"Do not tell me, that is not who it is supposed to be..." Veronica said, shock covering her face as she looked at her fellow sisters.
Each of them, using a spell that allowed them to spectate the event watched as Aeress, the great mother, came to life, knowing fully well it was not exactly her in that body.
"Quick, fortify the barrier, we can't let that thing leave." Helga said, hurrying to teleport Naiha away to her seat and then herself finally.
Deep down they all felt a bit powerless imagining just how powerful such a being could be, but the least they could do at that moment was hold up the barrier and stop the thing from having any contact with the world outside.
...
"Hmm... What is this? Are they trying to keep me in?" Aeress said to herself, well, more like the abyssal entity inhabiting her body. It looked amused for a moment as it looked all around deep into the distance.
'This place is so far off from where any living creature resides, even animals are scarce around here, but...' it said in its mind, sensing just where Aldritch was hiding before it floated towards his general direction.
Aldritch who saw this could tell that he had already been spotted, though, he remained calm.
The entity gradually approached, floating slowly as it made its way towards Aldritch who couldn't be bothered to try to hide anymore. He was already transformed into a bat and hanging in a dense tree, and even then, he was still caught.
Instead of keeping up the act, Aldritch came down of the tree and transformed back into his normal self.
Helga couldn't interject as Naiha was right, though, she still appreciated Veronica's concern, after all, she was the one under the most pressure as she had already depleted some of her mana beforehand and was not operating from her peak.
"Let's all just focus." Helga said in a heavy tone.
The abyssal entity casually raised its left hand towards the barrier while the ones holding it up watched. As its hand got closer to the barrier, instead of stopping him, his hand seemed to be sucked into the barrier. Slowly, his entire body followed, moving into the barrier and disappearing from sight. In that second, Helga and the rest were more than confused, but just then, the abyssal entity reappeared outside the barrier, slipping back into reality as though it was coming out of the fabrics of reality itself.
With a sly smirk developing on its face, the abyssal entity glanced back casually before leaving.
Helga, Naiha and Veronica were left at a loss for words as confusion came over them as to how to proceed. There was no way to curtail this entity yet, it was just impossible!
Just then, Helga's mana ran out, deactivating the barrier with it which now relied more heavily on their mana than the earlier setup.
"It's all over now." Veronica murmured to herself in disbelief.
Helga was half collapsed on the floor, her chest heaving in and out quietly in what seemed to be labored breathing. Her entire body felt such a degree of exhaustion that she felt like lifting the weight of an entire city when she tried to bring herself up. In no time, she collapsed and went unconscious there on the ground.
A minute later, Naiha spoke to Veronica through a form of thought transfer.
"I need you to go take care of Helga." She said in a calm but defiant tone.
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A/N: Ahhh... I think its because this particular ark had dragged on farther than I planned, I'm suffering from insufficient motivation.