Charlotte and Mason were in the blind spot of the void creature when it released its death ray. However, what they hadn't expected was how fast that beam would travel. They expected it to be powerful, no doubt, but not that fast!
Mason's barriers did not last more than a second before they were completely shattered. Luckily for Zol, the fragments of earth he used in his defence bought him a split second to try and move out of the way.
Using every last bit of his strength and speed, he dived down, trying to get out of the way of the beam. Even then, the beam was already close by.
'Here goes nothing!' He exclaimed inwardly and his eyes glowed a bright green as he tried to apply his telekinetic force on the beam. He attempted to try and slow it down, long enough for him to get out of the way.
Still…
The beam swallowed his legs, from the area slightly above the knee to his toes, it was all swallowed. His armour couldn't even do a damn thing. He barely registered what happened to him when he heard multiple explosions in the distance.
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
With some effort, he turned around and saw multiple spaceships in the distance set ablaze. Most of the spaceships were vaporized without a shred of matter remaining. But that was not the end, the beam continued its trajectory, heading for Evelyn's position. Everything happened almost instantaneously, no time elapsed! It was as if the creature opened its mouth and then boomed.
There was no time to process everything, and before Zol realized it, the defence that Evelyn had set for herself was entirely swallowed. Zol's expression changed to that of horror.
"Evelyn, respond if you can hear me?!" Zol called out in his comms, trying to reach Evelyn. But there was no response.
Even up till now, Zol was not concerned about himself. The damage he took may look serious =, but with the power of magic and technology, it can be restored. He still did not feel any pain. Maybe it was because his attention was on someone else, or the attack rendered his nerves numb, he didn't know and didn't care.
"Mason! Check on her." Zol instructed, turning his attention back to the void creature. "Already on it!" came the reply from Mason. Right now, his heart was racing thousands of beats per second fearing what he might find.
After completing that devastating attack that shook them to their cores, the void creature looked exhausted. It looked at the destruction it caused and then screeched loudly before turning to the Fornax Dwarf galaxy. It was preparing to escape.
"Oh no you don't!" Zol shouted and tried to follow the creature to finish it off. "Charlotte, what are you doing?! It's getting away!"
The prompt brought Charlotte out of her shocked state. Just like everyone observing, the attack had taken her by surprise and when she saw Zol and Evelyn being swallowed, she feared the worst, and this left her in a frozen state, unable to process anything.
She quickly looked back in the direction of the void creature, noticing it trying to slip away. "Tsk!" She snorted and resolved herself to go after it. She was very shaken, truth be told. As a Class S hunter, there weren't a lot of things that could hurt them, not to mention kill them.
But that creature, even in its weakened state, almost killed two of her companions. Even going after the creature scared her, but she also understood that if they didn't kill it now, it would be worse if it had time to recover.
However, she didn't go far when she noticed the strange being that came with the void creature earlier move to intercept it.
'She's on the move again.' She thought as she wondered what the woman was planning to do. They had always kept an eye on the movement of the woman throughout the fight and noticed how she always moved along with them whenever the creature was moving away from a particular region.
Charlotte observed as the woman disappeared from where she was floating and appeared before the void creature, instantly cutting its path off. The creature immediately stopped in its tracks and screeched loudly. Obviously, it was displeased its path was cut off, but there was nothing it could do now.
That short delay was able to buy enough time for Charlotte and Zol to catch up, once again encircling the void creature. However, unlike before, Zol was exhausted as the injuries he sustained were now getting to him. Thankfully, the attack cauterized his wounds when it swallowed his legs, preventing him from bleeding.
"Charlotte, you and the stranger would have to finish it off. I'll try as much as possible to keep it in place." He said, pointed his right hand to the creature, and applied his telekinetic force, holding the creature in place. It continued to screech nonstop, trying to resist the hold but to no avail. The last attack had truly taken everything out of it.
It moved from side to side but could not cover any significant distance.
"Leave it to me!" Charlotte exclaimed, gathering her mana to create an arrow. This time around, she took her time to condense the arrow to be as strong and as powerful as possible. She aimed to finish this creature off once and for all.
She drew her bow and aimed at the creature that was now struggling her than before. The bow in her arm began to creak under the pressure of her draw, but she ignored that and took a deep breath before releasing the arrow.
'This is the end for you, bastard!'
BOOOM!
Almost instantaneously, the release and the contact sounded at the same time. The creature exploded in a gory of flesh and energy, leaving nothing behind, except for the swirl of energy that began to form its core once it died.
The catkin observed this and nodded in approval. Initially, she planned to finish the creature off if the people failed to kill it, but it seemed she didn't need to worry. Now, however, with the void creature dead, she was the only one left.