<nulli>'That guy can cast what he wants. I just have to keep my distance to turn whatever spell he keeps at the ready a burden on his mind and a waste of mana. I've still a lot to do here so-' Lith's seven eyes went wide as they perceived the elemental flow of the familiar spells turning into something unknown.
Ulma had finished conjuring the runes but instead of condensing them into their respective spells, he was manipulating them. Many runes from both Burial Grounds and Flame Cutter were discarded while the rest merged into Deadshot.
The air still had its speed and the fire packed its heat, but they were now compressed into a stone bullet infused with darkness. The new spell moved at near sonic speed, crossing the distance between Ulma and Lith in the blink of an eye.
Luckily for the Tiamat, the other six were still open.
<nulli>'I know this spell!' Lith couldn't dodge something moving so fast, he could only block it. <nulli>'It's the same one that killed Quylla, I mean, the meat puppet Jirni switched her with.
<nulli>'That's the ability that earned Tiennon Zavra his title of Lost Magus, but he's dead. I'm sure of it because I killed him.'
Lith activated the blue and orange crystals on Ragnar?k to lessen the strain that channeling two elemental aspects of the Davross at the same time inflicted on the blade.
The water aspect split the mana from the world energy, weakening Deadshot the moment it neared Lith. The earth aspect turned the aura surrounding the blade into a sturdy defensive barrier harder than a diamond. freeweɓnovel.cѳm
The bullet was the size of a baseball, focusing the combined power of the two tier five spells on a small surface. It gave Deadshot the kinetic energy of a truck shot by a sniper rifle.
Even with the conjured protections and his mass Lith slid back a few centimeters, his back recoiling from the impact.
<nulli>'Fuck me sideways, that guy is much closer than Zavra back then so I don't have the time to dodge. Orion could block this kind of spell only because he wore a Royal Fortress armor comprised of hundreds of kilos of compressed Davross.' Lith didn't like his situation one bit.
His Demons of the Flames were still fighting the new wave of undead brought by the Nightwalker and Lith couldn't wait for them to finish their battle. Not with Ulma weaving another spell from a safe distance while also feeding upon his thralls.
<nulli>'There's no telling what kind of arrays and how many undead are hidden in the space between me and the Nightwalker yet I have no choice but to charge forward.' Lith gritted his teeth in frustration
<nulli>'I bet that if I stall for time, he will alternate between attacking my Demons and me. He will chip my strength and the numbers of my allies while he keeps his own and more reinforcements come to his aid.'
Lith's analysis was spot on.
Ulma had made no effort to hide his intentions in order to bait Lith into falling into the next layer of his trap.
<nulli>'If Verhen runs away, not only will his plan to raid the Undead Courts as he did with Thrud's cities fail, but it will also prove that we can defeat him. The morale of the soldiers of the Kingdom will plummet and so will his reputation.
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