Everyone regrouped themselves, getting into a good position where they knew they could carry out the orders given to them by Lyrian. The three main fighters at the front, Lyrian, Spade, and Leon, dashed closer to the bird which was floating in the air, 20 feet higher than it was before.
"Don't stop for even a second! Attack!"
Lyrian shouted as the two followed his route. He jumped across pillars, eventually leaping from the top of them towards the bird. As he neared the Pheon, Lyrian gripped his blade tightly and Enhanced his arms with mana. He gritted his teeth together so hard that mana began to spew from his lips.
His eyes opened wide, fierce and determined, were locked onto their target. Even though he was ferociously involved, he forced his mind to still focus as much as possible on remaining calm until the very last moment.
He didn't want to tip the chaos limit over, since that would ruin his flow and let him mess up his attacks. Lyrian was slightly unbalanced, a bit shaky, and most of all, still inexperienced.
However, he knew this, and to counteract it, he found the art of smithing was extremely useful.
Leon, one of his ribs broken and slightly sticking into his lungs from time to time, also firmed his grip. The light from his eyes gleamed brighter, like a well-fed flame, as he traveled toward the Pheon like a streak of white lightning that painted across the sky.
Spade was also serious. He now recognized the power of the creature more so than before. Since the thought of failing was more prevalent, he wasn't going to let that reality come close as it did before.
With intense eyes, he flew towards the beast whilst activating his power. Before, he had shown how he could harden his hand into a sharp spear-like state.
Now, he did the same, except, he did it with the blade. His already sharp blade from before was now even sharper, and also a bit more rugged. On top of that, it was hardened to 10 times its original amount.
Such a sharp and durable material was rarer than even platinum when it came to being able to find it in natural metals. He wasn't playing around.
*Bang*
The three were 7 feet away from the bird when a dart of light suddenly began traveling toward it from behind them. Needless to say, it was faster than them and also caught them off guard.
It sped right past them, before crashing into the Pheon, resulting in a small blast.
Alten had pulled the trigger too early. A few seconds prior, his hands were shaking from the intensity of the moment. He put his finger on the trigger, ordered to pull once the three had already attacked, but accidentally already shot.
The Pheon was also readying itself for the onslaught of the three kids, but now that it was already attacked, it dodged up into the air, causing all three boys to miss and begin falling back down.
Every single examinee was shocked when they saw his. The bird, having escaped, began forming a giant ball of light in its maw once again.
"You fool! You ruined our chances of getting a hit off!"
Silvus screamed from afar, turning his head towards Alten who was struck with despair, his expression frozen in horror.
"We lost our only chance."
Glis also said, slightly taken aback by the situation.
Hearing all of this, Lyrian furrowed his eyebrows as he gripped his hilt once again. He had already come this far... There was no way his will would let him give up now. Even if he wanted to, he wouldn't!
"I said don't stop! Go again!"
Lyrian landed on the pillar tops once again before spinning on his heel and leaping into the sky towards the open maw of the beast once again.
Spade and Leon had no other option to follow him in his split-second deicison, so they did the same. Spade immediately recognized what stupid decision he just made, since where he traveled was directly towards the giant light beam in the creature's mouth.
"Fuck!"
He exclaimed, now having no choice but to continue with the attack.
"Remember your orders!"
Lyrian yelled for the last time, as Cedic and Glis were pulled out of their haze.
As they neared 10 feet from the bird, it unleashed the giant sphere of light energy with a resounding boom. It hurled towards the ground at extremely quick speeds, seeming to get more and more bright as it traveled towards the three.
Just before it blasted them into ash, however, a giant wall of ice appeared before them, slowing its momentum down.
*Crack*
The ice almost instantly broke, but it was enough for Silvus to fly over from where he was just in time.
"Wind Ricochet!"
His voice sounded from afar, as he twirled his wand in the air.
In an instant, a transparent barrier of wind appeared before them. The barrier was quickly torn through by the light sphere, but it was enough for its course of trajectory to be changed a little.
This small adjustment allowed Lyrian and the other two to continue moving, as Cedric also leaped up from the top of the pillars towards the Pheon.
With his hands still Enhanced, Lyrian's blade met with the Pheon as he moved with quick precision. Even though his body was still in the air, his blade tore through the body of the giant bird, and he could feel tendons, bones, and meat slicing and tearing on the underside of the creature's abdomen.
"Iron Puncture!"
Leon went for a slightly different approach, thrusting his sword forward at a single point with full force. With one fearsome scourge of his blade, a large cavity was left in the Pheon's left wing. The gaping hole was enough for him to fly right through.
"Ice Wall!"
Glis yelled for the final time, as her mana was nearly all used up by this point. Finally, another enormous wall of ice materialized in the sky, before snatching the other wing of the bird.
With this, Spade neared the bird as well but traveled past it without budging his sword even once. He soared towards the ground along with the others, and also Cedric who didn't get a chance to attack, with a nonchalant expression on his face, and Lyrian noticed him not attack.
'Damn, he fooled us. I used a large amount of mana on that attack as well...'
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