Spirit Taming

Chapter 127: Failed Retreat

Ella may have been the first to start to back away, but it didn't matter. The water bound serpent had become enraged due to the branch that had fallen on its head. The water fairy had run off giggling at its joke in its own boredom.

Part of Clark was annoyed that he let Crim go off, but he was also too focused to really worry about it. His spear appeared in his hands from the spatial ring. "Move back!" Clark took the front to distract the angry water bound serpent. He knew that someone had to draw its attention.

"Clark I-"

"Get out of here. I will handle it once you are all away." Clark's eyes told Maria all she needed to know. He couldn't have Devi show himself with the other two there.

"Ella, come on!" Maria grabbed Ella who had stumbled slightly trying to get back first. She was up and moving in an instant with Isa starting to move away but hesitating. Her ice maiden hadn't moved from its spot floating next to the pool.

"Isa, leave."

"I can't, my ice maiden isn't-" Clark pushed Isa back. He had to or else the tail of the water bound serpent would have slammed in to her. The serpent hadn't attacked outright yet just risen out of the water to intimidate them. Since they had not fled from it, the attacks began to come.

This was not an opponent that they were ready to handle face to face. "Isa…close your eyes," Clark said this and pushed forward using the ghostly steps to put distance between him and Isa. The serpent followed Clark while the spear was thrust out toward it.

Since Devi was ready to face this opponent, Clark hoped that Isa had listened. He couldn't just let this go, he couldn't let someone get hurt that didn't deserve the pain.

It may sound odd since Clark had wanted to push and fight against those with power, however, he did not see this world in black and white. He could care about those that stood on their own two feet to empower their values. Not everyone would be a terrible person to their fellow human beings.

Isa was not someone that could be forgotten and left, she was not the same as the Cain or Mane family that went around breeding evil.

"Devil, tear it apart!" Clark ordered Devi to use all of his strength. Devi came out of edens end taming space already laughing. The constant echoing laughter made the enraged water bound serpent twist and turn. It wasn't sure where the laughter was coming from or how to catch the noise to stop it.

This distraction was what Clark needed to use his ghostly steps to approach the serpent. He knew that piercing the water bound serpent would not do too much damage. It was a being of both water and spiritual energy, it did not have a flesh body like other beasts. But separating parts of it with a weapon would cause the energy it had to bleed out.

Weaken it and cause the same pain if it was flesh and blood.

Crescent moon slash after crescent moon slash made lines appear in the translucent watery body. The scales that made up the outer lines of the serpent were broken causing the air to become densely packed with water and spiritual energy. These attacks were almost nothing to the serpent due to its larger size and age. But nonetheless, it felt them.

The serpent's tail lashed out yet again with a harsh hiss of water from the serpent's mouth. Clark had not known that it could do such a thing. Two attacks at once were more than he could dodge mid slash.

Ducking under the water being shot from the serpent's mouth was easy, but moving backwards was out of the question. Luckily, Devi had acted and came behind Clark. The push from Devi using his spirit drive skill to empower himself was enough to cause Clark to narrowly dodge the tail. His spear was knocked far away though. It lodged in to a nearby tree too far out of reach.

"We aren't losing like this." Clark pulled the other spear from his spatial ring. It was not as strong as the basic spear which he had been using. But it was going to be enough to keep causing damage. They were not trying to win this fight but push themselves to make the serpent retreat.

"Use your claws then bite. Drain as much soul energy as you can while I attack." Clark saw the serpent lower its head. It was finally trying to bite him. While this stance changed, Devi sped around the opposite side. He knew that Clark was risking a lot to take an attack head on.

The speed of the bite was much more than Clark could have handled. Since he was prepared, he had already taken a stance, the spear pushed forward so that it could defend whatever happened.

The strength of a tamer was determined by their bond with their beasts. This was always a rule. However, how that strength was used changed. Clark had been training the moonlight spear technique and he could brace himself against attacks. Blacking may not be the best way for a spear user to attack, that was why Clark prepared a falling moon pierce.

The piercing attack went straight in to the open maw of the water bound serpent. Clark allowed his body to be pushed back and fall under the bite. The immense pain the water bound serpent felt was completely blocking the attacks that Devi was currently using.

Devi could feel that Clark was not majorly hurt so he did not cease his attacks from behind. The strange claw attack slashed through the serpent's back while Devi opened his shark teeth and bit down hard on the back of the serpent's neck. The chilling and numbing feeling spread instantly through the water serpent's body in great contrast to the burning feeling of the spear in its mouth.

The reaction was no longer anger. Instead, the water bound serpent flailed around trying to throw the spear from its mouth and the beast from its back. Devi didn't even attempt to hold on. He released his attack to find Clark on the ground bruised and pulling himself up with a nearby tree as a brace.

"Let's go." Clark stood up and Devi changed to an invisible appearance. Clark rushed to where Isa was desperately trying to call her ice maiden but getting nowhere. The water bound serpent was still flailing madly but luckily was not right next to them yet. "Come on, we need to leave."

"Oh no, you have come all this way. You will not leave until you speak to me." The calm but fluid voice gave no means to move or leave. Even the water bound serpent hesitated hearing it. "Now you need to stop that, you shouldn't get angry so easily from petty tricks of children."

The voice spoke and the unbound water serpent appeared to lose its ability to hold its body together. In the matter of minutes, Clark and Isa watched the serpent melt away leaving only a thin skin behind with Clark's spear on the ground.

The blue light that formed near the pool where the ice maiden was gazing in to became active and a form showed itself. What seemed to be a woman with six wings on her back and flowing watery robes appeared.

'Water Fae- ultra rare

The water fairies are the weakest and most childish of their kind, however, once in a rare occurrence one will grow true intelligence and learn to strengthen itself. The result can be varied but rarely births a water fae. The most powerful pure water beast that is considered untamable unless it is raised from hatchling.

There are other more powerful water beasts but this is considered one that no one should fight unless prepared for intelligent battle. Power does not rule all with a water fae.

Due to their powerful control of water, they are able to manipulate weaker water type beasts as if they were water. Life or death is at their whim for such beasts. They rarely like to see other intelligent beings because they focus solely on becoming one with the elemental type they are made of.

They are one of the few spiritual beasts that have given up their spiritual nature to focus on an elemental nature. They can consume pure water materials to become a fae queen of their elemental typing. They…'

There was so much information that Clark felt his head hurt again, this hadn't happened since the spacial slime he had met in the dungeon. This was an older beast with complicated from. One that touched on a pure elemental energy. One that was clearly drawn by the nose they had caused.

"You don't have to fear me, humans. I was watching your little game with the children. I haven't seen that man in a while and wondered why he brought children. I thought I may come see an interesting ice type beast that seems to be learning about itself here." The water Fae looked at the ice maiden with curiosity.