35.3 Raid Leading?

The world seemed to slow down as I stared out at Shizu's floating form in front of us. Behind her, this [Taenia]'s tentacles undulated with a sense of foreboding, its tendrils snaking up and around the princess's body in ways that would probably be illegal in a few places around the world.

Then again, that was the least of our concerns at the moment.

After our first wipe, my three companions proceeded to have some kind of emotional breakdown on their deaths. Shade was pensive, Maruki was uncharacteristically down on the dumps, and funnily enough, Shen was the best performing one of them all as she simply stood by and put on a brave face in front of Shizu. Meanwhile, I was too busy looking for answers, thinking up ways to somehow get through the first few seconds of the fight without dying instantly.

"There's got to be a way," I murmured out, my eyes trained solely at the tentacles holding Shizu hostage. "Surely the game wouldn't let us take this fight if we couldn't even beat it."