220 Fire soul (1/2)
One one hand, she had many powerful allies on her side, the son of the living weapon, a master class ice mage, the niece of the crossbow girl who had access to mirror magic, her own group of fellow followers of the East, and her allied forces, the mages from Ashley's guild, as well as Ashley herself and her experience with strategies of war and her partner, Gustav, a man able to purify cursed beings with his blessed energy.
On the other hand, they were up against Mia, the descendent of the first red energy user, and her army of creatures and red mages.
Her creatures seemed to have no end to them as the more they killed, the more appeared, almost as if the woman had an infinite stock of these things just hiding in a basement, waiting for their turn to show up.
The red mages weren't all that hard to beat but since they were basically innocent civilians that were under the control of deceased spirits that were possessing their bodies, they had to be careful not to kill them by accident and focus on just destroying their staffs.
Two of them however were proving to be rather difficult to handle as they kept rampaging on the field with a giant water hydra that was taking more than half of Leona's troops to take it down.
Not to mention, Mia herself, despite seemingly staying busy with Evlin's niece right now, seemed like she was getting more and more unstable by the second.
Leona felt like there was an invisible time bomb about to go off at any moment now, and she wasn't sure if she would be ready when the time comes.
Right now, she was busy trying to stop the hydra, but her fire spells were showing little effect on the beast. And the more time passed, more of her allies kept falling, either being drowned by the living spell's water body or being stabbed by its frozen claws.
”Leona!! We need help!! This thing is not falling!!!” one of her soldiers yelled.
”Where are the thunder mages??” she replied.
”Many got injured by the demons and the golems!! We only have a couple of them left!!”
”Gather as many as you can and try to focus your attacks on the beast's core!! The rest of you, try to take the two mages controlling them down!” Leona ordered.
Her request was easier said than done though, as the two mages were hiding behind the hydra and blocking any attempt to strike them with her several of her heads.
”Leona!! Thunder magic is not working!! The beast is too big- Aaaarghh!!” one of her fellow followers shouted before getting pierced by an icicle that came out from the monster.
Leona gasped at the sight of her fallen comrade and realized she had no other choice besides trying to activate her usual combination of fire cloak and flaming gorilla to face the hydra.
Leona dropped on her knees as she realized that she and her group were almost all out of energy.
”Curses!!” she shouted as she punched the ground, ”Is there nothing we can do?? where is Marcus!??”
”He and the ice mage are still busy with the remaining demons!! What do we do!??” one of her allies shouted.
”What do we do...??” Leona whispered, ”what can we do...?”
It felt like the situation was hopeless. Leona realized that she had gotten too used to relying on Marcus and his power. She couldn't take care of this situation on her own. She and her team would fall.
”What can we do!!??” she shouted.
The hydra aimed one of its mouths at the fire mage and began to release a concentrated blast of water at her. Leona used her fire magic to burst herself out of the way and landed on top of a huge rock.
The monster's attack kept following her path and just used her burst once again to escape it. She saw the blast hitting the rock she was standing on completely shattering it into small fragments as if it was made of glass. One hit from that would probably kill her.
As Leona continued to run the hydra decided to focus more on her and several of her other heads started to try and shoot her as well.
She kept doing her best to dodge it but it was only a matter of time until her body ran out of power.
Ocassianlly she would try to fight back with a couple of fireballs, blazing spears, or beams of flames, but any fire spell she tried just vanished once it entered in contact with the hydra's body and turned into steam.
As she kept running away, she eventually met up with more monsters that were scattered across the field. The beasts spotted her and tried to pounce on the woman.
She was about to quickly dispose of them when someone jumped in the way and quickly delivered a series of punches in their bodies.
”What the...?” She gasped.
The man, who had blond hair and was wearing a couple of silver armor on his legs, turned around and looked at her, ”I'll deal with the small ones, you handle the giant!”
”Ah! Gustav!!” she said after recognizing him. She was surprised that he could fight so well.
The hydra finally managed to catch up to Leona and started to blast her with five of its mouths.
Leona tried to summon a wall of fire to intercept the attack, but she wasn't sure how long it would last.
”We have a problem!! This beast is not coming down as easily as the others!!” she explained.
”Damn it! If I could get closer to the mages I could just purify them!” Gustav commented.
”Purify?? Is that what you did just now?” Leona asked.
”Yes!” he responded while trying to deal with a few more monsters that kept approaching, ”I have a blessing from the south god that allows me to remove cursed energy from monsters and demons, as well as expel the spirits that are taking over a person...”