They all nodded and turned to their enemies. Heathien with his saber plunged the blade into the ground with his fireball casted onto it, without warning of course. Teddy picked up Raiza and Righteous as he threw them on-top of the cliff while the others jumped up sensing intense mana underneath them. Raiza and almost landed face first but Righteous was able to stop that from happening by casting a floating spell on him. The ground sparked red as it turned molten. The fireball made it so that the ground would send sparks of heat and dissary around the bastion along with the molten land it was sitting on. What would've taken a couple of minutes to make a bastion, a baby bastion to glow red from heat took a couple of seconds for even the queen to glow a little red from the heat. Regina knew it wasn't red enough to do effective damage to it but it was enough for her to attack. Using her claws made from her ice Magic she plunged into the ground instantly freezing the surroundings. Which in turn made the molten ground to instantly freeze causing steam to form
With the ground frozen and the steam blocking the beast's eyes. Yokishoto, Alexsis, Soror, Elzaisis and Arenea started to cut deep into the bastions around them besides the Queen, in which the rest of the group would be attacking. Arenae’s poison isn't as toxic as Teddy's but its potent enough with the music she plays, it adds more as the vibrations within the music enhances the potency on a molecular level and her webs coated with this potent poison gave reason to why most of the beasts there was dead by the time Regina plunged into the ground. For Arenea had already spread out her strong yet unseeable webs around the area.
As for Yokishoto he was the main “Bruiser” in terms of dealing with the royal guards who had a similar Magic to the queens “Auto healing” and the beams of light they shot out of their mouth. His sole purpose was similar to Breeus, do heavy amounts of damage, grab attention, and tank as much as possible so that the others could deal effective damage without having to focus too much on defending. All while not doing so much damage that the guards focus attention on the rest. The royal bastion guard bodies have totally different makeup compared to the Queens. Since their healing factor was higher than anything else they were fighting, not comparable to the Queens but it was enough to be a terror. Because of this reason it led into Alexsis and Elzaisis part that they critically played in. They have the fastest attack speed in the group. They also hit heavy as well, since they do, the royal bastion guards don't heal as much since they hit them so consistently and as hard as they were damaging them.
Soror, with his long bow is like the hammer for the nail since Yokishoto can make deep and quick cuts, Soror can follow up with his long bow piercing the shell and going into the actual body of the bastion. Whilst the body is exposed somewhat, Alexsis and Elzaisis constantly damage the bastion. All whilst Arenae was in the back keeping the other monsters in the Frey at bay. Teddy, Nekomori, Breeus, Regina, Heathien and Sprilunia made it so that the Queen Bastion was separated from the royal guards so in turn they could possibly kill it, and finish up the rest. The plan for the Queen is well, what they did before with the baby bastion, since they now have weapons to do more than what they barely could've before.
Using the transmission Magic, he praised the group proudly with a smirk, clapping his hands as he looked down from the cliff with joy.
(Raiza) "HOT DAMN!! Haha!! They gettin shit done!! Yall got this now aight!!”
Replying as they all spoke in unison as they used the transmission magic
"We know!!”
(Teddy) “ Good now Heathien and Breeus!! Maketh t turneth red! We needeth to maketh t so yond the shell can turneth malleable!”
That they did with ease now, Breeus shot out a blast of pure mana into is weapon and it glowed a bright green, then he ran up towards the Bastion with a focused look in his eye and plunged his spear into the bastion as the blast went into the thick shell, not damaging the bastion but made a little reddish/orange spot on the beast, but not red enough since its healing factor is on a whole different level compared to what they fought then and it cooled down easily.
Breeus noticed that he decided that he needed to do much more than a simple blast of pure mana, calling his spear back when he flashed a glance towards Heathien since he would need his help. Heathien with a smirk casted his fireball but is now more concentrated and more powerful. Similar to what Breeus had done, he made it so that the fireball was more so an attack of a small range, meaning that the sparks wouldn't go out but more on tighter in radius, so that the spark hit the bastion more so then ever. Using his saber as the medium. A wave of hot inferno came and conquered all that was in its way as he plunged it into the bastion. The red/orange-like sparks came bouncing off of the bastion, it just stood there taking all of the intense sparks coming from the spell. The peircing area was turning red intensely as he slowly went further down deeper in the wound. Raiza was atop the cliff looking down with Righteous there since he would've been in the way of all this.
(Raiza) “ DAMN!! You see this Righteous!? A whole wave of fire completely engulfed-”
(Righteous) “ But it's not enough mother, see.”
Righteous pointed down the cliff. Raiza followed where she was pointing and looked down at the group with a frown and saw that what she said was indeed true, the flames coming from his saber was indeed hot but to the Queen Bastion, it wasnt enough to make it budge not once. The bastion, after taking many moves made a counter attack which Teddy thought would soon happen. It shot a beam up into the air directed towards Nekomori since she was dealing huge damage, Heathien wasn't even in sight, enough to make the bastion weary of it. Nekomori was on a couple webs Arenea made before they started to separate. Heathien was blasted away from the sheer force of the energy being charged and shot out. Breeus was further away but was still gusted away.
(Nekomori) “ NYAAA!! Whew that was close!!”
She jumped down but not too far down, she landed on even more webs to land on and jump to.
(Teddy) “ Dammit! We needeth m're fireth pow'r! T 's starting to changeth its focus from us to Nekom'ri!”
With a sigh Raiza looked down in thought. He wanted to help somehow seeing as though his children were having a rough time fighting, he wanted to guide them somehow. So using the transmission magic, he advised some wisdom on his children
(Raiza) "Teddy, calm down and analyze the situation, the damn thing notices even the smallest details, Nekomori was obviously way up there in the air and still it shot up there. So think of a way…..or Magic to add more power to Breeus and Heathien's power. Because right now Regina, Nekomori, Spirlunia even! They are waiting for their chance to deal in some damage. Calm down and think, I know you got this!”
Teddy after looking at his surroundings smiled to himself as he heard his mother's voice. He took a deep breath in and out as he examined his surroundings. He saw Yokishoto and the others holding on steadily but with one third party group or outside interference, they could completely collapse any moment. He then looked at the Bastion Queen who was still in a defensive position waiting for a chance to attack.
(Teddy) “....Gasp!"
Teddy then had a vision of a Magic he never seen before, or even thought of! His eyes glowed brightly as he simply waved his staff around in a circular-motion, the concentrated poison he can release was even more potent, by adding his mana towards it, and it being in a form of a hurricane, even the winds became poisonous.
He then hurdles the hurricane towards the Queen Bastion hoping to deal some type of damage. Luckily it did but little of it, the Bastion moved at incredible speeds trying to avoid the danger it sensed but it was not enough, the hurricane grazed its right side making the entire side’s shell to melt enough for Heathien to throw constantly throwing his wave’s of fire at the side the bastion was hit at, it tried to heal its wounds as quick was it could but Breeus ran towards it consistently stabbing and thrusting with his beams of mana at the very tips of his spear puncturing the wound even more so.
A chance was there. Teddy told Regina that they couldn't get its shell to heat up as much, as if the Bastion’s genetics was made for that to be so. Regina then used her Magic she also recalled being named
“ Everfrost lvl 1”
This in itself was cold enough for the queen to try and run from it too but it still got grazed by its sides making drag happen since a huge chunk of its left side and it slowed down, the beam of pure ice continued all while Breeus and Heathien was still doing damage.
(Teddy) “ Nekom'ri!! Now's the timeth!!”
(Nekomori) “ Nyahahaha!!”
She came down as if seeing a mouse, with her heavy ass hammer she plunged into the Queen Bastion’s head. Its whole body made a huge crater in the ground, at which it leveled itself out instantly leaving the bastion to be stuck in the ground since the dungeon refilled the crater instantly. To everyone's surprise it then jumped higher than Nekomori was at, and not simply lateral, it went towards Yokishoto’s group who took down 2 of the four royal guards.
(Nekomori) “ NYAAA!! Dammit this is our only chance!!”
With frustration written over her face she then landed on the ground making a crater, then jumped towards the Queen Bastion covering lots of land. She caught up to the Queen she twisted her body and swung her hammer and bashed it on its back, it was powerful enough to make the queen topple over head first and land not too far from the royal guards sliding accross the ground. Teddy, Spirulina, Heathien, Alexsis, Elzaisis and Breeus followed suit.
While in the air, Teddy started to speak with Spirlunia
(Teddy) "Spirulina, didst thee receiveth a chance to receiveth some of its blood?”
(Spirlunia) “ N...n-no! It's t-t...t-to f-ast fo-for me t-t...to l-l-lock o-o...on to! A-as i-if it was trying to d-dodge me!”
(Teddy) “ Hmmmm, luckily i bethought up of a charm f'r thee, following how Regina maketh h'r pow'rs wend outwards, all thee needeth to doth is
(Spirlunia) “ O-O-OH!! A-A-A-ALR-IGHT!!!”
With a proud look in Spirlunia's eyes, she nodded her head happily
They then landed near Yokishoto group.
(Soror) “ Why the hell is it here for?”
Soror said in a concerned frustrated tone, with his fingers between his brows
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(Breeus) “ I don't know!! It just suddenly headed towards here!!”
(Soror) “ Sigh, You all need to get it away from here!! If its with its guards then this is going to become extra difficult!
He then shoots one of the guards to his left as Alexsis targeted it
(Teddy) “ Thee bethink not we knoweth this!! w're getting t hence from h're!”
Teddy then tells Heathien and Breeus to go towards Nekomori and try to make it bleed while Alexsis and Elzaisis try to gain its attention. Then they noticed now how hard its shell is, looking at Teddy dumbfounded because, all this time, it’s innards was never shown ever since they fought the beast. But, they sucked it up and did what they was doing before. Regina then ran towards Teddy.
(Regina) “Huff, Huff...H-hey Teddy!! What about mom!!"
(Teddy) “ She’s fine!! Were away from her anyway! Plus she’s atop of the cliff!! It won't know where she’s at!”
Regina sighs and runs towards the battle with the Queen Bastion. Teddy stands there thinking on why it all of a sudden ran towards here, it notices even the smallest of details, yet it made such an obvious decision even a kid would make. So why did it move here? The answer to the question was simple, it moved away from the cliff side, because it knew that they was pushing it away from there, it knew they tried to make it seem as though they was aggressive, but that was but a facade to showing the Queen how defensive they were towards the cliff.
Having seen Teddy throw both Righteous and a small child up there. It made a plan to sacrifice both its guards to take out all of the insects infront of it in one fell swoop. So it jumped up and down on the ground, making a wave like appearance on the ground. This was, like a signal to the guards to self destruct. The guards then got the message and then got together so that they would implode themselves. Teddy noticed how the fluctuations of mana was different underneath the ground and around the Bastion Guards. He then noticed how intense the mana fluctuations were.
He then thought, that was no attack but a signal. A signal to do what? He then seen the two guards come together and burned a bright red before it imploded. They do this when all is lost causing their thick and heavy shell to be shrapnel to kill those who tried to kill the queen. Yokishoto, Soror and Arenea were closer to the explosion then Teddy and the others. Luckily Yokishoto knew instinctively that danger was there so he used his martial art
“ Chapter 55 verse 6 One blade, One together with the stars”
And used slashes to protect the group from both the shrapnel and the explosion. On Nekomori’s side, frustration was gaining as she couldn’t touch the bastion. Since it kept on moving in a circle even dodging Teddy’s Hurricane of poison. The side that was already damaged wasnt healed all the way but it was almost there simply because Heathien and Breeus also could not consecutively hit it, Alexsis and Elzaisis was being pushed back with how much it was moving despite its size, and its wind pressure it makes when it moves at such speeds.
Luckily Regina had used her Magic to make the very ground completely ice, around the size of a football field divided by 3, is how much land she froze, making the Queen to almost slip up. But before the Magic was complete the implosion happened and the shrapnel was going everywhere. Teddy had put up a shield made out of pure mana and the others used their way of protecting themselves. Regina simply made a thick ball of ice in a form of a sphere, Heathien made a wall of fire which melted most of the shrapnel and Breeus used the wind from his spear and Magic to blow away the shrapnel. Nekomori just jumped up high enough for the shrapnel to barely touch her. But because nobody was paying attention to the Queen, The Queen practically flew towards the cliff because of how fast it jumped towards it. Nekomori noticing this alerted the group by using the transmission magic.
(Nekomori) "Guys!! It's going towards the cliff Nya!!”
The whole group looked over and sure enough, it lunged its way towards the cliff hastily.
(Raiza) “ The fuck do yall mean I don- Ahhh shit-”
That was all they heard from Raiza, as they were going towards the cliff they saw the Queen bastion atop the cliff, where Raiza and Righteous was. A big puff of smoke was there and for all they know, Raiza and righteous was dead.
A big puff of smoke was there, and then, for all they knew, Raiza and Righteous were dead. When one is angry to the extreme, one can do things they never thought being capable of doing before. As if a parent went and found out that there child had died from a murder. And the parent goes john wick and kills any who gets in the parents way to get to their child's killer, the same goes for Nekomori, Heathien, Breeus, Soror, Arenea, Spirlunia, Yokishoto, Alexsis, Elzaisis, Regina and Teddy.
(Alexsis) “ M-Mom isn't dead! Right!?”
Said Alexsis now running with tears towards the cliff face.
(Soror) “ They can't be dead! Righteous was with mother!! We just need to hurry up and go to them!”
Soror said with a strained face, concerned face and a hurried quick breathing.
(Elzaisis) “ B-but what if she's dead?? Oh…if only I stopped mom from getting out…..”,
He said with a concerned expression, borderline crying while whimpering. The others, already on edge, started to get even more uneasy as they were going toward the cliff.
(Regina) “ T-that can't be!! It's not your fault!! I-if only I was….”
(Teddy) “Nay needeth to feeleth guilty! Yond beast outsmart'd us all and wenteth towards our moth'r who is't wast controlling our movements and thoughts, we needeth to hie towards h'r anon!!”
Teddy took the lead and ran towards the cliff side, when suddenly Heathien zoomed past Teddy, taking the lead and leaving a massive gap between them with a expression even the cool headed Teddy was fearful of. Like the very devil alive Heathien's very aura around him was that of intense heat, anger, carnage and a small taste of worry with sadness. When they got there the bastion was on the edge of the cliff side, not moving, as if waiting for them to come. Heathien did not care and instead ran up the cliff all the while throwing fireballs at the bastion. Breeus stopped the sparks from hitting them by using wind from his spear to create a bubble around them as they ran up the cliff.
(Teddy) “Heathien!! Stand ho!! We needeth to grasp the situation first!! thee couldst hitteth moth'r!!”
He ignored Teddy and continued to throw his fireballs while running up the cliffside. Regina followed up after him with a sneer and took out her ice claws, making a platform of ice off of the cliffside, now having it grow a pillar of thick ice in mere seconds. She then raised her hands upwards and grew another pillar upwards. They all jumped down in front of the bastion ready to face it. But when they got there it wasn't even budging, nor moving.
(Yokishoto) “ Where's mom?? Why isn't it moving?!” He said, taking his sword out of its sheath slowly looking directly at the bastion carefully.
(Teddy) “ Ev'ryone stayeth have at thee, until we knoweth wh're mother is-”
(Vedo) “ They are here….”
They all looked in Vedo’s direction when they heard his cracked voice, only to see him holding both Righteous, who’s lower half was squished flat completely, yet healing the barely dead Raiza, her mangled body lying in Vedo’s bloody crimson arms. One look was all it took for them to become enraged. Yokishoto unsheathed his blades and in swift movements, he detached the small limbs of the Queen Bastion off as if he never had any difficulty with it before.
Nekomori jumped up into the air, and came down from the air and pounded the bastion down into the ground, its spine broken from the sheer power coming from Nekomori making this loud snap a tree would make when cut down causing it to bounce around until it firmly stayed in place. Arenea then, with her zither, blasted a sound wave so great, it exceeded the realm of “invisibility”
And was now seeable, practically making the Queen Bastion become dead and its eyesight stripped from its being. Soror fired an arrow through the first layer of the bastions armor, letting Teddy to then fire a shot at the opening, dissolving even more of the armor. With 3 layers penetrated, the Queen bastion let out a roar of pain, but they felt no sorrow in dealing with pain, for all they knew, it needed to die for their rage wouldn't be quenched. Alexsis together with Elzaisis broke 3 more layers by slashing at insane speeds, the intestines of the ravaged beast now showing, it was unable to even move. It tried to cast its magic
“ Auto regeneration” and “ Call of the queen”,
But was stopped by Breeus and Teddy. With a simple disruption from Breeus magic he casted that overpowered its mental senses called "Dragon leer". Teddy used his staff and casted a powerful spell that made it so that he made a paralysis mist that confused the senses of the beast. It couldn't even cast a barrier, let alone a healing spell. With that done, Heathien rushed in and before Alexsis or Elzaisis could enter the body, he jumped towards the opening and planted undetonated purple flaming fireballs inside the body, everybody seeing this they decided to make the Queen Bastion go to another place, which they did as easily as breathing.
Nekomori jumped off of the ice pillar she was on with a acrobatic backflip she twisted her body fast and powerful, swinging her hammer at its stomach area which in turn made it fly off the cliff, now jumping from the ground she flew quickly behind the airborne beast, jumped up where its back was exposed and swung her hammer at the Queen bastion’s back. It flew a long distance before flopping on the ground like a pebble skipping across water. The rest joined them besides Vedo, who was taking care of Righteous and Raiza. They then began to deal with the Queen bastion once and for all.
(Heathien) “ Let's kill this damned thing now!!”
He walked towards the Queen bastion whimpering out a tiny monotone roar of pain and anguish.
(Soror) “ How about we use its parts? Vedo said that its magic and body could be tempered with mom….and the rest could be used for Righteous lower body.”
He said with a straight face, trying to calm the others.
(Heathien) “ So you're saying we can still save both of them? HAH!! YOU think ILL-”
Before he could finish both Teddy and Breeus hit Heathien on the neck which made him slumped in their arms, out cold.
(Teddy) “ Thee bethought of yond, didn't thee? nay reasoneth is given f'r Vedo to sayeth such things”
Teddy said with a thunderous voice, with a contorted face of rage, not convinced in the slightest.
(Soror) “ Sigh…I can't let Heathien go and destroy such a valuable piece of flesh and bone now, can I ?”
Regina, like a ghost from scary movie 2, came in front of Soror with bloodlust almost instantl. The intensity was something the group was unfamiliar with regarding Regina.
(Regina) “ You’d rather keep the enemy body, and use it on mother? You still want to think of other matters instead of saving both mom and Righteous!?!”
Screaming at Soror with anger and rage, throwing her hands up.
(Soror) “ Sigh, you think I don't want to save them both? Didn't you see their bodies?!? I mean for mom do you think that just putting the soul back in would be ok? The body needs to be fixed in order to store the soul RIGHT? And right now the body is barely holding up right now, same with Righteous! She's healing mom but it's not enough-”
(Breeus) “ Then we need to do something NOW!! Let us go now before it's too late!”
With his spear he blasted the living fuck out of the bastion finishing it off as it cried in horror of its fate. He rushed over with the rest of the group towards Vedo, Righteous, and Raiza. Regina with a mean mug looked at Soror, as Soror simply sighed. Righteous was crying and healing the still mangled, bloody and messed up Raiza. Simply put, imagine a meatball with a few bones here and there, and tons of blood.
(Righteous) “ I-its ok mom ill...sniff...I-i’ll heal you!”
(Alexsis) “ Mom!! Can you hear me!”
Alexsis said with a teary face, kneeling next to Raiza. Silence was all they heard, then Elzaisis asked the same question and the same reaction happened. Then silence was all they could hear, besides Alexsis' cries, Elzaisis dreary look and depressed cries of sorrow. Their mood was heavy and somber.
(Teddy) “ W-we needeth to fixeth h'r corse right, Soror?”
(Soror) “ That's all we can do for now! We need to hurry!”
He then told Vedo and Teddy to pick up Righteous and Raiza as carefully as they could. The house was still standing since the material was sturdy enough to take impacts that it was exposed to. Soror then hurried and guided Vedo and the others to his laboratory, after going down a flight of stairs into an underground room where multiple tubes of beasts were stored. It looked like a factory with hanging meat on hooks and as such, the bodies were carefully stored here for later use. There, Soror guided the others to his operating table where Vedo laid both Righteous and Raiza on it, Righteous still healing Raiza with the mana she still had left.
(Soror) “ Ok i need to straighten the body first, to then put care into the body, while i'm doing that, Regina...”
He said with distress and a serious tone for once, which took Regina by surprise,
(Regina) “ Yeah?”
(Soror) “ The body will still be connected to the soul, so i need you to take ca-”
(Regina) “ You want me to forcibly do that? You know how much pain mom's gonna be in!!”
The others were confused about what they meant. Regina looked uncomfortable as she swayed back and forth with her arms crossed
(Soror) “ Regina we have no time-”
(Regina) “ No!! T...there has to be another way!”
She screamed with anger and conflict in herself.
(Arenea) “ What's going on? Care to explain what you want to do, Soror?”
Arenea said in a calm smooth voice, trying to tame both sides as she herself was losing patience. The others waited in distress so that they would know what was going on.
(Regina) “ Sigh…s-since mom didn't die yet, the soul is still inside of the body, and with how mangled the body is, he wants to first fix the body or “vessel”, and make it so that he can help the body, for the soul to be stored into”
(Elzaisis) “ But what's wrong with doing that? Shouldn't that help mom??”
He said with both curiosity and annoyance that there was something going wrong with saving their mother.