Seeing that her friends were in trouble and fighting this monster any longer would put their lives in danger, Alessia immediately attacked the monster with all her power while activating a skill to attract the attention of the monster.

The skill worked somewhat successfully and managed to attract the attention of two of the heads. But the third head was still focused on Shia as it was too agitated after getting it's insides burned with Shia's fire. As Shia herself was in a terrible condition, she would not be able to hold on against this monster for too long.

But fortunately, Shia was not alone. As soon as Marina and Nina were free, they came to her rescue. Both of them were also injured but had not lost all their fighting strength. On the other hand, after getting drenched in poisonous mucus of the frog monster, Shia was unable to fight anymore and was paralysed.

Even though Marina and Nina were only fighting a single head, fighting a S rank monster's head was not easy. So they were not having an easy time specially with their own injuries and weakened states.

Seeing this, Alessia decided that she needed to step up her game to make the monster more worried about her strength. Only then the monster would give her it's full attention and her friends would be able to take a breather.

Immediately Alessia starred to use the Determination of a Fallen Royalty technique and soon succeed in her objective. With the pressure she was putting on the frog monster, just two heads were unable to handle it. So the third head was forced to join the frey against her.

This finally gave Marina, Nina and Shia a chance to take a breather. Immediately Marina and Nina withdraw while carrying Shia with them. Due to the effect of the paralysing poison, currently Shia was unable to move even a single finger of hers.

After withdrawing and coming far away from the battlefield, Marina and Nina started to treat themselves and Shia. But they were not having an easy time doing the treatment.

Even though Marina could use healing magjc, this was not her speciality. So even though she was able to heal minor wounds rather easily and even could heal some major wounds, if the injuries needed complicated healing, she would not be able to do anything about it. Getting rid of a rather powerful poison was also outside of her capability.

In the Azure Legion Nina was mostly in charge of poison related matters. Even though she could not use any kind of healing magic, as she was a poison user herself, she has good knowledge about various kinds of poison and had antidotes ready. But as the poison that had affected Shia was from a S rank monster, Nina's antidotes were not very effective against it.

For all these reason, even after a few hours had passed, all three of the ladies had managed to barely heal themselves. Their combat strength had went from 30 percent of their full strength to 60 percent of their full strength. But they were nowhere near ready to fight in their full capacity.

Especially Shia was still in a terrible situation. She was at least able to move her body a little bit now and as she was a mage and did not need to move much so she would still be able to fight. But if the monster focused on her for even once, she would have no way to defend or protect herself.

That was why, they did not go to join the battle between Alessia and the Frog monster. Currently they would only be hindrance to Alessia and nothing more. Nina did observed the battle from a distance and informed everyone what she had saw.

This Frog monster turned out to be more troublesome than expected. After Alessia had managed to cut two of it's heads and was on the verge of winning, suddenly it changed form and became a one headed frog monster. But this change did not weaken the monster and instead made it even more powerful.

Alessia was dominating the battle at the beginning but after the form change and boost, Alessia started to find herself in the back foot. And after fighting the monster for so long, it's poison had managed to bypass her poison resistance and had started to effect her.

For this reason, even though she was unwilling, Alessia started to think about retreating. In the current situation, if she went all out, the chance of her coming out alive was not high and that would also spell the end for her party. So after thinking about various things, Alessia decided to retreat first and to come back after making a plan to take down the monster and when she and friends were at their peak.

So Alessia made a few hand gestures. She was sure that even though she was not able to sense anything, Nina was definitely watching her in secret. So through those hand signals she told her to retreat. After some time, a sweet smell reached Alessia's nose indicating that Nina had gotten the message.

Relieved, Alessia started to plan to retrieve from the battle. It looked like due to the dungeons restriction, this monster's activity was limited to just this current part of the eighth floor. So running away from this monster was relatively easier.

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After getting away from the monster, Alessia meet up with her friends in an area that they had decided on beforehand. After meeting up, finally Alessia was able to relax and immediately felt extremely tired. The frog monster was one of the most troublesome monster she had ever faced.

Not only it had poison, it was also greatly resistant to physical attacks. Not only that but it also had many skills which could continuously weaken it's enemies. That was the reason why as the battle went on, Alessia started to feel more and more tired. It was actually quite impressive that even in that state, she had managed to cut off two of it's heads.

The second form of the monster only had the abilities of a single head but all of its stats had increased by a huge margin. That was the reason why Alessia decided to retreat for the time being. If she returned again after getting rid of all the debuffs, the frog monster would not be able to apply the debuffs to her again as it had lost those abilities.

With that plan in mind, Alessia and her friends focused on getting their strength back as soon as possible while coming up with a strategy that would be effective on the frog monster.

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