Breathing deeply, Verin flexed and relaxed his arm before standing. He hadn't been down long, but already the Wyvern had once again been engaged by both Chloe and Rurik. Both of which assaulted the beast via an impressive display of their proficiency with magic. However, just like before, they were each pushed back. Unfortunately, the moment Verin stood, the mountainous green beast had made him it's target.
Leaping agilely into the air, it roared as it barreled towards him. It's large wings spread open widely as it dive down upon him. More out of instinct than will, the young mage quickly leapt to his right. He completed his evasive roll just as its powerful hind legs clawed at the earth were he had just been. With an heavy bang, the Wyvern then landed, having been left without room to maintain a low altitude flight within the small clearing.
Without hesitation, he then pivoted as to once again face the beast. His crimson eyes slits as he stared daggers at the winged creature. Watching as it once again lowered itself onto all four limbs before finally turning to face Verin for the second time. Having noticed his sword protruding from the earth not two feet ahead of him, Verin had hoped he could slowly make his way to it. It was only after he had taken his first step, when the Wyvern had charged at him, that he quickly broke into sprint. Attempting to reach his polished black steel weapon before the monstrous lizard could reach him.
He would have too, were it not for a stretching horizontal slash from one of the beast's winged forward limbs. To close in proximity to successfully retreat, and left without time to effectively counter, Verin's only option was to evade. Hence he hastily jumped upwards in an attempt hurdle the Wyvern's attack. Still, he was too slow, and the was knocked off his balance as the lizard's claw skimmed the one of his feet. As a result, he landed on his back with a painful thud next to the large creature's feet.
Without thinking, he then inhaled, channeling his magic into his lungs as an black magic circle briefly appeared in the air just above his mouth. Realizing where he had landed, the Wyvern immediately pounced. Yet, just as it was about to claim victory with an heavy downward stomp, the magic circle vanished. Only to be replaced with an intensely hot torrent of black flame as Verin exhaled, releasing the spell he had been preparing since he first struck the ground.
The Flame God's Bellow. Even without an incantation, it instantaneously rocked the green giant, who quickly ducked it's head behind the set of wings it now used to block Verin's shadow-like flames. Loudly, it roared in defiance as the scorching fire began to burn both the skin and scales off of it's wings. However, it wasn't until the Wyvern had flinched, momentarily yanking open it wings as to save them from further damage, that the spell yanked the beast off of it's feet and sent it reeling away from the young mage. The creature had been launched about a meter into the air before it thunderously slammed against the hard earth a few feet away.
"We need to work together!!!" The words escaped him as he rose to his feet and began rushing back toward his comrades. Attentive eyes trained upon the beast the entire way. He had had to yell in order to be heard over the deep and menacing growls the furious Wyvern had now begun to make. As his eyes fell upon Chloe, something clicked, and an idea suddenly flooded his brain.
The Hammer. He had witnessed the way Chloe had used it to nearly beat the beast into submission. Alone, her attack had dealt more damage than any of the attack Rurik and himself had managed to throw it's way. Not to mention, that after what had just happened, Verin had proved it wasn't immune to the heat of his flames. A smile lined his face.
"Hey Chloe! Wha-do-ya think about introducing a hot hammer to it's face?"
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Within the confines of a large and stone walled cavern, Lilith sat mounted upon the corpse of a long deceased Mountain Vulcan. The former inhabitant of the spacious cave. Its corpse, in its entirety, dwindled away in a rot, causing the stench of death within the room to thicken and stain the immediate air around it. Just as its coagulated blood had stained the cold rock beneath it. Overhead, a single row of ten troches protruded, mounted upon the lip of an slightly elongated ledge. Her face hidden by the shadow of the aforementioned ledge, Lilith trained her disinterested gaze upon the five rune knight in restrains before her. Patiently, she waited to see if any were now willing to speak.
When they remained quiet, she idly flicked her wrist, instantly killing one of them. She sighed as he shrieked. With another flick of her wrist, his limp body fell to the floor.
It was gruesome, even worst than the others, as she had only broken the other two's necks. What had once been a human body was now only a bloody mound of broken flesh, weakly held together by the shattered pieces of bone protruding from it's exterior. Crossing her exposed long legs, the ginger-haired teen continued to look on. Silently pleased with the way the remaining men now frantically squirmed against their knotted restraints. Two of which were clearly on the verge of hurling up the contents of their stomachs, as they repeatedly made sounds reminiscent of gaging as a look of terror washed over each one's face. Maliciously, she then parted her lips. The innocently sweet sound of her voice only became eerily unsettling as her words left her lips.
"So extraneously pusillanimous. I grow weary of you pretentious hominids." She didn't say it, but Internally, Lilith now regretted having taken hostages. As they increasingly proved to be little more than an waste of her time. Thus, it was with a forward thrust of her left hand that she sent the one of the more unshaken men soaring towards the cavern's far wall. There, he splattered against the stone with a sickening crunch, nigh-exploding in a misted burst of bone and blood.
Lilith, whose petite yet curvaceous figure now twisted in search of an more comfortable position in which to sit, now leaned forward. Revealing herself under the dim light. Though still cross-legged, the eighteen-year-old's head now rested upon a closed fist. Her arm's elbow seated upon left thigh. Her moderate but heavy chest threatening to fall out of her yellow tank-top as she moved hair long pinkish-red hair behind an ear, and out of her face. Her lower half covered by an mostly hidden pair of tight white short-shorts. She would have definitely have been considered attractive, were it not for the black tendril shaped marks spread across her flesh, and her threateningly blanked face.