Alex's face was severe, while the Elder Lich just stood there doing nothing; the pressure he was emitting wasn't a joking matter. If Alex hadn't intervened, Artemia would have been seriously injured.
''Thank you, Alex.''
''No need, let's focus our attention on this troublesome enemy. I propose that you and I take care of him while Isabella will assist us from afar. What do you think?" Alex proposed.
It didn't take too long for Artemia to answer Alex's proposition.
''I think it's a good plan.'' She said; Isabella nodded her head.
The Elder Lich waited for them to finish planning before saying.
''It seems that you have done talking. Hyahahaha~ time to show what despair is. Come at me.''
Looking at the overconfident Elder Lich, Alex and Artemia exchanged glances before one went to the left and the other to the right.
Alex aimed Silveria at the Elder Lich and, without hesitation, shoot a phantom bullet at him; simultaneously, Artemia launched her Gift special ability, the nine layered chains, numerous coming from the ground shot at the Elder Lich.
Everything should have been perfect, leaving at least a minor injury on the monster; however, neither the Phantom bullet nor the lightning chains could reach the Elder Lich; he extended his bone hand for a dark purple shield to appear and block their attacks.
Even though Alex was surprised, he didn't stop his attacks.
In his next attack, Alex combined Dispel bullet and the Phantom bullet; the first was to reduce the Elder Lich magic shield for the phantom bullet to pierce through and maybe damage the monster; however, at the last moment, the Elder Lich created another shield.
The second shield momentarily stopped the Phantom bullet.
''Roarr!"
Isabella's water dragon crashed against the invisible bullet crushing the shield.
''Hyahahaha~ Not bad, but you got to do more if you want to injure me.''
Numerous shields appeared all around the Elder Lich, making it impossible for Alex's group attacks to affect him.
''Girls, from the ground.''
Alex wasted no time to warn the other two, who immediately jumped back.
Fwoosh! Fwoosh!!
Just as they left, small fragments of bones shot out from the ground; if Alex hadn't warned them, Artemia and Isabella would have been injured.
''Not good,'' Alex shouted when he noticed the Elder Lich disappeared, and when he reappeared again, he was directly above Isabella; the latter froze feeling suffocated, catching Isabella by the throat, the Elder Lich lifted Isabella high into the air before slamming her against the ground.
''Gaha!" Crack!
Isabella's cry of pain followed by the cracking sound of her ribs breaking could be heard; she even vomited blood and fainted on the spot; everything happened too fast; by the time Alex and Artemia could move and rescue Artemia, it was already late.
〖Master quickly saves her, that skeleton is not done, his next attack could kill her.〗Silveria warned Alex.
Alex immediately aimed Silveria at Isabella and shoot a phantom bullet against the ground; not too far from Isabella; the explosion sent Isabella flying through the air before crashing against the dungeon wall.
A second after Isabella was sent flying, a bone spike came out of the ground; if Alex were late by a millisecond, that bone spike would have impaled Isabella's chest, destroying her heart which causes her death.
For the first time, the Elder Lich expression finally changed; seeing Alex rescue Isabella infuriated him, and before he could retaliate, black lightning descended from the sky and struck him.
Chi~ chi~
The Elder Lich's black robe got further torn off, the white bones underneath the robe got lightly charred.
'Alex, buy me a little bit of time.'
Artemia's voice suddenly reached Alex's ear, at the same time Silveria told him,
〖Master, it seems that the little princess is about to use her Gift's real ability. This is possible because the other half of her Gift is under this floor.〗
'I see. I understand. I will earn much time as I can.' Alex replied to Artemia before dashing toward the Elder Lich; the latter judged Alex's action to be foolish; however, just before reaching the monster, Alex accel-ed to reappear five meters behind the Lich before shadow shifting with the Lich.
''Futile.'' Bellowed the Elder Lich.
''I don't think so,'' Alex responded before successively shooting four special bullets, two Fire bullets, and two ice bullets; it was a half complete chaos bullet.
Kaboom!
The Elder Lich got blasted back after his shields got destroyed by the half chaos bullet, even he was not injured; being played like this made the Lich furious; raising his bony hand, he swung, more than a hundred small orbs appeared and were hurled at Alex.
Even without being told how dangerous these black orbs are, Alex moved; running in a circle, he managed to dodge some black orbs; piercing bullets shot down those he couldn't dodge.
Suddenly, the Elder Lich noticed that something wasn't right; Artemia didn't attack him again; it was only Alex attacking him.
''Hyahahaha~ I see.'' The Lich muttered and feigned attacking Alex while secretly searching for Artemia's location as she hides behind his throne, preparing her next attack.
''Bone domain.''
The Lich shouted; however, instead of using his domain where Alex was, the Lich specified the domain location as his throne.
Numerous bone spikes shot out from the ground, and soon they were about to reach Artemia; however, she could dodge in time as she was at a critical stage of her next attack.
Gritting his teeth, Alex shadow shifted with her.
''Guh!"
Barely managing to dodge some of the bone spikes, Alex had his left leg pierced, his back injured, even so, not to let the Lich accomplish his goal. Because if he were in the Lich's place after forcing Alex to use shadow shift on Artemia, he would kill her right in front of Alex to plunge him into despair.
Indeed, it was the Lich's plan; a dark, ghastly ghost head appeared right after Alex switched place with Artemia; this ghost head was about to swallowed Artemia, who still has her eyes closed; unfortunately for the Lich, Alex anticipated this, firing Erase at the ghost head, it vanished, this left the Lich surprised, seeing is one thing while experiencing it first hand is another thing, so, the Lich was surprised that there existed something that can erase magic.
That momentary pause was all Artemia needs to complete her next move.
Artemia suddenly began floating in the air without anything behind her back; her long blue hair turned golden before she opened her mouth; even her eyes have turned golden.
''Eighteen Layered Chains: Seventeen Form: God's Chains.''
An enormous magic circle covered the whole floor blinding everyone, then,
Fwoosh! Fwoosh! Fwoosh!!!
Seventeen golden chains appeared out of thin air and bound the Elder Lich.
''W what is this? Release this lord! Release this lord at once.''
The Lich became hysterical after seeing that he couldn't move after being bound by the golden chains, his robe, a treasure, a high-grade treasure melted, his bones started turning black.
Alex was surprised when he saw the current scene; however, his expression suddenly changed, turning grave when he saw Artemia (the golden-haired Artemia) puking mouthful golden blood and staggered in the air, almost as if she could fall at any moment.
Alex brought a Mana recovery potion and gulped it in one go before pointing Silveria at the Lich; because of Artemia's condition, some of the golden chains binding the Lich started loosening.
[Crimson Bullet]
Alex staggered back before a crimson light burst out from the silver gun, going straight toward the chained Lich.
The Lich became covered in crimson light; the light was so intense that Alex was forced to close his eyes.
BOOOOM!
The entire space shook after the mega explosion.
At the same time, Artemia reached her limit; her hair reverted to its original blue form, she then fell onto the ground.
When Alex reopened his eyes, his jaw dropped to the ground, the thirtieth-floor original form was gone, except the place where Alex stood, Artemia's location and Isabella's location, the remaining place were gone, yes gone, only empty void could be seen, only darkness, the Elder Lich was gone, the stairs leading to the thirty-first floor was gone as well.
''Isn't it this a little bit too much?"
Alex couldn't help but question himself when he saw how much damage the Crimson Bullet had done.
Even Silveria was shocked by how powerful the Crimson Bullet is.
''I th-"
Before he could finish his words, Alex fell to the ground face-first; he lost consciousness probably because of how taxing the Crimson Bullet was; he didn't recover all of his MP before using that skill, so his MP got drained, it was because of sheer will that he was able to squeeze out few words before losing consciousness.
''Seriously, I'm such a good spirit.'' Silveria praised herself after appearing when Alex lost consciousness.
At the same time that Silveria was dragging Alex toward a good spot, a small black smoke appeared from the other side of the dungeon's wall and entered Isabella's body through her nose; nobody noticed anything, not even Silveria.