Alex was dazed seeing the destruction all around him.
The boulders had been crushed, the trees had been swept and uprooted and something destroyed the small cliff near the place.
It looked as if a huge battle took place when they were in the underground labyrinth.
"Nothing."
"We just fucked up," Kassel spoke with a self-deprecating smile.Alex and Peru heard the voice of Kassel filled with pain and looked back to see Kassel lying on the ground with a heavy wound.
He was about to ask what happened here when he heard a loud shriek.
"Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!'
ROOOAAARRR!
The earth-shattering roar of the fierce monster echoed through the valley.
The creature stood on its two hind legs, it looked black as the night and as large as a mountain. Its upper limbs are armed with 2-metre-long claws and had sharp canines protruding downward from its muzzle and was dripping with viscous liquids that fell on the ground emitting a huge thud noise upon impact.
Unknown energy pulses covered its entire body, even its eye radiating crimson light, further contributing to its frightening visage.Even in the old days, bears were feared for their aggressive temperament and territorial tendencies. More so when the said bear is 18 metres tall and weighs over 140 tons.
This monster was similar to a bear and was known as Byk.
The Byk had a large horn on its head and the aura emitted from it seemed to be at Half Epic rank.
Currently, it seemed to engage with another monster which he slammed into meat paste.
" Kassel are you alright?"Alex stood up while looking around at the devastation caused by the rampaging monster.
Cough.....Cough...
Kassel spewed some blood and wiped the blood off his huge protruding canine and said"I am alright. After the ground shook a huge claw emerged from the ground."
"Seeing it, I ordered the others to withdraw to safe distance while starting to fight it. I wasn't able to fight it alone and it injured me with a single strike and cut down my back."
"Fortunately, there was also an Orc who got out and started to fight frantically with it but it looked like it's going to be defeated soon," Kassel explained the situation.
"Maybe that Orc remembered me and tried to save me," Kassel spoke with an aggrieved tone while looking back at the Orc corpses out of which he knew two of them personally.
Moreover, the Orc taking on thr Byk was one of his tribe frontline warrior.
Alex looked at the others who just climbed up the hole looking down with panic and horror and then looked at the huge mighty beast and shouted"Retreat"
"Only disciple rank stands at the edge for support and shoots arrows to assist us while Peru, me and Kassel will take care of it," Alex muttered while asking about Kassel's wound.
Kassel replied that he can put up a fight and his wounds have already started to heal.
Alex drew out his sword while clenching tightly and tightened the grip on the hilt and rushed toward the huge mighty byk who was engaging with the peak master rank Orc who was in the last breath.
Peru raised his hammerhead and followed Alex's lead.
Alex planned to take the opportunity and sneak attack on the Byk who was currently engaging with the Orc.
The Byke sensed the people coming towards it and swung its claw, and dug it deep down at Orc's neck and slitting its throat, it ripped the Orc head off from the body and threw it towards Alex like a cannonball.
Alex looked at the incoming head which spun in the air spraying blood while coming at him.
Alex bent his body and slide off the ground to avoid it and stood up again while jumping on a boulder and used it as a foothold to jump toward Byk
The Byke raised its huge thick hands along with a long sharp claw and swung it at Alex.
Alex saw the incoming claws and calculated the path of the claws, and spun his body off in the air mid-air while opening his arms, to thrust at the gap in between the claws.
A clinking sound was heard and Alex tilted his body while the claws scratched through his armour making a screeching sound which made sparks flew all around in the air.
Alex narrowly avoided the blow by blow by twisting his body at an unpredictable angle.
As soon as the Byk claws passed through Alex who dodged it quite gracefully, a figure shot forward and raised its hammerhead and swung it at the Byk claws.
BANG!
Sparks flew as the hammerhead collided with Byk's claws and the Byk felt a sharp crushing pain and just whipped his hand sending Peru flying into the air.
Alex landed on the ground and saw Peru shot backwards by Byk whose strength clearly overwhelmed Peru.
Feeling a slight excruciating pain, Byk raised his head and roared. The shout burst forward along with an extremely terrifying breath and a large number of cracks appeared on the ground which extended in a radial pattern.
Alex felt an alarming bell ringing in his mind and being close to Byk more than anyone else, he clearly felt a threat and raised both his arms while crossing them to protect himself from the loud blast of energy.
Almost at the same time, terrifying coercion pushed him back.
Alex propelled the strength into his legs to stand firmly onto the ground but he found that he had been pushed by dozens of metres by the terrifying breath of Byk and moreover, there were two big drag marks underneath his feet.
Alex felt numbness in his arms and legs and he was horrified inwardly feeling the fearsome might of the Byk.
His current strength was similar to the early master's rank but before Byk's roar, he barely resisted his breath which was enough to end the disciples' and squires' rank flying.
'Is this the strength of this Half Epic rank beast?'Alex muttered inwardly while wiping the blood that trickled down his lips and spat a mouthful of blood.
Before the Byk could make a move, Alex ran back with all his might as he thought getting into the Byk arc, for now, was quite dangerous.
Byk looking at Alex's retreat tried to chase it but a rain of arrows downpour on him.
The Byke just felt a small ticklish sensation and opened his mouth.
A beam of light started to gather on its muzzle accompanied by a terrifying breath
The man started to condense near its mouth and soon a sparkle appeared on its muzzle and beating its chest, it shot it at the group who were shooting arrows at him.
Peru's eyeball contracted and he used his elemental wind magic and shot high-speed wind at the group who shot the arrows at the back and swept them away from the arc of the beam of light.
BHAAAAAAAAM!
BOOOOOOOM!
The whole area was illuminated by the beam of light which was accompanied by a loud sonic explosion that shook the entire place.
Trees swept by the explosion and a long crevice appeared due to the beam of light that crushed everything in its path and turned everything into debris.
