Physics The Greatest Magic 43 Chapter 43: Warning

"Ignis! Ignis! Ignis!" Said Ariel as she rained downed spells on the golems

Ventus wasn't very effective against the golems so she changed to Fire as we fought. The fire spells weren't that effective either but it was the only other options. The golems would get hit by Her ignis but wouldn't stop.

They were slow but I could tell, Getting hit by that thing in our current condition would be game over.

"Fire arrows!" Said Serena

20 Arrows of flame were formed in the air. Each 2 arrows were aimed at a single golem, she was targeting the 10 in front of her and Ariel. There were at least 15 golems in total surrounding us

"Ariel!" Said, Serena

"I got it!" Replied Ariel

As she said that, air began to gather behind each of the arrows. And With the wind as a propeller, the Arrows overall strength had increase two-fold.

Ariel has really good accuracy... To be able to pin point and gather air that far away from her... She must have been practising hard.

"Now!" Shouted Serena

As she said that, Ariel Propelled the arrows simultaneously at the 5 golems facing each of their directions. The moment there was contact a small explosion was made and fog was formed thanks to the dust.

"Did we get him?" Asked Serena

"Why are you raising a flag!?!" I Shouted John as I cut down one of the golems in his direction

"What's that supposed to mean?!" Asked Serena

"Nevermind. Tonde Flamma" I said as I lept at another golem

They're durable... It's taking me two fold a constant supply of magic to my daggers to just be able to cut them and Tonde flamma for the cut to reach their core. If you don't get their core, they won't die... Which is why...

"We're Retreating!" Shouted John

"Why? And How? We just finished dealing with ours" Said Serena

"Check Again!" I replied

She turned around and noticed that despite being damaged the golems were still moving. Parts of their body were broken but they were already only around 10 meters away from us.

"c.r.a.p... We have no choice! Levite! Velox!"

As I cast those I Grabbed on to Serena who was the closest, then Ariel and flew them over the golems straight to the giant door connected to the next room. As I did that more rocks which were on the path turned into golems.

There were now over 4 x time the amount we were originally fighting. Around 60 golems formed underneath us. But I didn't stop, I Flew straight at the door and arrived their within seconds.

"Why didn't you do this earlier?" Asked Serena

"Because of that." I said as I pointed over at the 60 golems in heading to us.

The two hadn't realised earlier because they were more focused on the door rather than what was under us, and the golems blended in quite nicely from above.

"W-WhWhat!? That many?! Isn't That overkill!?" Shouted Serena

Ariel hastily nodded at what Serena said

"Tch, looks like we won't get any time to rest at all, Our options are either to kill all of these and rest, or fight the boss. We haven't even had our lunch yet, Give us a break!" I shouted at the ceiling

The golems continued to approach us without showing any sighs of stopping

"Let's fight the boss." Said Ariel with a resolved look

She's had a different air around her for a while.

"I agree with Ariel, there's no way we're taking that many on. Also we haven't eaten anything in a while, let's quickly deal with the boss and rest. At least here, we won't have to be worried about drowning." Said Serena

"Alright, let's go." I said as i pushed open the door

I was only able to take down 2 Golems and that took an annoying amount of power. I am in no position to fight

We entered inside and the door closed by itself. The room was full of lightning and it was just like most of the first to tenth floor boss rooms. The only difference was that the background was similar to a cave and in the middle stood stood a weird looking monster. It faced the entrance to the next room.

I looked around the room and found stone statues, Highly detailed Statues how could a person and why would a person make these in the boss room? It's almost as if-

Worry filled my face as i began to realise what happened

The monster turned around and i felt a horrible feeling. A feeling of fear and disgust. As i felt that, i heard a voice resounding in my head 'Clo-se yo-ur ey-es" Said the voice before fading out.

"SERENA! ARIEL! CLOSE YOUR EYES!" I said as i moved my hands to cover them.

Surprised they looked over at me, with a worried expression without closing their eyes. It was too late late, I wasn't looking but i could tell, the monster was looking straight at us.

The moment I walked in, I could tell something was wrong. Sculptures of stone in the middle of a boss room which were designed and looked like people?

No, something had to have happened. These were people that were turned to sculptures. This reminds me of the Medusa myth. There was a woman who could turn people to stone if they gazed at her.

As they were about to turn their head to face the monster, In a hurry I grabbed on to their hands and pulled them towards me. Thanks to that they were facing the entrance we had just came from.

I then put my arms around them so that they wouldn't turn around. As I was about to whisper in their ear, Serena spoke up

"J-John..?" Said Ariel with a confused tone as she looked up at me

"WhWhat are you doing?!" Said Serena as she lightly tried to push me away

My eyes were closed, so I couldn't tell what sort of expression they was making but I'm sure they were both mad...

"Sorry, but I had no other choice... What ever you do, don't turn around" I whispered quietly in their ears

I could feel her ear twitch as I whispered that, this is the first time I've been this close to Serena's pointy ears, I kind of want to open my eyes...

"O-Okay... What sort of monster is it?" Asked Serena

"Did you notice, the sculptures around us? It was done by it. Judging by the fact that we didn't turn to stone despite being looked at. I'm guessing it only works if we look at it's gaze." I said

There was no need to whisper anymore, They understood the situation. Nonetheless, What a frightening monster. I checked with deprehendre and it hasn't moved from it's position. All the other stone sculptures here are from adventurers who were taken by surprise.

"That sounds a lot like a basilisk..." Muttered Serena

"Basilisk?" I asked

"Yeah, they're monster which can turn you to stone if you look directly at them. Although their fighting power is weak, Their ability makes up for it. It's power is that of a C-Rank but it's ability boosts it's rank all the way to A rank." Said, Serena

It's a higher rank than the death knight... This is not good... But that's only with it's ability...

"If it wasn't for that voice, We might have been dead by now..." I muttered

"Voice?" Asked Ariel

"Yeah, don't worry about it. I have a plan but the three of us are going to have to work together. Can you guys please lend me your strength?" I asked

"Obviously, you don't have to ask." Replied Serena

"Exactly." Replied Ariel

"Alright, let's do it!" I Said as i whispered the plan to them

Back then, when they didn't close their eyes and they looked at me, I felt my heart drop. Thankfully nothing bad happened as they weren't looking at it but...

Is it testing us? Instead of making the monster face the door and petrify the 3 of us by surprise. It gave us enough time to figure out it's ability.

Being led around like this is infuriating but what's worse is how they're playing the lives of my precious comrades as if it were some sort of game.

Whatever is doing this. I hope you're prepared because I won't forgive you.