8 Whishmae's Fury <Part 2>

Whishmae's fury had currently peaked, and she wrapped Silver in her black flames and told the fairies to instantly redirect Silvers "Origin energy" in the amounts she could handle without problems, while they focus on gathering "rift force" she could use for a quick escape.

What was "Rift force"? It was simply the energy used to tear a veil in space itself, leading to a specific or unknown destination solely dependent, on the users' wish or situation. That being said it was a double-edged sword as if the user was not strong enough or did not have the required control of the Aether as these two were directly linked, they would trap themselves in the void or be torn apart by it!

In summary, the "rift force" was best seen as condensing your aether to reality breaking amounts, to form a hand that grabs on to space, and separates into two and closes it on the caster's command.

The "Origin energy" seeping into her body gave her a burst of power causing Whishmae to let out an ear-piercing charging screech, which lasted for a few seconds, and the instant she had finished concentrating enough "Origin energy" and synchronized it with her heart Whishmae instantly underwent a minor change.

Currently, Whishmae's black feathers and flames appeared to have a smoldering hot red tip, giving the image that magma was currently flowing in the tips of her feathers as her energy constantly surged though she directed a lot of it to create a cocoon around Silver to protect him.

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<POV Change: Lady Astarot>

There it is again! Lady Astarot was specifically referring to the leaking bits of Origin energy, that were discharged from each previous attempt. This piqued her interest even more as it seemed like the boys' supply was a level above hers. If only she knew that she was so far off, how would she react!

And that's when it hit her, as she now saw the phoenix slow down and its concentration of "Origin energy" slowly built up. As it reached a stop it instantly flared the speed at which it was compressing the said energy, releasing an ear-piercing screech which she thought was for an attack, though the instant she realized what the phoenix was attempting, a single drop of sweat slowly crept down Lady Astarot's head.

Her alert and possible fear of the situation was now visible!!

"This phoenix! Why the hell is its strength going up by leaps. Damnit... I'll have to get serious or I could be injured!" She said this with a grave tone as this phoenix was going to give her tons of issues if she did not use some of her most effective cards she could draw, but she had also sent a call for back up and was expecting them to arrive soon.

All of a sudden the phoenix had completed its absorbing of energy and it completed its' screech but it had become a more dangerous opponent than she had initially speculated, she started hoping that the people she had requested to come to her aid would arrive at this moment, sadly they were closing in, but not to the point of getting there instantly.

She was mainly annoyed as she brought this upon herself though she just wanted to ask the boy how he could hold so much "Origin energy".

The others behind Lady Astarot that were behind, though not by a lot, had also requested for their leaders to come to their aid quickly, informing them about the current situation which made them all hurry the more!

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<Normal POV>

Whishmae, upon finishing her minor transformation instantly left her current position, creating a sonic boom upon her wake, while appearing right in front of Lady Astarot while slashing her crystalized burning wings aiming to rip her apart.

"Enzo!"

Lady Astarot called out, instantaneously brought out a sword from thin air right beside her, and blocked the attack. Before gaining some distance between the Phoenix and herself.

The weapon she had taken out from thin air was more specifically it was a "Sync weapon". This was imbuing your essence into a weapon making it stronger than normal weapons by leaps and bounds, attained after gaining deep insight on the user's original style and merging it with their mage core.

Blocking the wing slash sent to claim her life, Lady Astarot followed up with a downwards slash sword wave aiming for Whishmae's wing to which the latter just flared up her flames, blocking the attack from incapacitating her wings.

This kept going on back and forth for almost 10 minutes and this was when Whishmae understood her opponent was stalling and she caught a glimpse of a group of people bursting towards their location, fear permeated all over her face as she knew this could turn into a grave situation very quickly!

Knowing that if the group of people coming towards their location got to her, she won't be going anywhere, Whishmae decided to create a cloud of flame to cover her escape but, she needed to gamble as she had not compressed enough energy to tear a Rift, yet she had to overcharge to get the needed amount to create the flame cloud while she rifts at the same time.

That was where Whishmae had taken the gamble, and the fairies hearing her had let in five times the amount of "Origin energy". Whishmae's body convulsed in pain but she instantly created the flame cloud giving her a good cover, but Lady Astarot only needed three seconds to disperse the flames.

By the time the flame had been dispersed Whishmae had already been on her way bursting through the sky causing ripples to appear all over her body, as she prepared to forcefully rip apart space itself!

This would have worked but suddenly Whishmae froze in the air or so everyone had thought, though what had happened was the phoenix had gone unconscious from that amount of Origin energy, causing the divine phoenix to go into a freefall from several over 900 meters in the sky.

Whishmae being unconscious could no longer keep Silver on her back and so, Silver also went into a freefall. Lady Astarot went into action to capture both of them but, she halted the instant Aremur came out and opened a rift himself, to what appeared to look like the outskirt of a town, as you could see a small town in the very near distance through the portal.

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Lady Astarot's <POV>

"Another unknown bloody beast, wait... this species is not a deviation of the dragon species but a whole different race of dragons! Seems like it's the boy's companion hmm?" The daemon called lady Astarot had cried out in amazement as she had discovered a brand new species, causing her to be incredibly intrigued.

<POV END>

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Aremur had watched them slowly fall into the portal before closing it, as it closed without getting in! The dragon could not go in as with its sky scraping length, the pursuers would get into the portal making the escape futile so it chose to stay back and it also needed to be in its normal form which was its current form to hold it open.

The instant Aremur closed the portal it went weak and began to fall due to the distance between him and his master, Lady Astarot had already been right in front of it to capture and place a mana seal and space lock, cutting off the connection of a majority of senses the companion shared with its master.

Aremur slowly went to a semi-hibernation state, hardening its scales and keeping itself alive with the bare minimum aether it needed.

Aremur could now barely sense it's master!