Emery fell to the ground with his shoulder and chest full of blood that came out from his neck.
Upon seeing his condition, his two friends immediately rushed towards him. Julian quickly stood guard in front of him facing the monster, while Klea quickly cast her healing magic.
Klea's arms and fingers were trembling as she tried to heal Emery's neck. As the blue light from her water spell covered and entered his wound, Emery clearly noticed how tense she was.
"Klea… are you alright...?" Emery weakly asked.
It was him who was wounded, yet the girl appeared to be in more pain than him. This surprised him. Klea ignored and did not look at him, but as soon as the bite wound on his neck closed, she stood and cursed at the pale monster.
"You ugly freak!! %#@$&!!"
Unable to stay still from her anger, Klea quickly used Gungnir to attack the pale monster. In her hand, the thunder spear looked as if it was blitzing around all over it.
Splatt!!!
The tier 3 spear managed to land a few scratches on the pale monster's body, before it finally managed to grab the flying spear with its left hand.
In response to her sudden attack at it, the pale monster built up energy to prepare for a counterattack. When Emery saw its movements, he immediately shouted to warn them.
"Sound attack!!"
Julian hurriedly covered his ears when he heard this. Klea, however, did not do anything of the sort. Instead, she used her special bracelet [Bracelets of Anu] and used her superb spirit force to defend. The spirit barrier she created became some kind of dampener enough to block the sound from reaching her ears.
Emery knew this, as he could feel that Klea also made another spirit barrier to cover him as well. The only person covering his ears could also sense the spirit barrier and felt slightly irked.
"Why didn't you make one for me as well?" Julian glared at Klea and questioned her when the sound attack had passed.
"Well, he's wounded!" Klea retorted with her eyes still on the monster.
He did not complain any more about it. After all, she was right: Emery was hurt. But it was not like Emery could not cover his own ears.
When the pale monster noticed its sound attack failed, it angrily roared at them.
Klea quickly shouted to inform them, "That's a body transformation of a bat half-blood! They're very strong at night, but much weaker when the sun is up!"
She turned to look at the horizon and said after a brief observation, "30 minutes… If we can hold it for 30 minutes, we will win!"
This girl had always been the most knowledgeable among them and this reminded Emery he could not imagine having the team without her.
"Here it comes!" shouted Julian.
This time, Klea cast [Thunderbolt] at the monster multiple times. Even so, the barrage of powerful strikes was still not enough to stop it. Julian wanted to use his spells as well, but he knew his fire spell was not half as strong as Klea's [Thunderbolt]. Because of this, he chose to use his specialty spells instead.
He touched both hands to the ground, and instantly, a wall of stone rose and became a barrier that blocked the monster's path. But despite the stone wall, the monster did not even use its ring and kept on charging as if the wall was not there and easily broke through Julian's wall of stone.
Seeing the wall he took pride in get crushed so easily like a pile of straw, Julian understood this monster was not something he could underestimate. He had to get serious.
Emery saw Julian put both of his hands together and swiftly cast his [Stone Skin]. He then took out a tier 2 shield and also charged toward the monster.
At first, Emery thought that Julian was too reckless, charging on his own just like that, but after looking at him more closely, Emery realized his [Stone Skin] was emitting a golden glow all over his body.
With Julian's [Golden Bell Divine Technique Stage 6], the two quickly clashed.
BOOM!!!
Julian was thrown back half a dozen steps. He coughed up blood and the shield he had was destroyed to pieces. Even so, he did not show any signs of anger. On the contrary, he had a satisfied smile on his face as he was able to stop the monster's tackle.
"Julian, what are you doing!? That's a peak stage 9 half-blood transformation!! You're lucky your bones didn't break!" Klea shouted at him.
The Roman only smiled at her in response. He took out another shield from his storage ring and waited for the monster's next attack.
The pale monster was even more enraged when he found his attack failed yet again. It was about to charge once more when he realized more people were coming toward Emery's side.
"Emery!!!" Thrax shouted as he ran toward him together with Chumo.
Seeing that Emery's side was more troublesome than he thought, the pale monster decided to turn and attack the loud Thrax first.
"Urrg!! I'rrr kirrr your frrindd!!" the monster growled and swiftly dashed toward the Thracian.
When the Thracian saw the incoming monster, he was not the least bit afraid. The gladiator champion focused all of his strength into his arm and used the battle art [Spear Throw] to throw his tier 2 spear.
Unfortunately, the pale monster could easily deflect it with its bare arm.
"Darn it!!" Thrax gritted his teeth.
The pale monster kept charging toward him and Thrax was getting ready with his maximum buff [Immortal Gate] and [Fire Aura], ready to tackle the charging monster.
Roughly understanding what the Thracian was about to do, Julian shouted from a distance, "Don't! You're not gonna make it!"
However, Thrax refused to listen. "Huh! Like I'm going to listen to you, Roman!"
Chumo quickly used his [Shadow Self] and split into four. Simultaneously, all four pulled a bow and aimed straight at the enemy.
Clank, clank! Clank, clank!
The arrows accurately hit the pale monster, but they only managed to hurt it a little. Fortunately, it was enough to slow down the monster's charge.
BAM!!!!
Thrax finally confronted the monster with his prowess. However, it heavily threw him as far as ten meters, causing him to cough out blood from the impact when he fell.
The gladiator champion was still smiling as he shouted, "I am not losing to you, Roman!!'
"Both of you are morons!" Klea shouted. She almost swore because of them.
Looking at the condition, Emery quickly stood up and opened up a [Spatial Gate], and the three of them quickly moved right next to the bleeding Thracian.
The pale monster shrieked loudly when he saw Emery taking out his sword, ready to join the fight.
However, Klea quickly stopped him.
"Emery, stop! It would be better if you used a spell to stop his movements. Julian, will stop it if he breaks free, while Chumo and I will keep firing at him!"
Emery initially thought she was not going to let him fight because of his injuries, and he was glad that was not the case. When he heard her plan, he immediately understood it was much safer and was focused on delaying until the sunrise or until help came.
Without delay, all four of them worked together as planned. Of course, the Thracian did not want to be left behind.
"No, no, give me something to do!!" Thrax shouted in protest.
All five of them fought together in harmony. Fortunately, Emery's [Shadow Root Binding] enhanced by his shaman form was strong enough to restrict the monster's movements.
With him only focusing on binding the monster, Emery could concentrate all his energy on the spell, making the spell much more powerful than usual.
Unfortunately, be it Julian, Chumo, or Thrax, none of their weapons were able to pierce the monster's skin deep enough to badly injure it. In the end, their main offense was still from Klea's tier 3 [Gungnir].
After several minutes had passed, the pale monster began thinking about running away. However, Emery's restriction was as steady as a mountain. It struggled and growled to threaten them, and although their attacks could not be said to be extremely fast or explosive, they were enough to injure him little by little.
When the sun finally came up, the pale monster's form gradually began to change. However, even though the monster was visibly weakening, Emery did not loosen its restriction and instead tightened it following the change of its form. After a few moments, the monster finally turned back into its human form. As the man was exhausted from his struggle and full of wounds, he could not resist and was finally captured.
The five looked at their pitiful peak rank 9 opponent with a smile. It's been a while since they fought together like this and they had not had this much fun in a long time.
Chumo innocently asked, "Does this mean the Earth Team is back together!?"