Slowly the dust settled and the scene became clear. Jane, Ruby and Shane were lying on the floor, multiple cuts on their bodies as blood was tricking out of them.
A part of Jordan's armor and shield were broken and scattered on the ground. Noah was on his knees and small cuts were on his cheeks and arms.
Adriana was saved by the two of them in front as she was the only one without any harm.
They didn't get any time to rest as the huge tail came swinging towards them again at instantaneous speed.
Noah and Jordan rushed together holding their shields and hammer up.
The tail rammed into their shields, pushing them back as they slid along the ground. Unable to endure the force, Jordan's shield cracked in the middle and finally broke into two.
Noah couldn't hold the tail anymore without Jordan's help, his hammer dropped on the ground and both of them went flying, bouncing along the ground, laying flat on their chest, unable to move a muscle anymore.
The damage taken by the two was quite big, pushing them to the edge of losing consciousness.
Adriana gritted her teeth in anger, she felt helpless and useless. She was ashamed of being protected by the others and not able to deal any damage. Her rage started boiling as mana covered her whole body.
"VIKASA!!" She roared as a burst of mana jetted out of her body.
Her hair started freezing up and a mask of ice formed on her face. Her armor and sword were coated with a sharp sparkling layer of ice. She had transformed into an ice goddess covered in ice shards.
"No! S-she…still...h-hasn't mastered it!" Jordan squeezed the words out somehow groaning in pain and trying to get up so that he could stop her from activating that mode.
"Is t-that…s-spirit form? What…c-circle is she?" Noah was shocked seeing her release the spirit form as it can only be achieved from the fourth circle and that too was not easy as it had high mana consumption and unlocking it in lower stages can even endanger life.
"It…h-hasn't…been t-that long since s-she's been in t-the…third circle!" Jordan's words made Noah speechless.
She vanished from her spot and instantly appeared in front of the Imoogi. She swung her sword at its underbelly.
SPLATT!!
Her sword passed through the hard scales and formed a deep cut, blood splattered out but instantly froze into crystals and broke apart upon falling on the ground. Ice crystal formed on the cut and it Screeched in pain.
She kept moving so fast that it looked like vanishing and appearing out of nowhere and every time she appeared a new cut formed on the Imoogi's body.
Blood red crystals were scattered around the floor, and screeching noises filled the air.
She appeared again ready with the sword swing, but just then the Imoogi predicted her location and its head came fast towards her.
She quickly abandoned her swing and moved the sword towards her side, the head rammed into the sword, breaking the ice crystals off of the sword and her armor.
The force of the hit was so large that she was unable to endure and blasted off to the distance.
She hit the floor with a bang, breaking the floor and rolling around because of the momentum when she pierced the sword in the floor, finally stopping after some distance of sliding.
Just when she stood up and about to rush for an attack, a pillar of fire was coming towards her.
She started chanting as a bluish runic circle formed on the floor and one after another four ice walls appeared in front of her.
The fire pillar struck the wall and slowly started melting the walls one after another. After a few seconds Adriana saw a circular red patch on the ice wall in front of her. It started getting bigger and brighter.
A stream of cold water touched her steel boots. She realized that the last wall is about to break off.
She pulled her sword out and crystals of ice started condensing on it, transforming the sword into a huge and thick shield with a handle.
The last wall broke and the fire rushed out towards her. She rammed the shield on the floor holding the handle as the pillar hit right on it. She was pushed back a few meters, the shield started melting off and reducing in size.
Suddenly the fire stopped and her sword was now devoid of any ice on it as all of it melted away.
She didn't waste more time and new ice crystals formed on the sword and vanished from the spot.
She appeared right in front of the Imoogi's eyes and swung her sword.
The Imoogi was shocked and couldn't react fast, the sword was about to take out its eye, but just then all the ice on her sword, hair, armor and the mask shattered into pieces at once, her mana had depleted completely.
Her muscles froze midair and she was unable to move. The Imoogi didn't miss the chance, it opened its jaw and a ball of wind formed firing wind needles towards her.
Not having a single ounce of mana, she was defenseless and took the full burnt of the attack. She blasted off to the distance, sliding along the floor and stopping after hitting a wall.
More than a few needles had pierced her armor and blood started flowing out soaking her whole body.
The sword dropped from her hands and she lost consciousness.
"NO!!" Jordan and jane screamed together. Everything happened so fast that none of them were able to react, their bodies were refusing to move, they felt such hopelessness that drops of tears rolled out of their eyes.
The Imoogi opened its jaw wide again, it was fed up with these humans and wanted to finish them off.
Just when it was about to fire the wind needles, the ball of wind crumbled, unable to maintain its form.
Suddenly the air got heavy, and the ones on the ground, their throats dried up. The temperature of the air rose and all the mana vanished from the surrounding. Mystical Ancient chanting rang out as hums, it felt like coming from a distance but sometimes felt just beside as it rang in everybody's ears.
Intense flame mana gathered at a single spot. It was like a black hole sucking everything within its vicinity. The spot was where Luke was lying unconscious.