COI C19
The nerd scanned the new body of the totem, fully formed information coming in with all the data they needed.
"There is a new form of magic flowing from the two heads, it’s their magic. The source of the totem's power"
The challengers only watched the totem walks towards them. The orb returns to it and shines on the wooden remains. Again, it repeats itself, they are hoping for the orb goes out. The totem creature touched the ground and pulled something up in a form of a club, then its molten body infused into it. A spirit fused in flame on the club, the audience sees the totem's power, and the challengers are setting up for the next fight.
The totem walks toward them, against the siren's wind magic, and the orb moves away from the fight as it hides from afar. The nerds are having no clue what just happened
"I don't why the orb always evading the fight"
"The orb wouldn't be harmed because it’s just light"
"Did any of you guys know about it?"
One of Team Platinum ask them, and only the sniper shows his recording from his scope. He took the scope and showed them. Including a device to enlarge the view as the creature moves in slowly. In enough time, they saw it while he then took a shot without the scope.
"The Alga's light is not magic, and the orb itself is fake and phase through my shot. I just waste another bullet"
The Siren prepares her song as the moving totem charged in with its fiery club. The sniper quickly opens up another shot where the others move away to their positions, now the sniper is infront of the creature. The totem's head on the 2nd top head reacts and cast a thunderous wind from behind them. The siren retaliates it with her voice. A loud high note from her with the tunes along while she sings. The magic from both sides collided like tidal waves, her soundwaves can't be seen but the thunderous wind can. In close sight, the sniper focuses on the totem. It walks in and sweep it with its club.
The Fiery club releases fire on the air as it stays lit in an arc wall of fire. The wall of fire charges at them in a form of wall totems, they tried to counter it with water or ice but they moved passed them. They all look confused as they are burned but never felt any heat on them just covered by it. The totem throws away its club and brings back the orb with it, from the entire audience watching in confusion where the people of Horsin recognized its Gobin's fire. Nothing will burn and only light for the totems, from all its surroundings will the spirits can see them. All shall be warned of the spirits.
In school, Haw and the other Horsins opens in shock of seeing it using the ritual flames. The teachers ask them and see of their surprised face.
"What is that flame and why doesn't it hurt them?"
They continue to watch where Alche saw unknown magic being used, and his habit in curiosity joins them asking Haw about it.
"How about its weakness Haw? Do you know anything about it?"
Haw only stares at the screen and answered them.
"Try not to get hit with its flame, now the spirits of the totem can see them"
On screen, the totem started to move a bit faster where its molten body formed shaman rituals.
The totem lit itself with the same flame, as its body mark with drawings of its mythical creatures of shamanism. The challengers ignored the flames and continue the fight, the sniper takes the first attack. Again, shot to the head, the light kept it alive while the distraction is enough to suppressed it. However, the totem sees the flame they emitted by its previous attacks. The markings of its body removed and form spirits from its body. A spirit beasts lunge out from the totem's body and one of the team members attacks it but phase through him. As he was phased in by the spirit, his body felt no pain but his feet can't move.
He was rooted and the others follow along the offensive. The totem releases a spirit bird come after at the woman who jumps at it. She throws her knives as the spirit phase through it then goes through her. By the spirit touched her as she moves back away from the totem, trying to use her grappling hook on somewhere but remained in the air. The spirit pulled her in place. She was baffled.
"I can't move, like this thing is strong"
"I can't move either on the ground, those spirit beasts passed through us"
The totem sees them clearly and around the flame they bear. The other two team platinum are preparing with their own.
The totem sees the three unique challengers, the nerds and the siren, remained oblivious as before Sork even questioned what more they can do. The siren's rhythm and changed of songs in a short time, he can't identify what it can do. The nerds and with their strange forms of weaponry, he can't underestimate it, he is still waiting for the same trick they did. Sork holds too much doubt from their surprised attacks like the sniper, and only seeing the sniper lies down and wait, only to move with his finger is what the spirits tell him. The spirits have no idea what they saw nor explained.
Another, shots fired again, and Sork accepts the destruction of his creature. The totem's stone arms blown off and even pierced through the body with precise line, yet the head survives. Nearly shot to the head, the sniper looks at it in a strange impact that the stones won't break but blown like dust. He started to worry that the team would realize that its body is not made out of what they think it is but goblin tricks. The totem reformed again and the orb is used as a blinding light to those who are close to it. The team initiates and got blinded by the orb where they should follow up the sniper's shot.
All magic explosives thrown at it and the totem burst its body outward with its own wind, and the siren counters it with her soundwaves. The explosives blown upward or away from the fight, and some of the bombs won't explode. They returned it within their inventory and reused again. The totem breathes in its body to consume they thrown at it, and the bombs were resummoned back again to repeat the strategy. The team changes plan after the totem's successful attempt to absorb the explosion. The nerd scanned it again and gives his hypothesis,
"It's magic . . . no . . . I can't find the similar readings of its abilities"
Sork had enough of the slow fight, seeing his opponents are studying his creature. The totem's spirits are getting restless and the Alga's light didn't shine on the totem but used as a blinds to its enemies. The totem is ready to use the storm volcanoe head, the head glows and spread a mist of spiritual essence surrounding them. The two of them who were stuck are freed and they see the totem from the fourth head to the bottom absorb the light. The flames are starting to burn only itself. Its secrets have found out by the nerd and sees the scanner where it gained a sudden and slowly burst coming from it.
"It's building up, and it can't hold it"
Team Platinum heard him, and all of them knows what to do next.
"It's blowing itself up"
They rushed in towards it, and with the bomb they are throwing at it. A barrage of explosions is coming through, and the totem's spirits are making themselves as a shield and it crazily take a bite off it. The orb disappeared as it fully consumed by the spirits during the explosion, the siren moves closer to the sniper and whisper to him
"I can finally sense its aura, shoot where I wanted you to aim. Trust me"
"Got it, I have only 8 shots left then I'm out"
They coordinate as she finally senses an immense magic coming out from the totem after the orb breaks.
She casts a pathway for the sniper to shoot, enhancing the bullet to hit what magic it comes across.
"This is going to be my first time enchanting a real gun"
"Don't care, I fear that thing if it gets me"
The totem keeps breaking itself apart and recklessly attacking them as they think it will explode. The team will not withstand unpredictability of its body shamanistic power. The nerd was forced to move back as the weapons of team platinum are just hitting the totem like sand. The totem's head erupt in molten flames, they can't see it and the flames that won't burn them just blinded them with images of the spirits tearing their view with other distraction.
"Hey partner, used the fuel. We have nothing we can do to see where it is, check your heat signatures with those guys"
"They are just surrounding it, they manage to tear its body . . ."
"Please Sonohara, it’s the head that needs to be destroyed"
Sonohara hearing his partner by his name. He checks on them and he scan where the totem's head already stomp his partner on the head. A powerful molten strike puts him back where the other team can't see him but heard a crackling sound.
"NO! The flames along with the spirits are blinding us. We can't find him"
Sonohara quickly brings out his highly pressured flame thrower with long range precision. He stayed low as the totem attacks his teammates, the nerd's helmet is shattered and sees the flames and the spirits clouded his vision. The differences were too great to compare, the flames were actually decoys and from his eyes slowly faded as he sees the dusts of the totem shrouded his view. Seeing the flames to appear, he understands it all.
"Are you alright?"
"Miyusuki, what do you see?"
"What are you talking about? I just saw flames and spirits frolicking"
"The flames are just dusts formed into fire, the same dust coming from the totem"
"That's right"
The siren heard their conversation, the aura she saw is just the part of the totem. Her spell enhancing the bullet to fight the totem as it is moving faster and faster as her wind magic is fading. Siren released the spell place on to the nerd's bullet.
"NOW!"
He shoots, they pierced through the flames and the spirits as they blown away to the sides. The totem's body vanished leaving the head. The sniper did aim a little off, and knows the true cause of the orb. The 4th totem, the circle drawings, is the cause of it all. It blows again with the spared light out as it tears apart.
The light opens again and heal the totem, repairing itself. The siren never thought about the light coming back that turns into flames, and Miyusuki gives the signal.
"OPEN FIRE!"
Sonohara uses the highly pressured flame thrower and spits out in a straight line like a laser. It pierced through the orb with no affects, and burned the totem's head. The fuel holds the flames up while the light heals the head. The totem reacted, where the spirits faded wails made many people never heard before. Sork heard it
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"Oils of fires!"
They found out its weakness, oil is a strange substance that can retaliates the lights exposure.
The light somehow feeds onto the oil as it turned alive while set in flames, the fire persists as it eternally cycling the flames until the light drained. A mystery and never understand why, Sork should have known that these two were the threats and forced his creature to be burned alive . . . with them. The totem turns into a cyclone where the stones turned to sand, waving along where team platinum recovers from the spirit flames. Their items are corrupted and each of their regular weapons can't be of use while the magic items still can be used. The spirits are in fear by the oiled flames destroying the totems. The platinum team begins
"Alright everyone, let's show them as a raiding party"
Everyone who surrounded the totem unleash their personal weapons. Exposing their true classes, the woman in the team opens her demonic arm and reached the totem's head. The one who sided with the nerd, a mage, opens a magic field where time froze in it. The man who wields the two-handed mace, transforms into a beast, werewolf, and lunges at it in full ferocity. Finally, the one who is a far distance, opens himself as a paladin and cast his powerful protections. They charge all in, and the totem faces it all with their final assault. The totem bursts its powerful ritual as it stomps its final quake on the ground.
The magic field froze it as it closely reaches to the ground, with the other teammates accurately charge as they going inside the field. The werewolf and the woman charge up their abilities to their powerful strikes, the mage prepared the rest of his magic. The magic field prepares to deactivate as they go inside and stop the totemic stomp. In one short moment, the magic field stops and they quickly entrust their attack. The totem made it to stomp its head in one moment, The two barely reaching it with their swift abilities. The totem stomps down as the lower part burnt and spread on the ground causing an eruption of flames.
An earthquake, as it felt outside of the battlefield. The audience shook in fear as the fight goes its final showdown. The nerd was pulled into the totem quickly after the first quake, the paladin tries to shield him but the quake loses his footing. The magic field broke as the mage's magic loses his concentration, the quake also shutters the air as the mage can't understand why his magic got distorted. The siren stutters in the air then forced to fall where the sniper catches her. He held her on his arms where his feet sunk into the ground, he is sinking down as the battlefield changes into a magma fissure crust.
The woman reaches the totem's head with her demonic hand and crashes the top head, and the werewolf torn off from the bottom as it still in flames. Cut through the two heads where the faint light kept the burning fuel alive. Forcing it to shred, it finally breaks as the two remaining heads intact. The paladin tries to regroup in the middle of the quake, and the mage held standing where the grounds raise magma below him. The orb dissipates and the light uncontrollably spread the remaining woods. The wooden remains grow wildly where the fire of the fuel kept destroying it.
Dragging closely to the damaged totem, Miyusuki sees the heat of the burning fire being higher than he could imagined. His combat armor can't withstand the absurd heat it produced and the fire spread with the other wooden flames. Alga's light has infused with the fire in a far more dangerous way that his own broken helmet melts as he felt it on his head. He feels the unnatural heat as he shouldn’t felt beyond the normal person surviving from it. The battlefield won't let him exposed its true burns, but he felt it nonetheless and his equipment is sure to be melted alongside with his armor.
The team continue the attacks, where the flames burn them in an impossible degree. The totem is burning and the werewolf is below it. He strikes upward and the head erupts molten aura to catch him, a strange form of spirits only held him and it quickly stomp him down. The totem landed on the werewolf as he tears it upward leaving the remaining head landed a good hit at him to the bottom. The nerd was burned further where the remaining burning woods entangled him and trapped in a powerful grip. It took him in and he is burning alive with parts of the totemic remains burning through and through.
"AAAH!"
The burns exceed the limits and forced him out of the match. Sonohara was caught on the ground and pulled to the totem. He pulls out his frost grenade as he drags to it. The Siren was also with him, and the woman reaches out to them with her demonic arm. Sonohara dodges her grip and let her grab Siren instead, he told to the Siren
"Not now, you have your turn after me"
The siren was pulled into by the team where he pulled by the totemic creature, the fires around it causing his suit to overheat. On his hand with the grenade shines in a burning molten texture. Hearing across from the audience in their disbelief of his action.
"Why didn't he want to be saved? Did he just give up?"
"He is holding a grenade!"
"The battlefield is a molten mess, their mages can't maintain anything over there"
"Seeing the fight, he can't use his weapon during an earthquake. He is a sniper"
He heard it from the audience, where the burning presence matches his partner's. He breaks free from the sinking ground with his jet fueled boots and jumps towards at the totem as it grabs him in mid-air. Its body is torn and only the stone body kept restoring from what have left on it, the team backs away as the heat is too much and the spirits around it is being protected. His suit is being covered by magma as it washes him.
The fire was too much, and they watch him burned alive. He screams in his final attempt
"GUESS WHAT THIS MADE OFF"
BOOM, it detonates as the fires massively clears out and freezes around him. The blast was not an explosive, rather a magic item. They didn't expect that is an actual magic item, what's more serious where it splashes out like liquid and quickly turns to ice. It's a highly capacity container, dressed like a grenade. Burst opened and spray around them, Sonohara is out from the match but the impact had left where its entire blazing flames of Alga's light disappears. A great secret upholds if the use of liquid nitrogen fused with magic, but where does he get it.
The frozen effects of the totem didn't cause the flames to go out, but the freezing spirits fell to the ground by the liquid nitrogen. It was too sudden for them to stop and the short time is enough to cancel their fake flames. The werewolf broke free from that endless flow of lava covering him, his beast form has an impressive endurance and health. Sork has nothing to understand of that strange substance pouring around the totem. Team platinum kept distancing themselves where only the Siren and the woman are next to each other in safe distance. As the totem is getting them one by one.
The werewolf managed to leap back where his partner with a demonic arm with the siren. Two down, the totem has no effect from the ice. It has no soft tissues to be hardened, but the flames no longer there. Exposed as what remains from totem's head being torn apart, it so closes to see the end. Team Platinum engaged again where there are no fires and earthquakes around them. The ground stood still and the four charges with all the abilities they could muster. The siren sings again with the sight of the totem's head exposed by the liquid nitrogen. Another chance, a chance to win this fight.
The totem's second head shattered through by the woman's demonic reached. Ever so closely near its end, the totem's last head remained, the stone head, and the other head shattered erupt its rituals counterpart. The existing rituals; the earthquake, the molten auras, and wind wildly moved when the siren blocks it are starting to breaks its control and cause curse inside the match. The challengers’ bodies start to getting weak. The entire battlefield shift to a self-destructive force, their bodies are starting to feel the damage as they could see it as a harmful passive.
"Agh! My head! My head kept hurting"
"It's the totem, it must have an aura"
The totem charges in where the werewolf blocks it and maws it then with his claws. The totem sacrificed its arm to blast on the werewolf as he covered down by the piece of its molten arm. One arm and two legs left. The mages saw it with disbelief where the werewolf was buried by its own limb finally taken him down. The mage opens up all kinds of earth magic to bind it in, both legs stuck but tears off. It kept coming in as he quickly teleports out but an eruption on the ground blast him up then body slammed by of the totem with only one arm. The totem's power is returning but it is not its usual strength.
Two of team platinum members shook their heads of seeing the quick end of their teammates, the totem rushes out again with its arm rapidly push the ground up into the air. The eruptions are rapidly rising up, and the wind turns into a gust of sands where the stone body crumbles to dust and using the remaining floating debris as a weapon. The Siren took care of their surroundings, and the woman uses her demonic arm with the paladin's magic, hits it from behind as they break the last limb. Only the head is remained cycling to the air throwing itself at them, tearing more of itself.
The head throws right at the siren and the woman saves her, and now the sight of the battle is almost ending. The totem's head is the only remaining as it continues to chip off by the intense attacks. The air is surrounding itself with dust, flying thoroughly and the spirits haunted through the totem's final head where the dying state turns into a more serious approached. The siren kept her ground and sang away the dusts coming through their way, but the paladin wasn't there from her area of protection. The dusts are forcing itself into his mouth, making him choke and can’t breathe.
In this short moment, the paladin is falling down and cough off dirt from his mouth. He's breathing the dust from the air and woman tried to reach him with her demonic arm as the gust covered him, she couldn’t reach him. The totem is almost destroyed with its entire last piece of its head, leaving only torn pieces it had. The wind flew the totem head away from the two leaving them trapped, the siren is no longer to use her magic and only use what is left to protect them from the dust storm. She shelters them both from the chaotic aftermath. The woman with a demonic arm tried to reach the remaining totem, even breaking the other pieces as well. Wildly moving in the air, it had nothing left to fight back.
Piece by piece and failing of their strength, the last giving moment where they both slowly losing power. The aftermath of the storm volcanoe is losing its rituals as the stone head kept it to last until the pieces of the rituals were destroyed by the woman's demonic grasp. Both don't know who is going to win and the audience shuts themselves in silence and seeing such a match to behold of the both unknowns. The siren finally breaks the shelter and they breathe the dusty wind, and the woman saw the last piece of the totem dragging down on the ground shining to its last rituals.
Drained by the totem's ritual, she rushes in with the siren and charges towards the last piece. They preserve their every last bit of their power, running closer where the winds slowing them down as they have difficulty to breathe. The woman with the demonic arm took a step into the blast of the eruption and out of the match. The siren is the only one left and keeps running towards it. The totem's ritual slowly dissipates where the wind is now gone and the eruption took its last attempt. She made it to the final piece of the totem unleashed her spell and cast it down with her last strength.
A final swoop into the totem piece and finally breaks apart. She made it and too tired to stand, sits on ground, and to her achievement, she defeated the monster. She soon realizes that the totem's stone rubble moving towards her. The siren thought then into disbelief, the battle has decided.
"Both sides were fully decimated, and the challengers had no longer the strength to continue. Then the victor is . . . the Sork's creature"
The scream of the lost put the audience in such a close match. Nothing will ever change that the data shows it. Her powers are depleted while the remains keep moving. The shock of the entire city, and the interests of Gordon grows into his opportunity.
The crowd is menacingly use verbal words on the goblin, Sork had witnessed his defeat but according to the match is his win. He has nothing to say and continue on staring at his totemic creature fully destroyed. The challengers have nothing to expect to have such a monster with no knowledge about it, hearing of goblin's shamanism prove them to be feared unless they figured it out someday. Both sides have the experienced to face new forms of warfare, and neither of them will forget this day. Team Platinum, the nerds, and the siren are carried to where the first challengers rest. Hoping that the third or final match to conclude this challenge.
Back in Sister's hope school, the first to shout in rage were the Horsin themselves. Laughter from another blind tricks of the Gobins,
"Laugh* The challengers should have won that"
"The last piece of the totem's head is the final one. That moving debris of the stone head kept it moving, tricking that it can fight on"
Both First and Second saw the cheats of the Goblin on screen, and Haw explained it to them.
"Alche, I guess I would mention about its weakness, including it cheated"
"Did he cheated Haw? That golem moves towards her after she destroyed the final totem head"
"You need to learn that spirits in goblin's shamanism only moves, glows, or interact some things around, you can sense magic from it but has nothing to else to be dangerous about"
The teachers joins in the argument from their accusations.
"Is it true?"
"Yes, by the rules of your match until they have the strength to fight until one of them exhausted can make some good cheats with some tricks"
"Won'ies is right, but is there any chances to called it out before they declared it"
Haw comes in with a proposal
"I think so, but we need time to prove it to the city guild first. I doubted that goblin will accept his defeat"
The agathean man saw the match where the judge didn't know about goblin's trickery, quickly decided and without knowing that the moving rubbles are the spirits moved it. Without the totem to power the spirits to fight alongside, they can't make the difference between that kind of analogy. No matter, he saw an adventurer came in to the battlefield with the announcer lady. Sork stops for awhile pretending his victory, gathering what the totem has left of it and the tricks he plays in this match. It was unbelievable, and the adventurer opens up to him with a familiar face.
Proud and glorious in his face telling the audience of his special entrance.
"I am here to slay monsters, and Sork opens up some nice selections"
Gordon Truefan comes across to him with a serious excitement.
"I can see that you play the villain and want this young lady. I am going to play your game and challenge your monsters"
Sork sees him in disgust who plays hero and ironically to be the best. His thought is still circulating and remembered something, he pulls out his shamanistic necklace formed in carved sticks. They see it as junk, but to goblins, it has spirits in it . . . their horde's spirits.
Forced to play along, and unwillingly cooperate. Knowing nothing of what ties did the announcer lady has, and his interest has been peaks up if the spirits are eager to face him. Sork acted normal in the worse time, seeing himself to their normal manner, where most goblins treated those kinds of goblin as demon incarnated.
"I will, but let's prepared for another time. I comply to introduce my best monsters, monster slayer"
The two stops there and the announcer lady uses her telepathy on Sork and Sork himself can interact with her.
"Why are you acting like that all of a sudden? Did you really respect Gordon that much?"
"No, I respect those who challenged my monster before. I can give your Gordon a bonus, because of that match . . ."
She heard it by Sork himself. Cecilla Brightstage, a woman of her best charisma listening to Sork the goblin about the true results of the match. Cecilla raised her voice, but Sork tempts her in the most pleasant mistake she did in the beginning of their bet.
"Your hero will be disappointed"
Her personal gain puts her into a predicament, not for herself but Gordon's ego. She wants to end it here and there and put that goblin to jail once and for all. Hearing Sork for the last time might get into Gordon's nerves especially that Sork will be in jail. She has no other choice but to continue.