Digitize: Rebirth of the Silver Death God

Chapter 133: The Mighty Palace Gargoyles

Bang! An explosive noise resounded across the dark city's central areas as many different lights shone from beneath the hazy streets. Peering beyond the gloomy mist to the scene behind the ominous gates of the cruel palace, one would see a fierce battle in progression.

Following the previous explosion, chunks of rocks and soil scattered about the area as a three-meter large greyish blue creature with a beast's head and broad wings had struck the earth with its massive fist. A few Digitizers within the range of its attack hurriedly jumped backward to avoid the danger, but the weaker turned into crushed piles of meat due to the attack's force.

"This darn Gargoyle, hurry and kill it!"

One of the Digitizers yelled as he stabbed his weapon towards it that glowed with brilliant lights; a few others reacted in the same manner, some casting magic attacks as others tossed projectiles such as knives.

Each of these attacks was only moments from striking a fatal wound to the Gargoyle, but as if it sensed it, it sneered before closing its gem-like eyes as its body instantly stiffened before taking on a texture of an ancient type of stone.

Following this change, the front-most Digitizer's dazzling weapon had stabbed onto the surface of its skin. But as if it was too hard to pierce, the weapon only left behind a spark of light before halting; even its energies had vanished.

The Digitizer looked at this in shock; he even noticed that the other attacks at the different parts of the Gargoyle's body did not affect it as even the spells merely exploded before fading into nothingness.

"Damn! It turned itself into stone; if we can't break it, then how the hell do we defeat it?"

The Digitizer complained as he looked at the Gargoyle statue before him with helplessness, but sadly for him, it would be the last thing he remembered in this dungeon.

Suddenly, the Gargoyle's body returned to normal; the moment this happened, before any of the other digitizers could react, it opened its mouth and spat out a blast of energy that eradicated all of those who failed to react.

"Ahhh!"

A few who managed to barely resist the attack to watch their HP rapidly dwindle called out in immense pain before they finally lost consciousness.

"Kikikiki!" The Gargoyle laughed as he saw its handy work, noting the craters that had leftover corpses, which soon faded from the world of the dungeon with a series of lights.

After laughing, the Gargoyle shifted its sights onto Delkan, who was trying to skip ahead of the others. With a sinister look, it charged at him, forcing him to halt with anger as he yelled to his subordinates.

"Darn, it saw us, hurry and spread out; we'll have to crush it and catch up!"

"Yes, young master!" His companions said as they hurried to form a battle formation and began to clash with the Gargoyle.

A few other weaker Digitizers thinking of passing through the route to the palace looked at this with pale faces as they didn't even dare to pass the open gates. Instead, their eyes focused on the other battles occurring with the four other Gargoyles waiting for a chance.

"Break!" Crazy Blade shouted on one side as he chopped his savage-looking blade towards one of the Gargoyles, his blade emanating a dense amount of his baleful magic power.

The Gargoyle's gem-like eyes flashed as he saw this scene. It wanted to turn into stone, but because Crazy Blade's attack was much faster than the weaker Digitizers, it could only use a different method, turning only part of its arm into stone as it parried the blade.

Clank! The blade crashed onto the arm as sparks flew into the air, followed by an explosion of rubble.

"Kiiiiiiiiiii!" The Gargoyles cried out in horror as it waved its now petrified hand left and right, watching as it shattered to bits before turning to normal, spewing out chunks of blood.

"Haha, serves you right!" Crazy Blade said with a mean look as he grinned with his shark-like teeth.

As if provoked by him, the Gargoyle didn't even hesitate to counter-attack, as it roared and opened its mouth, conjuring a ball of ominous light.

Crazy Blade snickered at this as he looked at it unphased; he was about to attack. Still, suddenly, a figure flashed by his body at great speeds, leaving behind trails of lightning before she arrived below its unguarded underbelly.

The Gargoyle looked at the newcomer in panic, but sadly it was too late to react. Thunder's Daughter halted right before its belly before placing her slender finger onto its skin as she spoke in a soft voice, "Lightning Spark!"

With a buzzing noise, sparks of electric lights shone from her finger, instantly spreading across the Gargoyle's massive body. With a painful scream, the Gargoyle could only meet its painful demise by electrocution.

Crazy Blade frowned as he looked at this scene; he glared at Thunder's Daughter and spoke, "Hey, why'd you go and do that? Can't you see that it was my kill?"

Thunder's Daughter rolled her eyes at him and picked up the loot it dropped as she replied, "Hmph! Then be faster than me next time."

Following her words, her body erupted more dazzling electric light before she dashed forward, almost like a blur.

"That bitch... tsk," Crazy Blade muttered as he too hurried along, not wasting any more time outside the palace.

Though their battle ended quickly, the others who battled against the remaining Gargoyles noticed this and decided to move faster.

"Spirit Light..."

"Spear of Thorns..."

Both Mia and Bramble Child said in unison as Mia's fired a blast of wavy, amber-colored magic power from her finger, which exploded one of the Gargoyles.

However, this was followed by Bramble Child's attack, which was a spear that conjured from greenish light before firing off and shattering the heart of another. Both looked at each other in silence before moving towards the palace at the summits of the mountain.

Not long after, Elly's combined attack with the additional efforts of Weizer, Poison Boy, Ivy, and Lily, they had managed to crush their Gargoyle.

"Wow, she's strong; I don't even know how long it would have taken to crush this beast if it were just us," Poison Boy said, showing a rare look of humility when he stared at Elly, who was at the lead.

Weizer snorted, not agreeing or denying his words; without even saying any word of thanks, he moved along with his lackeys at full speed.

"He's such a bastard," Ivy said.

"It's no wonder, those rumors aren't far from the tree," Lily said as she too looked at Weizer, who stormed off.

A distance away, Delkan had also just wrapped up his battle with his Gargoyle; he and those who survived from his group glanced over at Elly before they moved along.

Elly didn't seem to mind Weizer's actions, not to mention Delkan whom she treated like air. She looked at Poison Boy and the girls as she spoke, "Alright, you guys can get going now; I'm going to be waiting on someone."

Poison Boy thought for a bit before he spoke, "Is it worth it? From what I could gather, these Gargoyles only spawn the moment someone new enters through those gates; if you wait for that person, then you might just have to fight another tough battle again. Why not just move with us?"

Ivy and Lily also thought the same; it seemed that after their previous battle, they had grown a bit attached to Elly.

Elly looked at Poison Boy with a bit of a red face as she lowered her face and spoke with a muffled voice, "It's fine, my friend is... cough... strong."

Poison Boy made an odd look as he asked, "He's what?"

Elly realizing her words returned to normal as she spoke, "It's nothing; anyways, I'll be fine."

Poison Boy seeing her insistence, thought for a moment before he stared at his sister Ivy then onto Lily. As he saw the hard to part look on their faces, he sighed and spoke to Elly, "Hmm, Miss Balkras, tell you what, we'll wait with you; after all, we made a good team just now."

When Elly heard this, she looked at them in surprise; she asked, "Are sure you want to do this? If you stay here, you'll be wasting a lot of time."

"Hehe, who cares? Since we're all here, we should at least try to have some fun," Lily said as she played with her thief's knife, her bunny ears danced left and right.

"I think so too," Ivy said with a smile.

Elly looked at them carefully before she made a hearty smile as she spoke, "Okay, fine, we can party up."

"Yay," Lily said in excitement; even Ivy had a brighter expression.

Poison Boy also smiled, seeing his little sister's expression, there weren't many things in this world that could let him compromise, but his sister was the main one.

Thinking for a bit, Poison Boy made a curious expression as he looked at Elly and asked, "Hey, I'm curious, who's this friend of yours?"

Ivy and Lily also stared at her with an interested look, Elly stared at them and was about to answer, but suddenly, her eyes shifted towards the gate as she smiled and spoke, "Hehe, you'll find out soon."