Chapter 2886 Old Magic (Part 4)

Chapter 2886 Old Magic (Part 4)

Her strike generated a deafening boom of thunder and created a one-meter-deep crater in the solid rock, opening a way in for the Davross' flames. Alas, the cracks started to close immediately, snuffing out the flames, and when the dust settled the main keep had taken little damage.

The white stones were blackened from the heat but that was it.

["How dares a mere skeleton to disrespect me like this?"] That and the wound on Thaymos' ego.

He had been sealed before Liches were a thing and his mind conjured every slur against living legacies he knew in the attempt to decipher Inxialot's words.

He tried to squash the two insolent insects with his palms but they both Blinked away, leaving the Eternal Fortress shocked. He ended up slapping and damaging himself more than the two pests had. Investigate the source of this data, deeply rooted in n0v(lbin★

["How? How can they open Warp Steps so quickly?"] He asked to no one in particular in amazement. ["Is everyone a genius these days or has magic changed this much while I was imprisoned?"]

Thaymos had fought against the Guardians and assumed that their amazing spells were possible solely thanks to their matchless power. During the skirmishes against mages of the Council, he had believed that they had sent against him the best of the best and brushed off the issue again.

After meeting the alleged Bright Day and this group of meddlers, however, Thaymos was starting to have doubts.

The disturbance was enough to weaken his hold on the Gate so that Raagu's dimensional sealing arrays encountered limited resistance.

She couldn't conjure enough of them to cover an area so wide but the distortions that her magical formations caused in the dimensional corridor ripped the front line of monsters that was walking through the Gate to shreds and destabilized the spell.

Friya capitalized on that, activating the golden sparks of her Dimensional Ruler spell in the fracture points of the Steps and following Raagu instructions about how to adjust her spell to Thaymos' alterations to the elemental balance.

The darkness element enhanced the destructive power, the earth element the hardness of the hammer, while the water element carried a frost wave that made the enchanted white stones of the Eternal Fortress brittle.

Solus also channeled the water element inside the Davross, generating a blue aura around the Fury that split the world energy from the mana of anyone but her. When the automatic defensive systems came online, the hammer tore them apart like paper and struck the main keep/head without losing momentum.

Thaymos had underestimated the petite woman with the weak aura, unaware that cloaking devices had been invented as well during his imprisonment. The blow was as strong as it was unexpected, making the Eternal Fortress lose his balance.

["What the?"] The Fury brought down the roof of the main keep and cracked its walls.

Bodya released the acid he had left to cause a sudden cave-in while Inxialot and Ilthin pushed the lost city down with the sheer strength of their bodies and magic. Thaymos fell to the ground with the grace of a sack of bricks and lost sight of his spell.

Friya exploited the opening to bring the Steps down with a thunderous explosion that blackened the ground for almost a kilometer. She felt the acrid taste of bile as the forbidden magic threatened to taint her core, her whole body shivering in revulsion.

'There's something wrong. The mana I'm Dominating is forcing itself into Dimensional Ruler and me. Even detached from the lost city, the energy still carries its original owner's energy signature and will.

'If I just let it go, the bastard will regain most of the mana and open another Gate. Even if we can't destroy it, we can still defeat it!' Friya pushed her deep violet core to its limits and channeled her strength into the Hands of Menadion.

The masterpiece of the First Ruler of the Flames amplified her mana and absorbed the wild energy of the forbidden spell. The Hands kept the corrupted life force at bay by forming a cushion from the surrounding world energy that isolated Friya from the taint.

Then, she took control of the remains of the dimensional spell, turning it into a Warp Steps that carried the Primordial Flames in front of Thaymos, hitting him from point-blank range.

The array defensive system was fooled by the residual energy signature, mistaking Friya's spell for friendly and letting it past the layers of barriers and arrays.