SWOSH! Arad flew over the octopuses, glaring down at their queen with glowing red eyes.
"Stay away from !" She cried, diving into the mud.
Arad landed and kept gliding across the dirt, quickly shifting his attention to the other octopuses. SLAP! SLAP! SLAP!
^I can't keep this up. I will soon run out of mana. I need a plan to drag her out,^
"Arad! Co back here!" Amber shouted, glaring at him from the distance. "Don't remain there for long, I can't support you well,"
"I'm coming back," He stared back at her. She was right. The further he went into the woods, the more trees got between him and her making it harder to aim.
^No, wait,^ Arad thought. ^If I can pull the knife from my stomach, won't that an I should be able to eat from my stomach?^ SWOSH! He slid between the octopuses slapping them one after the other, ^I'm running out of mana rapidly. I should give it a try,^
He tried. But couldn't absorb anything. The action of taking things out is similar to puking so he can do it, but to drink a potion, he has to open it first inside his stomach, which he can't do without access to his void.
Thud! Arad landed in front of Amber, his quarterstaff smoking.
"You insane idiot, get back here and fight properly. I need soone to protect while casting spells." She cried, pointing her staff at an octopus. [Fire Ball] KA-BOOM!
From the mud, the queen popped her head out with a smile. "My children, he's almost out of mana. Rush them. If he falls, it's our win,"
rlin stared at Arad, and the queen was right. He barely has 10% of his mana left.
"Let's retreat into the stairs. They can't follow us there," rlin said, looking back.
"Gehehe," Arad giggled, a long smile on his face. Everyone froze, staring at him.
"Buahahaha!" He burst laughing, " out of mana? Do you know who you're dealing with?" He lifted his right fist, dropping it on his chest.
"Huh?" Amber stared at him, pounding his chest like a gorilla.
^What is he doing?^ rlin gasped, and Amber pointed her quarterstaff at the octopuses, "Arad, stop ssing around, and let's retreat. Without your power, we can't beat them in a battle of attrition,"
BAM! BA-BAM! BAM! BA-BAM! BA-BA-BA-BAM!
BAM! BA-BAM! BAM! BA-BAM! BA-BA-BA-BAM!
"Wait..." rlin gasped, "This tune, the Drums of War written by Princess Isdis?"
^Did he learn a bard spell? No, I sense no magic from his actions.^
"GAH!" Arad gasped, trying to pull a potion out of his stomach. He can start that action, but the potion always gets stuck. Its neck is smaller than the body causing it to be unable to pass through its esophagus.
"Hehehe!" Arad giggled, hitting his chest as hard as he could.
The potion tried to get up, its neck stuck inside his esophagus. And with each hit, Arad increased the strength.
"Restrain his arms! Don't let him keep this going!" The queen shouted, sensing that Arad was about to do sothing dangerous.
BAM! BA-BAM! BAM! BA-BAM! BA-BA-BA-BAM!
CRACK! From his continuous violent hits, the potion neck stuck in his esophagus cracked, spilling the content back into his stomach.
rlin gasped, seeing Arad's mana charge imdiately.
SWOSH! Arad imdiately flew back into the battlefield, slapping the octopuses left and right.
"This bastard," The queen growled, "Even with all of his powers sealed away, he's still a pain to deal with."
rlin smiled, ^An extre life form. Dragons don't think like humans. And that is why this labyrinth is scared of him. Just like , it knows he's soone to reckon with.^
"Tch!" The queen growled, "Fine by ! Co here. I will face you myself."
She erged from the mud.
"Arad! Don't take her bait!" rlin shouted, "She wants to drag you into the mud when you run low on mana,"
At so point, Arad would run out of mana again and have to retreat. It was obvious as day that she aid for that mont to capture him.
"Shut your trap! Wizard!" The queen growled, "This isn't your place to speak!"
"Want a one-on-one fight?" Arad smiled, "Fine by !" He flew at her.
"You idiot!" rlin and Amber shouted at the sa ti, baffled by Arad's inability to see the trap ahead of him.
"You will lose!" rlin scread.
"Nah! I'd win!" Arad said with a smile, swinging his palm at the octopus's queen.
"Hehe!" The queen giggled, sending her tentacles at Arad.
Arad spun his quarterstaff, dodging the first tentacle and gliding on it toward the queen.
SWOSH! She swung another tentacle at his head, but he deflected it with his fist.
GA! The queen scread, seeing Arad's palm rushing toward her flesh. SPLAT! With her other tentacles, she splashed the mut at him, dampening his slap.
"Two arms can never match eight in close combat," She shouted, unleashing a barrage of bludging slams with her eight tentacles.
Arad swung the quarterstaff as he stood on his barrier, and deflected all attacks by using it like a sword. "I trained with soone that seems to have one hundred arms," Arad glared at her with a smile, rembering how fast and unpredictable Alcott was.
CRACK! Arad smacked her in the face with staff, and she jumped back with her tentacles.
"It seems you're stronger than we expected," She giggled, "But I still have more to show you."
Mud rushed from the ground and engulfed her body. Waves of mana started rushing out from the cocoon.
Arad imdiately pointed his staff at her [Firebolt] [Firebolt] [Firebolt] [Firebolt] [Firebolt] [Firebolt] [Firebolt] [Firebolt] [Firebolt] [Firebolt]
He knew it was bad the mont he sensed the magic, but the mud acted as a protective layer against his fire.
SPLAT! Eight tentacles encased in hard scales erged from the mud cocoon as it exploded. "Hehehe," The queen giggled, "Let's see if you can keep up now," She stood in a humanoid shape with her tentacles extending from her lower back like tails.
CRACKLE! Lightning crackled from her tentacles as she looked at Arad with a grin, "Bewary, those sting,"
Arad lifted his fist, beating on his chest.
BAM! BA-BAM! BAM! BA-BAM! BA-BA-BA-BAM!
BAM! BA-BAM! BAM! BA-BAM! BA-BA-BA-BAM!
His mana recovered then his wounds healed as he broke potions down his esophagus. CRACKLE! Flas sparked from his skin as he stood facing the mud octopus queen with a smile.
"I'm the king of this land, and you aren't one of my queens," He glared at her with a grin.
"I'm the queen, and you're going to be my king," She giggled, pointing all of her tentacles at him.
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