>>5293597“Dammit!” you exhale, turning from the beast and swimming back down towards the champion and your dropped weapons as fast as you can. Your sword seemed capable of dispatching other Abyssal monstrosities like the tentacles, so surely it'll be effective against this beast too?
“CATCH!” the champion <span class="mu-i">thinks</span>, launching your sword at you like a javelin as you descend. He hurls it harder than you expected, forcing you to dodge with the Su Ma to avoid being impaled by your own tool. But as you dodge, you reach out and grab it firmly in your right hand, halting the blade as you turn back to face the creature. “GET DOWN!”
Not hesitating or questioning him, you drop down immediately at the champion's instruction. As you do, not even a full second later a dozen magical shots of varying colors split the sea where you'd been, all aimed directly at the monstrous abomination before you. Their attacks strike the beast's face, but unlike with the tentacles and Mindslayers their shots don't pierce through. Instead they burst against it's hide, the creature again roaring at you all.
“GYOOOOOOOOOOOO!!” it bellows, having forgotten you entirely as it turns towards the Rak'kari. You have to act quickly, else this monster will wreak havoc on them. As powerful as it is, even their champion would have difficulty fighting this abomination. Raising your sword once more overhead, and grasping it with both hands, you begin channeling your ki into the blade itself with several deep breaths. The ancient, enchanted blade begins glowing with azure light, with immediate effects. “GYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!”
“What?” you mutter as the titanic beast turns around, completely ignoring the still-attacking Rak'kari as it whirls back around towards you. It makes a beeline directly for you, perhaps sensing that the magical energy radiating from your weapon is dangerous to it. But it's too late now, you've already channeled enough energy. “HAAAAA!!”
With a muffled roar you swing, the azure energy leaping forth from the sword's tip like a crescent blade. The beast radiates with that wrong-feeling energy, but whatever defenses it were trying to erect aren't enough to save it. The massive blue projectile blade slashes directly through the darkness, and cleaves the beast concealed within in two! Well, mostly in two, as it wasn't perfectly straight it isn't cut into two identical halves. But the beast is dead, you sensing it's ki quickly vanish as its body turns back into that dark, blood-like substance. Then as it clears, you see the lifeless bodies of the tiny Kraken as well as the Hydae all drifting back down towards the seafloor. You take a deep breath, the Rak'kari champion swimming up to you hesitantly.
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