Marigold is continuing to pump more holy water into the hoses to create holy water mist.
Julius-"Support skill: stamina recovery"
Marigold-"Thanks Julius. How are the caverns looking now?"
Julius-"The spacial distortion has gone way down and the amount of monsters has also drastically decreased. It's probably time for me to fly around looking for everyone"
Marigold-"I'm glad that I was able to help out"
Julius-"I couldn't have done this without you Marigold, I'm sorry that this trip turned out like this"
Marigold-"It's alright, from what I remember your previous quest resulted in you having to fight a lightning wyvern and immediately afterwards having to fight a megalomaniacal prince"
Julius-"It's certainly been rough since I've arrived in this world"
Marigold-"Think about it though, while it has been rough you being here has made things better. If you weren't here it's possible Adam, Elise, and Joe could have died against the lightning wyvern. Damion would have still been in prison. And Lucious would still be walking free"
Julius-"Thank you, I'm glad to do my part in making the world a better place. It's what I've always wanted to do"
Marigold-"Once we find our friends let's find whatever creature made these caverns and slay it. Then afterwards you should try to get your rank increased"
Julius-"My rank?"
Marigold-"Yeah, you said you're still an E rank because you haven't done any rank up tests. But you're certainly strong enough to be an upper B or even low A rank"
Julius-"Not an Upper A rank?"
Marigold-"Maybe. You did receive an incredible evolved skill"
Julius-"Yeah well, if Atlas was anything to go by I'm certainly not S rank level yet, I probably won't get there for a while"
Marigold-"If you became s rank that would be incredible, from what I've heard there are only a small handful of them in the world"
Julius-"Well maybe one day, Atlas did seem to have high hopes for me"
Marigold-"Well I have high hopes for you too. You're a really great-"
A giant pale white fist filled with holes punches through the wall down towards Marigold. The punch is moving too fast for her to avoid it.
Julius-"Special skill: particle accelerator"
Julius flies at near light speed towards the monster. He flies into the fist knocking it off course.
Marigold-"Holy skill: holy water geyser"
Marigold creates a large stream of holy water and uses it to blast through the rubble to hit the monster. Afterwards Marigold jumps back with Julius following her.
Marigold-"What was that?"
Julius-"I don't know, but it's certainly not like the other monsters we have seen"
The other hand of the monster comes out from the wall and grabs onto the side of the opening. The monster slowly walks out revealing the same monster that Adam and Joe saw. As the monster enters, its immense mana fills every corner of the room making the room shake.
Voice-"Warning! This monster contains substantially more mana than you do. Escape is recommended"
Julius-"Marigold! Get out of here, I'll hold it off!"
Marigold-"I won't leave you!"
The monster slams the ground which causes dozens of large black thorn branches to come shooting out from the ground the size of trees. To dodge the thorns Julius flies to the left while Marigold jumps to the right.
Julius-"Find our friends. I'll meet back up with you soon"
Marigold-"Okay! But don't get hurt"
Marigold runs to into the tunnel beside her. The monster begins running towards her.
Julius-"Light skill: laser beam"
Julius creates a large beam of blue light that shoots towards the monster. It hits the monster creating a big blue flash however the monster continues running towards Marigold.
Julius(in his head)-"It shrugged it off!?"
Julius-"Marigold look out!"
Marigold-"Huh? Holy skill: heaven's vortex!"
Marigold creates a spiral of holy water as a barrier between her and the monster. The monster jumps forward and breaks through the barrier which slows it down enough for Marigold to dodge out of the way.
Julius(in his head)-"Why is it targeting Marigold. It's completely ignoring me"
Marigold-"Begone foul beast, holy skill: holy water purification"
Marigold shoots out glowing holy water that burns the side of the monster on contact. In response to the burn the monster makes a loud scream the tears boulders from the walls making Marigold cover her ears.
Voice-"It must be because of her holy magic. The monster must view her as the primary threat. It likely tracked her down as the source of the mist"
Marigold-"How is this thing so loud it doesn't even have a mouth!"
The monster raises its foot to stomp down on Marigold.
Julius-"I won't let you hurt her! Evolved skill: anti matter destruction chamber!"
Julius creates a ball of anti matter that collides with the monster. The ball expands and disintegrate everything in a ten meter radius just next to Marigold.
Julius-"It doesn't matter how durable you are, anti matter can disintegrate anything"
A beam of dark magic pulses from the crater and blasts towards Julius. It encapsulates around his tiny form and squeezes down to the size of a marble.
Julius-"I can't move, what's going on!"
Voice-"You're stuck in a field of ultra dense space, it's likely that it's this same magic that causes the spacial distortion of the caverns"
From out of the crater the monster stands with minor damage. The burns and bruises on its body begin healing rapidly until it looks the same as before the fight started.
Marigold-"This thing can heal itself too? This is bad. I need to free Julius"
The monster holds its hands close together and begins creating dark spacial magic. Suddenly a sword slash, a beam of plasma, and a magic arrow fly in and hit the monster in the back.
Elise-"This monster seems like more fun than the others ones I've been fighting"
End of chapter 85