Handikiz began to laugh at their most foolish actions to date as he began charging a fireball spell towards them. While two living armor guards started to stand behind him as they prepared to battle the others while they are approaching the others with the intent to operantly take them out.
"You think you can just barged in, and take down me once more! No today this will be different, it will bathe in your blood!" As the fireball spell he was charging started to change it's colour from a bright orange to a darker orange then to a darken red with the slim glimmer of orange in the middle. As he fires the fireball spell as them.
"everyone move!" Gale quickly gets in front of everyone and pull out their shield as Gale brace for impact against the fireball creating a large impact upon contract to Gale's shield. Gale though it would be easy to block the attack but it was more powerful than Dani's fireball spell. As Gale felt their feet suddenly lift from off the ground and was then knocked back, crashing through many bookshelves and get covered in rubble.
"Gale!" Ralian shouted her friend's name as she quickly heads to aid her friend but stopped in shock as she witness living armor beside her.
"Ralian wait, taking out multiple living armor requires lightning. We may can destroy a few with our powers, but only lightning can permanently take them out"
"how many times do I have to tell you, I can't use lightning!"
Suddenly Ralain heard a rattling sound began to quake upon the amour and it pulls out it's sword and charges towards Ralian. Ralian tried to react quickly enough but is still locked in her place and taken a slash on her side spitting out a bit off blood while falling to his knees.
"Ralian" the others sees Ralian onto his knees they try to help but their attention are focus onto Handikiz, as Jin, and Venny uses powerful attacks using a mixture of blood and wind heading towards Handikiz. But he cast a barrier on himself to block their attack, Jin and Venny take no hesitation and leaps towards Handikiz as they attempt to fight him at every corner of the castle crashing though many walls as they fight. While Dani is trying to catch up to her friends.
Soon Ralian is then grabbed by her neck by the living armor now with no one around to aid her, and Gale still weakened by handikiz fireball spell trying their best to get out of the rubble. Ralian has no choice but to fend for herself.
Quickly she grabbed one of her arrows laced with seed and jams it inside of the neck of the living armor and immediately active all the seed to sprout vines within the armor and all the way towards the hand that was hold Ralian by the neck as her vines destroyed the inside of the living armor hand and letting it let go of Ralian and falls to the ground. While the rest of the vines destroy the rest of the armor, as she still agonizes in pain from her wound gasping for air after the gauntlet from the living armor almost choked her out.
But is quick to heal herself with her healing magic though still bearing the pain of the aftermath after healing herself.
"Gale... are alright" as she tries to call to her friend in the rubble.
"Ralian is that you? Sorry for getting you worried, I hope all this knowledge isn't killing me. it's actually a bit comfy here" Ralian chuckles a bit at Gale's sudden innocence.
"Oh you, stay where you are Gale, I'll get you out and heal you, then we can assist the Crusaders". As Ralian tries to go towards Gale she suddenly sense three more living armor approach her way towards her.
Ralian fires a few bomb arrows towards the three leaving armor and exploding towards their target, but the living armors were unscathed by Ralian's attack. Ralian started to get startled by them but then uses the vines that were on the broken piece of amour and commands her vines to attack the other living amour as it sprout thorns from the vines and tangled the first living armor and successfully destroying it.
"Yes take that Jin and you said using lightning is the only element that can permanently take them out. But the strength of those vines are enough to let them rust" Ralian quickly celebrates and tries to to destroy the other living armors even cackles by accident. Though she quickly shrugs of that feeling as to not feel something superior but still needs to continue the fight.
As she tries to summon more vines against the living armor, she was shocked to witness all her vines were destroyed with few sharp cuts from the living armor's swords as they seemed to be learning from her attacks. Ralian shocked to see that living armor has their own life of intelligence she was then quickly back into a fright as her only way off destroying the living amour with the vines are now gone, and she couldn't react quick enough for the living armors to launch consecutive punches and a kick to the stomach.
Then made her fall down, and another kick and moves her a couple distance away from them as she suddenly had gotten a vision of her past though some were quite unpleasant towards her.
As all their attacks are nothing but reminders of unfortunate events that happened to her in both her homelands and the outside world. The sight of her former self being bullied for being different in front of the other Druid. Her being treated differently due to her appearance with her antlers taking a different shape on top of her head and having to hide her appearance from society. But from all her journey with Gale the one she trusted the most, she was slowing regaining her self identity slowly, by the friends she made along her journey. Though experiencing the ups and downs of her own story from betrayal and trust, she never lost sight of herself in any lesser dangers she could ever think of. But it was mostly thanks to her own decisions of having complete control over her own life instead of learning the basic and wanting to experience everything from a different view.
Those quick thoughts stirring within her reliving all her trauma of her past her body started to tingle a bit as her hands started summon sparks and her eyes started to spark as well. Raising her hands crackling with electricity as she launch them forward as a large burst of lightning are unleashed upon the living armors, as her rage is calling out to her. Her fury created by those memories, the ones where she couldn't do anything, couldn't bare to stand up for herself at the time, but the new feeling is different as she completely takes into her anger. Shouting to the top of her lungs and destroying the two living armor approaching her decimating until they were noting but parts and dust.
(End of chapter 16)