Chapter 645 - All are One (Part 1) (2/2)
It took the form of a colossus over 3 meters (10 feet) tall with bright yellow eyes. Aside from the eyes, it had no features nor defined shape. The whole dust cloud was its body, and the creature used it to try and drown Lith.
”Oh gods! A sand golem.” Professor Ellkas said in panic. ”It's supposed to be impossible! Where the heck might the core of that thing be?”
Phloria didn't care if it was possible or not, the only things worrying her were that it was standing right in front of them and that Lith had yet to react.
”Hold your fire!” She said while raising her open hand in the air to reinforce her command.
'Sand golem my ass.' Lith thought. 'Golems have no life force whereas this thing is alive. The obvious response would be to burn it, but if it was me, I would have filled the air with something volatile.
'Even finely dispersed flour is highly flammable and if this thing is what I think it is, the resulting explosion might kill me.'
Lith was right about almost everything. The creature in front of him was alive and flammable, but a fiery explosion wasn't the true danger the creature posed. It was a fungus-like creature he was facing and the dust was actually its spores.
Setting it ablaze would have caused a small explosion strong enough to send them flying everywhere, killing the expedition in a matter of seconds. The creature was capable of moving each spore individually and was using them to flood Lith's respiratory system, making it impossible for him to breathe or cast new spells.
The spores were also able to feed upon their host and drain their fluids to increase their numbers. Surviving such a multi pronged attack was nigh impossible. Unless of course one had fusion magic.
The darkness coursing through Lith's body fed on the spores and turned them into nourishment while Invigoration allowed him to study their attack pattern.
”Ingenious.” Lith said while releasing a series of darkness magic pulses that slaughtered his grain sized opponents. The fungus emitted a prolonged, bass noise that Lith interpreted as pain.
The creature retrieved all of its spores, condensing them to assume a physical form.
”Gods' there are so many things we can learn from the Odi.” Professor Gaakhu said while following Lith's lead and releasing a wave of darkness energy. The creature opened its body in response, letting the spell harmlessly pass through the empty space it had created.
Lith would have liked to give the Professor a piece of his mind, but the eyes of the creature were drawing his attention. There was no fury, pain, or battle spirit in them. Lith knew that look, it was how Carl and Tista looked at him when they were little.
It was hope.
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