Chapter 596 - 590. Men Can Only Plan
At the start of ’phase two’, while the rest of the espers were fighting the Fragments, Iore and the Spirit Queen worked together to get rid of the ominous fume above the palace rubble.
With the espers working hard to separate the Fragment and the Chimera, this fume became a curtain between two battles and once again, Zein had to grit his teeth because Bassena was alone again, separated from the rest of them; away from healing and guiding. He had to step back and move to a safer location, which was closer to the Fragments than the Chimera.
The cloud itself was letting out a dark rain that melted the debris it touched. It was hard to watch the battle of the two giants behind the curtain of the dark rain, and it was even worse when the raincloud started to actively look for things to melt.
Thankfully, they had the Spirit Queen by their side. Even though Eleanor wasn’t with them this time, the Queen had gotten used to their language and understood what they said. "Your Majesty, please help me freeze the cloud!"
Iore let out strands of mana toward the cloud, and the Spirit Queen strengthened the power threefold. She attached the strands of mana across the cloud with careful calculation and gradually, it froze over while the other espers were wrestling with the Fragments.
Soon, the rain turned into hail as the cloud crumbled bit by bit. The half-melted palace ruble gradually littered with frozen toxic crystal that Han Shin wittingly told the Queen to gather.
"We’re done with the cloud!" Iore reported with bated breath, collapsing beside Zein, who told her she did a good job and immediately guided her.
This was when Zhan started to chase the two fragments and Han Shin immediately ran toward the spearman before he could heal Iore. Thankfully, the magician had no serious injury and soon felt better after drinking a rejuvenation serum. She almost dropped the vial when the ground suddenly shook, however, and they shifted their gaze to the giant clash on the other side of the dungeon.
Bassena had tackled and shoved the dragon to the wide plains at the edge of the dungeon. The Giant Serpent, now with Bassena acting as its core and controlling it, moved even better than before. It tackled and bit the dragon with its head, and swiped its shredding tail to the dragon’s side.
Of course, the Chimera fiercely fought back. But the Serpent was made of weapons in the first place, so even if the dragon attacked back, the Serpent did not feel pain. It never faltered.
And the Chimera started to feel a looming crisis.