126: Tasha and the Snail

Tasha and the Snail

In the middle battlefield.

Tasha had been shooting her arrows nonstop while striking down the rays of blue light from the snail. She had yet to make another move after using the Lightning Storm on the snail. The magic didn't go through the shell as the snail instantly went inside its house. After being blocked by the shell, the lightning continued rampaging around and killed a few magical beasts in the area.

In an instant, a thought arose in her. It immediately made Tasha turn decisive. She was not the kind of person who fought unnecessary battles because of Kai's influence. Instead, she had already imagined the situation when she faced the snail, ignoring instead of focusing.

Fighting an opponent that's impossible to beat would only drain one's magic power. Rather than focusing on it, she chose to wait until the army finished the other magical beasts before attacking it together… or so she thought. But a huge ball of blue light appeared above the snail.

"What is that?!" Tasha felt something different. She pointed her hand again, creating a lance and shooting it toward the ball before it could launch.

"Electric Lance!"

The lightning lance pierced through the air and made its way toward the blue ball. Tasha's aim was to destroy the ball and create a huge explosion to kill the snail and the other magical beasts nearby. But reality moved differently than the picture on her mind.

As soon as the Electric Lance touched the blue ball, instead of destroying the ball, it was absorbed.

"What?!" Tasha's eyes opened wide. She couldn't believe what just happened. She didn't know it was just a huge chump of energy. By absorbing the Electric Lance, the ball suddenly contained the lightning element. If she had shot it right after the snail released the ball rather than in the creating process, she would be able to destroy it.

Unfortunately, Tasha didn't have the leeway to test that. Lightning started sparking around the edge as the snail shot the ball.

"This is not good." Tasha narrowed her eyes, observing the ball that would soon land on the army. "They're going to be obliterated!"

Noticing the emergency of this situation, Tasha shifted her bow, snapped her fingers, and teleported right above the army.

Just like Tasha, Jack also figured this ball out and quickly shouted, "We need to retreat as quickly as possible if you don't want to die!"

In the instant he finished his speech, Tasha appeared above the army and clasped her hand, creating a pink magic circle in the air.

Even though she was still falling, it didn't take away even a little portion of her focus. A pink magic sphere rose from inside the magic circle, creating the same sphere as the magic she used in the group battle.

"Spatial Lock!"

Just like the blue ball absorbing her lightning, the pink sphere acted like slime and swallowed the blue ball completely.

"Kh!" Tasha never expected to get such huge resistance from the blue ball. Even after swallowing it, the blue ball tried still to absorb her space magic.

Another magic circle appeared and teleported the blue ball right above the snail. "Teleportation."

Tasha pulled her bow, aiming at her Spatial Lock before finally landing on the ground.

"Lightning Piercer."

The arrow flew like a bullet, piercing the pink sphere. Surprisingly, the sphere that could contain a huge lump of energy popped out like a balloon.

After losing its momentum, the blue ball slowly descended, making the snail tremble in fear. It hid into its house to protect itself from the ball.

Unfortunately, the other magical beasts didn't have the capability to think of that action. As soon as the blue ball touched the snail's shell, it created a huge explosion, engulfing the snail and other magical beasts.

Boom!

"What is that?" Jack snarled with a complicated expression. He turned around, finding Tasha a few meters behind him. "Did that thing almost descend upon us earlier?"

"Yeah." Tasha nodded before looking at the after-effect of the explosion. She climbed a little tower nearby to check if the snail was dead or not.

She didn't know whether it was fortunate or not. The snail didn't die, but it was covered with wounds. Even its shell had some broken parts scattered around.

"Commander Jack, I need to strike the snail before it can rise again," Tasha shouted as she created another magic circle to teleport her.

"O-oh?!" Jack was stunned for a second and turned around, only to see empty air.

Tasha already appeared in the middle of the enemy, surrounded by magical beasts. A few magical beasts noticed her presence and charged at her, but Tasha simply clapped her hands to make another teleportation circle.

"Teleportation!"

A few magical beasts were swallowed together with the snail before appearing two kilometers in the sky. The first thing that came into view was a broken-shelled snail falling at high speed. Next, she caught sight of around ten magical beasts that penetrated the cloud and fell together with the snail.

After confirming their fall with her own two eyes, Tasha teleported herself out of the enemy territory. She still needed to confirm the snail's death, so she only teleported herself to a high building around the area and hid.

It would seem that the snail had yet to give in as it raised both of its eyes while forming a ray of blue light between its eyes. The snail shot right to the ground it would fall onto.

Boom!

Dust kicked in and rose from the ground, making it hard to discern what happened to the snail.

"What?!" Tasha's sharp eyes could barely see behind the dust, but she could confirm that the snail was safe. 'That's insane… Is this what it means to be an intelligent A-rank magical beast?'

Although she could barely see the process, she could figure what just happened in that instant. She hid behind the wall, crossed her arms, and thought, 'The snail used that big explosion to give a force to knock it back to the sky. However, it fell too fast, so the explosion was only used to soften the impact. Still… the speed was too fast. Together with the explosion, it should be half-dead. This is the perfect time to kill it.'

Upon realizing the opportunity, Tasha pulled her bow, showed herself from behind the wall, and shot her arrow to the sky.

"Lightning Storm."

The arrow became the catalyst to create a magic circle in the sky before a bolt of lightning struck forth.

The snail noticed and looked up with its tattered body. It created another ray of blue light between its eyes, trying to destroy the lightning or the magic circle.

Tasha obviously wouldn't let it. She aimed her bow toward the snail and released two arrows.

"Lightning Piercer."

With the snail's current state, it still could sense the incoming arrows, but its physical ability didn't allow it to react in time.

The two arrows pierced both eyes as the snail trembled. It shot out the blue light between the eyes toward the sky, but with the loss of both of its eyes, it missed its target, allowing Tasha's lightning to strike at him.

Boom!

The snail wasn't protected by its shell anymore as it had been shattered here and there. Tasha's lightning exploded and swallowed the snail.

Letting out a loud dying shrill, the snail finally died.

"Control." Tasha released a few arrows toward the snails again. "Lightning Piercer."

Kai taught her not to lower her guard to dying enemies, especially intelligent ones. After all, they might even fake their death, no matter if they were beasts or humans.

She remembered how there was one enemy that pretended to be dead a few years ago. Luckily, Kai separated everyone's heads to make sure they were dead, so the enemy couldn't retaliate.

He didn't separate their heads just to show her, especially with humans. There were many cases where human technology could even bring the dead back to life as long as it didn't pass a certain amount of time. Even with their beating heart stopped, Kai still did such a meticulous job. Tasha obviously wouldn't let anything escape, especially this snail. It could even survive a two-kilometer free fall, let alone faking its own death.

"Fu." After making sure that the snail really died, Tasha took a deep breath, feeling relieved. "Fortunately, I'm the one here instead of Michelle. Looking at how incompatible they are, there would most likely be a lot of soldiers dying in the process before Michelle manages to kill it."

Roar! Roar! Roar!

The magical beasts spotted her, and a few of them changed their directions to rush toward her.

"Oops, time to go!" Tasha shrugged and teleported herself back to the army. She looked at Jack and shouted, "Commander Jack, that intelligent A-rank magical beast has died. We can start routing the magical beasts without any worries."

Jack glanced at Tasha before shouting. "Did you hear that, guys? Our biggest threat has disappeared. It's time we push them back and show them the pride of Cuba Military Base!"

"Yes, Sir!" The shouts from both men and women echoed throughout the battlefield, raising their morale.

Jack nodded and sent a report to the radio. "This is Jack, we've killed the special magical beast. Over."1

"I've also killed the special magical beast here," Marsha interjected while looking at the giant crabs that had been shattered by her brutal strength. "We'll have delicious crabs for tonight's dinner, so let's do our best to survive."

"Same here. Though, we still need to deal with three other beasts," Kai said. "The situation is a bit chaotic here, but it's still under control."

"I've sent a hundred fighters and a hundred gunners to the left army. They should arrive in the next fifteen minutes," Marsha said with a relieved tone.

"Good work, all of you." General Sanders could only say this. He was still occupied with the flying beast, after all.

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