Evelyn and Douglas are now soaring in the air above the cave. Well, soaring is a bit of an exaggeration. The two of them are being forced into the air while blocking the fangs of an iron rattlesnake as it launches itself out of the cave at a rather high velocity. Looking down, Evelyn can see the students knocked on their backs below them. If this continues, the snakes will land on the students before they have a chance to recover and move out of the way. Fearing the worst case scenario. She uses her strength to repel herself off the snake, allowing herself to fall instead of being four stop words. Noticing what she's trying to accomplish. Douglas proceeds to keep the snake distracted by blocking landing on the ground. She sees that the children are still stunned to pours as much mana as she can muster into her blade then swings the blade upwards in a flurry creating as many shock waves as possible using them to offset the snakes landing path with each hit, the snake's body starts to angle more and more causing the face to enter a nosedive and the ascending body to Arc going up then down, realizing that he may be in a very inconvenient position, he too decides to repel himself off of the face to descend in a less direct position landing on the ground he hits back first and Xander as a boomerang hits the ground next to him. The snake smashes into the ground borrowing under creating a rather large tunnel. The two paladins seeing this widen their eyes in shock. Evelyn begins looking West for any signs of the snake. While Douglas starts looking East for the snake, the students are still unconscious suddenly in between them, they feel a rather large rumble knowing what this means, the tooth began to separate going in opposite directions while facing each other. The snake again ascends from a hole it creates using its body separating the two countering Evelyn's as many shock waves as she can afford at the snake exiting the hole while Douglas watches the face rise and calculates a good angle to throw Zander. When he tosses the boomerang, it creates a wind duplicate that then fully circles around the snake scratching at its body as it rises upwards in a tornado formation while the original returns to Douglas. He then toxins it again to make even more wind duplicates of the boomerang well the two continuously attack the snake. Then I realized that their damage isn't really showing on the snake's body. Evelyn starts to wish that she had shell here to make this battle easier. The snake reaching its apex angles itself at Evelyn launching its head towards her at a high speed. Evelyn ready's Flint to block the snake crashes into her hitting the shield but didn't form a crater Flynn's power has been gradually reducing the amount of damage and defensive the snake while she blocks a snag. Who is determined to push its way through Douglas from behind begins throwing even more when boomerangs act the snake's body. Thanks to Flint, some of the iron on its back starts chipping. Noticing this a snake begins maneuvering itself away from the girls. Seeing that something is wrong, it then starts burrowing again into the ground using its tail to whip act Evelyn from the side in hopes of doing her damage. The two paladins group up in an attempt to regain control of this situation. The students are now starting to get up snapping out of their stupor. Things have gotten complicated, with the s up in Mobile, their natural instinct to panic will eventually kick in and they'll start fanning out, making protecting them more difficult and giving the snake more opportunities to take out their group.

Meanwhile, back in town the sheriff starts complaining to the mayor about how they have to spend the whole day watching The Young drakian boy who let himself into a prison cell because they were afraid they'll lose him before they can get answers. The mayor begins to complain back at the sheriff and how he's so incompetent at his job. He lets random nobodies reptiles and other such creatures just into his office without even noticing a thing they continue to bicker over this while the subject of their argument is leisurely eating a bowl of ice cream that mysteriously appeared in his prison cell along with several more bucks. One of them begins to wonder where these books are coming from and the other seems to point out that some of the books have been disappearing noticing that not all the books are the same on the floor and in his hand and that the dishes from the previous meal he was eating had already vanished.

Back at the desert Douglas tries to group off the kids to get to keep them in one position. Since his weapon is capable of ranged attacks, he should be the best person to control the fight while guarding the children, especially considering it's his job. Meanwhile, Evelyn has a idea as to how to lure the snake out since a snake is most likely monitoring seismic activity above it for the greatest opportunity to strike, it'll most likely try to maneuver itself underneath the children knowing that they're the weakest and will systematically monitor her movements as it's identified her as the biggest threat to its onslaught, meaning that Douglas guarding the children would be ideal to lure out the snake so she moves herself a great distance away from it. The crew and begins channeling Mona once more into Rusty in his bastard sword form. She notices that the Mona she pours into him starts to ooze out as immense power. Wondering what that actually means, considering she's mostly been going off of what rest of himself said he starts to wonder if she can can push it further. With that in mind, she tries to control the amount of mana present within him while also pushing more and more into it. At one point it begins to feel like a damn about to rupture. Each time she packs more and more into it, it starts to force itself out with even more strength. At one point she feels she doesn't have the enough endurance to keep it all weld inside and knows that this is the best she can get. She's then concentrates on the movement beanie for feet, focusing for an external source of mana. Feeling a slight presence slowly but surely coiling itself beneath the children. She readies her stance remembering what she felt when she first wielded Zen Zane focusing on what she feels when she wields Rusty this present. That seems to be guiding her on the most proficient way to wield him to herself not having much experience. While she tries to refine the point of release for the power, she feels that every instinct in her body that's being provoked by the sword itself is telling her to brute force it with all her might unsure of what to do. She begins to swing her sword downwards. The only thought crossing her mind is forcing the snake out with absolute power in that moment. Rusty's blade touches the ground and the world starts to stand still. Zane within seconds. A rush of wind scatters in all directions as if a split second hurricane had touched down and dissipated within moments. The children all grabbed on to each other with the most front student. Hanging on to Douglas who also barely struggling to stand up is using Zander in his boomerang form as a prop. Dig ging one of his ends into the ground. When the gust of wind passes, they notice something strange. A giant cut-like crack had formed from Douglas's feet all the way back to the point where Rusty's blade touches the ground and from that crack erupts a giant flow of dark particles. The flow continues pouring out for several minutes before stopping. Zane, the crack shatters as a snake runs through it, creating its own hole appearing from the ground. It reveals a giant gash running across it s back near its neck not wanting to miss this opportunity. Douglas attempts to release more wind boomerang clones to continue agitating the rattlesnake in hopes that Evelyn will finish it off. Preparing to do the attack again. Evelyn gets back into her stands beginning to pack up mana into the blade and as she does that she starts to realize that the initial attack had taken out more than she originally thought. Calculating her current circumstances, she realizes that this attack will be rather shallow compared to the first unsure of what to do. She tries to figure out a way to compensate for the lack of endurance necessary to pack in the remainder of the mana she can provide as she starts to panic. The snake starts to close in more and more Douglas of course continuously attacking it. But at this point the armor of a snake just barely registers his attacks versus the giant gash on its neck and knowing who caused it. It's not willing to surrender of course. Still panicking. Keeps trying to pack as much of it as you can when.

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Shell: it's like they said you ran over your head. You know for a SSS rank. Paladin you need to be able to handle beasts on a b. Rank scale if you wish to. Can contend with my power as you so claim but since I came all the way out here I'll happily help you.

Evelyn is startled by The voice of shell.

Shel tells her to place Rusty into late scabbard portion of his shield. She then proceeds to firmly The bastard sword in a comfortable position between the bastard shield and her arm. Suddenly she starts to feel her connection to Shell, meaning that he's officially equipped himself to her through her shadow and in that moment she feels something different and overwhelming sensation starts to flow within her and instinct on what to do. She readies herself with Flint, while Rusty is carefully shaved blocking the incoming attack from the rattlesnake with all its might. It lunges at her crashing into her at an intense force, causing her to temporarily leave the ground before landing back on her feet and being pushed back more and more. Until eventually, it's completely halted and immense amount of Shadow energy starts to erupt from her body. As she guards with a shield, the snake continuously forced itself at her striking with its mouth digging into the ground and lashing at her with its heavy metallic rattle tail then rising from the ground again from behind to go in for a bite. But her instincts tell her she needs to turn around and block the snakes. Fangs meet The shield and as it touches another large flow of darkness from her body as this. Thanks. Hatcher shield and the fang starts to crack around the base and falls to the ground. Looking down, Evelyn cease the discarded fang and realizes that she's suddenly feels filled with more energy than she originally had.

Shell: both Rusty and Flint are a-rank weapons. Their abilities work great with each other without me the ability to intensify and boost all forms of attack and the ability to reach your opponent damage. However, with me equipped and any of the wolves equipped, I can move their rank up by one and allow them to gain access to an addition ability. For instance, flexibility to leach your energy off just takes energy. Doesn't really put it anywhere. But as an s rank he can move all the energy he's leaching off into you or a weapon connected to his shield. Of course. That's not the only thing. Rusty, as an s-rank weapon is capable of reaching triple, the stats increases. It's normally capable of in terms of.

Hearing this Evelyn immediately knows what she needs to do. Angry at the damage that it's taken. The rattlesnake wraps his body around lashing. Its back at Evelyn who blocks it with her shield. I'm adding even more darkness with snake then digs into the ground. She can feel it way better than she did before. The sneak is retreating. It knows it can't win. Chances are it'll resurface towards the children to give her a reason to be distracted so that it can get away then wants to recovered. It can see crowd for revenge. That's most likely it's plan is what she deduced. Knowing this, she draws the bastard sword from Flint's shield, writing it with both hands. She begins the process. She performed once before packing in as much mana as she's capable of with the strength she's received from the snake. She feels she could do it twice over. In fact, she could feel she could achieve something far greater with shell support. With that she begins packing all of them, it in her body into the sword. Then when she feels it reaching its zenith her instincts tell her to do something different. She then lowers the blade leveling it to her side, then running her fingers across its face. As she does this, her body instinctually starts to change the finer nature of the blade from an outside view. It looked as though the blade itself was glowing, but in reality it's surface had grown so refined from the amount of mana that the darkness element within it had begun repelling all forms of light that touched the blade. When our fingers reach the tip of the blade, she then lifted the blade once more into the air healing the power reaching in even greater but was still more room to grow. She then begins packing even more of her mind at this point. When the blade had filled once more she barely had anything left and could feel something dangerous from the blades she wielded and then one word enters her mind.

Evelyn: cleave!

And she recites this phrase. She swings the blade with all her might sensing danger Douglas instructs the children to run away from the path of her swing. Pushing all the children away as fast as they can. The children confused only begin to walk into crawl but he's starts yelling at the top of his lungs telling them to move or die. He even starts pushing and shoving the children trying to get out of the way himself. Knowing that his life is on the line when she begins to move time itself feels like it has stopped. That's one swing. Felt like it lasted an entire year by the time the blade had touched the ground. Once more she felt as though she 'd experienced an entire lifetime then snaps out of a trance that she notices. The tip of her blade had touched the ground but not just that at the tip of the blade was a black line that led into the distance without seeing its end. And if that wasn't enough in the sky, the very same line being mirrored in the exact same position leading in the exact same direction also rode into the horizon not being able to see where it ended. For some strange reason the world was even more silent than before. It was so silent. The word eerie crossed everyone's mind. It even felt like the sky itself had stopped moving. The Lions started to disappear following its path into the horizon and with it the ground started crumbling erupting into the sky with all the gravel. The iron snake two Rose into the sky perfectly. Segmented down the middle without missing a beat before touching the ground itself. Its body continuously disintegrated turning into dust. Even the fang that rested at her feet started to disintegrate realizing the threat had passed, she started to relax and her body felt extremely numb and she couldn't help but fall to the ground noticing that all of her strength had left her and the world continued to move once more. But of course Douglas not sure what he could make of the events he had just witnessed had finally made a rather upsetting realization. The individual he had been interacting with was actually not a b rank like himself.

Soon enough at the same time as these events unfolded, the mayor and sheriff realized something strange had just occurred but couldn't put their finger on what noticing this. The two looked back into the cell and had just paid notice to the fact the prisoner or person or should have been in the cell was no longer there and they began to panic knowing that they had lost something that most likely was very important.