The lipless mouths of the undead deford into cruel grins after dodging the bullet, revealing that their maw extended almost to the back of their head.
They activated the power of their fellow Draugr Chosen, further growing in size and power while the wings of the Vampire's Chiropteran form allowed them to ?y despite the air sealing arrays.
They moved nimbly back—to—back, in a spiral of razor—sharp claws and teeth that couldn't be dodged in the small space of the corridor. At the sa ti, however, they only offered Friya a bigger target.
It would have taken Thundercrash a while to ?re the next shot, but she had no need to wait. Friya just pointed at the incoming Grendels and a bullet popped out the tip of her fore?nger.
The senses of the Banshee and the air fusion further boosting their lightning re?exes allowed the undead to dodge again despite the close range. Yet Friya adjusted her ?nger again and a third bullet ca out again, this ti from too close for the undead to avoid.
The head and torso of one of the Grendels exploded, producing a shockwave that sent the other slamming against the wall.
‘Who would have thought that l'd ?nd a new way to use the ?rst dinsional spell that I've ever learned, Loop?‘ Friya thought to explain to her ?abbergasted companions what had just happened.
The bullets of the railgun were too fast to intercept them with a dinsional ?ssure, but Friya knew their trajectory. All she had to do to recycle a potentially missed shot was to open the entry point of the Loop spell behind her target and the exit point in Front of her fore?nger.
Loop kept the two openings perfectly aligned, so even if the bullet missed a second ti, Friya would get another attempt until she either hit her mark or lost her focus.
The remaining Grendel got back on his feet with a kip—up, lunging at Friya with so much strength that each one of his claws generated an air blade that cut through the stone of the corridor.
Phloria moved in front of the attack and used her Adamant shield,
Breaker, to stop it. Each one of the four Awakened could Blink to safety, but it would an losing their advantage and giving the reinforcents the ti to block the rest of the corridors.
The Mage Knight conjured her personal tier four Spirit Magic spell,
Stalwart Defender.
The penta—elental spell used the light and earth elental aspects to form a thick barrier that only let the light in, the ?re elent to convert the kinetic energy of incoming attacks into heat that the water elent would neutralize, and the darkness aspect to eat at anything that stuck at the barrier for too long.
The combined effect of the enchanted shield and the spell neutralized the air blades before the Grendel could recover his balance, leaving him helpless against the burst of Origin Flas.
Lith and Tista breathed each on a different side of the creature and the mont their ?as overlapped, they produced a powerful explosion that sent the undead ?ying back.
'Sothing‘s wrong.‘ Lith said. ‘He should have died already. The Grendel's immunity to magic cos from their bodies being one with their blood cores. Yet Origin Flas are no magic and they should have burned him to dust already.‘
What Lith and the rest of the mbers of the Hand of Fate had failed to take into account was that with each Chosen that they killed, the survivors beca stronger. Night could only share so much energy with them so the fewer they were, the more power they would receive.
The Grendel was still alive because his body was covered by a thick layer of darkness magic that protected him from the Origin Flas.
Night's energy ?owed endlessly, intercepting the mystical ?re before it actually reached its target.
Yet the explosions bought Lith enough ti to conjure his Void Flas. The black ?re ?lled the corridor, burning the furniture and enchantnts alike before hitting the undead.
The three types of ?as reacted badly to each other, causing an explosion that pierced through the layer of darkness and blew the Grendel to bits.
The group was about to celebrate their victory with a quick high-?ve when they noticed that the shockwave had turned bright white and it was coming their way. In such an enclosed space, the violence of the ?re spread along both sides of the corridor, forcing them to Spirit Blink.
‘Don't you dare mix Void and two sources of Origin Flas ever again!‘ Phloria said when a second look at the corridor, revealed that everything had been burned away.
Furniture, paint, and even the pavent‘s marble tiles were gone,
revealing the bare rock underneath.
‘Good gods, I never thought that combining Origin Flas could be so devastating.’ Tista said while admiring the results of their team effort. ‘I wonder if we just created the Primordial Flas like Xenagrosh and her Phoenix friend.‘
During their stay in the Desert and after receiving Xenagrosh's lessons about Origin Flas, Lith and Tista had tried several tis to replicate the combined attack of the Eldritches—hybrids.
They rembered well how the Primordial Flas had dealt great damage to Night and were eager to add them to their arsenal. Yet despite their efforts and countless tries, the only thing that they had achieved was a series of explosions.
The Flas refused to combine, eating at each other like hungry beasts ?ghting over a carcass during a famine. Even after Lith had discovered the existence of the Void Flas, things hadn't changed one bit.
The strength of the explosions was the sa, the only difference was that Tista had to breathe her Origin Flas in advance to not get blasted away by the much faster black ?as.
To add insult to injury, Tista had proved to be incapable of producing Void Flas, no matter how hard she tried.
They had co to believe that her Red Demon wyrmling form was the lesser equivalent of a Tiamat and that even if she managed to fuse her life forces together, her power would be no match for a Divine Beast.
On top of that, they had co to the conclusion that to produce the Primordial Flas, the strength of the two users had to be the sa,
like Kigan and Xenagrosh. They both produced bright violet Origin Flas whereas Tista‘s blue ?as were much weaker compared with Lith's deep violet.
Yet all of their assumptions ha just crumbled in the face of an overwhelming power that could only be explained with Primordial Flas. The white light, the destruction of stone and spells alike would have required several tier ?ve Spirit Spells, not just three breaths of ?re.
'1 think I know what's happened here.‘ Solus said from her ring.
‘You do?‘ Lith and Tista asked in unison.
'lt‘s just a hypothesis based on my empirical observations and reasoning since even the Eyes of nadion are blinded and-'
‘Dammit, Solus, we are on a mission!‘ Phloria scolded her. ‘If you have sothing to say that can increase both our survival and success chances, just say it. Save the lectures for later.‘
Phloria also telepathically emphasized the sounds of battle that ca from the other corridors and the possibility that soon more undead would co, forcing them to ?ght again.
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