Felix's pov
The spirits in front of us looked castle different from before, rather than large swirls of elemental energy the carried the presence of living breathing beings with facial features and personality traits that shown through them, the fire one was the most obvious, taking the form of a beautiful woman in her thirties, clad in a scarlet dress which left her shoulders exposed and matched her hair and eyes it parted in the front to expose long slender legs, she held a bright red fan that she used to hide the proud look on her face but I could tell that it was actually a part of her rather than an accessory probably used to control her powers,
"leave the girl to me, for some reason I don't like her hair"
and at that Jesse raised an eyebrow probably shocked at the spirits audacity, I could already tell that the earth one was a character, with dirt brown skin he came in the form of an 8'2 giant clad in a battle skirt and nothing else the upper part of his body abnormally large probably to make room for the extra pair of arms present, with almost no neck visible beneath it his head sat firmly and at its top oiled black hair had been fashioned into dreadlocks while a deep dark beard struggled to hide an almost maniacal smile
"I don't care who you want the biggest one is mine"
Lucas patted Desmond on his back while saying
"lucky you"
Desmond on the other hand didn't look like someone with good luck, Lucas then turned to face the water spirits and said
"you must be pretty confident in that sword of yours"
the water spirit looked back and said
"this blade is very deceitful do you not fear its kiss"
his words weren't empty, even though he was fully summoned I had trouble tracing his form, he seemed to constantly change shape no flow like his existence wasn't constant but what I could trace from him was the form of a young man arguably in his twenties long blue hair reaching his back dressed in a matching haori with a katana at his side
"if I did I wouldn't be much of a warrior"
replied lucas
"well said"
countered the spirit
"I'll simply seal their movement"
said the wind spirit, he had hung back so I almost didn't see him a young boy with forest green hair and eyes with a bored expression, he had climbed to the top of a tree and lay in it completely unbothered by the events taking place below
"we didn't expect much of a weakling like you anyway"
said the earth spirit, if the wind spirit felt anything at those words he hid it well as he drifted off to sleep after conjuring a massive barrier enclosing us from the rest of the forest
"now let's go"
cried the earth but before his words were over Lucas and the water spirit had already charged and crashed into each other resulting in a shockwave that carried on for miles, Lucas seemed to be behind in strenght and had his blade pushed back but he used the returning force to spin and send his blade back towards his opponent through right, the water spirit simply leaned back dodging the blow in its entirety before preparing an overheard strike to the centre of Lucas's skull but as If anticipating that his attack would miss Lucas had already ended his previous swing and began sending a different one from the left but this time he had done something else, he had shrouded his blade in heavy amounts of ki letting it produce an almost unearthly glow, the spirit noticing this had his blade light up as if a river was rushing through it as he swung, both of the blades crashed into each other but Lucas's diverted their attacks into the ground, shocks and tremors spread from the cracks in the ground as the mixture of ki and whatever that substance the spirit used touched the ground, Lucas brought his blade back up in an attempt to cut the spirits neck while he couldn't defend but he only got a cut on its chest, although the wound wasn't deep it should have down blood yet didn't, probably an effect caused by having a body that was completely ethereal and made of mana, Lucas didn't have time to admire his work as he immediately went on the defensive with his blade pressed across his arm because faster than any of us could have seen the spirit had returned his blade to its sheathe and was standing in position to perform a quick draw, even I who didn't know much about swordmanship could tell from all the time I spent watching Kalen that Lucas's guard was flawless the spirits attack would have to be something special to get past it and yet it did, or rather it hit the back of his leg just above his ankles, drawing blood somewhere completely out of its attack zone
"you dodged that, impressive"
he said his face passive
"you weren't lieing when you said your blade was deceitful"
replied Lucas
"don't interrupt me you bastards"
screamed the earth spirit who had charged in between the swordsmen and swung two of his fists at them, both men jumped backwards dodging it and leaving the spirit in the middle of a massive crater he himself had dug
"Kissem style fanged boar wrath"
yelled Desmond who had unleashed a martial skill that conjured an apparation of a massive boar made from ki at the loud bastard,
"boom SFX"
a massive explosion ripped through the air at the site which the attack hit, plumes of flame rose into the air but were instantly siphoned off by the fire spirit who fashioned them into intricate spears made of fire but before she could launch them Jesse came in clutch shooting the spears down with her bow, Lucas and the water spirit charged at each other again this time at a speed I couldn't hope to follow even with my divine sense and another boom rang out from the sound of their swords clashing, they then began a rhythm with their blades flashing in exchanges that grew faster, overhead then left then right right left downward slice spin then kick and roll backwards, and so they went trading a 100 moves in a single second and even though that blade never touched him once Lucas's body grew more and more wounded as their exchange continued
'Cover Calamitus Wounds NOA HEAL'
I chanted and within a split second all of Lucas's injuries disappeared, he didn't look at me directly but I caught a glimpse of a grateful smile while he fought, the spirit in the other hand tried to disengage from Lucas and head towards me but was blocked by his aforementioned opponent,
Jesse was in the air using flight a spell, and air steps a martial technique to keep up with the fire spirit, fireing powerful blasts of sword ki with her bow she could only neutralize the attacks of the spirit who took full advantage of her heritage and rather than conjuring attacks and simply fireing them from her hands or fan she encircled Jesse with an army's worth of fireballs from all directions and had them barrage her, Jesse actions were quite impressive actually, responding to the attacks that came blindingly from every direction by dodging what she could and rapidly fireing her bow to all those that came too close, even managing a counter attack every now and then but the spirit was too fast and her fan caught what managed to trace her location
'frost aura'
'dimensional lock'
I muttered two spell without a moment to spare covering Jesse in a film of ice attribute mana that made the attacks from her opponent more barerable while stopping the spirit in place, she wasn't there for long not because I couldn't keep her there but because Jesse had managed a shot that she couldn't block because of my spell, slaming her in the face and breaking her concentration on the floating orbs causing them to dissipate and free her opponent, Jesse now free and with an evil smile on her face sent a powerful blast shot at the spirit that caused her to crash down onto the forest below, once she righted herself she opened her eyes to see that Jesse had switched from crossbow to long bow and charging up a very deadly shot
"advanced bow arts requiem of stars"
said Jesse, as she abruptly aimed upwards and let the attack fly into the air, the blast then proceeded to split in a dozen bolts which proceeded to split into bolts of their own and before long the entire sky was dyed in to colour of ki and it was all heading towards the spirit
"what do you think about my hair now bitch"
said Jesse as she rained down hell on the unlucky spirit,
out of all of us Desmond was doing the best, the earth spirit had him beat in terms of power so he chose speed, he danced around the lumbering giant giving out hundreds of slashes that contained ki, it seems that due to the axe arts he used his ki contained an explosive effect that would detonate if left to linger and that was what he was doing, he would slash at places like joints and tendons as opposed to vitals and let his ki stay there for long enough to explode giving the big great beast a massive shock but like his companion the water spirit he also didn't seem to bleed but unlike the other spirits when ever he got hurt the earth would climb up his body and attach itself to the injuries ever present on his skin healing him instantly, the great oaf would then swing out his fists at speeds so great that shock waves accompanied them and the winds tracing off of them could cause great damage to the surroundings, several trees had already been felled by its recklessness, if Desmond held any fear of what those attacks could do to him he hid it well choosing to slowly chip away at the spirit and drain away its mana, out of all of us it was clear that he held the advantage in his fight, he wasn't tired and I was sure he could go faster so there were no need to fear stamina problems or being two slow but I still gave him a haste boost and slow debuff to his opponent who even with the injuries he suffered continued to smile like a madman,
was I only doing the bare minimum, yep, why was I doing so, I was still concerned, the wind spirit hadn't moved a muscle since the fight started instead he was comfortably sleeping like he couldn't care less what we all did, even when the fire spirit got knocked our of the air I thought he would have used that opportunity to assist her when our guards were down but he didn't and to top it all off the Phantom beast Lord himself stood silently letting him do as he wanted, that wasn't a good sign, the earth spirit had claimed that the wind spirit was the weakest out of them all but something told me that wasn't true and even so there was no way a high rank spirit would actually hold them back enough for then to ask him not to fight as well, I activated invisibility and casted spells to erase my presence somemore, I then began sneaking through the now chaotic battle field towards where the wind spirit slept soundly but just as I was a few feet away he opened his eyes, his green hues met my blue ones through my spells as he said the words
"go back"
he spoke with an air of King before an ant as if I was in no way a threat to him, I warped myself back to my starting point in fright
'Kalen where are you'
I said quietly, it was obvious that this situation was worse than we thought