"Everyone back up," Liam shouted, but it was already too late.
As if the voidlings were now aware of their presence, all the energy nodes started thrumming alive and crackling and sizzling.
The next second they started shooting out, sending bolts of lightning everywhere.
Every hit was loaded and removed a big chunk of health when they struck someone.
Zing. Zing. Zing. Zing.
Everyone frantically ran, trying their best to evade the voidlings network.
Liam tried using icicles this time also to freeze the nodes. However, now it wasn't that effective.
When he tried to freeze a voidling, a surge of energy rippled to that node and prevented it from shutting down.
The others were protecting it. The entire cluster was acting in unison. It looked like they had to take down all of them to take down one.
"Hmmm…" Liam then tried freezing three at the same time but once again it was useless.
"Everyone move back. This is going to take a while."
The other mages stayed behind to help him, and Mia and Kang Minah also stayed behind to heal the group.
The group tried various possibilities freezing out a wider array of nodes or different nodes in different parts of the network.
They tried multiple times to find some sort of weakness. However, nothing seemed to work.
On the other hand, even with Mia and Kang Minah healing only five of them, they couldn't keep up at all.
Time was running out quickly.
Liam frowned. This was an opportunity that he did not plan to let slip by no matter what.
The chance for their guild to enter the nether realm was something they couldn't afford to lose.
They could always let this one go and escape back to the Xion realm using the other portal, but then they would have to clear another spatial rift all over again before getting access to this portal.
Who knew what difficulty they might face then. It was still better to somehow use this opportunity at hand.
Liam took a deep breath and quickly made a decision.
"In a second, I will try to lure this thing away from the portal. Everyone should use this chance to take the portal and enter the demon world."
As his voice thundered, the group looked at Liam in shock because what he meant was he was going to sacrifice himself for them.
This time even Mia and Alex were dumbfounded. The Liam they knew was different. Why would he sacrifice himself for others?
Only Derek, as obedient as always nodded in agreement.
"Brother!" Mei Mei shouted back unwillingly. "I am not leaving here without you."
Others as well one by one came to the same conclusion. "Boss, we won't leave without you."
"Boss, you can't die for us."
One person was even so touched that he began to shed tears.
Seeing this Liam's face twitched. These guys!
Time was of the essence here! If they did not do something quickly another one of these giants might show up.
"You guys are overthinking things. If I say something, there is a reason for it. JUST DO AS I SAY!"
He roared again as he sent several blasts of ice spheres at the huge network of voidlings.
Everyone gulped and they did not dare talk back any longer.
One by one smoothly skipped out of the battle and entered stealth mode either using their skill or the potion.
It took an entire minute but soon the giant amalgam's full attention was on Liam and only Liam.
He used his own attacks and bombs to interchange between hot and cold attacks and slowly lured the thing away.