The Assassin made her way to the tenth floor while our heroes were in the ninth. "I summon the Guardian of this tower to become the Guardian lording over this place." Hana appeared along with our heroes who were drawn in being the chosen champions of the tower.
The Assassin shouted, "Sister its time to die." "I agree but that is for you not I to die," Hana remarked.
"You evil murderer, you're the worst sibling ever" She continued. The Assassin is Hana's sister Pricella.
"I murdered those fools because they tried to betray me like you did after you found them dead," Pricella said.
"Those "fools" were our grandparents who raised us when our parents died and the showed you nothing but love, Grandfather gave you a present an hour before you ripped his body to shreds. Hana said
"and you sealed me inside a crystal," Pricella said
"I had to sacrifice my body to protect my Grandfather's tower from your evil," Hana said.
"Well now I give you the gift of meeting grandfather then" Pricella melded into the shadows.
"A Shadow swordsman," Shea said slightly amazed and fearful.
Pricella appeared in front of Hana flourishing her daggers quickly stabbing at her abdomen. Hana pulled herself back narrowly avoiding the deadly daggers. She brought her greatsword into her right hand and made a slash at Pricella's head. Pricella sucked down low and stepped to Hana's right and prepared a stab into Hana's ribs it got slammed in the face by Ostro's Jet black Maul.
"Critical Moment" Ostro cries out.
The spell made his rank double. Rank 6 was just strong enough to push back a rank 8 but not to damage them. It stopped Pricella from damaging Hana.
"Your much weaker now sister, "Pricella said
"Since you challenged me for my status it's been taken away and now I'm at my natural level," Hana said.
"Meaning I can kill you once and you won't revive. Pricella said.
"This is bad." Jax thought
[System generating strategy]
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[Loading strategy: Modify illusion machine to become a balance machine capable of setting the power of the Enemy to An Hue's rank] [Plan needs Hana to sacrifice herself to work but don't worry she won't permanently die just temporarily.][ It has a 40% chance of success increases to 80% if you can get the Assassin to bleed so the spell can enter quickly through the soul stream.]
"Ostro, Ba Ye, and Shea rebuild the illusion device to be a balancer device. An Hue summons Raziel and provides cover fire for them. Chui blocks quick stabs. Bis Duaa, Sky, and Rakurai build a defensive area." Jax commanded them.
The trio started to build the machine while the others did as they were told by Jax commanded them to.
An Hue summoned Sandalphon and activated not only the Magician tarot using both Fire and Earth but also both sides of the fool tarot summoning both the Starry Sage Fox and the Still Shadow Coyote.
El-Esk and Ungea Tsula came spiraling out of the card El-Esk on An Hue's right and Ungea Tsula on her left. El-Esk disappeared into the shadows and Ungea Tsula flew to the sky.
Stars began to appear behind Tsula as her tails glowed bright white. While El-Esk left trails of black flames behind him as he moved through the shadows. The stars fell down on Pricella as she began to become trapped in the flames of El-Esk. Raziel has cast a spell that boosts fire. Jax began to form a massive concussive sound bomb capable of disrupting but not strong enough to kill.
"Hold her off for long time progress is slow," Shea said
"We are trying." Bis Duaa said as she unleashed a swarm of small rank two insects that Ba Ye has from his dead tree hunt.
Pricella threw a barrage of daggers up into the air and they rained down onto the field cutting everyone except her and Hana. Shea was cut on the cheek. Jax was cut on both of his forearms. Ba Ye and Ostro were a hit in their backs. Bis Duaa and Sky in their legs. Chui in his ribs. Am Hue got stuck in the right hand covering her face because the knife would have impales itself into her right eye. Hana dodged and deflected a stray knife directly at Pricella.
Pricella deflected the knife and it landed straight into a tree. "Did you really just try to use my own knife against me?" She said
Hana plunged her sword into the ground as swords came up from the ground in waves focusing on Pricella. "Sssssss Booom" the Device ticked to partial activation.
"Ostro switch," Chui screamed. Chui rushed over to and replaced Ostro due to him tiring out blocking so many quick stabs by Pricella realizing that the shield would be better to block with.
"Who dares to summon I Harfaban, the God of Balance." Harfaban's bass voice was so deep it caused the ground to shake.
"I humbly request that you lower the power of our enemy to one that we can handle," Chui said bowing low in the presence of the god
"I find you interesting little one and so with proper sacrifice, I will make it so," Harfaban said.
"What is it that you need to be sacrificed?" Chui said.
"A being as naturally powerful as the target and a new person to balance out the power. Meaning that The target will be set to a lower-ranked person's rank while sacrificing a being at the target's original rank." Harfaban said. Chui was sent the same message that Jax's system said.
"So that means sacrificing Hana correct?" Chui said
"Correct young one you catch on quickly," Harfaban said
"I will set the scales equal to my love An Hue the summoner of Tarot and Angels," Chui said
"An angel and tarot summoner interesting, I will agree to the set standards," Harfaban said.
"The laws are set a temporary death for the temporary balance once the balance is broken by death Hana's left will be restored," Harfaban said as he disappeared into the device.
Yellow smoke rose up around Pricella as Black smoke rose up around An Hue. The smoke disappeared seconds after appearing. Pricella tried to cast a rank five spell. It sparked and backfired on her throwing her back seven meters into a tree. Everyone was distracted by Pricella being thrown back that they didn't see Hana turning into dust.
After recovering from the shock, Ostro used his Glaive and shield to cover the party. They continued to proceed to get into formation. The containment was reconfigured so it could cripple Pricella. Pricella still had her battle knowledge and dashed into a shadow.
Pricella appeared in front of Shea and kicked her in the chest and sending her flying right into Jax. The impact made him lost concentration and it exploded on him and Shea. It had so much force it knocked both of them out cold.
"Why do they get knocked out together all the time, Shea is literally still in his arms and he still can't take the hint?" Bis Duaa said slightly laughing.
"True." Everyone replied.
"Focus," Raziel said
Pricella dashed and slashed Ba Ye who responded by shooting at her feet to ring her to move a straight into Ostro.
Ostro unleashed his hammer and smashed it into Pricella's ribs. Pricella swiftly ducked down and countered with a punch to the hand forcing him to drop the weapon. Bis Duaa threw her needles at Pricella but narrowly missed by a split second as Pricella appeared in front of Sky and slashed at her. Chui deflected the stabs and countered with a right hook.
Pricella then stepped out and avoided his hook and slashed his forearm. He writhed in pain due to the shadow enhancement on her daggers. She threw out knives and hit Ba Ye and An Hue. Sandalphon pulled out the dagger in An Hue's hand and then burned bright Orange with pure fury
"Tell our leader I'm sorry for breaking my non-violence code," Sandalphon said
The first red fire appeared around him and going all the way up to the silver flame. "I am the Eternal Flame by Fire I heal but now by Fire I burn," Sandalphon said.
Sandalphon threw wave after wave of flames at Pricella.
"Curses I'm so weak due to my pact," Sandalphon said.
Pricella moved swiftly and even while dancing around the flames she even coated her daggers in Sandalphon's silver fire.
The silver fire burned bright as Pricella whirled around the battlefield. She looked like a war angel. She slashed away all the barriers surround her.
Hana appeared in a different dimension than her own.
"Greetings little sword." A mysterious voice was heard by her.
"Who is there? Hana said confused looking around everywhere.
"It is I Harfaban," Harfaban said calming her down.
"Why am I here?" Hana said
"It is because I tipped the scales in the favor because I find that little group to have great promise and talent," Harfaban said honestly
"You will stay here until Pricella dies and you will be renewed as the tower guardian." He continued.
"That means this is the sidelines of my final battle?" Hana said upset by the fact that she could not avenge her family.
"Yup but the truth is they don't need you to die permanently, the young gods are a creative bunch using an old god like me to counter evil powers," Harfaban said proudly like the group was his own children.
"What do you mean young gods?" Hana said confused.
"Well while they don't have the deity qualities they are the ones prophecied to replace the dead ones," Harfaban said.
"I hope they succeed then?"Hana said.
"I secretly tilted it so Pricella is rank 2, not 3 like I promised," Harfaban said
While Harfaban and Hana were talking on the sidelines. Pricella wasn't doing so well against the constant barrage of spells by An Hue and Sky and whenever she would try to attack she would be blocked by Chui and Ostro while Jax Shea and Ba Ye unloaded attack after attack and Bis Duaa bringing up animals around the field back to life. Ba Ye and the others were purposely only suppressing Pricella because it killed animals around them so Bis Duaa could summon them.
"Go out and destroy my creation," Chui said as he made a slime. Ostro and Ba Ye modified it to explode. Chui threw the slime at Pricella. Pricella ducked but the slime hit the tree behind her and exposed her weakness because she got blown up and fell facedown. She rolled barely surviving the strike from Ostro's Maul.
Ostro got cut in the leg from Pricella's stab. Everyone beat up pretty badly. Everyone was cut head to toe. Jax and Shea were still unconscious.
The battle began to change when Pricella's form changed as she unleashed a dark aura. "Oh my stars She's a Death Knight, It's the fusion class of a Shadow swordsman and a dark wanderer once they reach rank 7 that's super dangerous. Ostro said. The area changed to a haunting plain void of all plant life. The ground turned pitch black. Her daggers fused into an ethereal high sword. The sword glowed with pale fire on the edges.
"thought she was weakened?"Shea said awoken by the aura. She turned around and woke Jax up. Pricella's eyes glowed red. She swung her sword and flames spewed out stronger then Sandalphon's weakened silver flames. Her aura decayed the trees around her creating withered trees. Pricella slammed the flat part of her sword into Ba Ye and Sky. She then slammed the hilt into An Hue's back and then into Chui's collarbone. She then slammed her foot down on Ostro's foot and tried to execute him by thrusting her sword up through his jaw straight up into his skull. He dodged just in time but not before she broke his nose and foot.
"San it's time we fuse our power with the demons," Raziel said
"You don't mean?" Sandalphon said
"I mean we have to summon the Sspoeoanrer the weapon of Bol and Suf," Raziel said.
"It will be breaking out pact and make us rouge angels," Sandalphon said.
"Why should we care Bol and Suf have been dead," Raziel said.
"Why did no one tell me that I should have broken that non-violence pact a while ago," Sandalphon said.
"Demons I think you know what we have to do," Raziel said calmly speaking to the Barbas and Amon through Shea's consciousness.
"Agreed Angel of Magic...I'm in, I hate this chick," Barbas said.
"She hurt our niece she must pay," Amon said
"She hurt our niece as well," Sandalphon said
They combined their powers as their auras swirled around Sky's staff transforming it into a spear, the auras became like smoke and then began to constantly spiral up and down the spear. One aura was crimson and one cream.
The angels and demons began to chant the spell that would kill Pricella. "Heaven and hell have judged you to be guilty you are so evil that we find that hell is too nice of a place for you to live in so you will be banished to extinction."
The spear was then thrown by Sky straight at Pricella turning her into a small cloud of Black Mist.
"Her aura corrupted so much of the area it hurts my body just being here," Chui said
"It even hurts me a little," Jax said coming to consciousness even though Shea tried to wake him up.
"I will return this place to its natural terrain just give me a minute," Chui said calmly as his adrenaline lowered.
"The land is completely corrupted there is no return," Hana said returning with Harfaban behind her.
"Hey, Hana long time no see." Sky said in pain.
Sandalphon began to cast a large scale healing on the group.
"Little ones you have overcome the danger brought by evil," Harfaban said fully appearing in his human form. (Harfaban is a Horned Centaur) all-powerful.
"Thank you for your help Harfaban." Everyone said as he disappeared into brown dust.
Ba Ye and Sky both had broken ribs. A Hue has a shattered vertebra. Sky has a broken arm. Chui had a broken collarbone. Ostro had a broken foot and nose. The only ones who didn't have broken parts were were Bis Duaa and the two who were knocked out cold. This fight had been going on for three hours.
Everyone was absolutely exhausted. The terrain was destroyed in the process. Chui finished. Healing the land as Sandalphon healed every one.
"I guess it's time to leave then I suppose," Jax said calmly.
The Angels disappeared.
Ostro took Sky off a few meters and made out with her. Everyone except Jax and Shea did the same.
Shea looked flushed, and then wrapped her arms around Jax and kissed him.