Once the ice-crystal beast woke up a screech emerged from it in response to its friends anger. The screech significantly dropped the surrounding temperatures causing even Alrin to feel a chill. As the screech continued its form was also shifting to that of a giant bird before. Once the screech ended it flew into the air causing everyone's eyes to focus on it.
While it did fly up it did not go up too high to avoid the battle between Silvia and the rat. It flew just high enough to get a view of the its surroundings and gain an understanding of the situation at hand. What is saw was five humans attacking its friend and out of the five it set its eyes one. This one was Alrin who had started climbing the beast trying to go for its head to take out its eyes. He was already very close to the head so the bird made Alrin its target.
With blistering speed the bird swooped down and grabbed Alrin with its talons. Alrin tried to hold onto the mammoth but he was still too weak if he had a bit more time with all the resources he got from Alara he could have greatly bolstered his strength. That was just his luck he did not have the time and now he was being held by the beast.
They all wanted to go try to help Alrin but the mammoth had begun to move once again and they could not afford to let it go wild.
"Deal with the mammoth I'll help Alrin." Alara said being the only one actually capable of effectively reaching the bird.
"Bring it down and we will switch my flames are better for it." Vera quickly said while Rex and Edward continued their attacks on the mammoth.
Alara began summoning petals in the sky creating platforms she could use to travel across.
While she was doing this Alrin was currently high in the sky being held on by the bird its talons piercing into his body but no blood dripped as his blood and body are being frozen.
He was strong enough to break the legs but as soon as he broke one it regenerated a moment later. Since that was the case he was about to use a large chunk of raw energy to blow it up with himself. It was truly unfortunate that he still lacked the ability to use external arts but he had to make do with what he had.
By the time he had gathered enough in his hand to blow them up his body had mostly frozen and Alara was about to show up.
"Use this chance!" He shouted at her not even giving her a chance to say anything back as a massive explosion engulfed him and the bird.
Alrin may have only been at the fourth core but due to his cultivation from Above Heaven Seal his total Sencia capacity was comparable to eight core cultivators and he had just half of it in one go. The force of the explosion had sent him flying away while the bird was still just barely in the air. Durability was not the birds forte so it had been even more destroyed than Alrin as it was just maintaining flight in the air.
"Alrin! Dammit you idiot!" She quickly summoned petals on the ground to gently catch Alrin before focusing on the bird. Half his body was gone and the rest of his bones were destroyed and while he was still conscious he would be out of the fight for a bit.
Alrin's attack had been powerful but it was only enough to destroy half its body and it was already recovering.
Alara immediately summoned flames around her like they were her petals. Her fire may not be as strong as Vera but it was still more effective against this type of beast that her lotus petals. She began firing her flames like a machine gun and each flame was hitting the bird with the speed and power one one.
Not one to take such an act lying down the bird immediately opened its mouth and fire ice energy at Alara overwhelming her fire attacks. Alara summoned petals to block the attack while continuing to fire bullets but the bird took the chance to rapidly descend.
Mid-descent the bird shifted forms into that of a tiger and crashed landed but immediately upon landing it began using the surroundings energy to rapidly heal itself.
Alara naturally could not keep up with its speed since she couldn't fly and had to make her descent using her platforms and while doing so she contacts Vera, "It landed switch."
"I can't Edward got hurt I'm going all out." Vera replied.
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Back to a few minutes after Alara went after Alrin. Rex tried to slow the mammoth by transforming the ground into mud with his earth script but mammoths earth ability was stronger and prevented it.
Luckily for everyone but one the beast was no longer going to be charging across the battlefield no now it was angry at him for injuring it.
Turning towards Edward it was furious and was going to try to impale him with its tusk. Vera and Rex tried to slow it down but without the extra help from Alara it was not by much even if it was injured.
"Run you idiot." Rex shouted seeing him try to face the mammoth.
"Dodge you can't handle it." Vera shouted.
Seeing the mammoth approach Edward had channel energy into his sword and swung it. He was aiming to take out its eyes with that attack but unfortunately missed. Since he missed he planned on using a flash to dodge out of the way but just as he was about to walls rose from the ground entrapping him and he could not flash through solid objects.
He had underestimated it causing a critical mistake. A mortal beast may not have had the intelligence of a human but that didn't make it a fool. It knew from plenty of experience how other beasts and humans would try to dodge so naturally it had learned to deal with that and that was Edward's mistake because it knew to also wait until the last moment.
It was too late for Edward to do anything but he did what he could he channeled as much energy as he could into his new sword jumping just before impact blocking as the mammoth came crashing through the wall. It's tusk hit the sword and if not for the fact this was made from the bone of a greater beast would have shattered but it didn't it endured the attack and prevented him from being impaled. Despite this the force of the attack sent him flying shattering both his arms and he began coughing up blood as he slammed against a tree in the distance.
"Fuck is that idiot still alive?" Rex said worried about him.
"He sent me a message he said he is still alive but needs a few minutes to heal." Vera said back to him.
He needed a few minutes to heal but that would not be easy to get as the mammoth was still angry. It did not care if Edward was alive or dead yet it was about to head to his body and stomp on it until it was satisfied.
"We have no choice but to go all out now." Vera said to Rex
"I really did not want to use this I only just started to get the hang of it." Rex complained.
Both Rex and Vera ate pills to push themselves to the limit and Vera made a move first being more experienced with the ability she was using. Like when she was fighting the nightmare beasts she was applying the flames to her body and for now it was just the wind flame.
After learning mind division formation cultivators had a similar ability they could learn since the script tattoos on their bodies were also cores. By changing the words of all the tattoo's to 'human' the tattoos for a short time would merge with the body but it would place a great strain on it. It needed mind division to maintain otherwise it would try to return to normal. Doing this would first strengthen his body to a level similar to that of body cultivators but it would also max out his connection with said elements for the duration giving his abilities a boost. Yet the most important thing was that it would also give his words power so instead of using a script his words would be given the power for the duration of its activation. The merger of the tattoos was painful but as soon as it was complete he made his move. The duration was short to begin with and with his lack of actual attainment in it, it was even shorter.
Just ahead of him Vera had was running along side the mammoth she gathered two flames orange and white in her hand forming a ball that she shoved into the wound Edward had made earlier. After a few seconds it blew up causing the mammoth to stumble but it did not fall. Since it was still standing Vera jumped up and punched it as hard as she could causing to fall over. Once it did fall she deactivated her wind flame to conserve energy.
Although it stumbled its leg was still their just heavily injured and using the chance where it was on the ground Vera wanted to completely blow up its leg. She gathered three flames this time and just as she was about to shove it in what was left of the leg a brown earth glow enshrouded the mammoth.
This protective barrier was something Vera could not easily get through. It was this moment Rex showed up and immediately took action.
"Prison, dispersion, absorption, barrier" It took a great deal of energy but Rex immediately trapped the mammoth and with the barrier in place Vera could also go in and use her flames.
Going in Vera immediately channeled her Earth, Wind, Fire, and Water flame into her body. The 4 basic elements when fused together generated a incredible amount of power it was also the reason you only needed 4 elements to become an immortal even if it was only a false one.
The power generated form fusing the 4 flames was so great that her body almost immediately exploded but she was just barely capable of sustaining it fully knowing her limits. Although she contained it her physical appearance was still altered by the power as her already muscular body greatly expanded causing her robes to look tight on her.
This prison was far larger than the last one Rex made not just because it had to be to contain the beast but because Vera was also about to go wild inside of it.
It was at this point she received Alara's message but could not afford to head over.