Elissia and Kaiser stand side by side, glaring at the lone figure emerging from the cloud of steam. His silver armor glimmers at the sunlight, gave him a heroic aura.
The small clearing at the Gashnor forest will become a battleground of the two opposing force. The unknown group of Knights that seems to be after Kaiser's life and the duo Elissia and Kaiser who marched in to battle to avenge their fallen benefactor and country men.
"This is bad. I don't think I can duel with this person. I don't have the agility to matched him and neither the means to block or parry his sword and strength." The greater insect does not have a good agility because of its size and body structure. He only have the means to attack which is his flames and the Knights seems to be able to dodge or block his only means of attack.
"You should be able to hold yourself against the other Knights right?" After hearing her sentence, Kaiser turned his whole body to cast a confused gaze towards Elissia.
"Don't worry, we're almost even in terms of our mana resource but he seems to be more skilled in sword than me. But I think I could hold my self against him by just prioritising on keeping safe and get less damage."
Kaiser contemplated for a moment but he gave her a nod with his huge insect head. His head faced towards the group of Knights on the sides and he charged toward them. His body emitted flames on random parts. A deadly mane that can engulf the person who touched it with raging and hungry flames.
His trunk poist forward ready to pierce through the knight's armor and flesh. Three orbs of scorching flame materialised and orbited Kaiser.
On the other hand, Elissia didn't waste time and activated her innate ability. She floated and her eyes shone an icy white light. Scales of deep blue manifested on the side of her eyes onto her ears and down to her neck.
Her hands and feet was covered in the same scales and a more intimidating sharp ice sword replaced her simple ice sword and shield. She emitted a heavy pressuring aura that seems to falter the will of the group of Knights behind their captain. But their captain seemed to be unfazed and a seriousness can be read in his demeanour.
"Eliminate our objective, I'll handle her." The captain said. The other Knights casted a concerned look towards their captain. But the years they spent with this person was enough for them to determined that he can do this. After all, he was the strongest on their group and a chosen vessel.
They followed his order with no objections and moved out to hunt the said threat.
Elissia felt a spike of power within her enemy on a sudden. She instinctively materialised ice needles and rained toward him. Instead of dodging or evading, the knight captain launched itself forward and visible white energy surrounded his figure. The ice needles was easily broke in impact with the strange sphere of energy covering the knight.
She freezed the very air around her and the velocity of the knight captain decrease when he entered the zero degree field of Elissia. His gritted his teeth as he exerted great effort to control his newly acquired power. He made the sphere of holy energy explode outward of him and it easily vanished the magical cold field of Elissia and flicking her out too in process.
"W-what is this! it's not a wills ability! " She had this kind of power but she never encountered someone who have the same ability.
The knight captain was now floating in air and a shining golden pair of wings can be seen from his back. Elissia glared at him and Bursted towards him with ice needles trailing behind her. She swung her sword toward the Knight and it was easily parried by his sword.
The knight angrily push her with his sword to intercept the incoming projectiles. The ice needles passed by Elissia and it was flicked away by one swing of the Knight's sword which is now covered by the same holy energy that surrounded him earlier.
She Bursted again mid air by making her feet exert force by releasing an exploding ice energy. She easily neared the knight and their ice and metal sword intercepted each other. Her sword showed cracks with every exchanged but instantly repaired by her magic.
The knight on the other hand strengthen his sword to inflict great damage on her sword aiming to broke it and use the chance to deliver a fatal blow on her.
Kaiser on the other hand was only struggling to hit his target. Even if they escaped his path of charging, he'll launched his orb of flame towards them and if they are unlucky enough to be hit by it, the orb will explode and engulf them and the others who was hit by the exploding projectile of flames.
He managed to take out ten enemies already, 3 was hit, pierced and scorched in his trunk while the others was the victim of his fire orb.
None of them dared to attack in closed ranged and just shooting magic towards him which was intercepted by his flame and his hard exoskeleton. Some managed to inflict damage, but the mysterious healing energy when he gains a kill healed his injuries automatically.
"There's still a lot of them. I'm just waiting my stamina here if I continued this strategy." He stopped running and her fiery mane vanished leaving only his fiery orb.
Instantly, the remaining Knights seized this chance and surrounded him with elemental Shields and arcane barrier by some of the Knights facing against him. The other Knights was also charging their attack to be more powerful and in hope to inflict fatal damage.
Kaiser added 3 more orbs of fire and the six orbs rapidly orbited him. Some of the Knights gritted their teeth in frustration. The orbs will block their magic. Even if they managed to pierced through them, the force will decrease and would just inflict small damaged.
"Make your attacks more powerful!" One of the Knights shouted. The Knights exerted more mana into the attack they are still charging. All of them know that the only chance to eliminate this enemy is to attack all at once and destroy this shield of orbiting fiery orbs hoping that some of the attack make it through and damage their objective.
Kaiser acted too, although he already using a great amount of effort and concentration to help his flame hold out its form and perform it's action. He exerted more of his effort and one by one, small dot of fire materialised randomly in the air.
The red dots continued to appear and filled the field like fireflies. The Knights warily stared at the red dots and some of the leading figures shouted to hastened the charging of the spells and strengthen the Shields and barrier.
The red dots of flame continues to expand it's number appearing randomly even in the back of the enemy and in their midst! Some Knights slashed them with their weapons, it does dissappear but was immediately replaced by another.
The Knights were now in turmoil not knowing where to focus, on attacking? Defending for the incoming attack? Or eliminate the red dots that seem to be the form of attack that the enemy will use. They still don't know how this unmoving red dot attack them but they're force are not in a good organised state where everyone does not know what to do.
"Your spells! Release it now!" Another leading figure shouted and the attackers are now about to release their attack. But Kaiser now finished his preparations.
He opened his eyes and uttered the name of his newly invented spell. "Scorch to death! Rage fire field!" At the exact same time, his red dots moved and orbited clockwise in unison with him as the center.
The countless red dot of flame hit the enemies inflicting small damage and cancelling what ever spell they had prepared. Some Knights directed their shield to block the attack. They were confused on how this will eliminate them. But it cancelled all the spell they were charging which is enough for them to be wary about the created phenomena.
The red dots orbited faster and faster every passing second. Some fire dots was eliminated by the Shields and barriers but the spell automatically replaced it with another from a spot in the field where there is no enemy. The force of the red dot increased as it's velocity increased making a hole at their puny shield and barriers.
The Knights found their selves in a terrifying situation. They noticed too the increased of strength and speed of the fire dots that even pierced through their Shields and barriers.
One of the Knight's barrier accumulate amount of holes making him take great damaged with the red dots who made through the holes and hit his body. The pain destroyed his focused and instantly after his barrier broke, a fire dot pierced his forehead killing him instantly.
Some of the closer Knights scream in fear at the sight creating a chain reaction on their force. Some shield and barrier faltered, life ending instantly when their head was hit by the fiery dot and Knights trying to run out of the massacre field in futile attempt.
The speed of the orbiting red dots increased drastically, piercing through the weakened defensive spell and Knight's body. The canopy of pained and feared scream became louder, but as the speed of the fiery dots became faster and faster too, the screams died out slowly until no sound beside the scorching remains.
Kaiser, still glowing in golden healing lights, slowed down the fiery dots and rained it down towards the half burned corpse of the Knights. Kaiser released a heavy breath as all the tension and strain from using too much concentration eased. He felt well physically but his mind is sure exhausted by just creating that spell and putting it in praxis.
The ground burned along with the corpse of the Knights. Kaiser looked up from the distance and saw the silver and gold figure of the knight captain and Elissia's icy figure.
Elissia used her dragonoid form, she's now a scaled female with cold intimidating aura surrounding her. But Kaiser was surprised to see a pair of wing from the knight captain's back. "Is that a wills ability like the ice dragon's will of Elissia ?" He asked himself.
He once again concentrated and charged bullets of compressed fire energy ready to shoot. He waited until the knight captain's back was facing him. He ensured first that only the knight captain will be hit by this rained of fiery bullet.
He released the fiery bullets and it arrived and pierced through the Knight captain's body. He heard him scream in pain as he hovered himself away from Elissia and looked at where the attack came from.
His face grimmed when he saw their objective still standing, and beside him a lump of corpse burning. "No!"
His mind went hazy as mixed emotions stormed inside. His mind faltered as grief dominated the other emotions. He lose control of his body as the emotion weakened him along with a different existence who manifested him few days ago whispered to him. "Let me help you! Let me in."