The Beginning Of A Five Year Agony-Chapter 54: How can I kill a Hydra?

He then called Aegirion again, his blade, moved back to him and he started kicking it. Samuel was aware of the strong underwater currents and the shockwaves from the Hydra’s heads, so he adjusted his essence flow to his leg. He kicked his blade with such force that it broke the sound barrier, hitting the Hydra in the stomach. But he didn’t stop there...

He continued to kick his blade multiple times in the same spot, while dodging the Hydra’s heads... Each impact jolted him, showing the creature’s immense strength. The water around where he struck churned violently...

As he delivered more kicks, a faint, sickly Greenish-blue glow appeared from the wound... The Hydra had started regenerating again. Samuel realized he couldn’t simply overpower it arcane essence flow... he had to kill it instantly with it healing ability, same as the mermaid...

He pulled back to avoid a bite from the central head. Its crimson red eyes watched him intently... The Hydra was now adapting, its heads starting to coordinate their attacks. One head would fake an attack, while another struck from a different angle... The shockwaves from their snapping jaws were no longer just disorienting... they were strong concussive blasts meant to shake him off...

Samuel knew he couldn’t keep up this direct assault. "Cry of a God" had used a lot of his essence... Then he looked at Aegirion, still humming from its earlier impacts...

He decided to change tactics. Instead of hitting one spot repeatedly, he would move quickly, striking different areas to force the Hydra to divide its healing efforts... He needed to find its essence limit...

With a surge of essence, Samuel pushed himself upward, narrowly dodging a snapping jaw. He spun and slammed Aegirion into the underside of one of the Hydra’s necks, just where it met the body. This hit wasn’t meant to kill but to disrupt. Aegirion, still vibrating from its previous sonic kicks attacks, sent a strong tremor through the Hydra’s system...

The Hydra shrieked and recoiled. Its head thrashed, creating a strong current that tried to pull Samuel in. He used the chaos to his advantage, weaving through the turbulence. He darted to its side, striking another neck, then another, each blow aimed at causing maximum irritation and minimal healing...

The Hydra’s response was immediate and brutal. Its central head, the largest and most aggressive, lunged forward, extending its neck quickly. Samuel barely reacted in time, twisting just enough for the teeth to graze his side, cutting his divine clothes...But like Solmira, the goddess of color, said, it’s made from a special fabric... And it self-regenerates...

A sharp pain shot through him, reminding him of the danger if that Hydra were to properly bite... He ignored the pain and countered with a swift, upward kick that hit the Hydra’s chin, snapping its head back...

The fight became a chaotic exchange of blows and teeth... Samuel moved very fast, dark green blur, constantly shifting, striking, and evading...

The Hydra was a massive, multi-headed creature, attacking powerfully but increasingly desperately... Its heads, initially working together, now seemed to act on their own, each trying to land a decisive hit on Samuel...

He had to find a way to overwhelm its healing ability, to push it past its limits...

Samuel’s eyes scanned the Hydra’s large, serpentine body. Its scales shifted from dark red to black, blending with the deep-water shadowy environment...

He decided to target the base of the necks again... This was a dangerous move, requiring him to get closer to the snapping jaws, to the heart of the beast’s fury. But it was a risk he had to take...

He faked a retreat, drawing the Hydra’s heads forward in a synchronized lunge. As they closed in, Samuel unleashed a burst of essence, pushing himself downward, deeper into the water. The Hydra’s heads collided with each other, a brief moment of confusion that Samuel exploited. He shot back up, moving like a missile, aiming Aegirion directly at the base of the left-most head’s neck...

This kick was about precision, not just force. He channeled his essence into a focused point, making Aegirion act like a vibrating needle... The blade pierced the thick scales, not deeply, but enough to cut a few of the pulsating veins beneath. A dark, thick liquid, not blood but something different, a venom gland... pulsed out into the water and quickly spread out...

The Hydra roared, a sound of real pain this time. The head he had struck thrashed uncontrollably, its movements jerky. Its red eye dimmed slightly, but...

Encouraged, Samuel pressed his advantage. He moved with renewed energy after sensing it’s weakness. He darted to the next head, repeating the precise, piercing kick. Again, the dark venom gland pulsed out, and again, the head faltered. He was systematically weakening its regeneration, one neck at a time...

But the Hydra was no we’re near defeated. Its central head, the most powerful and seemingly unaffected by his targeted strikes, coiled back. Its jaws opened wider than before, revealing a swirling vortex of dark energy in its throat. It was preparing a more potent, essence-based attack, a desperate counter...

Samuel felt an intense warning. This wasn’t just a physical attack... it was a raw discharge of the creature’s power. He couldn’t dodge it. He had to face it directly...

He recalled Aegirion, the blade snapping back to his hand with a strong magnetic pull. He channeled every last drop of his essence into the blade, making it glow with a blinding, dark green light. He wouldn’t block with his shield faith keeper, he would cut through the attack itself...

The Hydra unleashed its blast. A torrent of compressed water, filled with dark, corrosive arcane essence, shot towards him, like a liquid battering ram. The force was immense, distorting the water around it, creating a vacuum that wanted to pull Samuel in and out...

He met it with Aegirion. With a loud cry, he swung the blade in a wide, arcing motion, a single, desperate parry. The dark green Essence of Aegirion clashed with the dark red essence of the Hydra’s blast, creating a blinding flash that briefly lit up the underwater depths. A loud CRACK echoed through the water space...

The impact sent Samuel flying backward, tumbling uncontrollably through the water. His arms screamed in pain, his muscles burning from the extreme strain... He felt a sharp, agonizing pain in his shoulder, and a dull ache spread through his chest. He had deflected most of the blast, but not all of it. The remaining shockwave, the sheer concussive force, had hit him hard, threatening to knock him out...

He fought to regain control, his vision swimming. The Hydra, though its attack had been partly stopped, was still a huge threat. Its central head, though momentarily exhausted, was already starting to prepare for another attack. The two other heads, whose regeneration was slightly impaired, still snapped and thrashed, their eyes burning with anger towards Samuel for stopping their regeneration...

Samuel coughed, a bubble of air escaping his lips... His body was screaming, but thanks to his God like powers, he could breathe underwater if not you would have died from the lack of oxygen...

Every one of his nerves was on fire with pain. He was bruised, battered, and low on both essence and energy, but he was alive. And the Hydra, for all its ancient powers, also showed signs of struggle in the fight between him and Samuel...

He pushed himself upright in the water, his movements slower, more deliberate. Aegirion, though still faintly glowing, felt heavier in his hand. The fight was far from over... It had just begun. The real challenge wasn’t just fighting and blocking the Hydra... it was surviving it and defeating it. And Samuel, even with his body screaming for a little bit of rest to regenerate properly, knew he wouldn’t back down. Not now. Not ever...

The Hydra, reeling from the deflected blast, let out a frustrated roar that vibrated through the water floor. The two previously injured heads began to heal slightly faster now that the immediate danger had passed... Its central head, its red eyes narrowed, watched Samuel with intense focus... It seemed to understand that a direct energy blast wasn’t enough. The water around them crackled with tension as the creature changed its strategy again...

Suddenly, the Hydra began to spin rapidly, its massive body coiling and uncoiling like a giant spring... This created a powerful whirlpool, an underwater vortex designed to disorient and trap Samuel. The currents, already strong, became ten times more powerful, threatening to tear him apart. Samuel felt himself being pulled, struggling against the immense swirling force. He braced himself, digging his feet into the non-existent water floor, using all his adjusted essence flow to resist the pull. His bones was breaking, He narrowed his eyes, looking for a weakness in this new attack...

He noticed that the center of the whirlpool, while seemingly calm, was also where the Hydra’s central head remained fixed, controlling the currents. If he could reach that point, he might be able to disrupt the entire maneuver. It was a risky move, requiring him to fight against the very flow of the water... which was almost tearing him apart...