Mathias, despite being somewhat scared by what had just happened, readied his sling.
“I’m ready,” he told himself.
The divine creature began circling the area. From the ring of eyes behind the skull, several rays shot out.
“Huh? Ack!”
The rays were fired toward Mat, but they didn’t move in straight lines. It was as if they were homing in on him. Mathias, using his PSI Creations, dodged them all. He propelled himself with them while also making some of the rays hit his barriers, where they exploded.
After that, Mathias saw the creature and started spinning his sling, launching a fireball in its direction, but…
“Huh?” Mat said.
“What?” TRX asked.
“!” Roundy added.
It didn’t harm the creature.
“Groaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!”
“Agh!”
The deafening roar stunned Mat.
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“Agh, ack!”
Mathias was covering his ears.
Then, from one of the creature’s eye sockets, an eye emerged. Mathias, still disoriented, saw it. In that moment, he thought it was a weak point or something, but… He couldn’t do anything. He couldn’t move the sling because his head was throbbing, and his whole body hurt.
“Agh!”
“Mathias!” shouted TRX and Roundy.
Mathias barely got back on his feet, but by the time he did, the eye had already vanished. Then, the creature fired rays again.
“Ah!”
Mathias dodged them all once more.
“Huh?”
Then it did something new. This time, it fired a single ray directly from the eye at him, but… It didn’t harm him. Instead, some of its tentacles began to stretch rapidly toward him, as if trying to capture him. The rest seemed sharp and… had eyes. It was as if the ray was meant to track him, which… was strange.
“Ah!”
Mat ran, fleeing from the tentacles that approached him. He then used the sling, launching a fireball at the tentacles. They burned up.
“Oh, wow.”
He kept doing it several times until there were no tentacles left.
“Hehe.”
“Grooooooooooooooooooooooooargh!!!”
“Agh! Damn it! Ugh!”
Mat dropped to his knees, in pain once more. The eye reappeared, this time on the left side, but Mat, enduring the pain, spun the sling and fired. The eye exploded, and the creature trembled, with a few cracks appearing on the skull.
“G-good!” Mat exclaimed.
“Bravo!” TRX cheered.
Then, Mat saw some kind of aura emerging from the creature, flowing directly into the medallion he wore. At the same time, energy emanated from the medallion and into the sling.
“Wow.”
Mat felt something different about the sling now.
“Huh?”
The creature had now disappeared. Mat turned to see where it had gone, but it seemed to have turned invisible. Mat tried to sense it, but for some reason, he couldn’t.
“What now? It could be anywhere…” Mat thought.
Then, he started getting lashed. The strikes were invisible.
“Agh!”
“Hero!” TRX and Roundy exclaimed.
He now had cuts all over his body from the lashes he received.
He escaped using his PSI Creations, propelling himself away and stopping with them as well.
This happened twice. Mat was badly injured.
Then, he realized something.
“That’s right!”
Mat began to simply sling water at different areas around the zone. Then, part of the creature appeared.
“Ah, there you are.”
He threw more water. Its right eye became visible. Mat spun the sling and fired another fireball.
“Groaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh!”
“Ack!”
This time, many more cracks appeared. The creature’s skull shattered, but… beneath it was flesh. Muscle. The face, that was starting to appear, didn’t look very human, unlike the skull. On the creature’s forehead was a sort of crystal, green in color.