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Chapter 8 - 8

Miri stood stunned at what she just heard.

"What are you talking about" Swor asked the figure.

"It's none of your concern, craftsmen" they say in response."It is when you try to attack my friend here" he says referring to Demo who is still on the ground. He was clutching his head and breathing heavy. Drool trickled from his clenched teeth as he grunted in pain.

"Since all of us from the organization contain amounts of his blood, he cannot be around us without being in immense pain" the figure says as they watch him.

"Which works to our advantage, it allows us to apprehend him with ease" they said as they lifted their club.

"Or at least it would have been if you hadn't intervened" they snarked as they quickly opened another warp gate and slipped into it.

"The bastard warped again" Swor said, frustrated as he looked around.

"I can see where the anomalies from the warp gates emerge but we'll need to hit them right when they get out" Miri said as she continued to scan their surroundings with her spatial detection.

"Demo can create projectiles but like they said. He's useless when he's near them" Swor added

"If that's the case I may have an idea" Miri said as her ears perked up.

A few moments go by as the two of them stand at the ready on either side of Demo. Both on high alert as they looked around cautiously. As they did so Miri's picked up the formation the anomaly from the warp gate.

"Above us" she said quickly to Swor as they both looked up.

But it was just as it had opened and the metal club had launched from it. Swor blocked it with his arms. The force pushed him backwards a couple of feet.

Miri's eyes began to glow again as her ability activates.

*Ariel thorns material reinforced steelwood* she thought while a split second visualization appeared in her mind.

Above her head and the area around her sides, dark red spikes began to materialize. They aimed at the figure as they were about to land on Demo.

Just as they were about to shoot towards the figure, several red beams of light flashed by. Burning through the spikes as the ashes fade away.

Miri looked to where the beams of light came from. To see one of the other two figures that Swor had knocked out earlier. 

Their breathing was uneven but slowly improving. As they slowly recovered from their injuries.

"I-I've got your back sir" he stuttered to the figure as he staggered a bit.

"Thank you for the backup 128, it helped!" the man said as he picked up their club.

Miri's spatial detection wasnt picking up any signs of life from the third opponent that Swor had dealt with. She could see these two clear as day.

Demo was still on the ground and Swor was recovering from the heavy hit.

More dark red spikes formed as she focused ability again for the third time. Her vision started to go static black and white as if she was looking at an old TV screen.

*Reinforce body by three, light Condensing and manipulation by 6* she thought as her eyes glowed creating and activating two more abilities.

The person with the club lunged towards Miri. She raised her arms to prepare for the impact.

Just as several beams of red light came right for her. They suddenly bent and converged into a ball in front of her. It condensed and then fired straight through the club melting through it and burning through the person holding it.

Her spikes hit their mark and sunk into both enemies. Both of them staggered from the fresh injuries.

*Remote detonation to reinforced material. And regeneration strength three* she added two more abilities to herself.

Her vision becoming worse she could barely see past the static. Anxiety steadily increasing as she started panicking.

Using spatial detection to look around. She quickly struck hard into the target with a hard punch.

As they fell to the ground she ran them through with another spike before throwing them. Activating the detonation remotely and the two targets were engulfed with explosions.

Her spatial detection was beginning to pick up multiple targets. Her eyes continued to glow as she continued.

*Flame mastery, levitation* she created more abilities

Swor looked up he hadn't expected the attack to be that strong. He saw Miri beginning to go berserk. His eyes widened in shock to see her using multiple abilities.

Demo coughed a bit while finally getting up. He breathed a bit heavily but otherwise he was fine.

He noticed Miri she was now floating through the air surrounded by spikes and tendrils of intense fire illuminating the forest.

"It doesn't look good Demo" Swor said to him

"Yeah, it seems that she gets overwhelmed and loses herself" he responds while getting warmed up. "We'll see if this one works on others" he says as his hands begin to glow a soft light blue.