Before anyone could react, Sophia vanished and appeared in front of Soma. A sonic boom sounded after she was already standing by Soma. Sophia wasting no time attacked Soma’s feet causing him to fall to the ground. Sophia then proceeded to punch Soma causing a shockwave that cratered the ground. Soma coughed up blood as Sophia readied another attack but Zero lunged forward and slashed at her neck. Sophia ducked and easily avoided the attack and placed her palm on Zero's chest releasing a shockwave that sent him crashing into the shrine.

The rearguard launched an attack with Mina launching wind arrows while the rest fired darkness shots at Sophia. To everyone's surprise, the attack faded out of existence as they drew closer to Sophia. Sophia prepared to continue her attack on Soma when a flame spear flew at her causing her to jump back. Zero climbed out of the rubble coughing up a mouthful of blood and holding his chest.

Valna flew and attack Sophia with her spear but Sophia easily dodge to the side and tried to retaliate but a black flaming spear attacked her causing her to back off. The black spear flew through the air and attacked Sophia but she manage to dodge it with ease. Valna attacked from her blind spot but without even turning to face Valna she managed to grab the spear and threw Valna back before dispelling the black flame spear.

This exchange of moves had all occurred within 20 seconds of the battle beginning. Soma and Zero were still down healing; normally attack of this level wouldn’t be a problem but all of Sophia's attacks contained aether. This meant that even her normal attack were deadly to nether creatures such as vampires and reapers. Valna was still an angel so aether wouldn’t affect her as much so blocking Sophia had now become Valna’s responsibility.

Valna charged at Sophia and rapidly thrust her spear attempting to strike Sophia. Sophia used one hand to shift the spear tip causing all of Valna’s attacks to miss her. Valna put all her strength into a trust hoping it would strike Sophia but she dodge and palm struck Valna in the chest creating another shockwave. Valna smiled as she bleed as unknown to Sophia she had been creating many black flame spears and launched them at Sophia’s back but she vanished. Sophia reappeared behind Valna and grabbed her planning to use her as a shield. Valna managed to control the spear to maneuver around her to attack Sophia but she managed to teleport herself and Valna away.

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Sophia appeared near the rearguard and palm struck Valna again launching her. Valna flew straight at Azalea who barely managed to dodge. Valna crashed into the ground rolled before coming to a stop and coughing up a massive amount of blood. Azalea jumped and attack Sophia with a downward slash that was sidestepped. Sophia used her pointer finger to slash Azalea across her chest causing a massive amount of blood to gush out. Sophia prepared to pierce Azalea through the heart but the blood turned into hundreds of needles and launched at Sophia. Surround by hundreds of needles Sophia was unable to dodge so she teleported away. The needles then turned back into blood and flowed back into Azalea’s chest and the wound closed.

{Mina focus on healing Valna. Alucard heal Soma and Zero.} ordered Hikaru

{But wouldn’t it be faster if we heal them together.} said Mina

{No, I discussed magic with Yoko and she said Zero and Soma wound be damaged from light-related healing magic. So, heal Valna for now and wait for my next orders.} said Hikaru

Mina no longer argued and started to heal Valna while Alucard started to use his dark magic to heal both Soma and Zero. Sophia notice this and prepared to charge at them back Azalea blocked her way and motioned from her to bring it on. Sophia then developed an annoyed look on her face as she waved her hand and light orbs appeared in the air and began firing light beams. The beams bombarded Azalea constantly piercing through her body. As blood began to flow it formed a blood shield that protected Azalea and the shield shot blood spiked that destroyed the orbs.

Although Azalea had stopped Sophia’s attack the damage she suffered was quite massive. The blood barrier dissipated and Azalea dropped to her knees as the blood flowed back into her body. Sophia called forth light on her finger and aimed it at Azalea's head. Before she could fire it Zero teleported next to her and aimed a kick at Sophia’s head. Sophia caught Zero’s leg and aimed her finger at Zero but was stopped by Soma who slashed her from behind. Sophia dodged the slash and turned and slammed Zero into Soma before palm striking them together sending a shockwave throughout their bodies. Shadow spikes erupted from the ground and attack Sophia who teleported away and reappeared far away from the shadow spikes but a slight cut was on her face.

“All that hard work just for a tiny little cut you must be so proud. Give up and your deaths will be painless. Continue to resist if you must but know that I’ll stop holding back now.” said Sophia in a tone that made Zero’s group know that she was completely looking down on them.

“We’ll never give up.” said Alucard

Sophia then turned to look at him and he flew back as if some invisible force had just attacked him. Alucard crashed into a tree and laid limp on the ground.

{What was that?} asked Azalea who sweating bullets unsure what that attack was.

{I believe it was a light attack.} said Yoko

{I didn’t see any lights.} said Azalea

{It’s probably invisible. She said she was no longer holding back so I’m sure we’ll be dealing with a vast variety of attacks from now on.} said Hikaru

{How are we supposed to deal with that?} asked Mina

{Don’t worry I have a plan.} said Hikaru