First Floor, IV

It has been another four minutes since the fight began for Helis, and the crew currently has over fourteen minutes of doing nothing but slaying and cutting up monsters.

Their stamina is being used up, and they're also getting thirsty and hungry.

They let out a breath of relief as the number of monsters started to dim visibly.

The ground was full of blue blood that gushed out from the monsters. Corpses of bat-spiders were all over the tract.

The engulfing stench was also no-less easy to endure.

Cuts were also visible on the bodies of the whole party.

Just like every other bat-spider ruffled and appeared from under the sand, a being much more powerful than the other pests had appeared.

Finally, this moment arrived.

Under the two scorching suns, Helis and Sean were now face-to-face with the mother of the bat-spiders.

She looked even more dreadful and nasty. Her height reached well over 3 meters, her body was like that of a tarantula, covered with fur, and she had a pair of bat wings attached to her back.

The bat-spider's face had six eyes and two mouths agape enough for them to fit in, the half-arachnid and half-microchiroptera monster, was smarter than its mindless children.

***

Clearly, the mother of the bat-spiders was now declaring war on me and Sean.

"Everyone, run south of here!" I yelled out, they started to move immediately only to be blocked by a tremendous web amount shot by the mother's rear.

"You won't let them run that easily, will ya?" I scoffed, my teeth showing.

"Sean, let's do this," I said resolutely.

He smirked and said, "Heh, you already know!" with a firm tone.

After a little bit of scanning the mother's movements and behaviors, I thought of something I tried to practice with Sean.

"Wanna try that thing I was talking to you about?" I asked him while nodding my head.

"Eh? Do you want to try that here, against the boss? What about the people?" he started bombarding me with questions and I interrupted him.

"Chill, take it easy. After all, the mother's willing to be lenient enough to give us the first hit." I glared at her, and a huff was heard from her snout…

He sighed, "Hah, I don't know if this will work, but I guess I've got to use both daggers," Sean's shoulders slumped, "Let's try to finish it with one hit. I'm lazy, I don't want to drag this on longer." He barely got a little of his vitality back again.

The plan to finish the mother with one hit was this.

He jumps upwards and lands on my palm with his heel which I'll send him flying with wind magic at an immense speed. When he reaches the mother he will try to sever her head or her torso with his golden daggers, the moment the blade touches her skin, he would try to use wind magic to quicken his slashes or a fire spell… which can now be replaced by the Blue Whirl he has awakened.

***

"Here I come!" He said loudly and jumped in the air.

I went under his silhouette, pulled my right arm upward, and aimed it under his attached heels.

As I was holding my right shoulder with my left hand, He landed on my right palm. I had to support my arm considering I had to hold over sixty-five kilos with it and move it around too.

Instantly after his heels landed on my palm, I redirected his whole body towards the mother, I moved up the green particles of mana up to my brain and now down to the hand supporting Sean's body.

In a glint, a massive compressed amount of wind was gathered under his feet, I pushed my hand forward, outstretching my arm, and finally–

I said the move's name in my mind.

Canon Blade.

The whipping of air was heard and instantly the cutting sound reached the mother. The clinking of the blade was audible as Sean severed her torso in two while still flying, and soon after the scent of burned meat could be smelled.

In other words, we had been successful.

We managed to beat the boss of a floor with one hit.

The bisected body was now being grilled by blue flames. By Sean's Blue Whirl.

"We… we did it!?" Ren's celebration of victory was heard.

"Y-Yeah!"

"I can't believe it!?"

I just slumped on the ground, strength gone from my legs, I started devouring whatever water we had, chugging it down my parched throat.

Mai Sakaguchi approached and sat next to me, "You really are amazing. You and Sean looked like you were in a movie earlier, and what's with that pushing power? How did you throw him that fast? Why did the mother's body catch on fire? How could you move so fast? Did you train before… blah blah blah…" She bombarded me with questions, but after all that mana usage I couldn't bare listening to her questioning, so most of it didn't enter my brain.

"The mother's body caught on fire as a defensive mechanism…" What a blatant lie I said with a straight face. "As for pushing Sean, I just have too much muscle power, and um, yeah, I've been at the doctor for it. They said I miss the limiters of the strength I can send to my arms and legs, though I shouldn't overuse them because I can destroy my muscles fully." What am I even saying!?

"Where's Sean?" I heard Luke.

I raised my brows, "He should be back by now–" I started to reply but the person in question reached and interrupted my sentence.

"What the fuck!? Ahaha, the amount of adrenaline I had, man. It was so exciting, and that speed, oh my god. It felt like I legit was flying or something like that, I literally covered over fifty meters of distance. Thank god there's only sand here, otherwise, if it was concrete or something, my body would be splattered all over…"

Sean kept going on and on, I guess that was a great ride for him considering he spoke that much without trailing off or feeling awkward.

I couldn't help but smile.

"Woohoo! Nice then, good job at the monster extermination too." I raised my hand and we did a fist bump as I approached him.

I blinked my eyes and felt a sudden quietness from which, in the next moment I looked behind, only Sean and I were to be found in this desert.