Chrysalis

When the black hole finally flickers and fades away, I release my death-grip on the rock with a sigh of relief.

The basin as it had been is pretty much gone. What remains is a twisted, blasted landscape, ripped and torn apart by the strength of the gravity bomb. It doesn’t look like I cast a spell, it looks like a natural disaster took place. This is on the same sort of scale as the mountain-exploding eruption magic I hit the termites with.

In fact… if I’d cast this bomb inside the mountain, it may have just hollowed the damn thing out.

Huge chunks of rock have been ripped up, pulled by the unrelenting force of the bomb. They almost look like fingers, curling up from the floor and reaching toward the place the spell had detonated.

Phew.

Considering how much of my precious, non-replenishable Altar resources I poured into that one, the effect needed to be worthwhile! I hardly expect it was enough to kill the tier eight demons, but I’m hoping it was enough to do some damage, at the very least.

Before the ash, smoke and dust can settle, I emerge from my temporary bunker and begin to cautiously advance. My gravity sense is going crazy as the normal order of the planet reasserts itself, causing that sense to be useless, but my vague sense of the future is still present and I rely on that as I edge forward.

[Quite the blow, insect! But not enough!]

Well… I’m glad you’re dumb enough to announce it, and give away your general location via the bridge.

[Al! Time to go all out. Unleash everything you’ve got on them!]

With no need to hide anymore, I conjure a wind to blast the debris away, clearing the field in an instant.

The three demons stand defiant.

battered… but defiant nonetheless. I think Torrifex

isn’t just her natural state, given all the blades. Pyrixan…

that bomb, as devastating as it was, to be enough to finish these powerful demons off, but I’d hoped. Ah well, I guess we go

thick as a car at Somonax. The grinning demon slashes out with her thousand swords, slicing through

of my mind constructs kick into overdrive as they weave innumerable threads of mana, each contributing to the greater whole. I don’t have bottomless gravity reserves, so I’ll need to rely on my omni-elemental construct at times in this fight. The little stuff won’t do, either. Bolts or even spears of ice won’t do squat down here, the demons

as I can make them, begin to hurtle at Torrifex. The big demon brushes the first few aside contemptuously, but they don’t stop, and he quickly grows frustrated, fire billowing from

open wide as the swirling cloud of ash

VOID CHOMP!

more powerful. The void forms between my mandibles, drawing Pyrixan in and tearing away fragments of her ash-shield, revealing a

you

ash condenses around her and, though it buckles under the weight of

OUCH!

as the ash begins to eat into my mandibles, dissolving

the demoness doesn’t want to let me go, the cloud of ash surges after me like a living thing. Wherever it touches my chitin, it strips away a tiny

power into the gravity domain, but it’s ineffective at keeping the drifting clumps of malevolent mana away, so I turn it

introduce this demon to the

POW! POW! POW! POW!

fire wide blasts of acid in all directions, coating huge chunks of the ash in the

nonsense move, but my acid has some beneficial properties. For starters, it eats away at mana! Not quickly, but it does do it, and secondly, it propagates itself, which means the ash that I shot will be destroyed eventually,

Gweheheheh!

like that, you disintegrating demon of doom? Give me a