Essentia Animus

73-Gigantic Hurdles

Sryine and Vwyx scattered as their area of the beach lit up in a dazzling display of lights and explosions, scattering sand everywhere. This didn't exactly answer the question regarding where Riyxia had disappeared to, but it did effectively represent a suitable reason why such a question would have to wait for a safer moment.

Vwyx could tell right away that the sudden appearance of the giant towering instrument could be blamed upon Fhyernx. The stupid thing looked like it was modeled upon the idea of a giant person.. just with some of the most awkward limbs imaginable.. and an ugly head, really. Throwing a series of grenades long that sparked in the area near it, revealing the barrier around it, she was also certain that the best way to deal with such a behemoth would then be to wait for it to fire, and then deal with it while the barrier around it went down. It was a really basic deal, and didn't take any measure of genius to come up with. However, when the great thing did fire a salvo of missiles from its shoulder, every projectile instead blinked away in the sudden appearance of a rift, which then resolved not far from both her and Sryine in a series of explosions. Sryine thus could tell that Ieqyisa was also behind this, making things even more complicated. There was no sign of Liyuzhe though, even if neither of them were completely aware what sort of signs they would need to look for when it came to Liyuzhe adding performance to a giant siege weapon.

The sudden enormous ambient beam of light that came crashing down upon them from the sky reminded them both that contemplating missing people, including both Riyxia and Liyuzhe, would have to wait until they dealt with the thing before them. Sryine knew her illusions were completely out of place in this situation, considering instruments don't dream. It didn't matter, her conjuration held such a pristine value to such a situation anyway.. as long as she could figure out an appropriate way to make use of it. At this distance, it was difficult to figure out anything efficient for the situation. While in wonder of a decent solution to such a problem, she suddenly found a familiar looking bow and quiver thrown to her feet. Sryine knew Vwyx would be capable of crafting a few things like that on the fly, and the amount of flame Vwyx had available to her actually served to make the whole project even easier. It had honestly worked earlier, for the both of them, the application and usage of water and frost had prevented not an ember of the flame from being lost in their battle with the beasts before. Both of them had a wild scral of purple glow all across their bodies, the flame at a huge saturation in each case. Sryine smiled wryly at the bow, knowing it was another destructively imbued bow. This was going to hurt again, wasn't it?

Sryine pulled back on the bow, a brilliant ambience of lightning gathering with the moment. She loaded the bow with not just one arrow, but several.. and released. Thunder roared as the arrows soared.. not in a straight line but in a variety of directions. The arrows spiraled outwards and then came in towards the towering siege weapon from all directions, connecting at once around it against the barrier in a circle of a circuit. The barrier repelled the arrow strike itself but the lightning surged its defiance, connecting each point of contact with a circular burst of lightning, putting constant strain on the barrier in the process. If the barrier was going to try and hold out against anything she would do, then maybe it was best for her to press it to a breaking point. However, as predicted, the bow successfully managed to injure her again in its usage. Her blood flared, purple flame flowing down her arm. Sryine ignored that for now, her focus intent on the lightning she had unleashed. She had to push to the breaking point, of it or of her.

Vwyx could tell Sryine was struggling to pull this off on her own, this foe was nothing to sneeze at. Worse was just how much it was taking for Sryine to stay on the offense.. which became a problem once the thing unleashed another shoulder barrage. Vwyx knew Sryine would suffer if she tried to dodge, either in devoting everything to her focus at the cost of her own wellbeing, or sacrificing her focus to then lose on her assault. Once again, the projectiles appeared over them, aiming to drop upon them. Vwyx detonated a small bomb below her simply designed to throw her into the air, a gravity bomb basically aimed upwards. This was absolutely backwards for her too, not was it the reverse of how a gravity bomb should be used.. it also threw her excessively high into the air.