CRACKLE! Merlin flashed forward, swinging her fist at the Abominable Yeti's face, cracking his lower jaw. "One minute is more than enough to destroy this whole labyrinth," She Grabbed him by the head.
"You won't! It's here that you die!" He roared, trying to grab her.
Merlin swung her empty hand, skimping across his claws in the blink of an eye and absorbing all the magic they had.
She then kicked him in the guts, "Come, I will take you on a trip all the way to that bitch at the top,"
CLAP! With a thunderclap and the Abominable Yeti in her hand, Merlin flashed across the layer, heading toward Arad and the other Yetis.
Arad was fighting the other yetis, lunging from one to another, smacking them left and right as he protected himself with fire. But then suddenly, a lightning bolt flashed around him, ripping all the yeti's palms off before he could even notice.
"What?" He gasped, but then Merlin landed beside him, the Abominable Yeti foaming in her hand as the countless palms fell with the air filled with the apes' screams.
Merlin looked at Arad, smiling. "Arad, you can rest now. It's now my responsibility to deal with this labyrinth."
"Wait, what are you talking about?" Arad gasped.
Just like Alcott and Nina, Merlin is an S-rank wizard. Out of the three. It's her power that's extremely hard to grasp.
Alcott is known as the one dragons fear and respect. Nina is both an unstoppable force and an unbreakable wall. Yet, Merlin was left with nothing more than the title of an archmage.
^You can always come back if you want. The tower is always open for you.^ Arad remembered that halfling's words. ^What could Merlin have so they want her back?^
[Enchant: Unbreakable Body] Merlin smiled, and the Abominable Yeti's body turned into a metallic hue. "Enjoy the pain, ape." She stared down at him, "This spell makes you undestructive for a day by turning your skin into an enchanted Metal. You can't even move, and your skin is technically all peeled at the moment the spell is cast." She giggled, "I'm sure you want to scream, but I only need your hide for my living room."
She swung her arm, throwing him up.
[Enchant: Burst] A large red circle appeared on the ape's stomach, charging as it sucked half of Merlin's mana.
"Now, be my shovel," A massive jet of flame emerged from the circle, blasting the Abominable Yeti at the layer's ceiling.
"Arad, go bring Amber. We're retrieving your power and leaving," She said with a smile as the Abominable Yeti burst through the layers, reaching the tenth layer and leaving a massive hole after him, from which a flood of water and dried Lava fell.
"Working on it!" Arad rushed toward the stairs with a burst of fire to retrieve Amber.
Merlin looked up with a smile on her face, "I can feel it from here. The tenth layer is oozing with Mana. You bitch don't want me reaching you, but remember my words. I'm going to feed you to pigs."
From the hole. All the way from the tenth layer two red eyes glared down at Merlin.
"She broke through," The woman there sighed, "For fuck's sake, I can't even decide who's the biggest problem. The dragon, who's still unstoppable even after losing all of his power, the fire elemental sorceress who acts like a tactical weapon of mass destruction, or the mad wizard of the tower, Merlin the Enchantress."
"Merlin, what's going on?" Amber shouted as Arad reached Merlin with her on his back.
"Got enough mana to blast a hole directly to the tenth layer," Merlin looked at them, "I do have some left, so we're going up,"
"You sure? We don't know what awaits us up there,"
"What awaits us is a woman that's a part succubus, a part red dragon, a part devil, a part djinn, and a part demon." Merlin looked up, "I could feel her mana from here,"
"Just one of those is a problem," Arad said, "We sure can't beat her as we are now,"
"She shouldn't be a problem," Merlin looked up, "I have some mana left. The moment we get there, I will snatch Arad's power back and take as much as I can from mine, then we gang up on her and invert her organs inside out."
"That's risky," Amber stared at her.
Arad looked back at Amber's severed arm, "You know what?" He smiled, "Is she edible?"
"You can have her," Merlin smiled, "You sure need food,"
"What?" Amber stared at him.
"Monster who establish themselves as rulers on my land gets a quick pass onto my dinner," He growled, his eyes glowing with a red flare.
"I knew I could count on you," She approached him.
Arad shifted Amber into his arms as Merlin climbed on his back, "Mc seems to have exited the labyrinth," [Barrier]
A crystal ball appeared around his body. The magic pushed the snow away and filled it with warm air, "Hang on well, It's going be a rough ride,"
Flames started gushing out from beneath his feet.
BAM! Arad blasted into the sky, melting the snow off a large chunk of the devastated forest.
Like a bolt, he flew toward the hole Merlin made and flew through it directly into the sixth layer.
A dried ocean with fish still suffocating on the empty seabed. This layer was filled with seawater, and it all drained. Going through it would have been almost impossible.
Merlin pointed with a grin on her face, "It's my aboleth, look there."
Arad looked, seeing what looked like the unholy child of a whale and a squid with one massive eye where his nose should be.
"It's already dying," Arad looked up as he flew directly to the seventh layer, feeling the scorching heat gush at them. A volcanic layer of molten lava and red-hot stones.
"The stairs!" Amber pointed. The stairs had their door open with lava already getting inside.
"If the lava got inside, that means it must have dried upon contacting the sixth layer of water. Those stairs should be clogged with solid stone for at least several meters. If not tens,"
"I'm a good digger, but not in this form," Arad replied as he flew straight into the eighth layer.
The moment they got out, a sickening sweet smell filled the air as they looked around, and there were hundreds of naked women written on the ground. Some of them were killed by the Abominable Yeti that Merlin threw.
"What in the hell?" Amber cried.
"A succubus layer," Merlin closed her and Arad's nose, "Don't breathe the air Amber," She looked at her, "It's filled with the evaporated succubus sweat. This is a potent aphrodisiac,"
Merlin was a bit later. Amber was already sucking on Arad's nipples as if her life depends on it.
"We're getting out," Arad said as they left the eight-layer and entered the ninth.
CLANG! Countless blades flew at them out of the darkness, crashing on and bouncing off Arad's barrier. "I can't see a thing," Merlin grunted.
HAA! Amber screamed, "Why I'm doing this!" She cried with a red face.
"Hold on, I can see the light of the tenth layer," He said, looking down at Amber, "And I don't mind you doing it. No need for you to worry,"
"It's not about that!" Amber covered her face with her single palm.