"They won't dare try again and even if they do, they'll have no idea what they are going to deal with." The hybrid said.
"Excellent idea." The Mother extended her hand to cast Dismantle again, but the creature stopped her. freewёbnoνel.com
"Wait. We are grateful for your help, but we have a theory about how to safely destroy small cursed objects by ourselves and this is the only opportunity we got to put it to the test before we encounter more."
"You do?" Baba Yaga said in amazement while the others just gaped at the hybrid.
As for Stargazer, she exploited that moment when no one was looking at her to Warp away.
'If I have to die, I'll die fighting!' So she thought as Baba Yaga's Elemental Seal array blocked the Spirit Steps first and then even slowed the world energy cursing inside the cursed glaive's power core.
Stargazer found herself incapable of moving, her body reduced to a piece of wood and metal while her mind had trouble formulating thoughts.
Elemental Seal was a heptaelemental magical formation that went beyond Silverwing's Hexagram, blocking even Spirit Magic by expending the same amount as its victim.
It was an array long and complicated to cast, not to mention incredibly mana expensive. Yet for a bright white cored Awakened empowered by her tower, it was a cantrip.
The six Evil Eyes on the glaive's haft opened, shedding tears of despair at the realization that there was nothing that Stargazer could do to avoid her impending death.
The group noticed, but just like the living legacy had been indifferent in the past to the suffering of the people she had killed for joy or business, they just didn't care.
"Show me." The Mother offered the hybrid her hand and they took it.
A mind link was worth thousands of words and needed but a few seconds. Lith hesitated since that knowledge might be useful against Night or Dawn but Solus trusted her friend so the final result was the creature frowning.
"Interesting. Very interesting, even, but it's difficult and situational at best. There are countless things that can go wrong. Dimensional compression arrays, Sealed Space, the destruction of your Demons, and I could go on." Baba Yaga said after witnessing their thoughts.
"An imperfect plan is still better than no plan at all." The hybrid replied. "Also, even if nobody would fall for it a second time, as long as we leave no witnesses it will always benefit from the element of surprise."
"That's a fair point, but I have one more objection." A wave of the Mother's hand brought forward the materials she had recovered from dismantling Windfell and an amorphous puddle of Davross.
It was what was left of Knightfall after the Thousand Flames and the Primordial Flames had destroyed everything but the metal, erasing even the memory of its previous shape.
"If you let me kill Stargazer, we get her materials. If we follow your plan, we'd lose them all."
"That's a fair point." Lith's greed battled with Solus' scientific curiosity, freezing the creature on the spot as their two mouths argued with each other, and their eyes frowned and widened in response.
"Wow. And here I thought that just their eyes shining was creepy." Tista pointed at the black and golden arms gesturing independently and pointing at the hybrid themselves when making a compelling argument. "This is much, much worse."
"I find it fascinating." Baba Yaga looked at Menadion's opus with a mix of admiration and envy, wondering if her children would ever achieve a similar condition. "You don't look so good, child. Is everything alright?"
"Can you please give me a check-up? I need a second opinion." The Red Demon winced in pain as she turned back into her human form.
Shapeshifting had always been a seamless process, but for a few days now it had become problematic.
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