Arvena kept repeating the chant, she was dedicated to summoning what she wanted to. “I summon thee, Celestial Spear, for my enemy is about to best me, and I dare not be bested, so listen to me damn it! Take my mana, for that is my most treasured possession, take as much as you want, and distort its quality as you please! My enemy has to die, that is a must!”
The chant was very convincing, however, regardless of who it was that she was praying to, and how badly she wanted to have this spear in her possession, the other side was not cooperative! At some point, her voice distorted to the point where it was beyond gibberish, because she kept pushing boundaries that she wasn't supposed to push.
Typically, one was supposed to give up after the third chant. If the Celestial Spear hadn't appeared even after the third chant, it was best to give up, because each attempt that followed afterwards demanded a bigger sacrifice! Arvena was well aware of those rules, but she didn't have so many options here.
The opposing dragon was swimming around in the lava, which gave the illusion that the team could make a run for it, however, she was certain that as soon as she stood up to run away, the dragon would follow right after her! She wasn't that experienced in hunting dragons, no, but she understood how predators behaved. Running away from a predator was often the same as signing a death certificate, so she couldn’t flee, which in turn thoroughly left her out of options.
Arvena kept pushing against the will of the divine as a result, and ended up chanting seven times! Her tone had sunk into a pitch so deep that she'd outshine chainsmokers, and this hinted how much pressure she was feeling at the moment!
“Celestial Spear, I offer a realm of mana to you! Hear my plea, and perform for me!” This was her seventh chant, and it was the absolute most of what she could offer.
Each chant of hers was different from the other, because spoken-word spells had a lot to do with willpower, rather than just memorizing the spells themselves, and she was hoping that her willpower alone would make the celestials succumb. She succeeded at the final try, but the sacrifice she made turned all of her adventures with the group behind her into nothingness, because she sacrificed almost all of the mana levels that she had gained with the help of the group!
“A single level above the God's Punishment Realm, dang, this dragon embarrassed me for the second time.” She thought to herself, “But it's surely the last time, beast!”
Arvena successfully summoned the Celestial Spear, her willpower was truly unstoppable. The chants she made were so heavy, that she got practically frozen in time for a few seconds, and there even was a slight gravitational pull around her, but a win was a win! She pushed forward even under those circumstances.
The spear appeared in front of her, and its appearance came along with a blinding celestial light. It was explosive, the rest of the team were tossed five meters away as a result of its appearance!
“So that's what she learned in the library,” Tim said, as he held his head which rang like a bell at this point. “Sneaky bastard…”
Tim was absolutely oblivious regarding how this summoning worked, but he didn’t have to understand it right now. The spear was summoned, and that was the most important, as its honed power was an absolute game changer. Its presence shook every inch of the cavern walls as well, so at that point, the team feared that everything would collapse over their heads! Thankfully it did not.
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The spear started spinning in place afterwards, much like an airplane's propeller! This part was a bit weird, but its beauty was unmatched nonetheless, as most of its body was painted in gold, and furthermore the spear-head was quite wide, and flat. Anyway, after it started spinning, its momentum, unsurprisingly started causing waves across the lava pool's surface!
Literal waves formed, and split away from the middle of the pool, before they came back again, and clashed with one another. Just seconds later, this commotion within the lava, forced a great portion of itself to splash towards Arvena! This was alarming.
Considering what she was occupied with right now, she could not protect herself whatsoever, her hands were tied. However, Ortana picked up on the commotion that was happening across the other side, and despite being mowed down by that celestial eruption a moment ago, she still managed to lend a hand!
Ortana summoned a forcefield, and surrounded Arvena with it, and she did so seconds before the lava was about to hit her. She summoned the protective forcefield on time, and considering that lava was actually not an unstoppable force in comparison to some other challenges, its contents just bounced off of the forcefield. Arvena was safe, and she had been saved by something really inexpensive.
“You better know what you're doing,” Ortana muttered, and kept the forcefield up with little effort.
The Celestial Spear kept spinning for half a minute, and once it acknowledged the Yellow Dragon's presence, it beamed across the cavern just seconds later! The spear beamed at such speeds, honed power, and velocity, that it disintegrated half of the lava pool along the way, but it happened so fast that it only appeared like a quick flash of light to the average eye, before it dealt any damage!
The spear exploded once it hit the dragon, and thankfully the explosion didn't bring the cavern down either, because the spear had been sentient enough to muffle its own combustion! This was good, because there was no point in massacring everyone in the vicinity just to kill a dragon, her friends were alright.
The dragon disintegrated along with the lava, because the spear that she had summoned was far greater than what she originally bargained for! This was an overkill. She had hoped to summon the spear after the third chant, which would only take three levels away from her mana quality, however, with a whole realm of mana sacrificed, it necessarily meant that virtually nothing could've gotten in the spear's way!
If one had the ability to see how the spear performed within that split second, they would think that god himself had beamed down here in order to kill the dragon! The spear she had summoned had been a product of great willpower, and greater desperation, so her poor target never stood a chance!
The forty-foot long dragon was first split in half, and then turned into plain dust. The spear had been beyond effective, it was atomic even, she won.
Anyway, regarding the prior explosion that the spear caused; Even though it had been muffled, it still caused a shockwave of sorts!
The shockwave was supposed to hit Arvena, but she was protected by a forcefield, so she remained unscathed. Now the shock wave hadn't been strong enough to break the protective force field, but apparently, it was quite influencing if the shock wave just touched the forcefield, because then something really weird happened as a result!
Ortana felt a pinch on her wrists, which forced her to let go of the forcefield. Now this wasn't problematic because the battle was over, she didn't have to protect anyone anymore, however, when she looked at her wrists, she noticed something really weird about them. Her veins were quite visible now, and they were somehow painted in gold!