218 Aggravation of chaos (2/2)

Ellie looked in the direction she was staring at and noticed that the red glows on the eyes of her army were all vanishing.

”What did you do...?” Ellie wondered.

Mia smiled at her, ”You should be honored! You just gained my undivided attention!!”

Mia stepped on the ground and a small earthquake was released making its way towards Ellie. The girl saw the earth shaking and quickly dodged out of the way as her future sight alerted her that a massive diamond pillar was about to erupt aimed at her head.

She backflipped a couple of times to gain some distance and the second she landed on the floor, she copied Mia's move and stomped the terrain to force a wave of diamond pillars to appear and try to pierce her.

Mia saw the incoming attack and barely moved. She just smiled and raised her arms to reveal a pair of mouths in her palms, proceeded by swallowing up the magic on Ellie's diamonds, making them turn into regular rocks and crumble.

”It seems like you have improved a bit... but not by much...” Mia taunted, ”I spent the last two-hundred years fighting demons and monsters every day and night without resting... You won't take me down with a simple diamond spell!”

The nightmare queen punched the ground and a large number of vines started to appear and attempted to wrap themselves around Ellie.

The girl turned her left arm into a blade and slashed every single one of them in a matter of seconds.

One of the vines, however, survived and tried to strike her in the back, but Ellie saw it coming with her blessed eyes and moved in an arc to cut the vine right in the middle.

”Good for you... I just spent a whole month training with the world's greatest swordswoman, a master-class ice magician, and the son of the living weapon! Without resting!!” Ellie responded while shifting her focus towards Mia again, who just reacted with a grin as usual.

Gustav, who was on a front-row seat to behold the entire battle, could not believe his eyes. He heard that Evlin's niece was a mage and that she would be the one to actually face Mia, but he didn't expect her to perform that well.

”Amazing...” he whispered as he felt for a moment he was in the presence of Evlin herself while looking at Ellie's expression of resolution.

He quickly had to turn away though, as he heard the sound of screams coming from his fellow troopers.

The creatures and the red mages started to act again, except this time they were just rampaging randomly over the field with no clear target in mind.

”What!!??” Gustav gasped.

The war had started once again, but now it had turned from a battle of strategy to absolute chaos. The monsters weren't trying to march to the other side of attempting to target the mages from Ashley's guild or the East followers, they were instead trying to eat the possessed mages.

Leona and her group were forced to intervene as she knew these were innocent people being controlled by Mia and was forced to stand in between them. The only problem was, although the mages were no longer under Mia's control, they still were spirits inside the bodies of civilians, so they had no reason to fight on her side either, and once they realized where they were, they all just panicked and started to attack everyone as well.

”Oh no...” Gustav whispered, [Ashley!! Are you seeing this??]

Ashley felt the telepathic message Gustav tried to deliver and gave her response, [How could I not?? Things somehow managed to get even worse than before!!], she responded while glaring daggers at Detra.

The former goddess herself just sighted and began preparations to return to the fight.

With the creatures rampaging they had little options besides finishing off every single demon and monster, as well as rescuing the captured individuals from Evlin's city.

[Gustav! I need you to reunite with our group and form a small purification team to help you free the imprisoned souls!!] Ashley stated.

[Understood!! But what about the rampaging monsters??]

Ashley spotted one of her allies coming out from the recovery unit, which by this point was packed with wounded soldiers and mages, and marched right back into action after charging himself with energy from an absorbing crystal.

It was Marcus, finally up again.

She also ordered Detra to take a crystal as well and reunite with him. Detra nodded and rushed to the side of her son and once they saw the chaos spreading, decided to unite their forces for the first time ever since they met.

[Don't worry about that! I'm sending two of our heavy-hitters to handle the job!] Ashley explained.

Gustav wondered what she meant by that until he finally saw it, the former goddess of the East, returning to the fight with a metallic silver staff and unleashing her frozen magic over the rampaging creatures.

”Are you ready? My champion?” Detra asked.

Marcus felt insulted for a second but then he realized that this was her idea of a sense of humor and just went along with it [As I will ever be, my goddess!]

The two laughed and started their own rampage against the enemies.