Timothy cranked the Bone Multiplier ability to the max, and attacked the Sea Orc with it. He multiplied a bunch of bones, as the name would suggest, and thus created these whole, random bones across the target's spine!
The idea was simple, he wanted to make the target immobile, so it wouldn't be able to flee anymore. This was the best course of action, because after all, there weren't many other ways to deal with a huge, serpent-like dragon that could swim up to 130 km/h! He attacked.
While they were in the air, huge bones grew out of the Sea Orc's spine, and they were exposed bones too. With the latter, he was finally able to pierce through the target’s virtually indestructible scales. Apparently the scales were destructible if the dragon's spine was taking all the damage, so he kept expanding the advantage that he made. He even started denting its actual spine like this, because the fake bones were making their way to the dragon’s nervous system, they wanted to be part of the dragon!
“Hahaha! You bastard!” He celebrated.
The dragon started plummeting from the sky after a moment, but Timothy could still see the beast, so he kept attacking it, until he made its spine absolutely immobile! Amongst other things, about seventeen exposed bones curled out of the dragon’s spine before it had hit the water, so it was fair to say that Timmy achieved his goal. At a spending rate of six-thousand mana points per second, and a total of thirty-thousand more mana points throughout the use of this ability, he achieved his goal all while in the air!
The dragon just splashed on the water, and it tried to move, but every nudge it made, riddled the dragon in pain as a result, so it simply stopped fighting. It stopped trying to get away, and thus, it was slowly dying - portions of its spine were close to breaking!
“Why couldn't you have just spat them out? You big bastard ye. Skendus hasn't spoken to me in a while, they're probably all mush now after all this chasing and moving around…” Tim muttered, as he plummeted from the sky.
Timothy had leaped well over a hundred meters above the water, nearly one-hundred and fifty, while the dragon reached the maximum altitude of fifty meters. Considering his aerodynamic shape and weight, it wasn’t a surprise that Tim flew higher in comparison, but now it was time to fly down, and he was to land sixty meters away from the crippled dragon.
It didn't take long to land in the water, it only took a few seconds. Timothy wanted to avoid any and all damage upon impact, so he dove in head first, rather than belly first, because if he dove in belly first, he'd end up being the flattest pancake in the world! He was too flat-bodied to attempt such a stunt, so he avoided it, and actually avoided most damage shortly after, as the couple of durability upgrades he has had in the past, kept him alive and well.
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Though, the impact was still pretty strong, so he ended up yelling. “Ouch! Jesus! My brain must've spun in place like three times!”
Although the latter wasn't possible, it still served a point. His head took most of the damage as he dove in, but this wasn't too deadly for him, point being, he couldn’t suffer a concussion as easily as humans, or mammals would. He was fine.
Afterwards, he turned around and started swimming towards his friends, and during this short swim, he didn’t even care about all the mana that he lost, not a bit. He just hoped that his friends were alive and well!
“Come on… Skendus, talk to me.” He grunted, and he was getting very nervous, because if a strong illusionist wasn't able to reach him, then he may not be alive anymore. “Please… this is such a stupid way to die.”
Timothy reached the crippled dragon, and then he undid some of the extra teeth across its mouth. He wanted to see if his friends were there, waiting to be freed, but no luck! They weren't in its mouth, and at this point, odds were that they had either fallen in its stomach, or got crushed to death one way or the other, because of all the movement and splashing around that the dragon did. Tim felt heartbroken, and he felt partially responsible for this, because he couldn’t stop the dragon in time! He felt that he had failed them.
However, his spirit was as strong as his good will, so he decided to shapeshift into an aqus goblin, and then walk into the dragon’s mouth himself. This wasn't dangerous for him, not immediately at least, because he had locked the dragon's jaw with all the extra teeth that he had created in its mouth. The dragon couldn’t close its jaw, it couldn't even move its body at all, and unless Timothy decided to spare it, the dragon would be in this state for days to come, because the artificial bones that he created took several days to dissipate!
“Are you bastards down there?” He called out, as soon as he walked through the dragon's large throat. “Maybe I took too much time shapeshifting? Damn! Well, it's not like I could've swam down here as a stingray.”
Timothy continued the search. He climbed down the dragon's throat ‘canal’, because this thing was too big to be called anything else, and he continued climbing down that path. Eventually he was ten feet deep, and although his friends weren't here, there were vast quantities of blood splattered all over the place, to the point where he could easily tell which part of its throat was coated in blood, and which part was just plain slimey! He was petrified by the thought of his friends having turned into nothing more but a bloody mist, and the pungent stench certainly didn't help calm him down!
“No, please no…” He mumbled, as he climbed down the throat of the dragon even faster now. He wasn't as careful.
Tim eventually ended up near its stomach, and although he didn't fall in the stomach acid close by, he did get a good view of this place. It was as big as a cave, a very elongated cave surely, but a cave nonetheless! Tim tried to find his friends here, but he couldn't see them, and this was especially concerning, because even if they fell in the dragon's stomach, he would've at least found their sizzled bodies! There were plenty of Raptor Orclets carcasses down here, for example, and they were yet to be consumed by the stomach acid, so he was stumped for words here.
“Hello there,” Someone then spoke behind him.