Alexia

On a side note, I make sure to pull out my phone and take a picture of the hideous monstrosity. Because I want proof that this thing exists.

Maybe I can use it to scare someone. That would be amusing.

I put my phone away before teleporting several meters to my left onto a smaller cocoon the moment a bolt of lightning strikes where I was standing from a bunch of lightning clouds that fill the top of the cavern. Then rain begins pouring down as well, drenching me in an instant as I stare blankly and soaked at it.

“Seriously?” I mutter, feeling like this creature is trying to piss me off.

Then another bolt of lightning strikes where I am, with me teleporting less than a second before it hits. Followed by another where I end up, and another teleport. Then another. And another.

And now Cal is seriously starting to piss me off.

To make matters worse? I have to teleport up into the air or onto webbing to avoid the remnant electricity that’s running through the water covering the ground of the cavern from the rain. All while Cal doesn’t even more an inch. Just follows me with his eyes.

Or rather, with the eyes of his human head following me. While sparking with electricity.

The other heads aren’t following me. They aren’t even looking at me.

Interesting.

I teleport right over the creepy as hell spider, making lighting straight on top of it when I teleport away again.

But, to my great surprise, the thing ignores it and continues striking after me with lightning.

Guess it has immunity to electricity.

Great.

In that case, I send a Quantum Bolt at it the moment I finish my next teleport, blasting a small chunk off of its carapace and making it let out a loud screech in the process. Then the lightning stops for a bit, and I take the chance to teleport up to it and slash my polearm straight through its human face’s eyes, making the screech go up an octave. And at the same time, screaming begins to echo out from the human head itself. As if the other heads’ screeching weren’t already annoying enough.

Strong volts of electricity begin building up around the human head before blasting straight at me, making me teleport backwards to avoid them. But the electricity somehow homes in on me anyways, turning towards where I end up.

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I still manage to avoid it though. Mostly.

Instead of being hit directly by it, I end up landing in the foot-high water on the cavern floor that’s still growing higher. With the electricity striking the water several meters away from me and then electrifying me in the process to the point that I fall to my knees while letting off steam.

“Fuck…” I mutter while teleporting out of the water and copying my body from the past, pasting it onto my current self with Quantum Stasis Copy to heal all of the damage that had just happened. Which included the frying of a large portion of the nerves in my legs.

Hence me falling to my knees.

But on the bright side, Cal is done with the lightning storm. Now it’s just rain, rain, and more rain.

Rain that is getting heavier and heavier as I stand here, making me frown at the sight.

My gaze quickly turns towards Cal again when I realize some of the water is beginning to float into the air. Then I spot glowing blue eyes on the ant head. Meanwhile volts of electricity continue running across the human head.

Guess that confirms it.

This monster has multiple different magics, each tied to a different head.

Which most likely means it has two more affinities of magic that I’ll have to deal with.

I can guess a nature type affinity for the plant head, but what type of magic would the spider head have? Poison, maybe?

Possibly.

I teleport away right when a bunch of spears made of water fly straight at where I was standing, making me grimace. Especially when more orbs of water begin floating high up into the air all around the place with weapons forming from the orbs.

Great. Round two now.

And to make matters worse, the human head isn’t done yet. But since it can’t see – the heads apparently not having a shared sense of sight – it sends all of its electricity straight into the water at its feet.

So I have to teleport through the air instead of touching the ground. And the only place I can land are the webs of flesh, which are disgusting to touch. Even if it’s through my greaves.

I am absolutely having my armor washed after this.

After dodging more than a few blades of water, I manage to make my way back to Cal again before appearing right in front of it and slashing my blade. Only for Cal to swing one of its limbs upwards to block the blade with the claws on the limb’s hand. Then it swings another limb at me from the side, making the limb pass straight through without so much as scratching me.

An occurrence that seems to startle the creature. Enough that I manage to teleport again and impale the creature’s ant head with my polearm.

Making the rain come to a complete stop in an instant.

The clouds don’t fade a way though, and instead lightning begins to fly down all over the place. With the spider – and I hesitate to call it a spider if I’m being honest – no doubt deciding to just forgo any plans to strike randomly.

Meanwhile vines begin breaking out of the ground while heading straight for me as the mouth of the plant head starts glowing. Not the eyes. The mouth.

Then again, it has no eyes. So…

Not sure how it’s seeing me.

And to make matters worse, the spider head opens its mouth, its eight eyes glowing a purple color as an equally glowing purple liquid leaks out of its mouth and merges with the water.

But the thought that runs through my head as I grimace at the sight of what’s no doubt poison mixing with the water isn’t about how annoying it’ll be.

It’s why the heck this spider has all these webs set up if it’s just gonna destroy them all with its own attacks.