The party kept their weapons held firmly; they didn't know what Lucilius was going to do next. He was strong enough to defeat Velvet in a second and could take them down easily, no matter if it was one by one or all together. Arthur gained the confidence to try, despite his knowledge he was nothing against a being such as Lucilius.

Lucilius grabbed onto Arthur's blade and spun it to throw Arthur on the ground then kicked Arthur back like it was nothing. He looked right to Vanessa who was holding her halberd while shaking. Sorey stood in between them and kept his sword up to protect her. Lucilius grabbed onto his sword and kicked him in the chest to send him collapsing as well.

"So, is this what you call your friends?" Lucilius asked Vanessa.

"Don't bully her!" Eleanor attempted to make an attack, only for Alisa and Edna to stop her.

"At least you can understand pattern recognition. I have no intention to kill any of you here, that wouldn't be much fun now would it?"

"You enjoy this don't you? You like to watch people suffer because of your actions!" Vanessa yelled.

"That's right! I'm having so much fun watching you all suffer and go through life fighting an impending death! It all makes me so happy! Once I'm done here, I'll kill you all one by one! That will be the most fun I'll have in this world!"

The man that stood before them, he was insane, his actions, his words, every piece of him, he was evil to the core. Lucilius took a hold of Vanessa's halberd and broke it half, she wasn't anything to him. None of them were. Their trial to purify the Phoenixes of Vanessa's world was just a play to him, his only goal was to watch them fight for their lives, to see them try their best against beings they hadn't fought before.

It was finally his turn to make a move. He had stalled for enough time and was getting bored of waiting. He was ready enact his plan, and he wanted to see the faces of the people who tried so hard to save the world watch it burn to ashes. His face said everything about him, he was smiling, smiling because he knew that he had the power to destroy them and they knew it too. He turned his back to them and disappeared in a white light.

Eleanor and Alisha aided in their defeated allies while Vanessa was frozen in shock. Lucilius, a being from another world like her, a being so powerful, he defeated three of her allies effortlessly. Even in her world, there wasn't anyone so confident in their own power, that they stood up to a group of heroes like he did. Rose snapped Vanessa out of her state, it wasn't the time to stay in one place. They were just asking to be attacked if Lucilius changed his mind.

The group headed to Velvet's house for their base of operations. Arthur, Velvet and Sorey were back on their feet by the time Vanessa got her thoughts together. She held her broken halberd and stared at it, she had worked hard to make it, and even harder to train herself to use it.

She stood up and went into another room. When she emerged from the room hours later, she held the halberd in her hands, but it was different. It had blue metal on the bottom and top of the handle with feathers hanging down from both sides. Her clothes were also different, she had a purple shirt under her grey jacket, blue pants with the right side shorter than the left and brown shoes.

"Vanessa?" Sorey asked.

"I'm not going to sit down and let him push us around," Vanessa said.

"Yeah, but what about..." Lailah pointed to her outfit and halberd.

"It was time for an upgrade."

"As much as I like your enthusiasm Vanessa," Arthur started. "We don't know his weakness, or if he has any."

"Arthur's right," Mikleo commented. "We should take this slowly."

"He's still out there!" Vanessa yelled, "if we let him do what he wants, he'll cause more chaos to spread, and...and I can't let anyone get hurt!"

"Vanessa..." Laphicet said.

Vanessa was letting her own anger get the better of her, she had so many emotions going through her, then Sorey hugged her. He reassured her that everything was going to be okay, they would stop Lucilius, just not right away. Vanessa started to cry, she couldn't bear to see her friends get hurt, not like how they did when trying to fight Lucilius for the first time.