In the blink of an eye, Elita threw herself at the others, knocking Carnivac and Shea out of the way. Before she even hit the ground, she was rolling and springing back up with her sword at the ready. Carnivac turned to see what was attacking us and saw a giant turtle covered in reddish-orange muck. Its head alone had to be at least three feet across. She thrust her broadsword at the creature’s head and jabbed it into the jaw. As soon as it penetrated the creature’s thick hide, she loosed a bolt of lightning through her sword and into it. The turtle reared back with a hiss and spasmed as the electricity coursed through it.

Carnivac pulled a handful of throwing knives from his thigh holster and flung them at the creature. Two of the blades lodged in its face but one of them found its eye. The turtle thrashed its head back and forth, snapping at us in a rage and started pushing itself back into the water.

“Oh no you don’t!” yelled Shea, “[WaterJet]!” Carnivac watched as water siphoned up from the lake to form a ball in front of her, trembling as it compressed from an unseen pressure. A laser-like stream of water shot from the ball, hitting the turtle in the neck. The force of the water blast lifted Shea and pushed her back until Carnivac was able to get behind her to provide more resistance. Her high-pressure water stream cut through the turtle’s thick skin like a hot knife but it wasn’t going deep enough. Shea slumped and her water ball collapsed as she ran low on the mana supplying it.

Carnivac rushed forward with his wakizashi short swords and hacked away at the wound that Shea had made. Blood gushed from the wound, he’d hit an artery. Not that his shadow magic would have been too helpful here, but without my main body inside to provide extra power, it felt like he was performing at about half of his ability.

Something changed with the turtle, it started pulling its massive head back into its shell while the reddish-orange muck vibrated and began forming spikes. Crap. Carnivac could tell it was gearing up for some sort of magic based attack but he didn’t have access to my [Console] abilities to try and throw a [PauseBreak;] into its magic functions. Nor did he have my main body’s maxed out resistances to all magic-based attacks.

The spikes shot out, and he threw himself over Shea to protect her from the blast. One of the spikes caught him in the back but it didn’t go deep. His systems started going nuts though. There’s no way he should be taking this much damage from that attack. He turned to see Elita sliding under the turtle’s chin with her blade at its throat then driving her sword to the hilt into the wound he’d made. Another lightning bolt attack and the turtle screamed as smoke poured out of its mouth and its wounded eye. He watched the creature drop into the mud as my connection to the proxy became less and less stable until it cut out completely.

Error Connection to proxy `Carnivac` could not be established

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