Beast Evolution

"So we have to find the mage, I know he's around here somewhere, and this is the only chance we have, if the senior knights defeat the beast they would be too exhausted to fight the mage," Ray said.

"You are right, we have to keep moving, and this time we would protect you," Gabriel and Leia said in confidence.

...

"The battle is finally serious," Authur said.

The swords of the three senior knights were emitting enough heat that it was visible to the eyes.

*Swoosh*

The three knights attack the beast at once from all sides, the beast stopped all their swords and they were all shocked.

The beast had two swords and they were three in number so how, the beast stretch his hands to attack Authur and Authur moved sideways to avoid the attack, he quickly jumped back and the others followed suit.

They all looked at the beast and they were shocked, instead of two arms, the beast had four, that was how he was able to block all their attacks and still attack them.

The beast didn't stop, he quickly dashed toward Authur and attacked him. Authur could keep up with the speed of the beast but the weapons were too much for him to handle alone.

Alfred and James quickly swooped in but before they could land a hit on the beast hundreds of ice golems spawned from the ground and attacked them.

"Ice golem..." Ray muttered.

The three of them were also surrounded by ice golems, they looked around for the mage but he was nowhere to be found, now they were surrounded and had to fight their way through.

Gabriel rushed towards the first Ice golem, except for their defense there was nothing impressive about them, they were slow which was how they were defeated.

Gabriel and Leia killed all the ice golems while protecting Ray, Ray didn't have a sword and he couldn't risk performing magic.

The senior knights on the other hand had it rough, they were battling with the high-level beast and golems at the same time.

The beast didn't give Authur any breathing space, Authur could keep up with the speed of the beast but the weapons were much, in a matter of minutes he had received cuts in different parts of his body.

*Boom*

Alfred and James quickly dashed towards the beast to support Authur, they had defeated all the ice golems and the few that were left were being taken care of by Gabriel and Leia.

The beast didn't waver and attacked all of them at once, it soon began a battle of clashing swords with no sides backing down.

Soon Authur successfully cut both of the left arms of the beast, before it could regenerate its hands back Alfred and James cut off the other two.

At the same time, the three of them aimed for the head of the beast to deliver the finishing blow.

*Boom*

All of their swords hit a powerful ice barrier, the ice barrier had the same black lines that were on the body of the beast and immediately sharp spears of ice shot out from all sides of the barrier.

Despite using Ki to increase their physical abilities the senior knights couldn't dodge all the ice spears that shot out from the barrier.

"The knights" Ray shouted.

Gabriel and Leia quickly looked over to where the senior knights were and they had been badly injured with blood dripping from their wounds.

Gabriel slashed the last ice golem and broke it to shreds, the three of them rushed over to the senior knights.

The mask on the beast retracted and he had a big grin on his face.

"So this is all there is to your power, I thought you guys were more stronger" the beast laughed.

"We would defeat you" Authur muttered.

"You would defeat me how...ohh your students are here, maybe they are the ones that would defeat me, right"

"Are you okay?" Leia asked the knights.

"We are fine" they replied.

The three of them could see that the senior knights were badly injured, their bodies had been pierced by spears of ice and blood was dripping out.

"Let's get him," Alfred said.

"You guys still have some strength left, I'm tired of fighting with swords I'm going to end it now," the beast said.

Two of the beast's arms had healed and were back to their normal form, instead of using swords the beast placed his hands on the ground.

"He's using a spell, scatter" Authur shouted.

"No you won't" the beast shouted, and from both sides, a large wall of ice was generated from the ground, the ice had black lines all over them and their swords couldn't break the ice. The six of them were trapped with nowhere to run.

"Now you are done for"

Large amount of ice spear spawn from the ground and extended towards the six of them, but before it could reach they broke through the ice wall and escaped.

"What!! how did they break through the wall" the beast said with a surprised expression.

"What just happened, Ray what did you just do?" Authur asked.

Before the ice could hit them, Ray used his [Fireball] spell to create a hole in the ice wall and that was how they escaped, but unfortunately Authur saw him.

Before they could question Ray, thousands of Ice spears formed in the air and aimed toward them, the beast was far from them with its hands up.

"I would like to see you dodge it this time" the beast shouted and dropped its hands.

The senior knights faced their swords upward to destroy all the ice spears.

'We are all going to die here, I can't let it end here, that bastard Draco must pay for all this, but I don't have any defensive spell'

"But I've to try" Ray shouted and placed his hands on the ground.

*Boom*

All the ice spears were launched towards them.