When the Lich finally arrives at the front of the formation it is when the fight truly breaks out, every undead of his army attacks with everything they have, spells fall, elemental attacks, arrows and energy shots.
The formations tremble, but being superimposed the stress and the damage is distributed through all four formations, causing the tremors not to be felt so strongly, at the same time the contracted creatures for melee, such as undead, golems, beasts among others throw themselves immediately.
A fierce battle begins, where rotten parts are seen flying or fragments of broken bone, with grotesque sounds, because despite everything, although they are outnumbered all the summoned creatures of Mariane are already in the mystical realm grade 5.
Truth be told Mariane is the one who has it the easiest, not only is she currently the strongest in troops of the three groups that left the village, but she is also the strongest in combat power and on top of that she is in the mystical realm grade 1 and this is fully showing in the battle at the limit of the formation.
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Mariane jumps in the air and with her fist clashes against the giant mace, when another gigantic weapon, a great sword of the second amalgamation approaches from behind, without waiting, she uses the mace as a foothold and uses an emerald impact to jump even higher.
Then she descends with a free-fall kick and using emerald shock repels the amalgamation's sword so strongly that basically the pure force forces the amalgamation to spin and it ends up crushing several lesser undead around it.
Mariane smiles and says: "This barely serves to warm up, do you really think with this strength you will be able to kill me?"
Then the Lich's voice arrogantly sounds: "Pfff, mortals always equally stupid jumping into death without even thinking it through."
Mariane looks at him and says: "So that was it right?, you are an inferior Lich and the one who commands these troops or am I wrong?. it is a pity that you only use necromantic magic and are a crude copy of a true user of the necromancy ability, you could be a more serious challenge. then master would praise me more and give me a better reward."
The Lich hears this and laughs like a madman: "Puah, HAHAHAHAHAHA"
Mariane looks at him like an idiot who went crazy.
Then the Lich says: "What a joke, you mortals do not realize, when you are in danger."
He stops and equips all his artifacts including a two-meter-long two-handed sword and then adds: "Even if they say I take advantage of the weak that does not matter, since after all, the natural law is like this, the strong eats the weak, in order to be even stronger, you and that trash of master of yours I will crush like the insects you are."
Mariane then stops, becomes serious and frowns angrily, the Lich meanwhile believes that she finally realizes the danger and quickly with his elite guard, the monstrosities and the amalgamations surround Mariane so she does not escape.
But unlike what he believes Mariane does not flinch because of that and clenches her fists: "You know… I hate arrogant people just like my master. my master taught me that idiots who say phrases like that are weaklings who say it to try to convince themselves that they are strong, but instead just like dragons, a true powerful one will not crush insects and say that to them, because he is so sure of his power and strength, that he already knows the result is decided."
The Lich immediately begins to attack without waiting for her for a moment, from ice cuts, to magical attacks and very large strikes advance toward Mariane who is still standing in the center.
Subsequently she begins to raise her energy and looks at him with a slight emerald glow behind her eyes, while dodging all the attacks: "But you know what I hate the most, people who insult my master… so as you said, let us let the natural law follow its course, the strongest will devour the weakest… only that the 'strong' here, is me."
Quickly Mariane jumps without holding back in front of an undead amalgamation and with her fist closed says: "Emerald-Golden Dragon Fist." Her fist fills with a golden and emerald energy and at a speed several times faster than the amalgamation she pierces through it like butter killing it on the spot.
But the side of the undead is not that simple, especially the elite guard that this time is all in mystical realm grade 5 peak, even so Mariane is not an idiot to let herself be consumed by rage.
So while attacks with halberds and sword slashes pursue her, she dodges attack after attack and when she finds the opportunity she immediately injects her leg with energy and while saying: "Emerald impact" she kicks with all her strength the abdomen of one of the undead knights.
Her impact is so strong that even the armor which is an artifact bends like a can and with this she impacts two others, of which none rises again, taking advantage of the momentum she propels herself quickly in front of the elementalists and with both her fists using the Emerald-Golden Dragon Impact breaking their rib cages and the undead core.
The Lich sees this and extremely annoyed shouts: "DAMN YOU INSECT, I AM GOING TO KILL YOU!"
Then the Lich finally activates his full body armor and with his sword he launches into combat, throwing a great slash in Mariane's direction. Without stopping for a moment the Lich says in a low voice a spell and multiple ice cones rise into the air and run trying to close Mariane's evasion capacity.
Mariane is not stupid she has realized that the greatest threat is this Lich who is in mystical realm grade 7, a grade above those she can leap over and fight with her mystical realm grade 1.
So without thinking much she kicks the ground with her leg full of energy and this time says all the martial words: "I am a weapon of destruction and death, that brings despair to the enemies, I am the right arm of my master, his weapon and most faithful servant and with this strike, I will destroy all those who dare to defy his will!, Emerald Shock!"
When her leg strikes the ground a shockwave so strong breaks the ice cones into hundreds of pieces and the slash instantly and then she jumps to the side dodging the Lich's sword attack.
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Meanwhile on the other side of the battlefield, Freja with her mace crushes the skull of another undead and says: "Come I will send you all to my goddess, so the order will be restored."
Then quickly with her shield she pushes another and swings her mace to attack him, while the ranged attacker assigned to her shoots her energy rifle with accurate precision more than one undead falls by one shot.
Freja congratulates her nodding and together with the girl with the sword and shield at her side, which she uses to cut the undead without rest, which are divided into pieces being consumed by the effect of the sky attribute, in the sky steel.
Although everything goes well, Freja is a little annoyed, since for some reason the amount of undead around her group accumulates much more quickly than Caroline's and this awakens her competitiveness.
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On Caroline's side, there she is firing her trusty rifle at a steady pace, but still killing 2 to 3 undead per shot, she had sharpened her vision and reflexes since childhood, thanks to constant practice with her mother in hunting.
And even better in this moment where she can see the two soldiers with their plate armors giving a decent fight, with their shield in one hand and the halberds in the other, the two kill undead at a speed no less than Caroline.
It is evident that they have great group combat experience, where efficiency and killing capacity prevail, so naturally their killing speed gives them a calmer time where they can relax and breathe a little.
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Lamira on the other hand is not so relaxed, although she is now a mystical realm grade 1 and two subordinates of elemental realm peak accompany her, she is extremely careful, sliding and dodging the attacks when she has to.
Attacking at every opportunity and killing the most troublesome enemies, while being supported by the group's energy crossbowwoman, who sets her bolts and with each shot impacts the enemy bodies.
Lamira finally can see the undead of the standards and says: "Let us allow them to come closer, because as we are now, it will take us a whole day and we must save energy, one does not know what kind of madman can be behind this army, is better be safe and save some our strenght for now."