The energy stored inside them was consumed to instantly conjure the spells while also extending their area of effect to the area encircled by the feathers. The black ones combined with the blue feathers to form the tier five spell, Ice Coffin.
A swarm of black crystal daggers filled the air, each one of them enveloped in a frost aura so cold that it started to snow. It wasn't their razor-sharp edge nor the darkness energy they carried to make them lethal so much as their ability to stick to their target.
Dodging them all was impossible and once one of the daggers hit, the frost aura would fuse the ice crystal to its victim's flesh. The cold would suck away the heat just like the darkness imbued within ate at the life force, leaving the target of the spell no way out.
As for the red feathers, they turned into the tier three spell, Searing Wave, that was focused on the trolls. The members of that fallen race were naturally weak to fire due to their accelerated metabolism that required to stock fats in the form of highly flammable oils inside their bodies.
Prismatic Wind was a bloodline ability so even orc shamans and Fomors were powerless against it. There was no elemental flow that they could read and there was no fixed spell inside of them until Tista set them off.
To confirm her theory, she kept flapping her wings and releasing more feathers until none was left.
'Good gods! I can instantly cast spells, spread them around, and even delay their activation as long as I want!' She thought in surprise.
'Yeah, too bad that you can't cast arrays this way.' Valia nodded. 'Since we are at it, how am I supposed to call you? Redder Demon? Bigger Red Demon?'
'Don't even joke about that! If anyone hears you, I'll end up with an even lamer name.' Tista replied with a telepathic snort. 'Now get off me, there's something I want to try.'
As soon as Valia left, Tista took a deep breath and activated Ethereal Aegis. Yet instead of using Origin Flames, she activated her black eye and synergized it with her wings to turn her whole body into a living mass of Void Flames.
She was back being a black, flaming demon straight out of the legends of the various monster tribes. Suddenly, the spells harmlessly phased through her whereas her touch and that of her claws was even more deadly than before.
Each slash of Sunder carried the black flames around and they didn't go out unless their victim died or their energy was neutralized by the combined effects of light and water magic.
'It works! Ethereal Aegis still drains my strength like crazy but the mind-numbing euphoria is gone. I can not only feel how much life force I've consumed but also stop my bloodline ability without the need of external help.'
She turned the Aegis on and off, just to make sure.
Between Protector's blazing blue form wreaking havoc with its newfound might and Tista's colossal form stomping the monsters by the dozens with each step she took, Lith decided that it was time to move to phase two of his plan.
He took the kids' gloves off and War out of its bloody sheath. The spark of Chaos of his Abomination form spread through the Adamant of the blade, painting it black and twisting its edge into barbed metal that looked like a row of fangs.
"Foolish child, there's no hope left! The more of you we consume, the stronger we get. There's nothing you can do to stop us anymore." Lith slashed downward with his blade and Syrah deflected the blow with the back of her Adamant gloves while also channeling the collective power of the 300 wargs supporting her.
With nothing standing in War's trajectory anymore, the black blade pierced through the Queen's shoulder and pinned her to the ground. Then, following Lith's orders, War used its Counterflow and World Mirror abilities to access the warg's hive mind and force Syrah to share her pain with the pack. freёwebnovel.com
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