With lightning bolting from her body, Lumina zipped across the surface of the static pond while evading the stray ice projectiles fired off by the defensive Zykorlz as he tried to hit Zalroth mid-air. Zalroth batted one of the projectiles with the Crescent Moon Staff(his crystalline staff) and it weaved through Zykorlz's torrent of ice spears before smashing into Zykorlz's face and bursting into small icicles. The impact to the face sent Zykorlz into a daze, staggering backwards as the surrounding ice projectiles shattered into pieces.
At seeing Zykorlz's defences subside, Lumina flenched her fist and the pure white spirit energy in her hand making the spirit energy merge with her two forms of lightning and turning them pure white. Once the energies were merged, Lumina smirked and flexed her muscles before blasting forward and breaking through the sound barrier, launching the surrounding air away only for it to revert to its original position.
Zykorlz turned its head as it sensed Lumina's rapid approach. It tried to turn its body to face Lumina but staggered as its feet remained firmly in place. Zykorlz darted its eyes down to see the ice encasing his legs. Zykorlz swung its head up and glared at the floating Zalroth, as he spun a small ice (pale cyan mana) magic circle around his finger.
"Eat this!" Lumina exclaimed. Zykorlz swung its head back down and crossed its arm into a block as Lumina's lightning-covered punch was inches away from it. Lumina smirked as she redirected her punch and unleashed a concentrated beam of white lightning into the sky, making the lightning surrounding her body fade.
Above the duo but below Zalroth, Solus tracked the incoming lightning energy beam racing towards himself before he dashed forward and slashed it in half with the pure white blade of Nebulous Requiem. The lightning beam halves swirled around Nebulous Requiem's blade as Solus dive-bombed for Zykorlz. Zykorlz narrowed its eyes at the sight of Solus, the situation stirring up a primordial terror deep within its very makeup despite not knowing where it came from.
Zykorlz attempted to punch the ice around its feet with a viscous fire energy punch but was interrupted by an uppercut from Lumina, empowered by her lightning amp lightning (purple) and radiant thunder lightning(dark golden). Zykorlz howled at Lumina and threw a punch at her only for Lumina to easily dodge to the side. Lumina pulled her fist back before unleashing a storm of lightning mana punches and kicks upon Zykorlz from every direction. Although not doing any significant damage, Lumina's unrelenting assault knocked the wind out of Zykorlz and, channelling all her lightning into her fist, sent Zykorlz flying into the air with an uppercut.
"Get 'em, you two!" Lumina exclaimed. Solus nodded as he spun around and pulled Nebulous Requiem over his head. He tightened his grip on its handle before taking a deep breath and halting his spinning as Zykorlz was within striking range.
"First Form.". Solus brought Nebulous Requiem down, the trailing lightning spirit mana exploding into a towering blade of energy, and cleaving through Zykorlz's shoulder, "Instant Slash!" Solus said calmly as he sliced Zykorlz in half. Zykorlz gasped in pain as the pure white spirit mana burned through it and destroyed all the malicious energy making up his body. Zykorlz felt his rage boil as he watched the half of his body not attached to his head crumble away.
"As if this will-". Solus cut Zykorlz's monologue prematurely short with a swift punch infused with Nebula's spirit mana to the face. The punch sent flying and skipping across the static pond until it stopped mid-air as a teal glow encased its body. Zykorlz glared back only for its eyes to constrict as he stared at Solus, whose alkorian horns were encased by a teal glow. Zykorlz choked on its breath as it stared at Solus and saw a vision of a hooded teenaged Solmeuetzo for a split second in Solus' place.
Solus scoffed and flicked his free hand. Zykorlz's body rocketed towards Solus while it was mentally frozen from dread. As Zykorlz rocketed towards him, Solus reeled Nebulous Requiem behind himself and flexed his body as the energy in Nebulous Requiem's blade erupted out of it.
"Second Form: Whirlwind Verdict," Solus uttered before swinging Nebulous Requiem forward and slashing it into Zykorlz's side. With a little effort, Solus sliced through Zykorlz before unleashing a tornado of spinning sword slashes, moving at such a blurring speed he appeared like a mini-tornado as the white spirit mana twisted and swirled to match Solus's appearance. Zykorlz screeched, letting out a distorted howl as its body was shredded into pieces from the torrent of spirit mana-infused slashes.
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Solus leapt out of the spirit mana tornado and landed beside Lumina. The duo struck music album-worthy poses followed by Solus snapping his fingers. The spirit mana tornado exploded into a cluster of particles as it cut off Zykorlz's screaming.
"And that's that," Lumina said smugly as the time-dilation effect over the world faded away, "Uh-oh.". Lumina glanced downward before relievedly sighing at seeing the cyan magic barrier(flat circular walls made of mana) beneath her feet. Solus rolled his eyes before landing on the magic barrier as his body glowed. Once the glow faded, Solus was back in his base form along with his battered academy uniform. A dark blue light left Solus' body before it expanded and transformed into Nebula. A smug snicker emanated from above, making the trio look up to see the degenerating eye of Zykorlz fluttering downwards.
"Bask in your victory for now... but once Her Majesty learns of my death, you'll be-". Zykorlz was interrupted by Zalroth grabbing his eye with his hand, as a glowing black magic crest covered it.
"Sorry to cut you short but we're all going to be in for it if you keep my daughter waiting for her dinner any longer," Zalroth remarked smugly before he crushed Zykorlz's eye making its remnants crumble into black particles. Zalroth smirked and dropped down to his magic barrier as the magic crest on his hand disappeared off his hand.
"Mr Zalroth~," Nebula said meekly and happily while faintly waving to him. Zalroth waved back as he tapped his foot on the magic barrier, making it slowly move toward Lumios and the others.
Nini perplexedly glanced around before itching her next and making Wyvern Crawler disperse into rainbow particles. Sushi rubbed the back of her head as she dropped her bow and made it burst into pink particles.
"Did... we win?" Sushi muttered.
"I mean, the yokai was defeated... by... by," Nini said before she went into a stutter as she spotted Lumios standing nearby. As she continued to stutter, Lumios noticed Nini before waving at her. Nini's mind went blank as Lumios noticed her, she quickly shook her head to remove the nervousness from her mind.
"Relax... you already met one of the daughters of the demon lord... so the prince of the Zelkio Empire isn't that crazy," Nini muttered mentally.
"It's always a pleasure to run into you, Zalroth," Lumios stated, making Oshi glance over to Zalroth and co as they hopped off the magic barrier. Nini abruptly clasped her ears while mentally asking N to stop shouting in her head about Zalroth. Oshi hurried past Sushi and Nini and stood before Zalroth. Zalroth glanced down at Oshi, as they nervously twirled their fingers.
"Can I help you, my boi?" Zalroth asked, making Lumina cringe from embarrassment.
"Grandpa... don't say that again," Lumina grumbled with a red blush on her face. Zalroth tilted his head and stared confusedly at Lumina.
"Huh? But isn't that the new lingo of this era?"
"I believe the term boi was popular twenty years ago, Zalroth," Lumios explained.
"Ah... I see," Zalroth uttered before he crouched down to Oshi and whispered to him, "So, young one with the gender-swapping azure ability what can I help you with?". Oshi quietly stumbled over his words before mustering enough courage to speak clearly.
"Do you know of anyway... to... undo azure abilities?" Oshi whispered.
"So, your azure ability activated at an unfortunate time?" Zalroth asked, to which Oshi nodded. Sushi placed a hand on her chin as she mentally digested the conversation before opening her eyes in shock.
"Wait, Oshi's a boy?" Sushi blurted out, making Nini slightly snicker at Sushi's odd choice of focus on the conversation. As the conversation continued, Zalroth glanced up to the roof of a nearby building and gave a thumbs up to the anthro cat spirit with a glowing silver circular spiral magic tattoo on her wrist. The anthro cat spirit smugly grinned before giving a Zalroth a thumbs up as the magic tattoo on it disappeared.
(The anthro cat spirit is the size of a super short teen: she has a black cat nose, six cat whiskers, cat paw-shaped hands and feet, a foot-long cat tail, long spikey muted pink hair, deep purple eyes with feline pupils, and her whole body is covered in fuzzy pale pink fur with her belly section being an almost white pink circle)
"Thanks for the assistance, Eusia," Zalroth remarked telepathically. Eusia playfully flicked her tails as she coated her body in black mana.
"Yeah-yeah, now we're even; though it might be worth making that velocity elf girl your disciple," Eusia replied smugly using telepathy before she zipped away like a blur across the rooftops. Zalroth rolled his eyes but mentally noted Eusia's suggestion.