As soon as the big ogre fall to the grounds, everyone once again feel a new surge of willpower in them, shouting battlecry and fighting with all they have, on another battle scene Tony and Luther managed to contain the hunched hobgoblin, seeing the tide of battle once again changed by their captain they also begin to gain advantageous in their battle,
Knowing that this corrupted monster have berserk state, they need to ends this battle as soon as possible, but the hunched monster are too fast even overwhelming both Luther and Miki. Then knowing it's weakness, Miki just thought and shouted,
"Anyone who knows restrictions magic or binding magic, cast it upon this monster!!!"
With this several soldiers and two of the mages that come with them start to cast magic, knowing they enemy strategy the hunched goblin once again changed its target, now targeting the magic caster, but before that could happen Miki and Luther block that's monster launching their own attack,
Miki aims his attack upon the hunched monsters every body joints, hitting as hard and as precise as he could. While Luther let out a relentless thrust of swords producing hinders of after imagine thrusts. But as they expect it only managed to lands a few damage upon these monster, while the monster feels threatened just do it's own counter attack, aiming for their guts and abdomen,
Within this confrontation, the magic caster and the soldiers finally finished their casting and now aimed at the monster,
"Ice ground!!!"
"Coiling Roots!!"
"Shadow Bound"
With this series of magic cast upon the hunched goblin, finally it's halt its movements suspended in a stagnant position, while Luther and Miki not wasting their time launched their final attack,
" Swords spikes" with this skills, Luther managed to produce thousands of thrust that mimick a long slender spikes, penetrating the monster body,
While Miki also not lose in comparison,
"Light transverse!!!"
With this a single line of horizontal slash that mimicks a lights cast upon the monster, slicing of its head from the body and only leave a sprut of purplish blood midair,
With this finally everyone, now have a heaveway, some kneels while gasping air while some just surrendered their body to the ground, soaking themselves in sweats and dirt.
While on the same time that the battle commenced another battle also commenced at the same time,
Now, Machete and Tony are facing the muscular hobgoblin. Their strategy for fighting this monster is quite simple and straight forward. While Machete launched his vicious upon those monster, Tony just act as a tank for him to retreat and take a short rest, alternating between them, they planned to tired out the monster but seems like the monster ability are much more dreaded. As when they continue to battle it seems it gain more power overtime and getting much stronger everytime they collapse again, seems like their strategy will backfired them,
Within split seconds, both Machete and Tony takes distance from them, now the soldiers have to cover them for a while, while they needs to startegized faster and think of a way to defeat it, Machete direct his gaze upon Tony,
"What do you think we should do?"
"I also don't know"
Tony replied while grimacing in desperate emotions, while thinking for a while Machete once again racks his brain as he don't want to lose his life nor his merits as, he sees now that the Captain and the vice have managed to defeat the main monster, while the other team with Miki as squad leader are now nearing the end of they battle with wins on their side,
But when he continue to think, suddenly Tony just voice his thoughts he seems to find a good way out from their predicament, and he direct his gaze upon Machete,
"Hey can you distract and hold this monster for a period of time"
"Tchh, how many minutes?"
"As long as you can..."
When Tony say this, immediately Machete runs towards the monster, without wasting anymore time, he just used his trump card,
"Bloodlust strike"
With this, all of his body are now imbued in red aura but mostly the change that could be seen is the sword he is holding, emits a sinister aura,
With this new power now he is overwhelming the monster but only a few gaps, series of vertical and horizontal slashes are run down upon the monster, he also watch every movents over the monster and prevent it from making further attacks, countering and seizing it's attack pattern, but just as they thought the monster are beginning to get stronger each time they clash, while his power is dwindling over time, until finally he is the one that getting push which made him defense for a while,
While the monster became more feracacious and attack every weakness that he show, he could only gritted his teeth when receiving such uneding attack, but at the moment when he thoughts he will be finish, a gallant big figure come out from the back of the monster, with a big hammer that rise up in the air to gain momentum, he directly bash the monster head with enormous force,
"Thunderstruck!!!"
The enormous force, bash the monster directly to ground while producing a bit of lightning streaks, the monster not expected such attack because of its arrogant, could onlyerely stare, as it's heads struck to the grounds, pulverized into a patch of purplish blood, while Machete just stumble on his butt, gasping for an air,
Finally the battle conclude, with everyone that's left, only accompanied by tiredness and pain, they are now resting while some that still have energy cleaned up the battlefield, now all of the leaders of the camp are gathering in the middle of the empty space, as they were about to begin to continue with their next plan and meeting, someone from behind just shout, it is one of Jello mages,
"Everyone, I have a bad news for us"
With this everyone became tense once again , as they thought their battle will be over,
Not wanting to be on their bad side the mage just continue with its findings,
"It's like this, as we are tasked by the captain. To collect those monster corrupted core, we finds out something really bad truth"
"What is that?"Rein asked him not wanting to delay any information that needed to convey,
"It's is, the three corrupted monster doesn't have the core in their body"
"Seems like they have another way to get their power other than the abyss star, because what we found is just a normal high grade monster core"
With this informations everyone seems baffled, confused and even began to speculate bad things to happen again,
"Then we just need to find the sources of that power again huh, but how?"
Miki asked in question as everyone also seems to lost in thoughts again,
But as he was thinking of the plants that the scouts find and show them the first time, Rein just realised something, and uttered his findings,
"It's somewhere hidden or planted in this forest area, the three monsters are just their distraction"
Seeing and hearing such things from Rein they also seems to be believing as, they also have seen the Plants and tree on the forest are most likely have been corrupted by this abyss star, one things that peculiar are also the goblin monster, that attack them furiously as have been brainwashed by something to attack anything that threats it, once encountered, This time, Rein also made his decision,
"Then we will go back to the forest to search and destroy that sources, and until then we will continue to Tellami mountain for us to make a base"
With this, everyone just nodded in approval including Machete, but out of nowhere the surroundings area became dimmed and a gushes sounds of winds being manuver was cast upon them, as they look into the sky everyone hope have just began to collapsed again, as the monster that they never expected seems to suddenly appear, with shriek and flaps of wings the.monster begin to dive upon them, while Rein just shouted,
"Wyvern!!!!! Take cover in narrow and sheltered area!!!,