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Mia's frost magic shot out, encasing part of the snake's body in ice, doing its best to slow down its movements. Laura followed up with a barrage of demonic energy blasts, aiming for the snake's head. Beast's arrows struck true, aiming at the snake's eyes, but the beast was too smart and powerful to allow itself to be wounded like that at the very start of the battle.

"We need to find a way to get through those scales," Reign shouted, his swords at the ready.

Aelrinder nodded, his spear glinting as he moved. "We'll need to target the softer areas, behind the head, under the jaw."

Wolf and Tank held their ground, absorbing the brunt of the snake's attacks. Wolf's greatsword clashed again and again with the snake's fangs, while Tank's shield blocked its powerful tail swipes. Greenie roared and charged at the snake's side, his hammer smashing against its scales with enough force to create small cracks.

The cracks, however, were far too small when compared to the huge body of the snake, thus the damage the snake suffered was quite small.

The snake, however, hissed in fury, its eyes glowing brighter as it focused on Greenie. It lunged, fangs bared, but Greenie dodged with surprising agility, countering with a powerful strike to its side, actually managing to push the snake's body to the side by a bit.

Reign and Aelrinder seized the opening, moving in with swift precision. Reign's swords danced, each strike aimed at the snake's vulnerable spots. Aelrinder's spear thrusts were equally effective, finding gaps in the snake's defenses.

Mia's frost magic intensified, creating an icy barrier that slowed the snake's movements even more. Laura's energy blasts struck with pinpoint accuracy, targeting the snake's eyes and disorienting it further as she was unable to strike the eyes accurately thanks to the snake's movements, as well as the layer protecting the eyes from harm.

Beast's arrows continued to rain down, each one hitting its mark. He had stopped aiming at the eyes for now and was focused on doing his best to hit the snake between the scales in order to deal more and more damage to it.

Jin, staying back, observed the battlefield with a strategist's eye. He called out, "Reign, Shadow, watch its tail! It's getting ready to strike again!"

The snake's tail whipped around with incredible speed, but Tank was ready. He braced himself and quickly used his skills, creating 6 different kinds of mana shields in front of him to defend against the attack.

The first was a huge blue shield which was the [ Mana Shield ] he had gained at the very start, the second was the improved version of the same skill, and then came a much smaller, compact shield which was brown in color, after that was a shield created out of 10 small shields that were neatly arranged, the fifth was a red shield which was called [ Demon Shield ], a skill he managed to create thanks to his mark, and the last one was the one that still stood as the strongest defensive skill he had, the [ Abyss Shield ].

The mana shield broke right away, only slowing down the tail by a bit, the second one caused the tail to stop for an instant before being broken while the brown one actually managed to withstand the attack for a moment longer, the third withstood the attack even longer, the combination of 10 shields actually managed to stop it for a bit over a second while the red shield defended against the weakened tail for a whole 3 seconds before breaking.

The [ Abyss Shield ], however, was able to absorb the impact and protect his teammates from the powerful attack, the tail had not even managed to make it crack.

Tanks' forehead, however, was covered in sweat as using 6 defensive skills right away with little time to reinforce them properly was very taxing. In all honesty, the first 4 shields were created too quickly and were not even half as strong as they should have been while the red one was at about 80% of its average power.

The [ Abyss Shield ], thanks to the fact Tank had more time, was as strong as it was supposed to be, and it showed its great defense by stopping the weakened tail.

"Come on, now!" Reign shouted as he, Wolf, Shadow, and Aelrinder appeared from the sides, attacking the tail that had stopped.

Reign's swords turned black and white respectively as he slashed down at the tail with full power, using his [ Severing: Light and Darkness ] to its fullest.

Wolf's sword was covered by his flames that quickly formed another sword around it, the flames were forced to take shape and almost seemed to have solidified from a distance, but compared to what Wolf had once seen Drayce do with flames, creating a throne out of them, he was worlds apart from being able to do something similar.

Shadow's daggers were covered in his darkness, the darkness taking their shape and extending them as they also sharpened them and made them deadlier while Aelrinder did something that most wouldn't do with a spear, instead of stabbing, he slashed down, doing the same as the others.

A powerful gale was wrapped around the blade of the spear, making the attack faster, as well as much sharper and deadlier.

They all slashed down, aiming to do as much damage as they could to the tail.

The combined force of their attacks struck the snake's tail with incredible precision and power. Reign's [Severing: Light and Darkness] cleaved into the tail, the contrasting energies tearing through the snake's scales. Wolf's fiery blade seared into the flesh, leaving a deep, cauterized wound.

Shadow's elongated daggers, shrouded in darkness, sliced through the tough scales like butter, while Aelrinder's wind-enhanced spear created a clean, deep cut.

The snake let out a deafening roar of pain and fury, its massive body writhing in agony. The powerful attacks had significantly weakened its tail, leaving it vulnerable and bleeding.

Right after they had finished their attacks and jumped back, a powerful explosion took place right below the snake's tail, causing the tail to be pushed upwards as some scales were broken from the powerful explosion.

Jin knew what they were going to do, and he had prepared himself to attack right after them, channeling a ton of mana to his fists that were placed on the ground, the mana traveling all the way to the snake's tail in order to explode and deal immense damage to it.

"Don't let up!" Reign shouted, pressing the advantage. "We need to keep the pressure on!"

The team responded with renewed vigor. Wolf acted right away, summoning his flames and throwing them at the snake. The flames quickly landed on the tail and started burning, the smell of burned meat permeating the area as the snake started trashing about from the pain.

Laura's demonic energy blasts targeted the snake's head, disorienting it and making it harder for the beast to coordinate its attacks. Beast's arrows continued to rain down, finding every gap and crack in the snake's defenses.

Tank, his shield still glowing from the energy absorbed from the tail strike, moved forward to protect his teammates. He braced himself, ready to absorb any retaliatory strikes from the desperate beast. Greenie, with a roar, delivered powerful blows to the snake's side, each strike causing the ground to tremble and the snake to recoil in pain.

The snake's movements grew more frantic as it realized the severity of its situation. It hissed and spat venom, trying to force the team back, but the Heaven's Hooligans were relentless. They dodged and countered every attack, their unity and coordination allowing them to anticipate and respond to the snake's desperate thrashing.

Reign seized the opportunity and darted forward, aiming for the snake's head. His dual swords glinted in the stormy light as he delivered a powerful cross slash, cutting deep into the snake's jaw. The beast roared, blood spraying from the wound as it thrashed in agony.

The more time passed, the more attacks landed, and the worse the snake's situation became. It was bleeding from multiple parts of its body, the tail, which was no longer burning, was scarred from the attacks and the flames as it had turned dark, with the open wounds all being burned, causing immense damage, but also stopping the bleeding.

Still, they didn't plan on bleeding the monster out, what Wolf's flames had managed to do was weaken the scales on the tail even further, which would be incredibly helpful for causing even more damage to it.

The snake knew that, however, so it quickly pulled its tail back and started attacking with its venom and fangs. Soon, it had used a new power as well.

It opened its giant mouth, but instead of spitting out the acidic venom as it had before, it spat out a green cloud at Reign and the others. Even without coming close to it, they knew that the cloud was poisonous, and since the beast was a boss-ranked monster, they knew the poison was definitely incredibly potent and dangerous to them.