’I hate to admit it, but I’d never thought of this on my own.’ The Agni thought as he smashed into Piretha, the Dryad-Upyr. ’Using heat rays for superior aerial mobility and closing the distance instead of attacking is a brilliant move.’
The Dryad lacked the resources to craft herself an armor fitting her new size and still retained her previous height.
"You are all bark and no bite, little beast!" Piretha took the blow in full, relying on her superior mass and regenerative abilities to stop the living projectile in his tracks. "You can’t hurt me like that!"
She grabbed the Agni from the sides and started squeezing.
"Indeed, I can’t!" Nalrond uncurled his body, slashing left and right with his forearm’s bone spikes and up with those coming out of his knees.
Mere bone spikes wouldn’t have been much of a threat to an armored Divine Beast. Bone spikes coated in the Adamant of Orion’s Featherwalker armor and packing the heat of a tier four Light Mastery spell, however, cut through Piretha with ease.
The various pieces of the Dryad were still reassembling themselves when the hard-light constructs reached their master and pinned every fragment of the Dryad to the ground. The Void Flames they carried consumed Piretha’s vitality and blinded her with pain.
Nalrond used his Earth Vision to spot her Root and incinerate it with a focused heat ray. The fight had barely started, and two Upyrs were already down.
"What can you do, little girl?" Ulthane the Manticore was much bigger than Friya, but after seeing two of his allegedly immortal comrades die in the blink of an eye, he didn’t feel very safe.
He ignored orders and released his Frost Soul bloodline ability to protect himself from any trick the human woman had up her sleeve.
"How long do you have?" Friya smirked from behind her visor as her body disappeared amid golden sparks.
’Behind you!’ An Upyr telepathically yelled at Ulthane, who turned around in a whirlwind of claws.
’Above you!’ Another Upyr said while the Manticore was still off balance.
He looked up and whipped his tail, releasing a swarm of poisonous darts.
’Stop mocking me, you bastards!’ The darts hit only air, just like the claws.
’We are not mocking you. She’s-’ The golden sparks of Dimensional Ruler had finished surrounding Ulthane, turning his size into a disadvantage.
She kept Blinking around him faster than he could see her or his Full Guard spell could follow her.
’This is impossible! Frost Soul stops all spells and bloodline abilities.’ He thought, and he was right. f r\eewebnovel.c(o)(m)
Frost Soul did turn spells and bloodline abilities against their casters, but only those that were conjured inside its area of effect. Friya had cast Dimensional Ruler before diving in, and the already formed golden sparks were unaffected by the Upyr’s bloodline ability.
"Stop running and fight, you coward!" Ulthane roared.
"Okay." The Manticore turned toward the voice just to see a small dimensional opening right in front of his face.
Friya spat her acidic venom from all her heads at point-blank range, soaking Ulthane’s eyes and still-open mouth. The Emperor Beast clenched his burning throat, gasping for air in a desperate attempt to use his breathing technique.
Friya encountered no resistance when she lunged twice at the blind Manticore with her rapier. She pierced Ultahne’s heart and head, flooding them both with Blight Flames for good measure.
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