[h3][center]Frenzy Plant's Elite[/center][/h3]

In their bastion in the sky, the soldiers waited.  Dmitri could only do so a short time before he ground his teeth.  [color=E32636]”Why aren't they doing anything?  Barely anyone's moved!”[/color]  Scarcely had the words left his mouth than he narrowed his eyes, having spotted a black stream on the move.  Only one person's impetuousness and magic suited that oncoming haze.  [color=E32636]”Ah!  Spoke too soon.  First on the chopping block's none other than Nolan Waltz himself!”[/color]

Zander snatched up his blade, having come to the same realization only a second sooner, and leveled in in the God Slayer's direction.  [color=E0115F]”The very one we wanted to take out as fast as possible...and all alone, it looks like.  Yet it can't be this easy.  He must know we know that his power increases as he gets angry and hyped up.  To try and take us on by himself right at the start...be on your guard.”[/color]

A fiery stone finger was outstretched as Dmitri pointed.  [color=E32636]”Look!  He's not alone.  Firebird's coming along for the ride.”[/color]  He shrugged.  [color=E32636]”Makes sense that the two fliers would attack together.  Still, makes our job a hell of a lot easier.”[/color]  His veins began to glow with volcanic heat.  Taking his cue, Owen took the opportunity to couch his rapier in order to cast a spell.  Neither of them took any notice of the ashen orbs hurtling toward the Howling Djinn's Keep.  Not even Zander, most careful and deliberate of protectors, paid it any mind.

At the very bottom of the tower, a lone woman watched from the floating fort's doorless entryway.  Flamberge in one hand and parrying dagger in the other, she glared at Nolan and Penny when they launched an attack.  Her eyes tracked the fire-infused projectiles as they drew ever near her, and Hyun muttered to herself, [color=DA70D6]”The insolence of it.  Instantly splitting up and trying to attack us when we've got every advantage...what do you take us for!?”[/color]  She assumed a pure offensive stance, holding her jagged sword above her head.  [color=DA70D6]”Maybe this will teach you imbeciles the price of arrogance.”[/color]  With a kiai, she swung her blade, and a wave of white distortion passed from the metal into the air.  It traveled quickly, leaving no trace in its wake, and it grew in size as it did.  Nolan's ash orbs, with Penny's explosive flames hidden inside, screamed toward Frenzy Plant's tower, but when they collided with Hyun's wave they fizzled out like candles snuffed out between someone's fingers.  All they could do was hiss weakly before vanishing, completely nullified.

Though they almost certainly couldn't see her from this distance, Hyun gave the two members of Phoenix Wing a condescending smile.  She lent an ear to listen, and in quick succession heard her allies call out,

[color=FF6347]“Steel Sky!”[/color]

[color=E32636]“Hekaton Meteor!”[/color]

[color=E0115F]“Scarlet Sunbeam!”[/color]

The air glimmered in a broad area around Nolan and Penny.  Magic circles appeared by the dozen, and from each protruded a long rapier blade.  Quite suddenly, the sky around them was filled with spikes.  From his position atop the Howling Djinn's Keep, Owen watched carefully, ready to summon walls of spike-protruding magic circles from afar in order to cut off a foe's attempt at escape.  At the same time, Dmitri brought to life six flaming magic circles, from which launched large hunks of molten rock at high speed.  Barely contained in solid, meteor-like form, they would return to lava if subjected to any trauma.  Like cannons firing in sequence these circles launched the meteors at the area defined by Owen's bladed boundary.  The icing on the cake was Zander; his outstretched ruby sword began to glow with brilliant red light, and from its end burst a laser beam about six inches in diameter that effortlessly closed the distance between the warriors of the two guilds.  Though difficult to aim at this range, the Scarlet Sunbeam would not be fun for anyone hit by it.  Just as planned, the enemy fliers were in a predicament: in order to avoid the agonizing heat of meteor and laser alike, they would need to dodge or counterattack.  Any dodging risked impalement on Owen's floating remote blades, however, and any counterattacking meant either spreading lava or attempting to take the brunt of a concentrated laser straight on.  All the while the tower floated closer.  By now, it had left the arena, much to the chagrin of the captivated audience.

Hyun continued to observe, ready with her blades to cancel any more magic attacks that came her guild's way.  She wondered what the enemies would do to counter three calculated spells at once, but she figured they'd find a way somehow.  Still, the absolute defense her Nullification Magic afforded her guild plus the brutal ranged offensive of her allies, which many might have underestimated, added up to a seemingly flawless strategy.