'Awakening Lith would be a terrible move since Night needs one hit to kill my Tiamat form. My best bet is to keep my human side on the back burner and bet everything on George's recovery abilities.
'I don't need to win, only to buy ti until my friends arrive. The guards saw ln and at least one of them is bound to have sounded the alarm. Here goes everything.'
The Voidfeather Dragon left the Void in charge and transferred his consciousness in front of the door to limit the influx of lost souls invading his body. With the threat of Frost Soul negating his magic and without Lith's military mind, there was only one possible path to survival.
The Voidfeather ignited a spark of his life force and threw it at the black goo seeping through the cracks in Lith's life force.
Blue flas erupted from his body, consuming the torrent of raging souls and burning the Void Demon Dragon's aura.
Derek activated the Voidwalker armor's Full Guard enchantnt, releasing a bright violet aura that expanded for 30 ters (100') around him. It took the blue flas a split second to set it ablaze and turn Full Guard into a searing wave.
The world energy coming from the geyser was next, followed by everything in the enchantnt's area of effect. Full Guard burned. The Voidwalker armor burned. Everything burned.
"What's with that face, Poopie? Don't you know you can't kill a boss monster that easily? You just unlocked my second phase!" Derek laughed, feeling the pain from the blue flas and embracing it with joy in exchange for its exhilarating power.
'What's a second phase?' Night asked while activating Frost Soul again.
The bloodline ability was supposed to freeze the Full Guard and damage the Voidwalker armor but the blue flas protected it. The violet aura wasn't just engulfed in fire, it was burning.
The heat and cold of the conflicting bloodline abilities were at an impasse, canceling each other.
'How am I supposed to know?' Orpal watched in anger at the crown on the Void Demon Dragon's head, enraged at Lith for copying him and completing his crown first. 'Let's fight fire with fire!'
'Excellent idea!' Night's beautiful face twisted into a feral smile as she activated Dusk's crystal and ignited a full breath of Origin Flas in her lungs.
She hurled a jet stream of bright blue fire at Derek who replied in kind, the two Flas bore similar colors but they couldn't have been more different.
'This is my first ti using a Dragon's powers but I have to admit it's really exciting. I can understand now why you were so jealous of-' Night's train of thought derailed as the conflicting blue flas didn't explode as she expected.
The torrent of fire coming from the Void Demon Dragon's maw swallowed her Origin Flas, setting them ablaze like gasoline. The blue flas followed the stream of Origin Flas back into Horseman's still-opened mouth and burned her inside out.
Night cut the Origin Flas just in ti before the blue flas reached the black and red crystals. She released a pulse of pure darkness energy to smother the flas but it took fire as well.
Her equipnt burned. Her flesh burned. Everything burned.
'Fuck no!' ln saved Night and himself just in the nick of ti by activating the Black Rose armor's Blooming Shield enchantnt.
Blooming Shield took the blue flas off Night and detached the external petals as soon as they took fire to keep the blue flas from spreading.
The Void Demon Dragon roared in fury and hurled a second blast of blue flas.
It was akin to a Spirit Barrier but instead of forming a sphere of Spirit Magic, Blooming Shield generated an erald construct comprised of petals-like plates. This way, cracking one of the plates didn't destabilize the rest of the barrier.
When a petal was destroyed, it would detach from the barrier and another one would grow and replace it. By shedding the damaged plates, the damage wasn't carried over to the rest of the barrier, lessening the strain on the Black Rose armor's power core.
Blooming Shield took the blue flas off Night and detached the external petals as soon as they took fire to keep the blue flas from spreading.
The Void Demon Dragon roared in fury and hurled a second blast of blue flas.
This ti Night Blinked away, the power of Moonlight brought her at a safe distance and fueled the Blooming Shield until the fire on her body was put out.
'Okay, Frost Soul and Origin Flas are useless against that thing. Let's see-'
'Behind you!' Orpal cut her short while pointing at a Blink's exit point that was about to appear.
'Is your brother insane? This is suicidal!' Night activated Thorn's Wailing Wind enchantnt while also readying another Doom Tide and preparing her best Spirit Spells.
The answer caught her like a speeding train.
The Void Demon Dragon erged from the Blink at a break-neck speed and engulfed in blue flas. He tried to block Thorn with Ragnarök by exploiting his superior mass but the skill gap with Night was too big.
She twisted her wrist in a quick spiral, deflecting the bastard sword and hitting her target in one fluid motion. The spear pierced through the Dragon's chest and released the Wailing Wail inside his body, blowing his right shoulder and arm away.
Yet it wasn't enough to alter the course of the Void Demon Dragon.
The mass gap between the two allowed Derek to take the blow and return it with a left shoulder charge. The blue flas engulfed the Blooming Shield while the impact threw the Horseman off her saddle and broke every bone in her body.
Black crystals imdiately germinated in the fractures to nd the damage and allow the Horseman to move.
"Get off , you bastard!" Night shortened Thorn's haft until it wasn't bigger than a short sword, stabbing at the Void Demon Dragon's alleged vitals.
"No." As Derek exhaled to speak, a new blast of blue flas erupted from his body.
It burned the erald petals faster than the Black Rose armor could conjure new ones, setting the Horseman ablaze.
Night scread as a pain she had never experienced before ravaged her body. She had been hurt countless tis in the past and burned by more Origin Flas than a block of Davross but none of that had prepared her for the blue flas.
They didn't just burn like fire. They broke down her skin into carbon and hydrogen, taking her apart on a molecular level. Pressure and heat turned the carbon into coal which burned as well as the hydrogen.
The sa was happening to her Black Rose armor and Thorn spear, the enchanted tal wasn't heated but vaporized. The atoms vibrated too strongly to establish a bond between them and started to drift apart.
The enchantnts of the Horseman's equipnt were losing cohesion as well, the single runes broken down in too many pieces to hold their power together.
Night stabbed as fast and hard as she could while the Void Demon Dragon shielded himself with his wings and used his remaining arm to hold the Horseman tight. They crashed on the ground like a teor, turning an entire city block of Zeska into a glass crater.
Night cushioned the Dragon's fall with her body and spat out a mouthful of blood from the impact.
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