My attacks on the massive sli were enough to get its attention, and not in a good way. Where before, I had been forced to dodge a missile every so often, now almost a dozen pseudopods were throwing shit at , so of them literally flinging parts of the sli in my direction. Those parts didn’t possess any life of their own, but from the way they impacted the asphalt around , I could see that they were highly corrosive and possibly toxic. Their scent certainly indicated that I wanted nothing to do with them, for more than one reason.
The constant barrage was enough to pressure into conjuring shields of Ice the hard way, wasting large amounts of Astral Power by using Ice Magic to manifest them, instead of conjuring them via rune mastery but I simply didn’t have the ti. Even with the shields, I was feeling the pressure, especially when I noticed that the sli projectiles were destructive enough to corrode my Ice.
With the brutal onslaught, I decided that discretion was the better part of valour and used Draconic Leap once more, taking to the air to dodge the latest attacks before landing on the roof of the office building and taking cover. Not a mont too soon, I could already hear the sounds of destruction as multiple missiles aid in my general direction crashed into the building, though it wasn’t enough to bring the house down just yet. The sli was trying but I had a bit of ti.
Ti I used wisely, conjuring up a pair of shields made from Hard Ice, strong enough to withstand quite a bit of punishnt, before recreating the sa formation I had used earlier, the one for freezingly cold water. With the way the pseudopods were waving about, I could estimate the position of the sli, even without seeing it, allowing to launch cold water in an arc, hopefully impacting the sli on the other side. So of the water ended up as spray, turning to snow if it hit so of the dust in the air, but hopefully, the sli took the majority of the damage. The frantic waving of the pseudopods certainly indicated success.
“Watch out, mum!” Luna’s frantic shout of warning was enough to get moving, I was not about to my daughter's words in the slightest and instead, I stopped channelling magic into the formation and leapt off the building. Not a mont too soon, I hadn’t landed on the ground just yet when the sli demonstrated that it, too, could estimate positions based on gathered data, tracing the arc of water back to the formation and launching a barrage of attacks at that position.
Its attacks were enough to make the roof cave in, multiple parts of the other building had hit where I had been monts earlier, alongside so larger pieces of sli, making it quite obvious that it wanted dead. A feeling I thoroughly reciprocated, this thing shouldn’t be allowed to exist, let alone continue to grow.
Regardless, trying to make a stand in the limited area of the treatnt plant would be stupid, there was more than enough open space in the fields around it, giving us freedom to move and avoid the thing as much as possible. Trying to fight such a monster up close was nothing short of suicide, it was simply too specialised to compete in its area of specialisation. Granted, it had so moves I wouldn’t have expected from a sli, regardless of size, but now that we had seen its ability to attack from a distance, we could take asures to avoid them.
By the ti I reached the gate, Luna was already there with Silva, both of them waiting for , while Lia with Alex on her shoulder was quickly approaching. The sli was further away, its attempts to kill by throwing rubble ant it hadn’t been able to move from its position next to the rubble, so we had so ti.
Again, I started to form a runic formation, this ti going for pure Ice Magic, hoping that my greater ability with it would make up for possibly lesser effectiveness on my target. The intent behind the attack was still the sa, freezing the sli, taking away its mobility and ultimately destroying it. If Water was too concentrated to affect sothing of its size, I needed to make the attack more diffuse, widening the area I was freezing so it would be affected all at once.
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The obvious solution was one of my favourite runes, the rune of Mist. For once, I didn’t even try to include a Blood or Darkness component in the magic, rely a combination of Mist and Chill Runes, maximising the amount of Astral Power that went into the two concepts, with a particular focus on the second.
The effect was quite fascinating and physically completely impossible. The mist billowing from my formation wasn’t just cold, it was so cold that the air around it started to freeze from the contact, creating strange snow-like flakes that fell into the grass, only to lt away into steam soon after. The temperature difference between the conjured mist and the air around it was insane and only the control I held over my mist prevented it from imdiately mixing with the air around to reach thermal equilibrium.
As I conjured more and more mist while keeping what I had contained, I waited for the sli to show its pseudopods and luckily, I didn’t have to wait for long. Otherwise, I might have lost concentration and the mist would have disappeared into the warm sumr night, chilling a large volu by a degree or two, instead of creating a super-cooled volu where I wanted it to be. The mont I saw the office building break as the sli broke through it, I sent the mist billowing forward, even as the sli started to throw stuff at us again. But by now, I didn’t need to conjure more mist, so I could easily abandon the formation and use what I had conjured before while we retreated further, Lia quickly closing the gate behind us.
The thrown rubble had so fairly peculiar effects on the gate. It wasn’t as strangely elastic as the rest of the fence, but it was solid enough to block the projectiles, causing so fairly serious noise as they crashed. My own attack seed to have quite a bit more success, causing multiple pseudopods to freeze solid and even break when the sli tried to move them, the Ice not budging to its manipulations. For a mont, I considered using my own Ice Magic on them, but given the distance involved, and the fact that the pseudopods used to be part of the sli, I doubted I’d get any sort of efficiency out of such a move.
Instead, I prepared for the next round, from what I could tell the mist had wounded the think quite severely, though I doubted it was about to die, the attack hadn’t been strong enough to kill sothing of its size.
We all moved away from the gate, Lia and Alex launching a few more of their harassing attacks to keep the sli interested. It briefly tried to retaliate with thrown rubble, but we could move closer to the fence and take cover behind it. When the rubble hit the fence, the effect was just like earlier, when I had tested it and discovered the ridiculous elasticity. It was a sight to see a piece of brick wall, multiple tres in size, crash into the fence, stretching it for over almost two tres before bouncing back, the wall mostly disintegrating from the conflicting forces. I was surprised the thing had managed to throw it in as intact a form as it had, but the destruction on the bounce made up for that.
Now, with its primary ranged attack out of commission, the sli started to move in our direction, picking up a surprising amount of speed by pushing itself with its pseudopods. I decided to conjure more mist, letting it build up as much as possible before sending it against the sli. Luna was a little behind , taking shelter with Silva protecting her, while she empowered with her Divine abilities. It was an interesting effect, one that I’d love to study at so point, but Hecate was fairly stingy in that regard. She helped, but only if Her help was needed, not because we wanted it.
I felt a wide grin stretch my lips when the sli crashed into the fence, trying and failing to destroy the fence, before simply wiggling through it. The sli was easily capable of fitting itself through the gaps but to do so, it had to divide itself up into smaller parts and that was the very mont I struck. By dividing itself so it could fit through the fence, it greatly increased its surface area, making itself far more vulnerable to freezing attacks.
Once it was as divided as I thought it would be, I struck, sending the freezing mist into the area and causing a sudden cold snap.
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