Rematch

In the distant end of the cove zorah was forced to surface in order to continues as the stone ground was simply too hard to continue burrowing through efficiently and it was so very tired. It had come a long way just to die but for some reason had decided to choose the literal worst possible place to keel over. Even Alex was nervous about stopping zorah since if for whatever reason things didn't play out like in the game and it went up the everstream to die , that would be a huge disaster.

'This reminds me that nergigante was supposed to bring balance to the ecosystem but seems to totally ignore the cause of the disruption. Why though , what makes them not attack the incubating zeno jiiva instead of zorah?' Alex thought seriously. That was always a plot hole that Alex couldn't figure out from the iceborn dlc that made little sense to him. Shara ishvala was targeted by the nergigante species for threatening the ecosystem but the jiiva's were ignored for doing the same , it made no sense. Still Alex would do what he can to prevent the destruction of the new world because zeno jiiva got impatient and lured the zorah to the everstream.

Alex shifted around anxiously on the wall as he waited for the signal to begin the operation and attack zorah with everything he's got. "BUUUUUR!" A horn blows loudly echoing in the cove and Alex immediately pushes off the wall and unfurls his wings. "BOOM! , BOOM! , BOOM!" The closest cannons begin to fire upon zorah with vicious accuracy striking it's face with cannon balls. The hunters in this phase were deployed to mount it's back and destroy the magma cores in order to weaken the elder. while Alex's job was to run interference by distracting zorah from them before joining them on it's back.

For those wondering why the cannons were used as well , the answer was to further weaken the elder as much as possible. Alex flew ahead of the hunters being carried by the wingdrakes and quickly reached zorah where he immediately caught it's attention by blaring his aura and roaring at it as loud as he could. Zorah knew it was being challenged and roared back which gave Alex the opportunity to spray a concentrated jet of poison like a fire hose down it's throat.

Zorah had a coughing fit at this but it had already inhaled a large amount of poison which rapidly started to spread through it's body due to how it's bloodstream was directly connected to it's lungs. Zorah spat a massive glob of magma in retaliation but Alex tanked it thanks to his [fire resistance] and [earth resistance] traits. He still got a little burnt from the heat but for the most part he was fine. Clearly Zorah hadn't expected this since from it's memory Alex had always made a point of dodging it's attacks. Thanks to this it was momentarily stunned letting the hunters slip past it's defenses.

Alex didn't waste any time either as he flew to the ceiling above zorah and stopped there confusing the people watching. That changed when his scales began to shimmer as thick water began to coat his body before stretching out and gathering below him like a huge water droplet. 'Let's see you shrug this off.' Alex thought viciously as he dive bombed zorah. Thanks to its constant forward march zorah couldn't angle it's head to intercept Alex and could only helplessly watch as he slammed into the back of it's neck with the element it was weakest to.

"ROAAAR!" Zorah screamed in pain as the part of it's neck Alex struck was rapidly quenched , reheated and quenched again causing the flesh there to crack and split painfully. When the steam cleared everyone couldn't help but shiver at the sight that greeted them. Alex was on the back of zorah neck standing on the large wound he created ripping out chunks of flesh and swallowing them. He was covered in the blood that flowed from the terrible wound and looked savage as he tore the flesh from zorah mercilessly.

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