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Meruin paused, thinking over their propositions. They needed more info if they wanted to effectively challenge Chase. Just when she was about to speak, Sol decided to go ahead on his own and her words turned into a cry of shock.

"Wait, Sol-!" It was too late by then, however, and he was gone.

With a sigh, Meruin spoke hurriedly. "We have to catch up to him, so we better make this fast. Firstly, Lady Chase is severely restricting herself, and I've heard her use the term 1/1,000,000,000 - this is by no means an accurate representation of how much she is limiting her abilities. The only thing that phrase means is that she will not be using her Aeon to fight us."

She looked at Deus and Marcus, who were probably unaware of what the word Aeon entailed.

"An Aeon is the pinnacle of mastery of a single practice," said Meruin, simplifying the explanation - there would be time for a more detailed one later, if they were curios. "All mastery leads to one of four Aeons: Destruction, Creation, Existence and Void. This is moot point though, seeing as I am ninety-nine percent sure that Lady Chase will not be using her Aeons. Instead, I highly suspect that she will be fighting us with her original specialty: Fire magic."

Meruin pursed her lips in apprehension. "In a way, this might be even more terrifying. Did you know her Title, back before she was known as 'The Empress of Destruction'? It was 'The Winter Witch' - her fire spells devastated whatever they touched and literally burned out all that could be burned, including atmosphere. Lady Chase, whenever she was serious back then, left the sun blocked out and everything cold. She burned out heat in the atmosphere and created artificial winters."

A flame so hot that it turned everything around it to ice. That was Chase's flame!

"Her favorite tactic is definitely going to be heavily on the offensive and . . . bombardment. Not good, I had forgotten about that. Listen, whatever we do, let's try to avoid sticking together. It's risky, because we can't cover each others backs, however, it's not worth having all of us get taken out in one go. Your smokescreen idea is good, Ryan, but we can't rule out the fact that Lady Chase might not even choose to look through the smoke screen and simply destroy everything around her in one go."

She paused for a few moments, considering their options. Ideas and parameters jumped into her head as she wildly sought the best path to victory.

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Chase floated lazily in the air, humming to herself with her eyes closed. A single eye lifted open as she felt Sol arrive at the scene. Being herself, of course she could sense what Sol was doing to the time around him. She grinned to herself.

[color=gold]"What a kid. My initial estimation of him has gone up a few notches,"[/color] she said, before frowning. [color=gold]"If only he was working with the others, then perhaps it would get higher. Well, perhaps this is a part of their plan."[/color]