Bloodlight Goddess Ru

CHAPTER 24

[CHAPTER 24: Feeling Crabby hero?]

After sometime, the waves were gone but, Zeran and Ru witnessed over the distance was a humongous blood spilt crab that was carapaced with thick razor-like spikes throughout its body and seething antenae for bloodlust. Not only that, it had six sharp chainsaw-like pincers that could reap-off anyone's innards in the most gruesome way possible. It taunted the both of them with its spread-out claws and monstrous roar,

"GIIIIISSSSHHHAAAAAHHHH!".

The ground trembled in fear. Zeran and Ru weren't afraid rather, the both of them brought out their respective weapons and gotten ready for combat. Though, it seemed her weapon was kinda longer than before, making Zeran to feel worried yet, he didn't mind it that much, since he was focussed on destroying the monster right in front of them. Then, he huffed-out confidently and said,

"Well time to crack this crab inside-out...".

Ru nodded with her devious smile and the great battle commenced. The atmosphere boiled up as the flames of battle engaged. The monster took the initiative and swung its gigantic claw at Ru, although for some reason, she was able to dodge it's strike swiftly and looked unscathed. Zeran tried to ambush the monster regaining its composure after swinging its arm at Ru but, it's steel-like carapace deflected his strike like it was nothing. As Zeran noticed that his attacks weren't effective, he told her,

"Uuh...Ru, my attacks aren't working...".

She replies,

"Well why don't you buy me sometime for a while my li'l pet..."
"While I do something here...".

Zeran looked stressed as he heard that from her, although he just agreed upon her demands later on. Ru went away for a few distances, while she was chanting out a powerful magical spell that needed long preperation while she was representing a graceful pose of crossing her arms and closed eyes. After sometime, he has been distracting and catching the attention of the crabmonstrosity, while he was deflecting and dodging its powerful strikes with great caution. The monster was persistent on crushing Zeran but, due to Zeran's swift movements and the crab's slow attacks, he was able to dodge all of them no problem. Though, he kinda looked pissed since, this style of fighting isn't his cup of tea nor his interest. A little while later, his feet was getting sore and he was feeling exhausted of dodging and blocking its destructive blows and swings. Not only that, he was feeling irritated of just being a meatshield and decoy. Suddenly, Ru shouts over the distance,

"It's ready Zera!".

Zeran was filled with energy and motivation, as he heard her inspiring voice. Though, as he turned his head to see her, he was filled with huge surprise and shock, since she was now lifting a humongous ball of plasmatic and burning dark energy above her head with her two arms, such as she was holding a giant beach ball. She cracked out a menacing grin at Zeran like she was trying to scare him-off, as expected, Zeran was trembling in fear and he was sweating because, it seemed the sphere of unstable darkness was directed at him. Soon, Ru tossed the sphere of deep abyss like she was playing a beachball towards the crustacean monster. As the the humongous ball of energy hit the monster, it caused a powerful explosion that released immense black energy around the place. The intensity was so strong that made the cavern to shake as if there was an earthquake had occurred. Zeran made a jawdropping expression and dropped his golden claw, as he witnessed the amazing explosion right in front of his beady eyes. The place was engulfed by a thick black fog but, it dispersed quite fast later on. As he opened his eyes and his vision became clear, he saw the humongous monster turned to a pile of ashes and a velvet sphere was floating above it. Ru stretched her arms and wore a satisfied expression as she noticed the monster beaten into a pile of ashes in one shot although, Zeran just sighed with a tired look. She went near the thick dust and reached out her hand to the floating stony red sphere. He noticed that the velvet sphere was being siphoned by her hand, that was so entrancing to observe. A little while later, he saw the text on top of Ru's head,