The moment he came to knowledge about the existence of Primordial Wisp on this planet, Emery knew that the Magus Commander had come to retrieve it personally; however, he just didn't expect that it would be taking the form of a wooden staff.
The staff appeared to be a high tier artifact, but within a glance, he was able to tell that it contained the essence of the Primordial Wisp, either in its entirety or in part.
As soon as the staff was pulled out from the tree, Emery saw a crack instantly appearing in the grey tree. In just a few brief moments, the crack widened considerably, and then soon after that, the trunk split in two.
In the moments leading up to that point, there was a wailing sound that was quickly followed by another strong tremor.
The crack seen on the tree continued to extend downwards and proceeded to break the stone beneath the tree. It split the ground and there was another unexpected scene as sharp blade-like claws suddenly came out from the ground.
"What is this now?!" said Commander Raynor, eyeing the claws warily.
It was at this precise moment that a humongous dark creature emerged from beneath the ground, making a loud shrieking voice that shook the eardrums of those who heard it.
Shrrriieeekkkk!!
The creature was measured around five meters in width, and it was covered in dark hard skin. It had what appeared to be two large pincer mouths and was equipped with several scythes arms on its sides.
The creature came charging at Commander Reynor with its pincer mouth opened wide, yet the Magus Commander threw a powerful punch that packed such strong momentum.
Baammm!!!!!
The blow was so powerful that the air seemed to ripple for a moment, it was able to disorient the creature and cause it to temporarily stagger for a split second. On the other hand, as a consequence of this, the ground started to rumble even more violently, and it turned out that the creature was much bigger than everyone had anticipated.
To everyone's surprise, the creature slowly revealed its entire body. It kept rising from the ground, meters and meters long with not several, but dozens of scythe-like arms attached to it along its length. It was the very personification of monstrosity.
[Terror Centipede]
[Abyss Creature Stage 6]
[Battle Power: 495]
The giant Abyss creature had finally shown its complete form. It had to be at least a hundred meters in length, and given that each pair of its legs were essentially blades, there must have been at least hundreds of deadly weapons on each side of it.
Unlike any of the other Abyss creatures he had come across previously, Commander Reynor finally became anxious when he saw the humongous creature. Seeing the attack that aimed for his life, he immediately put the wooden staff on his back and quickly grabbed the two charging pincers.
There was a sudden outburst of power that emanated from within the Magus Commander as his body was once again covered with golden light.
"Arrgggggg!!!"
Commander Raynor groaned as he was barely able to hold the creature in his grasp with just his two bare hands. Fortunately, he still has Zach and his two assistants by his side. Seeing the commander was in predicament, they immediately moved and started to deliver attacks on the Abyss creature's body.
The emergence of the monstrous creature brought a surprise to everyone around. Its existence also brought about another precarious situation, as it seemed to throw all the surrounding Abyss creatures into a frenzy
The whole situation quickly escalated for the worse, turning chaotic and dangerous.
A massive horde of Abyss creatures charged at Emery and the others with amplified ferocity. Tens of thousands rushing from all directions, thousands coming from the sky, and one particularly monstrous Abyss creature in the center.
Each and everyone, saint fighters and acolytes were occupied with dozens of Abyss creatures. The number started to exceed what the group could effectively manage, and as a consequence of this, a number of saint fighters started to fall one by one.
"The second Rod is destroyed!!"
"Hold the line!!! Hold the line!!"
The atmosphere started to become bleak, filled with painful screams and miserable shouts echoing through the air. It has become out of control.
With nothing but Abyss creatures around, Emery decided to let go and took drastic measures as he started to cast offensive spells indescrimentaly, blasting all the creatures around him into smithereens.
[Ash Blast] [Dark Seeds]
Bammm!! Baaamm!!
When his surroundings were devoid of Abyss creatures thanks to his earlier rampage, Emery quickly dashed toward Annara to form a more effective result. As he stood back to back with the red-haired girl, Emery asked,
"Is this how retrieving the Wisp is supposed to be? Is this normal!?"
Annara shouted, "How would I know!! You are asking the wrong person!"
Soon enough another shout was heard
"The third Rod has been destroyed!!"
By this time, the defensive lines were no longer in existence. As the situation had completely turned into chaos and some individuals had been eliminated from the battlefield, everyone was no longer thinking about maintaining formation or defensive lines, all that remained was just one intention of eliminating as many Abyss creatures as possible in order to survive.
In the center, Zach was still fiercely striking at the giant Abyss creature's back over and over again. Even though there were certainly several cracks created, yet no matter how hard he tried, it was not enough to really stop the creatures.
At this point, the Magus Commander went on to use his special battle art skill [Divine Might]. The skill took effect and caused his muscle to begin to swell with an extreme amount of strength in addition to his body once again glowing.
Craaacckkk!!!
As he had been burst with extra power, Commander Raynor was able to break apart the two pincers just by using his bare hands. However, the creature appeared to have its own special attacks as well, and just in the blink of an eye, its many scythes suddenly elongated and crushed the Commander's body from behind. A ll N OVE L FU LL . c 0m
It was fortunate that the Commander was protected by his golden metallic armor, thus the Abyss creature's attack only gave light wounds to the man.
"Aargggg!!! You damned insect!!" Commander Raynor cursed, gritting his teeth in pain.
The Magus Commander became enraged by the injury he received, and he took a step closer to the creature. This time, he uses his best battle art skill [Power Geyser]. Successive hard punches landed upon the Abyss creature and cracked open its head, making dark blood pour out profusely.
It appeared that Commander Raynor only needed to do a few more attacks in order to finally kill the creature. However, right at this precise moment Emery suddenly felt a bad premonition.
"Something is changing…!"
The previous raging whisper of the wisp suddenly turned into one intent that was centered on the wooden staff that was on the commander's back.
Following that, the wooden staff suddenly deformed and grew out, instantly entangling the commander back.
"What!! Argh!!!'
It grew rapidly into his neck and chest, then just in a matter of seconds, it grew all over his body, and with it, the previous multiple scythes had finally been able to pierce the magus body.
"Commander!!!" shouted the two magus assistants.
However, before they could do anything about it, a bright light shone from the ball of golden pearls of the staff. It was emanating energy that was nothing Emery ever felt before
"Cosmic power!!" shouted Annara.
The bright energy blasted out, gushing a mist that covered the whole crater, and a moment later a peculiar explosion seemed to occur in the atmosphere, followed by an overwhelming surge of spirit force all around him.
Even with his limited knowledge, Emery knows that this is certainly not normal and was already beyond the extent of the mission.
As he had predicted, suddenly an information came from the device into his mind.
[Warning - Calamity stage increases to level 3]
[Mission updated - retreat and stay alive until help arrives]