"Still nothing," Evan muttered, his face darkening with frustration. He gathered his remaining strength and raised his hand once more.
The water sphere pulsed and condensed into hundreds of smaller projectiles, each glowing with compressed mana. With a shout, he released them in a storm of piercing spears that rained down in a furious barrage.
They hammered against the centipede from every angle, filling the wasteland with violent splashes as they struck. Yet when the mist cleared, the monstrous creature's armor was still intact. At most, faint scratches gleamed under the dim light, nothing more.
Just then tens of more centipedes crawl out of the ground lung towards the water sphere protecting Nina's group.
Evan's face darkened as more of the monstrous centipedes erupted from the violet ground, their shrill screeches cutting through the wasteland. Nina's expression mirrored his own, her blue eyes narrowing as she realized the scale of what they were facing.
