Astaria uses her teleportation skill to directly appear amongst the right side of the Iron Fist guild's formation and casts Frozen Burst, instantly freezing the 4 players closest to her, which allows her some time to cast her follow up spells now the closest threats to her temporarily turned into ice statues.
Making the most of the confusion brought about by the inexperience and lack of knowledge the Iron Fist guild as well as the members panic, Astaria swiftly casts a freeze onto a player with the assassin class who is loitering behind the formation. He is instantly frozen in place, turning into a statue and temporarily stopping him from flanking her and keeping him out of the fight.
As the Iron Fist guild looks towards the sound of the exploding ice, they now realise that Astaria has appeared amongst the support players at the back of their formation. In immediate response the experienced close-range players all swarm towards Astaria who prepares to cast her chain lightning, delaying the spells release to allow for the oncoming players to move closer together for maximum effect.
The arcs of lightning instantly kill all of the 6 enemies within range of the attack, their bodies dropping to the ground with slight whisps of black smoke rising from their corpses. As Astaria returns her attention to the frozen players around her, she takes the free moment to swiftly manoeuvre amongst the ice statues and decapitate them before they can break free, their encased heads making a loud thud as they hit the ground, their weight increased from the layer of ice encasing them.
As the blood spurts from the frozen players necks, Astaria's hooded cloak once again receives another baptism of crimson, glistening in the light of the torches. The onlooking players could barely keep up with the action, within the space of 10 short seconds Astaria had beautify dodged a large number of ranged attacks while launching devastating magic into the Iron Fist guild, only to vanish and appear amongst the enemy guild in a whirlwind of ice, lightning, and blood, instantly killing large numbers of enemy players.
Astaria's devastating burst of attacks successfully killed off 18 members of the Iron Fist Guild, leaving them with 32 players from the main formation who were now scattered over the area while their other 20 members were still keeping the crowds back.
With the Iron Fist guilds cohesion completely broken, the scattered players all start wildly moving towards Astaria, preparing their attacks as their collective anger increases at the deaths of their guild mates.
Astaria who was waiting for this to happen unconsciously smiles even wider, turning around as she dashes towards the edge of the formation, ducking under a couple of spells that fly towards her.
2 melee fighters who were part of the right wing of the guild's formation move to get into Astaria's way to stop her from moving about. The two, a warrior and a paladin, both swing their weapons towards Astaria who deftly dodges to the side before thrusting her sword into the open face helmet of the warrior, killing him without any resistance as his body sways before crumpling to the floor. The paladin, seeing is friend get killed next to him, shouts at Astaria, readjusts and swings his blade sideways in an attempt to bisect her.
"Just fucking die, you bitch!"
With a smirk, Astaria slams her staff into the ground the ground blocking the paladins attack, followed by an earth lance sprouting directly into the paladin's throat causing his sword to drop to the floor. The other 3 Earth Spikes from Astaria's spell are sent in an arc behind her, catching the arm of a player who had caught up to her but unfortunately not killing him.
Without looking back at the player whose arm was now hanging limp while he shouted in surprise, Astaria uses her evasion to open the gap, turning around to cast her Lightning and Residual Lightning at the mob of players who were blindly charging at her.
The first single target lightning bolt takes out a smart warrior who was trying to circle around to her left, while the follow up Residual Lightning takes out 2 of the enemies at the front of the enemy mob while knocking 4 more to the floor, tripping up some of the other inexperienced close-range fighters charging with all their might behind them.
Taking the chance that the new players had presented to her, Astaria immediately flows up by casting her fireball onto the pile of Iron Fist members trying to get up, the resulting explosion instantly killing the 7 players stuck on the ground.
After seeing another 12 of his members be killed in a matter of seconds, Iron Fist who was bewildered at both the speed of the combat as well as Astaria's ability to send his guilds formation into complete disarray starts to shout at his guild members.
"ARE YOU ALL FUCKING STUPID? SPREAD OUT!"
Inwardly laughing at Iron Fist and his newbie blunders until now, Astaria rushes towards the enemies now spreading out and creating space between them, flourishing her sword as she deftly dodges a magic swordsman's dramatic cleave, thrusting her sword into his unprotected chest before moving onto the next enemy who had taken distance a few metres away.
With the Iron Fist members now spread out, Astaria can see what the other players movements far more clearly than before while having extra space to move between the enemies who were now coming to her one or two at a time. The space between the enemies also allows Astaria to clearly see the intermittent ranged magic attacks coming at her from in the distance.
After killing 6 more melee players who were wildly swinging their weapons at her, Astaria decides that it was becoming quite annoying having to deal with them individually, so she trips up a nearby paladin with a swing of her staff, forcing the player to the floor as she uses her evasion to take distance.
One of the warriors near the front, clearly an officer, calls out to his guild around him.
"Don't let her take distance, close the gap!"
Smirking at this, Astaria channels her chain lightning as the players trying to keep a few meters distance between each other charge, however they forget about the paladin trying to get up from the ground and rush past him.
At the moment they move close to the paladin, 3 players who were now within the 2-meter radius of the downed player were killed by the arcs of lightning shooting out from the paladin's body as it was hit by Astaria's spell, killing 4 more players.
By this stage of the fight, the Iron Fist guild's main formation had lost 41 of their players within a minute, leaving just 9 players remaining, including Iron Fist, while their 20 weaker members who were responsible for keeping the crowd at a distance were looking on in utter shock, some with their mouths slightly agape.
Amongst the crowd of spectators there was a wild mix of emotions, many players were in shock seeing Astaria's clear proficiency with her class and her overwhelming strength, while others were cheering and hurling insults at the Iron Fist guild who were getting decimated by one female player.
Some of the NPC guards could also be seen atop the walls watching this all play out, their tensions raised as one guard that bet that the solo player would win the fight was grinning in triumph, while the other guards all had a look of disbelief and sadness as their hard earn coin was going to pay for another guard's drinks.
The fight had hit a lull after Astaria's last attack as the Iron Fist members unconsciously hesitate seeing their numbers had severely diminished while the number of scattered bodies covered in ice, burns of blood had multiplied.
Iron Fist, who was still standing where the centre of the guild's formation once was, glares at Astaria with his free fist tightly clenched and his teeth grinding.
Astaria, noticing Iron Fists sharp glare from between the gaps in the enemy guild's members, frowns. She could clearly understand the resentment from losing in such a way, but for Iron Fist to give her such a hate filled gaze after he was the one trying to steal from others somewhat baffled her. The expression was nothing new, she had seen many players look this way, she could just never understand how their minds were so twisted to not see that they were in the wrong.
Astaria could see that she had won this fight since the Iron Fist guild members were clearly too scared to attack her, so making the decision to end this fiasco she slowly starts walking towards Iron Fist, the enemy players backing off and giving her space as she walked forwards.
Hearing the sounds of footsteps and feeling a presence behind her, Astaria spins around, sweeping her staff and causing the assassin player she froze earlier to appear from thin air as he falls onto his back.