"Kaleidoscope!" After the initial clash between Raven and Avarice, the Mono-doll conjured darkness blades the same as her opponent. And despite the dire condition she was in, healing herself constantly, she kept herself sane while also trying to drive away the party. "LEAVE ME ALONEEE!"
'Remember nothing too fancy, especially summons or clones, if she manages to copy those abilities we might as well be done.' Keeping focus while stabbing Avarice in the back with conjured darkness from her own shadow, Raven kept everyone's senses perked up.
"UGHHH!" Avarice screeched as the darkness nearly stabbed through her core. However, forcing the wound to close she crushed the darkness into bits.
Fuming in anger, she didn't waste a moment before rushing towards Raven–the only one who'd directly attacked her so far. But before she could land a hit her legs were shackled by darkness and the momentum from her body made her fall forward on her face.
"AEGIIISSSSS!" Tired of being flung around, Avarice finally activated her defensive shield.
Taking a few steps back as they continued to encircle her, the rest of the party was ready to intercept her at any moment. Amedith had his shield up, Mel had her explosive arrows ready so that they would explode at the moment of contact so the damage couldn't be reflected.
Aria was also ready to just throw some punches with no special abilities for Avarice to copy, and Erika was already busy planting runes on the ground while appearing and disappearing into thin air.
As long as Avarice's focus was on Raven, things were bound to go smoothly. And with Regalia finally joining in, the room for any mistakes in the party's actions was shut even tighter. Even so, breaking out of the shackles, Avarice tried to throw the dark blades at Raven, but before they even left her hands, Mel blasted her hand into bits with the explosives.
"HHHHHHAAA! FUCKK!" Stepping sideways from the impact, Avarice could feel the burn on her hand, and though she managed to heal the wound in a matter of seconds, the fact that Aegis did deploy but couldn't save her from the explosive impact–sowed the seeds of fear in her heart.
"That's exactly right!" Coming down on Avarice from above, Aria slammed her fist right into her cranium. The force of which shattered the doll's legs as well as cracked her skull like a broken egg.
Laying on the ground with her eyes flickering about, Avarice knew that she was done, but she didn't wanna be the only one to die. Thus, concentrating all the mana inside her core she was ready to explode her body into a massive bomb. Stripping away all that she could from the surroundings, her chest began to glow with a silver orb of light confining all that power.
The pull of mana from her was so strong that even Aria who didn't use it all, could feel her body gravitating towards her, almost as if she was turning into a magnet for people. The others couldn't even lift a finger or attempt to move away, their bodies were being dragged closer and closer towards that inevitable bomb.
But then it happened, making Avarice's last moments nothing but a useless struggle.
"Protocol Actuating: Mono Aurarelia..." Those words uttered by her became her last memories, and not just for herself, but also in the mind of her creator.
Letting go of the mana being confined in her chest, the sorceress lay on the ground just soaking in her revival. She could once again feel her arms, her fingers, and that beating heart inside the ironcore that had kept her soul alive for so long.
'What the fuck happened?' Confused by the sudden changes and the return of mana in their surroundings, every single one of the party members was confused, especially those who could actually use magic.
"Ahhh..." Healing her shattered legs, Mono picked herself up while scratching the back of her head. "This moron should've tried getting a boyfriend or a hobby before any of this."
Despite the changes, however, since none of them knew what was happening, they picked themselves up and got ready to fight the mother of automatons.