Chapter 405 - 404: Mage gets Physical
Amber shot forward, running past the shocked Reena. She moved first, taking the initiative and wanting to strike before it could react, but because they were still in the void, she couldn’t use skills like [Phase Step].
The voidling screeched as it saw her approach, its tendril mane lashing out like spears. Amber dodged and weaved through the strikes, her daggers slicing through the tendrils that came too close. But the severed tendrils didn’t fall lifelessly. They dropped to the ground and, as if animated by their own will, rose like serpents and lunged at her from behind.
The writhing snakes snapped toward her, but passed harmlessly through as Amber’s body shifted into sand.
The voidling shrieked. Seeing its tendrils were ineffective, it recalled them, and the severed masses slithered back to its body. The tendrils were absorbed through its feet which then grew out from its mane.
Once whole again, it charged forward at Amber who was getting too close.
But before it could reach her, a pillar of sand erupted from the ground and struck, sending it backwards a few feet.
From all directions, streams of sand launched toward it like arrows. The voidling roared and moved its tendrils around itself, crossing them like a shield to block the barrage.
Amber seized the opening and dashed in. Her daggers flashed as she unleashed a flurry of slashes across its flank. But when she attacked the voidling didn’t spill any blood. What came out of it was only a black, squirming mass that when it fell onto the ground it began to move on its own, crawling back to the voidling and reabsorbing into the main body. No matter how many times she struck and cut off its flesh, it regenerated in mere moments.
And she knew she couldn’t keep the pressure up forever. She was using a lot of mana to create and maintain these attacks and without access to their spatial rings she couldn’t keep it up forever.
Reena, meanwhile, stood helplessly on the sidelines. Without her space magic, she could do little more than watch. She turned to Solwyn, who was still locked in his chaotic battle with countless voidlings, laughing as lightning and fire tore through the void.
"Solwyn! We need help! There’s one in here with us!"