Both heaved a sigh of relief and pride at their accomplishments. Arachne slowly descended out of the hole through and jumped free falling towards the giant Hydra's body as a cushion for landing.
...DAMAGE (0)
The hydra's headless torso stood back up, sprouted 14 heads in a matter of seconds, all the heads lunged at the falling Arachne and each individually gripped a part of her body with their razor-sharp fangs. Instantly shredding her in bits before she could even react, as Helen watched in Horror. Blood raining down like a warm shower spreading everywhere.
Trying to calm herself, "The Ancient class of Immortal Hydras must have developed some new kind of feature that shifted where its usual head is...all the heads above are just distractions perhaps like a Venus fly trap I need to dig into its roots to kill it."
"First I'll have to pin it down." Chanting "Ancient Siege Magic, Trojan War Horse!" A Hollow construct made of magic solidified and rolled towards the Hydra at a breakneck speed ramming it into the wall belly facing out.
"Art of War Magic - 1000 Cuts!" as 1000 magic slashes spread all over its body finding its weak spot... (DMG 0) ... (DMG 0) ... (DMG 0) ... (DMG 0) ... (DMG 0) ... (DMG -100) ... (DMG -100) ... (DMG -100) ...
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Monster: Ancient Immortal Hydra
HP: 2200/10,000 (-300)
DMG: 3900/10,000
DEF: 2000/10,000
SPD: 3500/10,000
Skill: Headless Immortal (Rapid regeneration)
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"There! right in its crotch area, a tiny dragon head hidden between its legs, time for a castration Hydra!" using her last ounce of strength "Ancient Siege Magic - War Cleaver!" (DMG -1500) .... HP (700/10,000) the skin along the shaft too thick as its dangles loosely only being able to cut halfway.
Failing to deliver the final blow fully, the Hydra heads rained down like punches pummeling her flat against the ground, crushing all 4 of her horse legs but her upper body protected by her shield. Intensely vomiting blood and using the shield as a crutch to crawl even closer to the Hydra head while her lower body becomes a bloody pulp turning into mincemeat.
Heaving with her last breath, "War...Cleaver..." having crawled near enough, point blank swinged her sword and cut the tiny hydra head clean off. Both dramatically collapsing at the same time, with an announcement from the world system in the cave "Area Cleared."
Teleporting Helen and her monster part rewards back into the colosseum, the crowd erupted with cheers and applause chanting her name.
Although she had won the battle, she had lost the war, being told by the guild healers that there was nothing left to save of her lower half and that it had to be amputated, but thankfully her biology structure had all her organs in the upper torso, so she will live.
"An announcement from the guild, Helen although successful in her trial, will be not continuing the exhibition as a contestant due to her grievous injuries, but will still be under the consideration of parties that are interested to take her in as a member."
"We have also been informed that the 4th and 5th place contestants have resigned from the exhibition as well fearing for their lives."
"Without further interruption, we will be sending the last party out for trial, they are in tied for second place, Bellerophon the Sea Godkin, and Yuujiro the dual magic user. With the last member in first place, Midas, Prince of Phrygia."
With a large applause and cheer sendoff we were teleported. Each individually placed at different corners of a circular maze. The task set by the guild in this trial is to retrieve the golden apple in its center.
Slowly making my way through the maze, a few superior demon dogs hid at every corner always hiding inside the bushes and striking when I get close enough. The first few dozens of Demon dogs I had to put up a show, each time using my fire magic as a magicube screen would appear letting me know the audience is watching.
Using Aeon, universal time stop magic I slowly filled balloons with oil and wrapped with origami paper and threw the ignited ball of rubber as "Fireball!", or simply walked up to them doused them in oil and lit them on fire shouting "Fire Combustion!"
Sometimes even throwing in a few earth magic, "Pit fall!", time stopped, grabbed my shovel and began manually digging underneath the monsters.
The maze was gigantic, and we were briefed before teleporting that it is expected to take a really long time to make our way into the center.
After the 50th surprise attack thankfully the attention on me went away to monitor the other 2. Realizing that the monster drops were shit and killing them was too much effort, I simply cast "Time Bending magic - Chronos Fora" rewinding their movements midair as they lunged at me, all the way back into the bushes like they never came out.
4 hours of exploration later, I finally see the exit to the large center of the maze which was illuminated by the moonlight under an open sky. Approaching near it, a monster only observing its silhouette gracefully sauntered its way blocking the exit.
Then I saw it, it was a frightening large beast, prowling the entrance radiant in its pure white fur as if blessed by the moon goddess, the Legendary class Nemean Lion.
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Monster: Legendary Pure Nemean Lion
HP: 5900/10,000
DMG: 5800/10,000
DEF: 5999/10,000
SPD: 5000/10,000
Skill: Absolute Defense: Impervious to Damage
Extra Skill (Purity): Chasity - First Strike on any enemy does 10 times the damage.
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This monster is what I would call and absolute overkill...overwhelming stat points and what would most likely be an instant kill of 58,000 damage. I'm almost certain that would kill most gods.
I believe this is the best time to drop a save point, wouldn't want to restart back at the library after making this much progress. Pressing my palms into a prayer "Endless reincarnation magic - Attis" time magic exploding out of me into the ground, followed by the world system's voice "Ping! Saved".