[Pretty long chapter, sorry about that]
Vanessa pulled back on her bow with her fingers straining against the tension of the mana-string as she immediately shot an arrow forward, watching it tear through the air like a missile.
The projectile whistled with a high-pitched scream, leaving a trail of shimmering crimson light in its wake that illuminated the dark oily fog of the battlefield.
'Just attacking it is a foolish thing to do.' She thought as the arrow collided with the skin of the monster and instead of tearing it open, it binded two tentacles together.
The arrow didn't pierce; it expanded into a web of viscous, hardened blood that acted like a biological glue, pinning the thrashing limbs to the asphalt. 'There needs to be a plan of movement…'
The core could be anywhere inside its massive slimy body and there was no way to search for it with simple external strikes.
