Revenge of the Sorcerer King 3 - 31

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Chapter 31

Oberon

I skipped back from the behemoth that was taking form in front of us. I’d already launched a few spells at it, but like a lot of these types of magic. Until the magic was complete, anything blasted off would just be reabsorbed. I tossed Delha back into my storage, it wouldn’t be much use against a terra elemental.

“What’s the plan?” Helena asked leaning against her shield.

“I think it should be your turn to come up with the plan,” I retorted cracking my neck. I had already fought Naga for nearly an hour. I wasn’t quite exhausted, but the mental and mana expenditure was more than a little.

“Can’t we just wait until its done forming then unload all our magic on the thing?” Alessa asked. I noticed that she sounded exhausted as well. The transformation must have took more out of her than I thought.

“Not a bad idea, but that thing will like be well above our levels. Most of our magic will wash off without touching it,” Helena answered for me.

“That might be the case, but Naga has become something of a core for the elemental. As long as their core is intact, it can recover endlessly. However, it also makes it a weak point for the elemental, far weaker than the overall construction due to the balancing that goes into these sorts of things,” I explained. “If I could make a pin-point strike on the core, it might shatter and we could win.”

“See. That is why we let you make the plans,” Helena said hefting her shield. “I’ll cover. Get your undead to carry their weight.”

I smirked then raised my hand and gestured. Xeria, Yunio, Lenora, and Flaira appeared around us. “Time to work.”

By the time Naga had finished his transformation, there was nothing left of the orc town. A good chunk of the plateau it sat on was also gone, absorbed into Naga’s new form. The monster elemental rose well into the air. If I had to guess, I would have put it around a hundred meters or so. With twice that in width and bulk. It was a living, moving fortress.

“This is the last time I leave my flying fortresses back home,” I grumbled as I weaved spells around me.

“Why didn’t you bring it again?” Helena asked.

“In case the city was attacked. I was hoping the Iron Maiden would have shown up by now,” I replied. With a few quick words, another set of reinforcement spells were completed. A few more layers, and I was confident I would survive being hit by the monster.

“We could always leave,” Alessa noted doing her own preparations.

“That is certainly not an option. I am not about to let a pile of rocks making me run with my tail between my legs, besides,” I gestured to the stronger than ever mists that surrounded the former spot the orc town sat. “The mists are still going strong. We likely have to completely destroy Naga’s body to cancel it.”

“That’s annoying,” she replied with pursed lips.

The grinding and crashing of boulders finally came to a stop. We looked up to see the mountain of a monster standing with bright green gems that must serve as its eyes. The elemental lifted its arms before it released a roar that shook the mountain, quite literally. In the distance, I was sure I heard the mountain peak start to collapse.

“I guess he’s asking to dance,” Helena said moving to the front.

“Under different circumstances, this would be quite the hilarious sight,” I commented as the tiny vampire stood in front of the massive elemental.

“Then hurry up and bring it down to size!” She yelled.

I joined her and nodded. “Sure thing!” I activated my prepared spells and forty disintegration rays fired at once. The beams sliced clean through large sections of the elemental, but I failed to score the goal as the boulders repositioned themselves. I’d managed to cut maybe a tenth of its bulk off.

“Well, that happened,” Alessa said with a gulp.

I grunted and raised my hands as the elemental started to move toward us. Even at a walk, it was covering dozens of meters at a second. I hurried my chant in only a master could and finished in what had to be record time. A red magic circle appeared high in the sky above us before a cascade of red hot stones the size of houses appeared.

The elemental raised its arm to block that attack and was blasted onto its backside from the impacts. The bombardment lasted for several long seconds before it ended with debris and dust blocking our vision. I waved my hand to summon a gale of wind and took in the elemental. “I suppose that should be obvious,” I commented as it started rising back to its feet.

“Anything else?” Alessa asked and I shook my head. With my mana limitations, that was the best I could prepare in the time it took for the elemental to form.

“Damn level system,” I growled drawing Promise.

“My turn!” Helena called slamming her shield into the ground. She pointed both of her hands toward the elemental. “Explosion! Explosion! Explosion!” Each time she called out, a blast sounded from the elemental. It was struggling to get up from the continuous bombardment of spells. Sadly, each blast was only knocking off a little from the surface of the elemental.

A bright blue light exploded out from next to me. Turning, I found Lenora chanting a high level ice spell. When she finished, a wave of blue washed out in front of us and encased the elemental. She followed it up with another spell and a boulder of ice that quickly grew to form its own small mountain took form over the elemental. She swung her arms down, and the boulder fell with a deafening crash.

Xeria joined in, creating a pillar of black light from her hands that she swung like a sword. The spell cut through the glacier, the encasing ice, the elemental, and continued through the mountain underneath well into the distance. It even cut a path through the mists, even if it was quickly sealed.

“I bet that had to hurt,” I said with a laugh.

I focused and searched for the core with my mana sight. The core appeared to be moving, though due to all the damage, it had slowed considerably. I raised Promise and started walking forward while unleashing micro-blasts of the explosion spell. It concentrated the power into a much narrower field.

Cracks then soon entire stones fell from the spot that I was blasting. I got about half way through to the core, before the elemental surged to its feet. It was almost a third of its original size, but thanks to that, it could move much more nimbly. It scarficed part of it arm to send a boulder directly at me.

Shifting Promise, I used a micro-explosion to shatter the boulder, but there was another one directly behind it. The boulder slammed into me, crushing my legs and burying me to my waist into the ground. Promise was thrown from my hand as well.

Shit. I tried to pry the boulder off, but the elemental’s essence was still in it. It was using the terra mana to fuse it to the ground, literally trapping me to the ground. I glanced toward the others, but frowned when I spotted several dozen smaller elementals harassing them and keeping them from coming.

I dropped my head to the ground and thought quickly. Just because my legs were crushed, didn’t take me out of the battle. I still had plenty of mana at my disposal. I chanted an terra spell to create a space around me, but the elemental’s mana interfered causing the spell to fail. If I had been a few levels higher it would have worked without issue.

The head of the elemental appeared, leering over the boulder down at me. Naga’s face superimposed over the normally featureless head of the rock elemental. “It is not wise to gloat during combat,” I said before I sent half a dozen fire lances into the elemental’s face. The spells caused it to fall back but only a step or two.

I closed my eyes and wondered if there was be a third chance. Of course, if I did die now, I could always try to steal Siateth’s domain from him. The thought brought me a chuckle as the shadow of the elemental’s arm fell over me.

Alessa

I slammed my fist through the head of the smaller elemental which exploded. Another one quickly took its place though. The elementals weren’t hard to defeat, but their numbers kept growing. A loud crash made me look up and saw that Oberon was pinned under a large boulder that I recognized had been the fist of the main elemental.

“This is bad,” I shouted over the constant fighting.

“You don’t have to tell me twice,” Helena retorted, using her shield to punt an elemental several dozen meters away. It didn’t matter though, another one burst from the ground in front of her. “I think we pissed off the entire mountain.”

“Not the entire mountain. Just an orc with daddy issues,” I said twisting to drop my foot through another elemental.

An explosion signaled that Oberon wasn’t completely out of the fight, but since he hadn’t moved, there was something wrong. I tried to increase the speed I was taking the elementals down, but they were continuously popping up from the ground.

“Fall back. I’ll leave all my undead to you,” Oberon’s voice suddenly went through my head.

“A few rocks aren’t enough to kill you,” I mentally shouted at him.

“They are when they weigh a couple thousand times as much as I do,” Oberon replied. He sounded almost relaxed. “At least this time, I died on the battlefield.” I looked up from the fight to see the large elemental raising its fist well into the air. If that thing came down on him, even Oberon would be reduced to bone paste.

I looked away as the fist started to descend then there was a ground rumbling boom. I risked looking up to see the top half of the elemental was missing. Half of the core exposed to the light. Hell, everything in a straight line well into the horizon was simply gone.

A figure with six wings that were almost skeletal floated above the boulder pinning Oberon to the ground with a flaming sword. Blond hair with black and red streaks went to the small of the obviously female form. Something inside me twisted worriedly when I saw her.

The small elementals we had been fighting sank into the ground. “What the hell is she doing here?” Helena whispered sounding almost, scared.

“Who is she?” I whispered back.

“Alice,” she answered lowering her voice even more. It failed, and the woman turned to look at us.

With a flap of her wings, she flew straight down and landed where Oberon was pinned. “Dear husband. Why are you always trapped when I find you?”

“A fact of life,” I heard Oberon reply and could almost picture his shrug. Alice barely flicked the boulder and it exploded into a rain of pebbles. We rushed over, well, I rushed over worried about Oberon. He was the one that got me into this mess, he wasn’t about to leave before me.

I reached them just as Alice grabbed Oberon’s shoulder and pulled him into a kiss that made the one I shared with Jade look like a child’s experiment. I coughed and looked away so as not to intrude. It took a long time, like close to twenty minutes, I counted, before they broke apart.

“You have the best timing as always,” Oberon said. There was a horrendous sound of popping and cracking bones and I glanced to see he was healing his legs.

“I was on my way to you. You have no idea how happy I was when I felt your souls return. I couldn’t believe it,” Alice said sounding like a young girl rather than a two-thousand-year-old angel turned vampire.

“I am glad to see that you survive as well. I can’t say the same for your brother,” Oberon commented as he tested his legs.

“Bah, Lucifer can eat shit for all I care,” Alice said then continued with a string of curses that would make a sailor blush.

“Good to hear that from you, because if I have it my way, that is exactly what he’s going to do.”

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