Chapter 640 - Teks (Part 2) (1/2)
Morok had actually cast a fireball right through the open wound and into the innards of the creature, using its own hard shell to trap the powerful explosion inside the beast.
”I like my crab well cooked and now you know where to hit. Time to earn your pay, boys!” He said with a feral smile before moving onto the next opponent.
Lith's blade, one of the failed prototypes, went for the eyes instead. He wanted to check why Morok had chosen such a dangerous strategy when there was a much easier target.
The answer came in the form of the eyestalks actually being articulated peduncles capable of being folded back into the shell in case of danger.
'Plan B it is.' Lith thought, putting the blade back inside his pocket dimension. Fusion magic empowered his body as Solus turned into her glove form, fully enveloped by the silver protection of the Orichalc.u.m.
The fist struck the Tek's abdomen like a jackhammer, lifting the creature off the ground of a few centimeters as cracks spread over its armor. The waves of pain the hit caused made the eyes reflexively pop out, allowing Lith to grab them with his free hand and discharge lightning directly into them.
The electricity traveled straight into the brain of the Tek, killing it on the spot. A second creature, incredibly nimble despite its size, circled around its dead companion and released a hail of razor-sharp ice crystals.
'Water fusion is a game two can play.' Lith thought.
Now that he knew the two elements Tek could use, he could predict their basic strategy. Lith sidestepped the attack, letting it harmlessly strike the barrier as a palm strike injected a volley of Plague Arrows inside the enemy.
Seeing that Lith had killed two enemies in the same time he had needed to kill one, Morok clicked his tongue.
”Fine. Let's get serious. Pick Hammer.” Morok said, sheathing and unsheathing his blades in the blink of an eye. The weapons shapeshifted into one-handed battle hammers that closely resembled Solus's Forgemastering hammer, having both a hammerhead and a pick.
Morok struck with the pick side of the weapon at the carapace of the closest Tek, but to no avail. His strength wasn't enough to pierce its rock hard shell. At least not until a second later, when the second hammer hit the head of the first one as if it was a nail.
The pick crushed both the exoskeleton and the heart of the creature, instantly killing it. The soldiers and the Professors were so shocked by the display of raw power in front of their eyes that they stared dumbly at the scene, incapable of moving a muscle.
The Teks started to coordinate their moves, attacking in waves and dying in waves. Morok would crush between his hammers any pincer that came too close for comfort, whereas Lith used water fusion to be as nimble as the Teks and air fusion to be faster than them.
Every one of his palm strikes would send one of the creatures flying against its comrades, spreading his deadly touch to all of them since Plague Arrow's ethereal nature would pierce through any kind of matter until all of its energy was exhausted.
”Good gods.” Jerth said. She was the second most powerful mage in her unit after Phloria.
”I thought they were just tall, dark, and rudesome, but those two are not human. Are all Rangers like that, Captain?”
”No. There is a reason why unlike the academies the army ranks Monster cadets above the Special ones.” Phloria replied snapping out of her reverie.
”Which one did you date?”
”The less rude one. Now stop flapping your gums and drink your potions, they need backup!” She was right. The first group was already dead, but a much larger one was flooding out of all tunnels.
”Are we really going to stand here like morons?” Professor Syndra from the Lightning Griffon yelled.
”Captain, buy me five seconds and I'll close the curtains on this madness.”
Phloria nodded and started yelling orders.