What Aston had said wasn’t exactly true. It might have hurt less due to his passive [Pain Suppression], but it was also a fact that his health took a significant dip. That one attack had dropped his health by twenty percent. With him as the one with the second highest defence in our group, we can easily tell how much damage it would have been if it had hit our healer instead.
The damage done by that one attack could have been fatal if we hadn’t been through the training we did. Even though we struggled so much to complete the training, I believed that it had been worth it.
Wasting no more time to allow Camazotz to attack, I gave out commands through telepathy.
“Slyvie, stay back and heal whenever someone fall below sixty percent of their health. Raoul, stay close to Slyvie and block Camazotz’s path to attack her. Gracie and Chris, try your best to lock down Camazotz’s movement. Aston, attack it when his movements are slowed down enough for you to hit.”
“But, but I can’t see the health like you can!”
Slyvie shouted out. I had totally forgotten that one. Believing that there was no harm in trying, I used [Spores Suggestion] on Slyvie to make her see the health of everyone above their heads.
“What-WHAT!? I can see them now!”
“Then what are you going to do, big shot?”
Came the question from Gracie. Her tone wasn’t one of annoyance at me calling the shots. She had already saw my leadership capabilities during the training camp and was already following my instructions while she asked that.
“Just buy me some time! There’s something that I want to try.”
As I said that, I spent the fifty stats point that I had to obtain the other two types of spores that I had skipped out on originally.
MicrosporesYou use more mana to produce microscopic spores. These spores are able to pass through places that are usually not penetrable.Cost: 3*mana
SporelingBy spending your health and mana, you are able to create a separate existence. It can only use [Spores Emission] but other spores type may be used if you have the access to it. It's stats are determined by the amount of health and mana spent on it.Cost: Varies
Since I had no intention of directly fighting Camazotz, I moved the bonus stats from [Information Processing] from Strength all towards Wisdom. It brought down my Strength to only fifty five but increased my Wisdom to a staggering amount of a hundred and fifty eight.
With nearing two thousand mana, I spent one hundred health and one thousand mana on each of the sporelings that I was creating.
StatuesName:SporelingHealth:100/100Mana:1000/1000Health regen:1/sMana regen:10/sSkill:[Blood Spore], [Microspores]
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It takes almost half a minute to recover enough mana to make another sporeling. That was a long time considering that the others continued fighting a losing battle with Camazotz as they were unable to hit him. I had to give each of my sporelings so much mana so that they could have enough mana regeneration to be able to last long enough for what I needed them to do.
When five minutes had past, I had created ten sporelings that I hid nearby. With my preparation done, I switched back the Wisdom bonus back to Strength.
“Now!”
I shouted out loud although there wasn’t a need to. With my command, each of the ten sporelings spread out thick clouds of [Microspores] into the air, which in just moments, covered the whole area we were fighting in.
“This!?”
Gracie momentarily stopped fighting Camazotz and looked at the scene before her. It was similar to what she had encountered back in the lumberjack camp. The differences lies within the fact that these spores were a lot smaller and there were a lot more of them too.
“Continue fighting!”
I shouted as I leaped into the fight to join Gracie and Chris in attempting to stop Camazotz, which had not been stopped once so far. Camazotz just sneered at me and said,
“Like you joining the fight will be of any help!”
We just continued trying to fight Camazotz but wasn’t able to injury him nor slow him down enough for Aston to land a hit. As the fight proceeded, the spores concentration in the air continued to thicken. What Camazotz didn’t know was that the [Microspores] in the air were going to be the cause of his downfall.
Believing that the spores were already thick enough, I set the plan into motion. Gigantic tentacles sprouted from the walls everywhere, grabbing hold of Camazotz’s wings, feets, and even his neck and brought him down on to the ground.
“What!?”
Was the response that came from everyone, Camazotz included. I shouted out to get them out of their confusion,
“Now’s the chance to attack!”
Hearing my command, Aston landed his first hit on Camazotz, followed soon by others. Even Raoul who was supposed to be protecting Slyvie joined in. Although he didn’t kept his full attention on protecting Slyvie, he still looked back towards Slyvie with every hit to make sure that she remained safe.
As Camazotz remained tied down by the tentacles and were unable to fight back nor avoid the barrage of attacks by us, he cried out,
“What kind of sorcery is this!? How are these tentacles so fast and are able to escape my sensors!?”
I ignored his questions and continued stabbing him until I was sure that he had died. When I was satisfied, the tentacles disappeared into puffs of smoke. With the boss dead and the other bats seemingly afraid to attack us, Gracie spoke the question.
“So where did those tentacles came from? I’ll assume that they are your doings.”
“They are. And they are just illusions.”
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