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.

I think Torrifex might be

just her natural state, given

as it was, to be enough to finish these powerful demons off, but I’d hoped. Ah well,

begin to run forward, while Al gathers power into his eye and unleashes a heatray as thick as a car at Somonax. The grinning demon slashes out with

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

begin to hurtle at Torrifex. The big demon brushes the first few aside contemptuously, but

chance to close in on Pyrixan, jaws open wide as the swirling cloud of ash sits waiting for me to

VOID CHOMP!

void forms between my mandibles, drawing Pyrixan in and tearing away fragments of her

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deafening roar and Pyrixan… just takes it. The swirling ash condenses around her and, though it buckles under the weight of my bite, it

OUCH!

ash begins to eat into my mandibles, dissolving them just

a living thing. Wherever it touches my chitin, it strips away a tiny fragment of the

keeping the drifting clumps of malevolent mana away, so I turn it off and

to introduce this demon to the business

POW! POW! POW! POW!

of acid in all directions, coating huge chunks of the ash

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, the acid won’t run out and isn’t

Gweheheheh!

demon of doom? Give me a little more time and you’ll have no ash