The two behemoths collided, and the room reverberated underneath the weight of their strikes. Azmoth’s flaming fingers tore chunks out of the other large demon in huge gashes, but the sturdiness and regeneration of the satyr were obvious imdiately afterward. The purple miasma surrounding the satyr quickly healed the slashes and burns Azmoth was dealing, and the enormous miniboss stood to its full height a second later—tearing through the strands of webbing encasing its right arm and swinging its club backward at full force and crushing one of Azmoth’s arms with a thunderous boom. Azmoth roared and counterattacked by leaping at it and bringing it back down to the ground to tear and bite at it, ripping out large pieces of flesh as the two titans went crazy trying to kill one another. Athela managed to get in there as well with multiple hit-and-run bites that sank venom into the satyr for applications of necrosis.
Watching the fight unfold was like watching a brutal episode of National Geographic where male lions fight—but this was the hellscape version.
Riven’s Blessing of the Crow was still in effect, and he whipped around the platform at high speed while pushing more mana into the ability. He was sure-footed, sprinting at a rate easily twice as fast as anything he could have ever accomplished back on Earth. Riven was likely going sowhere beyond thirty miles per hour with the combination of both movent buffs, and it wasn’t tiring him, either.
Coming around and getting a good positioning for his attack, he launched the Blood Lance he’d been channeling into his arm. The flickering crimson power shot out like a cot through the dusty air and made impact with the back of the warlord’s head, narrowly missing Azmoth as they flailed on the ground to claw and bite at one another, but instead of impaling the satyr, the magic just exploded and created a large but superficial wound to montarily stun the creature.
That was more than enough ti for his minions to take advantage of it.
Thus, Athela screeched in disbelief and awe as Riven jumped up and to the left to avoid the waist-high shock wave and conjured not one, not two, but eight simultaneous Wretched Snares that he molded together into one large net. He held on to the net with a reinforced mana connection from a location just above his hands and willed the black magic to expand, opening up to catch the spinning teor of a club before he was nearly taken off his feet as the projectile’s force pulled him backward.
But Riven continued to infuse the conjured and reinforced net with mana as he quickly slid across the floor, silently screaming at his magic to do his bidding while he was dragged backward to a likely death at high speed. Over and over again, he pictured what he wanted and willed the mana to act, pouring his heart and soul into the internal motion while using the Unholy and Blood subpillars attached to his soul like a sieve to purify the raw mana into blood magic. The pillars responded, embracing him, and it promptly ca blazing to life under his extre ntal state.
“Do as you’re told!”
The words left Riven’s mouth as he gave vision and aning to what he wanted the blood magic to do, and to Athela’s continued amazent, the corpses around Riven were drained and erupted around him. The blood of the bodies all whirled in a vortex to co to his call, and for the first ti since the blood pit, he willed his environntal resources to do his bidding just like the textbooks had talked about. The result was a massively reduced mana cost and a vastly increased power output.
*POP—BOOM*
[The Blood subpillar recognizes your authority, and the system has labeled your Blood subpillar as your specialty pillar. You may now evolve your Blood subpillar, and you are now restricted from obtaining any other specialty pillars.]
[Your bloodline begins to stir. You have created the blood spell Crimson Ice.]
[Crimson Ice (Blood): Summon ice created from blood to cover an area around or on you. You may utilize this crystallized blood to form objects or walls, cause your opponents to slip, and create temporary body modifications with variable utility. Mana cost is situational and can vary from extrely high to extrely low. Dependent on both Intelligence (40%) and Willpower (60%) stats. No cooldown.]
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