Flas continued to burn, scattered all over the area, burning away the vines, leaves, and trees to reveal the dark bricks of the ruins. Smoke hissed as the bricks beca ash-white like coal, but they remained intact. Surrounded by the fires, scorched earth, and white-hot rocks, Oscar began to sweat all over, but the heat did not compare to the firepower of Maia's spells.
His bulwark deflected another large fireball, his hair blown back by the forceful winds that blew from the explosions, nearly burned by the residual flas that flew about. Oscar wanted to step closer, but small wisps of flas surrounded him and the others from all over, about to barrage down to explode.
As the wisps rushed in to attack the defenseless Susan and others, Oscar rushed back and extended out his buckler with its thread, twirling it around the air and swinging it wildly to destroy all the wisps from a distance before it could reach the others. As explosions surrounded him but not reaching, Oscar frowned as a large snake, thin like an ordinary snake but longer than twice his height, slithered its way through, flas coiling around it.
The snake hissed as it sprang up, going straight in the air to attack Oscar as he destroyed the wisps of fla. Oscar cursed inwardly and ordered his deer anima to rush ahead with double lances wrapped by its antlers.
'Duo Lance'
The flas coiling around the snake started to rotate faster as it started to spin like a top in the air. Oscar's deer anima charged ahead with its antlers and lances against the continuously spinning flas of the serpent anima.
Oscar felt a sharp pain in his core and spat out blood, but he got a 'Silver Star' in his hand and shot it toward where Maia was, spotting her through a gap in the explosions as retaliation. After the dust settled and the wisps were no more, Oscar let out a hot breath as the air distorted around him from the heat waves. His deer anima ca next to him with a pained look; the antlers and lances had been lted down.
"Not even a single damage to the snake?" Oscar frowned at the unhard snake anima that slithered around in the battlefield full of flas. The snake was too fast and coiled around the lances and antlers, lting them down with extre heat that built up from its flas and continuous spinning. The antlers might not have lted off if his deer anima was a higher grade, but the difference in quality between the snake's flas and his deer's tal was clear. "I'll have to put in more Ein into your antlers to counteract."
Another wave of fla approached, and Oscar blocked it easily with his bulwark; his skin beca reddish from the constant exposure to extre heat. He stared at Maia, who had lost her smile, replacing it with a battle-hardened expression of a serious warrior. "If I think about it, the Left Fla probably told her about Reis as she's had contact with Master. Damnit, Master. Did you have to show off so much in the past?"
Across from him, Maia Claude showed a hint of irritation as he continued to defend against her blasts. She was burning through her Ein, literally, and could not keep it up forever, but even so, Oscar showed no signs of breaking or slowing down. His obsidian eyes continued to lock onto her, sending out more 'Basilisk Eyes' to prevent or slow down so of her spells.
However, despite Maia's overuse of Ein, Oscar suffered from injuries as he continued to be scalded by the flas. Maia's snake anima attacked with powerful flas, making him and his deer anima reel from their potency. Oscar could not foresee the movents of an anima, but he could tell the snake wanted to wrap itself around him or his deer anima to finish it in one move.
Within his predicant, Oscar glanced around to see that Austin and Erik were missing, having taken their respective battles away from him and Maia. While he believed in Austin's ruthlessness and discipline to carry him through, he could not find the sa confidence in Erik. No matter what, he had to settle this before the worst-case scenario.
"Hiss!"
Oscar slamd his bulwark against the fearso snake that swooped in from the flas. A sudden thought ca to him, and he let out a wide smile to encourage himself.
As the snake tried to wrap itself around his bulwark to extend itself over to his arms, intent on burning him to a crisp, Oscar stepped forward and reached out for the snake itself.
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'Ripple Shroud'
The force of Reis exploded from his body like a shockwave, diminishing the flas. In a hurry, Oscar hugged the large snake, holding it firmly in his arms, feeling a horrific burn. If not for the 'Ripple Shroud' montarily lowering the output of the flas, his body might have burned instantly.
'Silver Sheen'
Before the snake could take advantage of Oscar's willingness to hold it, it could not move under Oscar's fearso hold and could not burn his body to a crisp due to the silver tal encasing its prey. Though its flas returned to their usual output, it could not completely lt through Oscar's silver armor with a constant stream of Ein flowing into it.
It beca a cycle of lting and hardening as the flas lted the outer layers of his silver armor, but his Ein ford a clean new layer.
"Reis users are stubborn, like Master said." Maia clicked her tongue and fed her snake more Ein to increase the power of its flas. Out of all her flas, the one her snake anima had was her best. She watched as the flas encased the silver-clad Oscar, heating the tal to the point it beca red-hot.
However, she soon looked confused and stared at the space behind Oscar. The people she had used as a ntal trap for Oscar to stay in one place were gone. Her red eyes locked on a blue deer in the distance that rushed back toward Oscar.
'Ripple Shroud'
Oscar blew apart his silver skin and unleashed another shockwave of Reis to deter the snake anima. He slipped through the gaps and safely retreated away before the twisting beast could coil around him. However, horrible burns covered parts of his exposed chest and arms, and his skin had boils in so areas.
"Are you insane?" Maia asked with a shocked expression.
Oscar held his arms up in a fighting pose, and his deer anima stomped its hooves. A satisfied smile plastered across his face as if in mockery of Maia's question. "Maybe I am, but now they're safe. You can't control them to do anything else other than stare mindlessly and follow simple orders. Otherwise, they would have attacked ; how weak."
"Hah?" Maia raised an eyebrow at Oscar's blatant provocation, her red eyes bursting with hostility and a desire to tear this person apart. Oscar's words had poked into the truth that her seduction spell did not have the impact to have those affected attack under her orders. The higher-grade seduction spells had a much more powerful imprinting to allow that; so even believed the greatest seduction spell would be permanent and the person would forever be under their thrall.
Feeling angered, Maia retorted, "Though they are free, they are in no shape to move. After all, they used up quite a lot of Ein in their previous battle, and the heat of the flas still affected them despite your best attempts to protect them. Don't think you'll receive much help."
Oscar felt blood in his mouth and spat it to the side. Silence befell the scorched fields of fla, stone, and ash as they both recovered their breathing. Not a single breeze or wind blew around them, choked by the waves of heat.
As his hands clenched his bulwark, Oscar saw Maia pull out a red whip. Since he had gotten the others out of the way and the battlefield was open again, she had prepared for the mont he would co within her range. 'She's surprisingly cautious when the situation calls for it. I have to settle this now and kill her before her mindset shifts. She's younger than and full of pride, and I took advantage of those easily, but she's becoming increasingly more grounded.'
His instincts scread at him to kill Maia before she could beco a larger threat later.
'Silver Burst'
Oscar ran with his deer anima, expending more Ein into its hooves so it could keep up. The flas wooshed and whistled from the winds of Oscar's steps as he circled Maia, shooting out 'Silver Star' in succession. However, her snake anima returned to coil around her and lted down the silver stars.
"That snake…." Oscar muttered as he dodged and deflected more of Maia's flas. The two enemies moved in tandem as Oscar gave chase, and Maia moved to maintain her distance, leaving behind trails of upturned dirt and fire.
His bulwark flew through the air, only to be stopped by her red whip. Sparks and sharp noises rang through the battlefield as they continued this exchange, swinging and lashing out their bulwark and whip. Oscar frowned because the silver of his 'Silver Star' continued to lt from her fiery defense while he and his deer anima suffered so burns from the residual flas.
He was at least thankful that the burns did not bleed, but they still stung and continued to weaken his body. However, he noticed Maia had gotten a bit pale and her breathing uneven. 'She's getting tired as well. If I think about it, we're about even. With 'Ein Awaken', I save a bit more, but her attacks are fierce, and I wasted a lot to get everyone out of there. At this rate, we'll both run on empty.'
Fearing that Maia would try to escape before they reached the breaking point, Oscar thought hard about a solution to break this stalemate. In his desperation, Oscar manifested a 'Silver Star' with a wild thought.
'Shattering Wave'
Oscar concentrated the power of 'Shattering Wave' into the 'Silver Star' to try to make it faster and more powerful to burst past the snake's flas. However, he knew this was an unreasonable action as 'Shattering Wave' was a technique that burst out from his body. It worked with 'Silver Lance' because it was attached to his arm.
Containing it within an object and throwing it seed idiotic and would certainly implode in his face. But Oscar didn't care. Right now, he needed to do sothing drastic to turn the tides.
With the silver star at the edge of his fingertip, Oscar aid and flooded it with his 'Shattering Wave'
'Please don't explode in front of .'
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