Chapter 62: Lernaean Hydra

"The further we go, the harder it becomes." Lucin said while pulling out a long sword from a beast.

"I think this place is clear, we should move on to the next face now, shall we." He added

There was response but instead he moved forward. Taking a step forward, a portal suddenly opened and instantly a strong pulling force rock the area, making difficult to hold his footing.

"We have to get out of this place right now!!!" He shouted. Amidst the struggle. Something speed past him, he followed the movement and was able to know what ran past him.

"Hey are you crazy, what do you think...did he just jumped into that portal like that??"

'What am I meant to do now??' he contemplated.

The puling force began to reduce, accompanied with portal which was closing up at a fast pace.

'Sh*t, I have no idea of what's on the other side, this crazy guy…..Sigh, guess I have no choice.' He gripped his sword firmly and dashed right into the portal which closed behind him.

Appearing at the other side of the portal, Lucin landed beside Bright who was being surrounded by 10 beasts at the hyper level. Taking a look at the environment, he could see that they were in a swampy area with trees around. Trees like red maple, green and black ash, silver maple, American elm, and swamp white oak, etc.

"This would be a tough work." Lucin muttered

Bright moved without wasting time. He closed the gap between him and the nearest beast, when close enough, he leapt into the air and slammed his fist heavily on the head of a red skull hydra. The beast has two snake head attached to a body and a tail at its end.

'Yeah, I thought as much, this would really be troublesome, he really doesn't seem to be frightened by the sight of stronger beasts' Lucin thought while smiling.

Turning around, he decided to take out the beast closer to him. Seeing this, one of the hydra's head spit out a green liquid, the liquid shot out fast but missed Lucin who avoided it by jumping out of its way. The green liquid hit the floor and melt it. Lucin didn't avert his gaze from the liquid and raised the long sword in his possession over his head, he swung it down with his both hands. A large slash of fire that cut through everything on its path shot out of the long sword, the attack travelled far into the distance Whereas the targeted beast was sliced in half with a single powerful slash.

"Haha, I knew this sword is special when it resonated with my fire ability there by amplifying it. The Gohu's sure are really talented in forging powerful weapons."

Bright on the other hand was in mid air, taking a midair swing, he shouted.

"Descending hammer kick." Atp coated his leg, coupled with the strength of his race.

The back of his leg slammed on the head of an hydra. Not stopping, he swung his leg at the side of another hydra, making the sides cave in.

The shockwave from the kick travelled and hit an hydra that is making its way toward him. The hydra skidded across the swampy ground as it was being pushed back by the shockwave. Not giving it a breather, Bright raised his fist and gathered enough amount of Atp on his fist, he appeared over the head of the skidding hydra and punched its head, the hydra head slammed into the ground and its whole body became limp. A hole could be sent blasted through its head into the ground.

Lucin on the other hand was watching everything, having dealt with the other five hydras. 'He sure is cool, taking out beasts beyond his level with a single hit. Is he even human??' he watched as Bright stood there having dealt with the five hydras. The ground suddenly shook and right from the distance trees were falling, the swamp was being scattered .

'What monstrosity is that, destroying everything as if they're nothing.'

Swoosh, a gust of wind and scattered swamp shot around.

"Do you really have to go charging at everything in sight like a dumb bull??!" Lucin face palmed

The next second, a body could be seen flying through the air, Lucin side stepped and let the body pass him, he didn't spare it a look.

"That's what you get for going in without scrutinizing your opponent first." He smiled

An hydra came into view, it is 13 meters tall and 25 meters long, it was bigger, tree times bigger that the previous ones. It has a red glowing crystal underneath its five heads.

"I see a peak sidon tier Lernaean Hydra , this should be fun." Lucin muttered, an expert stage aura leaked out of him.

Bending his knee slightly, he charged at the beast, when close enough he swung the long sword, shooting a line of fire toward the beast which just used one of its head to knock the attack away.

'As expected but I'm not done' Lucin thought. He leapt to the side of the beast and brandished his sword on the hydra's head . The hydra wasn't slow either, it used the same head to counter the attack from the sword . A clanging sound resounded as if metal was hitting metal.

He changed position immediately but fire ball came out of one of the hydra's head, Lucin jumped back, avoiding the fireball.

"You're dumb to think you would be able to best me with my same power." Lucin shouted as he charged in again.

He slashed three times, releasing three slashes encased in fire, the hydra used the same metal head to block the attack. It then breathed a frost breathe out of the nose on another head, the frost breathe freeze lucin's sword that continuously slammed on the metal head.

Out of his other hand, fire lances shot at a different head while his other hand kept the metallic head occupied. The head which was targeted by the lances shot out a green liquid that corrode the fire lances and aimed to corrode lucin, giving him no choice but to jump out of its trajectory.

Lucin closed in on the beast again, perfectly avoiding even the joint attack of its four heads, he ran forward and avoided a swipe of the metallic head. Lucin leapt up with his sword and slash the fire head off, black blood spurt out of the head. Without giving it a chance to recover, lucin tried to slash the frost head off but the hydra intercepted with its metal head. Instead of the attack being on a standstill, Lucin found himself being pushed back, he skidded on the floor.

"Did its attack just get stronger or was that a desperate move??" he muttered. Looking at the sliced head, Lucin could see it decomposing and where it was being sliced off, in its place, two fresh heads appeared making it a total of six heads. Bright was watching everything from the back.

'This beast is strong, but I'm sure he has something up his sleeve.' He looked at lucin who stood upright and straightened his cloth. Griping his sword tightly, Lucin charged in this time increasing his speed

"Try to keep up!" he shouted

Lucin battled against four different heads possessing different abilities at the same time, there was no one gaining the upper hand. The beast received hits here and there but nothing dangerous. Lucin continued attacking non-stop, he fused more fire into his sword while slashing multiple times, explosions after explosions resounded as both opponent battle it out. Lucin shot fire lances at the beast which reciprocated by spitting out green liquids that melt the lances at first but with more durability added to it by lucin, the attacks were both cancelling out each other.

'This isn't good, the beast is adapting quickly and for some reasons, it isn't using the other two heads.' Bright who was observing the fight thought, suddenly his eyes widened and he shouted.

"Get away from the beasts!!"

Lucin felt his instinct scream, he heed the warning , channeled Atp to his legs and jumped backward, cracking where he previously stood. Immediately he landed and decided to stare at where he previously stood, he could see a large line as if someone used a great sword to cut open the floor, the cut was clean without resistance.

"Phew, that was a close call." He muttered.

"We have to take this thing down together." Bright said, having come close to him.

"What was that just now??" Lucin was bewildered as he stared at the large gash that went deep into the ground .

"That new head suddenly moved with immense speed, the timing was perfect. If you were a second late, you would be dead by now." Bright responded

"I don't think I plan to die anytime soon." Lucin joked

Bright ignored him and summoned his twin blades.

"I can see that you're taking this serious after been whacked away." Lucin said

"So how to we defeat this??" he asked

"The heads possess different powers, I would take on the new head and the first head, while you take the other two." Bright responded

"How about the last one??" Lucin asked

"We should both take care of the metal head while watching out for the last one." Bright said

"That's okay, just so you know, those other heads are easy the cut through with the right amount of Atp" Lucin said.