This battle, as it seemed, was still not in their favour. As the two other kept up their relentless assault on the beast they had managed to cause some damage, slowing it down at a bare minimum, but as he saw the strain on the males face, he knew that this might end up turning on them. But that was no reason to stop their attack, and they certainly did not. The three of them managed to sever a limb, or maybe two, hard to tell from his positions, but there was enough hope that he pushed on, attacking with everything he had. But as they fought on he sore the strain on the males face grow more intensive. And as the spider began to became more aggressive in its strikes he knew that he was near his limit, but then he changed, a power surged within the male the likes of which he hasn’t experience in a long time, and within seconds the spider itself was on its back, and considering its partially weakened state, they seemed to now have the upper hand, but once again this beast surprised him. The appendages, the eyes, an emerald green glow begin to pierce the veil of black with made up its body. That, however, was not the most intriguing and ultimately dreadful part. The body itself was rebuilding itself, shining strings knitting its wounds back to its original form. This mana, the one with which now obviously possessed, seemed vaguely familiar to him, a once discovery of a time gone past. But one thing was for certain; Candon could now see why the other guardians had fallen. This beast was not all that it seemed to be. There was something puzzling and terrifying at the same time.
The male, a new determination now in his gaze, spoke to the guardians, and from Candon’s forms positions he managed to pick up part of the message
“…Transforming…igger form…gets used to…. Take this chance to escape”
Escape. Escape at this point seemed like the best idea. Considering that even Hilgart and the other guardians could not kill this beast. But despite his speaking of escape, he stood strong, and continued to speak to the other two.
“…Down the hill…another guardian… opened manhole”
He now knew he needed to here this so as know his next course of action. He moved one of his forms closer to the three of them whilst keeping the other two’s sense planted firmly on the beast.
"Take this map and go. It's the map of the sewer and if you follow it, you might be able to get out. I know why you girls are here, but you'll have to ask that later. For now, run. And don't even think about trying to help. You were lucky that you didn't get injured when you decided to help earlier, but not this time. You two will have to run. Get the boy down the hill too. He doesn't seem to know our plan. I'll repeat again. Don't, follow me. It's for your own good."
Well at least they know of his involvement, which will definitely make things easier if he was to help them further, as for now he need to get himself to them, however he was still quite far from them and the running the distance was a sure-fire way to make sure he was no help to them. At that moment he dissipated his forms, any information he misses could be relayed to him, but he needed to get moving. And then, with a gust of sudden wind she appeared in front of him. He jumped back in almost shock. Such speed, this was surely the work of mana. And she spoke to him before he had time to react
“Prepare yourself- you're 'bout to get dizzy… thanks, by the way, for the help."
And then her power surrounded
“Wait I…” and he was in the air. It seemed as if time had stopped for that brief moment, the world around moving in slow motion, it was almost peaceful, though this peacefulness was fleeting. His body then shot off at an immense speed, yet remained upright, he could the area which he was going to land the instant before he did and as his feet hit the ground with a surprisingly gentle thud his mind then caught up with him, the world around him shook and his legs soon began to give way, allowing his body to fall, however an outreached armed kept him in place, it was in fact the arm of the guardian who had shot him hear.
“Well, that was… interesting” he mumbled to himself.
He steadied himself, proceeding then to examine his new surroundings. However his attention was now being drawn to the map that was now being presented to him and the other guardian, this being the map that the male had referred to her. It was a detailed outlay of the sewers in this area.
"Let's take this route, the first left, and then straight before another left and then a right. It should take us up a good distance away- not far enough away that we can't keep an eye on the mana-eater, either. We can plan something in a building there, right?"
As much as he didn’t like being such a close distance to a mana-eater this powerful, her plan seemed sound
“Alright then, lead the way guardian” he said, giving a nod. He watched as she smiled and began to move. So too did he begin to jog behind her and the other guardian. Maybe this would not end badly for them, perhaps working with these two he could survive this, and hopefully help them to survive too, however there was one issue which tugged on his mind. The stranger who left himself back at the spider, he was growing weaker, showing signs of energy depletion from using his mana, then suddenly he had greater power then he began with. There was something off about this; such sudden power must come with consequences.