Chapter: 884
"Then there's only one way forward."
His eyes drifted across the giant pulsing head, and the roots trailing around it.
"But how many more of Ora are waiting under the roots? How many are below my feet?"
"That thing wants us to come towards it. What else could it be hiding…"
(Handy, come back and kill the Ora. Sweeper, join Red and Lamp to slay it. Don't let it grab you this time.) Jay ordered.
Handy cut away some roots and moved away from the stairs. Feeling the skeleton move into the room, the roots settled and stopped grasping at its legs. It gave Jay some relief, seeing that the roots would let them go as long as they moved away from the stairs.
"So it's a one-way trap?" he slyly smiled, "well, I wasn't planning to go back, anyway."
Red stepped forwards, snapping its sword into the elder-connection root on the back of the Ora.
Red landed the hit, but its foot slipped on the root floor and slid forward.
The Ora shrugged off the hit, ceasing the opportunity and spun around with the only attack that had worked so far.
Vines sprung from its spire claws, hitting the chest armor Red donned.
The vines crept into the gaps of the armor but couldn't pull anything away. Perhaps they weren't long enough.
They quickly pulled back, not taking any prize with them, but this little detail didn't slip by Jay.
"So… the armor can stop that scavenger attack. Good to know." he smiled.
Red also noticed. Finding a tactical advantage, it responded by standing closer than the other skeletons. Jay nodded, glad to see its skeleton thinking for itself.
Sweeper and Lamp returned to the fight and attacked while the Ora focused on Red, attempting more attacks against its armor.
Each time, the vines found a way into the armor, but it seemed they were not long enough to do any significant damage. It pulled Red towards itself, but the momentum channelled into a shield bash, and helped Red to scramble back.
The skeletons attacked without restraint, and with forty damage raining down each second, the Ora became sliced up pieces at their feet.
[831 Exp]
The living roots which made up its body slithered away, escaping somewhere into the floor, and other roots poked out of the floor, claiming the remains of the human body parts that were the Ora's shell.
Jay sighed, glad it was finally dead - or so he thought.
(Alright, move forward as a group. Go slowly.), he ordered, not taking a step forward himself.
The skeletons to moved over the roots, but something began moving behind them.
From the floor, another Ora rose.