Chapter 847 Chapter 846: Terracotta Grottos (12)
?The bovine monster that Satanya was talking about was, of course, the largest, most muscular monster in sight, standing somewhere in the mid eights in terms of height and laden with bulging muscles.
Two sets of long, sharp horns sprouted from its head and curled around down towards its snout, which sported two tusks reminiscent of elephant tusks, creating a rather dangerous nest of keratin and ivory that threatened to tear whatever was on the receiving end of that apart. N0v3lRealm was the platform where this chapter was initially revealed on N0v3l.B1n.
All four of its legs were meaty pillars half as wide as I was tall, and just as tall as I was, supporting a giant barrel of flesh and muscle that was covered in a grassy fur coat that hid its whorled brown skin that almost looked like bark, except for the fact that it moved and stretched like skin.
It was imposingly large, and considering the smaller, less dangerous versions of it standing around munching on grass, this would be a battle against the entire herd, not just this singular bovine.
Though, as soon as Satanya mentioned steaks to the rest of the Demons, our course of action was set in stone as they all turned their hungry gazes towards the bovine, who blinked its four large brown eyes at us, wondering what the hell was happening as it watched more and more Demons crowd around it.
Some of the Demons - like Jahi - raised their mana imbued shields and planted their feet, creating small islands in this sea of rock and roots as they endured the attacks, preventing the roots from reaching them as they splintered in their mana instead.
The rest of us relied on our quick feet to dodge through the various attacks, jumping and rolling to avoid what we could whilst trusting in our Mana Cloaks to block the rest; and thanks to the mages in the back, we were receiving a mixture of direct support in the form of buff spells, and some indirect support as they launched spells towards the herd.
Firebolts flew through the air at breakneck speeds, slamming into the grassy hides of the bovines and eliciting shrieks of pain as they endured the initial barrage, the Water Mana lingering in the grass blocking the worst of the flames whilst their thicker skin and muscles helped alleviate the damages caused by the stones and rocky spears hurled their way.
This raid on the monsters and their leader was a precarious one for us both; for them, they had nowhere to run since their backs were against the edge of the plateau, making them dangerous, and we had the ability to run, but doing so would mean trekking through other monsters territories.
So... obviously, the solution was to just win, and with our melee leader shrouded in gold wielding a shield and sword far too large for even her size, and with two extremely deadly mages behind us, well... winning was relatively easy, just... time consuming.
After all, how easily can you hack through a woven armor of grass and roots, such thick, Earth Mana infused skin, and then the incredible muscles that laid beneath all of that?
It would take time, and as we reached the area around the giant bovine, we were no longer fighting against just it and its stomping spells, but instead against a herd of smaller, yet still deadly bovines that were coming to their leaders aid, mooing and snorting as they stomped over towards us at slow, yet extremely heavy runs, their sharpened horns lowered and aimed at our chests.