“I sense a strong flow of mana coming from the crystal structure, I will make a dash to it and obstruct it, while taking down as many as I can in the process” fearing the structure is sapping away the life of the forest, Zeno wasted no time to jump into action. Salem was acting as an upright senior to the group, providing a powerful supportive role and cast a defensive spell onto Zeno and Fen. This protective spell was pretty strong in nature and made Zeno feel confident he could accomplish his goal.
Zeno, feeling a surge of determination to take part in this team up with his fellow guild mates, spreading his wings wide and darting off towards the heart of the cavern. His eyes, glowing with a fiery intensity, scanned the room, taking in the swarming creatures and the glowing ominous crystal at their center. Salem's warning of these creatures being quick would not fall on deaf ears, Zeno thought this would be the best time to try out a new spell.
With a soft yet long exhale Zeno clenched his hand into a tight fist, a magic circle appeared on the top of his hand along with a green neon light shooting out from between the thin gaps in his fist. With a big smirk he aims his fist towards the direction of the swarm charging for them and opens his hands. With his first poking through the defense spell cast upon him, it made it so his spell wouldn't clash with Salem's.
A storming flurry of green butterflies fly out towards the flying creatures. Upon impact the butterflies engulf whatever it touches in flames. This was as if watching a butterfly migration occur. Fluttering in the air heading towards a rising sun on the horizon. The light grew bigger as more butterflies flew on.
Even with the high speed of these creatures they lacked the sense of survival. They were solely hell bent on completing their role of existence, eating up mana and protecting the crystal structure. Charging in head first into the wave of green wisps trying to get to the taste source of the potent mana behind it all.
“This will damage them or take out some, I will rush to the crystal to try and destroy it. A path has been carved so let's go Fen, Salem.” Zeno yelled out to the others before continuing his flight path towards the crystal and pushing out another spell.
He knew that if he could disrupt the core the creatures would lose their strength and become even easier to defeat. He summoned a ball of concentrated fire in his palm and hurled it towards the crystal. The ball exploded on impact, sending shock waves through the cavern.
The creatures, momentarily stunned, the creature in the innermost part of the cavern began to regroup around the structure to protect it.
“How annoying, yet futile” he grumbled under his breath.
Zeno's whole body glowed, especially his eyes. His wings grew fuller, bigger, longer, and their color became more prominent. An aura of mana formed around his body sprinkling mana particles around Fen empowering them with a significant burst of energy and power. The color of Zeno’s eyes were like the skies of the setting sun with green veins seeping forth from the center. His skin tone changed from a rich brown to an ash grey color.
Seizing the opportunity to try and finish things in one swoop Zeno had fully transformed into his fae form. With the wall of butterflies slowly dissipating so were most of the flying void creatures. A few wounded ones flew by Zeno towards the direction of Salem and Fen but he was not worried. The distance between him and the pillar surrounded by the swarm of voidlings was in the single digits.
A few members of the swarm leave from around the pillar to launch attacks at Zeno, Salem's spell shield that surrounded him took the hits as he watched the creatures retreat and attack over and over. Slamming his hands together to summon vines from an eerie green magic circle that formed on the ground in front of him. Several of the thick vines launched forward like a bullet knocking away and piercing through the attacking units of the swarm before carving itself into the pillar. The vines reached up to near the halfway point of the towering structure, forming a ramp from Zeno location.
The loud buzzing of the void creatures grew louder and their formation grew unstable due to the damaged pillar. The mana flowing inside started to leak out and cause weak tremors coming from the base of the structure. Gaps began to form in the swarms formation. Expelling more mana Zeno shot concentrated fireballs from his palm at the wide open areas, this included the area where the vine penetrated the tower. Pieces of the crystalized pillars started to break off, the light imbued dimmed.
“Seems things are getting out of control, best finish this up quick and be on our way!” Zeno stated to the two with some concern in his voice while onlooking the swarm on tower decaying slowly.
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