The whole group other than Yoruichi was messed up. Everyone was either low or too injured to continue. Alsvid with his remaining thirty percent of essence was still keeping Nyxarios at bay. At least that's what he thought.
Jason had stopped using his essence and was just dodging attack after attack from Belfyre. He was hoping for some miracle to occur while he was distracting the pile of flesh that had grown an upper body. At least that's what he thought.
Kage had come to the unique realization long ago that this entire battle was pointless. He knew these things could execute them if they so wanted. While he was keeping a stubborn battle front he was thinking of an escape plan. With sword in hand he clashed with shadow reaper again as he pushed the clash into a Battle of strength.
Yoruichi upon seeing Kage struggle but keep his creature still she dashed in. The creature saw he one that wasn't on the list run towards it. Shadow reaper knew that since the girl wasn't a target it wasn't a problem to kill her. It quickly pushed Kage to the side, spun around and swang the scythe at her head intending to test her reflexes to see whether it could play with her.
As she saw the scythe coming towards her head a deep sense of fear settled in her heart and she froze in place. Kage dropped down from above. He hit the bladed part of the scythe as it spun and slammed into them with its blunt side sending them flying. When the hit the ground they kicked up quite a lot of dust.
Jason just managed to avoid a large blood disks aiming for his dead. He jumped into the air intending to make some distance between them when he was suddenly swallowed up by his own shadow. The shadow that devoured him fell into the ground and moved quite quickly to the dust kicked up by the duo.
Alsvid released another essence burst at Nyxarios. The essence bursts carried a lot of force and had created quick some distance between the two. Nyxarios decided to kick the game up a notch and blinked behind Alsvid with a swing of its arm already in progress when suddenly, Alsvid desolved right in front of Nyxarios having been devoured by his own shadow.
The dust settled to reveal a small black blip on the ground moving at a high speed towards the monolith. Nyxarios appeared in front of the monolith and destroyed it knowing what they had planned. The small blip started jumped from piece of rock to piece of rock until there were too many to distinguish the one it was on and just like that, they were gone.
The blip moved from the furthest reaching rock and moved quite fast towards the forest where it know it could disappear from its pursuit.
As the blip was almost about to reach the shadow of the closest tree, shadow reaper's scythe stabbed into in trapping it in place. As soon as the scythe was pulled out the blip destabilized and the group were spat onto the ground.
Nyxarios started laughing in a very deep ancient voice while the other two just watched. Kage was unconscious and the others were in the same situation as before.
"You sent those three rejects to go after them. Why?" A very deep large voice asked.
"Because they are the most likely to rough them up." Adam replied.
"They are unstable. You never know what they think or what their going to do next, did you really have to take such a risk?" The voice asked with quite some anger in its voice.
"I have everything under control. They will bring them back alive or-"
"Or what, they are not your puppets they are my subordinates. If they disobey your orders you shall do nothing."
"I am your summoner!"
"You were a means to an end. We thank you for bringing us into this world and as such we will complete your first request. But make no mistake. You do not own us."
"Listen here. I am your summoner. I own you. whatever I say goes-"
"You don't own use. You most certainly don't own me. Watch your mouth before I-"
"Before you what Monarch. Before you what. Learn your place. You control your people but you don't control me. I control you. I own you. Now you better do as I say before I releave you of your existence. Go out there, find and kill that stupid old man. And I don't want to hear another word out of your mouth. Got that?" Adam asked.
The whole swamp became absolutely silent. There was no reply and Adam took that as a yes. He was no longer the happy-go-lucky Adam that everyone knew. He wasn't going to get trempled by anyone and especially not a mere summon who needs an attitude adjustment. He slowly started making his way in a random direction feeling the drain of summoning the being he was just talking to. He hadn't slept in a while and the lack of energy was finally catching up to him.