Lucian was indeed correct. Mike's distraction did... absolutely nothing. He still had MP to attack with, but words against a mindless, brainless zombie that went off on feral instinct and blood lust was a strategy that had no chance of succeeding whatsoever. Even Ren would have taken the time to sigh, shake his head, face palm, or some combination of the three if they currently weren't using all the time they had to fight a gigantic zombie that could crush their bodies in one single blow. Lucian's strategy, on the other hand, seemed to show more potential for success than Mike's did. The problem was getting it off in the few short seconds that he had before it finished its regeneration, its HP slowly beginning to go back up again by a good short bit as more dead spirits went into its mouth, an unsettling chill going about the air all around them as the undead monster used this power. Lucian wasn't naturally quick enough to do this, but if he could take out the coin and aim it quickly enough, then doing the same thing for aiming the Chained Mana Surge quickly enough, then perhaps he could pull it off. --- Lucian Multi-Action: 77 - 8 Dex --- Unfortunately taking a coin out of his inventory, aiming it, and then firing it with the Coin Flick Skill were all things he could not do quickly enough in the next few seconds as those things took a couple of seconds to do. Of course, a coin was a small, slow traveling projectile and getting it up the distance to the Zombie's gaping mouth would normally be next to impossible, but it was on one knee currently, so it was just alot more difficult now rather than next to impossible. --- Lucian Coin Flick: 54 - 12 Projectile Weaponry - 5 Skill Bonus + 25 Distance Penalty = 62 Hit! Skill Effect: Success --- Normally irritating a brainless creature would also be impossible, but the creature could still taste, since things like these craved the flesh of the living. The sudden metallic taste of the coin on its tongue that would go down its throat somehow, by a very small chance, managed to throw off its concentration as it regenerated, making the beast roar out angrily. It still managed to recover some HP, 96 to be exact judging by the green 96 that appeared over its head. Fortunately though it was down a fourth of its MP now, but then took 10 more damage from the dark green fires still burning on its body. It was still angry at Lucian, not noticing Ren behind it at a medium or so length distance. [i]"Black Mark: Mark of Dark Searing"[/i] Ren aimed his hand towards his back, although it was hard to hear what he said due to the distance between the three of them and the fact that he didn't shout his skill commands, but more or less calmly said them. A black glow with a small, greenish tint to it came from the back of his hand as suddenly the beast howled loudly, another mark appearing on its body which seemed to glow with a glow reminiscent of Ren's Eldritch Flame, the mark seeming to actually be searing its skin. It seemed to drain just his HP, by a somewhat decent amount to, Ren deciding to just use HP to power the skill for now as he wanted to save every MP he could for Giga Spiral Bolt. This dealt 38 damage on impact, which may not seem like alot but it was a rather instant affect that didn't have to be aimed or fired, which was always nice. After that Ren simply aimed his hands towards the beast and said [i]"Eldritch Fire"[/i] followed by [i]"Giga Spiral Bolt."[/i] Ren really hoped that the others could keep distracting it for just around ten more seconds as a large concentration of Mana was gathering in front of Ren with that dark green fire moving and spinning over its surface as it was very slowly getting bigger. Currently the Mass Zombie still had its attention on Lucian who now attempted to fire his Chained Mana Surge at the beasts knee right after his coin flick. --- Chained Mana Surge: 31 - 12 Projectile Weaponry = 19 Mini Surges: Both Hit (Max Damage) Max Hit! Damage Dealt: 11 Damage (main surge) Damage Dealt (2 Mini Surges): 0 --- The blast hit its knee as Lucian intended, but this only gave a growl out of the creature in response since it didn't really do a whole lot unlike last time. Unfortunately for Lucian his MP was also completely dried up, Mike and Ren, the first of which who only had 39 MP left, being the only ones who had MP left. Luckily Lucian's shield was still up for a little bit longer. Currently Mike would have some time to act, although currently with just 39 MP and a weapon that couldn't do jack squat against this creature, his options other than to continue acting as bait along with Lucian were limited.