Crackle! Boom!
Chloe, who had long been covered in lightning, sent a bolt into the sky, which exploded out loudly. It was a signal for backup their team had co up with. She wasn't sure they could deal with this one with just the three of them. Muku and Audrey, who also thought the sa, didn't say anything. They even internally praised her decisiveness.
"Hmm? summoning your little friends, I see...well, whatever, I'll take care of them just as I'm about to take care of you when they arrive. To dare deny my offer?" Ares spoke after seeing the lightning bolt, not looking bothered by it, even by a little bit.
BANG!!!
"Hmm?....This trash.." Ares punched the barrier with his fist but the barrier was completely unmoved. However, his hand was completely broken to the point that the bones were sticking out. He couldn't help but complain about how weak st's body was while looking at the injury which was healing quickly due to the red energy coming from the body.
Internally he was beating himself up for choosing such trash in the first place. Then again, he had tried it a few tis before st unsuccessfully with the people dying during the process. So it really wasn't his fault. He was just unlucky. But rembering how "she" got a great ssenger, he couldn't help but hate st for being such trash.
"Are you going to stay hidden in there like rats instead of coming to face ?" Ares spoke in a mocking voice. Though secretly he was trying to taunt them into coming out, after all, he couldn't stay in st's body forever. In fact, as they spoke, while st's body looked okay on the outside, it was actually falling apart from within.
Ares' power was just too much for it to bair, even just the agre amount not even worth ntioning that he transferred over. So he wanted to quickly kill the ants that dared defy him before the body completely collapsed.
Who cared if he was being unreasonable to want to kill soone just because he didn't want to serve him. He had the power to do it, and so he would. And who wouldn't feel offended if an ant refused to serve them?? Isn't that basically the ant saying, you aren't worthy of being my master. So infuriating!
"Yeah, sorry, but we aren't so easily angered like so third-rate villains", Muku replied calmly while the others nodded in agreent.
"Really!? You'd be surprised by how many tis that worked in the past, actually", Ares replied with a slightly surprised tone.
Hearing his tone that didn't seem angry at all, Muku couldn't help but feel the thick irony. Just a while back, he was the one using that very tone against st. It's the tone of soone who knows everything is within their grasp and they would end up winning no matter what.
And looking at the situation, they really might lose. The aura Ares in st's body was giving off was above MR2, likely at PR2. Which was a stage they had no confidence in facing.
"Seems your little friends are getting..."
Bang!
Boom!
Boom!
As Ares spoke while looking in a certain direction. Muku, Chloe and Audrey took that opening as a chance to attack.
Muku attacked with a thick tal pole as he knew Ares' defence wouldn't be easily penetrated by blades. So he opted for blunt force that didn't only attack the outer layer of the body, but the internal organs as well.
Chloe sent out a one-tre-thick lightning bolt. Which had a paralysing effect. Even if most of its damage was nullified by the thick defence. It would still paralyze Ares' for a second or two, which was significant to evolvers as strong as them.
Audrey also opted for blunt force damage. She shaped the blood she controlled into a large hamr and smashed down on Ares from above.
All their attacks connected. They had such force that they raised a lot of dust from the ground covering up Ares' whole body.
Boom!
Before they could attack again, the dust was blown away. And there stood Ares, completely untouched. There was a thin reddish barrier around him.
"Hehe, mortals, did you really think I would make your mortal mistakes?" Ares spoke with a disdainful tone again. Though internally he was cursing at Muku and the other two, shouldn't they have co out and attacked him instead of sending out attacks while standing still?? What kind of wimps are they??
That's right, he had tried another tactic to get them out. Yet, again he failed. And the clock was ticking, he was getting closer and closer to losing st's body.
"Actually... I think you fell for it, just fine" Muku replied with a little smile.
"Hmm?...!!!!" Ares' was making his iconic confused sound when he finally sensed sothing. He imdiately looked in a certain direction. One thought going through his mind..."I'm too late"
BOOOOOOOM!
An apocalyptic-like explosion detonated from the spot Ares was standing on. The cause was a multicoloured beam of energy that flew from the distance. It was so quick it reached Ares before he knew what hit him.
"MOOOOORTAAAALS!" Ares' angry shout was heard soon after. Then, like before, he blew away the dust and smoke, though this ti, he looked different from before. Unlike last ti when he was perfectly fine after the attack. This ti almost half of his upper body, or st's rather, was gone.
It was a miracle that he could scream so loudly with just one lung and didn't seem to be in pain at all. Then again, he had only taken control of the body, not completely moved into it.
"I should have known that you would resort to trickery; that's how lowly mortals are, after all", Ares spoke with anger burning in his eyes. Conveniently forgetting that he had tried to trick the other side a few tis but failed.
"Hehe, there are a few ways we can refute that statent, but you know what? We won't. Let's end this!" Muku replied while getting ready for battle.
He could see that st's body was already starting to heal under Ares' control. So there's no way he was going to continue their battle of words when their side finally managed to create an opening. Even if it was likely through sothing he had forbade soone from doing, but still... At least it worked out.
.....
A few kilotres away, a few minutes ago...
Jade, who had been observing the stadium from ti to ti, noticed Chloe's signal. It was sothing they had created long ago for situations like this when they were far from each other. They had also created a few different ones, the one Chloe used made Jade's expression turn grave. For it was the one that signified the highest level of danger.
And so, she quickly notified the others. Their first thought was to quickly go over and offer help. But Layla had a different plan. Sothing she and Muku had only discussed a few tis but never tried due to the fear that it might go horribly wrong. But, desperate tis call for desperate asures.
And so, she told the other girls about her plan. They were a bit sceptical at first but knew full well that their current strength might not be able to help much even if they went to help. So they agreed.
What Layla suggested was called "Union". A spell where multiple elents are joined together and fired off as one. Such a thing would definitely be deadly to the enemy. But it could also be equally deadly to the casters if they are unlucky. This was why Muku had forbidden Layla from telling the others about it, especially Jade, for obvious reasons.
The theory behind it was that even though their mana had different affinities and would manifest differently. At the core of it, it was all just energy mimicking the elent it had an affinity with. So, theoretically, it should be possible to mix that energy together for a single, stronger attack, as long as the mana hasn't taken its final form of turning into an elent. Although it would be chaotic since they would still have different properties. It was still doable, as long as you're fast enough.
Fortunately for the girls, luck was on their side. Their first Union Spell was successful. Maybe it was because of the situation that didn't allow for them to fail. After Chloe's signal, Jade had gotten closer to investigate, which was when Ares spoke about them coming. She also noticed how easily he blocked Muku's attack along with the other two. They were really fighting a monster.
Jade had the feeling that the energy the monster was using was sowhat familiar. She couldn't rember where she recognised it from, so she gave up.
Anyway, the information she brought back played a large part in their decision to try out a union spell. Unlike other spells that could be mystic-looking as much as you want, if you imagine it well enough. The union spell only had one state, and that was a beam of chaotic energy getting shot out while you hoped that it wouldn't explode anywhere near you.
And so, after struggling to keep it under control they held hands while gathering energy. The girls finally fired the attack at Ares'. Just that one attack took away all their energy, only leaving them with barely enough to stay awake.
They weren't surprised when it hit the target, for they knew it was just that strong. As they barely managed to stay standing, they internally prayed that Muku and the others would end the battle.
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