Special Bonds

With Ellie's Healing, Terrick was able to pace himself in keeping the horde of imps coming his way. Ellie finally shifted from defensive to offensive after he disappeared into the mob of imps. Drawing water from the moat, she spammed the imps with spinning Ice daggers. The spin increased the piercing damage of the daggers. There is a trade off between the number of daggers created and inducing spin. But with her proficiency and hard work, she was able to circumvent this limitation.

She casted a second spell: Partial Water golem, which created a water arm that swiped the majority of the remaining imps into the moat. Once submerged, the water froze immediately killing all the trapped imps. The remaining imps scurried in all sorts of direction but Ellie was not done. A ring of water forms around her and spreads out in all direction, thinning out into a sharp blade. All the running imps were bifurcated in an instant. She receives a handful of notifications, reads them quickly, and she dismisses them, focusing instead on the red-headed guy snoring on the ground. She puts his head on his lap and heals him promptly.

Lest being the fastest and most agile reaches the inner sanctum of the castle. She took advantage of the ruckus that her friends are causing in the entry of the castle to sneak in. Most of the hallways were empty as the imps have manned their respective stations. She did find a few stragglers but she felled them quickly with her Wind attacks combined with her Silence spell. Her speed, wind attacks, and silence spell made her an excellent magician for rogue.

The pace of battle changed once she entered the castle. She ran into a battalion of powerful imps in one of the hallways. Casting her Wind speed and Sound spell: Silence, she charges towards the imps. Her punches the closest imp and the sheer momentum rips part of his face off. Quickly changing direction, the next imp's eye bulges out as she sucker punches him into group of imps behind him.

Without missing a step, she casts a Wind spell that rips through the rest of the imp knights. Still, a handful of them survive the attack. They start running away and turn into a small corridor at the end of the hallway. She gives chase. As she rounds the corner, her eyes grow large. An imp general was standing ready mere paces from her.

Using Lest's own speed against her, the Imp general slams her into a nearby wall. The wall concave with Lest splayed on it. She drops to the ground and wipes a stream of blood from her mouth. She runs mana through her body and casts her spell Tornado fist. A small tornado forms on both her enclosed fist and the duel between strength and speed begins.

Vane sensing that his sister might be in trouble finds her mid-fight. He makes quick work of the two imp mages barring him entry into the castle. The twins always had an uncanny connection that even the best scientists and healers couldn't explain. It was an unexplained intuition, a sixth sense to feel the emotions of the other. As he tries to reach her, two imp generals jump in front of him.

Using Earth gauntlet, he punches one of the generals out of the way. The poor general was out cold. The second general was much hardier and took the punch with minimal damage. Vane smiles and calls upon his Rock armor. Shockwaves are created as each punch hits its target. But the imp general is equally strong and able to reciprocate the power of the punches he is receiving form Vane.