Chaplain Beast. A 30 feet monster covered in fur from top to bottom making it taller than the majority of the surrounding buildings here. With an elongated body, jaw, hands and legs, it is something straight out of a horror gothic theme. It had plenty of horns protruding above its head and it has excess skins that made it looked like it had a cloak. It had 3 slits on its face but only two eyes were opened. Whatever this thing is, we need to bring it down now.
Cannon fires hit its mark but nothing was slowing it down. It didn't even seemed as though cannon balls had any effect on it as it bounced off from its body. We have no idea what it's objective is but it seems to be heading straight towards the city centre. We need to find a way to stop it in its tracks. But nothing seems to be able to pierce its thick hide. Not even Inazuma powered by Lightning Charge and Dark Slash can pierce through when it was capable of harming the Underwater Dragon King's diamond scales with it.
"What are we going to do? Nothing seems to be stopping this monster. Where is Peter when we need him?" asked Rose in frustration.
"He's probably sorting things out in the city. Don't forget, our daughter is with him. We need to figure things out ourselves. I have a dumb idea. Lily, follow me. Rose, you stay up here and keep a look out for danger," I leaped down from a building with Lily tagging along.
"What do you have in mind?" asked Lily.
"You remembered what you did to my wind pressure attack earlier? It literally froze any surrounding monsters that happened to be in its way. I want to see if it works on this Chaplain Beast," I explained.
"Uhh.. alright, sure. What have we got to lose?" she shrugged.
We stood behind the beast. It was still making it's way towards the city centre for some reason. I am amazed that it is even able to walk with those elongated hands and legs. That is not normal appendages. Cannon shots were still being fired on its body but it paid it no mind. For something to be tougher than dragon hide, I am tempted to flay this beast and turn it into my next cloak. Heh heh.
"You ready?" I asked Lily.
"I guess, hit me what you got, handsome," smirked Lily.
She's enjoying this, isn't she? I gathered power to Tengu-kaze and swung a wind pressure at her. She deflected it skilfully, but… it went the wrong way!
"W.. what are you doing?!" I shouted at her.
"I'm not skilled at re-directing an attack, okay! I am trained to deflect but not redirect. Hit me again!" she shouted back.
I almost chuckled at her remarks but curled my lips instead, holding back my laughter. Once again I sent wind pressure towards her but she only got it right at her third try. Did it work? Did we freeze the beast somehow?
The Chaplain Beast stopped in its tracks and inspected its left hand that was hit by our frozen wind pressure. It gripped its fist which broke the ice that was forming around it. In a span of a second, it suddenly shrieked and leaped at us. Holy shit! What's with the sudden aggression?!
"Get out of the way!!" I shouted as I reached for safety.
"Accelerate!" I heard Rose casting from a distance.
The Chaplain Beast was chasing after us with aggression that I had not seen before. We need to split or we will end up getting stomped by it.
"Split off! I'll be the bait!" I shouted to Lily as I ran in a different direction.
It definitely hates me as it chased after me intently, destroying any buildings obstructing like it was nothing just to bite or grab me. I leaped into the air as it's jaw almost bit me. I pulled my cloak back, exposing my right gauntlet to charge it with lightning. I spun my body, avoiding its hands attempting to grab me. A trail of lightning followed after me as it tried to reach my gauntlet as I ran full speed. I ran along its arm, heading closer to its face.
I felt the impact of the lightning as it touches upon my gauntlet and I roared with fury. I almost shouted "Chidori!" but sadly it does not have the same effect as it. I gripped the Chaplain Beast in the face and released a point blank Lightning Strike. That had to have done something, this was strong enough to kill the Demon Queen when she was in her first phase before.
There was a moment of silence after I've shocked it. Did I… kill it? That can't be right. For something that was capable of withstand cannons fires and my fully charged Inazuma combo, I do not believe that it will fall that easily. Folklore creatures are in books for a reason.
As if on cue, I swore I could hear Latin words chanting in the background. In an instant, what I thought was a scar in between its eyes turned out to be a third eye that opened vertically. A giant red eye with strange pupils and iris was staring directly at me in the face. I started panicking and jumped as far as I could, away from the Chaplain Beast.
It started shrieking extremely loud, forcing me to use my hands to cover my ears. Its hands started moving towards the chest area. What is it doing? Hang on, is it for real? It started gripping on its rib cage so tightly that it is starting to bleed. What, is it going to pull out its rib cage or something?
A loud crunching snap could be heard as what I predicted came true. The front half of its front rib cage was snapped apart as it held it up with both of its hands. W.. what the hell is going on? Is it offering it's rib cage to it's God or something? But in doing so, it has given us an opportunity to attack its internal organs now that they are exposed.
The ribs started shining with blinding lights. I am really at a loss for words as to what it is trying to do exactly. I had to shield my eyes from the lights as I struggled to see what it was trying to do. The lights died down and the beast was no longer holding the half ribs. It seems to have wrapped around its body, providing a sort of blackish bone armour. Damn it! As though its thick hide wasn't bad enough, now we have this obsidian bones to content with?
In an instant, a ray of light shot from its third eye, Wait, that is a laser! It swung it's head up and loud explosion could be heard. Shit! How many casualties did that attack caused? We need to take this thing down right now before it fires that damn laser again.
I leaped closer, trying to find a vantage point but it immediately shot its laser at me. Once again my left hand moved on its own and casted Rend, pulling my indestructible spectral cloak from the fabric of reality into this realm. It was luck that the laser hit my spectral cloak and not anywhere else or I would had been dismembered. But I was still being pushed back by the strength of the laser.
I landed some distance away from the beast but was relatively unscathed. I know who was protecting me in my time of need. Kirin and Byakko, I thank you for helping me out. But how are we going to bring this beast down? Is there anything that it is weak against in the first place?
From a distance, I can see ice spikes being thrown at the beast and a small white being flying around. I know full well who are fighting the beast right now and I need to help them. I made haste towards the beast, making full use of my time to figure out a weakness that might be possible. It felt as though I was overlooking an important piece of information here. But what could it be? Hmm.. I am going to need Rose to figure it out with me.
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The three of us hid behind some building away from the Chaplain Beast. It doesn't seems to be firing its laser now as it was fixated on finding us instead of destroying the city. Glad we're able to gained it's interest despite being a nuisance.
"How long are we going to fight this thing? Is there really no weakness that we can exploit?" whispered Lily.
"Nothing I tried seems to be working. Not even Lightning Strike or Charge is doing any effect on it. There must be something that we had overlooked," I placed my hand on my chin.
Rose turned towards me and I nodded. Lily was confused as what we are planning to do and was surprised when the both of us sat down with our legs crossed and closed our eyes.
"Y.. you guys! Now is not the time to be thinking!" shouted Lily with a soft tone.
"Shhh… we're trying to think here. Give us a moment of peace, please," I shushed her.
What are we missing here? Let's start from the beginning. It started with us finding the two soldiers fighting against a single monster. But.. why didn't the other monsters attacked them while the other soldiers were decimated? Is it because they were fighting? I highly doubt these beasts understands what it means to be fighting honourably. Or perhaps they had something that the monsters didn't like? Hang on… can it be?
I opened my eyes and it would seemed that Rose had made reached the same conclusion as me. I think there is something we can try to see whether it works.
"Lily, can you lend me your wine?" I asked her.
"H.. huh? Are you planning to drink it? Elven wine is not really for human consumption, Zen," she warned me.
"Just lend it to me. I'll get you another one, don't worry," I assured her.
She handed me her wine and I took out a small bottle and poured it in. She seems to be heartbroken when she saw me pouring quite an amount from it into my small bottle. Then I took out some of my bandages and soaked it with the wine. This is where my lighter comes in handy. I passed her back her bottle of wine which still had a small amount remaining.
I lit the bandages which was attached to the contents of the small bottle and tossed it towards the Chaplain Beast. A makeshift molotov using Elven Wine which had ridiculously high percentage of alcohol in it, that is going to burn real nicely. Lily had her mouth agape when she saw what I did to her precious wine. To turn her precious wine into a molotov, she must be speechless after she saw what I just did.
"You.. you… you.... Zen!! You evil monster!! That wine was precious to me! And you just turned it into a molotov?! Now I barely have any left!" she started hitting me.
"I'll buy you more next time, alright? High quality ones. I promise!" I grabbed her hand to stop her from hitting me.
Even though she was not hitting me with much force, it still kind of hurts as her strength was way above a normal human being.
"It's Elven wine, Zen. You won't be able to purchase any as it is sacred to the elves. Sigh, I guess I'll just have to suck it up for lending it to you in the first place. Ugh, my precious wine," she started sobbing while stroking her flask.
"Try me, you'll be surprised," I told her.
I was more fixated on what was happening to the beast. The molotov landed beautifully on the Chaplain Beast and it was starting to shriek. But it was not the usual shriek that it did before. This is the shriek of pain. I guess it seems to be working really well. It would seemed that beasts are weak against fire. Its no wonder the two soldiers were not attacked as they were holding torches. That was probably the reason why they were still alive when we reached them.
"Lily, we are going to need you for this. You are the only one that can use fire spell. You take point and I'll cover you," I told her.
"Fine, I'll do it. I'm going to hold onto your words about you buying me an Elven wine," she bump-fisted her gauntlets together.
"Rose, announce to the soldiers and adventurers that they are weak against fire. Find whatever flammable they can and throw at the Chaplain Beast when they can. Doesn't matter if they are unable to light it, just toss at it and we'll handle the rest," I advised her.
"Will do. Stay alive you two. I'll cast some support spells when I can. I'll be back soon," she casted Sacred Wings and flew towards her objective.
I guess it is just the two of us again. Now that we had found it's weakness, time for us to end this. There is too much destruction you had caused upon the city. I shall grant you the peace that you were looking for, Chaplain Beast. I shall end your suffering.