The andrewsarchus was the first one to move. It charged toward Jay, whose attack pattern was much simpler than Clovis.
Jay smiled as if he wasn't scared of this five-meter beast. He swung his sword with all his strength. The muscles in his arms bulged for a split second.
The clash sounded like a gunshot, producing a weak shock wave in the area.
The beast was quite surprised that Jay was able to withstand the attack that carried the beast's weight and momentum, considering he was much smaller than it.
However, that shock was cut short as Clovis took advantage of this opportunity to attack the beast from the right side.
The andrewsarchus stomped Jay, which resulted in the latter jumping back to avoid it. After that, it turned around, sweeping its paw to the right.
Clovis took a glance at the paw's movement. When Clovis tried to duck, he noticed that the beast was fast enough to actually lower the trajectory of the sweep.
Unfortunately for the beast, Clovis's Blood Affinity had been trained by the Star Method, allowing him to see through it. In the last three weeks, Clovis has been training his body so that he can react to this sudden change.
And this time, Clovis changed his action from ducking to jumping at the last moment, causing the beast to be unable to change its trajectory anymore.
After that, Clovis threw the short sword to the beast's rear, forcing the beast to move forward.
In a battle of reaction speed, Clovis would be the winner. That was why he wanted both of them to accelerate to the highest degree.
Clovis saw the other paw trying to stop him. His eyes flashed as he took one more step, striking and passing the beast in a single motion.
However, Clovis couldn't help but click his tongue. His swing was still not fast enough even after getting boosted by the necklace.
The beast actually managed to block it with its claws at the last moment.
Fortunately, Jay had returned and was about to reach the beast.
When the beast began to twist its body, Clovis actually took out his pistol and shot the beast's face, trying to aim for his eyes.
The beasts had no choice but to close their eyes while moving away.
This was a perfect opportunity for Jay to strike the beast's body.
"Haaa!" Jay roared, exerting all the strength he could muster.
To his surprise, the beast's skin felt like a rock. Even with all his strength, Jay could only leave a shallow cut on its skin.
"It's not enough?" Jay widened his eyes in surprise.
The andrewsarchus hurriedly whipped Jay with its tail, catching him off guard.
Jay was smacked three meters from his position and hurriedly stabilized himself with one leg.
At the same time, the beast stomped the short sword so that Clovis couldn't take it back.
In that instant, Clovis detached the short sword, but that action gave the beast a split second to launch an attack on him.
The beast smacked Clovis with its giant paw.
Clovis rolled a few times on the ground, but he wasn't injured because of the 'Defense' stats of his jacket.
Clovis and Jay looked at the beast, realizing that this wouldn't be an easy battle even with the two of them.
"Clovis, Jay. You have to be careful. The claws are very sharp and hard, the skin is very hard, the tail is strong enough to shatter concrete pillars, and its jaws are more than enough to crush you."
Melody's voice echoed from their skyglasses. Jay hurriedly moved forward, buying her time to explain everything.
Meanwhile, Clovis took this chance to ask, "What is its weakness?"
"The joint between its feet, its ears, and the nose."
"In that case, we will start from the ears, then the feet before targeting the nose." Clovis took a deep breath.
Before moving back, Clovis took a glance back, trying to learn about the situation of the other members.
Fortunately, the Silver Star Team managed to stop them with the help of Kanaria and Melody.
There weren't any beasts coming toward them.
Clovis raised his sword, ready to take on the beast once again. But before he could run forward, another threat appeared on their battlefield.
"Guys. I have bad news. I can see some beasts coming from the north. It seems that they are the reinforcement that the andrewsarchus is waiting for. There are around thirty beasts. Two of them look strong, either Tier 1 or Tier 2 beasts," Kanaria reported.
"Thirty, huh?" Melody thought for a moment.
"Clovis. You go!" Jay shouted, planning to stop this beast by himself.
However, Melody actually said, "No. You both will stop the Tier 3 andrewsarchus. In this raid, we want to lower the chance of getting injured since the battle won't be over anytime soon. I will take care of those beasts myself!"
Melody didn't wait for Clovis's agreement as she had charged forward, looping around the andrewsarchus.
As if noticing what Melody planned to do, the beast tried to stop her, but Clovis and Jay immediately struck it from both sides.
"You're not going anywhere!" Clovis gritted his teeth. He had no choice but to rely on Melody right now.
As soon as she passed them, she closed her eyes for a few seconds.
"It's been a long time since I've been in this situation… I wonder if I still have what it takes…" Melody muttered while opening her eyes. Her vision became wider. It wasn't at the point where she could see everything from a third person's perspective, but it was wide enough to see everything at a 180-degree angle.
However, these thirty beasts weren't their only concern.
Suddenly, they heard news that they didn't want to hear the most from the radio. It was the voice of the captain in charge of the shield teams.
"All the reserve squads are to move toward the shield squad. The second Tier 4 beast is coming toward us. We need to stop it for as long as possible."