"Oy! Evan, what the hell?!"
Eliza's questioning voice rang out as she set her sapphire eyes on the creature in front of them, however, she was not exactly looking at its body, but at its life force.
And from the sheer amount of life force that she felt, this was going to be her and Evan's toughest opponent yet.
'If the Eighth Finger or that Dullahan King faced this without being careful…!'
"Liz, we're gonna have to go all out with this one."
"OBVIOUSLY!"
She retorted loudly to Evan's words as she activated her support magic and placed damage bonus and damage reduction buffs on all of them.
"When you think about what's after this place, you'd understand why there's such a powerful guardian.
But on the bright side, it scales according to our existence levels, so the higher we are, the stronger it is.
If I was also a grandmaster, then the Silverwing we're looking at would be an Epic Level existence."
"That'd be a lot more difficult to defeat."
[Difficult, but not impossible.]
"Yeah, yeah. But now's not the time for that."
Follow on NovᴇlEnglish.nᴇt'Especially considering we most likely have members of the Demonic Hand's first division waiting for us outside.'
Evan thought to himself as he unleashed his aura and coated the Unforged with it, a golden glow lighting up the crest in his eyes, signifying the activation of his Unique Skill.
As for Silverwing, there was no way the bird was going to just stay there and let them continue chatting.
Silverwing spread out its wings and more than fifty crystal blue two-ringed magic circles manifested on both sides.
What followed, was a fusillade of jagged icicles that shot through the air at breakneck speeds.
A sudden gust of wind stirred the air as the barrage of icy projectiles came hurtling towards them.
The icy missiles moved with such incredible speed that they seemed to blur together, creating a deadly storm of frozen shards.
"Barrier!!
Divergent Wards!!"
The AOE attack left very little avenue for the party to dodge, so they could only defend. Eliza deployed two of her Multi-layered barriers, along with dozens of square-shaped barriers, fifty centimetres on each side.
Seeing as its powerful ice missiles were blocked by Eliza's barriers, Silverwing's eyes flashed with light as it instantly changed up its magic spell.
All the dozens of magic circles merged together into one gigantic crystal blue magic circle with strange inscriptions Eliza had never seen before on it.
However, what made her eyes widen in shock was that surrounding this massive magic circle, were three rings of light, with the addition of a fourth illusory ring.
"Shit!"
Both she and everyone else had already been informed of this spell by Evan, but seeing the monster casually break out a Tier 3 spell barely a minute into the fight still left them momentarily shocked.
"Guys!"
"[We know!]"
Eliza and the spirit trio responded, as blocking this spell with barriers or dodging was futile, in the end, they could only send their own attacks to intercept it midway.
"Flower Cannon!"
[Brightest Shadow!]
[Ice Blast]
[Fire-Lightning Breath.]
The icy floor trembled slightly, before cracking open to give way for a massive flower shoot with energy condensing within its closed petals to emerge behind Eliza.
A sphere of black light manifested atop Kuro's head, and a ball of translucent blue ice coalesced in front of Milena's outstretched palms.
Lastly, Kayla transformed her body into that of a wyvern, opening her maw and charging a condensed breath of fire and lightning elemental energies.
The next instant Silverwing's eyes flashed with a blue light and the magic circle in front of it grew brighter, something that made Eliza prepare her barrier spells and skills upon noticing.
"KAA!!"
With a shout, Silverwing activated its Tier 3 Magic, and an enormous white dragon with blood-red eyes emerged from the circle, the dragon shot forward, casting a layer of ice atop everything in its path as it shot towards the party.
Eliza and the spirits launched their attacks simultaneously, mixing them together to create a massive light beam of varying colours that tore through the air in an upward arc.
It was then that Evan blinked and appeared right behind their attacks, a whirling mass of spiral reddish gold aura surrounding his sword.
Follow on Novᴇl-Onlinᴇ.cᴏmThrusting it forward, he launched this destruction Vortex, adding it to the mix of attacks that surged towards the incoming white dragon.
Immediately after, he blinked right behind Eliza who held a magic stone in her hands, the spoils from the Bear monster she killed earlier.
She sucked magic power from it and used it to power the five multi-layered barriers she erected in the next second, while Kuro, wrapped his shadows around Kayla and Milena, pulling them into Eliza's shadow.
All this happened, a second before the white dragon and their combination of attacks collided mid-air.
***KAAABOOOOOMMMMM!!!!!!!!
What followed was a cataclysmic clash of elemental forces, with their combination attack colliding with the white dragon and igniting a spectacular explosion of raw power.
A dazzling burst of brilliance engulfed the cavern, filling the air with crackling energy and rays of fiery tendrils, dancing and intertwining with icy shards.
Bolts of lightning crackled and surged through the chaotic maelstrom, while the essence of destruction charged vortex twisted and distorted the surroundings, intensifying the unleashed havoc.
The sheer force of the impact sent shockwaves rippling outward in all directions, spreading so far that the people far away in Lastham and Shelde felt it as a massive earthquake of untold magnitudes.
When the icy dust settled and the chaos subsided, the Cavern of the Frozen Harbinger was revealed once more, and surprisingly, besides a few cracks to the icy walls and a massive crater in the ground beneath the collision point of the attacks, there was no other major damage to the surroundings.
However, all of them here present knew, that this was only because the Cavern was a place that could withstand a fully powered strike from more powerful existences, and was also quite resilient to the power of its master; Silverwing.
If the quintet's combination attack collided with Silverwing's spell outside, then the sheer amount of destruction would have been enough to delete more than half of a large Station city like Lastham off the map.
Of Eliza's five multi-layered barriers, only two remained standing strong. Cracks spread across the magic stone of the giant bear in her hands, before it shattered to dust, its energy completely spent.
Right after using such a spell, Silverwing took a short moment to rest, a moment that Evan who had fought this boss in the game, knew to take advantage of.
Eliza dismissed her barriers and absorbed the energy constituting the last two barriers into her body while Evan kicked off the ground and boosted forward immediately.
He moved so fast, crossing over two hundred meters of distance in a single second, but that second was all Silverwing needed to recover.
It let out an ear-splitting shriek and activated another spell, generating a white magic circle on the ground beneath Evan's feet.