Mushroom Lord (2)

"Hh, I hope this works."

While moving away from the circle, Aria also didn't forget to take out one of the small knives given by Rei and cut her own finger. And after she dropped her blood into the center of the magic circle, she immediately ran.

GRRRRAAAWWRRHHH!!! Following the terrifying sound, the ground began to tremble as well.

If only the monster was weak, Rei actually said that the magic circle would be enough to burn it alive in the ground. But whether from the sound or from the earthquake, Aria immediately had the feeling that the monster would come out soon. So she took out her dagger, as well as Feny and the others.

GRAWR! And finally the monster burst out from the ground. But without being able to see its figure completely because of the dust, the mushroom immediately lunged to attack them.

"Run!" Aria shouted while she immediately cast her magic shield. Although not even a second later, the shield immediately shattered again.

"GRRRAWWRR!" And for a moment, Aria couldn't help but freeze as the demon roared in front of her face. With a solid black round eyes like cannonballs, its sharp, jagged teeth were so smelly and scary,

The size of the demon was actually not as big as Aria had imagined--because she had imagined that the monster would be as big as a house. But no. This mushroom might be just barely triple times bigger than Mr. Bishop. Although its head looked very wide like a large umbrella.

Its head which was green actually looked burnt, so the magic circle definitely worked. But even so, Aria couldn't draw it again in this situation. Not to mention she might need more than one.

PST! But then an arrow suddenly stuck in its cheek. That must be the arrow Feny was holding. And just like Rei said, the arrows did give a burning effect.

"Aria, run!" Feny screamed, reminding her. Hastily coming to her senses, Aria hastily brandished her dagger to injure the demon as well.

But for some reason, she hesitated.

So in the end she could only run again when the mushroom started releasing ten arms which immediately squirmed wildly to catch her.

As they were told to, Mr. Avo, also Cal and Helen, are in charge of throwing their weapons at the demon from afar. Doesn't matter if they missed, because the purpose was so Aria could pick them up again when needed.

Or that was the plan. But in reality, Aria was just too busy dodging all the mushroom hands that were chasing her! It even looked like the mushroom could also shoot some kind of green balls to attack her--which, although not as hard as cannonballs, were still dense enough to cause bruises all over her body.

Right. It almost felt like her sandbags training.

And of course, Aria wasn't the only one panicking there. Because Cal, Helen, even Mr. Avo could only run away from those balls too. "Hurry up! Just throw them all!" Feny shouted at them while she threw one of the hammers she had.

"Cal, cover me!" Helen shouted then. Cal wasn't sure what she planned, but he immediately tried to block all the attacks that were aimed at them.

And finally, Helen took out the black cube that Aria had given her.

She needed to concentrate for a bit, but then she finally used it to create a huge fireball and threw it at the demon. There goes Aria's magic savings.

Arina knew Helen's magic wasn't strong enough to make useful attacks. That's why she thought, if she was going to be busy doing direct attacks anyway, she might just let Helen use her magic savings to make a bigger attack.

"GRAAWR!" Roaring in pain, the monster turned its attention away from Aria and started aiming its hands at Helen. So in a frenzy, Aria immediately ran and cut off as many hands as she could.

The demon roared in pain again so Aria spontaneously replied, "I'm really sorry!" She shouted while running to the side. Looked like it's about time she used the second magic circle she had drawn.

"Everyone stay away!" Aria said, reminding the others.

Feny immediately ran to the opposite side. But because Helen and Cal ran slowly because they were slightly injured, Mr. Avo immediately picked them up and ran with them.

Aria was about to slice her finger again as soon as she got to the circle, but for some reason she started to hesitate again. 'My magic will really run low after I use this, so if it still doesn't work…'

"Aria, why? You're not running out of magic already, right?" Feny shouted to ask because Aria looked like she was stunned. But instead of answering, Aria ran again to the middle of the field.

"Wait, what's she doing? Is she not gonna use the circle?"