2797 Counter asures (Part 1)
Yet a sliver of life force was enough for the Voidfeather to couple his mastery over the elents with the full set of elental crystals to suck in the incoming spells, cleanse them from their caster's energy signature, and shoot them back in the form of raw elental pillars.
Lith had studied the Balor's eyes long enough to understand the underlying principles of their bloodline abilities and the Voidfeather had mastered the elental crystal enough to mimic them.
A living body would have been ravaged by mana poisoning and damaged by the violent spells temporarily coursing through it, but both were irrelevant problems to a Golem.
Blue magic circles surrounded the Voidfeather Dragon, each holding a different spell as they followed him in his advance. The undead were still shocked by seeing their best spells fade into nothingness when beams of incandescent light hit them.
The tier three Light Mastery spell, Sunburst, generated laser-like heat rays that moved as fast as a bullet, yet light and fire inflicted little damage to an undead body. The Dragon used Void Magic to turn fire into ice and light into darkness.
The ice clogged the joints of the undead's armor and stuck to them so that the darkness it carried could seep inside the undead without wasting one iota of mana. Then, the Voidfeather lit the yellow eye and unleashed a lightning bolt that filled the corridor.
The electricity stung at the undead, but that was it.
When it turned into solid rock, trapping them inside a stone coffin, however, it was a problem. With their joints already clogged by ice and encased in rock that made it impossible to exert leverage, even soone as strong as an undead needed ti to break free.
Ti that the Voidfeather didn't grant them, activating one of the magic circles so that the blinding light produced by bolts of lightning turned into a haze of darkness. By the ti the undead managed to free themselves, the ever-shifting tide of attacks had inflicted grievous wounds upon them.
The silver lining was that they were many and the Golem was one.
"Gentlen, if you please." The horde of Demons hiding behind the Voidfeather struck at the weakened enemies in a frenzy, slaughtering them like cattle.
Once the last undead turned into ashes, the Demons still had six eyes each and the Dragon was done preparing the next batch of spells. His advance was slower than Lith's and Solus.'
He had no way to recharge the black cores of the Demons so he had to make each hit count.
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Lith avoided the strong barriers fueled by the mana geyser since dealing with them was a waste of ti unless they led to the lower floors. He didn't rush in his advance, taking the ti to replenish his strength and Ragnarök's scabbard as he studied the enemy defense formations from a distance.
'It seems I have to get past that junction if I want to proceed.' Lith's eyes spotted a golden barrier similar to the one that Solus had just overco.
He had tried the other routes and they all ended the sa way. It might have been considered a waste of ti if in doing so he hadn't also cleansed the entire area of undead.
Thanks to that, the Demons of the Darkness were free to assist him and many of them had gotten their hands on the corpse of a thrall. By absorbing the residual mass, life force, and mana, they had turned into Demons of the Fallen, increasing their strength with no burden on Lith.
The number of Demons behind him was so great that not a speck of light was visible. On one end of the corridor stood a wall of light and on the other one of darkness.
Lith took a deep breath and so did the Demons. Their mouths filled with Void Flas, filling the corridor with an eerie glow.
Lith hurled a jet stream of fire in front of himself while the Demons aid the Void Flas so that they would cross paths with Lith's. The Cursed Flas stopped their advance for a split second, forming a sphere of fire that grew in size until the stone of the corridor turned white hot.
Then, the Thousand Flas burst forward until they crashed against the defensive barrier like a raging river hitting a dam.
The defensive array collapsed under the pressure, but thanks to the energy coming from the mana geyser it reford too quickly for Lith to cross over unless he opened a Spirit Warp.
'Blinking would an leaving the Demons behind while a Steps would be easily countered by a Collapsing Space spell. I would lose my Demons anyway and be forced to defend from both sides of the corridor.
'Getting closer is not an option either. I have no cover and while I take down the barrier, too many Demons would have to sacrifice themselves to protect . Ti for plan E.
At Lith's signal, the Demons of the Fallen knelt while those of the Darkness stretched their shadow necks so that their heads could move freely from their bodies. Soon the whole corridor was filled with white maws glued to each other like bricks.
The second burst of Thousand Flas hit the barrier in the sa spot as the first. This ti, after the magical formation crumbled, the Flas had enough power to burn through the makeshift barricade and the undead hiding behind it.
The third wave struck while the array was still repairing itself, bringing it down with ease and flooding the corridor. The black flas killed the guards, burned the traps, and split in two upon reaching a T junction.
More agonizing screams ca from the two corridors, revealing the presence of more undead lying in ambush.
I guess that now they are too busy saving their skin to bother .'Lith conjured a layer of cold air around his head since unlike his Demons, he needed to breathe and the surface of the marble corridor was bubbling.
At his command, the shadows pressed their bodies against the already-fixed barrier, draining it with their Abomination Touch. The Demons quivered in pleasure feeding off the power of the mana geyser and feeling the strength they had consud return.
The barrier collapsed again but this ti it stayed down. A black rim marked the presence of Demons that kept draining the barrier faster than the mana geyser could fuel it.
"Those with less than five eyes stay here and feed. The rest with .'Lith crossed the threshold, readying himself to fight as he neared the T junction.
Judging from the small pile of ashes, only a few undead had been destroyed while the rest had run away after the failed ambush. Lith split his forces to explore both corridors, clearing the area before going down the stairs leading to the next floor.
"This isn't going well.' Lith thought. 'The presence of the geyser is helping the defensive forces more than it helps us. We've t much more resistance than in the other branch and so of the arrays were strong enough to depower several Demons.
I split them so that Solus and the Voidfeather could act on their own, but that left with the smallest unit.
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