445 Brainiacs Fury (1/2)
Sherlock and Bru's conversation couldn't be heard by the gamers, who were far away. To them, it was a Plot with great special effects.
It was a pity that the gamers didn't have a chance to fight against Professor Cabbage before she merged together with the strange box. Lord Sherlock was grabbed by the tentacles of the box, then they heard a loud bellow.
The Mana Formation underneath Specter College gathered on the box, and the gray light in the eye sockets of the Lich students vanished with the disappearance of the Mana Formation.
”What happened?”
”Where is this place?”
”Earthquake? What's this about?”
”Why are the examination combatants in our courtyard? Is this a rehearsal?”
The Lich students recovered their senses and started chatting. When they saw the chaotic situation and the disintegrated white bones of other students, they started to panic.
They also noticed the big box in the middle of the courtyard. The box moved slowly and became a meatball with numerous flesh-colored tentacles, and soon, a bone-based shell covered its entire body.
”Roar—!”
The meatball waved its tentacles and screamed.
”Run!”
After one student shouted, all of the students fled in different directions.
Sherlock didn't stop them, while the gamers were in Plot Animation Mode.
The Lich students who didn't escape wanted to communicate with the gamers and find out what happened, but the gamers couldn't speak since they were in Plot Animation Mode. They could only blink their eyes at the students.
Some Lich students ran to the meatball. Before they could find out what it was, they were captured by the waving tentacles and turned to white bone powder like Professor Cabbage.
Those Lich students who hadn't left started fleeing. Pandemonium broke out.
”Lord Sherlock, we have to end the battle fast. Once the students escape, they will report to the Garrison Guards. If other creatures get to see the scene, it will be difficult to recruit new employees,” Bru said to Sherlock.
”What you've said makes sense.” Sherlock nodded. He flapped his wings and landed on the ground, then pointed to the meatball and said to the gamers, ”Warriors of Eternal Kingdom, we can't let the evil Void army commander leave here alive. Attack! For Eternal Kingdom!”
A Skeleton hand broke out of the ground, then numerous Skeleton hands broke out, and the disintegrated Skeletons of the students started to reassemble.
Not far from the meatball, the eye sockets of Professor Bacon, Brainiac, and other professors were glimmering with gray light. The meatball didn't relinquish control over them.
”I'm Frangipani. You pathetic mortals dare to disrupt my revival ritual. Face the wrath of the Ancient Gods army!”
His words sounded like the well-scripted dialogue of an antagonist. The revived Frangipani shouted, and his voice sounded like he was trapped in a box.
The manipulated Lich professors made the Skeleton Soldiers walk towards the gamers, and a gray light ball appeared once again in Brainiac's hand just as the Plot Animation Mode of the gamers ended.
The gamers charged towards their enemies.
”Arthur, let's attack!”
In the Gundam, Hemp Rope Technology, who was the data monitoring and testing crew, shouted to Arthur.
”Acknowledged!”
Arthur didn't know what direction Brainiac's Mana was aimed at. If the powerful gray light ball hit the Gundam, the consequences would be dire.
Everyone put in a lot of effort to produce the Gundam, and Arthur didn't want it to be destroyed.
Arthur started running. The charging gamers watched the Gundam run past them and started cheering.
Frangipani also discovered this metal monster. He waved his tentacles and smacked them at the Gundam.
The Gundam squatted down while both its hands grasped its Longsword and swung it at the tentacles. The tentacles were severed. Sherlock spent a fortune to produce the Gundam, so the weapon was definitely not a toy.
The Longsword sliced through the tentacles like it was cutting through a cabbage, and the convulsing tentacles fell to the ground where the gamers were. The nearby gamers started hacking the tentacles with their weapons.
”What a big piece of tentacle. I wonder how much money it will fetch!”
”Perhaps it's a Mana material or an Alchemy material!”
”Grab them!”
The gamers shouted amidst the chaos.
Arthur wasn't bothered by them as numerous tentacles continued their attacks on him. The severed tentacles also started to regenerate at a rapid pace.
”Lord Sherlock, your weapon is very powerful. Perhaps the Gundam is able to defeat Frangipani,” Bru said happily to Sherlock.
A few tentacles were about to strike the Gundam when two of them were severed by the Longsword. However, the other tentacles smacked on the Gundam, and it reeled back and crashed into a building with a loud booming sound.
The crash created a huge cavity in the building, which began to quake. It used to be the classrooms of the Lich students, but now, it was in ruins. There was dust and debris everywhere.
”Reinforce Arthur!” NotWearingPants shouted to the Guild members when he saw Arthur reeling after being hit.
”Ice knowledge of the past, illusions abound, summon the snowstorm from my wrist!”
”Hail the Elf's contract, follow the terms and bestow me the greatest Mana and Elf power, such that destruction reigns supreme!”
Gamers started their Mana incantations, and different Elemental Mana flew out toward Frangipani. Some of the Mana hit upon the Skeleton Soldiers and Frangipani's tentacles, but there wasn't much harm inflicted. The damaged tentacles quickly regenerated.
The battle was magnificent. Besides the attacks from the Elemental Mana, various weather effects appeared above Frangipani, like snow, a hurricane, lightning, and rain. The gamers had mastered various Mana Skills in addition to the Mana Scrolls obtained from the Instance Dungeon.
Only a few gamers were able to activate their Mana Skills according to their will because the Skeleton Soldiers charged and engaged them in close combat.
”Lord Sherlock, is your one million Magic Stones going down the drain?” Bru asked worriedly as the Gundam was sent flying after being hit.
”Don't worry. It's only a scratch.”
Sherlock disregarded the damage, but he looked at the Gundam with concern. Fortunately, the Gundam stood up again and walked out with a layer of dust.
The Gundam looked intact.