Kite Metamorphose [-50 Mana]

Flying high over the sky was a winged horse, it’s hooves lit aflame and it’s eyes icy blue. Erebus rode atop it’s hide, clad under his hood like the reaper of souls and stormy nights, only tonight? The sky was clear, and the stars were out. Erebus watched as a bird flew in the distance and dove for the trees. He could sense the same weirdness in the air, that Atani had felt. However as he came down about 60m to the right side of her, he hadn’t noticed it was another person until her transformation back to her elven form. He merely landed on his own means, and wafted through the forest, letting his Dhuilin fly away and do as it always did until he whistled to see the creature return.

Pushing through bush, and plant aside Erebus finally saw Atani in a clearing and in the direction she was looking, a rift had appeared. A magical tear in the dimensional atmosphere. From out of this distant parallel universe brought a new group of enemies— never seen before— to emerge. It was just as the rumors around Oak foretold. Erebus readied himself, gripping all three of his weapons, and wearing Lerzar’s glove. He silently preyed closer and closer as they began to move on Atani’s position.

Erebus merely circled behind the shadows of trees, his plan? To flank the runners. Sure he didn’t know this elf, and no... Normally he wouldn’t just save anyone in the forest because his bounty would leave him a target, but he was here to test his worth. His mental and his physical, in case these same creatures made their way to Eternal Nightmare’s domain. It was not to Erebus knowledge that Khal the Usurper had just arrived as Erebus made his way in the night towards the North to find these rumors of portals.

However, if he could stand a chance against the foot soldiers. Perhaps, the true challenge was within his control. Only time could tell but for now, Erebus made his way to the back of the portal just as it shut, there was probably fifty invaders and they began to move in a coordinated stance against Atani. Raising a shield wall and trudging 15m/s second towards her at her location of 50m away. Erebus was about 20m behind them when their portal officially disappeared. He waited to see if she would bomb the area or cast a spell. If the coast was clear, he’d spring his own attack after hers.

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It had been a rough few months for Zane and Beelzebub. Upon a series of failures, Zane's more consistent social isolation and avoidance as well as a few other factors, the two had most certainly hit their biggest slump yet. Zane had become nothing more than a petty thief, roaming from town to town to steal what he could and add it to his collection. Beelzebub was happy about his protege's now endless greed, though he missed both Zane's former ambition and wackyness. He never seemed to go all, well, Zaney anymore. At least not very often. Zane had stolen a few valuables from a house in a settlement in Worth Woodsea, eventually choosing to nap high atop a tree branch in the nearby forest. "You ready to go yet?" Beelzebub asked, admittedly impatient with the way that Zane so carelessly wasted his time doing quite literally nothing: at least in the past he'd waste it doing something dumb. "Nah. I think I'll stay here for a while." Zane replied internally, even his tone of voice seeming awfully half-assed nowadays.

And that's when it happened. Rifts in the sky began appearing, immediately catching Zane's eyes. They were just like the ones that showed up in the incursions all those years ago. "Demons, huh...?" Zane wondered aloud, looking up to one of the portals. [color:a736=#9999ff]"I don't know about that. Feels... different." Beelzebub remarked, though his hypothesis was based on nothing more than a simple hunch.

Looking in the area around the commotion Zane spotted a pair of people in a large clearing. One of them looked much like Atani did, though Zane wasn't quite sure. From this distance - about 100 meters horizontally and 10 meters vertically - it could have simply been any elven female. "Would've thought you'd be more excited about seeing a woman in distress, Zane." Beelzebub remarked, almost thrown off guard by how indifferent Zane was to the situation. Zane stood up from the branch he was laying on, placing his left hand on the tree to balance himself and looking down towards the action. "Well..." Zane sighed to himself. That could be Atani... he told himself he didn't care about anyone nowadays, but he supposed he cared a tiny bit about her. Just a little.

"I suppose I can observe for now."

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Ranya [-40 Mana]

Erebus lifted a hand, as the Lerzar’s glove flew forwards, then he activated pull. Sending a lightsaber hilt to his hand which would vibrantly light a 5m radius, after activating his mana blade, he pitched it through the air, simultaneously controlling the Lerzar’s glove with another to snatch it out of the air. In wicked agile ways, the combo of the red laser and floating glove targeted the reverse of the unit at the flank of the shield wall, in the front a storm cloud rained needle water droplets down upon the front half. Erebus assumes the Elf ahead was responsible, a pretty good spell, but it wouldn’t last too well, the men merely blocked most of the damage with their wooden shields, but their armor did show signs of rapid corrosion.

Needless to say, the shield wall began to up it’s speed as they broke out into sprinting and retaining their shields up, after 5m of travel Erebus had to retract his mana blade, having successfully cut his sword into two-five invaders at the back. However the rest were picking up speed quickly, three mages began to levitate ominously, first conjuring forth large spell seals before thrusting S-rank, 16m Fire-Bolts down upon the location behind Atani firstly, and then the location she sat upon now. This was to provoke her forward as opposed to swaying her to run backwards.

It seemed evident they intended to kill the elf after all. They were here in conquest of the Woodsea. It didn’t matter who this mage was, she wasn’t getting any mercy.

Suddenly the same levitating mages, came together and touched hands, creating some sort of triad— they began to spin, garnering forworth wind magic seals at their backs, moving away from the shield wall towards Erebus, in the form of a mighty tornado. These creatures had expanded the damage of the tornado to 3x-S rank

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Pull (160) - Used
CD: 2
Lerzar’s Glove (400) - Used
CD: 3

Ranya [-40 Mana, Sustained]
A-Rank Arrow Shot [-150 Mana]

The sound of armor jangling, creaking, and hardening up could be heard. It was becoming harder for the invaders to move around in their armor, visual display of rust was showing from Atani’s rain. However, it was pretty dark and seeing it was only discernible at a close proximity— Erebus happened to be closer so he had noticed it as the three mages reached the air and began to spin. Conjuring a synergy-made tornado.

Although with Atani releasing the arrow into one of these entities backside, the twister awkwardly tilted, sucking her rain cloud spell into it and causing the spell to disable upon itself. The two mages left within the interrupted triad then fly in an arc— attempting to pull the twister away from their troops, as they tilt the tornado, it spins around at 180 degrees, which pointed then upon Erebus location as it aimed closer to the ground now. They moved it quickly, so as to not hit their own troops.

Erebus was sucked off the ground and pulled into the spiral of torrenting winds, which cut his gear and broke it, as well as causes his hood to tear a bit. His hands instantly summoned forth two daggers, as his glove fastened itself back to his palm and the hilt, was gripped. With it in his hand, he could land a harder punch, but the cooldown before he could activate the mana blade again was in effect. Through the air, numerous men below flew upwards and began clashing their weapons upon Erebus— which glowed with purple light. Some kind of offensive mana blade spell. Obviously, he couldn’t fly like them, so with every strike Erebus made sure to simply clash his weapon against there’s slowly damaging his items but overall, enabling his avoidance of serious harm. Erebus used his force to propel off his targets and stay afloat as he made his way around them. Further flying through the air— he could feel his daggers, in their steel and mithril shades, plunging within the weak spots of the invader’s armors. Pitiful flesh, weak and helpless; next to hard metal, dipped into them and released pools of dark red that covered Erebus and them as he massacred his foes. Thousands of bloody droplets fell through the sky as each raider that took to the air to harm the adventurer was met with brutal counters.

Eventually Erebus had to come down to the ground, some ten to thirty seconds later. As he fell backwards, he simply somersaulted backwards, catching the ground with his hands— Erebus hit a handstand and spring-boarded back to his feet with acrobatic flare. He could see the elf not far off, maybe 15 meters diagonally in her position. The shield wall from earlier, seemed to have changed it’s plan for Atani whilst Erebus was busy and he was only seeing their plan now. They had pushed their blades between the shields. Then, multiple seals lit the ground. The shield wall had become a spiked shield dome. And they were preparing a new strategy that took off almost instantly as Erebus was putting the clues together.

All of a sudden, the seals seemed to fuse and grow out into the max diameter of the entire shield dome. One grey large, S-rank spell seal glowed and hummed with power.

The entire shield wall dashed at max spell speed towards Atani. If hit with their 16m diameter, she would take S-rank damage. The shield dome is capable of spinning, and shooting off at sharp turns.

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Tuilas [-80 Mana]
Ranya [2 Post CD]

Erebus finally dashed after the dome shield but not before it apparently hurt Atani, Ere swung in wildly & punched his gripped knuckles against the dome at one of he shield panels. He found himself beating on the panels trying to find his way in, though he slit himself acros the chest, draping his shirt and allowing a modest flow of blood down his side.

Atani has reacted it seemed, as most of the other side of the shield wall was suffering from a devastating spell of her’s. Fungus or flowers of some kind seemed to being growing from their burnt skin and open flesh, then spell did well to hold the rest of the walls lines back, simultaneously it knocked the frontlines out of the way and weakened their formation entirely. For some reason it brought a freshening scent. The smell like that of a bouquet penetrated the nostrils of the adventurer. Wildflowers— and a fun yellow light glowed behind the soldiers. This allowed Erebus to gauge where the light was and the extent of the AoE affect (8m).

Unfortunately for him, he noticed how it was also killing the men and Ere took no time deciding not to travel through the spell, instead assuming it was offensive and damaging by nature. He used the interior of the shield to stab fast successive neck jabs with the daggers, wearing out the invaders and dwindling their unity. In no time, one by one, the shield wall was taken out.

After a few moments, Erebus burst from outside of the other end, lunging near Atani to safety as he turned. He said nothing at first as he took note of their situation now. Things weren’t looking bad, but Erebus had a hunch this couldn’t be too easy. He came back to his feet and stared at them again. This time their ranks were hurt, their numbers scattered, they weren’t fully out of the fight yet, but they were weakened. A few men still alive, readied their shields with desperation, but it was obvious to Erebus they were not backing out. Killing them now was simply their only option if they’d refused to back off.

“... Where do these soldiers come from.” Erebus finally mentioned, holding his daggers defensively.


One of three warriors left, stood forward. Nothing exceptionally special about the man, he wore the same outfit and gear they all had— his hair a platinum blonde. However, suddenly, Ere smirked as his mass began to increase, size double, and his morph with that of a large snout. It  extended outward with ears on his head. His muscle mass too expanded, with the armor scaling up to the size with the beast.

It seemed the being was a Werewolf. Behind him, another became a Changed Vampire, while the third became none other than a Daemon with wings. This was a band of entities, all from different cloth, fighting for their universe.

They would not be easy pickings.

Ere glanced towards the blonde elf, she was a talented mage. He guessed that if they were going to fight these invaders together they might as well communicate. When he finally spoke, he hoped they could work together against the foes ahead. “Which one are you taking? Big ugly one? His brother there at spot number two, or the Daemon?” he said, as his eyes shifted between each of the monsters preparing their attacks.

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