The invocation ritual

After Seth distributed the mana gems to the elven mages, they eagerly absorbed them into their essence stones. Quickly they regrouped, they drew a large circle several meters in diameter and with several patterns and runes that were unknown to him.

The magic circle was near.

The elves surrounded the magic circle and immediately after, they began to channel their mana, ethereal veils of several colors covered their entire body - the mana seemed to dance on their skin - at the same time the mana of each mages was released. joined, gradually mixing until they become one.

Seth was amazed by the beauty of the ritual they were performing, the beauty of the materialization of their mana, to be able to perform such a ritual, they would need such mastery of their mana, and yet they do it as if it were natural .

Seth was eager to know what would happen next, so he strengthened his eyes with mana, he saw more clearly the way the mana of the elven mages intertwined with each other, the way spiritual affinity could have a impact on the path of ambient mana, everything seemed out of the ordinary to him.

Subsequently he saw the mana invade the circle, the elves muttered some words inaudibly and at the same time the circle glowed with a powerful white light and it caught fire.

Seth jumped back, surprised, he distanced himself from them by reflex, he never would have imagined that the situation would take such a turn.

"Spiritual Summoning!!" Katia shouted loudly.

"Come to us, you mid-rank fire spirit, Fire Salamander, we offer you our mana as a sacrifice!!"

The moment she fell silent, the ground began to shake beneath their feet. Several dozen elven mages fainted around the glowing circle.

The earthquake was getting stronger and stronger, the air suddenly becoming hot that even Seth couldn't stand it in his airways.

"Damn, what are they doing!!" Seth cried, wobbling to the side.

Meanwhile, in the middle of the circle a reptilian silhouette of a crimson lizard was forming, it was large, majestic, a powerful aura emanated from it, its red eyes were full of an intellect superior to other creatures, the creature uttered a cry piercing and terrifying that shook the entire clearing.

Seth had not realized that he had bent under the aura of the creature's presence, he stood up abruptly in anger, trying to chase away the mental domination that the creature had over him.

He cannot bow to anyone other than his master – he told himself in his mind.

Katia had approached the creature, she crossed the circle of fire without fear, without the slightest burn on her skin, she stared at the creature with a determined expression on her features.

"O Spirit of Fire, lend us your strength and your control over nature." she shouted

"These vile creatures have defiled our lands, massacred our families and loved ones, punish them with your vengeful fire!!"

The salamander let out a shrill cry, which sounded like a roar of thunder. A moment later she seemed to inflate until a small glowing orb came out of her mouth. The orb quickly rose to the sky gradually absorbing ambient mana, becoming larger and larger and a few moments later it descended straight above the battlefield.

"Hey, what did you do" Seth panicked "there are still survivors inside!!"

As he violently shook an elf who was next to him, he saw several figures suddenly appear in front of him.

Rakahn and the others suddenly appeared among them, as if they were still there.

"Aah yes, they had "the stones of a thousand steps"" Seth had realized when he released the unfortunate collar of the elf who served as his scapegoat.

The "thousand steps stone" are stones impregnated with runes of space magic, they allow you to teleport by connecting two stones. In relation to the frequencies between the two stones, they can mentally transmit the coordinates of their initial location to the receiving stone, resulting in a reaction in space-time itself but it was short range, because the frequency between the two stones stones could be interrupted.

Just as Seth had joined his superiors, they suddenly heard the sound of an explosion. The violent expansion of the fire illuminated the black night sky with all its splendor. The frighteningly dazzling explosion took with it the earthen wall and some nearby trees.

The hot wind violently caressed Seth's body, who with his hands protected his eyes from the debris rushing towards him.

"Damn! What was that!?" He complained, "It's not just one clan that can be razed to the ground with this attack!!"

"So this is the power of a mid-rank spirit?"

As they headed towards the magic circle, they saw the large lizard dissipate in a mist of steam, and the young elf who was standing miles away from the circle had also fainted.

"Katie!!" Rakahn shouted as he rushed to her body and snuggled tenderly against her.

He quickly jumped out of the circle taking her with him in his arms.

As Rakahn carried her in his arms, his eyes met Seth's, he nodded to her and walked towards the elven mages who were still standing - those who had not participated in the invocation –

Seth was frozen, a strange feeling invaded his mind, it was barely believable, to think that it only took one attack from this creature to eradicate more than fifty variant monsters while they were not invoked to its full potential. And the hardest part of all this is that in this forest there are hundreds and thousands of creatures several times stronger than this pale copy that the elven mages managed to summon.

A shiver ran down his spine.

"Would we really be able to do it?"