Chapter 510 - Push and pull (2/2)

Then, the first one to attack was Martha, letting out an arrow of wind.

”They're here!” She shouted.

The arrow left her bow and at the same time, around from the underside of the truck of the tree, a giant centipede-like creature could be seen crawling to the top. The centipede had a brown underbelly and a black hardened top, as for its hundreds of legs, each one was deathly sharp like little blades.

The first beast was killed easily by Martha as the arrow went through it's head with no resistance. The problem was that there seemed to be hundreds of them coming towards the group, and not everyone had a king tier weapon like Martha did.

”Do you think this was set up by Monk?” Flynn asked.

”I don't think we should be worrying about that right now.” Wendy replied. ”Even if those centipedes are weak, all they need to do is barge into us, to chuck us off and we will be falling to our deaths.”

As always though, there was a simple solution that they could use that had managed to get them out of tough situations so far, and that was Van. Naturally they all turned their head towards Van, who was at the back of the group. He reached into his pouch and pulled out the crystal.

It started to glow, but then quickly faded, and sweat was running down his face. Everyone by now knew Van's personality, the more pressure that was put on him, the harder it would be for him to activate the white crystals power.

They could only imagine now, and with everyone looking at him it would be difficult so they turned their heads away, but deep down they were relying on him again.

'Come on, you have to do it, you have to do it.' Van thought to himself, but it was only making it worse as the crystal started to fade again.

”If I used my magical powers there is a chance it could damage the tree.” Ray said, so I will have to use my fists, this is not a problem.” Ray was ready to create multiple clones of himself and fight the beasts off.

Small spells and such while fighting barehanded would do the trick. While the others were panicking he was clam, however something else happened before ray could even act.

Seeing how much Van was struggling with activating the crystal's power, Harry grew frustrated watching him.

”Just give it here, I can do it!” Harry said, as he attempted to snatch the crystal away. They now were both holding onto the crystal but Van refused to let go.

”What are you doing, you know this reacts to my powers the best! We don't even know if you can control it!” Van started to shout back.

”The crystal reacted to me before, which means I can do something and right now you're useless so we might as well give it a try!” Harry shouted back.

Suddenly there was a struggle between the two, and fueled with both of their powers the crystal was reacting. Eventually, the crystal was snatched out of Van's hand, and had activated a single beam of white energy.

It started to shoot out from the crystal, but it was going in the wrong direction. Instead of towards the beasts, it was beaming out to their own people. Luckily the white beam was harmless to the Redwing members, all except one that was.

The beam of white energy was too fast for Ray to act, and the beam ended up hitting him. He crossed his arms and felt a burning sensation and he suddenly felt weak, as if his mana and powers were being drained from his body.

Not having the strength to push back, the beam continued to push him and he screamed in pain, until eventually the beam had pushed him off the trunk of the tree. Ray had fallen, he was hurt and falling to the snowy deep cliffside.

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