3168 Kill Team (Part 2)
'No, he can't, you idiot! Blink!' The Yggdrasill barked as the droplets of both colors stopped in mid-air as if time was frozen.
The Tree could see through their Chronicler's mystical senses that the armor and its master were actually unscathed. The Davross-Adamant alloy could take much more than a single tier five spell and the Chronicler was right about Derek's mass.
The palm strike hadn't shattered Derek's body, he had scattered himself to avoid the brunt of the spell while also feeding on its mana.
Abominations weren't Dragons. Cold did nothing to them and all elements but darkness were a meal to them.
The Elf understood what the Yggdrasill meant when he saw the droplets brimming with energy and charging at him.
'Oh, shit!' Luckily for him, centuries of experience and the Tree's timely warning allowed the elf to Blink away in time.
Unluckily for him, it was completely useless. If not for his Darwen armor, the elf would have noticed that the palm of his right gauntlet was completely blackened by a chunk of the Abomination's body that Derek had stuck to the elf.
"Hello, dinner!" The black goo took the form of the Void's face and seeped through the joints of the armor for a feast.
At the same time, the droplets followed the main conscience and rained upon the Chroniclers like bullets of Chaos and enchanted metal. They formed a layer surrounding the elf's whole body and exploited every centimeter of his exposed skin to drain his vitality faster.
While Derek feasted upon the elf, Ragnar?k bolted on its own against the assembled Chroniclers, disrupting their formation.
'Imr'za, stop that blade!' Q'porr, the leader of the hunting mission, said while she rushed to complete her share of the Annihilation.
Imr'za shapeshifted her Yggdrasil staff into a tower shield and readied the tier four Clean Slate she had prepared to jam Lith's equipment in case he came too close to complete his Blade Spell for comfort.
'On it!' Imr'za planted her feet on the ground, imbued Clean Slate in her equipment, and braced for impact. All while conjuring her side of the Annihilation with body casting.
Yggdrasill wood wasn't as durable and powerful as Davross, but while the elf supported the shield with her body, Ragnar?k was alone. Without Lith's mass behind the blow, the Yggdrasill shield would just be chipped before Clean Slate stunned the semi-living weapon.
The damage wouldn't hinder the shield's enchantments and the spark of the World Tree inhabiting the wood would instantly repair it. Imr'za calculations were confirmed by the Tree and on point.
Except she had failed to take into account the raw mass of Chaos plaguing the blade or the fact that just like its master, Ragnar?k was rarely alone. Double Edge coated the angry blade, giving it the mass of a small building.
The Cursed Element pierced through the Yggdrasill wood like paper, spreading its corruption, while Ragnar?k's sheer weight blasted the shield asunder and impaled Imr'za in the chest.
"Solus. Where?" The angry blade quivered in respite as it could pass the blight of Chaos on to the dying elf and use her blood to recover part of its strength.
In the blink of an eye, two Chroniclers were dead, dropping their numbers from eight to six. In the blink of an eye, two Yggdrasill branches were tainted by Chaos that fed upon the Tree's spark and twisted their life force.
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