Death, Devotion, Dissonance Chapter 178 - Real Danger

Evin found his hand reaching for his pocket to absorb mana from a lodestone. Imdiately, two accelerators began to take shape nearby, while the rest of the Seyethe energies went down to feel for invisible mages.

"Those invisible mages are coming!" Evin said to Ssatsko.

Endra said.

There was sudden urgency in Endra's words. It worried Evin.

Evin turned to the others and found Lora, Theor and Sasha huddled together in a corner of resting point, Lora's hands hugging Sasha's head. Ssatsko stood protectively in front of them, his eyes darting around to find these invisible enemies.

Evin offered.

He didn't trust himself to function properly being sick and addled. It would be best if Endra was the one piloting his body.

Endra said.

Endra sounded like he wanted to say a great deal more things, but he was already too busy with dealing with the incoming enemies. But soon, Evin's face turned grimr and grimr, and Endra's voice was turning more and more desperate.

Endra tried everything he could in the span of thirty seconds it took the mages to ascend. He decided on the tal bullets after the stone ones, feeling no need to hold back. But those too, bounced off harmlessly against the invisible barrier. There was still only the harmless clanking sound, without a hint of a crack.

Then he tried the World of Weight to push down the mages. This worked, but the mages seed propelled by sothing and whatever that was, it just worked harder to make up for the increased weight.

Next ca the explosions. These worked to a certain degree. The three mages did not look like they wanted to take them head on and retreated slightly. Endra's explosions chased them, but the three mages suddenly split, each maneuvering through the sky in ways Evin thought impossible. At tis they dashed, they zig-zagged, randomly stopped, never allowing Endra's explosions to hit them accurately.

The explosions were powerful, but Endra needed to gather air in a spot at first, aning he couldn't spark explosions near enemies imdiately. There was a delay between them.

Endra then tried creating an illusion of him flying up the Cataract, while making themselves invisible. The best thing to do was to grab Lora and the rest and fly up. Maybe even create a portal above, but Evin's mana-core was too spent to do sothing big like that. It was too late to escape. A hastily made illusion was the only alternative at this point. But…