting it around and constantly baiting it to attack and dodge it. Fighting it like that took Diana around 10 minutes when the beast finally lost stamina to move. Diana approached it and took out her sword and cut off the beast's head. When its head fell off, its body started to turn into ashes. Inside the ashes was a black crystal she took it inside her storage ring. She got up and started running upward to help the rest with their fight.
"Congratulations for killing Stage 2 Corrupted beast Level 25 Tier 1"
- This beast is much too strong to be on 25th level.
When she finally climbed to the arena she saw Amelia that was dodging the attacks of the beast and trying to counter, Lily that was attacking the beast with her light flame, and Luke that was lying in a pool of blood on the side. Suppressing her fear for his life she got closer to Amelia and sneaked and attacked the beast with her sword simultaneously firing her Ice light on its legs to slow it down.
- Diana!!!
- Sister!!!
Diana's appearance changes the status quo and the beast that was hit by her ice light pounced on her but the attack pattern of this beast is never changing and was able to dodge it perfectly. She constantly was firing her ice light at it. A few seconds of being the target of an ice beam slowed down the monster a bit. She started to get back to let Amelia attack it from behind. Amelia took advantage of it and attacked the beast's back with her swords leaving two nasty wounds from top to bottom. Beast howled and did not lose the occasion Amelia created for her and cut off its head.
- Let's go and help Lily.
- OK
Girls started moving closer to Lily's opponent and attacked it. Diana used her ice light to hit it on one left side and Amelia used her sword to cut off its right leg. Losing its right leg and getting pushed by Diana's Light beam beast have fallen to the ground. Seeing this Lily jumped to the beast and cut off its head and let it turn back to ashes. When The beast has finally fallen girls started running to the place where Luke was lying.
- Is he ok?
- He would live but.. ahh I forgot you can't hear me. Shia writes with his blood on his cheek that it will be ok.
- Yea!!!
- Look something appeared on his cheek.
- probably Shia's and Mia's doing. It says that he will be ok.
- Uff that's good as he doesn't look good and was ready for the worst.
- Don't worry he has enough HP to live even after his heart would be priced.
After 2 hours.
- It sucks that he is unconscious and we can't go inside Hunter's world and rest.
- Don't let your guard down as we don't know what can happen. We can't let anything attack us when we lose our vigilance and kill him and us.
- I know sorry but it sucks.
Luke felt that his head was lying on something warm and soft.
- humhn
- Oh his waking up!
- Hmm what happened?
- You saved Amelia but were badly hurt by the beast.
- Yeah I can feel it but it's not that bad.
- Of course, it is This Lady and Mia, we set a broken bone in your hand and healed you.
Luke looked at the cute little dark-skinned fairy and put his hand on her head to pat it and the second hand also moved to the head of the white-skinned and patted it.
- Thank you.
Both Fairies blushed slightly.
- Good that nothing happened to you all.
- Yeah we were able to kill it with Diana's help.
- After learning its move set and being prepared for their unnatural speed those beasts are easy to kill.
- Yeah those things have only a standard set of moves almost like they were programmed and animated inside a videogame from before virtual reality gaming times.
- I think so too.
- But the boss wasn't like that I felt that it also could think outside of the program that it had. So maybe those monsters that become the Boss are freed of their limitations after becoming it or those beasts that are smart enough can become Boss or those who kill enough. Well, now it doesn't matter let's get some rest inside Hunter's world.
- I don't think that we should waste our time left inside let's get back to the bridge and let's get some sleep.
- I think it's a good idea to keep time in case of emergency.
- Okay let's go.
When they got to the bridge Luke took out 4 bicycles and they rode for 5 minutes to increase the distance between them and the eventual boss or other beasts.
- Good take-out portable house and empress bed we are going to sleep and you Luke as you were able to get nap are first guard.
- Okay have a good night.
Having nothing better to do he took out the illustratus technique book and started reading it. After 3 hours of reading, he stopped reading and looked around as he felt that something wasn't. He looked around the house but didn't find anything out of normal. Still feeling that something wasn't right he looked around once again but still there wasn't any changes but thanks to shifting moonlight he saw that there was something flying in the sky. In the sky there were 8 or so bat like creatures that were flying in the direction of the boss arena.
-Shia, Mia Did you see that?
-Yeah.
-Good I was scared that it was only my imagination.
- Yeah nightmare works on people like that. That why even if those who are first time and can get much more powerful before getting back to their world and they don't stay to long or go they go insane.
- do you know something about this nightmare?
- I would love to help you more but I only have general knowledge about nightmare.
- Don't worry I already suspected that
- If we only could help you more we could be sure to get out of this place.
- what do you mean?
- You should know that when you die you will lose your Helping Fairy.
-Yeah.
- But if you get back through shelter we will be coming with you to your world. That one of perks in surviving inside nightmare.
- Wow so you will be mine forever?
- If you get back to shelter, yes. - Said Mia with slightly blushed face.
-When we will getting back we have to be even more careful.
- Yeah it can be even more dangerous with those flying freaks.
- Did you learn something from the book?
- Not yet, but I think I'm close to comprehending something.
- Me too
- Good this will be helpful to anyone. Lets go and wake them up.
Luke got inside the house and woke up girls to tell them what he saw.
- Okay now we will guard you. Go get some rest.
- Take this maybe you will comprehend something from it.
When Luke fall asleep, girls got outside and sat down around the campfire created by Luke and prepared to read illustratus.
- How are you doing with new weapon from Luke, Amy?
- Good its hard to use it when it is combined but when I have two swords it surpassingly easy to use them.
- I know that it is much stronger than your earlier weapon but I enjoyed watching you running around the battlefield and using this deadly scythe.
- Well this time I have agility based physique so me running around with strength based weapon isn't really cost effective. Anyway this Rakujo is tailored made for me. It is good that I don't have my memories from the future or I would have much harder time to adapt to this new weapon. And it is good as it can grow with time that it is inside by body drinking my blood and refining it.
- It is really good that you found weapon that suits you.
- And goo think is I can use any weapon but its bonuses will be decreased by half.
- Wow so you have one more item slot than us?
- Yeah but I have to use the weapon to have its bonuses, but still I don't have to use Rakujo every time and let it constantly refine my blood, physique and Rakujo will also get stronger faster.
- Okay lets read it together.
- Okay
- Yeah