"What is it doing?" Tiagon muttered cautiously eying the creature, he had never seen such a thing since he had lived and he had lived for thousands of years.
Then another door opened and out came a human teenage girl in little clothing with a wand taller than she was, she hovered in the air confused but she immediately recognized the others by the doors as also people taking the exams and the thing in the middle was potentially an enemy.
The hunched creature slowly stood up, it was shorter than Tiagon had expected, about three feet tall. Its thick strands of air suddenly released a blue glow and mana coalesced on it.
Sparks of blue light materialized to form whips of lightning on his hair. It all happened so fast but all the mages could follow the change.
The lightning element then fell and simmered down into his body imbuing him with the element. Crackles sounded and bolts of lightning shot randomly, one almost struck the elf twins but they stopped it with a mana shield.
It suddenly disappeared from the spot, Tiagon's eyes darted to the side as he followed his movement. The creature appeared in front of the lady with its arms concentrated with lightning magic, it struck forward its arms breaking through the Mana shield she had put up and breaking through her abdomen.
Its blue hands went through her jutting from her back, blood poured from her mouth and her body went weak, she couldn't do anything, all she could feel was the fiery painful feeling in her loins.
The creature flung her to the side splotching blood on the walls behind. Her body broke into two from the force.
The elf twins looked with fear and disgust, it was fast too fast and menacing, they knew there that this was the last hurdle to cross.
"Reizel!" One yelled and purple energy escaped from his beautiful wand.
"Fireball!" The other followed with a large ball of fire.
The purple energy struck first creating a shockwave and a cloud of thick black smoke and then the large flaming ball struck the same spot.
The elves retrieved their defensive stances and stood with an affirmative feeling like they were certain they had destroyed the creature.
Tiagon and his mate maintained their positions, Tiagon standing freely and just looking at the spot when he suddenly raised his eyes.
The creature, the lightning fiend was above, it had totally avoided the attacks.
It spun around and so did its hair releasing spears of lightning throughout the area.
Tiagon immediately raised his arm and conjured up a shield of Mana that protected him and the others against the swift magic.
The elves did the same. One activated a spell in front of the Mana shield. Green large vines sprouted from the shield and squirmed forward at the creature.
They took damage as they went up ahead but they regenerated at a very quick rate and finally they caught up to him wrapping themselves around him.
Tiagon raised his hand and an overlap in space appeared–it was like a crack, his dimensional subspace, and it released countless black greatswords from above on the creature.
Tiagon could have sworn that he saw it grin when it suddenly brimmed further with lightning breaking through the vines and streaming its magic through the swords pausing them up above and hijacking them.
He cupped his arms tightly to his legs, multiple black greatswords hung overhead, lightning coating them and suddenly arched backward violently and then forward throwing his arms and sending the swords zooming at lightning speed towards the group.
'This is not good. The Mana shield won't hold. I have to.'
Tiagon frowned his brows and immediately opened his subspace above, an opening of purple and multiple shades appeared above the three of them swallowing the swords.
The elf twins weren't so lucky, they could tell of the powerful impact the lightning swords would have and they created multiple layers of mana shield to fend off the attack but unfortunately for them, the swords broke through the shield tearing their bodies apart and killing them.
"Ahh! A dimensional subspace." The creature spoke for the first time since the face and then it grinned wickedly.
"What are we going to do Clyde? We can't defeat that thing. We just can't!" Aarin cried in fear, the situation had made her lose interest in whatever portal he had conjured up and she wanted nothing more but to survive.
Turan on the other hand just maintained a fierce focused glare on the creature above.
The swords ran out, many sticking on the ground and on the walls turning the room into a monument of greatswords.
"Let's see you stop this." It struck down his arm and a black thick warbling orb formed right beneath his hand and zoomed below.
As it did, it pulled the swords below, rocks and the bodies of the elves onto itself slowly but the power of the pull got stronger as it descended.
Turan and Aarin activated protection magic which created some resistance against the pull of the spell.
Swords clanged as they struck each other forming a ball around the orb covering it, the mangled bodies of the elves squeezed into them turning into smaller cuts of flesh.
Tiagon's subspace shook, it was unstable and it shrunk and widened and finally it shrunk to nothing.
'The spell undid my subspace.'
"No." Aarin whimpered.
Tiagon looked to his side spotting Turan who still had a look of hope on her face, he nodded to her and she returned the gesture.
"It's always the tough way."
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Outside the dungeon, by the entrance at the other end sat an elf mage, the examiner going through a grimoire. Standing by her was the human mage who supervised the previous exam with her.
"Do you think any of them will survive that creature? It's strange that High Mage Lorn was interested in the examinations this year, he had never been and to release such a powerful prisoner… I don't think even I can take on that monster." he said.
"You can, you'll probably win in a fight against it but you will certainly die and as for them surviving, we will see soon enough." The mage casually stated as she read through the pages.