On the main battlefield in the courtyard, a cacophony of sounds reverberated around the area, from yelling and screaming to explosions and blood splattering.
Spells were flung back and forth between the Ashcroft sisters, and the six second-ranked guards, who were becoming increasingly frustrated at the fact they couldn't disengage from a mere two people.
Meanwhile, Seraphina and Astrid had managed to dodge, parry, and weave through the formation-spawned spiritual warrior's attacks, until they each reached one of the clustered groups of first rankers that were conjuring those spiritual warriors.
Once there, they began a slaughter.
Over the last seven years, both of these women had killed enough people to become desensitized to it. Not only did these first rankers stand between them and their goal, but the stakes were actually pretty high as well, and that was more than enough reason for them to ignore their terror-filled screams.
