I and the others watched as the ball of light condensed into a solid form five times the size of the already house sized ape that was Second. Then, the moment it took a solid shape, every single one of us pelted it with attacks before it even hit the ground, creating a fog of dust, smoke, and whatever elements were used.

  And we kept on attacking, except for Second of the Snow, since they didn’t have any long range attacks, but otherwise not letting it get a single moment to breathe. Then, through the fog of attacks separating us, a red laser beam cut through it in a clean line, traveling vertically and cutting through a large swath of my minions. Leaving behind an absurdly large trail of blood in its wake, it even hit Second.

  And they had to lift their weapons to block it, the laser beam splattering red liquid all around. Making me realize it wasn’t a laser, but rather a highly pressurized beam of liquid. The highly pressurized beam in question pushing Second back and leaving a deep crack in one of their weapons. After it passed over, the splattered liquid was sizzling wherever it landed, Urg quickly washing it off of Second before it could do more than singe their fur.

  When the acid was off, Second looked at their damaged axe and crushed it, a blue haze of power escaping from it and absorbed into them. After that, we watched the dust settle around where the boss landed, none of us willing to play our hand in case it backfired.

  And through the thinning fog I saw the out line of a flat, leaf shaped lizard covered in horns. Mostly earthy tones of tan and brown, except around its eyes, which were dripping sizzling blood. The same acid that had cut through my ranks and Seconds' weapons, then it let out a roar.

  One that did shake the earth, but our souls, like the one the ant Queen let out when I first met her, or when Krath pinned their death wish onto me. Then the pools of blood all over the battle field churnned, and then chimeric figures emerged from them. Vaguely in the shapes of whatever creatures' blood it was from, and a good third of them, mostly around me, struggled to form. For whatever reason, and collapsed back into puddles of blood.

  My minions and the other contestants were stunned from the sudden punch of the domain against their souls. But I had a Domain myself to resist it, so I was unaffected. And used my own domain to get the others moving.

  Urg and Second looked confused for a moment, but when they saw the new blood army forming, they quickly got to work. Tearing through the blood golems, trying to get closer to the giant lizard, but the golems kept on reforming. Grabbing onto Second and trying to slow them down, me and Urg didn’t have that problem since we were flying a good distance in the air.

  But it slowed us down since we had to make sure Second wasn’t killed, while I racked my brain to figure out a solution to this problem. My mind latching onto the moment the Lizard had roared and created their army from the blood, but not all of it, quite a lot just splattered back to the ground.

  Why though? There had been a lot of failed golems around me. Could it be that my Domain stopped it? But a lot of others that were nowhere near me had failed as well, hmm…

  And with a split second of thought, I tested it out, projecting my domain out towards the nearest minions, and it worked. But the moment I pulled it back, the golems formed again. So I did it again, but this time making sure that I wouldn’t disrupt the domain controlling it, using my senses to instead study them.

  And I saw that the domain had only partially suffused throughout the blood, and all of the different golems hadn’t varying amounts of Domain. Then I remembered the other thing that had happened around us, Urg dousing Second in water to get rid of the acidic blood.

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  Then I turned towards Urg, passing them a strand of Moon Silk, asking, “Can you do something for me?”

  “What is it; Question?”

  “Dilute the blood golems.”

  “I have already wasted too much water against the Stag. I can not create it like your Ravens, and it has to be pure enough for me to use it.”

  “Sorry, but my Ravens are dealing with stuff too far away from here for me to use them, and you’re the only water manipulator here, so…”

  They mentally sighed and said, “Fine.”

  Then they blasted a golem I had pointed at, creating a pink puddle, then I pushed my Domain into it. I still felt the Boss's domain in it pushing against mine, but it was weakening with every second, till it finally yielded and dispersed.

  “It worked!”

  Urg started blasting the blood golems with water, experimenting around to find the minimum amount of water needed for me to disperse them. Strategically making our way towards a water cache we had made in case something like this had happened.

  Then we went on a rampage, destroying as many of the golems as possible as we made our way between water caches. Getting rid of enough of them that the bulk of my minions could get past them and actually help me.

  And with the extra breathing room it afforded me, I took the time to actually pay attention to the boss. But I was unable to find it, wondering how the hell I was able to lose track of a lizard half the size of a football field. Then one of my minions informed me of its location underground, the giant hole it had created not catching my eye since it was one among many in this ravaged field.

  I sent a few minions down there to check it out, peering through their senses. I located it not far underground, since it hadn’t been long enough for it to tunnel far away, and the flooding was preventing it from going too far down.

  Then I had Huginn, my Nimbus Raven, and Urg come over. The two of them flooding the tunnels and pushed the water directly towards the Boss, along with the teleporting Mud Fish and venomous sturgeons. Having transported them with Slip Away.

  The three of those disasters hitting it all at once, I watched the ten foot long sturgeons thrash the Boss. They weren’t strong compared to it, but a dozen of them teaming up on it and wrestling it together was able to restrict the Boss's movement. And the Mud fish were intentionally antagonising it to get swallowed by it. Then they would release the exploding poison dart frogs from the dimensional pocket, and then escape into the now empty dimensional pocket.

  I would have them come back up to resupply them, then send them back down. The explosion both damaging the internal organs of the Boss and let the poison spread quicker. The boss soon realized this and tried to dig their way out of the mess, but I would have my sturgeons get in the way and extend their sharp scales.

  Injecting it with venom and messing up their hands, with this, I finally had it cornered. I watched as its movements became slower and it suffocated in the water, then it opened and let out a roar. It took a moment for me to realize what the roar was since I wasn’t in its proximity, but I soon recognised the quaking of my minions' souls.

  The Boss shot out a gargantuan torrent of blood that shouldn’t have been able to fit inside its body. The acidic blood pushing away the water and dissolving most of my minions down there, except for the Mud fish, who escaped into their dimensional pockets.

  I commanded Urg to try and dilute the blood, but the Boss was somehow preventing that, and was digging back up to the surface at an absurd rate. I kept track of it with my Domain sense, but was unable to do anything as I watched it emerge from the ground. Smoke rising from where the acid touched the ground.

  The bad sight growing worse as I saw two more things. The first was the sun rising, my Moon Aura that had been allowing me to direct my minions better than ever before, the edge allowing me to stay alive now restricted.

  The second, and much worse event, nestled in between the sun and the giant Lizard. A ball of light, my Domain sense telling me it was the convergence of four Domains forming a third boss before we had even defeated the second.