In the end, instead of attacking, Billy returned to where his friends were. They frowned a little since they didn't expect that, but then they understood by looking at him that the situation was more than a little bit dire. His hammer could withstand those attacks, but he will have to focus solely on defense in order not to let any of those hit his friends. It was like fighting with his limbs tied.
"It seems that we achieved half of our goal, but things got a bit more complicated since we put the monster against the wall," Alexander said.
"Stop stating the obvious and focus on the enemy ahead… We need to use all of the changes that we will find to take the beast down," Lily said.
It didn't take long for the titan to move its arms again. While the beast couldn't spam such an attack, it was more than enough to destroy whole arms in a few seconds. Billy used magic eyes to see the angle of the attack with precision, and then he jumped with all his might, ready to use his hammer as a shield. From the time he got hit to the time he jumped, barely half a second had passed… the massive beam of electricity hit Billy's hammer in full, and while he tried to fight it back, Billy ended up being pushed backward and landed with his back on the ground. The impact raised a massive dust curtain and opened a crater that was thirty meters wide. Still, somehow, Billy still was almost fine.
"Don't worry about me. Just attack with all you have!" Billy shouted.
Billy's friends nodded and began to fire Earth spears toward the monster. It seemed the best option to make all that energy dissipate, after all. Much to their surprise, the beast didn't even try to dodge them. While some bolts from its body flew to hit them, those attacks weren't that weak to be repelled like that.
The other soldiers, adventurers who had bows and crossbows, also tried to attack. Still, the projectiles lost some power while they flew three hundred meters upward and got repelled by the bolts. On the other hand, the barbarians who had thrown spears easily reached the monster with their throws. It was barely noticeable, but the presence of the monster was weakening… The creature was also losing power to keep that shape, so it was a battle against time to see who would resist for longer.
Billy checked his mana, and he realized that he lost around twenty percent of what he had to block that attack. It wasn't half bad, but he used half of that to change the direction of the previous attack. The only problem was the fact that he couldn't control where the beam of electricity would hit… in the worst-case scenario, he might end up dooming thousands of lives. He didn't want to rely on luck to prevent that, so it seemed that his only option was to truly block the attack with his hammer.
"I need to learn the skill of the amulet and make it even more efficient… this might give me some extra time, but…" Billy thought.
Billy wasn't calm enough to let his mind think about how he could learn such a skill. The possibility of letting his friends get hit by that attack was bothering him more than a little bit, after all. Sometimes, he can learn things under pressure, but it wasn't such a time with the current stakes.
Eventually, the monster was ready to fire another powerful beam of energy. Still, the creature decided to play some mind games with Billy this time. Instead of joining both hands to fire at a single place, the beast pointed both of those to different spots on the battlefield. The creature wasn't pointing toward his friends, so Billy could try to ignore that, but then the soldiers, adventurers, and barbarians around won't have much reason to stick around when they were sticking their necks out with his plan, and he can't do the same to the others. Still, there was another possibility…
In the end, Billy decided to use that chance to attack the wide-open titan, and he jumped with all his might and increased his speed with Telekinesis. At the last moment, the fire titan pointed both of its hands toward him… It was a trap. Billy had considered that, but he went to attack anyway. This time, Billy used all of his buffs and increased their output by using more mana, and thanks to it, when the beast fired the beam, Billy wasn't pushed backward. He stood his ground and resisted the full-powered lightning bolt. Thanks to it, Billy had the chance to attack the beast. Even though he knew he would get damaged again, Billy still swung his hammer and hit the monster with all his might.
The monster was just pure energy… in theory, energy can't be hit, but Billy considered that possibility and smirked as he watched the titan just waiting to be hit, but then at the last moment, he enveloped his weapon with mana. In the next moment, the creature was sent flying upward.
"That is what you get from not having any mass, dumbass," Billy said.
The titan flew upward like a rocket, and it didn't seem like it would stop anytime soon. Billy wished that the creature would just end in outer space and die right there, but he knew things wouldn't be so simple…
Even though the cloudy sky, Billy could feel the presence of the monster. The creature slowed down and eventually stopped altogether. Billy didn't know what that thing was plotting, but he could say that it was up to no good since it didn't return soon afterward. That behavior was weird… The fire titan was dumb like a golem, but the ice and lightning titans were a lot smarter. Billy didn't want to believe that they were being controlled, but the possibility existed…
