Izo knew she was no match for the creature physically without her scythe as the rest of the spells would be largely useless given the monster’s gigantic size. Therefore, she resorted to more logical means of battle, however, said method required her to vocally chant out loud her spell. Izo dodges a blast of Ice and begins to chant the old-fashioned way, “Elements, hear my call-.”
Izo dives for the surface of the water and then dives back up in a zig-zag like pattern avoiding the attacks as a giant clawed hand heads for her. Izo is unable to fully dodge and is slightly grazed by the claw. Izo is sent hurtling through the air until she dizzily manages to come to a stop. Wincing at the damage received, Izo doesn’t bother healing herself as Izo continues, “Water that creeps through the air and sky, come to a place that dwells in darkness-.”
Izo is forced to dive once more just avoid the claw attack. The Godzilla-like creature lets out a roar and dives forward to capture the maddening prey.
“Be my strength and my protection! Water, I summon thee!” Izo shouted as a giant water woman emerges from the sea to block the body blow. The giant Godzilla creature roars in fury as the two giants collide. For the first time in a long time, Izo feels her mana rapidly depleting to host the giant summoned water spirit element.
Taking a deep breath, Izo begins to gather her strength to cast, “Mrt D’imsible Spada.” While the water element keeps the giant creature tied down, Izo finally finishes casting her spell.
Suddenly the air is filled with thousands of impossibly large glowing crimson swords that appear out of the sky and hurtle towards the creature.
The gigantic creature doesn’t even notice the blades until they grow larger and larger the closer they get. By the time the blades pierced through into the creature, the magical blades had grown as large as the creature’s claws turning the monster’s body into a giant pincushion.
The monster lets out a roar at the pain but is unable to move as the water element holds the creature still. The blades as if pushed by an invisible giant hand press dig deeper into the flesh of the creature until the creature succumbs from it’s wound. With a final cry, the creature falls dead into the sea and evaporates.
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Izo breathlessly says, “I’m done for now.” Unsummoning the elemental, Izo tiredly gathers the dropped items not even bothering to check them.
Izo tiredly lands by the doorway and croaks, “We should head back now.” To Izo’s surprise, all three girls hug her fox masked figure in relief. Izo softly says, “I’m fine, now, let’s get going, we’re all tired.”
With flushed faces, the girls quickly let go as Tiffany says, “We should team up again.”
“Maybe,” Izo replied back. The girls look a bit disappointed at her response, but they don’t complain.
As they head back, Clara says, “The 20th-floor dungeon floors are yours. We only stood by and didn’t lift a finger, so please don’t argue with our decision.”
“I should, but I won’t,” Izo drily replied getting a chuckle out of the girls.
Their trip back went much more smoothly as the monsters had yet to respawn. On the first floor, however, just outside of the Dungeon exit, Izo handed over half of their items to them. The girls split the items between the three of them and marvel and gape at the bounty they had found.
The three women happily thank Izo as Izo waves their thanks off and head back outside. The moment, the four of them make it outside a group of lawyers and security are waiting for them. “That’s the man! Not only did he turn my party against me, but cheated me out of items!” Miles ruthlessly declared.
Clara, Miranda, and Tiffany indignantly glare at Miles. Before any of them can shout back, Izo holds up her hand and pulls out a recording orb. Miles fails to recognize the orb, but the guild guards don’t. Izo tosses it to one of the guards who checks the recording. After a moment, the guard says, “Sir, you’re going to have to come with us. These are serious allegations.”
“Excuse me?” Miles protested as buff guards surround him and forcefully drag him back towards the office.
Izo turns to face the girls and say, “You girls should be fine. But next time, find a party leader that isn’t such an asshole.”
The three blinked with gratitude in their eyes as Izo turns away to leave. “Wait, where are you going?” Tiffany called back.
“Home,” Izo called back as the teleportation ring grew bright and disappeared.
The three women are left rather despondent as Tiffany whispers, “We didn’t even ask his name.”
“No, but I’m sure if we get stronger, we’ll meet again,” Miranda boldly declared to Clara and Tiffany’s surprise. The three women return to their own Guild branch to sell and sort their items. The three of them had made a small fortune enough to retire if they wished and live comfortably the rest of their lives.
*
Izo had arrived at the guild branch and quickly headed to the counters to turn to turn her completed missions. Afterwards, Izo scurries away with her payment in hand and teleports into the Marchen Inc. Auction vault. Depositing all of the items onto the floor as usual, (which bothered Flora and Valentine to no end,) Izo went home to rest. Because the best thing after a hard day’s work is a good night of sleep.