Elita was both surprised and unsurprised by the sudden attack. The force of Uyuniya flying and knocking into the wall behind her sent a ruthless gust pushing against her back. The forr Paladin Champion couldn't have said her friend didn't have it coming though. Even with the language barrier, it wasn't too difficult to discern the aning of what soone else was saying if you added sneers, leers and grins. She sighed behind her mask.
Revia turned pale.
She was already lost to what was happening here, but the frightening power she had sensed just now almost sent her over the edge. She felt goosebumps on her skin, sothing she hadn't felt in a very long while. She truly was alive.
The restrictive ice on her legs suddenly lted away, and Skullius began walking towards Elita. Revia didn't know what to do or say to this. While she got that Skullius likely wasn't her enemy, it did seem as though so hostility was brewing between him and Elita.
"Your friend has a big mouth," Skullius said to Elita once he was close to her.
The forr Paladin Champion pulled her sword from the ground.
"She's not very friendly to anomalies outside our spectrum. Though she's never encountered a Null Lifeform like you, that doesn't an she'll entertain your presence. She views you the sa as she does Undead creatures. My friendliness towards you is also... unacceptable to her," she said.
"I see," Skullius said. So, that's what all that bark was about. He looked at Elita's Broodweiler. "I don't want to fight you over this."
"Neither do I, Skullius. Like I said, I never ant to hurt you. I just didn't think you'd understand. And well, you don't. That's fine. I couldn't ask you to fast track your understanding of who I am now." She looked at Revia. "Or you, Revia."
The Spirit Warden didn't know what kind of face to make nor which of her thousands of questions to ask first.
Skullius breathed out a chilled breath.
Sothing faster than light ca zipping his way, brandishing a great sword malevolently!
Uyuniya swung the blade once she was only two ters away from Skullius!
...But she was forced to stop.
A layer of frost and stitches instantly covered her body, killing her montum and zeal simultaneously; the [Entropy's Harmonising Nimbus] wouldn't allow her approach its master. It couldn't bind her sword, however. It alone remained unfrozen and unstitched while still in Uyuniya's grip.
Elita flinched.
Skullius rely looked at the iced subject with distaste.
"You know, it's going to be pretty difficult for NOT to kill her if she keeps provoking
like this," Skullius said, and his senses searched Elita thoroughly for her response. "You must know this already, Elita. I can't do half asures when it cos to other Divines."
If Elita's face wasn't hidden, Skullius would have seen the conflict and strain on it.
"Uyuniya is..." she began, but Skullius didn't hear the rest.
...!!!
The Hybrid Warmoth was suddenly smacked ten ters backwards and into the wall, much to his astonishnt!
'Huh?'
He had been hit!
But by what?
Sothing had bypassed the protection from his nimbus!
Uyuniya imdiately unthawed, Voided Death Essence blazing around her. Soon, her tall, naked figure was standing tall and proud, that arrogant grin back on her face.
Skullius pushed himself out of the wall, frowning. Sothing unseen had struck him just now. It was not a typical attack, otherwise his nimbus would have made an attempt to stop it. He was sure it wasn't from Uyuniya's great sword or so application of Voided Death Essence. He saw Elita rush up to Uyuniya and yell sothing at her, but the tall woman rely scoffed. She hissed sothing back that was probably a rejection of whatever idea Elita had presented. It was fast becoming clear to Skullius that Elita didn't have any hold over her friend, and in that case...
"I'm guessing a fight is unavoidable?" he said to the forr Paladin Champion.
"Please wait!" Elita said to Skullius before nudging Uyuniya and appealing to her again. The woman gave a dark gaze and barked sothing that made Elita lt. Uyuniya pointed at Skullius with her great sword and then at herself.
The Hybrid Warmoth saw Elita's tense shoulders slump. He didn't like the look of that.
"Well?" he asked.
Elita let out a frustrated breath.
"Please don't fight her, Skullius," she begged. "Even though she's just beco Divine, she knows more than you and combined when it cos to Divine powers."
Skullius shook his head.
"I'm not the hostile one here. And do you really think I'd lose to her?" he said.
Elita hesitated only for a mont.
"No. And that's why I'm appealing to you."
"Appeal to her."
"She's not the type to listen to soone beneath her! She wasn't so average powerhouse in her world. She was a princess. And she is well older than ," Elita said, agitated.
Uyuniya seed to be enjoying their squabble. She snapped her fingers and Skullius sensed sothing too thin for the naked eye to see wafting towards her from the air, condensing and forming clothing for her.
To his surprise, it was viruses of different natures!
They rged with bizarre particles in the air to form a battle dress for Uyuniya. It flickered between odd shades of crimson, purple and poison green, with a faint checkered design to its entirety. It was rather long, with a large ribbon around its waist that flailed like a whip behind Uyuniya. The dress hugged her plump breasts but left her shoulders, arms and most of her abdon free.
Uyuniya seed rather satisfied with it, judging by the twinkle in her three-pupiled eyes, but Skullius looked appalled.
'Did she acquire the ability to control plagues?' he thought.
He wasn't sure how exactly Elita had orchestrated everything here from outside Aigas - how she smuggled Uyuniya and the Treasures into Aigas, for instance - but the properties of Uyuniya's great sword, the Deceptive Incubating Masterpiece, did reveal one thing: Uyuniya had been bonded to the Second ranked Paladin Champion while she was 'incubating' in the sword. (The remains of the Champion were still visible in the large blob of an organ.) Uyuniya seed ready for battle. She gave a daring look to Elita and said sothing else that seed to shake her faith.
Revia found herself confused when Elita suddenly brandished her sword against Skullius in the next instant.
"I'm sorry, Skullius," she said and didn't elaborate.
"I see," Skullius said, but hid his thoughts. With one of his hands, he pulled from his nimbus the golden gauntlet, a Realm Rank Treasure, the Malefic Gold Hand
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