173 Divided we stand (1/2)

Part 1

Marceus and his group were all staring at the wall of diamonds that just appeared out of nowhere and separated Mia and one of the knights from the rest of his group.

They were waiting for Mia to use her blessing to make the diamonds go away but nothing was happening, which made Marceus decide to try and handle the wall himself by turning his arms into a pair of blades and began to ready himself to slash the construction into pieces.

But before he could finish his act, a rain of silver arrows began to fall from above. Marceus noticed the wave of projectiles coming right at him and began to leap out of the way with a few quick side steps.

He looked up and noticed a girl with long black hair wearing a baseball hat and a lad with silver hair on top of the wall. They both appeared to have transformed their arms into metal crossbows and were unleashing a barrage of silver arrows on his group like there was no tomorrow.

Marceus quickly moved towards his teammates to make a protective shield for them using his blessed metal.

The lad and the girl suddenly began to aim at the wind mage that was right behind him, forcing Marceus to approach him in order to keep him safe.

”Now!! Go, now!!” the girl shouted.

”On it!!” the lad replied.

He suddenly stopped shooting and changed his arms from crossbows into blades and began to rush down the diamond wall with lightning speed.

Marceus noticed that he was coming fast towards him and his blade and the shield Marceus created clashed with each other. The young lad was rushing with so much intensity that he ended up pushing Marceus back several meters away from his group, dragging the wind mage with him in the process.

”Ellie! This is your chance!!” the lad shouted.

”I know!!” the girl yelled back.

She then slammed her palms into the diamond wall which made even more pillars of diamonds start to appear and proceed to circle the members of the group that were left behind.

Ellie looked behind her and spotted Lilith and Mia at the bottom of the other side of the wall facing each other. Meanwhile, Marcus continued to drag the projection of his father and the mage as far away from the rest of the group as he could with sheer brute force.

All that remained was the projection of Evlin and the other two knights.

”All pieces are now in place...” mentioned a voice behind Ellie. The girl turned around to spot Detra by her side on top of the wall, ”Are you ready?”

”...I think so...” Ellie responded. She stared down at the three warriors down below who were just waiting for her to come down so they could completely trash her.

”Mmm... Thinking back... Maybe having you perform in a three on one duel might not have been my best idea...” Detra whispered.

”Just relax and tell me what to do... We can do this!”

”Ok. Here I go then... Wish me luck!”

Ellie jumped out of the wall and began to dive towards her enemies. Evlin's memory aimed her crossbow at her and tried to shoot the girl with a blast of raw magic energy.

Ellie reacted by raising her palms and mirroring Mia's blessing that allowed her to swallow the energy and converted it into power for herself.

”Thanks, fake young aunt Evie!” Ellie shouted as she kept falling.

The two knights began to approach her with their swords ready to stab her but the girl mirrored Lilith's future sight to predict how their attacks would go and switched her arms into blades to block them as she landed.

She then pushed the two of them back and began to rush towards Evlin. The crossbow mage used her healing magic to boost her own speed and moved out of the way while Ellie passed by her.

She expected Ellie to try and attack but she just kept running getting farther and farther away.

The warriors using their silver swords and Evlin using her healing magic all began to give chase after Ellie, not realizing that this was her intention as she kept splitting their group apart even more.

Part 2

Marcus kept pushing the projection of his father as far away as he could and successfully managed to get him out of the range of the other knights.

Marceus showed that he was finally tired of the lad's little game and undid his metal shield instead opting to make a pair of blades just like Marcus himself.

The man raised his arms and right after that quickly began to drop them on top of the lad as if it was a guillotine.

Marcus noticed the incoming strike dashed to the side to successfully escape its trajectory.