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Flaming balls of fire!

While everyone waits inside of the Cellar after Reima looted everything the discuss the plan of action once they escape. It appears that Ambrose and Talicia have had a safe house ready for use for a few hundred years. This was of-course unknown to Nerissa who's been kept in the dark about most things, the reason for this is the fear that she'd try to escape the forest and enter one of them.

Ciri idly chats with Talicia about various monotonous subjects including fashion, Reima himself immediately lost interest when they mentioned "make-up", he himself doesn't really know why either would need it as they are exceptionally beautiful without it. Suddenly low rumbles echo through the walls of the underground cellar, it's not uniform either as it randomly happens causing everyone to tense up.

Ambrose "Everyone wait here, I'll check one what's happening outside." he looks at Reima, "You, please keep my wife and daughter safe." he starts to walk away but Reima grabs his shoulder, "Are you stupid? I'll go check instead, not only can I teleport but you can protect your family yourself. Ciri, Don't worry about alerting "Them", if it's life or death just do it... Oh, and wear this!" he throws a couple cloaks that'll prevent people discovering her identity should wizards actually be attempting to breach the wards. She nods at him as he leaves the Cellar.

He walks through the already smokey manor and looks outside the window of the first floor, some of the trees had already be burned away, allowing small rays of sunlight to penetrate through and illuminate the forest floor. He however can't see anything due to the limits of the wards extending far past the clearings treeline, he looks up and almost gapes at what he sees, from where he's standing it's as if he's inside a fireball, a wall of his Turquoise flames covers the large manor like a dome... He equips Ornstein's golden armour, it's lion headed helmet providing him protection from being identified before jumping out of the window. He looks back and sees the large building already partly collapsing due to the fire but he shakes his head and casts Invisibility upon himself as he heads to the wards borders to see what's happening.

It doesn't take long to see what the cause is, at one side of the wall of fire he sees various blunt force impacts pushing the fire inwards. Every hit forcing inwards even more than the last, it's elasticity apparently indicating the strength of the wards, usually it'd take around a day to breach wards as powerful as this using this method but if you include the anti-magic flames the wards'll barely hold up a few more minutes. His thoughts are interrupted as a powerful spell manages to pierce the ward, launching through and almost obliterating a charred tree as it hits, with a hole being created this causes a chain reaction as the rest of the wards collapse, unfortunately the allows fire to drop and start falling on everything below the dome. The Auror's who were about to charge in stop as they see the sea of fire about to envelop everything beneath it, they do however notice many black blur charging a manor deeper inside the already burned forest.

Amelia looks a the curse-breaker and shouts at him, "Can we do anything about this fire!?"

He looks at it closely and waves his wand over some, causing it to burn brighter. "It seems to be fuelled by magic, if we eliminate the fuel then the rest'll follow." he says as he audibly casts "Magia Subsisto", this causes the fire to almost immediately peter out and fade away, leaving only orange embers.

Moody nods at this and starts casting the same spell at the fires, causing them to either disappear or turn into regular orange flames which are easily dealt with. The wizards immedaitely create a path and start charging to the manor to follow the suspicious black blurs and hopefully discover what had happened here.

Reima watches the Auror's try and run through but are stopped by the flames, Reima himself doesn't do anything as they cover him, his invisibility fades as the magic is eaten and the flames eventually snuff themselves out. His Observation Haki flares as he sees many cloaked people charging the manor, probably vampires if he judges them by their speed. Something that surprises him however is their apparent immunity to the small amount of sunlight breaching the now utterly destroyed canopy. Not wasting any time he teleport's in-front of them, this halts them for a moment but when they see the turquoise flames dropping from the sky they try to escape into the Manor. Reima materialises his Divine Silver sword and cleaves one of the vampires completely in-half as they try to pass him, the now two separate pieces burst into ash and fade away. He grins under his golden helmet and points his sword at the frantic vampires "YOU SHALL NOT, PASS!"

They all stop under the intensity of the command and all look at their leader for guidance on what they should do vs this seemingly indomitable foe.

A cloaked man steps forwards and Reima can barely make out his long blonde locks under the hood. "Warrior! We have no quarrel with you, step aside otherwise you will not like the consequences!"

Reima shouts back, "You have no right to these lands nor the ability to take them by force!"

The vampire steps forward "I do have the right as I am Hacan Alucard!"

...

Reima just looks at him blankly before shouting back, "Fuck off!"

Wow! I bet no one saw that coming!?... Oh, you did? Whatever, just keep reading then.

As always, if I missed anything please let me know.

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