Pebble rose to its feet, free from the gravitational shackles, and charged forward. Nirvana swooped down in her bat form and landed on the summon’s back, turning back into a human.
She summoned her Goblin Mage Staff with a flash of white light, then instantly used a skill. Green, poisonous energy poured from the staff to form a screaming whip.
The wailing whip was ford from green, ghostly faces contorted in permanent agony.
She slashed her hand forward and the whip swam through the damaged steel like a spirit and into the armor.
Kye had warned them that most Worldbreaker armors had inbuilt wards. Apocalypse was a machine built to be an unbreakable cannon. Its wards would protect against spatial and temporal interference, but also special effects like attacks that ignore armor.
What the Kalan hadn’t expected was for the Annihilation effect to be turned on them. Nirvana’s whip phased the damaged wards and sunk into Fix.
"EIIIIII!"
The alien scream echoed through the crater. Faust was rushing towards a specific spot in the battlefield. Its health had to be low. They needed to kill it before it used any healing items.
Pebble spun and threw Nirvana into the air. She transford into a bat just as Fix was counter attacking. The armor opened up and revealed the laser gun again. The purple beam tore through Pebble’s side, but didn’t kill the summon.
Faust summoned it back to his side, saving the summon, and sent a ntal command to his second summon. The archer summon, which he smugly nad Bullseye.
Arrows flew from the ruins of the building around them, accurately entering the gaps in the destroyed armor. The iron sphere rotated to hide its injured side to block the arrows with its uninjured side.
Fix spotted Faust charging at him and screeched with bloody murder. The kalan wanted to kill Faust no matter what. It rolled towards him and enhanced its gravitational field. It crushed Faustdown as he suddenly beca ten tis heavier, but his Strength allowed him to stay standing.
But he was far slower.
A crest appeared over the Iron sphere. Faust’s instincts scread at him to run, but his legs felt like pillars. He knew imdiately this was an equipnt. It was a glowing purple insignia carved into the air.
Space turned static, black and white lights ford a do around them.
Shadow Step!
[Skill failed. You have been locked in a temporary ward.]
It’s isolating !
Faust’ plan was to get Fix to co to him then use Instance Replication to repeat the fireball that was blocked earlier. An instant explosion that Fix couldn’t escape. After that he would use Shadow Step to escape.
But in this closed space, a Heavy Fireball imbued with Annihilation would kill him too.
Fix spawned another equipnt. This one was a blue cube that glowed with purple energy intermittently. It used this to begin rapidly repairing its armor.
"Healing in front of is insane," Faust snarled, pushing through the gravity. "I’m like a dark souls boss without world-ending power.
Fix pointed its laser gun at him and amplified the gravity even more. The ground cracked and caved in under Faust. He could even move. This was checkmate.
Might be ti for a suicide bomb. Let’s hope I survive replicating this fireball.
But then he rembered one of his newest equipent. The Gate bracer glowed on his arm. Fix fired his purple laser.
He used Growth to its maximum and his body and strength doubled instantly. Fix turned the laser up so it cleaved through space to cut him in half groin first.
Vindictive little bastard!
He moved to the left slightly and the purple laser only sawed off his left forearm. Suppressing a scream, Faust grabbed the arm and used Dash.
He slamd into the static barrier created by Fix’s crest, Gate Bracer first. The equipnt glowed a blinding blue and grew extrely hot. Its ability to resist spatial interference was put to the test against Fix’s crest.
Whatever that crest was, it was a far higher grade than the Gate bracer. The static barrier fizzled and popped loudly, but didn’t break.
Fix didn’t fire the purple laser again as its railgun cooldown was ending. It slowly aid at Faust and a cruel laughter sounded.
"KIKIKI!" The little bastard was having the ti of its life. Breaking through the barrier must have been impossible in its mind.
But Faust wasn’t done. Spatial abilities would be weakened according to the system. And he had one last trump card.
He reared his shoulder back and prayed this would count as an attack. He slamd into the barrier once again with the Gate Bracer. The sparking static sound grew deafening. Like the barrier was screaming. Space flickered and distorted, sending sparks of black and white into the air
The Kalan stopped laughing.
Faust grinned as a hole ford in the barrier and he fell through. He applied Annihilation to his ’attack’ against the barrier.
Before his back even hit the ground he used his favourite ability.
Instance Replication!
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Nirvana felt dread in her heart as soon as the white and black static barrier ford over Faust and Fix. She fly low and reverted to her human form, ignoring how strange her legs felt after being a bat for so long.
The mont she hit the barrier, she bounced off like her full montum had been reversed. Her back hit the floor hard. She gasped, but realised she was alright. High Constitution confused her mind.
She shot off the ground and punched the barrier again, but it repelled her force easily. She took out her sword and slashed the black and white static do. Then her dagger. Finally she drew her staff and prepared to use Wailing Whip.
This was the part of the plan where Faust was to trigger an explosion using his schema. And sohow Fix had known to trap them both. The only way for Faust to win was to kill himself with the alien.
And it won’t even freaking die!
Fix was just a tourist. A very racist one, but still a tourist. This was a ga to him. Co in here, kill a few humans and have a laugh with his alien buddies later.
But Faust was obsessed with victory. He wouldn’t let sothing as aningless as his life co in the way of defeating Fix.
"No. Faust, please don’t—"
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