Heaven's Spire

So far so good. Spica had managed to take out a good deal of the opposition, simply by repeating what she'd done the first time. They were strong, but slow enough for her to catch them off guard before they even knew it. She paused to see if the others were doing the same. They seemed alright; better than what she expected to see.

Spica's third eye had already locked onto its next target. The mother.

'I will not rush in so blindly.' she remarked, knowing that her current tactic wouldn't do any good. Yet, that was her target and seeing that all the previous others had gone smoothly, if she used enough tact could take them down a notch or two.

Firstly, Spica began to set a plan into motion. She lodged some crystals well into the ground for later. Then she extended her barrier, seeing that the mother was considerably larger than the other mutts. Gathering the crystal used on other enemies, Spica formed a titan, smaller than what she'd usually make. She unleashed them onto the horde, knowing it could clear the way to the mother.

'Here it goes.'


She felt a distrubance during her plan. Her barrier was being attacked. Turning around she noticed Uldrix and subsequently Sparrow. What do they want?
She lowered her barrier, for the time being letting her titan do the fighting.

'So any reason you two are here? I am kind of busy right now.' she sneered.

The beast had been hurdling towards Freyja so quickly there was no time for her to dodge it's attack. Instead, steam erupted from her arms as she jammed her fingers into the Mother's stone face, pushing against it with all her might. She created stone footholds to push against the force as well, stopping the monster dead in its tracks. Freyja noticed a small gem on top of the creatures head. A fine cut fire lodestone. Why is that lodestone manufactured?? Freyja didn't dwell on this much as she ripped her hand from the beast's face and brought her fist straight into the lodestone atop its head. The Mother shrieked in absolute pain and anguish, alerting all the smaller lodestone monsters to turn their attention towards Freyja. The warrior gulped as she saw all eyes of the enemy locked on her. Hopefully the rest of the group could get their attention off her, as fighting an entire army herself was not something Freyja was keen on doing.

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The Mother howled in anger as Freyja punched the manufactured lodestone atop its stone mask, and backed away from the woman, bucking wildly like an angered bull and killing tens of lodestone beasts in the process. This creatures suffering was far from over, however.
Vera's attack landed, only to show that this monstrosity was not made out of clay like the smaller beasts. The skin appeared to be fur, but felt like rubber. Whatever this substance was, it wasn't giving away easily, and one dive bomb was not going to injure it substantially. The Mother began to buck wildly once more, slaughtering even more of the army it had amassed, trying to get whatever was attacking it off.

Myrii's attack hit the creature, but didn't appear to do anything. The Mother already seemed to hold no regard for the beasts around it, and killed them recklessly just as it would a human. The creature let out a mighty roar, its eyes focused back on Freyja. For an unknown reason, this creature seemed intent on destroying this bounty hunter. It's focus changed however, as another attack was launched at it.


The beast shrieked in pain once more, all the lodestone beasts now turning their attention to the culprit, Kyanalurin. They all began charging towards the girl, until..

The Mother noticed a crystal golem that was not her own construct, and growled as if it were threatening her territory. She released an enormous flamethrower from the slits in the mask, the flames so hot they burned the golem to ashes, along with any lodestone beasts nearby. The Mother scraped its claw against the ground a few times, preparing itself to charge once more.

The hard light arrow fired by Limarah managed to hit the creature in one of the holes Freyja had made by digging her fingers into it's mask. The arrow cracked the mask immensely, but failed to shatter it. The confused Mother screamed in pain once more, sending out an order for the small lodestone beasts to attack anyone living thing in the area. They all began firing off large orbs of fire in random directions, clearly disoriented due to their Mother's pain. The Mother began to limp backwards, trying its best not to step on her right leg, as it had taken the most damage in this fight. The Mother whimpered as though it were a cornered animal, just trying to fight for its survival. The Mother screamed once more, the sky turning a blood red as fireballs rained down from the heavens. If this were the Mother's death bed, she wasn't going down without a fight.

The haphazard attacks sent out by the beasts nullified Pumilus and Murm's cover, and many fireballs managed to be aimed toward them. Pumilus created a large ice barrier covering both their front and overhead positions, for that's where all the attacks came from. The barrier was weakened with every few blows and Pumilus had to pour more and more mana into maintaining it. This was not a pleasant endeavor, and Pumilus had reached the halfway point of his mana reserves. A fleeting thought that he could very well be immobilized if he kept this up for too long soon crossed his mind, and he had to tell Murm while he had the chance.



"If I run out of mana I won't be able to move. I still have a good amount, but-" Pumilus focused a bit on making his ice barrier stronger again, "but you should know that is a- a possibility." Pumilus was doing his best to keep his demeanor unaffected by the oncoming attacks, but to anyone observant, his struggle would be apparent. Pumilus still had enough mana to last him a while in this fight, but he didn't want to run out before letting him know, just in case.

    Rory had just come back up after another swooping attack, flapping in place and staring as the kind reindeer lady was soaring up next to her on what appeared to be wings of light.



    Dumbfounded by her surprise, the harpy stared for a moment before cracking a grin. She couldn't help it, there was something so funny and so sweet about the whole situation, and she found herself waving back with one of her smaller arms. The little boy from the inn who'd lost his parents was with her.


    "Y-Yeah it's really something!" she replied, pupils dilating as the sky turned red overhead.



    Rory let out a crow of surprise as meteors came raining down from the heavens, instinctively covering her head with her two larger metal limbs, glancing over as she heard Limarah speak once more. A large umbrella of light now stretched overhead and... A rose??
   
    "E-Eh?? W-What is this??


 
    It took one mere singe to her rear to send the flustered harpy ducking for cover next to the kind and motherly reindeer woman. "T-Thank you," she croaked out, bringing her arms down and staring in surprise at the form they'd taken. Stretched out, the two had morphed into makeshift kite shields. Sloppy, and inefficient in the density of the metal but, it was something different than her standard fare.

    "Hey mo--" She stopped herself in her tracks before she completed that sentence, almost casually referring to the lady in a much more maternal manner. Her face bright red, she gathered her thoughts and started that sentence over again. "H-Hey Limarah, h-how do you do that with your weapon? Like the bow and arrow? Do you just concentrate, or does it come naturally?" She morphed one of the shields back into her blade and took a deep breath, looking back towards the fray, slowing down her flow of questions. "Could you teach me after the battle?"

'Fine, if that means you'll leave me alone.' Spica stepped closer to Sparrow before the Mother launched its attack. Responding quickly, Spica raised her wand skyhigh, creating a barrier to shield all three of them.

'Such a pain.' she muttered, going back to focus on the matter at hand. 'So I just need to patch it up, is that it?'

She held her wand steady and from it a new crystal growth because to appear on Sparrow's arm, until the hole was no more. Sighing, she withdrew her wand.

'Make sure that doesn't happen again, got it?' she barked. 'Give your arm a go, it should be fine now.' She smirked.

Myrri leaped under the makeshift shield and began furiously reprogramming her gun. She had never tried to change the internal systems to this extent, but she was confident in her ability. She flipped two wires around and replaced the metal overcoating. 'HEY MONAIYA,' she shouted, 'This blast should replenish some of your mana, so let it hit you, okay?' She fired, the gun began heating up in a worrying way, but it soon went back to normal and fired a light purple blast at Monaiya. Myrri had switched the input of other's energy into an output, allowing her to give the mana she had stolen from the monsters back to her allies.