Lightning crackled through the hangar area as Erik now had to fight against two new threats.
The two Vindicators rushed to Bill's side, the barrier master quickly taking position on his left while the elentalist darted to his right.
"Getting tired?" Bill asked, his invisible hands multiplying across the space and raining down on Erik like a swarm of angry wasps. "Your movents are slowing."
"Oh, well, I an... It's a couple thousand against one."
Erik's sarcasm was lost on Bill, but his words rang true-he was fighting an impossible battle that no sane person would have chosen to face.
Yet he was there, and not only was he trying to co out on top in a situation in which everyone else would have fled with their tails between their legs, but he was actually holding his own well.
The hydra's heads were also helping a lot. They allowed Erik to use the plants to create a protective do around the aircraft while he kept fighting against the blackguards below, and now Bill and two Vindicators.
As for the plane, Erik turned everything around it into tal to make it harder for the enemy to destroy it. This didn't an tal was actually enough-many powers could easily tear through such defenses, but at least it provided another layer of protection, and that wasn't sothing to discard.
At the sa ti, the Hydra's heads were managing different aspects of the battle and were the main reason Erik had not been defeated or the plane destroyed. It was thanks to them he kept piling up kills and experience points.
Erik didn't get that many levels, three to be precise, in the last ten minutes. It was a great rate, but not as great as others he got when farming thaids.
Yet all that mana replenished his reserves.
One of the Vindicators remained on the ground and focused on defending the soldiers that were rushing at the plane.
Her power was suitable for the task since it allowed her to enhance the stamina and mana regen of those around her. Her birth brain crystal power, though, was that of a barrier master. It was a troubleso combination, because she could protect her comrades while, at the sa ti, powering them up.
A Vindicator barrier master was a first, though. Yet not a less annoying combination.
The other Vindicator was an elentalist. He called him as such, since he had two brain crystal powers that allowed him to control wind and fire.
It was hard to miss, given how soon he started bombarding Erik with combinations of wind blades and fireballs, but he was mostly supporting Bill.
However, aside from trying to kill Erik, he was also protecting the barrier master Vindicator, and while Bill remained in the air to face Erik directly.
"Anyway, you don't look better than . Am I wrong, or are you the one who can barely stand?"
Erik taunted, unleashing a barrage of ice shards and crackling lightning bolts at the oncoming Vindicators, only to watch their attacks dissipate against the barrier master's shields.
The woman was skilled and showed a remarkable ability to do multiple things at the sa ti. Though Erik didn't know if powering up those around her was a sort of passive ability or required focus. In the first case, then he was unlucky; in the second, it would only an the woman was even better than he assud.
Besides, based on how well she was protecting the soldiers below while also protecting Bill and the Elentalist, she must have been a very good fighter.
"Why should I not?" Erik asked.
Erik's plants transford, shifting from things as hard and static as tal to others more evanescent like fire, sotis even going on between the two.
The sudden change caught the elentalist off guard, and he stumbled but didn't fall; his shields provided cover while he recovered but could not stop the attack for long.
The man got forced to increase the strength of the wind he created just to keep up with Erik's attacks, and that reshaped the environnt.
The winds pushed away the remnants of rain, creating clear patches in the previously overcast sky. It parted the clouds and swept the debris that the battle created.
Sunlight pierced through these openings, casting beams that revealed the state of the
battlefield below.
They also fell on Erik, making him look akin to a deity, albeit a god of death.
The winds, however, failed to disperse the heat generated by the fighters' attacks.
The temperature rose noticeably because of the beaming ball of fire that both Erik and the elentalist Vindicator generated.
It didn't matter how it could have been because of winter. The area was as hot as if they were in the middle of sumr and was constantly rising.
"I could ask you the sa question," Erik said. "Why are you struggling so much? Shouldn't you know death is the only thing that awaits you?" Erik launched another assault.
"Because I have a goal, Erik, a wish, to be more precise."
"Is this the goal that made you guys unleash the Heniate on New Alexandria?"
"Are you still mad about that?" Bill avoided so tal tendrils sprouting from the ground, then destroyed so massive concrete chunks Erik threw at him with telekinesis.
anwhile, despite the Barrier Master Vindicator's protective efforts, Erik's attacks
continued to cut through the blackguards' ranks.
Yet still they ca, their numbers endlessly increasing, empowered by the barrier master's brain crystal power, and protected by the sa person.
"I'm tired of talking to you. For soone so young, you think small," Bill said. His invisible hands ford a cage around Erik, trying to limit his movent.
"Better narrow-minded than a monster like you guys."
The elentalist unleashed a flaming tornado and hurled it towards Erik.
The young man's third Hydra's head struggled to track all the threats. His plants created
barriers while he dodged, but the assault forced him closer to the ground, which was a problem since there was basically no free space for him below, and the elentalist was
waiting for him there.
Erik felt a massive surge of mana co from the elentalist, who then summoned a massive firestorm, its power magnified by his companion, constantly replenishing his mana. Bill's invisible hands struck from multiple angles, each aid to disable or kill. Erik dodged them all, but just barely-the soldiers who couldn't target the hangar had turned their attacks on him instead, making his situation direr by the second.
Many had lee powers and could do nothing, but a lot had ranged ones.
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