[Amidst the battlefield]
Shortly before Darganth assud his true form, Jennia and Allaire arrived to support Alicia.
Making their entrance by launching a concentrated assault against a high order mber who had the unfortunate position of being the one to attack Alicia in the wrong mont, they caught not just him and his colleagues by surprise, but also Alicia.
As the mix of light and darkness spells impacted the man's body, it brought enough of a shock with it to bring the fight to a montary stop. For a mont after, everybody present waited with bated breath for the storm of energy to subside.
When it did, a few audible gulps could be heard from the high order's side. Not only did one of their own die, but the attack was strong enough that it fully destroyed his body.
This was quite a danger for them, as their phoenix flas could only heal if anything was left. Considering that the main threat to their life they previously had to deal with, apart from the complete destruction of either heart or brain, was lacking the mana necessary to regenerate, this was unsettling for them.
Just as Jennia and Allaire wanted to take advantage of this reaction, a ray of flas shot at them and forced them to dodge.
“I'll take care of them, anwhile you all have to keep the abomination busy.” Isaiah shouted.
His words brought the other high order mbers back to their senses. And when they resud their attacks on Alicia a mont later, Isaiah dashed towards Jennia and Allaire.
Amused by the boldness of doing so, the two let him approach unobstructed. As soon as he reduced the distance between them by about half, Isaiah shouted in fury and launched a burst of flas at Allaire.
“Traitor, you'll be the first to pay!” He cursed at her.
Moving fast enough to appear as little more than a blurry wall of light that moved out of the fla's path, Allaire dodged them before coming to a stop with a slight frown.
Without pause, Isaiah turned to her again and continued attacking. Firing multiple bolts of flas at her, he rushed closer and simultaneously beca covered in raging flas.
“You beastn were always unruly, but siding with a monster? That's too far.” He shouted in fury.
Dodging again, Allaire reappeared with a confused expression.
“You really think she's a monster, don't you?” She asked.
Seeing him not answering, she said a mont later, “Well, it doesn’t matter, I'm not going to let you continue to insult my sister-in-law.”
With those words, Allaire slowly rose from the ground as her aura avatar ford around her. Looking at Jennia and wordlessly telling her that she got this, Allaire unsheathed her sword.
“Don't forget to leave him for Alicia.” Jennia reminded her before walking over to the remaining high order mbers.
Seeing this, Isaiah moved to intercept her but was quickly blocked by Allaire. Forced to jump back to dodge the slash of aura, he didn't have the ti to get away before she reached him.
Swinging the aura avatar's sword, she went completely on the offensive and slowly pushed him back. In return, Isaiah started launching waves and beams of fire at her from the mont her first strike finished, though these were having trouble dealing serious damage to the avatar.
Jennia was anwhile reaching the fight between Alicia and the high order, tipping the previously even fight in the two's favor as soon as she joined.
Quickly noticing this, Alicia suddenly started attacking even more ferociously. Ignoring the dozens of burn marks and areas where explosions had knocked her scales loose, she jumped at the nearest enemy and brought down her claws on him.
The sudden shift caused the others to fall into disarray as so scattered away from Jennia and so away from Alicia.
“Stop!” “Stick together!” Despite two of the seats attempting to regain control of the situation, it quickly devolved further.
Not only that, but their actions also exposed them to Alicia's attention. Recognizing them, she grinned viciously and launched herself at them.
With a roar, her dragon's breath shot out and slamd into one of the two, catapulting him hundreds of ters into the distance.
Reacting quickly to this, the other one spun around to face Alicia. Sending out a wave of flas at her approaching form, she ford two phoenix wings behind his back and flew up.
A mont later Alicia broke through the flas as she jumped out of them, much to the seat's shock. Initially attempting to outrun her in the air, the woman quickly realized the futility of this as Alicia closed the gap by a noticeable amount in only a few seconds.
Spinning around and letting her flas explode outwards, she quickly beca protected by a phoenix made out of flas. And without hesitation, she controlled it to plunge straight at Alicia before the latter could react to this.
Barely being able to bring her arms in front of her, Alicia was still knocked back by the impact. Catching her descent after just a second, she looked up to see the phoenix approaching again.
Dipping below it as it tried to smash into her for a second ti, she shot higher with a strong beat of her wings while turning around at the sa ti. Before the woman could control the construct to change directions, Alicia struck it square in the back with her dragon's breath.
The spherical bolt of gravitational energy that she shot tore through the construct's center, leaving not just a hole in its path but also catching large parts of the flas in its gravitational pull. This caused parts of the phoenix's form to trail after it, ripping off even more parts of the construct.
Amidst the hole this created, Alicia saw the female seat that had conjured this avatar. Panting heavily, she clutched her abdon with a pained expression while being noticeably surprised by the developnt.
Hesitating for a mont as she was confused as to why she felt pain despite not having been struck directly, Alicia was just about to dive down and finish her when an explosion beneath her left wing brought her out of balance.
Reacting quickly by activating her personal shield, she saw three more attacks flying past her just a mont later.
Turning around, she found the seat she had previously hit with her breath attack running towards her enraged and firing spears made of red energy at her.
Taking a glance at the woman whose phoenix avatar was slowly dissolving around her despite her best efforts, Alicia ignored her and dove towards the other seat.
As she ca closer, his attacks also beca more dangerous, with her shield's diversion of their trajectory getting weaker and weaker. Soon the first was well enough aid to still glance off of her, with the small contact being enough to cause the spear to explode and knock her a ter or two to the side.
Recognizing this as a warning, Alicia changed her approach and no longer simply endured the attacks. With a swing of her claws, she sent four slashes ahead of her and at the seat.
Reacting as soon as they ford, said seat quickly let go of the attacks he was currently forming and instead propelled himself away from their path. Flying back by expelling concentrated explosions from his hands and feet, he spun wildly as he was catapulted to montary safety.
Using the opportunity, Alicia waited for the perfect mont before suddenly increasing the gravity in the area around the man by a considerable factor. Having ford the spell a few ters underground where her opponent's control shield didn't extend to, Alicia's spell activated fast enough that he had no chance to react.
Plumting to the ground head first, the man only managed to bring up his arms to protect his head before impacting the ground.
Forcing himself up with shaky steps, he could barely make out Alicia's approaching form due to his blurry vision. Nonetheless attempting to focus, he pushed down his fear and tried to conjure a fire shield around him before she arrived.
But despite his efforts, when Alicia arrived just two seconds later he was protected by only a few localized patches of fire. Easily tearing through this patchy sphere, her claw also tore through the seat's body.
Looking down at his dead body, Alicia smiled as she felt the satisfaction of just partial payback.
But despite his, she couldn't help but wonder again whether she had made the right choice. Dwelling on the matter for a few seconds, she was ripped out of her musings when Darganth's roar echoed across the battlefield.
Spinning around, her eyes widened as she saw him diving after Lucius in his true form.
Realizing that she spaced out and reminded herself of why she was doing this, Alicia rushed back to the main part of the battle.
While flying there, she spotted the female seat she had previously weakened slowly dragging herself there too. Taking a slight detour and landing right behind her, she caused the woman to tense up.
To her surprise, this wasn't followed by an attack as she instead sighed in resignation.
“Just do it.” She said after a mont.
Steeling herself for what she thought would follow, the woman was confused when Alicia didn't attack her. Turning around, she took a step back in surprise when she ca face to face with Alicia in her human form.
“Why didn't you attack ?” Alicia asked.
Furrowing her brows at the question, the woman took a mont before answering, “Why would I, it's not like I have a chance anymore. Well, I never had, but you've wounded my bloodline manifestation, so it's even worse.”
“But don't you teach to fight to the last against monsters? And you certainly believe to be one.” Alicia asked.
Grimacing insulted at Alicia's words, the woman needed a mont to realize that Alicia thought her words to be true.
“Don't think that just because others believe Isaiah's lies, I do so too.” She said, “Still, I am deserving of your wrath just like the rest and I know it, so don't feel bad for .”
Intrigued by this reaction, Alicia thought for a mont before simply walking past the woman.
“Don't dare to do sothing funny. If you don't then we'll continue talking later and you'll at least get to survive.” Alicia warned before returning to her true form and dashing away to aid Jennia.
The female seat she had talked with was left stunned by this and just stared after her for a few seconds. For a while, she wondered whether this was so sort of trap or sothing else, though when she saw Alicia rejoining the fight and simply tanking another bloodline sorcerer's attack, she realized that she was no longer seen as a threat. And considering that the beast even Isaiah's attacks could do were to knock a few scales loose, she could see where this ca from.
With that realization also ca the relief that maybe she would truly survive this ordeal. Smiling softly at the possibility, she sighed as the adrenalin of the fight left her before collapsing from exhaustion shortly after.
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