Single Spell Sorcerer-Chapter 124: Thunderbolt

Jax sprinted toward the gorgon, fast and agile since he no longer had any weapons to carry. The monster’s two remaining necks were coiled like springs ready to last out whenever he got close enough. They kept their gaze on him at every moment.

Jax forced himself to keep his eyes away from the constantly glowing eyes of the monster, taking only the briefest glances when absolutely necessary to judge distance and positioning.

When he got close enough, the middle head snapped toward him with lightning speed, jaws gaping as if to bite him in half. Jax launched himself into the air, jumping above the strike.

While airborne, he activated his Weapon Fortification skill, pouring Navi into the threads on his left side. The transformation was immediate and dramatic. The Earth threads became significantly stronger than before, acting more like heavy ropes than delicate threads.

He swung them like a whip through the air, wrapping around the gorgon’s exposed neck. They wrapped multiple times, grabbing onto many crevices and even itself, sticking in place.

Ning and the others watched in surprise as they had never seen Jax do this. His treads had mostly been for wrapping on things from a distance.

The second head came toward Jax while he was still suspended in the air, its speed one that gave no warning.

"Jax!" Melayne squealed in panic, as she saw nowhere that he could dodge.

But Jax was already moving. He pulled hard on the threads tied to the first neck, using them like a rope to swing himself away at the last second. The second head’s strike passed through empty air where he’d been a moment before.

Without missing a beat, he threw the threads from his right hand around the second head as it overextended itself. The gorgon’s momentum worked against it, and soon that neck was wrapped in his binding threads as well.

Then Jax spun.

As he spun around the gorgon, his threads started to entangle with each other, making it difficult for the gorgon to pull itself apart. All 10 threads from all 10 fingers were now working together as a thick rope, so Jax moved around the body of the beast, tying it up with the rope.

"How is he doing all of that?" Melayne questioned, her voice filled with amazement and confusion. The others had no answer either.

As the gorgon’s heads began to retract, trying to pull free from the binding, Jax moved along with them. His body flowed like water, while wrapping more and more of their necks in his enhanced threads.

The gorgon, growing desperate, started targeting him with its massive tail. The creature was willing to hit itself in the process. As long as it killed its attackers, damage to its own body was acceptable.

Jax released his threads now that the two heads were thoroughly entangled. Once released, he wrapped them some more in Poison threads so they could start taking more damage.

He dodged the incoming tail with a rolling dive, then immediately went to work on it as well. The tail was harder to catch since it moved faster and was stronger. It took several attempts before Jax managed to use his threads like a whip to grab onto the tail.

"Use your spell!" he screamed toward Lucille.

He had no time to check if Lucille had heard him or not. He could only trust his party member to do her part. His job now was to keep the gorgon immobilized long enough for her delayed magic to take effect.

He spent the next few crucial seconds trying to wrap the tail of the boss together with its heads, creating a binding that would hold the boss in one location. The gorgon struggled violently against the restraints, its massive body thrashing with desperate strength.

The threads thankfully held in place for now, but he feared they wouldn’t do so for too long. A single fibre of the threads had to give away for the whole thing to start collapsing one after another.

Jax had barely turned around when he heard the snapping of the threads. He turned around just in time to see the gorgon’s tail coming toward him.

"Shit! How?"

He had no chance to dodge. The tail struck him on his left side, sending him flying through the air. He landed on a thick patch of grass that softened his fall, but his left side still hurt like hell. Something had definitely broken there.

A flash appeared just then, so bright that it turned the world into a brilliant white void. For a moment, there was complete silence.

Then came the thunderous boom.

Every cell in Jax’s body felt the sound, the shockwave hitting him like a physical force that threw him back into the grass.

Jax pushed himself up from the crushed grass, his body aching from the impact. He turned around to survey the aftermath of Lucille’s attack.

The gorgon lay there with a giganting hole on its body, red scorch marks still visible on its black surface, smoke rising through it. It slumped backward. It gave the weakest of wails as it tried to move. All the threads in its body had been destroyed by the lightning bolt.

’It’s still alive?’ Jax thought in surprise.

Not for long though.

Jax didn’t hesitate. Hurt as he was, he ran back toward the dying boss, his axe appearing in his hand as he arrived next to it. The boss was too weak to even realize someone had come to it.

It could not refuse the blow it was about to be dealt.

Jax raised the axe with both arms, feeling an acutely sharp pain on his left side, as if multiple daggers had been stabbed the moment he raised it up. Still, he persevered through the pain and brought down the axe as he attacked with everything he had left, pouring all his remaining strength into the swing.

The axe bit deep into the gorgon’s second neck, cutting through the weakened scales and flesh. It dug deep enough that his axe reached the bone in one swing, but it didn’t slice through it completely.

Then the image of the axe followed behind the real weapon, the spell stone’s magic activating one last time.

The ghostly double struck with the same force as the original, and together they managed to burst through the bones in the neck. The gorgon’s second head fell to the ground with a soft thud, dark blood pooling in the grass.

The beast slumped down entirely, losing all of its strength. Then, its body began to glow a soft white and a familiar notification appeared in his mind, the system’s confirmation of their victory.

<Congratulations! You have killed the Boss Monster ’Three-Headed Gorgon’>

The boss was dead. Jax smiled.

<You have received 5 Emerald Stones>

<You have received 1 Earth Emerald Stone>

<You have received ’Gorgon’s Amulet’>

Jax slumped next to the corpse, breathing heavily while his entire body shook from exhaustion and adrenaline. Pain would follow soon enough.

He looked at the corpse of the Gorgon, feeling a sense of awe and excitement.

They had really done it. They had defeated their first boss monster in the 9th Carriage.

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