Elder Blood Witcher 528 Passing Gas

Arie is also under a.s.sault from a considerable number of the insectoids, wounds that seep with venom covering him, though his Golden Oriole potion is luckily still in effect, otherwise this'd spell the end for yet another Witcher. He'd noticed Reima get pulled into the other room with the roots closing behind him, he wasn't worried though as he doubted any monster in the world would be able to threaten him.

He shakes off an Endrega warriors from his back while headb.u.t.ting a Warrior that had his arm blade in it's mouth, it lets go but he receives a headache in return for smashing his forehead into it's thick carapace. He looks over to check if the kid is already but shakes his head in exasperation as he sees her cutting a blood path through the Endrega, truly just being around Reima and his friends made him feel more and more inadequate. However now wasn't the time to feel bad for himself, he stabs a Warrior in a gap between it's carapace while booting another in the face to get some distance, using his arm blade to cut off a few legs from a worker trying to swarm him again.

He uses his blade to hook a leather strap and tosses it at a large group currently bursting from the walls. A fiery explosion occurs not soon after, the Dancing Star bomb coating the group of Endrega in a napalm like substance that envelopes them in an inferno.

However, no matter how many the duo kill the Endrega seem to never stop coming. Nerissa throws another mist dagger that misses a worker but continues towards the pulsating Queen, it connects and causes a blue liquid to start leaking from it, staining the floor that starts to burn and steam when in contact with it.

Arie notices the Queen's lack of response to the attack and starts to make his way over to it, slicing and dicing any Endrega in his way as he does so. "Kid, cover me while I check this out!" he shouts to Nerissa who nods, cuts her wrist and conjures a ruby sword in her other hand.

While Nerissa becomes a tornado of silver and blood Arie bends down and examines the Endrega Queen's body, he walks around it a couple times and can't even locate it's head which was never even mentioned in the books Vesemir had him read so long ago. He uses his foot to push it and shift it over, finally finding the head, and being shocked by what he finds... Roots lead from the ground and into it's mouth, he moves it more and finds that it's entire abdomen has roots coming out of it and connecting to the floor.

Not knowing what to do in this situation he falls back onto something that has always worked, for the best or the worst. He stabs his sword into the ground while retrieving two Grapeshot bombs and stuffing both underneath the Queen. "Kid, leg it!" he exclaims as he grabs his sword and sprints away from the Queen.

Nerissa follows his instructions and follows him to the other side of the room while cutting down the Endrega that get in their way. Once there Arie hugs her close and shields them both with a Quen shield just as the bombs go off.

*BAAANG!*

The combined explosion of both bombs proves to be enough to achieve what he needed, the Queen's body imploding and covering everything in the room with the blue acidic liquid. It collides with his Quen shield and starts trying to dissolve it, only for the shield to give off a weird noise that sounds similar to a chime. Eventually though the acid falls away, leaving the duo and a few heavily corroded Endrega left.

The duo get ready to kill the rest but find them having some sort of seizure, all of them shaking and shuddering while screeching. Eventually they stop, looking around and start escaping into the walls, confusing both Arie and Nerissa.

Arie "I've never seen something like this before..." he mutters, making a mental note to consult Vesemir about this later.

Nerissa looks at him and simply states, "Rei."

Arie nods and looks towards the still root covered entrance, "I guess we'll start with cutting our way out." he says, not too confident that this'll actually work.

However what seems like an earthquake begins, fracturing the floor around the room and allowing some kind of green gas to begin to enter. Arie's eyes dilate at this and he frantically runs at the root wall and begins chopping at it in an attempt to escape. He recognised what this was and if the duo stayed inside they'd eventually succ.u.mb to it, he might be able to last a little bit but slowing his heart rate but the kid? No chance.

As he begins to chop at the roots with Reima's Silver Sword he finds that they are extremely weak to it, retreating at even the mere touch of it. This is a boon as it seemed like there was a feet of roots to get through and not a lot of time to do it.

Nerissa a.s.sisted but found my less success with Arie's Silver Sword, the blade slightly blunt by it's use and not being upgraded by t.i.tanite or enchanted by Andre.