In the beastlands still in amongst the castle ruins sits Ranna who is mulling over the warning he had received from Kuru his internal thoughts were 💭 "I've already destroyed this fort before, besides I only want the Sage of Scozia" still seated he looks around and notice there are some beastlings looking nervous , so he stands and ferociously screams so that the nearby anxious beastlings could hear him "IT'S TIME!,my friends, time to take back what's ours" with sensitive hearing the hundreds of beastlings nearby all heard Ranna and come running. Ranna seeing the mass of the beastlings all run to his feet felt like a general again and thought to the last time he led an army feeling a tad nostalgic.
Ranna composes himself after reminiscing and speaks to the now gathered army "many of you fear me, this I know but many don't respect me as I was raised by a human and was even a prince, however I never forgot my roots or lineage not even for a second, in the past I visited this land as an ambassador for Pinoro and I witnessed my brethren be slaughtered for fun or sport, the sight of this made me become who I was always supposed to be, that is a beastling filled with rage towards humans, I've been away a while but I'm here now stronger and angrier than ever those of you who fear me, fear not I mean no harm to any beastlings who mean no harm upon me however those of you who don't respect me, YOU ARE ABOUT TO" Ranna turns and transforms into a giant polar bear like man with huge a muscular frame covered in white fur with red tribal markings over it and he mutters "pressure" and a massive amount of red energy surges from all the pores on his body and covers around a kilometre radius with Ranna in the centre making everything and everyone nearby him tremble and shake he the roars and starts running towards Mt Vega. The beastlings all astounded by his sheer power become hopeful they all transform and follow his trail.
Back at Mt Vega inside a secure room in the holy fort Rory, Urakata and Lazslo are discussing how they plan to subdue and capture Ranna. Rory leading the conversation states "I'll handle blocking his big attacks, Lazslo you use your speed to be a handful and keep him distracted if you can get a clean attack then by all means hit him but it's not your goal and finally Urakata you are probably the only one who can give any serious damage so your main objective in the battle is to not be damaged Franco isn't here to heal us so we need to be careful " Lazslo laughing responds "keke I'll be more than a handful I'll freeze that fucker as soon as I see him" Rory interjects "we will stick to my plan it's our only choice right Urakata" Rory looks in Urukata's direction for affirmation. Urakata has his eyes closed and appears to be concentrating very hard to which Lazslo says "he using his foreign sense spell, he creates a huge array of miniscule mana particles invisible to the eye and spreads them out on a large scale, so that when anything comes in contact with them he gets a mental image sent to him to identify the threat, quite a handy skill for these types of situations keke" it's at this moment Urakata's face changed colour and his eyes opened, he had seen a surge of red energy flow into his mana net he worriedly states "Run outside now he's coming".
Rory grimaces "I thought we had more time to prepare, so be it lads let's go, Teleport" white and gold energy swirls around the group and they disappear from the room and appear in front of the fort on the path that Ranna is charging on towards them. Rory loudly asks Urakata "how far is he do we have time to warn the squadrons" Urakata responds hastily "we have about three minutes till he gets here, I'll create a signal" Urakata draws his katana from his side and uses his flashiest spell "searing blade🔥🗡️" and a huge flame about five times longer than the blade grows from the katana and brightly lights up the dark tunnel in which the holy fort is situated getting the attention of the lookouts to which Rory commands "tell the squad leaders and our magus to prepare for hell Ranna the red approaches"
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