Chapter 549: The Candle-Meistre
“I defend, you attack!” Sofia commanded. She grabbed a large handful of vision tokens from her storage and threw them all in the air, spreading them throughout the flaming library, then she called upon the skull choir, summoning as many destroyer skulls as she could.
The fiery hands shooting out from the flames were on long, thin arms of fire, which could extend several meters to attack, and Sofia had to manually control the destroyer skulls just to repel the many hands that soon started to assault herself and Cinthia all at once.
The destroyer skulls clashed against the fiery hands, failing to damage them at all, but still forming a good enough blockade under Sofia’s direct control that very few managed to actually get through. Cinthia blasted these with essence tokens until they burst, sending flaming sparks flying everywhere, most of which got stuck mid-air inside of her [Slow mode] bubble.
The sparks themselves were too weak for more fiery hands to form within, but those of them that still landed on the ground spread more fire nearby, and flaming hands would soon emerge from under the two women’s feet.
Sofia’s brain was running at full speed, preventing the hands from reaching them was already hard enough, but she was also trying to figure out how to get out of this situation. The obvious way to get rid of the ends would be to quell the fire, but that was much easier said than done.
The fire burned even under Sofia’s feet, it felt hotter than regular fire but she was mostly unaffected, Cinthia also seemed to not mind, but hands started to form, one of them grabbing Sofia’s ankle. The fire fingers melted through her bone armor in an instant before she could react and blasted the magical hand into non-existence with [Heat Death].
A bone barrel appeared between her and Cinthia, which Sofia broke open with a strike of her tail. The barrel shattered, luminous blue water flowing all over the immediate surroundings. This was water of the underworld currents that Sofia had stolen from Hugo’s secret base, an eternally cold magical water. The water clashed with the flames creating an explosion of smoke, and all the nearby flames were smothered, leaving Sofia and Cinthia in the middle of a very shallow puddle of freezing water in the middle of the burning library. The hands still came from the burning bookshelves, but at least they now stood on safe ground.
“That was perfect!” Cinthia rejoiced between blasting away two fiery hands, “Got more?!”
“I have one more barrel!” Sofia answered.