Each of the six Awakened was surrounded by a Full Guard spell that gave them full spatial awareness of their surroundings within 20 ters (66').
Flowing Strength allowed Iraka to combine the information gathered by her five disciples and use it to adjust the trajectory of her three spells at the sa ti without suffering from sensory overload.
nadion stopped Iraka's Mana Storm with one of her own, while the other Demons hurled Void Flas at the Phoenix Smash to destroy it before it reached Lith. Yet they had no answer to the rumbling sphere of Breakdown.
Especially not while dealing with Axiran's Blood Flas. The Demons kept them at bay with tier five spells, knowing that the Blood Warlock would regain his strength if the Blood Flas dispelled the Daymare.
'Fall back!' Lith recalled the Demons to his side as he quickly analysed the root of the problem. 'You too, Solus. Now!"
'Why?' She was the only reason Axiran's constructs couldn't interfere with the fight, yet she didn't hesitate to answer Lith's call.
'That's why!' The mont Solus Spirit Blinked to his side, Lith and the Demons converged their Origin Flas in a burst of Primordial Flas.
The red tide of Blood Flas crashed against the white one, producing a massive explosion that shook the mines to their core.
All three sides had prepared air barriers in case Thundercrash shot again, so neither the resulting noise nor shockwave dealt any damage. Yet the Primordial Flas overpowered the Blood Flas despite the boost from Blood Maelstrom and roared their way toward the Blood Warlock.
"You owe one, jackass!" Iraka threw Breakdown at the surviving white fire, sacrificing her spell to turn the tides of the clash.
The second explosion surged against Lith and the others, blinding their physical and mystical senses for a second.
"I owe you nothing, hag!" Axiran replied. "If they kill , you're next. Try to rember that in the next five seconds!"
He used the respite to conjure more energy from his arrays and stabilize the Crimson Dragon and Raging Phoenix spells before sending the constructs forward.
'Gods, this would be the perfect mont to kill him.' Iraka gnashed her teeth in frustration seeing the groggy Blood Warlock leaving his flank exposed to her. 'Yet he's right. If I kill him, Verhen will kill .'
Then, she turned her attention to her disciples.
'Listen closely because if we co out of here alive, this will be one of the most important lessons I'll ever give you. This is how you defeat a Divine Beast. One: you bring them in a place where their size is a disadvantage.'
She telepathically highlighted the limited space of the cave.
'Two: you don't allow them to co anywhere near you. Three: hit them fast and hard without ever giving them ti to recover. No matter if you are big or small, a violet core is a violet core! Now breathe, you suckers!'
Iraka opened her right and left hands, unleashing two Tier Five Spirit Spells, Griffon Fetters. The erald chains travelled under the blinding cover of the explosion and Lith noticed them only when they entered the area of effect of the Full Guard enchantnt of his Voidwalker armor.
The first Griffon Fetters wrapped around his limbs and restricted his movents, while the second pulled him away from the safety of the battle formation.
'Verhen is what I call a choke point, children.' Iraka said. 'Take him out and his Demons die with him. No matter how many he conjures, you can shut them all down by getting rid of their power source.'
'Shit!' Lith used gravity fusion and flapped his wings to resist the pull.
He opened his hand, letting Ragnarök free to bolt at the enemy and fight for him. Iraka feared the angry blade and had included it in her plans. One erald chain sealed Ragnarök from hilt to tip, the World Mirror enchantnt found its match in the collective will imbued into the Griffon Fetters.
Lith also released a burst of Origin Flas from his body, but Iraka only had to spend more mana to repair them as fast as the mystical fire consud them.
Solus roared, grabbing Lith by the waist and inwardly thanking her mother for giving her the full weight of the tower. Nalrond and Salman shot a barrage of heat rays from their respective Daymares without even aiming.
They were still blinded, but at least now they had a clear line of fire. Raging Phoenix and Crimson Dragon ford a living wall of light to intercept the assault, and the Demons answered with fire and darkness.
Five Final Eclipses hamred at the two colossal constricts while five jet streams of Void Flas eroded the mystical chains restricting Lith. So of the links broke, but the extremities reconnected too fast for it to matter.
Only a few shattered completely but with five people taking turns at using Invigoration Iraka didn't hesitate to let the broken links fade and replace them with new ones.
'Shit indeed.' Protector had remained hidden around the corner, ready to intervene.
He didn't like the idea of sneak attacks, but with his speed, he was the most suitable for the role, and seven Awakened against one Rezar was no honorable fight either.
'You're lucky I was following everything through your senses, or now I'd be blinded as well.' Ryman's mind, not his eyes, had been affected by the explosion.
He bolted inside the room, reversing the sensory feed and allowing his allies to regain their sight. Protector attacked the Griffon Fetters with a combination of the Gravity Magic spell, Wheel of Fate, and a barrage of hits of his Adamant mace Ouro, yet he fared no better than the Demons.
No matter how fast Protector was, energy was faster. Every chain he damaged repaired itself before his efforts could matter. Once he realized this, he copied Iraka's strategy and charged at the group of Awakened.
'Whatever that array is, it shares the sa weakness of Silverwing's Hexagram.' He told the others. 'Every one of its mbers is a weak point. Take one out, and the burden on the others will multiply.'
He could see that the energy flow went mostly from the apprentices to Iraka. It was the reason he ignored the powerful and dangerous woman and aid at the youths.
"How many more of these fuckers are you hiding?" The Council Elder cursed as she was forced to focus on the defence again.
Another weak point of Iraka's Flowing Strength array was that her apprentices were so busy executing her orders and feeding her information that they had little attention to spare for their surroundings.
To make matters worse, Protector moved like a ghost and everyone else was still blinded.
Iraka's group perceived his presence only when he entered Full Guard's area of effect, and aside from her, nobody had the battle experience to react to the sudden attack. The young Awakened froze like deer in headlights, leaving themselves open.
"I don't know who you are, but you're not very smart." Iraka growled. "The closer you get to the spring, the stronger the current!"
She used the chains she had conjured to replace the broken ones as whips. Their edges beca razor-sharp, making them more brittle but also much more dangerous.
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