Chapter 246: Like Old Days
Chapter 246: Like Old Days
As Jim expected, Roger had no other choice but accept this task.
"What should I do?" he asked, "and what about them?"
Roger pointed to the rest of the team.
"I'll try to bring that bastard up," Jim slowly said, "but I doubt it will move."
"Then?" Roger felt more bad news was coming.
"We'll have to go down at it."
"That's... ridiculous!"
"How are we supposed to fight?"
Jim watched the stupefied faces of the frightened disciples and didn't blame them. He, himself, was as terrified as they were.
"I have an opinion," Roger said, "I can summon my jelly and drag you down below."
"And?" Jim attentively listened to him.
"We can leave it all here," he pointed to the deep pit as he added, "this pit extends for hundreds of meters down. This way you can drag him forcibly like you did with the lizard."
"It might work," Jim nodded, "but what will they do?"
"They will stay here and attack the monster once they pass the cave."
Jim found this plan to be more practical than what he had in mind. "Alright, but you need to prepare yourself."
"I know," Roger nodded before glancing at his friends, "be sure to rain hell over that motherf*cker's head."
"Howl!"
The team howled and Roger howled with them before a small jelly cloud appeared.
"Let's go," Roger jumped and Jim simply followed.
'You need to use the spell again,' the old man said.
'How?' Jim sighed, 'My spell was broken after that attack.'
'You can let your friend help.'
Jim turned to Don who was still rubbing its head on his knees.
'Not that, I meant the other one,' the old man helplessly sighed and Jim only smiled.
He knew what the old man meant but thought of joking with him.
'No time to play,' the old man warned, 'or better to say no room for you to fool around.'
'I know,' Jim turned to Roger as he asked, "Can I ask for a little hand here?"
"What?" Roger glanced in a weird way.
"See... I can't use my spell and I need help with that."
Roger got what he meant. "Isn't it a self activated one?" Roger asked and Jim was totally oblivious to what Roger said.
"I need to hold the sword in a certain position to be activated," Jim explained, trying to see if that was what Roger asked about.
"So it's a kinetic spell," Roger nodded, "Which position do you want your sword at?"
"Just pointing to the ground."
Roger grabbed the sword that was in Jim's hands and adjusted its position to point to the ground.
"Thanks," the moment he did that Jim felt the familiar pressure of his spell once again.
'It's... weaker!' Jim found this a bit weird.
'The monster is exhausted already,' the old man said, 'so the next attack would be the last to finish it.'
'What about the sac?'
'That's the tricky part,' the old man paused and Jim realized what he wanted to say.
'This... is going to be a tough call,' Jim knew how difficult it would be to pull that feat.
He had the means to kill that monster, but killing it would put his life and Hector's at risk.
The two needed the poison sac, and that meant Roger had to go there and get the sac just before launching that attack.
And Roger had to get out of the way or else he would turn all golden like the monster.
"Bang!"
Just as he was lost in his thoughts, he felt a strong blow at his body. He turned to his hands and knew what caused this.
"You still have some strength in you," Jim raised his head and glanced with determination at the monster up above.
Just now as he was descending, the monster resisted the bond between the two and made his body freeze midair.
"I'll help," Roger instantly used his jelly spell to form a giant hand and pull Him down.
But for a piece of jelly that was too much to ask.
"Ron, get your ass down here," Roger suddenly shouted as he knew he wouldn't be able to do it.
"Swoosh!"
Just as Roger stopped his jelly, Jim noticed a dark shadow falling from above.
He was a tall and slim kid, someone he wouldn't consider when strength was needed.
"Bring him down," Roger didn't even wait for Ron to reach the jelly before shouting at him.
And the next thing happened was for that tall and weak looking kid to wave both hands at Jim.
For Jim this sounded like Ron was scoring a basketball net with a dunk. Yet the hands of Ron just passed over his body, missing him.
"You missed..."
Just before Jim could continue his words, his body felt immense traction force that dragged him towards the bottom.
"Hahaha, don't be shocked like this," Roger laughed while moving his jelly cloud once again. "Ron had a fierce control innate ability to anything that lies between his two skinny hands."
"Don't call my hands this way," Ron shouted at him the moment Roger ended his words.
"Sorry man," Roger laughed, "y'know it's a habit and it all started with boss."
"Humph, the boss can say anything he wants but not others," Ron seemed to be slightly upset about this name while Jim didn't care about their speech for now.
"You are crazy," Jim couldn't help but shout, and his words made the other two laugh.
"It's all thanks to the boss, howl!" the two said in unison before howling together.
"I need to make my team like this," Jim shook his head before gazing up at the monster, "but it's still resisting."
"Don't worry," Ron looked at Roger and the two nodded.
"The same old way?" Roger asked.
"Let's do it in Hector's style," Ron said in agreement.
"What is that?" Jim asked while feeling something bad was about to happen.
"Just watch," Ron said with a smile that made Jim more worried than reassured.
"Let's go," Roger shouted and the next thing happened for Ron to jump. Contrary to what Jim imagined, Roger was the second to move.
One headed upward, and the other flew as fast as he could downward.
And Jim couldn't do anything but helplessly watch while the jump of Ron made the tension over his body to instantly vanish.
"Endure this," Ron screamed yet the next moment Jim's scream was even louder.
Out of deep pain, his body was pressured by an immense pulling power that suddenly assaulted him, making him scream.
And at that moment he got what the two planned to do.
One headed down, while Ron jumped up and that created a distance again.
Using gravity Ron fell and with his spell Jim had to follow while that dreadful monster was forced downwards without any room for resistance anymore.
It was so painful to him, but deep inside his soul he knew it was such a brilliant move.
As Roger led the way down the pit, Ron kept dragging Jim's body mercilessly while the monster was trying all its best to resist.
Hitting the walls, twitching violently, and even swelling its body to fill the pit as efforts to stop its descent.
And all ended up in failure.
The combined efforts of the three finally managed to drag the monster lower than the cave opening.
And that gave the chance finally for the rest of the team to attack.
The team watched what was happening without being able to interfere. For them this was pretty much heroic. Yet they all felt deep frustration seeing the three acting all alone while all they got to do was to watch.
"Boom!"
"Bang!"
"Boom!"
The moment the monster passed the cave a myriad of attacks rained down it. The explosions coming from these attacks were so mighty, and they caused serious damage to the monster.
But Jim's mind was busy thinking about something else.
"This can't continue like this," he softly muttered but for the nearby Ron he could perfectly hear him.
"What?"
"Roger needs to go inside that monster now."
Ron realized what was going on before turning his head down. Roger was the only one with such strong ability to protect itself from the monster's attacks even for a few seconds.
And he was only the one able to run away fast if things went wrong.
"But if he left... we will lose our support," Ron said his worries and these were the same as what Jim had in mind.
"How much is there before we reach the bottom?"
"No one knows," Ron answered his question before adding, "each pit is different."
"Then we have to risk it," Jim was feeling the power sucked from the monster getting weaker.
"But..."
"Don't worry," Jim motioned with his head, "we got our lucky charm with us."
"Roar!"
And Don roared in delight as if he was happy to be the center of attention once again.