Zane stared with wide eyes as the column of fire in front of him. It was by far the biggest thing he had seen in his second life...literally!.
For the first time, Zane could see two different types of mana as he looked at the spell. The first type of mana was wild and had a dangerous feel to it. It felt like a giant wave fo destruction.
The second type of mana felt fast and sharp. Just like the first type, it couldn't stay still and was constantly moving. The only difference was that it was moving in a controlled manner while the first type seemed uncontrollable.
Obviously the first type of mana was fire mana or fire magic while the second type was wind magic.
The fire column disappeared 5 seconds after it was cast but Zane was still shocked, his mind played the scene over and over as it was the most amazing thing he ever saw.
Meanwhile back to the two mage hunters who had created that spectacle. When the smoke died down, Clara and Adam had their eyes on the spider. Even though they knew that the spider was definitely dead, it didn't hurt to be sure.
This spell was precisely the reason why David's team had the capabilities of putting up a fight with even grade two beasts. If their "Ultimate Infernal Tornado" could kill a grade two beast, the spider didn't stand a chance.
The smoke cleared and sure enough the spider was dead.....very dead. The fire had incinerated it's head along with the remaining three legs. What was left was just the body, or rather the exoskeleton, all internal organs had been reduced to nothingness.
After glancing at David's fight which was happening a hundred meters away, Adam walked over to the smoldering exoskeleton and pointed his palm at one of the holes where the legs used to be.
A moment later and from the neck-hole, a blue sphere the size of a fist popped out. Of course this sphere was the grade one mana core. Adam put the sphere in his storage ring before walking back to Clara.
"Can you walk?" he asked.
"Of course i can walk, it's not like my leg was crushed by a 500 pound spider or anything" Clara tried to be as sarcastic as possible.
Adam chuckled a bit and picked up Clara bridal style as he walked towards the village.
"Zane! you're up!" Adam said as he gently put Clara on the floor.
Zane had long snapped out of his stupor and quickly went over to Clara.
The fight had taken a little less than a minute so his 3000 point sight grenades where still in effect. They were made to last for 300 seconds so Zane still had about 210 seconds left.
"What about the other hunter?" Krone asked.
That's when Zane remembered David. Adam and Clara's fight had taken all his attention he had completely forgotten about David.
"Don't worry about him he is the strongest out of all of us. Holding a grade one beast for a few more seconds is not going to be hard for David" Adam said.
A few seconds later and Clara's leg was completely healed.
<(-9 385 Mana)>
Zane narrowed his eyes as he saw his mana expenditure.
"Please don't get hurt like that again, okay?" Zane chuckled nervously.
"Awww you where worried about me?" Clara said.
"Umm...yes i was worried" Zane cleared his throat.
"You are a bad liar Zane. Anyway we are going to backup David, stay here." Clara ordered as she stood up, stretching her newly healed leg.
The trio left in the hall, Zane excluded, ran to the window once more to watch the second fight. The first one had shown them something amazing so the second one might do the same.
"Arrgh they are too far I can't see shit!" Chris complained.
Meanwhile Adam and Clara where running to David as fast as they could, however as they got closer to him, they realized that their backup was absolutely not needed at all.
David stood there in a relaxed manner with one of his hands pointed at the spider, which was trapped by six pillars of earth. Each pillar covering one leg, making it impossible for the spider to escape.
The spider was missing its pincers and a rock was stuck in one of its many eyes. The others had turned red in anger as it glared at it's captor in unbridled rage.
Every few seconds the spider would manage to break one of its legs out of the earth bindings but David would re-bind it again a split second later.
"Show off" Clara said as she and Adam approached David.
"You started it, I saw the dual spell you guys performed" David chuckled. "Don't you think it was overkill though?" he continued.
"We know, but we wanted to give our new recruits a good show" Adam said as he watched the struggling spider.
"And a good show you did. That show did cost me an injury though" David turned his torso to show Adam and Clara the medium sized cut on his stomach.
"How was that our fault?" Clara asked with a smile.
"Your 'show' distracted me, causing this guy to land a cheap shot" David explained.
The spider's rage grew even further at that point. These humans where communicating happily during a fight!? Unacceptable!!.
CRRRR!
CRACK!
BOOM!
In one fluid motion, the spider broke three legs free from the earth and before David could renew his spell, a thick green liquid shot out of the spider's mouth heading straight for Adam. He was the closest one to the spider.
Adam was still shocked that the spider managed to break David's spell so he was too slow to dodge the green liquid.
SHING!
SPLAT!
"Thanks Clara" Adam said as he glanced at Clara's shield. She had threw it between himself and the toxin just in time.
"A little help over here! I think this spider just went into rage mode" David shouted as he erected an earth wall to block a body slam from the beast.
Rage mode was a special state entered by some beasts when they get too angry, injured or hungry. During this state the beast gets a boost in strength, speed, stamina, endurence and most importantly, intelligence.
Despite the name, Rage Mode actually made the beast smarter and less....angry. It doesn't gain intelligence equivalent to humans but it gains the ability to make plans and strategize during fights.
BOOM!
BOOM!
Clara managed to explode two fireballs on the spider's back, doing basically no damage.
David punched the ground and a large pillar of earth exploded underneath the spider, knocking it 5 meters into the air.
BANG!
BANG!
David then conjured a 2 by 2 meter block of earth above the spider and and used it to slam the beast onto the ground.
A large dust cloud was created from the impact and Adam didn't hesitate to fire a barrage of wind blades into the dust cloud.
Boom!
The spider suddenly jumped out of the dust and surprisingly instead of attacking, it backed away from the three hunters.
Half of it's face was cut off and a crack was visible on the spider's exoskeleton. Black blood was also seen dripping from the beast's mouth as it observed it's opponents.
This action proved that the spider really was in rage mode. If it wasn't it would be mindlessly attacking, and without the defense boost from rage mode, David's spell would have killed it.
After two seconds, the spider suddenly turned around and ran into the forest. It was headed for the beast zone.