Instead of the beast flinching from the attacks, a roar fiercer than the initial one caused everyone around it to fly once again into the walls of the throne room. Even Mechataur was lifted from the ground as a result of the shockwave impact of the behemoth’s roar.
“Phase Two?!! How can this be!” the man puppet held tightly onto Moloch since the plushie looked as if it was about to fly away from shock.
“I do not know what the hell phase two is but I’m gonna give it a two phased explosion!” Peppers managed to finish casting her explosive magic because Mr Derpy had predicted that something like this would occur and it used its body to protect Peppers from the explosion.
Not only that, the bull behemoth heard Peppers and decided to charge towards her after also sensing a gathering of intense density of magic from her. Mr Derpy did not hesitate to retaliate back which he acted as a bodyguard as commanded by Jin. Meanwhile, Peppers continued to finalise the casting of her explosive magic in order to make sure there would be lesser drawbacks from the magical spell.
“Any moment now Ms Peppers! ” Mr Derpy shouted as its eyes shone in green, causing the entire throne room to shudder in perpetual fear. “I am Shadow Dagen! A Fragment of the Lord Dagen himself! Taste his wrath!!!” Mr Derpy shouted as a magical circle immediately appeared at the dungeon core guardian’s feet as he continued to wrestle with it.
Suddenly, massive amounts of gigantic tentacles appeared from the magic circle and grabbed the behemoth before wrapping it up like an Egyptian mummy. The tentacles did not only grab the behemoth but they also excreted poison and acid, which corroded the skin of the behemoth. The guardian did not hesitate to try and break free of its new biological constraints but the more it tried, the more pain it felt.
“Shu!!! Now!!” Jin shouted at Shu as the tree used the additional magical powers of the magpie to grow roots under the throne room and break the floor that the behemoth was standing on. The roots pushed the behemoth out of the throne room and eventually broke the iron doors that sealed off the area, placing it atop the broken bridge where the battle between Mechataur and Mr Derpy had taken place.
The fusion of magical roots and dark tentacles was disgusting but undoubtedly useful as they immobilised the struggling behemoth. Its constraints were further tightened by Zhi Nu, who had placed tens of heavenly string ‘bomb’ traps near the entrance. She initially placed it there in case the behemoth tried to break away from entrapment but little did she know that it actually enhanced the immobilisation of the behemoth.
“Super Big Bang Bammmmmmm Version 2.0!” Jin carried Peppers once more towards the entrance of the Throne room as she aimed her magical staff at the Katamari that consisted of a ball of strings, roots, and tentacles along with a flustered bull behemoth.
As usual, a rainbow coloured complex magical circle appeared in front of Peppers and instead of a human silhouette, a tremendously oversized fish head slowly emerged from the magical circle. The fish opened its mouth slowly as if it was about to inhale a great amount of air. However, out of its mouth, it ‘exhaled’ a greenish blue beam that burned the tentacles, roots and eventually the behemoth.
The behemoth tried to move away from this terrifying blast but the fish head was able to follow its target, giving the behemoth zero reprises from the damage it took. The blast beam ensued for the next ten seconds before Peppers fainted from the strain of the magical spell, rainbow vomit still leaking out of her mouth.
Jin quickly turned her around to let the vomit out of her body and for her to breathe or else the vomit would clog up her windpipe. The weakened Milk staggered towards Jin and held onto Peppers. “I will take care of her from here. Go.” Milk whispered with whatever strength she had left.
Jin nodded his head as he took out Bam and Boo. He turned them into a cannon and started to fire at the behemoth, which was panting crazily. “Looks like it did not manage to enter phase 2 successfully, you guys disrupted its regeneration process.” Moloch came towards Jin as he was firing his cannon, sweating like a pig.
“Man, if you can talk that much, you should help with attacking or something,” Jin complained towards Moloch but it was also at that moment that he saw a figure standing on top of the broken bridge and he trailed off.
“…. Technique. White Lotus Breeze.” Zeru swung his sword once and white flowery petals magically surfaced from his swing as the petals indolently descended onto the broken behemoth. When a petal of the white lotus touched the behemoth, a river of blood gushed out of the behemoth as if a fireman had turned on the water hose at full power. The behemoth, unsurprisingly, screamed in agonising pain.
More of the white lotus petals descended upon the behemoth and the bridge was beginning to overflow with blood, tainting the river below in a dark scarlet red. Despite its wounds though, the behemoth stood up again with all strength it could muster and stared at the man firing a cannon at him.
Jin was overextending his limit with this simple act too. At Grade 2, he was only able to shoot two cannon shots from his bamboo cannon and theoretically at grade 4, he should only manage with four. However, with the Magpie Witchery, which allowed him to boost his chi, he already exceeded four shots and till now, he had already fired off more than ten shots.
He was barely standing straight and the recoil of the cannon was not helping him at all. Jin was simply firing based solely on willpower and remembering the training he had received from Zeru in the Farm World to exert himself even further. His Dantian somehow managed to produce just enough chi to shoot a chi cannon shot once again.
“Didn’t Moloch say there was a time limit?!” Jin thought to himself as he fired off the last shot he could muster before he fell to the ground, feeling extremely dizzy and weak.
The Behemoth snorted the moment the cannon shots stopped hitting him before it roared once more and from within, the bleeding stopped. The bull behemoth stood up on two legs and white wings stained with blood emerged from its back. Jin then felt a warm tender light shining from it.
“Do not be deceived by that tender warmness. That shine, it hurts eventually.” Moloch smirked as the man puppet stood before Jin. “But not to fear master, I provide you with some shade.” Moloch’s man puppet snapped its finger and poker cards appeared in front of him.
He threw the cards at the Winged Behemoth but the ‘angel’ shot them down in an instant with ray beams from its eyes. However, the cards did not exactly disappear. Instead, as they dissolved in the ray beams, the cards transformed into doves and they continued to fly towards the angel.
The doves flew and crashed into the behemoth before exploding into blasts of green fire. The Winged Behemoth was angered by the attack and decided to swoop down to destroy its enemies. At this point, Moloch’s man puppet clapped once and out came tens of poker cards as they started to revolve around him. Moloch swung his hand in a circular motion and the cards enlarged themselves to become a hundred layer barrier to halt the winged behemoth’s advance.
The Winged Behemoth did not care though and started to use all its might to punch through the card barrier. However, it belatedly noticed that each time a card broke, pieces of the card would still cut the behemoth. The wounds were minor, but for a protective barrier to do damage against the enemy was still a feat.
As it broke through the last card barrier, the Winged behemoth saw Jin squatting with his Bam Katana Form. “That chi regeneration from Jin’s Dantian point is amazing.” Yun thought to herself as she saw the entire scene unfolded before her eyes while she was in the Dungeon Maker.
Jin poured whatever chi he still had, but being too weak to even propel himself upwards, Moloch gave him a helping hand. By placing an enlarged card under Jin, the card pushed him upwards.
It was at this time that Jin felt something stirring within him. It was as if a Panda was growling along with him. Without even looking, he understood this particular feeling as he felt some power returned to his legs.
“Grade 5.” He smirked to himself.
However, what he did not notice was that not only did he attain Grade 5, something within him had been unlocked when he reached Grade 5 and he had already unconsciously used it in the battle against the Winged Behemoth.
Black Yin and white Yang energy flowed out of him and encircled the katana, which strengthened it tremendously. What he did not know was that his Katana had been infused with Black Fire and White Ice.
The Winged Behemoth received Jin’s Katana pierce with its own punch… only to see its arm shrouded in blocks of White Ice whilst burning with Black Fire. It yelled in agony as it fell to the ground. However, before its body reached to the ground, the guardian disappeared and an area wide announcement was given by the dungeon core.
“Time’s up.”
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