Most of Azri's magic had limited power against constructs... but not all. With a shrug and a grin, she raised her staff, and an orb of mud shot towards the most intact-looking enemy.
The corrupted Guard moved its head at the last moment to avoid getting it's eyes coated in mud.
The pipe work was almost totally gone now, but the Guard continued to fight.
Nearly done with his task he strikes again and again at the bound guard.
Well, her spell hadn't worked - and Azri got smacked in the face a moment later. With a quick punch, she lashed out at the guard that had struck her, hand once more crackling with necrotic energy.
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Aibek nodded to Ayreth in thanks as they felt the positive energy flow over them. The witchwolf then dodged the constructs attack before going to tear them apart again...
Mihara reappears from the fog behind the bound guard, striking once more at the pipes connecting it.
The final pipes holding the bound guard were sliced and dashed under the onslaught and the guard slumped forwards...and the fog grew thicker, the unpleasant sensation growing strong enough to burn.
Between the damage that it had taken from Azri and the fog, one guard collapsed with a wet squelch and the tinkle of its armour disolving.
The remaining guards, including the now freed one, continued to fight with the brutal tenacity of those without will.
Hissing a bit, Azri backed up. Acid wasn't something she was naturally resistant to, and there was no sense hanging around. Instead, she put a hand on her side and began to heal the damage done to her form - she trusted her friends enough to believe that they'd have the rest of this taken care of pretty quick.
The fog fails to eat any of Nigrum's flesh, ether he failed to notice or he had more in common with swords then just a fondness for them. With the threat of a large scale explosion gone, he turns his attention to the newly freed puppet before him.
Aibek saw the change to the thickening fog from where they stood outside of it which distracted them enough to take the blow from the construct. They tried to tear into the construct before them in response...
Taking a serious blow and a solid bout of acid burns from the fog, Mihara opts to retreat to safer grounds, thanking her heritage for the ability to teleport out of trouble.
Nodding her thanks to Ayreth for the healing as she moves by, she closes in on the guard, attacking alongside Aibek.
Mihara and Aibek between them mauled one of the corrupted guards, but the machine remained standing, if not by much. Nigrum's first strike cut deep into the Unbound Guard, although perhaps not as deeply as they should have.
The remaining Guard continued to fight.
As the others fought, Azri looked around the area, wanting to make sure nothing else was coming up on the group or likely to hurt them. As she was doing that, she heard a painful-sounding thud from Nigrum's area, and she winced. "You doing alright?"
"What does it take to put one of these down," Mihara snarls, frustration cutting deep into her voice.
As she ponders her next move, the guard catches her off guard, striking a very solid blow. Mihara reels back, catching herself against the wall. She bounces back, unleashing a final flurry of attacks before stepping back, praying to Daikitsu that she would not come to regret this decision.
Aibek joined in the fury against the construct.
Having been hit hard by the second guard, he turns Tsui on it. His wounds starting to even get his notice.
Answering his comrade.
"For the moment, but the healing isn't keeping up with my wounds."
The Guard fighting Aibek and Mihara also, finally, grumbled under the attack. Nigrum's first blow manages to catch the guard. And the acid continued to sizzle.
With a creak the acid damage overcame the other guard too, as the acid cloud flowed into the hole Nigrum had tor. It too slumped into a pile. The thudthudthud of the Unbound Guard continued unabated, and it's thick armour, while discoloured, didn't seem nearly as damaged as the others were.
Aibek stepped back to clear their head as the construct finally crumpled under their and Mihara's attack. They realized after a moment that they could hear the sounds of combats but couldn't see much into the fog. They certainly could not tell if anything they'd done had helped the situation which bothered the witchwolf even more.
They looked to others to check on them for a few moments and then spoke to Azri, "Do you want to look at this?" before they tried to see if they could percieve anything with this odd fog going on...
"Nigrum!" Mihara calls out. "Draw them out of the fog!"
At Aibek's query, Azri shrugged and reached forward with her senses. She was pretty good at figuring out what was going on, and it didn't hurt to try.
"Only one left."
With Ayreth's healing bring back some life into him he once more focuses on his primary target and source of annoyance.
Aibek is able to get a vague sense of where the two forms are fighting, but the smell of acid makes it hard. And she isn't clear which is which.
Azri finds these guards are much the same as the previous ones,complete with the mutated hearts that powered them. Since they are alive and have organic systems, the do not have all of a constructs strengths, and would be vulnerable to some things they wouldn't, but are likely much easier to make. So long as you don't mind using a person.
In the fog, the fight continued. Nigrum's first blow hit, but not critically, and the second missed. Interestingly, the things armour did seem to be degrading - it was the thickness that was keeping it in tact.
Aibek moved back to try to clear the acid smell that felt like it was covering everything. The witchwolf paused as they caught sight of shadows of Nigrum and the construct he was fighting. While the shadow archon could fight in total darkness, the solid fog was too thick for Aibek to make a clear shot.
Azri probably shouldn't vocalize the sorts of things she was willing to do for science magic. ...On reasonably willing participants. What? If people were suffering, death could often be freedom as they went to Nirvana or wherever. Life wasn't all there was to, well, life. She would know. She hadn't had that for ages.
"Try to lead them out of the fog!" she called.
Nigrum swung his blade again, slashing into the machine.
Although it's armour seemed to be degrading, he wasn't able to slice deep enough to hit anything vital.
Mihara winces at the idea of going back into the fog, but decides there's no choice right now. The last thing she wants to do is leave Nigrum to fight his foe alone.
She strolls into the mist once more, and appears out of the fog, diving for the construct's legs as Nigrum makes his next attack.
Knowing better than to walk into a rough melee, Azri raised one hand and held it steady, ready to shoot off a burst of magic if need be. It looked like things were coming to a close, though, so hopefully her tricks wouldn't be necessary...
Aibek stayed out of the fog, moving back towards the door. While those strange construct could teleport, the witchwolf started to worry about what else whatever had been in that construct might have done to this place. They peeked a head out to look and listen, keeping one eye on where the sounds of combat could be heard...
Aibek could hear other things moving within the corridors on the building, but not close to the room you were fighting in. Nothing obviously catastrophic was happening, however.
Nigrum strikes again at the source of his pain. Calling on more reserves of strength to lash out.
Despite Mihara's best efforts, the construct dodge all of Nigrum's assault,although the groaning side it made suggested it was not doing so well either. Still, it had no intention of waiting for its fate.
Nigrum dodges the construct's attacks as well. Bring Tsui down yet again.
Showing some signs of frustration, and irritated by the acid, Mihara maintains the assault, aiming a rapid strike before once more attempting to destabilize the opponent.
Between Nigrum and Mihara, the violent blows staggered the metallic monstroisity, and it leaned hideous to one side as part of its torso collapsed. For a moment it raised one hand...and then the constant drum beat of its heart ceased and the thing simply froze, whatever force had kept it animate leaving. Within moments the Fog began to clear, and it once again only tingled, rather than burned.
Ah, there it went. Azri waited until the fog fully cleared before moving forward. "Is everyone all right?" she asked, more concerned for them than for the machines. (Machines were easier to replace if need be.)
"I have seen better days," Mihara says, smoothing out her fur and willing her magical sleeves into a new, cleaner outfit.
"For the most part."
He checks on the fallen enemy to make sure it is in fact dead and is not coming back to life.
"I would say we found the parasites master. He is not all that impressive by comparison."
The acid seems to have destroyed whatever allows them to regenerate. Only the one that fought Aibek and Mihara is intact enough to have any chance of doing so.
Noting the status of one of them, Azri moved over and began channeling negative energy into it. "Let's get this wrapped up, shall we?" she said. As the first matter, they needed to ensure the harbor wasn't going to explode...
Aibek glanced over from where they stood by the door, nodding slightly in thanks to Azri and then in agreement with Azri's desire to wrap things up, "There is more movement, I do not think whoever was in there is done..." Aibek commented as they briefly looked around the room from where they stood as it cleared of the fog for any gauges or anything else that might be informative to look at before they left...
The sound of what seems be to be fighting reaches Aibek, although they can't be sure where it is.
Aibek turned back to the door confused as they started to walk out of the room and back the way they had come, trying to see if it would help them pinpoint where the sounds were coming from. "That's...others seem to be fighting." Aibek commented with clear confusion as while they were kinda expecting whoever had wanted them dead to have caused other issues here, they weren't expecting other people to be fighting here. That presented several possibilities...
"What are we waiting for, then?" Mihara asks. "Probably best for some of us to scout ahead and see what's happening before we all get involved."
"Ooh, I wonder if I can give someone a citation..." Azri said, heading towards the sound of the fighting. "I'll go ahead - the rest of you make sure you're all patched up before you follow me." She quickly moved forward, paying close attention to the sounds ahead.