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[center]"I am surrounded by morons."  -Magnus the Red, 2017.[/center]

[center][h2]- Area 2 -[/h2][/center]

The response was about as expected, coming from a ragtag bunch of clueless animals that had no idea how to identify their enemy from a hole in the ground. Anything red with horns and magic was probably the cliche antithesis of whatever gods they were worshipping. Trying to reason with them was ultimately pointless. Magnus would just have to dispatch them and hope this world had more intelligent forms of life to offer. 

The first to charge in was the little girl, blithely denying the existence of the Imperium ironically when one of its members was floating weightless in a bubble right in front of her. Her Angel Cut attack from the front was watched with only bland disinterest, the light energy deflecting off the daemon prince's armor with a chink sound, as predicted. 

Magnus narrowed his single eye at her with a disapproving frown. However, being unfamiliar with these beings, he didn't anticipate the second attack from the phantom half of the girl who had jumped space to behind him. She slashed with two weapons at the back of his legs, which were in easier reach for her small stature. The first weapon, Hakurouken, as ususal, passed through the armor like it wasn't even there, but rather than cutting spirit, it found simply nothing, revealing that this Red King had no soul. The second blade, however, faired far better than any material weapon could ever hope to have achieved. Roukanken actually cut through the daemon primarch's armor. 

It was a small cut, leaving a minor defect in the warp-magic infused material, but it drew blood on the other side, instantly alarming Magnus at the incredibly unexpected wound. He gasped in surprise, and as an immediate reaction, expelled a powerful wave of force from his being, violently throwing the girl a hundred meters away into the side of a building with a strength that would have killed most humans. Perhaps Ryu's shield would have saved her. Her ghost form however might not have been affected. 

This unexpected blast would also hit Luffy and Ryu, pushing them back, throwing them, or knocking them prone, depending on their resistances to it. Luigi was of course protected inside Magnus' chaos sphere. 

Magnus growled. Of course, his deamon form healed instantly, but a weakness had been exposed. He had been wrong to underestimate his opponents weapons once before, and he was quickly reminded of that. "Very well. I see you have chosen..." Promptly, he began casting, waving his free hand in the air before him while uttering a language none could decipher. 

Luffy struck out his long black arm and found that he could not penetrate inside the chaos sphere with it, but he could loop his arm around it and grab it. Magnus inclined his head toward the very strange arm as it began to pull on Luigi's magical prison. He finished his cast and began a tug of war with his will to keep the orb against Luffy's strength.

As his cast finished, long eel-like ethereal, glowing arms or snakes sprouted out of the space around the sorcerer king's body. They writhed and snapped their jaws at anything daring to get near Magnus. He sent one of the warp-magic tentacles to attack Ryu and one to clamp its shocking jaws onto Luffy's long arm. Flying at Ryu, the thing snapped at him and writhed to encoil him and his weapon. The holy power of the sword seemed to fend the creature off, but it kept trying to snake around behind him for a bite. 

Now terrified by what he perceived to be a mutant human attacking his chaos ball, Luigi initially appeared to be freaking out. Nonetheless, he calmed himself then took a random shot at Magnus. The weapon fired and the projectile did pass through the sphere, only to vanish out in the distance somewhere uselessly while leaving Luigi spinning randomly in a zero-g environment. Magnus sighed heavily at spinning, cursing, wild ball of Imperial chainsaw that was his interrogation subject. ... >>

While the snakes kept the several heroes busy, Magnus began his interrogation. Luigi's insane spinning abruptly stopped as he was halted mid-air perfectly upright. "Where is the Imperium, human! ... When did you arrive on this world, and with how many ships? Talk. Now. Or I will start killing people."