Apocalypse with my SSS Harem Beauties-Chapter 106: Realizing Something

While Ethan and Samantha stayed frozen behind cover with frustration and helplessness twisting in their chests, they could only watch as the clash became even more chaotic.

Their friends’ weapons and the monster’s black bones screaming against each other in the open street. Everytime they clashed they sent shockwaves and terrifying screeching sounds through the ruins. The monster rampaged at the center, his black blades carving wide arcs that forced the group to scatter, looking for opportunity, and regroup again and again.

Myles lunged back into the fight despite the blood matting his hair, but his steps faltered after only a few exchanges.

Victor saw it immediately. He abandoned his swing and rushed in toward Myles. His massive greenish cleaver intercepts a descending bone-blade with a deafening clang.

The force rattled his arms to the shoulder. Victor then grabbed Myles by the collar and yanked him backward.

"You must fall back!" he said. "You’re not dying here."

Myles resisted for a moment, but then his knees buckled. Victor shoved him behind a broken truck and stepped forward, placing himself between Myles and the monster.

The others closed in at the monster at once. Nadine gripped her reddish spear and swung it in a tight arc, striking at the monster to draw its attention away from Victor. Sparks burst as her weapon slid along the hardened skin on the monster’s body.

George charged from the front. His hammer crashed down with a huge force amplified by the runes on it, which staggered the monster when he received it.

Clara followed, her frost-coated spear stabbing and leaving ice crawling up the monster’s leg. Daniel flashed in and out of reach, using his twin daggers to cut sharp and quick lines wherever bone failed to fully cover the flesh of the monster.

Kade slammed his gauntleted fists into the monster’s ribs with a shout, embers sparking with every hit he made.

Surrounded, the monster roared and lashed out in every direction. His bone-blades slash and stabbing through concrete and metal alike, but the group refused to give ground.

They pressed from all sides, forcing it to turn again and again. Black and viscous blood splattered across the street.

Daniel vanished from where he stood and reappeared at the monster’s side in a blink of an eye, his twin blue daggers flashing.

He slashed across the monster’s ribs and spine in a brutal and precise motion, then slipped away before the counterattack could land.

A thin blue trail lingered in the air where he passed. The cuts didn’t look deep, but dark blood spilled fast and the monster’s movements slowed for a fraction of a second.

Daniel didn’t stop. He marked the monster with a sharp gesture and surged back in, blades striking again and again in a rapid storm. His slashes slipped past his bone and hardened flesh, digging into softer gaps beneath.

Blood sprayed in uneven spurts and the monster’s legs dragged as its movement slowed down and his bleeding worsened with every second passed.

A beam of light suddenly tore through the chaos.

Ryan planted his crystal spear and thrust forward. Condensed light pierced straight through the monster’s torso, punching out the other side and tearing a smoking line through the street behind it.

The monster staggered, his black skins and bone that became his armor cracked, its balance broken.

Ryan followed immediately and channeled everything he had. A straight line of blinding light slammed into the monster’s chest and detonated outward.

The impact locked his body in place, stunning him briefly as a pale field of light spread across the ground. His friend’s attacks would land cleaner after he uses that skill.

Kade roared and charged. Flames burst from his gauntlets as he dashed forward, his fist smashing into the monster’s body and threw him a couple of meters with a blazing impact. Burn marks crawled across the black flesh.

He didn’t pull away and instead he overcharged the gauntlets and unleashed a brutal relentless combo at him. His fists crashed again and again into bone and muscle.

The final blow exploded everywhere. The shockwave threw debris into the air and slammed the monster to the ground, stunning him as embers scattered across the street.

Before he could recover however, ice surged up. Clara drove her frost bluish spear into the ground. Ice erupted in a wide circle, crawling over the monster’s legs and torso, locking his joints and weighing his movements down.

Ice thickened around earlier wounds that the others had created and the monster’s attempts to rise slowed to a crawl. Each of Clara’s attacks took at the monster’s power, as the cold sapped its strength.

George brought his hammer down and the runes on the hammer flared as the massive weapon crashed into the monster’s shoulder.

The impact sent cracks racing through his bone and the stone underneath him. The monster’s swings lost power, his attacks growing uneven as his strength and stamina were destabilized.

George lifted the hammer again and slammed the monster with everything he had, channeling his frustration and guilt because he still thinks that he couldn’t make better armor for his friends..

Shockwaves rippled everywhere again. George smashes the monster flat against the ground and leaves him stunned amid shattered concrete.

For a moment, the monster lay there, pinned under various powers of the magical weapons that the companions had like burns, frost, bleeding, and stun.

Then suddenly he let out a scream.

"GRAAAAHHHH!!!"

This one sounded like a deviant scream, as if he wouldn’t go down.

Purple-black mist began crawling out from inside his wounds again, writhing like smoke forced through broken flesh. Then something happened a moment later. Bone knit together, his muscles tightened again, and his blood pulled back into his body. He underwent another process of regeneration that had been given by the purple smoke.

But this time, it was slower.

The regeneration lagged. The ice resisted, the burns flared brighter like embers hit by air, and the bleeding refused to stop cleanly.

From behind the broken truck Myles watched with narrowed eyes. 𝕗𝐫𝚎𝗲𝘄𝐞𝕓𝐧𝕠𝘃𝕖𝐥.𝐜𝚘𝚖

Before, the monster’s body had swallowed the damage he and his friend gave him almost instantly. Wounds vanished and knitted.

Now, they lingered longer as if the mist were struggling. His healing crawled instead of surging like before.

Myles clenched his grip on his two weapons. His breath steadying and he was calming down his nerves despite the pain.

"It’s slowing down," he realized.

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