As Hilda gets distracted by the Hydra, she gets sent flying away by the minotaur before she pays attention back to it, using the rest of her sword qi and half her remaining mana to teleport and stab the back of its neck again, leaving it on the verge of death.

  “Tanky piece of…”

  Shila suddenly starts panicking more.

  “Hilda! Hurry and kill it before it evolves!”

  “What? That's a thing?!”

  Hilda rushes at it but is too late as it roars loudly, its body bursting into flames but not hurting it as its injuries heal up.

  White tries to use water to spray it, with most of his water evaporating before reaching.

  “Shila, hurry and tell me the stats and all the information you have on that thing that I don't already know.”

  “Can't, you'll get a penalty!”

  “I don't care, I'll die if I don't have some other plan ready so just give it!”

  “Fine, give me a moment!”

  A bunch of notifications start showing up, both new and old ones, consisting of level ups, achievements and warnings, suggesting trait usage, all of which Hilda ignores as the minotaurs notification appears.

  Flaming vengeful minotaur(evolved)

  Rare evolution of the minotaur. Its conditions are extreme anger towards a person along with needing more strength to fulfill a violent act.

  Will self-destruct if it's required.

  Penalty.

  20 less mana.

  “Are you kidding… I can't even kill the minotaur before, now I've gotta deal with

  An evolved version and a hydra…”

  Hilda keeps trying to kill as while avoiding its hits barely, getting scraped by some stack as she suddenly gets sent away.

  She looks in the direction she was, finding the hydra's tail being the thing that hit her.

  Hilda starts running at the hydra as the minotaur follows her into its tail.

  It struggles, trying to get her off but Hilda uses teleportation magic to stay on.

  “Haha, at least one of us are gonna be collateral damage!”

  Hilda runs onto the hydra's body as it struggles harder, the minotaur staying on barely, hugging the Hydra's scaly body.

  Hilda jumps down, stabbing it in its neck by taking advantage of it being distracted as it tries to grab her while self-destructing.

  “Sorry buddy, not happening.”

  Hilda teleports away, letting it blow up on the hydra's neck, causing it to screech in pain before dropping to the ground.

  “Weird sound for something that looks like a snake.”

  “How the hell are you associating that with a snake?”

  “Well, it's the tail of one.”

  Hilda suddenly notices it start moving as it starts healing as she teleports to it, cutting off the part of the body where all of its heads are connected to.

  “Easy!”

  Hilda does a peaceful sign while standing in front of the Hydra's body.

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  “Hilda, how much do you trust movies?”

  “Huh?”

  Hilda turns around, finding it grows another whole neck back along with an additional one, each with nine heads.

  “What the fuck… wasn't it only if it was the heads?!”

  Hilda goes in to try again as all the heads open up, each filling up with a different type of magic, with each 2 heads having similar ones.

  “Fuc—”

  All the heads start using magic, shield, healing, fire, poison, water, ice, mental, holy, dark.

  Hilda quickly runs away, dodging without teleportation to conserve mana as she runs off to the others, quickly conjuring 9 shields to block most of her attacks.

  “Shila, could you use the orb?!”

  “No way, it's too dangerous.”

  “I know but—”

  “Mom? Mom!” Jamie runs to Hilda.

  Hilda suddenly gets sent flying as the hydra hits her with its tail, causing her shields to shatter all at once, teleporting away the others with spatula magic.

  “Hilda, stop wasting mana on them!”

  “Can't… I'm gonna need as much insurance as possible.”

  “Shila, use the orb, but cancel it's effects once my mana reaches full and reactivate it when I nearly run out of mana.”

  “That's still gonna strain your mana paths!”

  “Either that or death, so just try it.”

  Shila reluctantly does so, causing Hilda to cough up blood before stopping immediately as Hilda mana maxes out.

  “Round 2 you bastard if a snake.”

  Hilda uses her mana on her legs, jumping at the snake as she sends a massive wave of mana at it, using teleportation and shield to deal with its attacks.

  Hilda keeps sending more waves of mana, not caring about her mana usage as Shila uses the orb again, controlling it better this time but still causing Hilda to feel a massive jolt of pain as she grits her teeth, sending another massive wave of mana.

  Hilda notices as her the Hydra starts aiming for everybody behind as she creates a ridiculous amount of shields, her mana draining at ridiculous speeds as Shila keeps the orb switched on, not having a chance to turn it on.

  “Hilda, the only reason you're okay is due to your mana usage right now.”

  “It says endless mana so it increases the amount I'm getting.”

  “No.”

  “Do it, just trust me. Increase it 2 fold.”

  Shila does so slowly, causing Hilda to start coughing blood again, worrying Jamine and Shila but Shila doesn't slow it down as Hilda starts sending out waves worth her entire mana capacity nonstop, as the Hydra's shields start to break down quickly, but healing back its injuries as it screeches in pain again.

  Hilda keeps it up, slowly forcing it into defence as she concentrates all her mana into her sword, no longer making shields as she sends out more waves of mana worth her entire capacity while using conversion and mental magic nonstop, compensating for the recoil with her seemingly never-ending amounts of mana.

  Hilda keeps it up, causing it to screech in pain as it falls down, Hilda's own recoil and damage causing her to faint too as Jamine catches her before she falls.

  “Don't worry Jamie, she'll be okay. We don't need an elixir yet.”

  The rest of the people come running over.

  “You two, why are you still hiding your faces? We already saw her face when blue removed her mask.” White speaks up first as Shila and Jamine ignore, trying to take care of Hilda.

  As Shila sighs, backing up with Jamine, a tail suddenly swings, hitting directly into Hilda, causing massive injuries to her already injured body.

  “You bitch!”

  Shila's body starts turning black due to being connected to Hilda's soul partially, her stats and skills all copying Hilda's as she looks like glitching out of reality due to forcing her stats and skills to copy Hilda's.

  “Jamine, if you don't want her to die, I'll do something to you. You'll feel a lot of pain, you may go crazy, but yes or no?”

  “Of course!”

  Shila turns to the rest of them.

  “You useless pieces of shits, you better help hold that bastard off.”

  Shila runs at it, taking Hilda's sword as she attacks the hydra which returns with physical attacks due to using the last of its mana to save itself.

  As Shila forces herself to hold it off, the rest send attacks to try to help but not succeeding much due to having high resistance to poison, water and mental magic and more.

  Shila runs out of mana eventually, placing a hand on Jamines back.

  “We’ll have to speed up the schedule. This might hurt, but remember it's for your mom, also you may be affected forever, you okay with that?”

  “Ok!”

  “The chage is temporary. You'll be able to do this by yourself in the future, but I'm forcing it to happen now.”

  Jamine glares at the hydra with determination as she suddenly feels a sudden massive amount of pain, gritting her teeth in pain as Shila gets forcefully sent back to the system.

  Jamie slowly turns into fully black, her body turning from slimy into gooish as it spreads out all around the stadium's ground.

  It slowly starts spreading upwards, further than even the walls as it forms a dome, black goo dripping down onto the ground everywhere as many eyes and mouths appear all over the dome, each with their own mind and speaking as one last set of set of eyes and mouth appear at the very top, each set ginormous in size with the one directly above being the biggest set.

  All the mouths suddenly start speaking at once, surprising everyone.

  “Who?”

  “Me.”

  “Me?”

  “Us?

  “Us?”

  “Us!”

  “Do?

  “Do what?”

  “What?”

  “What… protect!”

  “Protect!”

  “Mom 1, kill 2, gem 3.”

  “Kill?

  “Kill what?”

  “Kill that?”

  Suddenly all the eye focuses on the hydra as spikes made from the black goo pierces the hydra, more spikes extending out of them as the hydra screeches in pain.

  The hydra tried to move again, barely alive as more spikes pierced it, killing it completely as the event ends.

  “What the hell is going on?”

  White wipes a drop of goo off his arm as he covers them in a shield made of water.

  “The guide suddenly appears, causing the eyes to all focus on him as they send spikes all at it.

  The spikes freeze as they nearly reach him, slowly gathering back into a small blob of goo and turning back into a small blob, Jamine's original form as the guide sends her to the territory, looking at the dead hydra.

  “Well, this was unexpected.”