Chapter 143: The Green Vine
Selina immediately got her head back in the game after Derek shouted at her, and the both of them faced off against the humongous Anima who was currently leaning down to stare at them with wide red eyes.
The Anima was a humanoid creature with long arms that it dragged on the ground behind it. It had short legs and a large green body that made it look like some peaceful forest creature. But its face immediately made them forget about that assumption. It had a large mouth with jagged teeth peeking through an unnerving smile.
Its large, slitted eyes were constantly staring down at them and mocking them for their weakness.
Selina couldn't deny that if not for the fact that there were civilians around, she would have abandoned this mission a long time ago. Why the hell was a calamity class showing up all of a sudden? Selina knew that a calamity class had just shown up in the city a few weeks ago, so there shouldn't have been another one for a long time!
Calamity classes were so rare that you would normally never see two of them within the span of two months, but now they were showing up every other week like Pokemon! What the hell is going on in this city!?
"Just hold out for a few more minutes. I've made a call and reinforcements should be getting here soon."
Derek said this as he tightened his hold on the bat in his hand. Derek was a member of the Artemis guild, and it was only his luck that allowed him to be at this place at this moment when the Anima attacked. He placed a call out to his guild, and they should be sending reinforcements soon.
"And how long do you think it will take for that thing to kill us all?"
Selina's voice was sarcastic as she crouched into a ready position to attack. Derek couldn't stop his eyes from trailing towards Selina's ass as it protruded out from her skin-tight outfit when she crouched, and he had to blink in shock as he saw how large it was! Fuck, that's a huge ass! I wanna bury my face in there!
"Derek! What the hell are you looking at!?"
Your fat ass.
"Nothing. Let's focus."
Derek tried to get his head back in the game as he faced off against the monster. He saw one of the B ranks, a long-range sniper, signal to him that they were ready, and Derek immediately nodded before shouting out!
"Let's go!"
Derek charged for the monster first, and Selina followed closely behind him as they both flanked the beast! The monster raised its large hand into the air before suddenly swiping it across like a whip!
Snap!
A massive wind pressure snapped across the area as a part of the building was torn to shreds once the Calamity class touched it! Derek ducked under the attack and pulled back his bat! The bat started to glow with a dull red as it was infused with his mana and he released a shout as he released a massive blow towards the monster's feet!
Boom!
The beast looked down at it easily tanked the blow and it instantly sent a hit towards Derek! Derek pulled back and tried to get away as quickly as possible as he shouted for Selina to go in for the hit! Selina appeared from the side with two short knives in her hand! She landed on the monster's shoulder and she ran towards where its eyes were to blind it!
Swipe!
'What!'
Selina's eyes widened as she felt the area under her feet swell before a tentacle suddenly flew out from the monster's shoulder and tried to swipe at her! Her reflexes allowed her to jump into the air to avoid it! She redirected her body to land on the ground, but the monster's hand suddenly flashed across the air and slammed into her before she could land!
Slam!
Boom!
"Selina! Fuck! Take the shot now! Everybody attack!"
Derek shouted out at the B ranks in the area as he charged for the monster with killing intent and he released a massive blow at the monster at the same time that a B rank leaped from a higher platform to attack the monster's head!
The sniper B rank released a mana bullet from a distance while the final B rank used her ability to make vines grow from the ground to hold the Anima in place so it would not be able to avoid the attacks!
Derek expected the Anima to focus on him since he was the strongest one there so that the other B ranks attacking from above and the one sniping from a distance would get a clean shot. But what happened next shook everyone!
The Anima completely ignored Derek as it allowed him to get a clean strike on its body. Instead, it turned its head around and opened its jagged teeth wide to allow the B rank that was flying towards it to land right inside its mouth!
CRUNCH!!
Boom!
The bullet from the sniper struck the Anima in the head, but it didn't even look like it noticed it as the Anima continued to chew the human in its mouth with a happy smile across its face. Blood was dripping from the side of its mouth and its jagged teeth had bits of flesh and clothes hanging from them!
"You fucking monster!!"
ROARRRR!!!
BOOM!!
Derek was about to attack the Anima, but the Anima suddenly released a loud roar as it used its hands as a whip once more to completely eradicate everything around it! The whips slammed into Derek and sent him through a wall! The Anima destroyed the vines that were holding it in place and it started to move towards the B rank that created the vines!
The B rank was a woman wearing a long white gown. She had dark green hair and vibrant green eyes that were currently widened in terror as she started to backpedal once she saw the Anima focusing on her!
"W-Wait! Wait! Get away from me!"
The B rank immediately turned around and started to run away from the
Anima as she realized that she was going to get eaten! Why was it focusing on her? She didn't even do anything to it!