An Owl's Rise

"Tear it to shreds." Evelyn commanded her three wooden knights.

Immediately the three recently formed constructs turned towards the grand fire elemental and charged towards it without any regard for their safety.

Of course, the grand fire elemental did not just continue writhing after being stuck by the blizzard one of Evelyn's spell sealing talismans had summoned. No, it was now livid, and its flaming body exploded with heat to disperse the icy storm.

It then created several blasts of fire that it directed at the three wooden knights closing in on it.

Once the three magical constructs had been engulfed, it turned its attention back towards Evelyn and charged up an attack to finish her off.

However, Evelyn could not hide the smirk on her face as these events unfolded. Her wooden knights were created from a spell that the Verdant Warlord had personally imbued with his power. It was going to take more than just a bit of fire to destroy them.

When the three wooden knights burst out of the blaze that had consumed them, they were mostly unharmed and instantly began attacking the grand fire elemental.

Working in tandem they slashed the grand fire elemental's body with their swords and knocked it around with their shields.

The damage they did was negligible, but it did interrupt the attack the grand fire elemental was preparing to kill Evelyn with.

'Physical attacks may not be particularly effective on fire elementals, but it still requires energy to put itself back together. After all the big attacks it has sent at me even it must be starting to run low on magical energy.' Evelyn observed from above.

Her three constructs were doing their job exceptionally well. With their impeccable teamwork they were preventing the grand fire elemental from focusing on any one of them and leaving most of its attempts to counterattack ineffective.

Eventually the grand fire elemental shrunk its body down and was about to unleash an omnidirectional burst of fire in order to incarnate the three wooden knights at once.

Except, this was just the opening that Evelyn had been waiting for.

Swooping down, Evelyn pulled a large container out of her storge cuff and poured copious amounts of aqueous foam onto her unsuspecting enemy.

The instant the foam touched the grand fire elemental its body that had been about to explode became unstable and the energy behind its attack went wild and discharged harmlessly.

Sounds like a steam whistle followed and Evelyn was certain that this was a howl of intense agony coming from her opponent.

A blast of heat erupted from its body a moment later and blasted away the aqueous foam, but Evelyn was still satisfied with the results. She had clearly caused a good deal of damage and was getting closer to exhausting her target.

'Oh, that's scary.' Evelyn thought sarcastically.

After recovering from being doused in aqueous foam, the grand fire elemental turned towards Evelyn with a palpable aura of rage.

Normally being on the receiving end of such powerful animosity from an undoubtedly stronger entity would normally be enough to unsettle most living creatures, but Evelyn just continued to stare down at the grand fire elemental with a confident grin.

While it had turned all of its attention towards her, the three wooden knights had closed in on it again and began rending it apart with their swords.

Furious explosions followed the unceasing attacks from Evelyn's constructs, but the damage that the grand fire elemental was able to do to the three wooden knights was not enough to bring them down. It was clear that its attacks were becoming less powerful and more erratic due to its anger.

'And here's another one.'

Flying in when an opening presented itself, Evelyn dropped a large bag filled with fire-retardant salt on top of the grand fire elemental.

Another even louder howl of pain escaped from Evelyn's target as it was covered in the compound that was like a powerful poison to it.

The fire-retardant's chemical reaction swiftly began to weaken the flames of the grand fire elemental and its one impressive form started to rapidly shrink.

Having been exposed to a substance that caused it pain worse than anything it had ever experienced, the grand fire elemental no longer exuded rage towards Evelyn and instead looked at her in fear. From its perspective, she was some sort of monster the likes of which it had never seen.

Weakened as it was, the grand fire elemental coalesced its body into a flaming orb and shot towards the elemental rift. It had decided that it could not win and chose to retreat instead.

'Does it really think I am going to let it escape.'

Like a rocket, Evelyn flew after her retreating target and caught up to it quickly with an extreme burst of speed.

Then once she had gotten in front of it, she dropped another container which shattered in front of the grand fire elemental.

The compressed carbon dioxide exploded out and temporarily dropped the oxygen levels around the grand fire elemental.

This caused its body to split apart in all directions as its flames desperately searched for the oxygen they needed to survive.

Evelyn wasn't nice enough to allow it a single moment of reprieve though and used her wind magic to keep the grand fire elemental from reaching the air that it needed. At the same time she also rapidly changed the gravity in the area from greater to lesser to further disorient the suffocating grand fire elemental.

'And this will finish it.'

With the surrounding air compressed around her, Evelyn released her heavenly flame in one large burst that covered the entirety of her enemy.

Before long the entirety of the bright white flames that had once burned proudly were snuffed out by Evelyn's crimson flames.

As the last spark of tis life faded, all that remained of the grand fire elemental was a glowing white stone that exuded heated. Finally, Evelyn had secured the heart of a grand fire elemental.