Scarlet
Without wasting a second, I use both blood boil and life drain on the two while also manifesting several weapons of blood above my head that I send flying towards them. And out of the corner of my eye, I find Emily assaulting them with all of her skills and sending a wave of the viral mist towards them, disregarding stealth for pure force and speed. Which isnt saying much since its still not moving too fast.
anwhile Ace reaches for a card and draws it, a smile imdiately brightening his face the mont he sees it. Then he starts outright laughing while his teammate begins singing a rather beautiful song that I cant understand a single word of, several fireballs beginning to appear around her as she does so. The fireballs then go flying to clash with my blades of blood, making my eyes narrow for a second.
Maybe we might win this one after all, eh Sof? Ace shouts, sounding rather hysterical as he raises the card up, a volcano beneath so sort of grim reaper appearing on the card making it look rather foreboding.
I told you not to call that, Sof, also known as Songstress says in a tired but not unhappy voice right when she pauses in her song, making the fireballs stop for mont. She then smiles slightly at the sight of the card and focuses on him instead, simply letting the blades of blood approach as she starts singing again, changing her tone this ti to be a much softer lody instead of the more intense but beautiful one she had before. And right when she does, a glowing green light shoots from her hand to envelop Ace as the card begins to leak magma, the magma burning the card in the process.
That cant be good, I mutter before glancing at Emily to find her looking at and nodding. So I begin jumping up the wall straight towards the Songstress, deciding to keep a little distance between myself and Ace for the mont.
And judging by the slight frown he makes at that as the card continues transforming into a literal volcano with so sort of skeleton wearing a cloak and holding a scythe very much reminding of the grim reaper on the card that is from the old world mythology appearing above the volcano. Ace then points down at Emily, making my eyes widen as the skeleton focuses on her.
Shit.
Without wasting a second, I change my trajectory by jumping off the wall straight towards Ace, ignoring his skill entirely in the hopes that killing him will dispel it. And considering that his eyes widen into saucers when he sees what Im doing, I think its safe to assu it will.
He quickly swipes his hand in front of him, making another deck appear before he draws another card and raises it in front of . The card then shoots out a fireball right at , but I simply cut straight through it with my shapeshifted arm, not bothering with dodging it as I continue towards him.
Redirect!!! he shouts, making the skeleton, who had been raising its scythe to strike in the direction of Emily suddenly teleport before reappearing in place but facing instead. It then swings its scythe straight at , which I move slightly to avoid, only for it to still dig into my shoulder, almost bisecting my left arm off of my body entirely in the process. Then I hear what sounds like electricity coming from Songstress, only for coughing sounds to replace the electricity entirely, signaling that Emily took care of her sohow.
Ace quickly grins as he sees my wound, only for that grin to shift into horror when he sees continuing towards him and ignoring it thanks to pain diffusion. Although it probably doesnt help that hes likely seeing the wound beginning to close up ever so slowly. Not extrely quickly, but quickly enough that its visible to the human eye.
Sof! he shouts, only to look over and find sothing that has his jaw dropping open. I dont bother looking to see what he is looking at though, as I quickly reach him before drawing my claws straight across his chest and down to his waist and around to his hip while landing on the balcony next to him in a kneel. Then I lose my footing despite being kneeling, one of my knees hitting the ground due to the weakness spreading through my body from the blood Ive been burning along with the blood I lost in almost getting my arm cut off.
Despite that I manage to turn around to find him vanishing in a flash of light along with his grim reaper and volcano skill. But thats not what draws my eye. What draws my eye is the sight of Songstress on her knees while seemingly dehydrated so badly that her bones are showing with black veins crawling across her skin that has wincing.
Ouch. And people say Im painful to fight
Fortunately she vanishes just seconds later, no longer having to deal with what mustve been very painful.
I look down at Emily to find her sweating buckets down there, only to see her weakly smile at and give a thumbs up with her left hand on her knee as she leans over a little.
Frightening girl.
Youre one to talk, Tar mutters, to which I ignore.
I also ignore my arm which is quite painful, even with 32.5% of the pain not being there. Although theres also the 50% removed from the magical reality itself, so really its just about 67.5% of the remaining 50%. So about 33.75% of the actual pain Id feel if this happened.
Which is still fucking painful, but tolerable at least.
Well, looks like we have their core now. A pity I wont be able to fight Shifter, but in hindsight, it may be best that I dont fight until this wound heals.
Stupid card skill. Stupid dumb luck.
I climb to my feet before beginning to walk over towards the room housing their core, Emily quickly making her way towards the stairs as I do so judging by the sound of her footsteps. But right when Im almost at the doorway of the large balcony, I stop as I hear footsteps from outside of the tower rushing over here.
No he cant be I mutter while turning around and still holding my arm so that its still perfectly in place for the healing.
The sound of the footsteps suddenly stop as I hear a whoosh outside.
Then the wall of the large room bursts inwards and a man with glowing red eyes and markings spread across his skin flies into the room straight onto the balcony Im on before slamming his shapeshifted bear paw into the ground and cracking the balcony, destroying the thing, and sending us both falling down to the fourth floor below.
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