Chapter 1139: Overwhelming the Lizard

Once he had finished giving the instructions, Clovis immediately returned to the battle. He could think about the rest later, since their first priority was to take down this lizard.

He didn’t know how long it would take for them to take down this Tier 9 lizard, so he wanted to first make a move so that the Prophet knew that Clovis was also making his move after that leak of information.

Meanwhile, Jay struck the lizard from the side, but the lizard stopped it and pushed him back. Christina remained in front of the lizard, preventing it from being too comfortable to move its body.

She would stop the lizard whenever it was trying to make a big move.

At the same time, Angelia kept shooting the lizard. Two of her arrows had already pierced its body. However, the lizard’s defense was so tough that she couldn’t blow apart the area that she hit.

Usually, her arrow would be powerful enough to tear the entire body, but the lizard was different. Even with a Tier 10 bow and arrow, it was still impossible to break the lizard’s defense completely with her Tier 8 strength.

Besides, she also didn’t have a unique ability.

Erwin and Aileen had finally arrived. They noticed Clovis returning to the battle, so they matched their movements with him.

Clovis noticed them thanks to his unique ability. He immediately said, "Aileen, focus on the arrows. Try to widen its wounds so that we will have an easier time hitting them again. Erwin, you need to control its movement. Work with Christina."

"Got it." Both Erwin and Aileen split up.

Christina spun her shield, knocking the beast’s right claw. Unfortunately, she still felt overwhelmed even though she had weakened that attack with her Provoke by shifting its trajectory at the last moment.

Fortunately, Jay bumped her back with his shoulder, using his entire body to help her resist this power.

Then, Erwin extended his wires, trying to trap the lizard’s body.

He managed to get a good grip on the lizard’s body, but the lizard overpowered him.

His feet were sliding on the ground and it felt like he was about to get thrown off the hill.

However, Clovis looped around at the last moment. As if knowing his role, Jay was also switching from defense to offense.

Both of them unleashed their strongest strike toward the lizard’s arm.

"!!!" The lizard noticed what was going on and tried to get away. It blocked their swords for a second, but the attack was powerful.

Their swords cut the leg halfway, but the lizard managed to get away at the last moment, preventing his leg from getting cut completely.

The lizard tried to get away, but it would only become Angelia’s prey. An arrow hit the leg and snapped it from its body.

"!!!" the lizard screamed in pain as its body flung upward. As soon as it landed on the ground, its body tilted to the side as the lizard’s front left leg remained half.

It was trying to get the nearby beasts to help, but Mara came not long after, cutting down so many beasts that it forced the beasts to change their direction.

In addition, Freud and Reolf were doing their best to hold back the remaining beasts that tried to come.

This way, Clovis and his team could safely focus on the lizard.

The lizard’s strength had been increasing all this time. Being able to cut its leg before the lizard grew so much that he couldn’t handle was already a fantastic job.

Seeing this advantage, Clovis took the initiative to attack. Christina was in charge of the defense, while the rest of the team focused on their attacks.

Whenever the lizard was too focused on avoiding or stopping their attacks, Aileen would appear out of nowhere and stab the wound Angelia made, widening the wound so that Angelia would have a bigger target to hit.

If she could just hit the same target two or three more times, she could sever or blow out the entire part. That was what Clovis was trying to do.

At the same time, he and Jay were also cooperating with each other. They knew where to strike as Jay kept observing Clovis’ movements. Erwin assisted them in restraining the lizard’s movement.

In the end, each of them had become Tier 8.5 humans because of Clovis’ items. Even though Clovis and Christina were the only ones who had unique abilities, their strength was about 60% of the Tier 9 lizard.

After all, their physical strength had been boosted further by using the food. When they got injured, they would take some pills to help them recover in the middle of the fight, allowing them to last even longer.

On the other hand, injuries kept appearing one after another in the lizard’s body. The lizard could use its power to overpower them, but it simply had no good regenerative ability.

It was impossible to overpower six people who were quite close to the Tier 9 without any backup.

Mara ended up leading Reolf and Freud to kill all the surrounding beasts. Reolf and Freud were surprisingly following her as if they had seen them as the ’alpha.’

Then again, Reolf had a bit of trauma about Mara, considering Mara was extremely scary whenever she used her Abyss State. He had experienced it when Clovis was training with her, so he experienced all of it when he was still weak and young.

Nevertheless, with the wounds piling up on the lizard’s body, the battle was gradually slowing down as the lizard was having a hard time moving.

Seeing that the lizard had already lost the front left leg, had many injuries on its body, and had been shot in the right eye, Clovis thought it would be a good time to end this battle.

Besides, the number of beasts in the area had decreased significantly.

Hence, Clovis gave one last order. "Christina, Erwin, distract it. We will kill the lizard."