Majimonsters: Rosewood Journey - Chapter 173

As the Fog of War overcame my senses, I could faintly make out that the other Terrorcotta Soldiers in the room were starting to stir and attack my friends.

[Voxea, let’s end this fast].

[Please, it’ll be over in one move]!

I could only hope they heard me in time. I had a feeling this won’t be as easy as Voxea thought.

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Savinas’ Perspective

[Triton! Engage the Enemy]!

[Roger]!

At Savina’s command, a hulking humanoid covered head to toe in seashell like armor rushed shield first at an attacking clay soldier armed with a clay sword and shield.

Facing the charge, the Terrorcotta Soldier readied its own shield and charged forward.

*Bang*!

The Fog of War began to stir as the two warriors clashed shields. Bounding off each others blows, the two warrior-like majimonsters separated after the initial clash.

[Hydro Piercer]!

After Triton regained his footing, the Shellvalier’s trident began to glow with a blue aura, Water aether gathering at the tip of it’s prongs. With a mighty roar, Triton thrusted forward and launched three lances of water straight at the Terrorcotta Soldier.

Sensing impending doom, the Terrorcotta Soldier readied his shield again and threw up a defensive Earth technique that took on the form of a huge stone wall.

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Bori’s Battle

“Bwah? Wha”!

“Bwooooo”!

Silvia’s cry of warning came just in time as a clay soldier armed with a massive club swung downwards at me.

Rolling out of the way, I prepared the drajule in my tusk to summon my biggest hitter.

“Take him down Ulvor”!

Wisps of red and brown aether flew out of mouth until they condensed to form a summoning formation for my trusty Eruptodon.

The Fog of War came over me as the the familiar heat of rage and magic came rushing out to the circle and towards the offending sculpture!

[Magma Rush]!

[SMASH]!

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Albina’s Point of View

Are you freaking kidding me?!

Just as the brewer girl’s warning came, a guan dao made of clay came swinging at my head!

I dropped to the ground as the guan dao got itself stuck in one of the inert terracotta soldiers.

Awfully clever of the dungeon to mix in live monsters with a bunch of duds.

Prepping my pipe, I set my aether flowing to Indigo’s drajule.

I had a feeling this toy soldier wouldn’t be able to handle her tricky attacks.

I took a deep inhalation of my pipe, aether bouncing in my lungs, and let out a huge cloud of smoke, a summoning array shimmering inside of it.

[Stupefy them Indigo. Telekinetic Bolt].

[As you…command…].

The smoke quickly condensed into Indigo’s shape, her accessories materializing before the rest of her.

Indigo quickly formed a spear of purple energy and launched it at the clay soldier, causing several loud cracking sounds.

This was going to be fun.

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Alyra and Boleros Double Team

As soon as Silvia let out her warning, a trio of Terrorcotta Soldiers, two armed with spears while the third carried a crossbow, sprung to life and charged at the siblings.

“Boleros”!

“I heard her, sis. Drajules out, now”!

[Tenor, Rampage]!

[Boil them alive, Alto! Water Claw]!

A pair of summoning circles, one made of Fire and Water symbols while the other made of Earth and Furt, manifested in the air as the siblings prepared to meet their clay opponents head on.

Alto the Amphiboil leaped straight out of Alyra’s summoning circle and towards the crossbow wielding soldier. Water aether enveloped his webbed hands until they condensed into a pair of massive water claws that he proceeded to use to rip into his opponent’s earthen face.

From Boleros’ summoning circle came charging a hyena-like majimonster with rust red fur and teeth of forged iron.

This majimonster was an Ferroena, and was formerly merged with Boleros back when they were the Bultungin.

[Valdos, Savage Fang]!

Fury aether began wreathe the Ferroena before condensing into his teeth, giving them a savage orange color.

The Ferroena quickly latched onto the leg of one of the spearmen, a horrible crunching sound filling the area.

Before the Terrorcotta Soldier could let out a yelp of pain, Valdos proceeded to swing him like a club towards the other soldier, sending the two flying into a wall.

“This is my first proper fight as legitimate binder”, Boleros thought, “I better make sure not to put my training to waste”.

[Valdos, Fury Wheel]!

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[These cheating toy soldiers!], Voxea complained, [Face me one on one like real warriors]!

Voxea quickly dispatched yet another Terrorcotta Soldier with a single Mystic-infused punch, but two more had already taken it’s place.

After that initial soldier had attacked, Voxea had quickly taken it out as promised.

However, before we could make our way to help out our friends, two more soldiers had come to life and attacked us.

Voxea had quickly dispatched them as well, only for four of them to show up.

Now, we were facing about eight of them and I was getting sick of this.

[Wait a minute, didn’t you say these Terrorcotta things follow army tactics]?

[I did. The Clay Overlord couldn’t coordinate all of his new majimonsters by himself, so he put more effort in making stronger ones to act like leaders], Voxea answered as she grabbed one of the soldiers by the waist. She then proceeded to launch it towards another in some kind of wrestling maneuver. Judging by the purple pop of energy, she had infused the throw with some Mystic aether.

[Then like an actual army, shouldn’t we take out the leader?], I asked.

[Oh…yeah that’d be faster], Voxea replied as she began to shoulder mount another soldier and slam both of her palms into the side of it’s head. The Terrorcotta Soldier’s head was now encased in ice.

[I don’t know which one it is though], Voxea stated as she dismounted and kicked the soldier she was riding into a pair of them that were trying to charge her, [I can’t detect aether in here].

[I know, I know. Just leave it to me], I said as I began to make use of my Dragon’s Eye to identify if they were any other majimonsters in the area.