Chapter 279 - Fury of the Naiad
Abigail
Lightning flashed and thunder boomed with the force of a thousand cannons. The rain danced around her and leapt to her touch. It whipped down, shot out in jets, and cut through the earth in large scythes. She cut down every Orc in sight but it still wasn't enough. [Water Manipulation] was pushed to the limit.
Her brain strained to keep up with what she was ordering of it. It had to keep up.
The wall shook and parts of stone rained down. It shook again before the Orc Chieftain was defeated. After the Hunters and Champions came the Chieftains. They were larger, stronger, and all around more deadly than before. It took longer for her Water to cut through them.
They towered over the normal Orcs that were sent to soften them up at the beginning. Those Orcs were already slaughtered and driven into the muddy ground where thousands fought upon their dead bodies.
Thousands of dead. Human dead. Hours of people dying.
The field was filled with the bodies of the fallen but the rest fought on through the hours regardless. The rain had long since turned the ground harrowing. If it hadn't, the ocean of blood would have.
Instead, it was a murky red sea that was half water, half blood, and half whatever else dragged into the mess.
Her hair glowed in an array of spirited blues and fluttered out behind her. The one good thing about calling on her bloodline, getting her hair out of her face. It defied both gravity and physics, as it should be sticking to her skin and matted down by the rain, but it flowed through the air in streams.
She didn't like using it too often as she wasn't accustomed to the side effects yet. She'd reached too far. She'd thought herself stronger and it was still difficult to not be affected by emotions and thoughts that weren't hers, but she needed it now.
"Rachel! Focus on the right flank!" Abigail called out. Two Chieftains were heading in that direction. "Hal, focus on the left!"
Her Core strained at the amount of mana she was pulling from the air and using. She split attention to both gather it and use it at the same time. The Water Mana was abundant from both the River at her back the rain falling from the sky.