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~ Emmra ~
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The Sweet Sorceress
(Battle Theme)
Emmra's protective magic became stronger and stronger, powered by her growing will and determination. It soon reached a point where its power could no longer be condensed down in such a pure and small magical form, and it suddenly exploded. The resulting explosion of magic then formed several bright blue stars that shined brightly, the Protect Spell. Emmra had finally become stronger, learning another powerful defensive spell. With this new power, she now could do what she desired.
But now, Emmra had a choice to make... to use her power meant to enter the battle, and she did not want to disrupt it. What if Crystice got mad at her? On the other hand... she wanted to protect her, she wanted to be with Crystice... no matter the time nor place. However, Emmra was personally afraid of the battle, of all the blood and gore that was involved... but her determination and resolve remained firmed and strong, nevertheless...
That's it, my mind is made!
Emmra then began running out of the Training Room, just as Max jumped on a training dummy that stood by Emmra as she practiced her magic. There was no way for her to know Max was seeking her attention with the given circumstances, especially considering he was incapable of proper speech and therefore could not call her. Even if he was, Emmra was now focused on her own desire, and quickly moved towards her destination without paying any mind to anything else.
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~ Crystice ~
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The Ice Sorceress
(Battle Theme)
Suria the Blue Spawn of Rage
Crystice continued to pull on Suria's tail, attempting to free her from the cannon. Her tail was the only thing that Crystice could use to pull, as her legs were jammed into the cannon pretty well, preventing Crystice from forming a firm grip. Needless to say, it was hurting Suria quite a bit to be yanked by the tail in such a rough fashion.
"Ow! Stop that! That hurts!!" Suria yelled from within the cannon.
"Hold-on!" Crystice replied as she kept pulling, "I'm-trying to get you... out...!"
Crystice pulled a little harder, and soon Suria began to slip out of the cannon. Her legs began to come out, and so Crystice grabbed onto them instead of her tail. Very suddenly did Suria plop out of the Sentry, so suddenly that Crystice found herself falling back next to the Spike Trap with Suria on top of her.
"Ow..." Crystice murmured.
"Finally, I'm free!" Suria said happily as she jumped up and down on Crystice. She suddenly stopped and looked down at Crystice in confusion, "...What's that word I'm supposed to say at a time like this...? ...Oh whatever, time to kill some more!"
"Wait!" Crystice called out hastily.
Suria began to leap off of Crystice and initiate her usual charge into battle but Crystice attempted to grab her. She struggled to reach out for Suria, managing to grab her foot but then it quickly slid right through her grasp immediately after. Crystice managed to grab Suria's tail right after, but it also began to slip through her hands. However, with its length, Crystice was given the time to tighten her grip on Suria's tail until she firmly held onto it, and stopped Suria from running off. This obviously hurt Suria, and she yelped in response.
Suria shouted aggressively towards Crystice, "Ow! Let go!"
"I told you to wait!" Crystice shouted back, in a more commanding tone than before.
"What!?" Suria questioned Crystice.
Now knowing that Suria would at least stop to hear Crystice out, she decided to let go of her tail. Crystice stood up, then took in a deep breath.
"Don't go charging in like that. You're so reckless. Do you want to get hurt like before?" Crystice asked Suria, her tone becoming more calm.
Suria began to think for a moment, something she hadn't done since the Tentacle Battle.
"...............N-No..." Suria finally replied.
"Then follow my orders and we'll not only win but you will get to kill those horribly pathetic Heroes... understand?" Crystice told Suria.
Suria jumped up and down excitedly, "Yes! Yes! What do I do? Kill the wounded Elf!?"
"Calm down!" Crystice commanded, "...You see that Barbarian over there? I want you to run across this wall over to the right then attack him from the side by surprise. He seems pretty vulnerable, I'm sure you can do it."
Suria jumped excitedly, "I'll rip out his skull and smash it into that Knight's head!"
And with that... Suria took off. She ran across the northern wall, as ordered, then turned and saw Tihor, who was right by Thela. Suria charged towards Tihor, beginning to sprint as best as she could for the max potential of her charge. She leaped when she was halfway across the room, aiming for Tihor's chest. Through the corner of his eye did Tihor witness the charging demon, and only then did he turn towards his attacker. Not given much time to react, Tihor could not use his hammer to counter attack Suria, and so he held his hammer up in front of him as his only form of defense.
Suria tackled into Tihor by hitting his hammer, and pushed him back against the wall. Tihor managed to remain on his feet, however, and he retaliated by aggressively swinging his hammer about as to remove Suria from it. He had succeeded, and Suria was thrown at the floor nearby, but she quickly recovered. She hissed at Tihor, who no longer paid Thela any mind and began to focus primarily on his new opponent before him.
Crystice, meanwhile, took notice of the dying Duphus. She decided to be the one to finish him off, but she did not have the actual power to kill him. Missiles only did so much damage, but at the same time, prisoners could always be useful. Crystice took aim and fired a Missile at Duphus' head. Unable to dodge it, Duphus just sat there as he got hit in the face. Crystice continued to fire Missiles at Duphus' head, and Duphus merely sat there as they splattered all over his face. All he could do was think angry thoughts of Crystice, until his vision began to darken. After a few more Missiles to the face, Duphus fell unconscious.
With that out of the way, Crystice remembered that the Sentry that Suria was stuck in was still set to manual. Additionally, it was also prepared to fire. Crystice stepped over to it, then began pondering on how to actually use it. It wasn't unusual for this sort of knowledge to be out of a Warlock's grasp. Even so, Crystice desired to figure it out as it would be the only way for her to attack with some more firepower.
Hmm... I could have sworn I read something about this when researching the Workshop once... but what did it say exactly...?
Crystice continued to try and remember... as meanwhile with Suria...
...Enraged by Suria's attack, Tihor decided to be the first to attack. He stepped forward and tried to smash Suria with his hammer. Suria leaped forward simultaneously and tried to scratch Tihor's chest. Both successfully hit the other, Tihor landing a blow on Suria's tail and Suria leaving a bloody scratch on Tihor. Tihor looked down at his chest, filling himself with anger as Suria growled at Tihor's strike.
"You filthy demon... I'll smash you dead into the ground!" Tihor yelled.
"You stupid Hero! I'll tear your whole body up into pieces!" Suria hissed.
Tihor initiated another attack, but Suria did something different this time in that she began breathing fire on Tihor. She spit out two Fireballs at Tihor, catching him totally off guard. One of them struck his chest wound, and the other struck his loincloth, igniting it. Tihor growled in pain, then screamed when he realized that he had caught fire. He panicked, beginning to smack his testicles with his free hand to put himself out. But this also brought him great pain.
Suria, meanwhile, began backing away from Tihor to give some distance between the two. Once that was done, she then charged towards Tihor and leaped towards him while he was too panicked to take notice. Suria tackled Tihor into the ground, then began clawing at his chest and tearing it up rather badly. Tihor was still freaking out, but managed to keep a grip on his hammer. He then quickly swung his hammer towards Suria as hard as he could, desperate to get her off of him so that he could respond to the issue of his crotch being on fire. Suria, focused solely on destroying the opponent before her, was oblivious to Tihor's strike and was knocked off of him. She slammed into the wall, face first, with such force that she fell unconscious.
Tihor got up, and continued to access the situation of his burning testicles. He slapped them several more times, but the fire continued to burn brightly.
"Oh god! Oh god! Oh god!" Tihor repeated as he continued to panic.
Tihor finally came to the conclusion that the loincloth was the cause of the fire and the reason why he kept burning, then decided that it had to go. He grabbed it and tore it right off, proudly revealing his manhood. He threw the still burning loincloth onto the ground, then turned back towards Suria as it dangled about.
Furious from all the damage she had done to him, he gripped his hammer tightly and prepared to beat her until she was dead with at least nearly all of her bones broken or fractured. Beat her until he had finally let out his anger towards her. Tihor stepped forward towards the unconscious Suria, then he pulled his hammer back and began to swing. Suddenly, a fireball struck him in the back of the head. He turned.
"Ow, what the hell!?" Tihor questioned, "I hate these f***ing Sentry Traps!!"
Crystice smirked as she watched Tihor, having finally remembered the information she read on controlling Sentries manually. She had one chance, one shot to get Tihor in order to save Suria's life from potentially severe injury, or possibly even death, and she succeeded. Tihor fell to his knees in pain, gripping his head.
"God... f***ing... damn it... Sons of a... argh... my head..." Tihor muttered to himself.
Crystice pointed at Tihor from behind the Northeast Sentry, "The Barbarian's vulnerable! Take him out, quickly!"
Suddenly, Crystice felt herself being grabbed from the side. She immediately resented, and struggled against the grabber, all while she prepared a Freeze Spell to help her regain her freedom... until she realized it was Emmra. Crystice let go of her forming ice magic, and the Freeze Spell died away.
"Emmra!?" Crystice questioned with both a confused and annoyed tone, "What are you doing here!? I thought you were going to stay in the main dungeon!"
"Oh, my sweet, dear Crystice!" Emmra replied sweetly, tightening her hug as she brought her face closer to Crystice's, "I finished researching and then I began practicing my magic. But I found that all I could think of was you, and I don't want to be separated from you again! I was so worried about you! I decided that I want to be by you no matter what, even if it means I have to be here!"
"Emmra... I..." Crystice began to speak, her voice losing all aggression and becoming very gentle and soft. However, after a pause, it began to become more commanding as before, "Emmra, it's too dangerous here! If you want to be here, then wait over there! I'll send any injured over to you and you can heal them. Got it!?"
"O-Okay... I'll listen...!" Emmra replied hesitantly as she nodded, then began heading towards the Northeast corner of the Trap Room.
Crystice watched Emmra to make sure she obeyed, "...Good! Stay there...!"
"Okay...!" Emmra replied, then spotted something in the distance behind Crystice and shrieked, "Crystice!! Watch out!!"
"Huh?" Crystice turned.
Freed from her icy curse, Violante was preparing an arrow that would pierce Crystice's heart. She aimed steadily, taking her time to make sure that this single arrow would be enough to kill Crystice outright. Finally settled on its position, Violante released the arrow as Crystice turned. Crystice stumbled backwards as she fired a Missile towards the arrow in hopes that she could deflect it. The arrow was fired with much greater force, however, and pierced the Missile with ease.
Crystice flinched as the arrow came closer, then struck her chest... but barely pierced her skin. Crystice opened her eyes, only to realize that she was under the influence of the Protect Spell, noted by the shining blue stars that circled her body. She looked around to determine the caster, only to find that it was Emmra. Emmra quickly moved closer to her sister and helped her off of the ground.
"Damn bitch... I will return your earlier favor..." Violante muttered to herself, then began shouting towards Crystice, "Don't think you'll escape me!"
Violante began rapidly firing arrows in Crystice's direction. Crystice quickly took cover behind the Sentry Trap and retaliated by firing several Missiles at Violante, forcing her to stop attacking for a moment to dodge.
"Emmra!" Crystice called out, "Take cover over there and out of her range!"
Emmra, instead, disobeyed Crystice and ran over to her instead, taking cover behind the Sentry as well, "No! I'm staying by you!"
Crystice's tone became stricter, "Emmra... I told you t-"
"I'm not leaving your side!" Emmra interrupted and giggled as she hugged Crystice.
"Emmra!!"
~ ~ ~ Crystice ~ and ~ Emmra's ~ ~ ~
Summary
Crystice/Emmra
Health: 95%, 100%
Level: 3, 3
Experience: 22/35, 3/35
Gold in Hand: 0, 50
Gold in Lair: 242, 0
Current Weapons/Items Carried: None/Wizard Staff
Location: Behind Northeast Sentry/Behind Northeast Sentry
Status: Taking Cover, Annoyed, Protect/Taking Cover, Stubborn and Happy
Suria
Health: 54%
Level: 5
Experience: 64/65
Gold in Hand: 0
Gold in Lair: 2186
Current Weapons/Items Carried: None
Location: Trap Room, On the Southern Wall
Status: Unconscious
Summery: Emmra leveled up and learned Protect, then left the Training Room. Crystice pulled Suria out of the Sentry and ordered her to attack Tihor. She obeyed, and Suria charged into Tihor as Crystice knocked Duphus unconscious. Suria and Tihor fought, resulting in Tihor's chest being clawed and his loincloth set on fire while Suria's tail was smashed. Suria tackled Tihor into the ground and was then knocked into the wall and fell unconscious. Tihor removed his loincloth then was shot in the head by Crystice and the Sentry. He fell to his knees in great pain, and Crystice ordered someone to finish him off.
Emmra entered the Trap Room and spoke to Crystice, then Violante fired an arrow at Crystice only for it to be blocked by a Protect Spell cast by Emmra. Violante began firing arrows at Crystice who fired Missiles back then took cover behind the Sentry along with Emmra.
Battle Status:
Code:
LV5 M Knight "Chuckles": 92% - [Unchanged] Attacking the Middle West Sentry
LV4 M Barbarin "Tihor": 65% - <Vulnerable> From 100%, By the Southern Wall, On His Knees, Clawed/Burnt Chest, Burnt Crotch/Head, Nude
LV3 F Elv Arch "Violante": 57% - In the Northwest Corner, Attacking Crystice and Emmra
LV3 M Hum Arch "Grey": 91% - [Unchanged] By the Southern Wall, Attacking Thela
LV2 F Priestes "Samantha": 100% - {Heal Castable} Near Chuckles, Providing Heal Support
LV2 M Knight "Daryl": 13% - Unconscious
LV3 M Guard "Taslock": 45% - Unconscious
LV3 F Guard "Clara": 30% - Unconscious
LV3 M Elv Arch "Duphus": 27% - Unconscious
LV4 M Elv Arch "Huxlet": 0% - Dead
Code:
Barricade A "Middle East": 90%
Sentry Trap A "North East": 90% [Charging] <Manual Mode>
Sentry Trap B "Middle East": 100% [Charging] <Manual Mode>
Sentry Trap C "South East": 100% [Charging] <Manual Mode>
Sentry Trap D "Middle West": 1% [Unknown]
Lightning A "Middle East": 100% [Charging]
Lightning B "South East": 100% [Charging]