Khrom and Hot Rod went after the magic beast while Barret and Cecilia attacked Jinn. Kadyn stood far away from the battle with Elora, staring at the fight keenly. He was waiting for the right time to act.

Cecilia was like a shadow at the moment, her speed was unbelievable and her attacking spells were fatal, sharp and deadly. She had already cast her Cloning Spell, which increased her fighting power even more, attacking Jinn from every side and every angle possible with her two clones.

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Barret was using his earth element and the sword artefact to fight the blue creature. However, Jinn wasn't so easy to deal with. His defences were solid — whenever Cecilia or Barrett attacked him, he would form a defensive layer of water in front of him, deflecting or blocking their attacks.

Not far away Khrom and Hot Rod were also fighting tooth and nail with the beast. Though they had the upper hand, it seemed that the battle wouldn't end anytime soon. Khrom's attacks were sharp and lethal while Hot Rod's spells were destructive. They continued to push the magical beast back; however, it seemed the defence of the beast was stronger than they expected. Their attack landed on its thick skin, but they couldn't wound the beast critically.

Khrom was pale. After all he was just a 10-star elementary mage. Fighting with a Rank 1 magical beast was no joke. Hot Rod saw that the situation wasn't looking good for Khrom and it wouldn't take long before the beast would have an upper hand over them so he increased the intensity of his attack. He looked towards Barret and Cecilia.

Their battle was in a deadlock. Neither party had the upper hand. It shocked everyone because not long ago, a single attack had injured Jinn to the point of vomiting blood, but now he was holding against Cecilia and Barret together. What is going on? Could devouring a few souls give someone as much strength as Jinn? They didn't believe it.

Hot Rod gritted his teeth and thought. 'I need to end this battle as soon as possible.' The longer the battle they dragged the more energy they would lose.

"Sunfire Torrent!" Hot Rod stood up and shouted and a huge sun started to form in the sky, lightning the entire dark Bamboo Cove. The burning heat spread in all directions, while glazing light blinded everyone. Hot Rod laughed and roared. "Die, you beast!"

The sun was closest to the snake so it felt how terrible the heat actually was. However, it had no way to dodge it — when the sun bloomed with all in its glory it fell over the snake. As soon as the sun touched its skin it faded. The snake struggled and hissed and twitched but to avail. It fumbled its tail this way and that, forming a huge crater in the ground. In just a blink of an eye, it started to look like a barbecued chicken. However, the burning smell wasn't so pleasant to smell.

It took five minutes for the snake to calm down. Hot Rod had lost all of his strength and was lying on the ground limply with a pale face and drenched in sweat. His entire body was numb and his head was throbbing with pain. He had used too much mana in that spell. His most powerful spell.

He stared at the snake, murmuring. "Is it dead?"

Khrom also thought that the snake was dead, however, to their horror, the beast twitched and stood on its tail. It looked at Hot Rod with its red beady eyes and dashed towards him with a furious hiss and opened its mouth to gulp this bastard down its throat who tormented him so much.

Despair filled Hot Rod's face when he saw this scene. "Am I going to die?" he murmured. The beast was still a few meters away, but he had no strength to run, so he waited for his end. However, at this moment a shadow flashed in front of him, standing with a proud posture, facing the beast with a single sword in its hand.

"What are you doing?" Hot Rod panicked when he saw who he was. "You are no match for this snake. Get out of here, now!"

"You know before becoming Kadyn's employee I signed the contract," Khrom didn't look at him and continued to stand in front of him. "There was a point that you can't abandon your comrades in times of crisis. Though you aren't the employee of the shop, you are my comrade and friend. We fought together; we worked together, and we even ate together. How can I leave you here to die? I would prefer to die fighting, instead."

Hot Rod didn't know what to say when he saw such a determined stance of Khrom. He felt touched and ashamed at the same time. Though he had joined them for a long time, and he wanted to build his relationship with Kadyn, it was only because he knew that Kadyn could give him many benefits. He thought that he would have a glorious future if he followed him. He didn't have much sense of belonging to the shop. However, at this moment his thinking changed. He changed.

Hot Rod struggled and stood beside Khrom. He looked at the huge shadow that had appeared almost in front of them and stared at it without a trace of fear in his eyes. "If I'm going to die, then so be it. However, I won't die like a dog!" he shouted as he clutched the handle of the sword. However, no matter how courageous someone was, without strength he could do nothing. Hot Rod tried to slash towards the beast, but due to weakness, the sword fell from his hands.

He looked at his trembling hands and shook his head. But then he again turned towards the beast and punched towards with all his might. Khrom also attacked with the sword. Though he knew that he wasn't a snake's match — not after exhausted himself to the point of collapsing — he didn't back down, even if he was going to die, he would make this beast pay a hefty price. But just as they thought that their end had come a shout reverberated. "Now!"

Soon after the first shout, another voice came. "Wound Rupture!"

As soon as the shout echoed, the green light covered the snake, freezing it on the spot. Then in front of the shocked eyes of Khrom and Hot Rod it fell on the ground and started to twitch and twist as if it was in horrible pain and agony.

Afterwards, the disgusting bubbles appeared on the snake's body as someone was boiling it inside the water. The bubbles were made of blood. Not long after that the cracks formed on its thick surface. The blood pooled out of its body and puddled on the ground, forming a large pool below its colossal body.

And after some struggle it became silent. Dead.

"The heck has happened?" Khrom looked at the frame of the beast in trepidation and exchanged terrified glances with Hot Rod. Then the duo remembered two shouts before it all happened and turned around in that direction in disbelief. Elora was standing beside Kadyn with a frozen expression, covering her mouth with her right hand, while Kadyn had a smile on his face.

"Boss, was that your doing?" Khrom asked with an excited expression. "That was fuc-uh, I mean it was awesome!" he controlled his surging emotions when he saw Elora standing near Kadyn and laughed awkwardly

"Nope." Kadyn shook his head. "It wasn't me."

"Then?" Hot Rod looked at him with confusion. Other than Kadyn no one could help them because Barret and Cecilia were still fighting with Jinn. Furthermore, the spell that killed the beast was kind of weird. They had never seen or heard about it before.

However, it reminded them about the Necromancers. The same mages who controlled the dead and spirits of the dead. They were terrible people, even talking about them was a huge taboo in the Magic Association. Just thinking about them made Hot Rod's heart tremble in terror.

"Oh, it was Elora who killed that beast," Kadyn patted Elora's head gently and said. "She is super powerful, you know. However, it's just that no one knows the correct use of Healing Element. Very few people would be able to match her when she had full control over her element."

Khrom and Hot Rod looked at Elora with disbelief. How could this be? Weren't healing mages non-combative type? Auxiliary type? How could Elora kill a beast who was 1 rank above her? (actually about half a rank above her if you talk technically) Kadyn could kill a Rank 1 mage was one thing. But now, even Elora. Hot Rod felt as if he had wasted his entire life.

Not only Khrom and Hot Rod were in disbelief, even Elora was left stunned when she killed the Rank 1 magical beast. She thought that she could at most hinder the beast for some time and give a chance to escape to Khrom and Hot Rod. This… this…