Collapse Eternia

Longar Arc p.3

"Ölk, what should we do" Maia finally spoke up.

Ölk barked and licked Maia's cheek.

"Yeah, I think we should stay and fight. It's dangerous and I'm scared but... the vice guard are fighting and they are protecting Longar, they deserve our help."

Maia wiped her teary eyes and stood up. She patted Ölk.

"And I think he agrees with me"

Luth grinned.

"Well, I think I agree with Ölk and Maia."

Karlplate sighed as he accepted the decision.

It didn't take long for the assault to resume. Flaming arrows rained down before the second wave of demons stormed the breaches.

***

Lorian observed the demon forces from atop the walls. But, his eyes were focused on one single entity, a creature that was hiding in the thick brush of trees. There was one thing that being highly gifted with mana gave, and that was the ability to sense the strength of others. This, was in particular the case for war-mages like Lorian, who used large area-of-effect magic, Stigma's and skills.

He grasped his mace and put his visor down. Lorian wore heavy armor, akin to the visage of the royal knights. The aura that he sensed began moving forwards onto the open field that stood before the fortress.

Lorian put his foot onto the parapet and launched himself forwards, crashing onto the field tens of meters from the wall.

The demons that were around him stopped in their tracks if they weren't blasted away by the shockwave. Once they recognize him as an enemy they rushed towards him but before they could reach within arms reach of him their feet became frozen to the floor.

"Hah?"

CRACK!

Lorian swung his mace and bludgeoned in the heads of all the demons that came towards him.

"YOU THINK YOU CAN PASS UNHINDERED?!"

Lorian screamed out as he put his visor up and put two fingers up to his forehead.

[King of a Frozen Palace]

As soon as he activated his mana, a burst of frost erupted from Lorian and the demons that were within twenty meters of him were instantly frozen.

He put his visor down and small particles of ice appeared on it, whilst from within the helmet cold blue eyes glowed.

Some two hundred meters from Lorian stood the man he was weary of earlier. A demon, also clad in full plate but with seemingly many holes and openings in its design. The only thing that appeared fully covered was the head and torso. He was a truly massive titan compared to the other demons standing at four to five meters tall, holding and even larger halberd in his right arm. His left arm was obscured by the massive shield he was carrying, the shield was sharp at the edges, resembling a sword that was broadened beyond any reasonable extend.

Lorian and the demon stood in a standoff. Both glaring towards one another. Lorian's battlefield wide effect of the [Frozen Palace] reached him, but all that could be seen was the water vapour that emitted from him as the frost touched his body.

Lorian chuckled to himself before noticing another demon rushing towards the breach in the castle. He felt it instinctively that if he let that demon pass the fortress would be troubled. In a moment he rushed to attack that demon using Ice and some wind magic to accelerate.

He closed the distance of almost three hundred meters in slightly over a second.

"Got you"

He said as he extended his left arm immediately after coming to an abrupt stop. Just as he gathered mana to release and freeze the demon before him he saw a massive chunk of iron flying at him. He redirected the mana in his hand to the ground to create a wall of ice.