"Where's that bitch of Night?" Dawn cast her best life-sensing and array-detecting spells to make sure the rescue team wasn't falling into a trap. Life Vision covered only her line of sight whereas her spells covered kilometers.
The Horseman sat on top of Sunrise and her Tower Blade Spell, Rising Sun, shone on the tip of her Twilight blade.
"She's gone, dammit! We're too late." Baba Yaga cursed their bad luck.
The fight hadn't lasted long, but more than it had taken Baba Yaga to go back to Lutia from Silverkeep and from there reach Zeska with the rest of her allies. Not knowing how dangerous the amnesiac Lith would be and after hearing about Night's sighting, they had decided to move together.
"Okay, how do we stop that?" Friya asked via the communication amulet while sharing the vision of the blue inferno surrounding them.
"You must overpower them with raw strength." Valtak was in the safety of Baba Yaga's tower. "They are not like regular Origin Flames. They don't exhaust their strength as they burn something.
"Consider the blue flames like a living being you have to kill." The Father of Fire couldn't deal with the Void Demon Dragon in his debilitated state and with a bit of luck, he wouldn't need to.
Many powerful individuals had joined the rescue team, some of them eclipsed even the power he had during his prime.
"A living being, uh? Then leave it to me." Xenagrosh took a step back to check on Lith's condition and unleashed a volley of the tier four Chaos spell, Howling Void.
Black spears the size of a small tree and as fast as bullets erupted from each one of her fingers, piercing through the blue flames like a hot knife through butter.
The destructive power and the Chaos and its speed toppled over ten walls of fire for one whole second. Then, the Void Demon Dragon stood up with an angry roar, releasing more waves of blue fire.
"Who are you and why are you doing this to me?" The physical pain had snapped Derek out of it and summoned him away from the door.
Without his help, the Voidfeather Dragon had no chance of sealing the gate. All he could do was make sure that no soul would get past the blue star and the black sphere, reaching the defenseless human life force.
With the Void gone, there was no one left to stop the stream of parasitic souls. They flooded through the cracks in Lith's life force and fueled the blue flames, bringing them back to their full power.
"Lith, it's me, Friya!" She didn't recognize the voice but according to Life Vision, the creature's energy signature matched Lith's. "Gods, I never thought the day would come when I'd miss your extra eyes.
"They are kind of creepy. No offense, sister."
"Hey, no kink-shaming!" Quylla released Bloodbind from her sleeves to restrain Derek.
Yet not only did he not show any sign of recognizing the two women, ignoring their attempt at humor, but also the chains took fire like they were coated in oil. Bloodbind writhed and screeched in agony as the blue flames corrupted its runes.
"What's happening?" Quylla recalled the chains. "Bloodbind is already so hot that it hurts. And I'm wearing a Featherwalker armor."
"Since when does it screech?" Friya used a series of small dimensional doors to Warp the flames away while Quylla smothered them with multi-layered hard-light constructs.
"It never did but this is the new model." Quylla replied.
"Eyes on the prize!" Morok unleashed six pillars of elemental energy from his eyes.
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