193 Boss Figh (2/2)

Ava thrust her hands down, and a powerful wind whirled from them, sustaining their flight and enhancing Faye's flames.

Li was surprised at how potent their abilities were. They had managed to soar past the high treeline of the Chattering Forest within a few seconds – a testament to their coordination and strength.

The hand amalgamation loosed its collective scream, rumbling the earth, sonic shockwaves emanating from its body, making it look like a shimmering mirage was wreathing it.

Li narrowed his eyes as he noted that the hand had turned its palm away form Li and was looking at the adventurers. It started to move, its gargantuan length rising out from the depths of the Dark beast lake as it reached for the adventurers, its long fingers stretched out greedily to try and grab them.

The creature moved slowly, but due to its size, it covered ground incredibly quickly, rapidly closing in on the adventurers.

Li acted fast.

He would teach this abomination that it could not afford to ignore him. He put his arm out and aimed an open palm towards the hand. Then, he cast [Rumblespine Railspitter]. The A+ ranked spell activated, a pulse of green magical energy coursing out around Li, growing little plants and flowers all around the darkened mud near his feet.

Plant mass coiled around Li's arm, transforming it into a large, dark green plant bulb that looked vaguely like a cannon, the end of the bulb tapering off into a hollow barrel. One half of the bulb was lined with a strip of glowing blue, and on the other side, there was a strip of glowing red to represent positive and negative currents.

Li felt magical energy expending from within himself, feeding into the railspitter. This spell cost a decent amount of mana to manifest and to create individual bolts of ammo for, but its firepower was unrivaled in return.

It clicked, creating a rail – a long, heavy, stake-like spine. It armed, and the railspitter began to emit a whirring sound that rapidly amped up in intensity.

With a breath, Li fired the railspitter.

The rail spine blasted out from Li's modified arm at speeds that far surpassed the speed of sound. It crashed into the wrist of the Dark beast hand in an instant, and as soon as it made contact, it completely eviscerated the wrist before the hand could close its fingers on the adventurers.

Then, the concussive buzzing of the railspitter's detonation echoed throughout the forest.

The giant hand fell slowly to the lake, crashing into it and creating another huge surge of black waves. Thankfully, the adventurers now flew even higher away from the hand, becoming like dots in the darkened sky, and it could no longer reach far enough to touch them.

Li put a palm to his heart, planting himself with the [Heart of the Forest] buff, massively enhancing his physical stats. Lines of bright green energy glowed through his body, where his veins would be, flowing with raw power.

Before the wave could engulf him, Li punched into the air, generating a shockwave that split the wave apart.

”Interesting,” said Li as he beheld his foe again through a rain of spattering black, noting that the dimensions of the battle were about to change.