Chapter 75: What’s under

Chapter 75: What’s under

Were it not for the skeletons weighing the tentacle down, it might have blasted Aliths head instead of her waist. Even her undead body wouldnt have saved her from such a blow.

She could do nothing as her upper body fell, grasped by gravity. She still had both her arms but that would do little for her, the second tentacle was coming in for a pierce, she wouldnt even have time to hit the floor.

Sofia was panicking, she couldnt heal Alith because of the roof.

But Pareth was still there. He still had [Greater heal]. Sofia felt Pareths mana drop to almost zero.

[Greater heal] : Instantly heal a target to full HP. Costs (100* targets class level/2) mana. 24 hours cooldown. Causes a heavy strain on the targets soul.

Aliths body grew back explosively, but she was still under the shock.

YOUR SKILL! Dopple screamed.

Out of her stupor, Alith barely managed to move enough to activate [Utterly unimpressed] before the tentacle reached her. Even with the 50% damage reduction, the tentacle still broke through Dopples defenses and pierced a hole through Aliths torso, right below her neck. But it failed to go any further. This tentacle was the one that she had been attacking all this while, and it was already quite weakened.

Alith struck with both her weapons, the tentacles tip that had penetrated her flesh was severed from the damaged tentacle. The monster pulled back its limb, it was going to attack again with the other one.

The skeletons had been accumulating on both tentacles, latching on them whenever they neared the ground. It slowed them enough for Alith to escape through a window.

Sofia was there to catch and heal her. Pareth teleported to them as well. Only the graveyard skeletons were left inside to suffer the Phageids ire.

Pareth and Sofia were both almost out of mana by now. The monster squid still had one fully functional tentacle, and one that was pretty damaged and missing the tip.

They wanted to finish the thing off, but they were out of options, so Sofia made the decision to retreat. The hit Alith took had been a close call, they had largely underestimated the strength of the monster, they couldnt afford to take more risks.

Lets hope it cannot heal

At least the thing didnt follow them as Sofia flew them back up to their observation spot on the rampart. Much like it did in the battle, the monster didnt move from atop the Midenicite sphere. Its like a bird incubating an egg. [Graveyard of the righteous]s effect ended as Sofia left its range, the tombstones and skeletons dissolving into a mist of mana.

They had left their backpacks up on the wall, the first thing Alith did was to unpack hers to find and put on a new pair of pants, as her old ones had been destroyed with her. She had taken a fair lot of them from the blue glass factory workers old clothes, exactly to remedy situations like these.

[Heal Undead] reached level 57

[Graveyard of the Righteous] reached level 101

[Graveyard of the Righteous] reached level 102

[Graveyard of the Righteous] reached level 103

[Graveyard of the Righteous] reached level 104

[Summon blood] reached level 41

Well hear me out

It was the dumbest plan Alith had ever heard.

They immediately got to work.

The mithril Kamas were cutting through the blue stone like through butter, Sofia had taken one as well, the only problem was how short the blades were. Down in the mansions first floor, both girls were busy carving away a large hole in the ground.

Since the shape of the weapons was impractical, they had tied them to long wing bones from Sofias storage, so that these new handles were in line with the blades, at least like this they could cut the ground while standing up.

Since the air outside the city was so weird, and it looked like there was nothing under there, it was an interesting bet whether the creature would die if it fell into this weird black void. But worst case, if it didnt die, it would at least get rid of the sphere. And getting rid of the spheres meant likely getting rid of the palaces shield.

Their only problem now was carving a hole large enough right under where the monster was. All the while making as little noise as possible.

They cycled the work shifts with Pareth to get some rest.

One meter down.

Three.

Five.

They didnt even try to keep track of time. Only slaving away in the hole. This was still better than getting exploded out of reality by the monsters tentacles. So they didnt complain. In the empty city, they had nothing else to do anyway.

Realistically, they could have killed the thing by doing the same fight once or twice more. It only had two tentacles left after all. But why take so much risk?

It was around the ten meters mark that Alith hit the bottom. She whispered, Were there! Its really empty under there! I can feel it. She then drew a circle in the ground with her blade. Once completed, the circular piece of blue crystal fell. Without a sound, it fell down. Sofia and Alih looked into the hole. All they could see was the black void, and the falling chunk of Midenicite, that shrank more and more until it disappeared from view.

They nodded to each other. Sofia smiled, that was the confirmation that her Idea could work; Alith gave her a thumbs up. Now to dig the rest of the hole

One thing they had thought up during this time was to boil down the blood for water. Sofia needed it, raw blood wasnt so good for hydration, it turned out.

They had no fire but Sofias half cast lightning was very efficient. They went back to the outer city to do that, to be safe. It was disgusting but it worked. The evaporated water collected on the ceiling, all she had to do was scrape it off and drink it.

It was also good training for [Summon blood]. She dumped most of her mana into it, since she had nothing else to do with it anyway, so the skill that had still been low level was upgrading fast. In the meantime, Inspired by Sofias feats, Alith was also trying hard to make something work that had been haunting her for a while. To her surprise, to some level of success.

The void outside the city proved to be a very good place to evacuate the thousands of liters of excess summoned blood.

The passage of time was a bit blurry in this city where day and night didnt exist, but after what felt like at least a week, the hole was done. Chicken Pareth was the one to give the finishing slashes, dragging the kama around on the floor with his beak. He started falling down into the black void, Sofia and Alith were both curious about what would happen if he fell down, but Pareth teleported back, as ordered. They couldnt take the risk. And also he still held the kama.

Still silent, they stood around the round gaping hole of their creation in the mansions floor. The walls were uneven, and just being around it was scary.

Surely this time. Were killing that squid.