A few minutes ago, the control room had noticed the movement of the second Hero Rank monster.
"Sir… Sir… I think you need to see this," informed the guy who was watching the bottom floor. Theo and his group had cleared the entire first three floors, so he was able to focus on the fifth floor, not letting any kind of movement escape on his watch.
The middle-aged man narrowed his eyes and went to his screen, finding the snake had begun to move.
He stopped for a moment and observed the snake before realizing that the snake was planning to head to the floor above it to fight against Theo and the others.
"This guy wants to help the rhino." The middle-aged man muttered while contemplating his order.
The guy, who found it, looked at him and asked, "Should we move to prevent the snake?"
"…" The middle-aged man took a deep breath and shook his head. "No. We will let them handle it."
"But Sir!" The guy obviously didn't want to play with lives because Alea was among them.
However, the middle-aged man only said, "I have gotten the report about their previous achievement to give me another consideration before sending help. In that document, I found that the group killed a Hero Rank monster when Young Miss and her best friend, Ellen, barely reached Champion Rank. The others were Elite Rank."
"What?!" The guy widened his eyes, obviously couldn't believe what he heard.
"Yes. I know that it's hard for you to believe, but this was due to the commanding ability of a certain person."
"Theodore Griffith." The guy sucked a cold breath, knowing why Nart Eilric wanted to keep a close eye on him.
Fighting talent could easily be trained, but leadership was hard and a huge part of it required talent.
"Since they all have reached Champion Rank, are we going to let them fight the two monsters at the same time?" The guy asked for confirmation even though he already knew the answer.
"Yes. As long as no other monsters bothered them." The middle-aged man nodded before looking at the two next to him. "Even so, we need to be ready at any time. You two will prepare yourself to join the battle if necessary."
The two acknowledged his order and rose from their seats.
…
While those five were occupied with what they were asked to do, Theo had already made his decision. The moment he saw the snake, Theo quickly shouted, "Alea. You're useless. Go fight the snake instead of the rhino."
She knew that her flame wasn't that useful, especially her new skill, Melting Sword, so Alea quickly leaped to the side, trying to face the snake by herself while shouting, "Theo, you should pay attention to your words."
"No time." Theo shrugged and commanded the others. "Ellen, you're going to be with me. While Alea keeps the snake on the corner, Sihan, Laust, and Phyrill will kill the rhino."
"Understood." All of them acknowledged his decision.
Because of the snake's sudden appearance, they didn't manage to kill the rhino first, but luckily, the flame had yet to recover, meaning the rhino was still weakened.
Ellen quickly pulled back and came to Theo, positioning themselves between the two monsters.
Laust and Phyrill then ran to the side of the rhino, trying to gather his focus while Sihan took the full charge as if he planned to face it head-on.
The people in the control room were amazed by how fast they transitioned. Their fast reaction speed was top-notch, but Theo's quick thinking indeed solved the immediate problem.
But what made them even more surprised was Theo's skill.
He summoned his clone again and used his Magic Bullet. However, Theo went one step further and used his Illusion Multiplier on both him and his clone, turning the two Magic Bullets into eight before splitting them into eighty Magic Bullets.
"Now, now. Let's try this, shall we?" Theo smirked and finally showed the result of his training in front of the others.
"Wha—Since when you're that good at controlling your Magic Power?" Ellen couldn't help but comment, only to find Theo completely ignored her and shot the Magic Bullets to the snake.
However, he made sure that his Magic Bullets slightly missed the target, including Alea, and used the tracking to bend the Magic Bullets back to the original target.
All eighty bullets turned and hit the snake, who thought Theo just missed him.
Alea widened her eyes and leaped backward, watching how all Magic Bullets hit the target.
"Scree!"
The snake let out a scream with his body swaying left and right.
Alea could see that only a few Magic Bullets managed to pierce through the snake's skin, injuring it.
"Inch Slash." Alea didn't want to waste this opportunity and struck the snake with the skill that killed the Hardrock Mammoth.
The snake felt the invisible energy coming to him, tilted his head to the right, and opened its mouth, biting the invisible energy.
"…" Alea simply stared at the snake dumbfoundedly, never expecting that a snake could actually bite it and eventually destroy it.
Ellen wanted to get the last hit, but she needed to help the other three. She realized that Theo had manipulated the battlefield to the point there was only him and Alea fighting the Hero Rank monster.
Knowing Alea's personality, she would surely leave someone to kill the monster because of the competition.
In other words, Theo had just made a situation where he became the winner as long as they beat the snake first before the rhino.
And yes, everything was like what she thought. A smile appeared on Theo's face as he used his Blink to appear next to the snake while pulling his spear.
"Swift Energy."
The spear's blade started shining in golden color.
Alea glanced at him and realized his plan before her sword turned bright red and charged forward.
"Theo, it's not fair to the others. I'm going to kill this one to make it fair." Alea surprisingly didn't like the idea and wanted the snake for herself.
Theo ignored her and aimed his spear. The situation required the snake to choose whether to repel Alea or Theo because he might die if he made a wrong choice.
Yet, the latter actually showed the real might of a Hero Rank Monster. He raised his head, opened its mouth and formed a green-colored liquid on top of its head before it burst in all directions.
"!!!" Alea and Theo widened their eyes. Alea used her Fortitude while Theo summoned two Elemental Shields at the same time to block this attack.