225 Show them who you are! (1/2)

”Wraaghhhh!!!!” she cried as she released her power.

Ellie trembled for a moment but she quickly decided to take a deep breath and raised her left arm to absorb her blast.

She managed to succeed for a bit, but Mia's power just continued to come until Ellie couldn't take it anymore.

The mirror mage changed her strategy and pushed herself out of the way when she realized that the energy would be too much for her to absorb.

She then dashed towards the red beast and stabbed her torso with her diamond claw.

”GRRRAAAAAHHH!!” Mia screamed as the weapon pierced her insides.

[It worked!!] Marcus realized.

”No, it didn't!!” Ellie corrected while using her future sight to see how this was going to end.

Mia then clenched her body to make Ellie unable to escape, followed by opening her mouth wide and piercing the child with her fangs.

”UGH!!!” Elie mumbled while trying to reinforce her skin with blessed metal.

[Ellie!!] Marcus shouted.

”I'm fine!!” she replied, trying to calm him down.

The girl raised the gauntlet for her left hand and stabbed Mia in the eye.

”WRAAAAGHHHH!!!!”

While the beast was distracted shivering in pain, Ellith moved around her to grab her three tails and slammed the animal against the grass like a hammer.

”GAAAHHH!!!”

[Go, Ellie!! Go!!!]

Ellie obeyed the voice in her head and started to unleash a barrage of punches on the terminal beast.

Mia tried to reinforce her body with diamond armor, but Ellie just used her spell breaker to absorb all of it and turn them into her diamonds.

Realizing she was in a pinch, Mia unleashed her vines and stabbed Ellie in the arm, shoulder, and leg.

”Kyaaaahhh!!!”

The beast pounced on her and blasted another howl that finally managed to strike the girl successfully.

Ellie tried to cover herself with a shield made of diamonds and silver metal to survive the blast, but as a result, she ended up being pushed all the way across the field like a rocket.

Once she finally landed on the ground, she tried to rush back towards Mia, who was also coming right at her.

Ellie tried to punch the beast with her gauntlet while Mia attempted to headbutt the girl with her diamond armor.

The two collided and ended up knocking each other in opposite directions.

They kept bouncing over the grass while flying away due to the impact like pebbles on water.

Mia used her wings to stop herself and using her earth magic, dived inside the ground and vanished.

Ellie also finally stopped herself and tried to regain her footing.

”Where did she go??” she whispered.

[Jump!! Quickly!!] Marcus alerted.

Ellie followed his advice and took a huge leap as an agglomeration of fangs started to emerge from the terrain, followed by Mia's head revealing itself and trying to bite her.

Ellie used her magic as well and created a ballista made of diamonds covered in terminal fire, followed by shooting the beast's throat.

Mia shook in pain after having her insides pierced, but right after that, the wound Ellie created started to close.

”I don't get it!! Terminal energy was supposed to be able to kill anything!! How is she healing herself??”

[She's a terminal being but she's also a demon now... Any damage she takes, she can recover by simply feeding on the suffering of the souls inside of her body!]

”Ugh!! If only I had paid more attention before touching Gustav... I could have copied his blessing and get the souls out of her...” Ellie lamented.

Mia hid herself under the ground once again, only this time, instead of trying to swallow Ellie, she just unleashed a terminal energy howl from underneath the soil.

Ellie lowered her arm to try and absorb it, but just like before, it was too much for her to take it, and she ended up getting damaged by it.

”Guaahhhh!!” she cried after being sent flying.

[Ellie!!!]

She then landed on the ground, barely alive thanks to her metal skin, and started to glare.

”Ugh!! Why I can't absorb that??”

[Spell-breaker can't absorb blessed energy, and terminal power is made of blessed energy as well, remember?]

”Oh... Wonderfull...” Ellie grumbled.

She then looked at her skin and realized that a couple of cracks were appearing over her metal body, very similar to when she used terminal energy to face Flora, which resulted on the girl starting to shiver afraid that she was about to break apart.

She was starting to reach her limit.

”Oh... Even better...” Ellie whispered while holding her arm and trying to concentrate to close the cracks.

Mia appeared out of the ground and rushed towards the sky while flapping her fire wings. She then glared at Ellie and unleashed a rain of spikes on her using her dryad powers.

Ellie was about to run but suddenly noticed that her feet were tied up to the soil by vines.

”I'm the weapon, I'm the weapon, I'm the weapon...” she quickly whispered, proceeded by turning into a metal spear, and then back into a person again to free herself from the vines.

Next, she slammed the ground to create a diamond platform to push her away from the spikes right at the last second, but she couldn't find her footing properly and ended up rolling on the grass.

The more she moved the more her body continued to burn, and the harder it got to even lift her finger.

”Marcus!! This isn't working!! If Mia doesn't kill us, my own dumb terminal power will!!” she cried while feeling her stomach about to explode.

[Come on!! Don't give up now!! What about your cursed power?? Did the demon forest gave you anything useful??]