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Beast and Laura were locked in battle against a third abomination. The powerful, yet grotesque creature seemed like a hybrid between a scorpion and a human as it stood tall on eight legs, all eight covered by thick and powerful chitin, each one equipped with sharp claws that tore into the ground as the monster moved.

The torso was covered in armor-like plates that were pitch black while the scorpion tail that was present on its back whipped through the air with blinding speed. There was a stinger at the end of the tail, and venom that was incredibly potent dripped down, melting the ground. The monster had eight multiple eyes, each one capable of observing things in great detail, and each one glowing with malice.

Laura was behind Beast, her hands glowing purple as her demonic limbs were actually damaged, wounded by the powerful scorpion monster that had almost stabbed her with the stinger at one point, but luckily, Laura had been able to use her powers to blast it aside and survive, but not without suffering some injuries as the claws of the monster lashed out at her.

She was using massive amounts of life force on the battlefield to improve the strength of her body, as well as to heal herself, Beast, the wyvern, and the flood dragon. She was of course using the life force to boost the power of her spells, but the powerful monster, as well as the abominations and monsters charging at them from all sides, did not allow her too much time to cast them.

Compared to the other leaders of the abomination, this one was smaller, and thus faster and could attack with precision, thus not killing many other creatures that were present, allowing them to contribute to the battle as well and attack Beast, Laura, and the two tamed beasts.

The corpses of those creatures littered the area around them, multiple small hills made of those corpses present while blood flowed through the entire area, creating ponds and small rivers of blood.

Laura's reserves of life force were not dwindling at all during the battle thanks to the many creatures who were dying around them, but she was getting a bit tired.

Her demonic energy was getting replenished fairly quickly thanks to the life force, but it was not getting replenished quickly enough, and if the battle continued for much longer, she could end with zero demonic energy, and would be useless, no, she would be worse than useless as Reign and the others would need to expend effort and energy to defend her against the creatures that were attacking them, she would turn into a liability.

Beast, on the other hand, was darting around the area, fighting the abomination with full force. His fusion with Blackie had given him a big boost to his overall strength, and his body was now covered in shadowy fur while two horns could be seen on top of his head.

He was using his wind manipulation, he was using his bow to strike the abomination from afar or engage in a melee when the creature got close, while also commanding the wyvern and the flood dragon to attack from above.

The wyvern would swoop low, breathing fire that scorched the ground below, forcing the abomination to dodge while the less powerful monsters nearby would be incinerated. As for the flood dragon, it used its massive serpentine body to crush the monsters below it.

It, of course, also used its abilities. The flood dragon had two abilities, water manipulation, as well as ice creation, in this battlefield, however, there was no water, thus it had to expend more mana in order to create it and control it.

Luckily, although not water, there was plenty of liquid present, and even though it would take more mana and control compared to controlling water, it was better than conjuring it from thin air with mana.

The abomination was forced to constantly move around as torrents of blood that was spilled on the battlefield came rushing to it, some of the blood freezing, turning into spears, arrows, spikes, and more weapons that came crashing down at the abomination, but its immense speed allowed it to easily dodge the attacks.

Beast and Laura were locked in a grueling contest of endurance and speed with the abomination. Its agility was the main issue, and even Beast, whose speed was almost a match to the monster, was unable to truly contend against it thanks to the fact he was primarily a long-range combatant, thus he was simply not used to fighting in melee, especially at such speed.

Not only did Beast have trouble constantly moving at such speed and orienting himself, but he was constantly under pressure when facing the scorpion, his reflexes had to be good and his instincts were constantly screaming at him as dodging a moment too early or too late could prove very dangerous.

He had to react perfectly to each move and each attack of the abomination, which was putting a huge strain on him.

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Even so, they had managed to wound the bastard, they had managed to hit it a couple of times, and the current situation was thus looking good as only Laura had some injuries, and they were nearly healed.

But the problem was the fact that they knew that this situation had to be resolved quickly, or they would lose. That was because the abomination was preserving more energy than they were. They were constantly attacking, using their full strength to try and harm it, while it was mostly just running around and attacking with its stinger or claws.n/o/vel/b//in dot c//om

The battle of endurance would not end well for them, they were well aware of that.

"Dammit!" Beast cursed as he dodged a claw that came from the side, only to notice a second one arriving behind the first, deftly hidden by the monster that wanted to get rid of him first.

His arrows had not done much damage to it as it was able to dodge most of them while the ones that were too fast to be dodged would usually do it no harm, or would just inflict a minor injury that it could easily heal.

Beast didn't have the luxury to pour a lot of mana into an attack as that took a bit of time, and the monster would notice it every single time and either attack him right away in an attempt to foil the attack or would go after Laura in order to use her as a shield.

The wyvern and the flood dragon would always charge, doing their best to stop it from reaching Laura and protecting her with all they had, but the one time it had done so was exactly when Laura was injured by it, thus Beast knew that if he repeated such an attack and gave the monster the time and space, it would go after her again.

The second claw arrived, and Beast placed his bow to the front, blocking the claw and grunting as he was pushed back before being forced to block two more claws that came right after, managing to wound him slightly.

But the true danger came from the stinger that came from above, stabbing toward his head with great speed and power.

Beast's eyes narrowed to a needlepoint as he stared at the sting that was coming closer and closer to him, his mind was working in overdrive in order to try and think of something it could do to defend, and he came up with nothing, not even a single thing that he could do in this situation.

Laura had quickly cast a spell and launched it at the scorpion, hoping it would reach it on time and deflect the stinger while both the flood dragon and the wyvern roared and attacked as well, using whatever attack was the fastest in order to hit the monster before it could hit Beast.

It was an impossible-to-predict situation.

The attacks were all coming incredibly fast, but so was the stinger, and it was much closer to Beast than the attacks were to the scorpion. If one slowed down the entire battle and stared at the attacks as they traveled, they would be hard-pressed to answer what would happen first.

Would Beast be hit, or would the attacks land just in time to save him?

The answer never arrived, however.

As the stinger was getting closer and closer to Beast, a flash of white light appeared in the sky above them as what seemed to be a ray of light fell down, hitting the sting, cutting deep inside it, nearly severing it in half.

The scorpion roared in pain and quickly backed away, only to be hit by the attacks of Laura, the flood dragon, as well as the wyvern.

Beast quickly pulled back the bowstring and aimed at the scorpion as a figure appeared next to him, his wings unfurled as he stared at the scorpion as well.

"Thanks, you arrived just in time," Beast told Reign before letting go of the arrow while Reign smiled.

"Don't mention it."