Violet silently approached the first monster camp from the side, she got her spell ready, in a flash, Violet sent multiple spears made of high condensed air, most of them hit their targets but some missed, the monsters that were hit immediately got a hole punched into their chest, the few that survived charged at Violet, she used ice magic to freeze them temporarily, giving the exact amount of time she'd need to shoot another round at them, she jumped into the air using wind, then sent another volley of spears crashing down on the monsters and finished them off.
The next camp was close by so Violet got there quickly, by the time she got there, the monsters had a couple of people surrounded, "why are they in the forest, even though they should know how dangerous it is now?" Violet thought, this time she couldn't just randomly shoot ta the monsters, she had to precisely aim at their heads so that she won't hit the people, she steadied her aim, closed one eye, aimed at their heads individually, "these monsters are goblins, I should aim for their legs first and get their attention, once they are focused on me, I should jump out and finish them." Violet carefully plotted her next move, and just as the goblins were about to attack the people, she shot at their legs and immobilized most, the rest looked towards her direction as she jumped out of the bushes and cut them all down using speed boosting lightning magic, Lein had taught her how to effectively use this spell against enemies when they were in the timeline before.
"you're safe now, head back to the town." Violet reassured the people that they were safe and escorted them back to the town, "after coming to this town, the next camp is pretty far away, guess this'll take longer than I thought."
Lein travelled at lightning speeds and helped fix all the things they needed fixing as Timothy instructed him to do so, he finished the entire kingdom in under five minutes thanks to his speed, Inz went towards the lake accompanied by the nearby farmers, the lake had almost dried up completely due to a large fire accident they had a month ago, Inz created a large iceberg above the lake and dropped it into the center of the lake, then the heat started melting the ice creating water that cooled down the atmosphere and refilled the lake, Timothy teleported around from meetings to negotiations and traded everything the king had asked him to trade and who to trade with, Violet made it to the last camp by the time everyone else had finished their task, the last camp looked like the strongest of the bunch, it had massive orcs, goblins and undead at the same time, "that's strange, did undead and ordinary monsters always get together like this? or is there a summoner that created all of them?" Violet mumbled, "anyway, no time to think, I just have to finish this and head back." Violet used a new spell she had recently remembered how to use, it was a light type spell and was named Light of Jade, that spell was one of the most powerful light spells that are said to surpass even a new god, anyone that could use this magic must have either been blessed by a god or given power by a god, it was so powerful, once when a man went into war and received a god's blessing, he instantly turned the tide of the battle with a single cast.
Violet activated the spell and rained arrows made of light that could pierce even the heavens, the entire area was destroyed and many trees tumbled, "phew, I wiped out the undead with light magic as well as the ordinary ones, better head back."
Violet wasn't aware that someone was watching her the whole and they've been following her since she came out the walls, the shadow ran away and back to one of the monster camps she had destroyed, the shadow starting chanting a dark magic spell and created a monster using everything last drop of magic they had, they then dropped to the floor dead after using up all their life force and energy to create the spell.
the monster was cloaked, making it invisible but still detectable, it walked towards a ruin, "oh hey Violet, you're done with the monster camps to the south?" Timothy said, "yeah, they weren't too tough, but I doubt ordinary soldiers could take them on."
"time for the main event everyone, the last task, we have to go to the nearby ruin and investigate, then report back to the king, but according to the king, there shouldn't be anything we will have to fight there."
All the gods went to the ruin expecting to just find a ruin, some old transcripts or artifacts, they would've never expected a dark phoenix, just as they arrived, the phoenix had it's cloak taken off and appeared before the gods, "a phoenix!" Lein shouted, "why is there a phoenix here? why does it have such a dark aura?" Inz said.
Inz and Violet readied their ice magic, as Timothy stood back ready to take it on, Lein had drawn his sword and got into his stance, "I have been ordered to relay a message for you all, you are to stop, your little journey to collect the shattered power of the god of time, if you don't stop then I will have no choice but to kill you." the phoenix started speaking.
"it's speaking?" Lein said, "it must be Felex speaking through it, hey! Felex, is this a message from Mede?" Timothy asked, "of course, if Mede orders it then I shall follow through with it." the phoenix continued, "we refuse to stop." Timothy said, everyone nodded in agreement, "very well, those shall be your final words!"
Inz and Violet shot icicles at the phoenix, they thought it's weakness was ice and water since it's element was fire, but it looked corrupted and it's weakness was reversed, "why's it not working? it's a phoenix right?" Inz said, "I think that aura has something to do with it, it has to have another weakness, just keep hitting it." Violet said.
"I'll try to look into it's weakness." Timothy said, "you can do that?" Violet said, Lein and Inz both looked at Violet, "Violet could you, use natural magic on it?"
"huh? okay." Violet created a couple of logs and shot it a t the phoenix, the phoenix dodged but one log hit it's wing, causing it to fall down, "yes! I knew it, that aura was Mede's, I saw her use this magic to reverse her weakness before, I just didn't think she could use it on another being." Inz said.
Violet created a large log above the phoenix, but then it started vibrating into multiple phoenixes, "what is happening?" the phoenix that was injured turned into ten phoenixes, "this is another one of Mede's dark magics, it clones something and whatever damage the clones or original take, the damage is equally distributed throughout the others and they only sustain one tenth of the damage."
"what? that's so powerful, it's almost like cheating!" Violet panicked, Inz created a wall made of hardened ice to keep a couple of the phoenixes at bay as Lein electrocuted them temporarily, "Violet we'll protect Timothy on this side!, take care of the ones over there." Violet created multiple logs in front of her and dropped them on top of the phoenixes, she only got one of the phoenixes and it disappeared into a black mist, "it's the black mist again!" Violet warned the others, a phoenix charged up it's attack and breathed a black fire at Violet as she created a wall of logs again, the fire burned through the logs in an instant and hit Violet directly.
The attack burned Violet but the logs were enough to neutralize the attacks by a lot, Violet thought of a new way to use natural magic, she used a slab of water and started spinning it fast enough to cut through multiple trees, she cut down some trees and used their elemental energy to created multiple spikes of wood around the area of the ruin, she protected herself with a couple spikes and started controlling the spikes to follow the phoenixes, the attack was successful and she shot down two more of them.
"good job Violet! I've never seen anyone use natural magic like that before." Inz couldn't hold the ice wall any longer, "hurry it up Violet! I can't hold it forever."
"there are still a couple of them on my side! you'll just have to do what I did!" Violet told the others to cut down trees and throw them at the phoenixes, Lein used his sword and lightning to cut down a bunch of trees, he infused the natural energy in the tree with his lightning magic then threw the tree which was travelling at the speed of lightning after being infused with that element, the tree instantly wiped out one of the phoenixes, one phoenix started going after him, it kept shooting fireballs at him, Lein created a shock field to infuse all the trees around him with his magic, he picked one up and threw it at the phoenix as he narrowly dodged it's attacks, he kept running circles around the phoenix whilst throwing lightning infused trees at it.
Inz got rid of a couple layers if her wall and created spikes in the front the wall, the phoenix was jabbed in the chest but it had no effect on it, the phoenix flew above them and started to fall head first above Timothy and Inz, Inz didn't have enough time to create a dome and thought she and Timothy were done for.
when nothing happened, Inz opened her eyes and saw that Timothy had teleported it to the front of the phoenix Lein was fighting, Lein threw another tree and pierced the both of the phoenixes, knocking them both out, the phoenixes facing Violet started to weaken and become slower, making it easier for Violet to chase and hit them with the logs, when she finished off all the clones, the original started to fly away despite being weakened, Violet shot the last of her spikes at it but it burned them all and got away.
"damn, I couldn't finish the original."
"don't worry, the original is already weakened beyond repair, I doubt Mede or Felex can do anything about it without taking drastic measures." Lein said, Timothy helped Inz get back on her feet and walked over to Violet and Lein, "what do you mean by drastic measures?" Violet asked, "they would have to either kill many of their soldiers or sacrifice some of their power in order to restore to phoenix back to full health."
"well, we've finished all the task, they were a lot harder than I thought." Timothy said, "yeah no kidding, we fought the phoenix, the phoenix is the god of fire's ultimate weapon and they just unleased it on us like that."
Violet and the others went back to the castle to meet up with the king for their last meeting.