As the others are still levitating in the air they ready their weapons for any signs of Moria in her quarters, but they only see a very large room big enough to house thousands of colossal giants, as there is water everywhere.
"She is definitely gonna use the water to warp out of here"
"That would not be the case, she already anticipated us heading to her lair, what else could she be planning" but then the water started to show a reflection of Moria as she started to talk to them from the reflection within the water.
"Did you really think you can just waltz yourselves into my quarters while being my captives, that's nothing but disrespectful of you all, especially you Ezrael. The abandon dragon who got hated by his kind for being different, that does sound familiar"
"To you everything is off" Ezrael raising his voice at bit only towards Moria.
Then suddenly the water began to glow brightly and as the water soon begins to ripple, Moria leaps from the water. She managed to leap over everyone falling behind them as she uses her spear as she decapitates both of Jin's wind construct as she lands into the water. But with Jin's wind constructs gone it disabling their levitation as they fall to the ground, Ezrael was quick to sprout his wings and grabs Ralian and Gale landing them safely onto the watery surface.
"Great without Jin's wind we're sitting ducks"
"Then its better if we improvise".
They both see the water glowing below them, they quickly tried to embrace Moria's attack, but she appeared behind them as she punches Ralian and pushes Gale onto his back. Ralian quickly fired an arrow at Moria as she was quick, using her water warp to dodge her attack as she begins to prepare her next attack. But Ezrael brings out a silver amulet and places it almost submerging it in the water as Moria resurfaces feeling her senses irritated, screaming in pain.
"Not again with the stupid trinket!" she quickly grabs the trinket and throws it away, but Ezrael quickly flew to grab the amulet.
"Now!" Ezrael shouted giving the others the opportunity to attack Moria. Ralian then fires a few arrows at Moria but she quickly deflects her arrows with her spear, but still feels irritated by the amulet affects.
"We don't want her to use her voice, find a way to keep her mouth shut"
"I know what to do guys" Gale quickly charges towards Moria grabbing a rag from their cowl as they attempt to wrap her mouth with the rag. But Moria quickly retaliates giving out a scream but Gale reacted quick enough to form their ears into nothing as Gale tries to approach Moria they were soon kicked and pushed away.
"You Changeling, do you really think you can form yourself into a deaf person and think that can defeat me".
Gale can't understand what she is saying to them, but can already guess their pretty hurtful words for Gale as they are still trying their best to cover her mouth. Then Moria quickly leaps away from Gale to get some distance away from the others as she started to make the water glow all around her, as it doesn't seemed to be the same as her water warping magic.
"You may try to thwart me at every turn. But not today, I will have my feast!" With all her might she then coagulate the water around her and it begins to rise and forms itself into a large sea serpent the size of titans as they stand in shock while she smiled deviously.
Meanwhile in the long hallways of the dungeon, Jin is fighting the Unknown giving everything he has to offer to defeat the Unknown summoning forms of blast conjugated into cyclones, hurricanes, tornadoes, even vortex's. But it is going through the Unknown's body like it was not even there and the Unknown is slowly catching up to Jin as he summons a burst of wind to go even faster.
"Dang, how can I defeat someone that wind can go through with ease".
But the Unknown that focus his breath and unleashed a powerful blasting roar beams at Jin as he tries to make a current to redirect the roar. As he focus the wind against the blast, but it went through his current as it made contact with Jin feeling the full force of the blast, as it vibrates throughout his body as it pushes through a few walls. He only got minimal damage making a wind barrier behind his back to take the full force of the wall but falls to the ground feeling exhausted. Jin slowly gets up but the Unknown quickly catches up to him and punches his face as he swings him towards the right launching him into a table, coughing a bit of blood from that attack as he tries to throw his boomerangs as he summons more wind constructs attacking him. Then flies upwards and charades towards the Unknown, creating wind slashes with the wave of his hand at the Unknown. But none of his attacks seems to connect, he then tries to summon a large wind construct but it can't get a hold of the Unknown.
"What? How can I beat someone who's intangible to my attacks. And this has to be one of the hardest things I ever had to fight" Jin thinks to himself.
Then the Unknown started to charge another roaring blast and he sees a bright light forming within his mouth. "That's it, maybe there's a time when things need to shut up!" Jin's eye's begins to glow brightly as he forms a ball of wind large enough to fit into the Unknown's mouth as he throws it, covering the Unknown's mouth as it was about to unleashed it attack. But it exploded at the Unknown's face feeling the pain of his own attack exploding in front of him.
"Yeah now that more like it" Jin ready to block the next attack the Unknown was about to give, but the Unknown gave him nothing but a stern look and tries to make himself intangible but couldn't his body is now physical.
"What's wrong can't go ghost on me now" as his eyes glows brightly wind surging around his body as he summons more wind construct and charged towards the Unknown. Using all his might to form a large wind construct using most of his powers as he then launch a punch as the large wind construct does as well hitting the unknown with one strong single strike as it crashes throughout the entire village. Jin was prepared to use another attack, but then he notice that The Unknown was knocked unconscious.
"You've got to be kidding me, well I now know how it feels to be Venny. Don't want him to hear that" he chuckled a bit. But he then suddenly felt a slight pain underneath his right gauntlet. Jin never felt the pain before as it felt like his insides were cracking, he then slowly took off his right gauntlet, only to be horrified from the sight that his right hand suddenly has cracks around his hand and it seemed to be growing further.
"What the windbag!?" Jin seeing his arm as if he got an infection. But the thought had to be quickly ignored as he knows his friends needs his help. He tries to levitate but the pain suddenly keeps spreading, he stops and looks down at his hand to only see that the cracks seemed to be spreading. "Well that can't be good." he muttered to himself, "I guess I can only do it the old fashion way" Jin begins to run trying to find himself as to where they are fighting at.
Then back at Moria's quarters, Ralian, Ezrael, and Gale are trying their best to dodge the sea serpent's attacks as each attack it makes from a high concentrated beam of water, creates deadly swirling waves. But they also need to worry about Moria also attack them while they dodge the attack form the sea serpent.
"Ugh, this is going nowhere. We need to take out the source!" Ralian's hands started to crackle with lightning.
"Ralian don't or you'll kill us and every civilian here". Ezrael giving an order to Ralian scoffing as the cackling lightning on Ralian's hands started to diminish.
Moria seeing Ralian lowing her attack took this opportunity to strike, throwing her spear at Ralian. Ezrael quickly shouted at Ralian to dodge, but Ralian didn't notice it in time and tried to dodge the attack. But someone moved in front of her taking the spear as it pierced through their abdomen. It was Gale taking the spear into his abdomen as blood is spilling out of this injury.
"Azulen!" Ezrael, shouting Gale's name as Ralian was shocked, catches Gale without thinking.
"Ralian! heal Azulen!".
Ralian quickly started to use her healing magic to heal Gale's wounds, while Ezrael then pulls out the chain sickle as he leaps towards the water construct sea serpent swinging the chain. Moria commanded the water construct sea serpent to fire multiple water shaped spikes at Ezrael. But he started to swing the chain sickle violently as he is deflecting the multiple water spikes.
"Oh, did the little dragon warrior, get himself a new sets of blades and chains how fitting." Moria mocking Ezrael for having a new weapon, but he doesn't respond as he flies towards Moria and spins while throwing the sickle towards Moria as she tried to deflect the attack. But Ezrael quickly formed his feet into talons as he grabs Moria pulling her away from her water construct sea serpent as it disintegrated back into water and Ezrael threw Moria downwards hitting the ground as she began to laugh maniacally.
"Man I haven't had this much fun all the way back when we first met at the forest" Moria continues to talk to Ezrael, trying to geta reaction, but still Ezrael doesn't respond.
"What's wrong did I caught your proud tongue. Or was because I attack your little changeling companion over there" as she grabbed her spear in the water dipping with Gale's blood as she licks the blood off the blade of the spear.
"Now there a interesting taste no wonder the mistress was looking for changeling"
Ezrael eyes widen quickly as he charges towards but she immediately uses her water warping to dodge Ezrael's attack. "I saw that look, are you afraid, or do I smell fear. Never thought a brave warrior could be such a coward". Ezrael does not speak to Moria but is only charging towards Moria as she keeps using her water warping magic.
"Are you just not going to be boring and swing relentlessly?" But suddenly she notice her senses started to get irritated, she looks down to see the amulet is right next to her, quickly she used her spear and thrown it away from her.
"Did you put that trinket there on purpose!" but Ezrael still doesn't give Moria a response, suddenly Moria started to get frustrated at Ezrael calm demeanour and not responding to any of her questions.
Moria done with their ignorant behaviour towards her, she then recreates the giant sea serpent and commands the giant sea serpent to create a massive geysers of water from it's mouth. "Hope you like what you wanted! I will get the reaction of fear once you all are dead!" and makes it aims it towards Ezrael and the others hooping to end them all quickly.
But then as Ezrael kept his calm demeanour, Ezrael's crystal necklace started to glow as his appearance started to change. As he takes a deep breath, then his insides started to glow throughout his body with a blazing heat as fire slowly ignited from his mouth. With one deep breath he exhaled unleashing a powerful bright white fire that engulfs the geysers and before it hits Moria she tried one last effort using the body of the giant sea serpent made of water to protect her from the fire. But she did not anticipate that his white flame was able to even evaporate the watery body of the giant sea serpent. As Moria was pushed her away as she was overwhelmed by Ezrael's fury, and the titan sea serpent it soon dissolved back to water as Moria was defeated.
(end of chapter 38)