And Also With You ~The Tooth And Claw Books #3

Chapter Fifteen: The Worshippers of Apocalypse

"Damn it, there's only three of us, a little over a dozen of them and they have Protection-Magic, making this a very hard fight." I growled angrily. 

"I can disable them, but I need time." Kordia spoke out, gripping Uisge tight.

Me and Akio didn't question what she was about to do, we knew it, we both took up in front of her, as she began her chant for her Custodian's Justice.  We didn't do much, simply stood there as a wall to prevent them from getting to her while she worked, which meant a whole lot of blocking and not much attacking.

Meanwhile Kordia carried on with her Custodian's Justice Chant;  

"I Kordia Morningstar, Dreamed of Yin and Dreamer of Yang, Beseech thee, Balansufirudo, lend me your power, so that I may protect the balance."

When she finished her chant, she drove the head of her flail into the ground, where it impacted an explosion of water came from the ground, as if a guesser had just sprang into life. Sitting in the heart of that abyssal black water was what could only be described as a kraken formed of pure violet light. The thing roared for a moment before sending it's astral tentacles out into all directions, gripping the cultists heads. Typically, what would happen next would be the targets would be consumed by visions of fear, not just any however, fear so powerful that it paralyzed them. However, these cultists didn't even bat an eye.

"That... That should have worked...." Kordia panted falling to the floor behind us.

"Our enemy also employs zombies." Akio hissed, firing a Volpura at the nearest one, infused with Entropic-Energy this time, it instantly shattered the targets protections.

I dived around, ignoring my still bleeding wound, and drove Excelsior into his heart, with the blade still in the Zombies body I ignited her Bale Fire once more, just long enough to ensure the target was reduced to ash, before shutting it off. Just like the regular Bale fire her new Absolution-Bale-Fire would in time become easier to use, but right now I actually had to put a lot of energy to use it again, and with blood loss trickling through even with what little work I'd done I needed that energy.

"Suggestions?" Kordia growled, firing off a Light of Truth, and breaking another's Clipeum, which Akio quickly finished off with a Volpura.

"We need Kiem at full strength, please heal his wound then I'll feed him. Once that's done me and him can use our Custodian's Shield's while your act as range support. Hopefully we'll be able to create an opening for Kiem to use his Justice." Akio thought out, as for why she thought it instead of yelling.

Our Hive mind telepathy had one major advantage over any other forms of communication which I, truth be told, had never noticed until now. Time dilation; meaning that what would take a minute to say, only took a literal second to think. Even then I still understood her completely as if we'd just had a regular conversation. The moment Akio's thought was done, Kordia reached over and held her hand over my wound, I winced as she began to use Apoptosis to heal the wound, biting my lip so I wouldn't scream out in pain. As she did that however, one of the Zombies lunged with their spear, in response I cut out around with Excelsior, cutting the spear head free, and drove Absolia around, cutting the targets head free from their body. Before Akio could feed me, as we had planned, however; help arrived.

With what could only be described as the sound of thousands of tormented souls, at least two dozen Fallen Angels arrived. The moment they saw the sight they let loose with their various weapons, most of them used bows, but a handful used swords, their leader however used a halberd and wasted no time in diving into the combat, and cutting into the enemy once inside their Clipeums.