<h4>Chapter 685 Steel Resolve and Sweat Drops</h4>
As soon as the battle against the ten Naga Elders began and Nea established the water domain, the girls whocked water affinity isted their enemies so that individualbats wouldn''t interfere with their sisters.
And even though she had reached the Sky Realm just like the majority of the other girls, Jeanne lured her opponent to a high tower outside the Crystal City, seeking to leverage a stable ground as an advantage in the fight.
The speed of the Naga Elder far surpassed her own, and so, before Jeanne could even get to the tower, she was brutally assaulted by her foe.
*BAM*
She was already anticipating a rear attack and summoned her shield just in time to ward off the blow.
The Naga Elder''s strength was as high as she had expected, leaving her arms numb for a moment from blocking that blow, but still, her radiant shield absorbed all the damage.
The Naga Elder didn''t allow Jeanne any respite and attacked again, with even greater force.
*BAM* *BAM* *BAM* *BAM*
The impact of two powerful soul weapons generated incredible force waves, prompting Kylee and Reba to fear approaching them while Ne readied Lucien''s old golden bow to strike her opponent from a safe distance.
After blocking several blows in a row, Jeanne was hurled backward onto the tower''s top, just as she had anticipated. The spot wasn''t veryrge but provided her with solid ground, enhancing her stability while protecting her team.
"Jeanne!!" The other girls grew anxious seeing her being thrown back in such a way.
But Jeanne wiped the sweat off her face and quickly hoisted her radiant shield again. "I''m alright, focus on attacking him while I hold off his attacks."
"Alright!" Without wasting any time, Ne drew several arrows made by Reba from her storage ring and fired them at the nks of the Naga Elder.
Reba had created equipment for all the girls, but of course, she had saved something special for herself - a massive ck steel hammer, enchanted with earth magic by Daisy.
"Let''s go, Skull Crusher..." Reba even named her incredible weapon, but sensing the powerful force waves emanating from the Naga Elder''s attacks, her legs began to quiver.
Beside the frightened Reba stood an even more terrified Kylee. It wasn''t the girls'' fault - the power level of their foe was so much greater than their own, resulting in an intimidating aura that ced immense pressure on them.
"We have to do something, right? Jeanne will protect us!" Kylee thought out loud.
Reba realized her fear was weakening her will, so she tightened her grip on the Skull Crusher''s handle and lunged toward her enemy.
"HAAA!!!" The cksmith fears the strength of the Naga Elder, but even she is unaware of her own current power, which results in a mighty assault that sends her opponent flying off the tower.
"DAMN!!" Reba grins as she looks at her hands, taken aback by her own attack.
"That''s what I''m talking about!" Jeannemends while her arms appreciate the respite.
However, the enemy is far from being defeated and Ne sees him return as quickly as he had left. "He''sing back, get ready!!!"
*Whoosh*
The Naga Elder returns, incensed, and charges towards Reba, brandishing his eerie, dark sword wildly.
"Step back!!" Jeanne acts swiftly and raises her gleaming shield in front of Reba.
*BAM!!!*
Jeanne''s bright shield absorbs all the damage once again, and Reba seizes the opportunity to retaliate with her massive hammer, driving the Naga Elder back off the tower.
"Yeah!!" The cksmith exims excitedly.
Jeanne also celebrates, "At this rate, we''ll win easily!"
The duo are quite confident, but when Ne sees the Naga Elder returning unscathed in his dark armor, she bes worried.
"Damn, we''re not making any progress!" She voices out while continuously firing arrows at her opponent.
After several impable defenses from Jeanne, and potent strikes from Reba, Ne starts wondering again, "What are we doing wrong???"
Since the groupprises young, inexperienced girls when ites to general knowledge, Jeanne can only think of one thing.
"Kylee, go see what the other girls are doing to defeat these monsters," She quickly instructs.
Young Kylee feels terrible for not being useful to the group, so she promptly goes to see how the other girls are faring. She doesn''t have to go far before she sees Anne and Elsie destroying the dark armor of their opponent with those beautiful green daggers.
So Kylee quickly returns to the tower and alerts her sisters, "They are using the beautiful green daggers that Reba made."
"Those daggers??" Reba is taken aback since those daggers didn''t seem suitable forbat and merely appeared to be decorative items.
"Yes, I saw one of those armors getting destroyed by those daggers!" Kylee reiterates while holding her own dagger imbued with life mana.
The young warrior dashes toward the Naga Elder with that dagger, but without Marie''s borate n, her enemy notices the potent life energy in that weapon and hurls a powerful dark energy wave towards Kylee.
"Kylee, no!!!" Jeanne tries to react quickly, but she can only block part of the attack with her shield.
Kylee is thrown several meters backwards, with no severe injuries, but the dagger falls into the ocean.
Ne reacts swiftly and picks up Kylee before taking her back to the tower. "Are you okay?"
"Yes, but…" Kylee can''t help but curse. "Damn! That was my only dagger."
"I think I have some arrowheads with life mana here…" Ne remarks while taking out some green arrowheads from her storage ring.
"It''s good that Reba used those crystals on everything she could think of!" Nements while handing the arrowheads to Kylee and some normal arrows. "You know what to do."
"MM!" Kylee quickly begins to rece Ne''s arrow tips with those imbued with life mana.
"Just hold him off a little longer!" Ne requests Jeanne and Reba, who work together to keep the Naga Elder busy.
Soon, Kylee hands the first green-tipped arrows to Ne, who shoots them at the Naga Elder. His agility is incredibly high, but her archery skills are as well, and even though he manages to dodge some arrows, half of them prate his dark armor.
"It''s working!!" Jeanne exims upon seeing the dark armor full of cracks.
However, Ne quickly runs out of life-mana-tipped arrowheads, and the arrows that struck the Naga Elder are not enough topletely break his armor.
"What are we going to do???" Jeanne asks while her arms are bing increasingly numb due to the Naga Elder''s constant attack.
"I must have something here…" Reba has many weapons with life mana in her workshop in the Purple World, while her storage ring is filled with other weapons and materials she considered more lethal.
Nheless, she searches for something inside it while Kylee takes her ce next to Jeanne to keep the Naga Elder busy.
"Found it!" Within a minute, Reba pulls something out of her storage ring. It''s an object made of life crystals, resembling a crown with thorns.
Ne is puzzled about what it is until she sees Reba fitting the object onto the end of her Skull Smasher. "Oh, this is going to hurt!"
Reba shes a confident smile as she leaps onto the Naga Elder once more. "Hold him down!!"
Kylee acts swiftly, obstructing the Naga Elder''s sight while Jeanne bashes him with her gleaming shield.
The coordinated attack with Ne''s arrows is enough to make the Naga Elder lose his bnce for a second, long enough for Reba to arrive with her hammer coated with life mana andnd a powerful blow on his dark armor.
*BAM* *SMASH*
The life mana spikes shatter upon impact, but the dark armor also splits due to the cracks made by Ne''s arrows.
The Naga Elder falls to the ground under the weight of that attack, but before they celebrate, the girls attack him again with everything they have.
Without his dark armor, the Naga Elder doesn''t stand a chance of surviving the girls'' powerful attacks, and thest thing he sees is the light of Jeanne''s shield before she uses its sharp end to slice his head off.
"Yeah!! We did it!!"