"Jetburst" Cinister said on instinct, flying towards the lizard on the left. He quickly raised his hand to his eye.
"Sun Dance" he shouted, and three blazing sun wheels formed, slicing into the lizard's body.
"Is it dead?" Cinister asked.
"Nope," said Ragna, who had been watching the fight.
Cinister turned back the lizard who had already regenerated.
"Wanna switch in, Ragna?" Cinister asked.
"Sure, just watch," Ragna replied.
"Aqua Blade" Ragna shouted, unleashing his best ability. As the swords began to form, the lizard suddenly dashed toward him, catching Ragna off guard.
"Jetburst" Cinister shouted, kicking the lizard away. "Come on, quick shoot it"
"Yeah!" Ragna answered, starting to impale the lizard but it broke free and started to run
"Quick" Cinister started running towards it.
We cut back to Micheal's team
"Hey Micheal, you done coming up with a plan?" George said, taking more hits from the middle-headed lizard.
"Yeah come to me!" Micheal shouted.
Micheal quickly created an ice pillar angled at 30 degrees. "Climb it, quick, George!"
George started scaling the pillar.
"Jump on the lizard and crush it!" Micheal yelled out.
George leapt off and slammed his shield into the dragon's head. The acceleration, the impact, and the flow of Aqualith energy completely crushed the lizard's skull.
"Let's go!" they screamed together.
The Lizard regenarated and headed towards a castle in the distance
"Sh*t" sayd Micheal and they start running towards it
Finally, the scene cuts to Alya's team.
Alya activated Sneak, turning invisible as she crept toward the dragon but every time, it evaded and struck back, blasting both Alya and Brayden with fireballs.
"Ugh, this is annoying," said Alya.
"Well, what do you expect?" Brayden replied.
"Not this. Just hit it!" Alya snapped.
"I'm trying, d*mn it!" Brayden shouted, quickly bending the earth around themself to form a protective sphere.
The lizard started clawing violently at the sphere, but suddenly, Alya appeared behind it and stabbed deep into its back. Unbeknownst to the dragon, Brayden had created a small exit hole Alya slipped through, turned invisible again, and landed a surprise hit.
The lizard squealed in pain and fled, running toward the castle and our warriors took off after it.
After a bit of running, everyone met at the entrance of the castle.
"Micheal, George!" Cinister called out. "Where have you been?"
"I could say the same to you, of course," Micheal replied.
Alya gently tapped Cinister's arm. "Hey, I'm here too, you know."
"Ah, Alya and Brayden the squad's back together," Cinister said with a grin.
"Yeah, by the way, after we beat the boss, we need to make a pact," Micheal added.
"Oh, speaking of we fought some kind of mini-boss," Cinister said.
"We did too," George and Brayden said at the same time.
"We didn't kill it, though it ran off," Cinister replied.
"Yeah, same thing here," said the others.
"Wait, doesn't that mean-" Ragna was cut off by a terrifying scream.
Everyone's attention snapped to the castle gate.
There it was a tense, bloodlusted atmosphere settling over them like a storm.
The dragon let out a deafening roar.
[Damage: +10][Speed: +15][Health: +5]
As the dragon began charging a powerful attack, Cinister reacted instantly."Jetburst" he shouted, launching upward and uppercutting the dragon's mouth, disrupting the charge.
"Ice Pillar!" echoed Micheal's voice.
Two massive ice pillars erupted from the ground, stabbing through the dragon's wings and pinning it briefly.
From its blind spot, Alya emerged in a flash, invisible no more she plunged her blade into the base of its neck.
At the same time, Ragna combined Aqua Blade with ThunderStrike, electrifying every blade with surging power. He launched them all at the dragon in a synchronized barrage.
After all those attacks, you might think the dragon would at least flinch.Well, you'd be dead wrong.It stood there, completely unfazed no fear, no pain, just pure malice.
With a brutal motion, the dragon shook off Alya, shattered George's shield with one swipe, and sent Ragna flying with a powerful smack. It tore the ice pillars from its wings and hurled them straight at Micheal and Brayden, slamming them to the ground. Then, with a devastating roar, it backhanded Cinister, launching him into a pile of rubble.
Now, with everyone either too injured to stand or completely knocked out, it seemed like all hope was lost.
Until
A small flame flickered in the dust.And a faint spark crackled through the air.
Something or someone had just reignited the battlefield.
Cinister and Ragna slowly got back on their feet, both heavily injured.
"This thing packs a punch," Cinister muttered, wincing in pain.
"Well, what do you expect? This is The Tower, after all," Ragna replied grimly.
"Fire Ring," Cinister said, summoning a glowing ring behind his back.
"Fire Ring," he repeated — this time, a smaller ring formed within the first, pulsing with intense heat.
Ragna followed suit, activating Aqua Blade and fusing it once again with ThunderStrike, causing each blade to hum with crackling energy and watery flow.
"You ready?" Ragna asked under his breath.
"No but I'll surpass you," Cinister smirked, eyes locked on the beast.
In a flash, he blitzed the dragon, slashing through its wings with deadly precision, flames trailing in his wake. Now moving at a faster speed than the dragon he was able to keep blizing the dragon while Ragna was shooting the sword in it's weakspots like it's eyes, lungs and other organs.
The Dragon not going down started using every support abilities until it was moving at mach 9.
Cinister was keeping up but with some struggle as the dragon prepared to slash Cinister, Ragna shot a blade knocking back it's claw much made it vulnarable. With in that moment a sertant spell has reached mastery 2.
Normally, a Mastery 2 spell was incredibly rare to see among climbers of the Tower — but Cinister had used it over 100 times against the adaptable lizard.
[Sun Dance][2nd Form][Pyroclasm]
The speed of the attack doubled, and its color shifted to a blazing blue.
In a second.In a moment.
The dragon was incinerated.
Cinister landed softly, then immediately felt the backlash from the attack. As he collapsed to the ground, his eyes quickly shut.
The only conscious person left on the field was Ragna.He hurriedly picked up the others, laying them gently on the ground, and began tending to their wounds.
As he looked up at the red sky, he whispered to himself,"Another floor was conquered."