My CB buzzed.
I felt the warmth flow through me and knew that Miel had finally come through.
“BINDINGS!”
Vines shot out of the deck under everyone except Nakten, who was still clinging to the monster’s eyelid. That would keep them from falling over the side of the ship, though Fray and Ether needed a much longer tether since they had to move around.
I could feel a pressure in my head and there was a notification on my CB, but I didn’t have time to read it. This wasn’t a temporary boost, but I still wasn’t going to hesitate.
Miel had taken my Magic stat to 20.
Tier One Magic meant that all of my spells were going to hit twice as hard. Considering that I was still only Tier Zero based on my level of four, the monster in front of me didn’t have defenses for what I was capable of now.
I pointed my pistol at the monster’s open mouth.
“Spark Barrage.”
The metal in my hand got hot as the overcharged spell zapped out of the barrel. The monster howled as holes were gouged into its tongue, then a few stray shots went down its throat.
The Sea Dragon clamped its mouth shut as it pulled its head away from my attack. The others didn’t let up, so I took a moment to tap the pistol to my CB and put it into my inventory. I liked the weapon and didn’t want to break it because I was channeling overcharged spells through it. I made finger guns like I had back during our first boss fight and spoke the word of my spell.
Electricity zapped out of the tips of my fingers, each impact leaving scorch marks on the blue scales. The monster howled as it recoiled from my assault.
“Oh, no you don’t.” I switched spells. “BINDINGS!” Vines wrapped around the giant monster, lashing it to the deck. The ship rocked even more violently as the large monster’s tail slapped against the side of the ship, but my spell held the head against the deck and the vines around everyone else kept them from being thrown off the ship.
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Nakten had to bounce around on the creature’s head, but she managed to sink her daggers through one of the scales I’d burned, allowing her to hang on to the thrashing monster.
“We’ve got to finish this!” Justia screamed over the rain and howls. “It’s going to tip the ship!”
The Sea Dragon focused his yellow eyes on me, then let out the loudest roar yet.
ROAR!
The blue lizards from before crawled up the side of the ship, then scrambled towards the vines restraining the giant monster.
“AELIN!” I tracked the monsters on the left side of the Sea Dragon, only needing a single shot to their heads to drop them. With all the rocking the ship had done, most of the bodies from earlier had slid off the deck into the water.
Aelin moved around to the other side to work on the army of lizards that were throwing themselves at the bindings in an effort to free the larger monster. It made them easy targets, since they were acting without a sense of self-preservation, but that only made me think that this monster was actually sentient. If it was able to control the smaller monsters like that, then it had to have some understanding of what the vines were doing to it, and it had to be able to convey to the lizards what it wanted them to do.
I thought for a moment about trying to go into its mind to reason with it, but the hunger in those yellow eyes as it glared at my wife erased any desire I had to spare the monster’s life. It wanted to eat both me and my wife and I wasn’t going to let it swim away and have the chance to do that again.
Ether hammered its nose again with her shield. The sight of the blue-armored woman leaping into the air to slam her shield onto the large creature’s head filled me with pride.
The rain picked up, but between Aelin’s pink arrow and my Spark Shots, there was plenty of light to see. I kept my focus on the lizards, which were already thinning significantly.
The Sea Dragon must have realized that we were going to be able to keep its minions from freeing it. It began to thrash its tail violently, tipping the ship even closer to the waterline.
“JUST STOP!” I released the vine holding me in place and slid across the deck towards the monster. I found a place where I’d burned a scale off and grabbed a handful of the tender muscle.
The Sea Dragon roared and pulled against the vines in earnest, but they weren’t budging.
I focused on the next spell as I dug my hands deeper into its flesh and spoke the word of the spell.
“FREEZE.”
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