Two vines shot out of the ground and wrapped around a rib of the snake.
It wasn’t going to hold it long, but we just needed to disrupt it. The snake's head was knocked to the side as the weight at the end of the rope collided with it.
Rix, now visible, danced away from the snake, pulling her rope back and snapping it at the tail that tried to swipe her.
“LOOK AT ME!” Ether made the immobile boss focus on her.
“Magic Arrow!” Aelin mimicked pulling an arrow on the bow. A pink, because what else should I have expected, arrow materialized. She let it loose and it bit into the snake's head.
“Oh! I want to try something!” The blonde looked at Rix. "Hit it again!”
I started running at it. One of the vines holding it snapped.
“Bind!” I pointed at the middle of the snake. The vine still connected vanished as two new vines latched on to the Boss.
“Good to know." I muttered to no one in particular as I hacked at the ribs and backed away.
“Harden!”
The weight went through one of the smaller ribs.
“Victory!” Aelin began jumping up and down.
The snake had decided that if it wasn’t going to be able to move and it couldn’t swipe the two people attacking it, it was going to sandblast Ether. It started charging.
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“Charging!” I remembered that I had forgotten to explain what that meant. "Hit it!”
Rix started smashing into it with her improvised ball and chain. Aelin was shooting arrows at its face while I was hacking at what I could. I knew that I would have done more damage with an ax, but I was going to stay away from those for a while.
The snake started spewing sand, which Ether braced against while blocking most of the blast. The remaining stream curved around the shield, falling harmlessly to the rock floor.
Once the snake was done with its breath attack, it turned towards me and snapped with its jaws.
“BIND!” I dodged to the side as the vines holding the middle of the snake vanished and two new vines shot out of the ground and latched on to the head.
The whole snake almost flipped over as its head slammed into the ground. I used the opportunity to close back in. I started hacking at ribs while Rix and Aelin attacked the head. No one had gotten hit, so there wasn’t much for Justia to do since she was only focusing on healing.
The snake struggled harder against the vines. I’m not sure if it was the snake or a stray attack, but one of the restraints snapped and vanished.
“BIND!”
New vines replaced the old ones and the monster remained pinned. We were taking off large portions of the monster’s body.
“Shield Attack!” Ether threw her shield. It collided with the boss's nose and bounced off it back to her hands.
The four of us continued our assault. It was almost too easy, despite the heavy investment in holding it in place. It took us almost twenty minutes to defeat the boss, but we did it this time without getting hit.
Aelin started cheering as the monster vanished into smoke. There was a clang and I heard clapping. There was an image of Trent walking towards us. I could see the eyeball above him projecting the image.
“Congratulations!” Our teacher was smiling. "Collect your loot and come back, We’re leaving right after we eat.”
“Ugh.” Aelin groaned. "I hate ration bars.”
“No ration bars this time.” He winked. "I’m taking you to the cafe.”
He vanished before we could ask him anything else.