Tim shot about six Electro Nerve Splitter shots against the beetle, and he made those shots rather quickly, on account to how intense the situation was. However, the beetle wasn't even winded by those, it kept trotting forward as if it didn’t have a brain at all!

“What the fuck…” Tim sighed, and then just continued to fly upwards.

At this point he had spent about a thousand mana points already, and this price hurt him, because he barely made any progress so far, but that was just how the situation played out, he was unlucky. He figured he'd be okay as long as he kept flying, and tried to stay still.

Tim was about fifty feet above the ground now, the bones that he was controlling, helped him fly that high. He felt safer now, regardless of how he might fall to his death if he flinched too much, but then, he noticed that the beetle had become airborne as well, which shook him to the core!

The beetle wasn't jumping, it wasn’t reaching, but it was flying! It had wings, and although those insect wings may not be enough to allow the beetle fly as elegantly as a dragon, it was airborne nonetheless, and it flew towards Timothy quite stubbornly!

“You ugly, rhinoceros-looking bastard!” He grunted, as he was irritated as much as he was nervous.

After a couple of seconds, he managed to position his hand well enough to summon a fireball, so he did exactly that. He shot the hottest fireball he could summon, and had it expand eight feet wide, so he could engulf the beetle with fire entirely, horn and all!

Once he heard the beetle screech out in pain, he grinned, and his grin was purely evil, because he was thoroughly enjoying the pain that the beetle was feeling! One may question his ethics, but it wasn't like the beetle was a noble creature either, it would've eaten his corpse if he failed to shoot it down.

Anyway, although the beetle’s body wasn't burned too much, its thin wings were absolutely destroyed, so it plummeted towards the ground afterwards. Once it crashed, it created a bit of a crater on the field!

“Fat bastard,” He said, after he heard the thud.

Tim then noticed that the beetle was still moving, and this was alarming, because if his hottest fireball couldn't obliterate this thing, then nothing might! This was problematic, because he had already spent two-thousand mana points throughout this battle, and it would stupid to be even more wasteful now, he wanted to be savvy with the nineteen thousand points that remained in his pool.

After a moment of turning the wheels in his head just to find a plan, he came up with something that might just kill this beast, and he was willing to try it out.

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“Fire doesn't kill it, huh? Maybe gravity will, then.” He plotted.

Since the beetle couldn't fly back to him, he used this grand freedom to multiply the four bones that were holding him up. He multiplied the bones into hundreds, and at first he merged some bones in order to make a very short plank for himself to sit on, as he needed a bit more balance up here in the sky. Two small bones were holding his back, so he was quite steady now.

Afterwards, he kept multiplying the other bones, until the numbers entered the thousands! This was the charm of this ability, because as long as he had the mana, he could multiply a single bone into an infinite amount, and have them hang around for hours at a time as well. It took hours for the bones to disintegrate after he stopped pouring mana on them, so he could pick up the same bones at a later time within the day as well if he needed to. This ability was beyond useful, he was glad that he bought it.

Anyway, at some point he stopped multiplying the bones, and started merging them instead. He merged them in a way where he formed a huge spear, and this spear was about fifteen feet tall, and three feet wide! Its tip was pointy, so this was practically like a gigantic crossbow bolt, rather than a spear. It was glorious!

Tim wanted to hit the bug with this bolt, however, he understood that he had to be very accurate if his plan was to work. This bolt wasn't easy to move around, as it was very heavy, so he had one shot to make his plan work!

To carry out what remained of his plan, he had to fly down, and meet the bug on the ground. This was beyond dangerous, on the count that he could get mowed down easily, but he was thirty-five hundred mana points deep into this battle already, so he couldn’t back down!

Tim beamed to the ground, but he didn’t bother standing up from his little chair, as it would take too much time to do so. He just stared the Demon Beetle down, and watched it charge forward much like an actual rhinoceros would.

When the beetle was ten meters away, he stopped fueling the large, fifteen foot long bolt that had been floating above his head. The bolt, in turn, plummeted towards the ground, but of course, the beetle didn't notice this, because its eyes were locked on its target that it very much loathed!

The beetle kept charging forward, until it suddenly felt its own shell break after a loud thud! The large bolt had hit it, and it had been heavy enough to pierce through the beetle through and through!

Two seconds later, the beetle exploded into four, large pieces! It was dead.

Once he grinned on its severed carcass, Tim stopped using his mana entirely. He had already been four-thousand points deep into spending, so there was no point in spending any more of it. Using his own abilities was expensive itself, but making large bolts was even more expensive, though effective!

[Demon Beetle killed.] A notification sounded out in his head, [1,200 system points have been added to your sum as a reward, and you've accumulated 4,200 points in total.]

“At least something good came out of this,” He grunted, “Who'd have known that a beetle could grow to the size of a fucking buffalo? It's making me question if I even need to be blessed by that bastarding priest.”

Tim tried to relax afterwards, because he figured that his group would come back for him eventually, as they must have heard all the commotion, even from that far away. He wanted to wait for them, but then he heard the ground rumble again!

Four more Demon Beetles crawled out of the ground, and each of them were different in size. He didn’t know how to deal with these ones yet, but he knew that it was going to be a very expensive battle!