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The group's battle against the creature was getting more and more ridiculous by the moment. When fighting a massive enemy that you couldn't hope to damage significantly by conventional means, it was usually a good idea to fight a war of attrition, so to speak. The wounds they could deal wouldn't significantly slow a hulking thing like this down much, but if they placed their attacks correctly, they could cause it to lose a lot of blood. That was what Beleth was aiming for with her spell; no matter how big, if a creature bled, then it could die from blood loss. Of course, this thing was just a head with legs, so there was no telling how its body functioned at all, but the same principle had to apply.

Unfortunately, just as it started looking like they were getting somewhere, the creature suddenly healed its wounds and got back on its feet, almost good as new. Beleth could only blink as she cancelled her spell, cursing about having uselessly wasted so much power. How could this thing just heal like that? There were plenty of creatures that had a strong regeneration ability, closing up wounds right in front of your eyes, but they couldn't just very well turn it on or off, it was working constantly. This thing, on the other hand, wasn't healing at all at first, but then it recovered from all the damage they dealt up to that point in almost an instant. She heard Belen shout at her to kill the thing, but she was in no rush to do so.

Sure enough, she could probably do it, if she killed herself in the process. But was it really worth it? Even if she was immortal in a way, dying didn't feel good at all. In the end, she wasn't even sure she would be able to take this thing down, since it could obviously handle much more than her own body. The archer tried to sweeten the deal, but it was insignificant. Her companions would probably disagree with her, but hey, she was a demon, she didn't much care if the whole town got leveled. Besides, it seemed as though some unseen force was orchestrating the whole thing to the end of letting Ea snack on one of her teammates.

Just as she thought that, Zenin took a bad fall and volunteered on being eaten. She didn't know what was going through his head at that time; hell, even if she died, if Ea ate her, Beleth would come back and unleash whatever sick torture she could imagine upon the little demon in her next life. In any case, the woman pigged down on her teammate and went super saiyan got a sudden burst of power as a result. In complete disregard of all common sense, Ea whizzed past the creature and sent the several ton thing flying with a strike of her hammer, which was apparently made of reinforced adamantium and had some sort of massive force field around the top. As an added insult to the laws of physics, not only did she jump fast enough to catch up to it, she also stopped at a precise spot in space. It seemed as though all the buildings around the place were in cahoots with her, since not a single one collapsed when the creature was smashed to the ground with enough force to leave a hole, even though earlier they were falling left and right from being kicked by it. For a moment Beleth decided it would all make sense if one considered the spherical objects of a magical nature and immense power that belonged to a dragon or something, but where such a weird thought even came from, she had no idea.

As Beleth set the creature on fire at the request of her demon teammate, she wondered about the whole thing. Once again she got the nagging feeling that the fight was ridiculously linear and nonsensical. If that thing could regenerate having lost most of its blood in a matter of seconds, why would it die from being set on fire? As awesome as fire was, it didn't exactly work that quickly. Yet the creature seemed to be dying, for good this time. It was almost like they were not supposed to be able to defeat it until certain conditions were met and a cool cinematic was shown, but now that it happened, the monster turned into a wuss. The young woman sighed; what the hell was in that drink?