Erebus coughed, sputtering and patting his chest as he needed the air to come back to him, the force behind these blows were some of the strongest he had ever experienced. He smashed and skidded atop the cold ground— enough force in that beam to dizzy & disoriente even a dragon. This blast also left a mark in his armors, especially the helmet under the veil of the cloak. There was an occasional electrical static popping from the right side of the helmet, showcasing a wide crack in the visor. Another one of those blasts, and Ere was sure it short-circuit he Apex.
Now having received more than half of its durability in damage— Erebus was in doubt whether he could go forward— without first being able to assume the challenge ahead. Across his face, there was bleeding, his left orbital felt smashed— even weakened, a fracture could have been left by the beam. His chest plate was now washed in white sleet; blue ice, which smeared like cake-icing against the frontside annd backside of his armor.
It was then that the frost giant tilted its head and echoed a booming and malicious laugh, it had turned slightly— staring upon the others— who were a pretty long distance from where Erebus and his Ice Giant were, it realized what Astrid had done as the spell crashed into other Ice Giants first, volleys came and decimated numerous giants. But not this one— it responded with a defensive barrier.
The strength of these Giants were high, but they had not quite felt the power of a Z-rank mage. His brethren were being torn apart, and thus angered the giant, as he was forced to watch the others meet unbecoming ends to the Earthlanders.
Thrusting pointy fingers against the rocks, the Giant held— and clung, to his placement. Conjuring forth a large, numerous meter height iceberg that surrounded and coiled around itself— the giant cube would match the explosion of the volley— turned coalesced arrow, an ate the brunt of the spell. The spell would crack and rupture the defensive but it appeared it came just cut of piercing the entirety of the barrier.
As well as this, snow and glitter now glinted over the air around her person, as one last Frost Giant was coming forth into the Void around them— staring down upon both Astrid and Kanna. Due to not stepping against the ground before first attacking, it was up to fate really whether the two would survive the beam about to drop on their heads, no touching the ground meant the sonar senses possessed by the Phantom were null— albeit, there was the case of the danger sense still providing some level of awareness. That is— if Astrid and Kanna were not distracted by the same Giant facing Erebus at the other side of the map.
The last Giant over Astrid and Kanna, braced it’s body for the impact of it’s spell beam, which it would fire down on their backside, and with just enough time to strike with its power before it surfaced fully. The attack would do staggering damage to at least one of the two.
Back to Erebus, the scene has only intensified. He loosely uses his sword to as a lever, balancing himself back to the feet. Realizing now that he broke a toe and could feel it sting with his steps, another consequence of being ragdolled by that first beam of ice at point-blank.
Two eyes— one filled with blood— hung and watched with a foggy curtain at the monster ahead. Whether his constitution showed otherwise, Erebus was holding themself awake and alive off of willpower alone— and yet, if that helmet was ripped off his face; you would see only the deepest hatred in this one, eyeing the storm.
The iceberg itself seemed to crack and break upon eating the Eldritch’s spell, which fumigated against the side of it with black mists and pink lavender static, as it moved across the cube— Erebus wondered if it would breach through… Decimating the cube, it did.
But the Giant broke free of its defensive spell. Ensuring that the spell had wiped most, but not all of these things from the map.
Crossing an X-shape with its large blue arms— the form of the monster began to glow and vibrate rapidly. The snow on the mountain shifted in direction, moving upward in reserve gravity, returning to the heavens at beyond the highest peaks. Soon, snow was followed by rocks, plants, dirt and gravel from different parts of the mountainside— funneling upward, fused by the void, and levitating with other debris into the sky. Large, megalithic ice chunks ripped and torn from different areas of Oddr Mountains, when the Void portal first opened— it was clear it ate a bit of the plane they had came from.
Erebus could do little in the time he was given, his eyes widened—a lightbulb had gone off for him as he realized the worst of things, he had seen something like this— long ago, and knew that the next spell was going to be like nothing else the others have seen yet. This thing wanted to level the area— a large kill zone that was going to erase all of them when finished. Wondering if an ice giant could actually go nuclear, he didn’t want to take his chances frozen either.
“The Void demands from us… sacrifice.” his words would echo through the realm.
“The mountains that it stole from us… they are clearly not enough to open the path.” Erebus bit his tongue; until it was bleeding down his lips— something to take his mind off of his only real fear,
Death. Yet even after so long, and so much pushing. He was the weakest and he was not yet the perfect monster to create the perfect warrior, from what he could decipher— he was a tryhard and even the lower ranked mage was fairing better at the hands of overwhelming odds. Therefore, he has the least to lose. This makes him the most dangerous. He smiles, with hate in his eyes at this world, and the world he was fighting from its erasure.
“There is no more time to prepare, even less time to plan for what is after.” Erebus said, haunting powers charging into his body, as it pushed mana into a choke, and focused on bringing the sickly feeling, pure fever and ailment up to the surface to tapa into his most taxing power.
With a disgust for his fate on his curling lip, he dug his boots into the ground and propelled.
“Return us to darkness..” Erebus finalized, provoking his last move.
Erebus moved towards the Giant. In one launch from his starting point, he simply put everything into getting him down that direction— ignoring the cracks and pains of his body and bones giving out, his pace soon picketed to a sprint. He knew he could only act so fast, his abilities would only warrant him so much.
Just before the ice giant would blow itself up, hoping to return 2xS to all three of them in a 50m radius and bring down the mountain, Erebus places his hand against the giant’s leg. He gives one last look towards the Phantom mages, shaking his head at the thought of them stealing his treasure.
Yet, he was not in a moment to double think or rationalize— defeating this bastard was the priority. Erebus, who was still holding his sword, would stab it deeply into the icy corrosion holding their surface, the ground, together. Erebus pokes the hook rough into the crack— shattering a larger gaping hole, and rotated with his wrist, levering the crack to splinter and grown— until an avalanche was beneath them— it poured from beneath and filled the cavern he had tracked his way up to get here in snow— and the cliff side where the battle was raging to s screamed for a quaking boom.
He along with the creature in his hands, phase. And at this moment, the monster would be transported with Erebus to limbo, causing his spell to be seen, however the detonation would be useless— traveling out but rendering it ineffective at best.
A blue dome-like wave (imagine a pulsing shockwave) would move through the area— past Astrid, and past Kana, for hundreds of meters. If able, the entire mountain would have glossed and frozen over. However, as Erebus faced the spell, he was at the whims of the enemy, and the enemy at the whims of Erebus.
What had happened was unique, and quite literally a mystery to the Giant. Erebus had stolen the blast’s power and taken it straight with him into a 5th dimension, Astrid and Kanna would see the bomb, but would not feel it at all— passing over them harmlessly, but would likely see Erebus fall in this process as the side of the cliff would go down in a huge natural disaster.
His last attempt to aide the others, was only partly efficient. The giant picked a frozen stiff Erebus up and landed a walloping elbow to his left temple— then front kicked him away with a force, so much that it throws him over the cliff-side of the Void just as the Frost giant lunges backwards and grabs the cliff-hanging over the side— staring into a black nothingness beneath, enough strength that it’s body can hang with one arm over the side, even if sight was obstructed from vision.
He turns to look up, and climbs his way to the surface in order to stare Kanna down and Astrid.
The malevolent fusion of Oddr’s peak, and the void hellscape changes again, as it turns the surface of the ground pure black and the final giant, fuses the mana the Void has been consuming (Astrid’s) and uses the charged power of Astrid to undergo a transformation.
Astrid and Kanna would be looking upon a purple frost elemental— coated in pulsing black smoke,
the last of the Frost Giants, and empowered by the Void with the engagement of Astrid’s magic, a product of her own horror.
Meanwhile:
Erebus is flung through the air, his vision is going out and in as the
Apex is losing electricity. Leaving the others to finish the last Giant, finally his consciousness would go under. Segregating him from the known path, his way home.
The Frost Giant targeting him prior, moved in a flash to run, a juggernaut of strength and speed, to deliver a physical strike to both Astrid and Kanna independent of each other, and switching between each between landed strikes or successful evasions.
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Info Log> Erebus leaves the field of view. You can assume he is beat.
> Frost Giant to attempt physical dmg against both Kanna and Astrid.
x1 S physical, resistance ignored.
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Enemies Active:1x
Eldritch Infused — Last of the Frost Giantx5 S-rank durability
501 STR
501 SPE
———-Dark Frost Beam: 1-252xS ranged magic dmg (The Frost Giant deals ranged magic damage)
Glacier Cube: 26-502xS defensive (The Frost Giant Survives)
Physical DMG — ignores resistance: 51-1001xS physical (resistance ignored when running in for melee DMG)
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Spells Cast:Nihlatak's Limbo Lingering:
-250MP CD: 2
Effect: Even though the user cannot directly enter limbo, they can do it temporarily. This allows the user to let moves phase through them. It costs a certain amount of mana to let a certain amount of damage phase through. The cooldown applies in general. This means that during the cooldown, the user cannot use this spell at all.
- S -
500MP to let it phase through, 4 cooldown.