Julie is fairly annoyed with these beings, and moves forward to attack, expending a spell point to empower her blade with a brutal slam of hard compressed air.
4/6 spell points.
Concerned by her companion's injury, Karnelia approaches and places a hand on her shoulder. "Fear not, your time has yet to come."
Meanwhile, having phased through the wall, Little Sister strikes at one of the intelligent undead.
Blasting again, she tries to take out these dead things.
Ellara took one hit, which was promptly healed by Lady Karnelia's touch. Thus reassured of the help, Ellara focused for just a moment and changed some of the glands inside her body before letting loose with a blast of fire that erupted through the room ahead of her. She couldn't target all of the skeletons with one blast, but she could aim to get as many as possible and soften them up. As she finished spewing flames, her jaws snapped shut, this time looking larger and... toothier... than they'd been just a moment before.
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Although they reacted with surprising swiftness for such slow, clumsy creatures, the zombies were still engulfed in the cone. Sadly, it wasn't enough to destroy them.
Although the zombies continued to hammer at Ellara's defences with mindless vigour, the magically enchantments she had created were not stopped.
The monster fighting Little Sister avoided the blow, and returned with one of it's own.
But the reply was no more accurate.
The creature Julie struck hissed as the blade tore into it, and responded with by lashing out with it's own magic.
Pouring acid from it's fingers directly onto Julie with a screech.
The third placed a hand on it's injured brethren, and spectral armour coated the creature.
With only a moment's pause after her breath finished - time to weave away from two of the strikes and block the third with her conjured shield - Ellara whipped into a frenzy and began trying to break them apart with physical blows. "Just back me up and I'll take care of them!" she called over her shoulder during a brief pause in her attack routine.
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"Foul beings! Begone!" Lady Karnelia snaps, a far cry from the meek noble who had been sheepishly following moments ago.
Noting Julie is struggling to hold the line, Karnelia moves to stand by her. "Noble specters, I urge you! Shield my friend!"
Like before, a faint aura envelops Julie.
"Leave my sister's friends alone!" Little Sister screeches, raking her twisted fingers at her foe.
As the acid magic surged forward, a shield of water and lighting sprung in existence around Julie, clashing with the acid in roiling mass of steam. A singular spatter of acid fought through the shield sizzling through Julie's sleeve and burning itself into her flesh. Hardly the caustic annihilation the undead had intended, but Julie was nonetheless riled.
As the clash of spellpower faded down, there stood two Julie Die Vult's, slightly offset.
"Die again already!" Kraken's Maw revved up again as Julie angrily vented her strength on the undead. Whether this was in vengeance of the slight burn on her arm or the damage to her sleeve was debatable.
Kiyomi will keep attack, but seems to have trouble anticipating Julie's moves and shoots wide.
Finally unleashing her full talents, Ellara tears through the first rank like they're made of wet tissue. However, as the zombies crumple to the ground, more pile in, undeterred by there former associates lack of success.
The new ones had no more success than the previous ones did against her increased defence, however.
Julie's sword cut down the first of three undead magi. The second one at the door hissed. "MoRTal, he StuDDIed your KINDS HeART LonGEr than YOU have LIVED." The creatures approached, ice crackling over it's fingers in a deathly cold wave.
However, the cold touch failed to connect.
The third continued fighting little Sister, although cracks appeared in it's skull where the thin layer of dead skin was torn away by her blow.
But Little Sister dodged away without issue.
All except for that last one, anyway. Ellara's response was to simply lash out in retaliation, trusting that the other woman could take care of the healing and ensure her vitality. After all, as dangerous as these undead might be, they couldn't hurt anyone if she just smashed them to bits.
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"I'll help with those ones as soon as I'm done over here!" she called back. It wouldn't take TOO much longer... hopefully.
This is not the battlefield she is best at, but she keeps throwing her invisible knives.
As she deflected the cold wave to the side, she shifted into a quick counter slice with relatively little power.
"And judging be the state of your weakness, he didn't come up with anything good. Unless you'd like to claim you're just the footsoldiers, and the real undead are somewhere else?" Julie's anger gives way to satisfied haughtiness as she feels now in control of the battle with one of the enemies down.
"Without power, old knowledge is simply a child's meaningless scriblings."
Chanting words from beyond the material realm, Karnelia tends to Ellara's wounds.
Meanwhile, Little Sister sees an opportunity, and floats back to flank with Julie.
Two more of the less zombies fall to Ellara, although they continue to press there assault.
The duo are more successful than there previous kin had been.
The undead fighting Julie took the back hand, but dodged under the second strike and retaliated with it's own ice-encrusted fingers.
But it also missed.
The slow fight between Little Sister and the third undead continued with the creature dodging Little Sister again.
This time it's strike was more accurate.
The healing coming from behind was a definite lifeline, and Ellara grunted in pain before continuing her assault. She could warp away if she really had to - and would - but for now she was focused on ending the threat of these skeletons and giving herself a moment to heal up.
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"Hmmm... On one hand you're not rambling insanely, on the other hand this is just poor performance on all of our parts." Julie mentions as she and the undead proceeded to perform a little bumbling slapstick in completely dodging and unbalancing each other without landing a hit.
She feels helpless to assist as she continually misses. She focuses hard on aiming this time.
Little Sister maintains her shrieking, hysterical assault.
Karnelia, too, maintains her frantic support.
Ellara reduced the dead Dwarfs in the north down to one. The final remaining undead did not seem at all disturbed by that idea, and continued the assault.
The Monster fighting Julie hissed, now confronted on two sides by the enemies, and Kiyomi's attack finally striking home. It continued to press on Julie, however.
But it failed to strike in spectacular fashion.
...but it was equally unable to find a strike.
Ellara focused for just a moment, then ripped into the last of the dwarf with her teeth, shaking her head back and forth a bit before (presumably) tossing its remains to the side. Right, then - that ought to be the northern room cleared, and she rubbed her mouth a bit before focusing on her transformation in order to maintain it.
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"Hold on just a little longer!" she called, intending to heal up again before darting over to join the others.
"No rush, love, this dance is rather... slow."
"Finally." she says, "Just die."
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Ellara finished off the final undead, a slow sigh slipping from long dead lips as it fell to the floor.
The two intelligent undead continued there assaults. Or at least, there attempts at assaults.
The one attacking Julie managed to land a clumsy strike, but the one fighting Little Sister missed.
Julie's shield of water springs up once more, completely blocking the attack this time.
And that's all.
Ellara expended just a bit of her energy to heal her wounds (why couldn't she simply shapeshift them shut? Stop trying to make sense of magic), then darted over to the other door. "You should probably get out of the way!" she said as flames started to flicker in her mouth.
Kiyomi further harms the damaged undead, but despite it's obviously appalling state, it's still standing. Both continue to fight.
Heeding Ellara's warning, Little Sister retreats, vanishing in a puff of smoke, and rejoining Lady Karnelia's consciousness. Lady Karnelia opts to observe for a moment, waiting for the right time to act.
The closest undead crumbles under Julie's strike with a shriek, and it's companion howls in rage and horror.
Once she'd finished moving over to this area, Ellara hurled a crackling blast through the air and towards the closest undead figure. Hopefully that would at least damage it, but more importantly she wasn't entirely sure what these undead creatures were or how affected they'd be by her flames. (She'd been expecting something more solid than they appeared to be - go figure. Still, she could work with this...)
"Enough of this!" Lady Karnelia snaps. "You are lone and surrounded. Surrender, fiend!"
She moves forth and draws her scythe for protection. Raising one hand, she lifts a hefty piece of debris from the room, and hurls it at the enemy.
Kiyomi does not expect it will surrender and continues the assault until it says otherwise.
Julie does not expect the undead to surrender either.
With another hissing noise, the undead backed away into the corner...and triggered a mechanism. A secret door - much like the one you found earlier, but still intact and therefore much better concealed - ground open.
Julie moves closer, a slash of her sword sending a blast of compressed air on her way.
Karnelia follows along as Julie approaches, and attempts to distract the foe with a swipe of her weapon.
Ellara exhaled, then focused on the creature and hurled another blast of force through the air. This time, it was charged with as much energy as she could pump into it - unlike her lesser blasts, this actually cost her a fair bit of energy, so she couldn't sling around full-power blasts all day... but she wanted to take out the undead in the corner before it could actually get away, and she'd moved into the room to give herself a clearer line of fire.
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The attacks shatter the final undead with brutal force. It managed to open the door, but the two strikes shattered its bones - and the dark magics that animated it - before it could flee.
Ellara nodded in satisfaction, then put a hand against her chest.
As soon as she was done with that, she cautiously proceeded forward and peered into the room that the undead had been opening. What was so interesting about this chamber that it had wanted to go inside when afraid, hmm?
(What? She was from the house of magicians. She was interested in this sort of thing.)
Julie instead searches the room they had been guarding.
"... what thoroughly unpleasant creatures," Lady Karnelia comments idly. After pausing for a minute to cajole Little Sister back into the material plane, she ambles to the room where the mindless undead had been, looking for any clues.
Kiyomi will join in the search, obviously ashamed at not being able to help more.