counters all of hydra attacks

The first column of fire was extremely thin, relative to the creature’s size, but with all the intensity one would expect form a Grimm of its level. It wielded the attack as a cutting blade, slashing through tree, stone, and air with equal ease before slicing through the Skin I’d left behind. The next attack with a wave of amplified sound, meant to shatter eardrums and disrupt the equilibrium of entire armies, but even without Midgardsormr’s Skin reinforcing that relatively fragile part of my body, the Gamer’s Body allowed me to shrug off such things. A flash of electricity accelerated a sharpened stake that I analyzed in midflight to determine the nature of—there was a liquid inside that was hard to determine the nature of because it was simply inert Grimm-stuff at present. At a guess, it was either a poison or some type of hostile magic nanite thing.

I redirected it by called upon Vulturnus, who appeared in midair and unraveled into a curving streak of Lightning. The railgun faltered in midflight and flew past me into the distance, crashing into the side of a mountain with an explosion. As another head began to fire what seemed to be organic spines, I noticed the cilia on their surface and deduced that they were the type of spikes that would drive themselves further inwards, towards an enemy’s vitals. I ignited my hands with Karna and released a massive cloud of flames with a wave of my hands, burning the life from the malicious thorns.

The wave of fire continued towards the Hydra, crashing over its many heads. Though several of its eyes popped and burst and some of its flesh burned, it largely seemed to ignore the attack and press on. I saw one of the heads—which looked like nothing more than the upper jaws of seven snakes sown together, fangs and all—release a cloud of poison that was invisible to normal light. I considered it for a moment, reminded myself to deal with it when Adam and Gou arrive, and then turned to face the oncoming attack.

Thirteen of the creature’s heads were gathering power enough to cause their throats to glow from within and when they opened their mouths it was to release a series of energy blasts that reminded me of Crom Cruach. While weaker than the Legendary Grimm’s attack, I estimated each as having more than enough power to carve a path of destruction across several city blocks and each mass aiming right at me.

A moment before they did, however, I gathered my own power, timed it, and fired. Lux Aeterna darkened the earth and sky as it streaked towards my opponent. My most powerful attack also serve as my defense against the thirteen heads, consuming the energy attacks as they were released and using them to fuel the Light Eternal. I saw my power clash with the darkness for a moment before breaking through with a sound like thunder, and the Hydra’s released another cry as the light of the moon and stars returned.

A long, faintly glowing hole had been burnt straight through the Hydra’s body, starting at the base of one of its necks and stretching clean through its chest. The removed head fell away, dropping to the earth with the sound of a building falling, but though the Hydras released another agonized cry, the pierced body pressed forward almost eagerly, each of its footfalls shattering half a dozen trees.