Thadeus began to recite scripture in a grandiose fashion, his voice loud and reverent, his smile as wide as it'd ever been. [color=aba000]"For the choir director. A Psalm of David. A Song. Let God arise, let His enemies be scattered,"[/color] His mana poured into his hands, and a mana circle with the hebrew name for God יְהוָ֥ה(Yahweh) appeared in the center of the golden circle that floated in front of his hands. [color=aba000]"And let those who hate Him flee before Him. As smoke is driven away, so drive them away; As wax melts before the fire, So let the wicked perish before God." [/color]The circle was completed and the power was almost charged to completion, but Thadeus wasn't content with only 90 percent of the power. So he recited the scripture and the verse, "Psalm 68 verse-"

One moment Thadeus was charging one of his grandest spells, but within the next moment he was interrupted by a blue comet smashing into him. Driving him back into the wall. His spell was interrupted as he found himself embedded into a crater into the wall behind him. Standing in front of him was Felix in his shining blue manaegis. Felix turned to face Nemo.

"Sorry it took me so long to get here, team. It took me a bit to get through a closed passageway, and I stopped a moment after discovering Artos had died there." Felix explained, "Is everyone else alright?"

Thadeus was winded and drained from the mana he exerted, so he remained in the crater, gathering his bearings for a moment. 

Then Thadeus retracted the mana he was using to keep up the arena and the barrier around the arena. The arena fell back down into the ground as if the ground had never been disturbed in the first place.

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Raiya walked over to her chain daggers that were still charged with the rune she placed. After examining them, she realized that Dominick must have used the last of his willpower to teleport through the the pain and motor-skill overload from the electrical charge. She quickly retracted the chain back to its small base form of 2 feet, and then stored the weapon in her mana inventory.

She stood up and stopped for a moment, realizing through the familiar feeling of the manawaves his manaegis gave off, that Felix had arrived. Then the arena fell around them. 

Every square around them looked well battled in, scorch marks and boulders everywhere. In fact, it looked as if Raiya's portion was the cleanest of them all. 

Raiya held her arms out in a T and flicked her wrists, her jacket materializing on her from her mana inventory. She reached behind her neck and pulled her hair free from behind her jacket, allowing it to fall behind her jacket. Then she began to walk towards Felix, Nemo, and Thadeus. 

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Thadeus used a warp spell and disappeared from the crater, reappearing next to Dawn. He grabbed her, and disappeared once more, reappearing on top of the balcony he had made and was sitting on earlier with Dawn kneeling next to him with her brother's dead body still on her lap. 

[color=aba000]"Well, I'd love to stay. But it does indeed appear we have been bested on this day. We shall regroup, revise our plan of attack, and be back for that Paragon."[/color] Thadeus licked his lips as if he hungered for that day to come quickly. [color=aba000]"Au revior!"[/color] He waved, as he wrote a glyph with his other hand opening a rift gate behind them. Both Dawn and Thadeus walked through it at the same time. Dawn cradling her brother's corpse. The rift closing as soon as they were through. 

Felix dispersed his manaegis, he was wearing his old robes again. He figured that his robes offered massive amounts of protection against magic, as well as lots of pockets to hold any manner of things they'd need on a mission. So he couldn't bring himself to throw out the robes just yet. 

Raiya walked up to the group. Her eyes narrowing a bit when she saw that Nemo was still alive. [i][color=ec008c]If Felix would have waited just a second more, I could flee this stupid operation and get back to what's really important.[/color][/i] Raiya thought. 

"Okay, so we are all accounted for except for Travis." Felix looked around, and saw Travis off far away, still facing an opponent. Felix raised an eyebrow. "Is that one of Thadeus's subordinates?" 

Felix ran off over to Travis, Raiya following behind. Felix noticed the exhausted blonde female who was still in a battle stance.

"It's over," Felix said, "There's no need to fight anymore."