178 Everything in white (1/2)

The mage was carrying a staff that had been merged with a fake version of the living weapon himself and was now taking the form of a scythe surrounded by very deadly gusts of wind.

Lilith was dual-wielding two weapons made of blessed metal, a silver sword and a silver crossbow. One of these weapons was the son of her former boss, and the other was the niece of her very close friend.

As she kept holding the weapons, she started to feel power flowing through her body in ways she never felt before.

”This feels... Amazing...” Lilith commented while staring at her two transformed kids.

[Lilith... Are you ok!!??] asked a young female voice inside Lilith's head.

”Ellie?? Ellie is that you??”

[Yeah, it's me!]

”What are you doing here?? I told you to go with East!! This is dangerous!!”

[But... I wanted to hel-]

[Watch out!!] yelled Marcus, also inside Lilith's head.

The swordswoman observed the magician launching his wind scythe at her, and her first instinct was to activate her future sight to predict how to dodge that attack, but for some reason, her power felt much stronger than before as she not only could see the trajectory of the weapon, but it was also moving like it was in slow-motion.

Lilith could come up with twenty different ways to easily dodge that thing without a scratch. She adjusted her legs to prepare to run out of the way, but her speed was much stronger than before and she ended up almost smacking against a boulder.

”Whoa!!! Too fast!! Waaay too fast!!” Lilith gasped while doing her best to stop herself at the last second.

The magician recovered his staff by making the wind move the object back at him and prepared to launch it again.

[He can use magic even when he lets go of the staff??] Ellie questioned.

[This forest only projects the strongest warriors that try to enter it... This guy must be a master class mage...] Marcus replied.

Lilith kept observing her opponent and tried to predict the proper way to attack him after moving out of the way again and avoiding another attack.

She turned on her future sight but the ability was much stronger than she imagined as she kept seeing hundreds of hundreds of ways to proceed.

”Ugh!!!” she cried while closing both eyes immediately.

[Lilith!!] both Ellie and Marcus shouted, worried about her.

”Something is wrong... You two are boosting me too much... I can't control my power!!”

[Lilith!! Move!!] Marcus yelled again as he saw the mage flying at them and reading another blast of wind.

”Ugh!!” the mage muttered as he was struck.

[We landed a hit!! Keep going!!] Marcus encouraged.

Lilith followed his idea and changed her sword into another crossbow to double up the output of arrows.

The mage realizing he couldn't block these attacks decided to try and dodge them instead by making his wind magic move his body out of the way. He started to ricochet between the trees like a pinball while trying to avoid getting hit.

[How is he so fast??] Ellie asked.

[This guy is being boosted by my dad... I mean... My dad's memory... And, he uses the wind to increase his movement! Even if he's not as fast as us, he's still pretty damn agile...] Marcus explained.

”Then let's close our distance and strike before he can react!!” Lilith stated.

She then switched both crossbows into a pair of swords and began to rush towards the mage, who in turn started to unleash multiple waves of wind capable of slicing nearby trees into pieces.

Lilith used her future sight and saw how to dodge the waves, but she also felt her eyes hurting every time she did so. It seems like her super future sight provided by the power of two living weapons was causing some serious damage to her body, but she didn't care, protecting Marcus and Ellie was her top priority right now.

After she finally closed the distance she tried to stab the mage with both of her swords but the man was slightly faster and used his wind to raise himself towards the sky.

[Dang it!! So close!! How will we get him all the way up there??] Ellie asked.

[Maybe we can raise ourselves with your diamonds?] Marcus suggested.

”No way!! If Ellie goes back to her normal form, even for a moment, our speed will decrease and we will become an easy target for them!” Lilith declared.

[... Ellie... Can you still use magic while being a weapon...?] Marcus asked.

[!!]

”!!”

Both Lilith and Ellie had not considered that possibility. Ellie might be a weapon right now, but she's still a mirroring mage. Would she be able to use her spells in this form as well?

While the three discussed that idea, the mage started to prepare another wind spell to attack them with. Both of his arms were spinning the scyther at an incredible speed and making the clouds in the sky start circling his position as well.

A large tornado was taking place and the sky was becoming darker by the second while releasing small bolts of lightning. The mage was planning on dropping a storm on top of them.

”Guess we will find out!”

Lilith then aimed Ellie at the ground and changed her into a crossbow again. Ellie tried to focus and read Lilith's intentions and as the mage prepared to release his tornado on top of them, Lilith and Ellie shot the ground, making a huge pillar of diamonds appear that launched Lilith extremely high into the sky.