The resulting speed from Lith’s flight spell plus the two clashing attacks allowed him to dart through the spawns and strike at Nalrond with the momentum of a freight train.
The hybrid spat out a mouthful of blood as his scales cracked and his bones broke. Lith had no time to play nice nor to explain his intentions to the crazed beast so he made sure to hit his unwilling ally hard enough to make Nalrond faint.
The moment Dawn’s reinforcements stepped on the arrays Solus had placed earlier, Solus activated the magical formations, diverting the enemy’s attention from their escape.
’I’m starting to believe that Acala was right all along. Maybe the gods really don’t want him to achieve greatness. Why is everything going wrong?’ Dawn thought while the arrays fooled her into believing that more intruders were coming through the tunnels.
She couldn’t allow any witness to reach the surface and since the source of the attacks came from the only way out of the underground complex, she had to deal with the newcomers first.
The Bright Day ordered her spawns to block the tunnels leading to the upper levels while she took care of the threat, leaving only the two undead who were already chasing Lith after her prey.
Lith regretted not having killed them sooner, but the light beam he had redirected was already weakened. If he had used it to destroy the vampires, not only would their energy have flown back to Dawn, but the beam would also have lost even more power.
’My bet was that with Dawn dead or incapacitated, her minions would have followed. Too bad that I failed. Solus?’ Final Sunset was about to run out of mana and he couldn’t waste a tier five spell like that again.
’Two against one while protecting a hostage is suicidal. We’ve already lost the element of surprise. They know about me and I haven’t got much mana left. Bright green mana core, remember?’ She replied.
Lith sighed, dropping Nalrond as if he was a bad habit. The hybrid weighed half a ton and the undead were moving at near sonic speed while weaving several spells at once.
The vampire was so focused on her own spell that she failed to notice Lith’s movements until it was too late. The living boulder met the flabbergasted undead like a windshield does a mosquito.
Blood and bones splattered everywhere on the walls as the living corpse was forced to a halt. The damage she had sustained wasn’t enough to kill her, but the cracks the impact had opened in her prism would cripple the vampire’s strength until she made a full recovery.
’That was mean but effective. One on one is much better’ Solus thought.
Lith infused the Skinwalker armor with his mana, turning himself into an Orichalcum block before stopping abruptly. The remaining undead was expecting something like that so he slowed down and dodged Lith, blocking the corridor ahead.
’The enemy is trapped. I need backup to prevent them from escaping ag...’ The mind link between Dawn and her spawn was abruptly cut off as the prism inside his chest shattered.
Along with his power, Dawn retrieved the images about his final moments as well. She discovered that when her servant had surpassed Lith, the third stone arm had struck like a scorpion’s tail from the blind spot that the Ranger’s metal body created.
The red blade of Ruin had merely grazed its target, but at such speed, it had been enough. The only silver lining was that Dawn had gotten a good look at Solus. Once metalized, the Skinwalker armor had no mantle anymore and this time there was no spell blinding her Life Vision.
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