Interlude - Pressure

Interlude - Pressure

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The mass of tendrils collided with her and wrapped around her four wings, then started to squeeze. The General was strong, she felt the bones in one of her wings crack and she screamed. She got taken off guard, and she couldnt use her Sky Techniques to tear it away without taking her wings with it, its grip was too strong. She had hit it with a Bond Qi technique before and had done little damage, it was resistant. She dismissed her Evolved Form, her body shrinking back down. The General moved immediately, trying to catch her again and squeeze her small body to death.

With |Mine Are The Winds, And The Sky| she ordered the wind to carry her out of its grasp. The current caught her wings, pushing her away as the mass of tendrils reached out for her, not even the wind would be fast enough, she could tell. She reached out with her hand and pulled out her awakened weapon.

Cloud Walker manifested as if born out of clouds. She gripped the haft tightly and used Cloud Step. Her body turned into a substance resembling that of clouds and she surged to the side as the tendrils tried to grab hold and simply passed through her. She reformed to the side, Qi already moving through her conduits.

With a beat of her wing she surged forward, then stabbed the spear into the Generals side. She channeled the technique through the weapon, pushing her Sky Qi through it and into the Generals body. Then, she triggered {Empty Detonation}. The Sky expanded inside of it, and a chunk of its body exploded, the blast carried her back and she let it. Still, the General was massive, and while its tendrils lashed out widely, it was not dead.

It was a shallow stab, Cloud Walker said, and Tali grimaced.

I told you; I dont fight with weapons, Tali responded. Cloud Walker was right, if she had stabbed deeper or someplace else, she couldve done more damage. Cloud Walker could let her channel her powers through it, as well as let her use Cloud Step, but it couldnt make her better at something.

She didnt have a lot of time to contemplate, she flew around the General, charging techniques and then unleashing them around it. She threw out two {Tempestuous Sky} techniques around it, one with Sky Qi and the other with Bond Qi. The area around the General filled with a tempest of Qi. The Sky trembled as the wind and clouds assaulted it, while her Bond Qi attempted to tear it apart. It was resisting, but she could see that it was weakening. She flew in her smaller form, to make herself harder of a target. The General flew after her, and she kept attacking it, chipping at it slowly.

She didnt even remember how many Generals she had fought, but she felt the tiredness rising. Her Qi supplies would soon reach dangerous levels, and her willpower was on its last dregs. Then, finally, she felt her Bond Qi find purchase, and lines started opening up in the monsters body, black ichor-like blood seeping from it in large deluge.

She flew above it and changed back into her Evolved Form, then she dove. She screeched as she slammed into it, through a wound and into its body. Then she unleashed a massive {Empty World} with Sky Qi.

The General burst from the inside, and the sky around her cracked as everything was pushed away along with pieces of its body. The smaller monsters burst into showers of blood as they were hit by the blast, clouds and wind expanded outward, and the stronger monsters were thrown away with such force that their bones cracked.

The dark and cloudy sky around her was suddenly empty and clear. It gave her a moment to look around and see the situation around her.

Lets go, he said.

Mal placed a hand on his shoulder, and in a blink the two of them were somewhere else. Vesterius stumbled and caught on the wall, then looked around and saw that they were in a small secluded corner. He glanced up and saw the shining shield above them.

Were inside, Mal whispered. In the courtyard.

You know where we need to go? Vesterius asked.

Of course, Mal snorted. Stay by, I know that I can get in undetected, taking the thing out of the vault will trigger defenses. Im gonna need your shout once they come at us.

How many do you think?

Mal leaned and looked around the corner. They have some taken on the walls, but most are occupied operating the artillery arrays. The rest are in the city or the field.

Vesterius grimaced, then hefted his axe. Lead the way.

Nayra moved and the air caught fire. The ground shook and the monsters exploded from her mere touches. The Death filled the battlefield in an amount that she had never experienced before. She couldnt quite control herself; her stats were so high that a step would take her leagues. She was ahead of the Sect army now, ahead of the undead army that was charging across the blood-soaked land. She didnt intend to do that, but she had somehow just found herself here, in the middle of the enemy forces.

A General came at her, moving faster than even the eye could see. She sensed it through her Battle Trance and Battle Knowledge, she anticipated its arrival and attack. Goddess of Speed, and she sidestepped its attack, its blades carved into the ground where she stood just a moment before. Her follow up was a thrust with her spear. She stabbed it with such force and power that its entire body burst into black mist, its blood and flesh boiling and disintegrating in equal measure. The mist was carried away by a blast of broken air and carving of the earth beneath. A wave that crushed and destroyed monsters in the line behind her thrust for kilometers in ahead until it hit a hill on the other side of the battlefield and made it explode in a shower of earth and stone.

She turned her attention back ahead of her, looked at the great battle ahead, where Ryun and Selia were destroying their enemy. The monsters had gathered around them, but she saw a dozen Generals attack them, increasing the pressure on the two of them. She activated Valkyries Swiftness, and then she charged ahead. Her form shrouded in dawnfire, her wings spread on her back. She beat them and flew with her shield in front of her, keeping close to the ground.

She went through monsters in her way, carving a blazing path through the army as she made her way to join the two fighting in the distance. Death filled her, it was time that they ended this.