The magma monster was shocked to see someone as powerful as Theo. He could clearly sense the Magic Power he possessed, so it was weird for Theo to release this kind of might.
Maya glanced at him. Although Theo still had his Magic, the earlier took a toll on his mind.
Even so, he rose back up and glared at the magma monster, planning to continue their battle. But to everyone's surprise, the magma monster stopped, staring at Theo's determined eyes.
This period of silence confused Ava and Maya, wondering whether the magma monster planned to attack again or not.
However, their worst fear came three minutes after that silence.
The magma monster raised his bow again and pointed his arrow at them. "I know that you can use it again. This time, let's see who comes out on top."
"!!!" Maya raised her eyebrows, taken aback by the sudden change of temperament from the monster. If it was the normal him, the monster would certainly come for Theo's life without hesitation. Yet, the monster seemed to seek a battle between them.
Theo gritted his teeth and used his Magic Augmentation again before creating the giant Magic Bullet, shaping it into a spear.
He did all the previous steps like earlier, but this time, Theo felt his mind a bit refreshed.
It might be because this was the second time he used this, so he got used to it a little bit, but Theo decided not to use anything more for this spear.
They both pointed their weapons toward each other and released them at the same time. There was a reason why Theo didn't use everything in his possession.
Right before they shot, Theo used his Vision to send his killing intent to the monster.
The monster was surprised because he didn't expect him to sense his own death at the last second.
Luckily for him, he released the arrow at the right trajectory or else, he would miss while allowing Theo's spear to reach him.
The same thing happened. Theo's spear lost against the arrow. But unlike the previous time, Maya didn't have anything to shoot down this arrow anymore.
Theo immediately sent his clone forward and used Magic Augmentation and Magic power Expansion to knock the remaining arrow to the ground.
As a result, the clone was reduced to ashes because of the extreme heat.
"…" The magma monster became even more silent. No one knew why his temperament suddenly changed after fighting Theo's spear.
Theo was searching for a reason why the magma monster suddenly became like this. If he was enraged, he should show it to him. Changing his approach like this made Theo feel something was going on.
His doubt was soon answered in the worst way possible.
*Rumble!*
*Rumble!*
The volcano suddenly started rumbling.
"What?" Theo widened his eyes and looked around, wondering what was happening.
"Kyu!" Ava pointed at the volcano while trembling.
The volcano abruptly erupted and spewed out all the materials inside.
"Hahahaha!" The magma monster finally laughed as he couldn't contain it anymore.
He was indeed surprised by Theo's power, so he realized it was hard to kill Theo with ordinary means. Hence, he stopped for a moment and acted like he respected Theo.
In the meantime, he was gathering the power inside the volcano to send it outside.
As soon as the materials from the volcano came out, the magma monster raised both hands and formed another arrow. Unlike the previous arrow, the rock completely filled up the arrow and the magma glued them together from the outside as if becoming the casing for the arrow.
"I've been waiting for this." The magma smirked and raised his bow again to shoot Theo again. And due to a large amount of magma and black rock, there was no way Theo's spear was enough to handle his arrow, let alone with Theo in this condition. "You're good, human. I admit that. However, you're going to be buried here."
Theo bit his lips and glanced. "Do you have something that can destroy such power?"
"I only have the Plasma Cannon, but I need to reload it." Maya shook her head. Her heart was beating like crazy, wondering why a place without a single Supreme Monster actually had a monster this powerful hiding inside the volcano.
As much as she wanted to blame the mission, she realized no one could be blamed for this.
There was regret reflected in her eyes as she stated, "We'll abandon the Cubicar. This way, we should be able to escape."
Theo widened his eyes as he realized there was no other way. If they didn't have Cubicar, they should be able to leave this place safely as it was hard for the magma monster to aim at them.
Ava leaped to Theo's shoulder as if making her presence known.
"Ava?" Theo widened his eyes.
"I can stop the arrow once. However, that's my limit. If you can't get a solution by that time, then we're out of option," said Ava while looking at the magma monster. It seemed he was pouring as much as Magic Power he could put inside the arrow, so they still had some time.
"You can talk?" Maya widened her eyes, never expecting Ava to have this kind of secret.
Ava ignored her reaction and leaped off Theo's shoulder, transforming to her battle form.
"!!!" The magma monster widened his eyes when he saw another monster like him who had acquired their battle form.
"Moon Constellation." Ava raised her hands and summoned five lightning balls. However, unlike the previous time she summoned them, these lightning balls seemed to have several patterns on them.
"Hahaha! So, there is another one like me! However, you're still too weak!" The magma monster laughed, stopped what he was doing, and began pulling the bow.
"Roar!" Ava let out an earth-shattering roar that resounded across the entire forest. As one would expect from a General Class monster, the monsters lower than them immediately came to a halt as if they complied with Ava's order.
"I'll be your opponent from this point on, Magma Bastard." Ava glared at him with her bloodshot eyes.
Even though Ava had promised to take on this power, Theo still gritted his teeth as he couldn't find another way to block an arrow like this for the second time.
'What should we do? Should we combine all our power to attack the arrow?' Theo took a deep breath.
Suddenly, an unexpected helper came out.
[It's my turn!]