Fuck!' Numbers offered no protection against Tezka, only disadvantages. 'If I stick my Golems close, I can use anti-Guardian spells to injure the Suneater. Yet if I do that. Tezka needs just one wide arc of his blade to stop them all.
'If I order the Golems to spread out, Tezka can't freeze more than one at a time but then an entire eight-man unit can't even touch his fur! The Tree was stuck in a lose-lose situation against the Fylgja which only got worse as Tezka rescued the almost-dead Wyrms and nursed them back to health.
"Burn the Yggdrasill, my old and new children. Burn them to the ground!" Ananta, the Mother of All Black Dragons roared as she raised the corpses spread throughout the battlefield as lesser undead.
Dead elves and Wyrms stood up, uncaring of sunlight, and threw themselves at the enemy lines. The possessed elves found themselves fighting against their neighbors, friends, and family.
Not only was it hard for the elves to strike at the monsters wearing familiar faces but the shock was also so intense that it weakened the Tree's grip over their minds.
As for the undead Dragons, they had no Origin Flames or spells aside from darkness magic, but the Wyrms still had the mighty body of Divine Beasts. Divine Beasts whose strength was further enhanced, who suffered the cold no longer, and could be endlessly reborn unless their corpses were ground to dust.
"For Valtak!" Quashol joined the now-healed Gentor and Irslak, the Father of All Storm Dragons. "Let's teach these weeds never to mess with the Brood again, brothers."
"For Valtak!" Erghak the Fire Dragon, now in charge after the Father of Fire's death, joined the assault and so did the rest of his Brood.
Primal Spark turned every fire into Origin Flames that the Dragons combined into Primordial Flames. A tidal wave of white fire swept the battlefield, hurting the Tree's servants without affecting the invaders.
The Ice Dragons' Frozen Horizon spread a cold aura that instead of lowering the temperature affected the mana inside the bodies and equipment of their enemies. With the mana flow and Fusion Magic impeded, elves and Golems found themselves stuttering.
Frozen Horizon inflicted no damage, it clotted the usually seamless flow of mana. If left alone, the frozen mana would remain stuck and all magical abilities would be sealed. If pushed with strength, the blockage would be resolved by expelling the frozen mana which would burst. Fusion Magic would go from inactive to ten times stronger for the brief time the mana clot released its power, then go back to normal and stop again at the next clot.
The same would happen to spells and artifacts, greatly hindering Awakened and true mages.
Magic and fights at high levels were all about finesse and control. Being incapable of predicting how fast you would move or the strength you would put in your next step could easily have disastrous consequences.
Spells would come out stronger or weaker than expected, if not at all until it was too late for them to be of any use. Quashol's bloodline was not the strongest amongst the Brood but one that few dared cross.
The very crystals on an Ice Dragon's body weren't made of ice but of solid mana.
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