Doomsday Pillars

Chapter 180 - Opportunity

Alex along with his two strongest fighters Arief, a Deathsquad leader with a giant sword radiating silver light, and Nathanael, an American special forces delta force fighter with his small ax, went forward for a three-pronged attack.

Nathanael, the fastest among them, moved in and attacked first. He understood that the monster in front of him was very dangerous and immediately issued his strongest attack. Three deadly slashes split the wind from his artifact ax.

Shuiissh shuiiss shuissss

These three attacks released a very strong gust of wind and when the monster felt the sharp air approaching closer it immediately dodged but one of the attacks managed to cut its shoulder.

Although Nathanael's attack wounded it, the monster did not retreat. It instead launched a counterattack toward Nathanael. The monster's ten white fingers morphed into 10 sharp blades as it charged at Nathanael

Nathaniel tried to avoid the attack, but this monster easily matched his speed, actually, it was even faster! Nathanael managed to narrowly avoid the scratch, but its second hand grabbed the chest of this American fighter.

SCCRRAATTCHHH!!

Four large strokes pierced through his protective clothing and fresh blood gushed out. If it weren't for the snake-skin protective suit that Alex had just shared, Nathanael would have been seriously injured right away. The mutated snake's shirt had saved his life. 

Nathaniel groaned in pain and fell to his knees. But the white monster wasn't done followed up for a third attack. Nathaniel could feel death's door approaching fast.

But then an approaching figure arrived and helped him avoid the attack. Alex, with his stage four hexagram, had a speed that was not inferior to Nathanael. Alex had already taken out two grenades. But these were not the ordinary explosive grenades but were flash grenades.

Two flash grenades exploded in front of the white creature.

BAANNGG!!!

Alex had already fought this stage four zombie in his previous life, an ordinary grenade wouldn't be able to hurt it. But this zombie had a heightened sense of perception, hearing, and vision. The sudden explosion of the flash grenades blinded and temporarily stunned the white monster.

In that instant, the stone golem grabbed the white monster from behind. The two giant stone arms revolved around the monster's body. Even though the monster could see again, it could not move.

Arief did not waste this opportunity and wielded the glowing giant sword with all his might straight at the stage four zombie's head.

CRAACKKK!!!

Unfortunately, the heavy attack did not succeed in splitting the head of the white monster. Once again, Arief raised his sword and launched the same attack with all of his strength.

CRAACKKK!!!

This time, Arief's giant sword split into pieces instead.

As the sword shattered, Aria also grabbed the momentary opportunity and revealed herself a few meters from the white monster. She aimed and fired her weapon. The laser beam accurately hit the monster's head.

BAAMMM!!!

A small explosion occurred right at the head of the monster. But as soon as the smoke faded, a majority of its head was still intact as white liquid dripped from the wounded area. The monster then screamed.

RROOOOAARRRR!!!

Its scream deafened the ears of everyone in the area. After shouting, the monster gathered its strength and broke free from the grasp of the stone golem. The white monster grabbed one of the golem's arms and threw the hundreds of kilograms golem, crashing into one of the multistory buildings.

The white monster raged as it searched for the person who had just fired a weapon into its face But it didn't find anyone because Aria had already returned to using her special ability to get out of the monster's detection.

Unable to find the person, the monster turned its attention toward Arief, the man who hit its head twice, and attacked. Arief was startled to find the monster jump right next to him and five sharp fingers pierced through Arief's chest.

"ARRGGGHH!!!"

Fortunately, it hasn't stab too deep as Alex and Nathanael approached the monster from two different directions. When the monster felt the incoming danger it immediately jumped backward.

Alex approached the injured Arief. "How's your wound?"

"I'm fine. Give me a few seconds and I'll be ready to attack again," Arief said while holding his chest.

"Good." Alex summoned another giant sword from his storage ring and gave it to Arief.

"It seems that my strength is not enough to kill him," said Arief.

"Get ready, you will know when it's time."

Alex, along with Nathanael and the golem this time, pursued and attacked the white monster. These three were faster than all of the other fighters, but their continuous attacks weren't able to hurt it as this monster was always able to dodged.

The fighters standing behind watched the battle as feelings of awe and fear filled them. None of them would be able to take part in this fight.

The fight had been going on for several minutes and Alex was beginning to worry that the opportunity he was waiting for would not come. He will soon reach his limit in using his hexagram technique. He needed to end this now. 

But then, a shadow appeared under the feet of the white monster and immediately wrapped around its feet. Tommy had just woken up and succeeded in creating an opportunity. Although Tommy's strength was still very weak, the shadow succeeded in creating that one second Alex needed! 

Alex immediately shouted, "Now!!!" And threw another two flash grenades.

BANG! BANG!

Aria immediately reappeared from her hiding spot not too far and fired one more beam attack. Nathanael also threw his ax with everything he got.

BAAMMM!!!

SWISSHHH!!!

But the white monster was not fooled for the second time. It managed to dodge the two attacks from Aria and Nathanael but before it could smile, Alex crashed into the monster. 

One of the unique features of the hexagram was that it could read the direction of the monster's avoidance. 

Alex's sudden and strong crash made the monster bounce right into the direction of the stone golem. The golem immediately grabbed the white monster again, and Arief showed up aiming for the monster's head once more.

The monster was just about to laugh because its opponents were using the same tactic. But then, it realized the weapon held by Arief was different from before. Arief wasn't holding a giant sword but the small ax that belonged to Nathanael. 

When Nathanael had attacked, he apparently threw his ax toward Arief. As soon as Arief received it, he immediately knew what he had to do.

The white monster was not stupid and felt the danger coming toward it. It quickly used all of its strength to escape the golem's grasp. And even though the golem was suppressing the white monster with all of its strength, the golem's arms finally loosened.

But it's too late. Arief had used all of his strength to make the middle-level artifact ax shine silvery.

SWWIISSSHHHH!!!

SPLLAATTT!!!

Finally, an attack that could split the white monster in half! But in the last tenth of a second, it was able to dodge leaving the ax only splitting the white monster's left shoulder. The monster left side body and arm was cut off.

RROOOAAARRR!!!

The monster was in pain and took a few steps back. Arief followed up with a second attack, but the monster was much faster than Arief and kicked him back a few meters.

All of the fighters who were watching cheered in their hearts. "We can defeat this monster!" all except for Alex.

The monster stepped back a few more steps as it screamed in pain. But then, its screaming slowly changed to a laugh.

"Kekekkekekeke..."

"!!!"

"Kekekekekekke..."

Everyone watched as the monster's left shoulder spit out a white liquid and began to shape an arm. 

Alex wasn't sure if they could get the same chance again. He racked his brain for a way to defeat this white monster.

Suddenly, a loud noise sounded about 100 meters from Alex's right side. He saw several giant iron barrels aiming toward the white monster and then...

DUMMM! DUMM!!! DUUMM!

KABOOOMM!!! KABOOOMM! KABOOOMM!!!

Three giant canons blasted from the three tiger tanks. The biggest tank in Indonesia's military forces with a 105mm cannon. Three seconds later, the tanks fired again.

DUMM!!! DUMM! DUUMM!!

KABOOMM! KABOOMM!!! KABOOOMM!

The three tanks moved a few closer a few dozen meters and  fired the third time. Not long after, two people came out of the tank. They were James Randall and Winter.

"I heard someone needs help!" James said.

The arrival of James and the high-explosive cannon shots made Alex re-calculate their chances. the high explosive barrage shoud be enough to kill the monster.

A few moments later, the multi-story building behind where the white monster was standing collapsed to pieces. Thick smoke filled the area where the monster stood. But when the smoke subsided, Alex couldn't believe his eyes as a golden light shone from behind the smoke.

"!!!"

"Kekeekekeekkee…"

"Impossible!"