Finally, the firebird was about 10 meters away. In Lucas''s mind, it took forever for the bird to reach him while he anxiously awaited it.


    In reality, the bird had only been moving toward him for ten seconds now.


    John''s whole face had turned reddish, the veins on his forehead and near jaw line bulged showing the pressure on his face but Lucas could not see his miserable state.


    SHRIEK!


    "Haah!!" Lucas tense his hips and thighs not wanting to fall with the pressure he was going to use in trying to stab the bird.


    The bird was only inches away from Lucas but he could see that it was confused as to who to attack. Lucas didn''t give him the satisfaction of thatst choice, he forcefully trapped it by moving the spear toward the bird.


    The bird felt annoyed thinking that the enemy was too cocky for his own good. It shifted its ws toward Lucas''s direction while also thinking that the spear won''t do shit to it like thest time.


    Lucas''s spear was inches away from piercing the middle of the bird. While the bird''s right feet''s three ws neared his shoulder. Lucas panicked for a second thinking that ws made of fire were going to pierce his shoulder. In the end, he thought of E and how she was there for them.


    Even thest second felt to be more than one. Until finally, both bird''s and Lucas''s attacks had hit each other.


    PUCHI!


    POOF!


    "Ughhh!!!" Lucas felt an intense pain in his shoulder, even after readying himself for the pain and moving his shoulder to be safe and not be hit on the neck instead.


    His eyes had closed from the pain and when he opened them, something rewarding could be seen.


    A huge chunk of the fire the firebird was made of was gone leaving some of the feet, neck, and face in the process.


    The w that was embedded in Lucas''s shoulder removed itself but not in a normal way, the w had materialized into a normal fire and made its way toward the little fire that was left in the firebird.


    When it started forming itself again, Lucas''s face went pale but after the transformation was done. Everything felt normal.


    The bird had shrunk in size, it had lost half of the fire it once had that made a poof sound and dissipated.


    Finally, Lucas could see some panic in the bird''s behavior. It was darting its eyes and moving its neck around fast as if flustered and panicked.


    It moved its whole body around and wanted to make distance but something was right behind it that even surprised Lucas. All this time, he was looking and only concentrating on the bird not realizing that E hade to them running from the corridor''s exit.


    She had started running after she saw John fall on his knees, she knew how it happened because she had seen the whole thing.


    John had done the same thing he did with Lucas''s spear with the winds. But the first time he did it was different. The winds were not only on the spearhead but the whole spear including the hand that was holding it.


    SWISH!


    Before the bird could react, E had already made a vertical sh splitting the bird in two. The bird''s whole existence became a flickering fire again that wanted to join together like always.


    But at the same time, while taking advantage of the moment, Lucas had in turn made a horizontal sh but he was not done thinking it was not enough even when there were now four fireballs floating in the air.


    Lucas let the momentum of the sh he made with the spear make him move a whole circle. The spear, in a second, returned to attack the fire making a nting sh in the process.


    It would have been a normal horizontal one but as it was a split-second decision, Lucas was already falling on the ground from moving the circle due to imbnce.


    The fire was now in countless pieces which were getting smaller in size every second. It seemed the firebird was not really fully invincible. Not only did the wind attack with the help of John made half of its fire dissipate.


    Now, when E and Lucas were not letting it mend together and making many pieces out of its existence. The fire was getting smaller until only a little was left.


    As Lucas fell on the dungeon''s ground and E couldn''t make another attack still feeling a huge stress on her shoulders and back from that previous fast vertical strike. The fire got away a few meters and mended together.


    The firebird was yet again in the form of a bird as it pped its wings to keep flying.


    CHIRPP!!!


    A loud chirp resounded in the chamber loudly making everyone silent. Even John who was breathing heavily stopped for a second.


    "Pft..." Lucas couldn''t hold a singleughing out of his mouth.n/?/vel/b//in dot c//om


    The firebird had be a pitiful creature inparison to its former self. Its size was no bigger than the sparrows back on Earth.


    With only a few inches in width and height, the firebird found that the enemies that it had not even measured with their height had suddenly be huge.


    The firebird after listening to Lucasugh had its head building with anger. No matter what the size, it was a creature that was nothing to beughed at!


    SWISH


    The firebird came flying toward Lucas who was awaiting it. The bird changed its posture with its feet ahead of the body like an eagle that is about to grab a rat from the ground.


    SLASH


    Lucas shed again and this time, he was slower with exhaustion. The firebird became an insignificant me again only this time the me had be the size of a candle''s top until it exhaustedpletely.


    [Congrattions for defeating a level 5 Boss Monster of an Umon Dungeon in a party!]


    [+200 EXP]


    [Umon chest unlocking in 1 minute]


    [...]


    [Level up!]


    [+1 Stamina, +1 strength, +1 dexterity, +1 Mana, +1 intelligence]


    [ +3 free points]