Alex swung his Halberd upwards, his weapon had the longer reach so he was able to attack. The tip of the variation spear slashed open the neck of the snake and carried it over their heads, score throwing it somewhere in the grass, however the moment the snake landed into the grass, there were loud hisses as it's comrades, pounced on it and goes it to shreds. This time two snakes jumped, but Louis moved, his body taken on a golden his with tiny specks of light wafting off him. He was practically lit up like a beacon of light within the darkest of night.
His rapier left after imaged in the air, causing a flash that made quite a few of the snakes back away, and completely fried the two that were in the air. Louis also had a dual element spirit root, and his was quite a conundrum as the young man had a spirit root there's both of the light and dark attribute, or rather of the yin and yang attribute.
The snakes started jumping out of the grass in more numbers, Louis who seemed to have gotten a bit over his fear of snakes streaked around, leaving behind a golden trail like some sort of meteor as he cut the snakes that went into the air apart. Yun Fao even though he was using a weapon he wasn't too familiar with, a long sword was still just a sabre with two edges, so he was able to adapt as purple lightening streaked across the blade of the sword and headless snakes fell down into the grass in drives.
All three of them were able to cover the blind spot of the other and they had all of their focus and attention placed on this fight. As it stands all three of them represented a wall, and should one fall, so too will the others. Alex sent his halberd flying behind him as he stabbed through these snakes, a bolt of purple lightning flew past him, before slamming into a massive python that promptly exploded into a shower of blood and guts. Individually these snakes didn't really have that much power, there were very low leveled demonic beasts, heck even Alex couldn't be sure they made the jump from normal animal to demonic beasts, but there was a lot of them, and they were slowly being pushed back.
{Don't dwell too much on this Alex, you need to get out of here, use me! There's something a lot worse than those Nagas watching and it's drawing close, burn the fields down, or if worse comes to worse the entire forest!} Nezha's voice came yelling from the depths of Alex's mind.
As if to prove a point, the trees to the north of the forest began to shake, Alex ignored it for a moment and made a grabbing motion, his fire mask appeared In his hands and the temperature rose up again, this time he had no intention of using his weapon arts forms as the halberd and the top half of his body caught on fire. Louis and Yun Fao knew how dangerous and powerful Alex could become the moment he starts using his masks, and he didn't disappoint.
With his body on fire, Alex made a single revolution around Yun Fao and Louis, creating a wall of red flames that rose high into the air like some sort of cage. Every snake that made an attempt to get to them was burnt to a crisp long before they were able to cross through.
Then Alex took a deep breath and closed his eyes, every mask has three skills to give corresponding to the three forms of spirit it would host. There would be an attacking skill, a defensive skill, and a special skill that's an amalgamation of the powers of all three spirits. Right now his fire mask only had Nezha in it, and Nezha was a fire spirit of Justice. Which was why naturally he was the one to give the attacking skill and this was the first time Alex would be using it.
In the legends of Nezha it's told he spent at least three years In his mother's womb before he was born, but when he was born he didn't come out as a child, but rather a ball of flesh that very much freaked the shit out of his father. And then the young fire god busted out of the ball of flesh already capable of speech and movement as if he was not some toddler that was just born.
This freaked his father even more and he secretly went to enlist the help of a blue dragon to kill Nezha, however the blue dragon's rampage had cost a lot of innocent lives, and no one was willing to fight the dragon or stand up to the dragon, leaving Nezha the only one with the guts and the lower to do so. And so he fought the dragon, spear In hand and the (WIND FIRE WHEELS) underneath his feet, Nezha slayed the dragon; it was his first and greatest rest, so much so that it angered the heavens.
Alex closed his eyes for a second as the red tattoos on his body lit ablaze, the flames died down almost immediately, as they the seemed to become streams of fire flowing across his very skin. Nezha pulled the halberd back, and then brought it down smashing into the ground; the blade of the halberd glowing a bright yellow.
(DRAGON FALL!)
A blazing golden dragon shot out of the halberd in a straight line, burning all of the grass in it's path before smashing into the tree line, setting them ablaze and setting most of the very frantic Nagas ablaze. But those were just the unlucky ones, the others who were caught directly in the hundred meter long and twenty meter wide fiery dragon attack exploded directly into bits and turned to Ash seconds later. By this point the forest was already completely ablaze.
The snakes backed off, as the flames spread to their field of grass, Alex stumbled forward a little light headed from the skill he just used. Louis and Yun Fao were there to catch him. North was to their right and west was right in front of them and very much on fire, they needed to go around the blaze that was spreading fast, or rather get the fuck out of this forest now that they've broken the ultimate rule about not setting fires to a forest.
*Rooooooaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrrrr!!!*
Chill covered the body of the three boys as they turned to the north were the massive form of a monster could be seen standing and coming close to them. Even though they weren't too knowledgeable about the ways of the world, all three of them knew exactly what was in front of them, it's a threat that earth has been fighting and dealing with almost regularly. The boys knew all they could do now was run for their lives, because this monster in front of them would give even people in the mid realms of the earth gate problems.
The ducked back into the tree line, going back from where they came and turning south, heading for the plains.
This forest was a bad idea, whether it was in the daytime or night time, there were too many horrors in it for them to navigate, and worse was the fact that there was a freaking Kaiju behind them...…what's the biggest form of bad luck a man could have...…that's being stuck in a prison dimension with a dimension hopping giant monster, this was whack!