Only now Sparkle realizes that her senses were dull enough from the exhaustion to not notice the fighting bellow. The entire castle perimeter was turn into a battlefield. Battle cries, ringing weapons, crossing spells and projectiles, explosions. Forget the raid type of battles in dungeons. This was an unrestricted war between coalition of vamp, humans and golems, against demons spawns whose skins managed to mature. So, they become a quite resilient to anything and somehow hard to defeat.
The major boss of the raid was the demon lord who somehow manage to cast an overpowered stone skin spell. In his variation the surrounded rocks and stones climb on him forming a really thick layer of stone armor, it nearly transforms him onto stone golem. He clearly doesn't wanted to lose another heart wit this fortress type defense. But now was clear, why he was so confident when this spell; not just make him again bigger; but he spice up the show when he ignites hiss inner skin in green hell-fire. And for now, this golem had his joints covered in flames like another layer of protection. This giant size of herald from pandemonium [capital city of hell] was a true menace who additionally launched a magically self-aiming projectiles of lava like substance. But it was mostly on no vein, when the targeting of shots was overwritten toward other demons, by fast chanting and incantation from miss inquisitor [spell interceptor – overtake control of spell]. While ignoring the presence of others, his attention was fully occupied by another giant shaped like a (hydra?). And that nun named Ina was (seated?) on one of hydra heads.
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Anna quickly looked around trying to locate her friends. She found that they were ambushed by the two demons generals and some demons spawns. But they had help of the squad made from anti-skill troops, golems and locals. They manage to hold down one of the generals with green vines and panic rate bombardment of whatever random spell come onto mind. The other one was fully preoccupied by a emo professional book-worm like Jessica Armstrong [Watcher's artisan] in close martial art combat. [Offense armor – a (imaginary?/ air?) full body super power armor]
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The third general was swallowed by some thick shadow cloud. It seemed that this cloud was trying to submitted that general, or more specially extract something from it. There was a coalition team to, staring at it, but they dint do more that talking; trying to figure whats going on. Dunno how, but Anna manage to overhear that they were discussing, if is even possible for Kyone NightWing, (Another Watcher artisan in mourning dress and zero motivation issue) [Shadow stalker – shadow realm spells]; to save Greg Holdon (former errand boy for Watcher's party) who was supposed to be long death, from that general.
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The fourth one barricade himself at the entrance to the official castle crypt. It seems that this one come out from the mentioned Shadow stalker and had a nasty ability to posed rotting or root out corpses by using a liquid shadow, turning them into wraiths. And those phantoms were marching out from the entrance to the underground. Because this crypt was located on the castle perimeter, some of these monsters were quite capable even if they were freshly turned on. One of these was some kind of important figure resistant to white magic, who contain his personal guard squad of pseudo skeletons. Those were really trouble opponents as it didn't matter how many of them were taken down by coalition forces, there was just another one who raised up from the dirt or dust to protect the VIP.
Fran Baguette at some point decide to blow up the entire crypt into sky. Which resulted in massive explosion and unwilling reappearance of the demon general. He was not happy...
Of course, the flying remains of corpses spread the scent of bones. This alerted any dog in wide area and eventually attracted even certain someone. Herald in her wolf girl form, using her Teleport, express flied onto this battle area. She was like a hungry beast ripped from the chain, and practically roamed the group of skeletons like a bowling ball, instantly razzing out half of the skeletons. There was this biting into a bone sound. 'chrum' The special wraith had a lot of trouble, dealing with this wild person biting into his arm. But because this liquid shadow was originally a vampire ability, then the bite of werewolf naturally disrupts the wraith effect. For a moment it seemed that the special skeleton regains some of the previous soul willpower that someday lived in that body. The end, not just for him, but for many others atrocities, arrived by a flash of light as this one cast his final holly spell. It was like sprinklers of holly sparkles, that were extra effective against undead, and spark even more chaos on the field.
The general doesn't liked losing nearly all of his troops and in revenge, he decided to fully focused on that paladin girl. But he was constantly failing to hit Herald. Normally one will only expecting that the dog; will be just running around, dash to bite, dodge and leap. But because she was crazy teleporting from one place to another place so natural and simple as if she was just jumping around, the demon got livid.
Major change come when Baguette once again decided to blow things up. She yells 'Let him eat this!!' when a ball shaped like a king's golden apple flied toward the demon. For paladin girl, was no problem to catch it, and show it down to general throat. Of course, only after Fran was already on run to safety she kind-hardheartedly jells back at them, that the bomb was an extra strong holly grenade, and all of them shall take a cover.
The massive explosion tears the general into pieces, burning him down like a tree. Even the rest of wraiths around were caught in blast of light and burned into dust. Only ash and sad remains of fabric (some on fire) that were on those corpses were falling down silently.
Becky escaped from that blast unharmed and she continued to spread the chaos and salvation.
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Seeing this Anna make a sigh of relief.
Near to her was Accelerator (who still awaited her answer?) "Are you finally decided what will you do? The battle will end with you, or without you. The only thing that shall matter is what your decision will say about you? So many of those morons relying on you for whatever reason." The girls take a breath. Then she takes a good look on the knife. He saw that and make a comment: "Are you really going to rely on that toy? If yes, then hurry up and figure you signature move. The one which everyone will always recognize if they heard about it."
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She was nervous about him talking a (good advice's?) to her. "What about you? What will you do?"
"I once take on, on the whole world, and change it. And I already had my evening warm up. So, its on you to wrap this shit up. Or are you going to say that defeating that shit lord thing down there, is not what you signed it for up? Then why are you even here?"
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"You are suspiciously direct. What your objective here?"
He leans closer. "You are really dense one are you? Look what just my presence, just my existence, do whit those simpletons down here. Of course, I can descend down, light step on that bastard, and it will be the end. Casualty and rubles everywhere. Good bye this city. But can you live with that result? Knowing that someone else steal you prey? When you called dibs as the first one? [I call dibs on it; so, stay away from it!] Or are you going to tell me; that you don't have what its needed to win this?" HE click his tongue in dislike. "Tcs. Stop acting like a weakling! If using just you magic, strength, or tools, is not enough alone; then combine everything that is around you. No matter how many rules you have to broke, first ask yourself why shall you bother to follow them in the first place. Physic,-- Magic,-- Society,-- Relationships,-- If you hate them, then not just break them, repaint that shit whit whatever you want!"
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She tried to make a comment, but with single gesture of hand as sweeping crumbles from table, he sweeps her excuses from this conversation.
"You reached to the matriarch level. That like a condition to entry list for greatness… Fook, that just a entry ticket to the real league at the top. When you already there, then it's no way to get out. The events will find you even if you bury yourself into a grave. They never let you be. They will still come. A challenge after challenge. You just put you ass down to sit onto a rock to take a short break, and next thing that you will realize is; that there is a city on the supposed empty coast that was not there the last time you bother to look out. The only way is to win or perish. So, hurry up, your window of destiny is closing! It will be really pathetic to miss it."
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Anna was somehow confused. Why this his talking to her sounded so much like intervention? Why the one who is known as (the one who threaten do destroy humanity), care so much right now? Did he found an interest in her? Did he mistake her for someone else? He was been off the board for over a century, so are his memories clouded? What will happen if he remembers, or she will refuse to comply his desire? He did say he do what he does to wipe out the demons, but will he spread destruction on this land, if she will not act as he please?
The expression on his face told that he saw through her worries and decide to hurry her up: "One last thing, if you spell are not fitting yours desires; then just make one that will fit them as you go. All those spell charts, tables and spell trees are just a bullshit talk to believe that there is some hierarchy and class limitation for spells and who can use what. Even an spell affinity is just a lie when you finally figure how the shit working."
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"Oh, right." For now, she decides that there is a more important matter to deal that chatting with him. She look down on the battlefield where that rock armored demon lords was fighting against the nun riding hydra on nearly colossal tier of battle. Anna look at the handle of the blade-less knife. "I will need a more fire power that this to pierce that crust." Because that fancy sheath was holding on her hip basically on its own will, she returned handle back onto it.
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After short breath she look around. Becky was settled on the fight in the castle corridor against the other two demon generals. Swing somehow used a whole scale of attack spell and even controlled a fire golem who copy- followed her movements. Winea's ranged healing was really holding they team together and away from defeat. There was Armstrong using her academic martial arts, and plant golem using lots of wine climb stems as some tentacles. The support crew boost them or help to fight the others demons that show up. For Sparkle was seem strange, that the fights stands for so long. She considers to go help them. But by the corner of her eyes she still sees that Accelerator still staring at her. Then she glanced at the treasure room that looked more like a storage. Her attention was caught whit some metallic objects. "Oh, I shall use a lighting rood to deliver a lighting strike directly into that demon, so he will not have time for another regeneration."
She just nearly went down when he school her. "Like a fooking newbie! Do you really need to go down there, to grab it? My area spell is still active and the moment you descent, you will hardly come back up. Whatever you need, just grab it from here!"
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Anna glanced onto him shortly before she looks at her own palm. Then she turns her palm toward that warehouse, trying to reach the magnetic content in it. First, she tries to make a link from here to down there. But soon she summons in her palm an electric orb who was send down to the storage room. This time it acts as a conductor that pulled to itself all that junk she needed. And then it raised the odd ball up to her.
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Once it was in front of her, she melts down that mass to make a solid lance type rood. As she continues to thing outside of her normal mental patterns, she even though about go around the spell incantation, and rebuilding it as she please.
"You though that you can look down at us?
Just who do you think we are?
When the flashes from starry sky,
will burn you soul full of hate,
when we send our will down,
you will turn into a dust."
Surrounded air became statically charged... it started with sparks that turns into curtains... all flowing into one point until a massive lighting was gathered around her in a suspicious ring, that rotated around her.
The hydra somehow notice what was going to happen, and launched its heads to simultaneity bit/ catch the golems limbs, to nail it into place, even if that's means to put itself onto fire hell.
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Sparkle acted... She just doesn't trowed the lance from where she was… she make a complex action:
First; she dashes [Sky dive] with it straight down like a meteor using the areal anti-fly spell to her advantage to accelerate her fall. But the lighting ring stayed where she left it.
Second; she was fast and when she was right above him she dance swung her body in pirouette… No! as she was falling, she make 360 degrees barrel roll in her fall direction. She used that to trust that weapon down... she not just throw that lance at her opponent, she use her powers to nearly put all her momentum of her fall into it, so she practically fired a javelin. And that roll caused her to tarry/ wait at air… No, she itself moved up for a slight moment, as some kind of gun recoin reaction.
That javelin crashed down on him like a dropped hammer, causing a serious impact shock wave. The shock not just raises up a clouds of dust, shocked the demon lord to its center of gravity, but it even make the hydra to let the demo lord go and falled back. The piece of metal stuck into top of the rock golem head as it pierced through the enchanted rock skin.
Third; before she itself shall drop on him, she starts making an another roll, raising her fist up to sky. The ring of lighting instantly drop down and settled on her hand as if she was holding in her fist its supposed core.
Fourth; as she finished the third roll... with a furious battle cry, she falls toward the lance, and she punched its end, like a hammer nail. The end of lighting rood bend to all sided as if it was a cake when her charged fist touched it. But as she meteor strike the demon lord, or more correctly the top tip off that rolled piece of metal, she transfer the power from the ring into the weapon, and she launched that javelin second time when it was accelerated beyond the speed of sound. [Gauss canon work on a principle, that you have a magnetic medium in middle, that will pull to itself a carrier of kinetic force. Reaching (to pass) or hitting it (to stop first and launch second) will cause transfer of magnetic force to kinetic and further increase of speed of the carrier.]
The shock wave went troughs the rock-solid body, from up to down shattering pieces of that armor from inside out. Entire golem lights up with blue white colors, but the lance itself turned into red boiling projectile that went all through the demon body, crashing into ground bellow him. The lighting storm enveloped everything and was burning it in electrical curtain. Someone can describe this move as trying to make a can of meat to blow up from inside, as there were multiple explosions that were barely hold inside because of the stone wall around it. As the body was withering out, the demon lord must be... for this time... death for sure.
But Anna notices a small suspicious piece that detach itself from main body and try to escape, and she shout at it: "No, you will not!!" She draws her (blade-less) knife, jumped from the top to intercept that piece, and swung her weapon upside down. Similar to the wooden table in that dam weapon shop before who was selling this knife, even this small piece of mass was cut in half... Another demon hart-core was cut onto pieces. [#5]
As the final move, the hydra launched her heads toward the demoniacal golem of purgatory. The lord was then torn apart, as the hydra simultaneity torn off every limb from the main torso in one pack control bite and pull move. The limbless torso itself crashed down onto the surface like a bag of veggies.