Warily alternating my gaze between the hamr wielding man and the lazy Fiend, I held my sword loosely by my side while I recuperated so more mana after the earlier debacle, while also trying to buy myself more ti since I needed to think about what to do.
This Fiend was clearly the looming threat that I had been waiting for, one that was so clearly above the mortal grasp of power that I knew fully well that there was little chance of coming out alive should they actually desire a fight.
That realization was a harrowing one as I stared at the Fiend, and it made my heart drop a little as I wondered how likely it was for to find a way to co out of this alive, if there was anything I could do to return to everyone else before this teleporting Fiend could grab again.
Sensing that, the Fiend perched itself atop one of the nearby buildings and chuckled quietly as it said "Ah, scheming already? Trying to find a way to escape from ? There are ways, and I am certain your blue skinned owner has already told you one such way, but... I can make it far simpler for you, dog."
The Caliph just stood opposite of silently, his eyes fixed to mine as he waited for to make a move; all of his enchanted jewelry was still dangling from his neck, wrists, and sitting snugly on his fingers, which were wrapped around the haft of that gigantic hamr.
"You see, I am not entirely your 'enemy' in the sense that I wish to kill you. Am I on the opposite side of this fight currently? Certainly, however I am also a purveyor of talent; talent that I see within you and talent that I don't hope is ill given. Amuse and show off that talent by winning, and I'll let you walk."
That got a reaction from the Caliph as he turned around to shout "The hell you will! If she sohow wins you're supposed to-!", though that was an opening that I was NOT going to pass up on as I lunged forwards quietly and stabbed my blade towards the Caliph's head, though he wasn't as airy in said head as I would have liked.
Spinning back around and blocking with his hamr, the man clicked his tongue and snarled "Then I just gotta kill a bitch lest this Fiend screw everything up!" as he pushed back with the flat of his hamr, using the giant head to move and give himself the room he needed to pull it back and swing.
With my montum now going backwards, the only option I had to avoid being hit hard and sent to an early grave was to keep heading backwards as his hamr rose into the air and began to fall down to the sand covered road beneath us.
Throwing myself back, I rolled away from the impact and duly noted that there was now a crater in the ground where I had once been, the bricks shattering and turning into dust from the force of the impact, which was definitely going to be less disastrous than what it would have done to my bones.
Following that slam the Caliph hoisted his hamr and lunged forwards, swinging it again and this ti attempting to smack around as he went for a horizontal attack, covering a large swathe of area with the powerful weapon.
As it traveled through the air he activated the enchantnt on it and sent a barrage of lightning towards as well, forcing back once more as I found out quickly that he had learned from our last battle.
He was no longer berating with his 'flirtations' nor was he treating this like a simple spar before he would be safely teleported away; this ti he was pushing the attack and not giving any breathing room as he swung his hamr to spread that lightning while also ensuring I had no ti at all to cast a spell.
The difference, however, was that I no longer needed to use my hands to cast spells, so when I found myself an opening I went ahead and shouted "[Gale]!", whipping up a strong wind that blasted against his side and took advantage of the trajectory of his hamr to spin him around.
As he was recovering from the sudden addition of force to his side, I leapt back to create space as I added "[Hoarfrost Spike]!" to the equation as well, summoning a thick spike of ice to stab at him from below as I began to put pressure on him.
Sadly, as the spike impacted his ribs and looked like it would pierce through his armor, one of his pendants shone brilliantly before shattering, covering him in a thick layer of mana that repelled the attack perfectly, before all of that mana was funneled into his hamr.
Electricity bounced off of the tal surface and began to turn the grains of sand on the ground into glass as it arced around at random, giving his weapon an absurd buff that he put to use right away as he swung it again, though I was still many feet away from him.
That didn't matter as he let out a shout before slamming the hamr into the ground, allowing the mana to be released in a storm that ripped at the bricks while it traveled towards at a furious pace, each bolt filled to the brim with power that would definitely deal incredible damage.
Dozens of bolts flashed towards , and I quickly encased myself in ice as I prayed that they weren't as strong as they looked, funneling my mana towards the thick sheet of ice only to grit my teeth as I noticed the Caliph rushing behind his storm straight towards with that hamr raised high once more.
I needed to think of sothing here, otherwise there wasn't going to be the question of whether or not that Fiend was telling the truth; I would be too dead to even ponder about it, so a strategy needed to be ford right now for to survive this.
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