Aias: from a world of kaijus to a world of fantasy and magic

Chapter 47

I was thrown back and hit the wall; the air in my lungs escaped.

Falling to the ground, blood was coming from my left side. I tried getting up, but everything went black.

Alex's Party Perspective

Alice looked at Nyx and was astounded by how he fought. They were having trouble fighting it because of the vines, causing Alex or Wendy to fight the Owlbear while the other kept the vines at bay.

Maybe we can win this time. She thought that because Nyx seemed to be holding his own with the Owlbear and Alice had never seen this level of fighting before, especially for someone who was almost the same age as herself, even her personal guards would have a hard time defeating him.

However, Alice saw a vine slip through Wendy and snuck up to Nyx. She tried to warn Nyx, but he was too focused on fighting the Owlbear to notice. It grabbed onto Nyx's leg, and she saw Nyx thrown into the air with blood splattering all over.

Alice turned to Maria and told her.

"We are retreating; get Nyx out of here."

As she said that, Alex was also thrown back and landed next to them.

Maria checked Alex to see if he was okay, and fortunately, his armor managed to stop the Owlbear's claws from harming him.

"Don't worry about me; go to Nyx; he is more injured than I am."

Standing up, Alex ran back to fight the Owlbear, while Maria ran to Nyx.

As Maria began to run to Nyx, Alice told Lucia to fire off her fireball and use her flamethrower spell to deal with the vine so they could focus on escaping.

Lucia nodded, and she notified Alex to get out of the way and to carry Nyx out.

After the Owlbear is hit by the fireball and sent flying back, Lucia casts a flamethrower spell and shouts out at Wendy to get back since she is going to incinerate the vines and the tree itself.

As Lucia fires her flamethrower spell, Maria reaches Nyx, and she sees that Nyx is bleeding profusely and has lost a lot of blood. Three big gashes were diagonally going down from Nyx's back to his left side. Maria took out two medium-grade potions and poured the first one on Nyx's back to stop the bleeding.

After she was done, the last two Bloodowls noticed Maria separated from Chelsie, Alice, and Lucia and decided to dive on her. Seeing them, Maria instinctively shields Nyx's unconscious body to try to protect him with her own body, while Chelsie fires her arrows and knocks them out of the air.

Maria sighed in relief seeing that Chelsie shot down the Bloodowls and was about to carry Nyx; without warning, vines started moving from the wall, got a hold of Maria, and pulled her to the wall, strangling her.

Seeing what was happening, Alice was dumbfounded and thought to herself, How was this happening? She didn't expect that to happen, and the book Maria gave her to read to formulate a plan, the Dradevow dungeon book, never said anything about what was happening.

Is it because we burn down the tree at the center?

Alice ignored that train of thought and decided to act. Looking at Chelsie, since there were no Bloodowls in the air, Alice told her to follow her to help Maria, who was struggling to break free of the vines.

They ran to her, trying to cut the vine apart to free Maria; however, the vines were much more troublesome than they thought.

They were overwhelmed, and the vine had already gotten a hold of them. Vines had wrapped around their necks, and Alice thought to herself, How had things gone so wrong so quickly?