BXBX NOVEL Chapter 125 0125: Difficult Foe
"I can sense something. See… not so much. It\'s a bare wasteland." Jane said as she looked around.
[I see… Let\'s try this then. Don\'t panic, it might itch a little.] Alex warned her before directing some mana to her eyes, similar to how he\'d done with Laura the first time.
"Ahh!" Jane felt the pain in her eyes and her hands shot up to her face. Unlike Laura, she wasn\'t as deeply bonded with Alex and only had a baseline level 1 bond with him. The only reason this even worked was because of her high affinity with magic.
[It\'ll just be a second.] Alex told her and stopped after infusing the necessary amount of mana, [Do you see anything now?] He asked.
Jane was just about to chide him, but instead saw the blood dome and felt a chill creep down her spine, "Is that…" She didn\'t finish her question.
[Yep, human blood, I checked.] Alex confirmed, [Now let\'s destroy this place.] He said excitedly.
"Ugh…" Jane was creeped out by the view in front of her and stopped spinning Mjolnir. She generated momentum from the sky and generated some lightning.
[Hold up…] Alex said and Jane stopped, spinning Mjolnir again and flew higher.
"What?" She asked.
[You\'re bonded with me, you have to look the part.] He told her and instantly covered her Thor attire before merging with it. Her red cape turned completely black and her chainmail followed suit. Alex decided to let the prominent silvers such as the 5 disks on her armor and her arm and knee braces stay the same. He just altered their shades to work better with the black. Unlike her Thor attire, Alex\'s version had her entire body covered in chainmail along with some main artifacts that came with the set.
As for the helmet, he didn\'t affect it much and made it completely black such that it would cover her entire face. As for the weird wings coming out from the sides, Alex couldn\'t think of anything and just turned them pointy, like Hela\'s helmet. He wanted to change Mjolnir\'s skin too, but the resistance was too strong and he wasn\'t able to affect the hammer.
[That\'s better…] Alex said, [Do you want wings?] He offered.
"What did you do?" She asked while looking at her free arm which was now completely covered in black gloves.
[Reoutfit you.] He said, [You\'ve officially been Venomized.] He stated with a laugh. Though Jane didn\'t get the joke, [It\'s a stronger armor.] Alex told her flatly. Which was true. Her strength was doubled as long as he enhanced her.
"Cool." Jane nodded and started channeling lightning into Mjolnir. As she slowly descended from the sky, she pulled back the hammer and tensed her entire body in preparation for the collision. In that instant, the sky turned darker and lightning shot down to Jane.
As she descended down, more and more bolts of lightning were being attracted toward her.
When Mjolnir finally collided with the dome, a huge pillar of light shot up, engulfing Jane completely. It was as if a blue sun had just appeared in the sky. The effects were even visible from space. It seemed as if a blue dot had just shot up from the ground.
\'Fuck!\' Alex had just added a minimal enhancement. That made such a difference to Jane\'s attack, \'She\'s extremely compatible with lightning…\' Alex could only come up with that reasoning when he compared her to himself, \'How does her affinity compare to Thor?\' As the thought entered his mind Jane started descending lower. She\'d broken through the blood dome.
That was when the chaos started.
Just as Jane entered the dome, three huge tentacles made of dense crimson made their way to her. Jane\'s eyes narrowed and she summoned Hofund and slashed a transparent arc of pure cosmic energy at one of them before slamming her charged hammer at the other.
Just as her hammer collided with the tentacle, the other one reached her, and she slashed with her sword again in an attempt to hold it back.
A loud screech was heard throughout the entire nest. Alex noticed that the arc of cosmic energy from Hofund had cut through the tentacle from the middle. It didn\'t seem to be recovering, \'Thank fuck I didn\'t insist on bringing Laura here…\' That\'s all Alex could think. Even if she had been much stronger, her powerset was at an extreme disadvantage when it came to these regenerating monsters.
The only people who would actually fight these kinds of enemies were Wanda and Jane, \'Maybe Gwen too, but her bio-electricity isn\'t enough…\'
Jane still had two tentacles to deal with, [Let me help.] Alex said and a pitch-black tentacle appeared from Jane\'s abdomen and wrapped around one of the remaining tentacles. Alex\'s body was like a thin thread that wrapped around the ginormous tentacle that was as large as a huge skyscraper, but the thread was enough to immobilize the tentacle. At the same time, he also started devouring the biological energy from the condensed blood.
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If Alex had eyebrows, they would be raised, \'How many people\'s blood is this…\' He couldn\'t help but think as he sucked in the vitality of the blood.
Jane looked at Alex\'s reliable support and quickly slashed Hofund at the tentacle. The cosmic energy slash easily made work of the third tentacle. Meanwhile, Alex had already boosted his devouring and enveloped the entire tentacle before emptying it completely.
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[The main guy is still down there.] Alex told Jane as he focused on the ground that was covered by bloody mist and hid the leader class abomination.
Jane didn\'t hesitate and charged up Mjolnir as she started heading down slowly.
At the same time, a loud roar sounded throughout the wasteland that even affected Jane who was hundreds of meters in the air. The blood mist started to clear and what could only be described as an eldritch mass of flesh and blood. It was like an orb with many thin tendrils coming from its back that acted as its support.
Jane winced as she looked at the disgusting orb pulling a layer of its skin back. As the skin was pulled back, a glassy mass of red was made visible.
\'That\'s a fucking bloody eye…\' Alex thought, \'I\'m going to call this guy the ‹Eldrich Leader Class›\'
[That is disgusting…] Alex said.
"No shit…" Jane replied.
[Clearly, it\'s mostly shit…] Alex pointed out.
"I did not need that image…" Jane narrowed her eyes and got ready for the battle that was about to come. She charged up both Mjolnir and Hofund with their respective energies and just as she was about to slash them at the eye, it completely opened and focused on her.
"Ahh!" She screamed as her attacks had no real outlet and were fired randomly.
[It\'s messing with your blood flow.] Alex told her and started counteracting the effects of the eye through the use of his own ‹Basic Blood Manipulation›.
Just as Jane\'s blood flow calmed down, she didn\'t hesitate to attack again. Just as the cosmic energy slash left Hofund, the eye narrowed and Alex\'s blood manipulation was also overwhelmed, leaving Jane helpless.
[Fly up and get out of its sight.] Alex told her.
Jane didn\'t move. If anything, her grip over Mjolnir loosened and she was about to fall down from the air.
\'Fucking hell…\' Alex cursed and created two large wings behind Jane and brought her away. At the same time, he created a large dome that was enchanted with Chaos Magic around her to make her disappear from the air.
As Jane disappeared from the sight of the eye, another loud roar was heard throughout miles around the wasteland. But Alex had already brought Jane away.
"Fuck, that was dangerous." Jane gasped and tried to recover from that experience.
[Yeah. My bad.] Alex said, [I didn\'t think it would be this dangerous.]
"It\'s fine. You\'re also the one who got me out of it, so we\'re even." Jane huffed, "What even was that thing?"
[According to the stuff going on here, it\'s an abomination that came about from the use of biological weapons in World War Three. The nuclear fallout mixed in with a specific biological strain and mutated the majority of the population into zombies on steroids.] He told her.
"Crazy. Are all the nests this strong?" She asked him.
[Not at all. As far as I know. This is the only nest in this continent that has a creature of this caliber.] Alex wasn\'t kidding. He\'d explored most of North America in his free time and only this nest gave him such a dangerous vibe.
"At least that\'s a consolation." Jane nodded.
[Is it?] Alex said with a complicated laugh. [If this is the guy in the North American continent, what about Asia? The number of people there…] Alex didn\'t have to finish for Jane to get the picture.
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