Chapter 2999 Hidden Thorn (Part 1)
Fire Orchids were delicate in appearance but incredibly resilient and capable of thriving in the harsh climate of the Blood Desert. To the nomadic tribes, Fire Orchids were a symbol of strength and hope, just like the Overlord.
Wherever Solus and the others looked, they saw trees, flowers, and fruits from all of Mogar's continents. It didn't matter if they were supposed to grow in a dry or humid climate, if they needed a plain or the rarefied mountain air.
They grew one right beside the other, forming a dreamlike landscape.
Even Lith's paranoia took a rain check, too busy admiring the view to paint nightmare scenarios in his mind and make up imaginary enemies hidden in every shadow.
"I feel like crap saying this but we must burn everything to the ground." Before the rest of the group could beat the Tiamat to a pulp, his array-sensing spell revealed over thirty concentric magical formations surrounding the temple that covered most of the inner garden.
Barriers, elemental-sealing arrays, gravity fields, magma bombs, storm blitzes, every single known powerful magical formation was present and primed to blow in the face of any intruder stupid enough to cross them.
"No, we don't." Xenagrosh beckoned Bytra and shooed everyone else. "After being confined in a small space for all this time, it's finally our moment to shine. Nobody is as good at destroying as an Eldritch, lil bro.
"This is what we were born for. Just stay out of our way or you guys are going to get hurt." She put a Decay bastion in front of the tunnel's exit to emphasize the concept and ensure that she could go all-out without endangering Lith's life.
"I'm ready when you are, Zor." Bytra shapeshifted into her real form, that of a Raiju.
Her appearance was that of a Chinese dragon fused with a warhorse. The resulting creature had pitch-black scales covering her horse body, with large branching horns over her head. She had long whiskers, a thick blood-red mane, yellow eyes, and a long, scaled draconic tail.
Her Bookwyrm armor shapeshifted as well, covering her new body while the Absolution altered its shape to coat the straight horn that came out of her forehead.
The two-pronged attack spread the barrier's energy thin, opening small fissures in the dome of light that Bytra exploited.
As the Raiju circled around the outermost array and the circuit under her hooves neared completion, her speed increased exponentially. Massive streams of electricity accumulated above and below her, empowering her spells and pushing her forward.
She unleashed her tier five Chaos spell, Locust Swarm, conjuring a black hail comprised of countless little bullets made of Chaos that stuck to the first rune they touched and devoured it.
Pharek was no fool and had placed a darkness-sealing array right after the energy barrier, knowing that a static defense would be easy prey for the element that boasted the highest destructive power and its only weakness was being slow.
The Locust Swarm faded without reaching the next layer, but along with Xenagrosh's attacks, it was enough to bring the first barrier to crumble. The Raiju then used her tier five spell, White Knight.
The fire element focused on the tip of her straight horn, raising the temperature to thousands of degrees. At the same time, the air element created a sack of high pressure while also using the horn to conjure a corona of bolts of lightning.
The final result was a plasma lance that departed from the top of Bytra's head and pierced through the darkness-sealing array and all those behind it until the lance met the air-sealing array.
White Knight lost cohesion on contact, but the plasma was a byproduct of the spell and kept moving forward until the drop in air pressure and temperature destabilized it.
White Knight left deep rifts in the arrays it crossed, burning their runes and destabilizing the delicate balance that allowed them to synergize.
"Two Abominations? No, wait, they are Eldritches!" Maergron's surprise turned into terror as he activated all the defensive systems at once, knowing there was no time for finesse. "How could I miss it? How can the Council associate with them?"
Bytra and Zoreth wore cloaking devices and had hidden their strength while in the tunnels exactly to not spook their target. Being capable of killing your enemy was pointless if you warned him and gave him the time to run away.
The vegetation of the temple parted, revealing the presence of hundreds of plant-undead hybrids.
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