Versatile: Alternate World

"What in the blasted heavens is that sh*t?" Dolly rubbed her eyes seeing the Brain Jacker waiting for an opportunity to escape from the flames that spawned after the explosions created by the explosives.

"It doesn't look like a parasite but hell, it looks more like a spider using the mantis as its head. It's kinda creepy if I say so myself." Harmless Sparrow readies her sword.

"We should start blasting this guy before we engage on it on the ground.  Since the swamp dried up after we used the explosives, we should take advantage of that it is still waiting for the flames to die down," Topaz suggested.

"Yes. I agree with that. Fire all of what you can but remember to look out for your MP. We can't afford you guys to lose all your MP and then suffer a massive headache. Keep an eye on it always," Sigma reminded them.

"Of course!" the three nodded and started casting more spells and bombarding the  Brain Jacker with multiple attacks.

"But just like what was discussed by Bladeheart before, there is a chance that the true form is much faster than its mantis form so they have to make sure they are not just wasting mana from attacking. If it is fast enough, we should handle it on the ground and deal with it."

Harmless Sparrow didn't participate in bombarding the Brain Jacker but Bladeheart's mother replaced her by throwing multiple concoctions of items that have destructive properties. Topaz and Dolly continue to bombard the Brain Jacker.

As multiple attacks landed around the Brain Jacker, the monster immediately pulled something that everyone didn't expect. Using its sharp appendages or tentacles or whatever it was, it cut off a part of the mantis's body and used it as a shield as it starts to traverse the field to get away from the bombardment.

"Damn! It was a smart f*cker! And it moves fast!" Bladeheart's father immediately tries to descend.

"Wait! Don't chase it just yet! Stop firing as well! We will have to deal with it on the land. We have to catch it first and I will do it," Sigma waved her hands, and gold chains starts to appear and chase the fleeing Brain Jacker.

The golden chains were fast, but the Brain Jacker is faster and it didn't even mind the chains as it easily dodges its lunges and stabbed like nothing.

"Looks like a slimy one. Come on, let's chase it."

Everyone begins to chase the Brain Jacker. It stops for a few seconds at times before continuously trying to escape.

Sigma's eyes glow and locked her sight on the monster.

"You won't be escaping! [Chains of Binding Light]!"

KA-CHANK! KA-CHANK!

Multiple gold chains erupted on the ground and immediately restrained the Brain Jacker.

"Fire!"

Dolly and Topaz who are already charging up their abilities bombard the Brain Jacker once more but this time, the Brain Jacker took a hit from it and an unworldly screech can be heard where it was bombarded.

"We will deal with it on the ground now," Sigma ordered.

"Wait, but we are in the swamp now, it will be hard to traverse and fight that guy without flying!" Iron complained.

"Leave it to me, my son told me something great earlier and I have to check it out if it was real."

Bladeheart's mom immediately clasp her hands together and magic circles appeared on her hands. She lands in the swamp and put both of her hands on the wet swamp water with the magic circle still spinning on her palms.

"Elevate the ground! [Control: Earth]!"

All of a sudden, the ground shook and the ground rose up from the water creating an elevated arena without water and minimal mud as the water immediately got drained the moment it rose up from the ground. It basically became a little elevated ground arena.

"Ohhhh sh*t's about to get real!" Hagane grinned as he landed on the elevated ground and held his shields together.

Everyone else also landed as well and they are now face to face against the Brain Jacker the moment the smoke and flames from the explosion that was used to bombard the Brain Jacker dissipated. Compared to when they were still up in the air, the Brain Jacker is now much more disgusting to look at. Above ground, it looked like some kind of metal octopus or robotic monster but when up close, it is much more like a mass of parasitic worms fused together and became the amalgamation of all the parasitic worms fused in one.

Dolly who is a little bit weak in terms of bugs, almost puked the moment she meet the monster face to face.

"Damn, and I thought that the view from above the ground was disgusting enough, it can still be disgustingly ramped up times two," Dolly held her mouth, trying her best to vomit at the sight of it.

As they prepare to attack it while it was still in a bind, the Brain Jacker suddenly split itself into 5 pieces of worms, each of them carrying a small fragment of the Mantis head with them that also got divided when they divided their bodies as well. And as a result of splitting up, the [Chains of Binding Light] were broken as well.

"Well, sh*t, the bindings are broken!" Sigma grits her teeth. After all, no monster has been able to escape the [Chains of Binding Light] before, and in just a few seconds, it was broken by a parasitic monster.

"Prepare to stop it if it tries to escape!" Bladeheart's Father immediately gave some instructions since some stopped.

"No, it seems it won't be running away, It's now going to fight back against us." Topaz readies her staff.

And just like what Topaz said, the Brain Jacker that divided itself is not planning to escape, but instead, to fight.

One of its forms, the one that looks like a tapeworm immediately shoots out like some kind of film in a film reel straight to the players and everyone dodges it which was followed up by the others as well.

"Get ready guys! We aren't going to just let this f*cker try to kill us here!"

The worms attacked and slithers like a slick rope moving all by itself. Sigma uses her golden chains to stop the monsters but because they are fast, she was just hitting the air most of the time. This pissed Sigma a little bit so instead of staying still, she pulled out her Greatsword. Since she has both the Greatsword and a mace as weapons, she was pissed enough that she decided to use the Greatsword to fight back against it.

"Light, shine on me and bless my blade to slay the corrupted."

The light shines in her sword and is now imbued with Holy Power. Sigma's complexion also became a bit brighter as well and her black hair turned golden as well.

"What the? Is this part of her powers that she didn't reveal just yet?" Hagane frowned.

"According to the guides, it was the "Valkyrie" form of the female Holy Knight that can take that form which only female Holy Knights can take. Since she has that ability, it is clear that she took the Valkyrie promotion."

Then, they were immediately reprimanded by Bladheart's father who was already beating up the monster by tagging the team with Mr. Teddy. "Hey, Kids. Don't just talk there and fight back. These disgusting f*cker will not die if you guys remained to talk and do nothing! Get cracking and fight!"

"Y-YES!" everyone readies their weapons and is now in battle stance, ready to fight back.

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Bladeheart witnessed all of what happened and he was a bit shocked to see that the Brain Jacker has that form, to begin with. After all, the past Brain Jacker has been killed before it can even use up some kind of gimmick like that when it appeared so seeing the response of the group is great as they didn't even think twice and engaged in a fight against the divided monsters.

Still, he was content and not worried about what is happening to the others. He is quite confident that Sigma and the others could deal with the main threat just fine.

"The monster hordes seem to be getting thinner now. The other players are also able to now fight back just fine too and the horde that is still being held by the players has thinned out," Lina munches a dried potato chip as she looks at the battlefield.

"Well, that's good to hear, isn't it? The monsters are now being thinned out so we can say that we are almost done with this attack. With a massive scale of monster attacks happening, having their numbers go low is something we will be happy seeing," Gobu added as he sips his coffee.

As for me, I remained quiet. I don't know what will happen next but since there is a big chance it will happen, perhaps it will indeed happen soon once the current boss is dead.