Following his subtle movement, the tall woman looked up for an instant, only to feel a blade going right through her stomach and splitting her in half.
She had focused too much on Theli and forgotten about Rolanh for a bit too long, although the fact that her guts her spilling everywhere didn't seem to be more than an inconvenience to her as her upper half landed on the hands while the lower turned around all by itself and started engaging the spearman.
Her intestines and organs went right back in as her veins extended like tendrils for her upper half to stand upon.
Still uncaring about her condition, she spoke again, this time her accent less prevalent.
"I could feel a mind within the flames and lightning you conjured, how were you able to give minds to your spells?" she asked whilst pointing at the mage.
"Don't you have more important stuff to do than ask these questions?" he said with a light smile.
"I indeed do, however I have time to spare for two basic humans" she said as she frowned deeply, suddenly, she regenerated her lower half despite the fact that her legs were still moving in the distance.
Theli noticed her feet and fists starting to blur as if vibrating at incredible speeds, he immediately understood where she was going with this.
In the next instant, she had broken through his layer of barriers and almost gotten him.
He was pretty impressed that she figured out how his barrier worked and how to counter it after coming into contact with it only once, either she had incredible brain power or something else was at play.
Perhaps the same thing that had allowed her to learn a whole language in a second.
Although it seemed inconsequential, the fact that she had mixed up thunder and lightning immediately after learning it made Theli believed that she had gotten this knowledge directly from the guard after puncturing his spine and thus gotten his own misconception in the process and having no other points to compare it to, she had naturally assumed it to be the truth.
Meanwhile, the woman was quite surprised as well, the mage was casually dodging her attacks while seemingly thinking about something else entirely, she pulled back and stopped for a moment.
"My apologies, seems like I misjudged you human, you are a greater breed of mage than I had gotten used to" she complimented him with a straight face as her veins swelled up.
Theli muttered something imcomprehensible again whilst raising up a whole, thick wall of steel in between the two of them, something she couldn't just get through, forcing her to go around it.
Once she got there however, she was met with yet another spell that seemed to have its own will, a freezing mist that immediately caused her flesh to solidify in its entirety.
Thankfully for her, she had the still moving lower half somewhere further, from which she regenerated her upper half, allowing her to escape an ice prison.
She jumped back immediately and took cover behind the lever room.
Theli casually walked up to Rolanh without a word.
"Since her revival is clearly linked to that lever and crystal inside of there, shouldn't we just, you know, undo all that?" spoke Rolanh and in response, Theli just slightly raised his hands as if trying to calm down an angry mob and just shook his head.
"That would be too easy and we, or rather I, will benefit from here running around some more, I just demonstrated that I could freeze her to stop her from regenerating, she is bound to go and try to achieve what she had originally in mind before confronting me again and since I don't know the way..." he explained as the sound of wall being broken down and collapsing was heard in the distance.
The two men moved to see a huge opening made in the wall at the end of the room, right in the middle of it.
"Would you mind explaining what she is going for since you seem to already know?" asked Rolanh with a sigh.
"The source of excellence of course, a small body of water said to purge a person and propel them directly to their greatest height, from scanning the memories of the corpses, it was clear that they had sealed it because it had been abused and was running the risk of completely drying up if used again, as you can guess, our new friend didn't care much about this" he explained without even an ounce of urgency in his voice.
"That sounds terrible, can you explain why we are letting her get some advance on her then?" then asked the spearman, too used to Theli at this point.
"They collapsed the whole thing, she'll have to dig through it all but the debris didn't quite completely seal everything, there is a miniscule, invisible to the naked eye, way there, accessible to particularly small insects you could say"
"So? Do you have a trick up you sleeve?" questioned Rolanh, not quite getting where Theli was going with this.
"Of course I have a trick up my sleeve, I may not have quite grasped space magic as of yet but I know a way to 'teleport', you see, position exchange!" he loudly declared as he put his hand on Rolanh's shoulder and their surroundings suddenly changed, leaving a cockroach in their place.
The two men looked over a large cavity in the ground, surrounded by stunning vegetation that had reached impressive sizes considering how restrictive this cave should be for them.
At the bottom of the cavity, a small portion was filled with oddly light blue water that seemed to sparkle.
Theli took a step toward it right as a passageway obstructed by irregular pieces of stone bursted, revealing the woman, how had made her way there quite quickly.
Seeing Theli just single step away from entering the small body of water, she stopped breathing for a second, visibly sweating as she looked between him and the water, trying to evaluate if there really was only enough for a single usage from the source of excellence.