Master Of None

2089  2089. What To Attack

The slap from the chaotic monstrosity's hands was enough to turn the ice that Walker had shot in to shards. But they also seemed to be melting at a faster rate because of the chaotic mana that had been infused in the slap. This wasn't the only attack though. He had shot more spears of ice to see what else the chaotic monstrosity could do. He wasn't trying to immediately defeat it, but force its attention away from the demon lord that it was consuming. Halting its growth and even destroying it would be the overall goal. However, he fount hat the demon lord's body was still lashing out with chaotic mana being sent in slashes and even small balls at the group. Gil's arrow had changed form just firing at the demon lord. But to defend against these attacks. These arrows hit the attacks in the air and shattered the bursts of controlled mana stopping the chaotic mana in its spot. But Gil only had spo many of the higher quality elemental arrows. He could not sit here and just keep up a stalemate like this. Remey tossed out another explosive potion. The result being a bright burst of orange flames that made the demon lord's body roar in pain. This attack had managed to do more damage because the demon lord had lost his mind in the moment he called upon and the chaotic monstrosity in to existing. The attacks didn't leave much of a dent though.t he demon lord's body had taken decent damage, but the chaotic mana was somehow healing him. Not that this was hard to believe. He had the mana literally flowing through every aspect of him. Due to this, the demon lord was Using these manas as both sustenance but also as a way to maintain his mana while fighting them.

Just as Walker felt that they were not able to do enough, the next burst of flames were breathed out against the pair. Onyx had lent her mire of his light mana after they had failed their first attacks. The sight of his shadow spikes being slapped apart by chaotic mana made Onyx angry. He had not trained this hard just to be kicked away like he was nothing. With the strong light mana breath, The demon lord's body was forced to endure a purifying effect greater than what he had even felt. His attachment to the chaotic monstrosity finally wavered as the light manas density caused the chaotic mana attaching them for the monstrosity to feed on him to be overwhelmed. Seeing this, Su used her shields to charge forward. The light shield in front of her twin shields becoming denser due to the ambient light aman from Midnight's light dragon breath. This allowed her to slam in to the demon lord's body creating an opening for Gil to fire five arrows. He had seen that midnight was nursing light mana. So he used his more powerful light mana arrows. ,

They flashed in bursts of hot light that damaged the demon lord properly for the first time. The arrows didn't stick in to him, but they hit enough to break the bonds that he had created in this ritual of chaotic mana. A silent screech moved through the air. The chaotic mana radiating around and off of the chaotic monstrosity. They had finally managed to damage it significantly enough. Not that it wasn't reattaching the bonds to the demon lord right now. His mind was clearly lost in madness since he believed completely that he was bringing back his mother using this chaotic mana. It was an obsession that had been realized for the first time. This chance to potentially return everything he had lost to him was not real though. It was his monstrous delusions pushing him to attack even more. A whip of chaotic energy thrashed on the ground. This was the actions of a body with too much mana without any kind of direction. Especially when chaotic mana had replaced nearly every bit of mana within the demon lord's body. The monstrosity appeared to be recovering again. Growing again. Walker knew this was not the best, but he was adding attacks here and there trying to break down the connection between the demon lord's body and the monster. When he noticed that the chaotic monstrosity was also keeping itself fairly close to the tear in space where the fragment was sitting, he wondered. Did it need that fragment to remain open? should there be that fragment allowing chaotic mana to keep pouring in? Or could they force that fragment in to the hole in space where it could hopefully return to being part of the bridge between elemental planes. Using a significant amount of his mana and the natural mana that Walker had access to, he felt the chaotic mana seep in to him even more. He had needed to let his guard down slightly when he was doing this. The natural mana was similar but it was opposing in a way. Natural mana followed the flow. It was conforming to the ways that other races could use it. But chaotic mana is uncontrolled. Full of whim and wildness. Because of this, it resisted that natural mana which was why the natural mana had been able to stave off the chaotic mana multiple times already. With this, Walker sent a massive ball of condensed natural mana toward the chaotic monstrosity. It dodged to the side of the first attack that it had to dodge. This proved more so than anything else that it was very understanding of its unstable and risky state. What it didn't realize in its chaotic nature. That the ball of mana that Walker and Fleur had created was never intended to hurt it. That it was just in the path of the natural mana ball, the real target was right behind it. The source of the chaotic mana it was using as freely as possible to get what it wanted. When it sensed the changes in mana behind it, the chaotic mana pulsed out in its rage. The ball of natural mana had hit a seemingly flimsy wall of chaotic mana. The ball shattered that and made contact with the fragment of elemental purity. The sudden burst of elemental mana mixed in balance forced the fragment of elemental purity to wake itself up so to speak. It glowed with manas and even more rushed in. even the chaotic mana all around had greatly reduced as it was forced apart to conform with the flow of the world. The fragment shivered before it slowly took a new shape. It had been a dormant piece of a bridge without the right push. Because it had been fused with a lot of mana all at once, the fragment had been hit, and immediately sank within the hole in space. However, the hole in space did not disappear. Instead, the chaotic mana within suddenly stopped. It appeared that the mana was not able to freely move around the hoe in space all the sudden. Even more shocking. The chaotic monstrosity distanced itself from where it had just been receiving of chaotic mana without end. The realization that the fragment had not been a part of the bridge but a key to the bridge made Walker even more motivated. He was sure that they could use this. The fact that this was the case had already weakened the chaotic monstrosity. Now they had to break through the regenerative nature of this monster. Midnight let out another attack of light elemental breath. She was trying to push the monstrosity toward the balanced manas that were keeping the hole in space stable. But instead, it just caused the silent roar again. Chaotic mana to pulse through again. This just showed that they were making progress. Walker jumped next to Remey and grabbed her hand. With her denser purerer fire mana, he could channel flames with more power and strength in to one large attack. That was all while Gil's arrows were fending off the demon lord body and Su was defending them from the slashes of chaotic mana. Marks had already been dug in to Su's shield. The attacks were making the hard forged twin shields to become damaged exponentially. Unfortunately for the monstrosity, it was not able to just toss aside the master blacksmith's work. The next three slashes didn't even budge Su. She had used the degrading stone floor of the open air temple as a way to hold the shield in place. She had even left it here. The only part holding it up the act of gravity. She had made the ideal trick to make it appear she was still there defending. This was her new battle style though. She didn't need a shield if she didn't have to use it.  … n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

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