Luna Nova Castle, Luna Nova, Wales
While one group was splitting up going in a way from the castle where the witch academy was, the other one was going through a fork, also trying to find a way to get to Daryl and who knows this way communicate to the other girls, in case they met the vampire before the others, but still on the way they had to face some difficulties, those that came back with everything in a very common place where some of these girls already used to go, at least they were going by the Bernadette's castle when the group had separated in pairs, this time being in five by the castle's corridors to a place a little familiar.
Amanda, Constanze, Jasminka, Lotte and Sucy, were walking through the corridors of the place, where they already found some very familiar creatures, in case some knights with armor and spears going up to the group trying in some way to hit the girls that were until giving to hold the wave well against the creatures, with a great easiness until, seen that they were of great part long range hunters. Yanson made sure to leave the way open by summoning similar creatures that were walking towards the monsters that were attacking them being the perfect gap for the four girls with long range weapons to leave shots prepared which hit with all the intensity on the creatures and opening more way.
Sucy: With them around it's even easier to pass through these corridors.
Lotte: Tell me about it, in the other corridors it was a real nightmare when we were in Bernadette's castle, now this way it is even more peaceful, I can't see the extreme difficulty to pass through here.
Amanda: Look, thanks to the little blond witch everything is easier, you can summon creatures and be of great help to us, the worry diminishes, even more so now that we have our weapons with infinity, this way you can shoot all day without worrying.
When opening the way of that corridor, they end up facing a double door, where when passing through it they see a wide open space, in this case where used to be the refectory of the place having some much more bizarre creatures there, like possessed tables, china in the same way until some skeletons that were sitting there eating something that afterwards ended up falling down on the spot for the creature not possessing organs, besides other monsters that were just relaxing without caring much for the presence of the girls.
Amanda: It's time to serve the feast!
Jasminka arrives already to show that the girls were coming to the attack, shooting against a table using the hand cannon and with that she was drawing the attention of some of the creatures, which in this way Lotte already started to be invoking some knights with armour that were going towards the monsters and with that the others were starting to shoot against the monsters.
Amanda: Let's see which one of us kills more.
Sucy: And what is the reward for that?
Amanda: Oh you got me, but I bet you £5 you can't hit it any more than I can.
Sucy: Bet.
It starts a dispute between the two archers that go shooting with their arrows in direction to several creatures that go feeling the potency of the crossbows of both, Constanze and Jasminka on the other hand went hitting where the tables were calling the attention of more creatures to go up the five huntresses.
Sucy was quiet and very concentrated hitting even more creatures than Amanda much for the concentration of the filipina that was looking very calm and without hurrying too much, always hitting fatal arrows, while O'Neill was more of the type that was shooting in a more desperate way, even shooting more arrows, she didn't get to kill more than Manbavaran that exhibited a tremendous calmness.
Lotte: This place really won't be easy to clean, there are monsters everywhere.
Yanson continued to summon more creatures, this time stronger, holding more attacks from the monsters since the armor knights were not enough and this way Lotte had to summon flea mens with armor which were already proving to be much more efficient, Constanze and Jasminka on the other hand were helping the blonde by shooting the creatures that were a little stronger and could hinder the creatures summoned by the Finnish.
Amanda on the other hand was getting a little angry to see how Sucy was managing to easily kill a lot more creatures than O'Neill and some of them being more difficult, since the Irish focused on the easier ones while the Manbavaran went for the knights in armor where she hit specifically on the weak point of the monsters.
Amanda: You're getting more kills, damn it! I shoot way more arrows and yet you're winning!
Sucy remained silent and continued to shoot, while they were advancing little by little through the place since the monsters stopped appearing a lot, leaving the way more free.
Although many creatures were
still arriving, the point they wanted to reach was the door on the other side of the corridor, so much that they were walking without deviating much, in formation and shooting the creatures, while Lotte was leaving the creatures being summoned, kind of tiring Yanson a little, that had already used enough magic to do that, being another concern since it was still in the beginning and even so the Finn was already getting tired of the amount of creatures that she summoned.
Lotte: We have to get there soon, I'm going to run out of magic like this, and if in the next area we run out, it could be problematic.
The girls were tightening their pace as they walked through the corridors of the castle, being more attentive to where they were going to pass, besides not worrying too much with the record of shots, even more Sucy and Amanda who were listening to Lotte, until they reached the door on the other side and with that they stopped in an empty corridor and with that Yanson quickly makes a brilliant plan, where she breaks the door on the other side and starts to disassemble this and with that she locks the door nailing some wood in front so that this way there is no creature to try to pass.
Lotte: So we can be safe at the back, now let's go.
Amanda: I killed 93, you won Sucy, I noticed you killed a lot more than I did.
Sucy: I counted 117, I can't spend my shots that much, that's my philosophy, you have to know how to use each arrow, it's not because I have infinite arrows that I'm going to spend them for nothing, you have to think well before each shot, because each arrow is essential.
Amanda: I already know that, but even so I prefer just shooting to enjoy the infinity, maybe this way I can shoot in more places.
After this conversation, the girls came across a corridor, where when passing through the door they could see that there were some knights in armor and swords, these ones were a little more powerful, since arrows and shots seemed useless and with that the best way to defeat him would be in brute force.
Lotte made sure to summon one of the imps that she had captured at the battle of Bernadette's castle and with that the demon was shooting against the creature and revealing not to be very useful, until she picked up an axe on the wall and with that came running with that weapon in her hand towards the monster that ended up only using a slash that created a wave that only cut the summoned creature in the middle and frustrating the Finnish woman.
Until Sucy hit an arrow right in the hole of the armor and made the monster take some steps back, half foreseeing this movement the Manbavaran hit another arrow in the hole that was in the face of the creature and was being in this that Lotte used to invoke a hippogriff for good, since they had other creatures behind too, the creature was running advancing towards the monsters, with a strong header of the creature was being run over taking others behind, hitting against a wall, then the hippogriff started to blow fire but was soon decapitated by the creature of armor what frustrated Lotte even more.
Sucy: Summon a cockatrice, turn that thing into stone, then Jasminka will simply break that monster like a statue.
Lotte: Baby this idea of yours is great!
Lotte soon was attending the idea of Sucy and putting in practice, invoking a cockatrice, with that the gallinaceous creature of far away launched a ball of petrification that caught in full the armor transforming it into a statue and with that opening more way when Jasminka gave a shot with the hand cannon well in the head of the monster that later fell on the ground in pieces and with that they were continuing to advance in the corridor, The other creatures were not spared, being all subdued to the petrification powers of the monster invoked by Yanson, until it arrives at the end of the corridor and the blonde invokes back the gallinaceous creature to the book and that way the huge double door is opened, revealing another part of the castle, as it was expected, that is the library of Luna Nova.
The beautiful place with huge shelves full of books, also reveals to be a danger because many creatures walked around the place, skeletons, imps, zombies, ghosts, cursed books, knights in armor, some of them already in a sort of watchful position, and some of them went straight to the attack as soon as they saw the presence of the five that were already positioning themselves to defend themselves.
Each one took cover in a different bookshelf, observing the surroundings well, while Lotte invoked a cockatrice to petrify those who came towards them.
Amanda: A library? Really? It's not enough in the last castle that you guys took the library route, now all the way here.
Lotte: I wouldn't trust too much to lean against the shelves anyway, some of these books are maddening and will want to kill you.
Amanda shrugged and continued to shoot the arrows, mainly against skeleton archers that were positioned on the upper floors shooting arrows and more arrows towards the girls that were only getting the shelves, Sucy was noticing the presence of the cursed books, without hesitating much she shot those evil pages and managed to relieve a little for the girls.
On the other hand the strong armors and with swords were not able to deal with the invoked cockatrice, which Constanze and Jasminka threw leaving it in pieces and this way it was releasing much easier the way, since that was the most complicated creature to defeat until then that the girls met.
Amanda: Wonderful, now we know the secret to defeating that one, let's go soon I want to know where is the monster we are going to have a fight, the boss of this place.
Sucy: Calm down, concentrate there, we have to clear the way first.
They kept shooting and little by little they advanced as they walked through the corridors of the library, going through one bookcase after another, since they still had many creatures and also the whole place of the library was quite open, which could facilitate for creatures that are long-range, so much that Sucy made sure to grab a book and throw it to the middle of the library where she saw several arrows being shot and also fire.
Sucy: You see, we can't take risks in the middle now, we have to be smart and find our way.
Amanda: Our way? Jas! Shoot the ceiling! We'll go a way they don't expect us to go, that way we'll distract the creatures, Lotte you summon copies of us who stand there as defence, we'll try to go an alternative way.
All of them put their hands on their chins, but they even agree with the plan and soon Yanson was trying to create copies of the girls to go by the way while Jasminka was opening the ceiling with shots getting this way to open a corridor, which didn't take long to have the size of enough to pass all of them. Antonenko threw a rope that was hooked on one of the library's rails, Yanson finished with the invocation and taking advantage of the blind spot and went one by one climbing the rope, this way going to the upper floor.
Leaving only the summoned copies on the place, where when climbing the last one that was Lotte, the blonde uses magic to repair the broken ceiling and the group gets well in a more hidden bookcase.
Lotte: That was a great idea Amanda, now let's try to keep a low profile, they will try to hit us or get to us.
Down there the creatures were going until the group of false girls, arriving for there they were killing an invocation for one, hitting as if it was nothing and making disappear, until believing that they had died of time and of this way until they arrived to stop attacking, they were all returning to do what they made of common and with that Lotte takes the opportunity to take a little of a potion to recover magic and she takes the opportunity to invoke a skeleton to walk and to serve for them to look the surroundings.
Lotte: That way we can find the door to this place and follow a safe route.
They look where the skeleton is walking and soon some of them go up Lotte's skeleton, but not to attack but to flirt with that skeleton.
Until they arrive in a part where there was a door on that floor and noticed that the way was quite free, so Lotte snaps her fingers and the five of them go quietly through the corridors. Amanda and Sucy shot those skeletons with arrows so as not to be discovered, Looking down and noticing that the creatures were scattering, returning to their normal routine, besides some other skeletons on the other side who were aiming their arrows down and were right in the point of view to notice the girls who were smart enough to hide first.
Discretely they reach the door that is pushed by all five of them using a lot of strength, then they go through, reaching a dark room, where they close it again, when they get there they notice that all that emptiness was getting lighted up revealing to be what seemed to be an arena of some boss. The girls were walking and trying somehow to find a way, but when they touch the door to the other side some stones start to fall right in front of them.
Amanda: That was almost.
Then they get up and fall in that arena, huge centipedes that are getting involved in the pillars surrounding the place and also a pedestal with a glass cover where the key is, but for that they would have to deal with another creature that fell in the middle of that arena, which was a giant scorpion.
Sucy: Stay away from the cause of this thing, it has poison and also the claws, Jas, shoot the tail, the poison of this thing can kill on the spot.
Jasminka is soon making a point of showing service and is shooting towards the tail of the scorpion where is the source of the poison, but the monster is not stupid, knowing that the girls would attack that part, Constanze was trying to shoot in other parts, but the monster seemed to have an armor in the place of an exoskeleton, that already served for the same purpose. With that Lotte was trying to summon a bigger cockatrice using a lot of her magic to try somehow to have an equal creature, this while the girls were running away from the creature, in the case Amanda and Sucy that were chased by the giant arachnid.
Amanda: Shit! How are we going to kill a thing like that?
Sucy: If we deactivate the poison and the claws, we have already taken away the main weapons.
Amanda: I know that, but still look at Cons and Jas, they shoot and it doesn't seem to have any effect, they keep shooting more and more and nothing, it just goes on and on.
The cockatrice is summoned and quickly starts not attacking the scorpion, instead she was focusing on the centipedes that were on the pillars around what Yanson was putting her hand on her face, somewhat frustrated and with that she tried to think of a better way and what she found in the book was a petrification spell.
Lotte stays with her staff, concentrating, she needs to have a more constant precision, but the scorpion kept circling the arena.
Lotte: I need help, you two go downstairs and distract this thing, if this monster stays still it will be better.
Constanze and Jasminka get down and shoot behind the scorpion that stopped focusing its attack on Sucy and Amanda, who when noticing this turn around and see the scorpion walking in the opposite direction, it was then where the duo tries to aim where the scorpion's venom is, but the arrow simply ends up hitting the tail as if against a very hard wall.
Amanda: Shit. Even in that part that monster doesn't have any lesser resistance.
The cockatrice was eating each one of the centipedes one by one, that was helping her to increase the size, little by little. At
this game of hitting the scorpion near where the poison is, the creature stops going towards Constanze and Jasminka, at this exact stop is where the dark haired one hits a shot on the tail, right at the poison gland, that ends up leaking a little, Antonenko hits the tail, a little far from the gland but enough for the projectile to leave a mark on the creature that stopped going until Amanda and Sucy hit arrows on the eyes of the creature that stopped to turn around but ended up being hit with everything.
Amanda: At least the eyes on that thing are easy to hit and from the looks of it they're soft.
Lotte soon appears as the monster tries to attack from both sides, but Yanson ends up appearing with her staff right above the creature using a petrification spell, turning that monster into a statue, not for long, but enough for Jasminka to hit the scorpion's tail right at the base, making the whole structure fall to the ground leaving only the poison gland showing until the monster manages to get rid of the Finn's spell that was still on top of the creature.
Lotte: Now that thing no longer has a poisonous tail to attack us.
Lotte was trying to balance on the monster that was swinging and with that Sucy was running towards it, dodging the claws, even jumping on one of them, where she was running shooting an arrow on the poison gland right on the small opening that Constanze left and on that Yanson takes the chance to impel her girlfriend with an impulse glyph towards that thing full of poison.
Meanwhile the girls were shooting at the scorpion that still didn't feel anything and soon turned around paying little attention to Amanda, who stopped giving arrows as she hit all the monster's eyes. The blonde takes the opportunity to remove the arrows and that way manage to cause more bleeding in the creature and soon she also propels herself out of the creature and goes to where O'Neill is.
The cockatrice was still eating the rest of what was left from the centipedes, simply taking the opportunity to get even bigger as she devoured the creatures, being of great help, since soon she could be of great use against the scorpion.
Soon Sucy doused her arrow with the scorpion's venom, fitting it into the crossbow with the new ammunition and could already notice that it would give a greater effect, so much so that she returns with one in her hand leaving it with Amanda and the scorpion still continued going at the two girls, what was noticeable was that little by little the creature was regenerating itself to make things more difficult.
Lotte: That thing's ass is growing bigger, damn it!
Sucy: Make our arrows powerful love, let's see if this thing will like to take its own poison.
Yanson nods, starts to leave a glyph on the beasts and also on the arrow that is getting more resistant, this way being enough to penetrate the creature while Constanze and Jasminka were taking steps back trying to avoid the huge creature hit them.
The two arrows are soon shot, with all speed it wasn't only one, but several poisoned arrows that were catching the scorpion and at that time the opposite happened, so much that the girls stopped shooting arrows, since the poison of the scorpion made it regenerate not only faster, but also made it increase its size, this way ruining everything and making the three put their hands on their faces.
Sucy: Now it's fucked.
Amanda: Shit! Now we're fucked! The very poison of that thing is what makes it stronger? How was I supposed to know that shit?
Lotte: Damn the damn cockatrice isn't here to help us, she was focused on the centipedes that keep popping up and I don't have that much control in commanding her, I can only send her back to the book or command her to protect us, but she goes from what is more convenient to her.
Jasminka: Run! That thing got bigger out of nowhere!
Jasminka and Constanze were around almost turning around and with that the whole group was starting to run, with Yanson giving the five a chance to get away by using a forward momentum glyph, where they kept running as the scorpion was still getting closer, kind of in a situation they didn't want to be in as they were still circling the arena.
Amanda: What's left for us to do is to think of something to rid this monster and get out of here.
But suddenly the cockatrice appeared at the best time and it was huge coming to attack the scorpion that came with the tail with poison to try to hit the gallinaceous creature that with the beak caught well in the tail, coming to tear out that part and in that the girls go watching the battle between the two creatures.
The arthropod was trying to use the claws against the feet of the bird that started to blow fire against the body of the creature that didn't feel anything, it was continuing to make more pressure on the feet of the creature invoked by Lotte.
Lotte: Whew, saved by my cockatrice, she came at the best time to save us.
Amanda: I didn't know that the chicken you summoned got that huge.
Sucy: Look, there are no more centipedes, the cockatrice has devoured everything, let's get them and get out of here.
Constanze went soon to that place where she had the key, she was spotted by a centipede that was trying to devour her, but the dark haired one gave a quick shot against the creature that soon stopped attacking her and with the key in hands she turns the girls watching the cocatrice against the scorpion in an intense dispute.
The gallinaceous creature was pecking very hard against the body of the arthropod that was feeling it in his body, but it was also regenerating itself by the tail to make everything worse, hitting with the poison gland with everything in the chicken that ended up feeling the poison, but it was still continuing to attack.
All: No! It can't be!
Lotte goes using a healing spell on the cockatrice trying to prevent as much as possible the poison from killing the chicken that kept attacking even so, hitting it right on the head with a powerful peck that opens the exoskeleton and with that she shoots a petrifying ray on that part and with a powerful peck ends up killing the scorpion cutting it on the spot leaving only the part underneath the body that the creature petrifies too and pecks it to leave it in pieces, only that it still had a surprise.
All: Yes!
Amanda: How wonderful Lotte, we are safe thanks to your cockatrice!
This surprise came in a not so pleasant way, the smaller pieces of the giant scorpion became smaller scorpions that even small ones could still kill and it was with this that the girls were getting scared, even the cockatrice that was staggering was walking forward trying to even hit the little creatures, but the poison was too strong, letting the gallinaceous creature fall dead to the ground, killing some smaller scorpions on the way crushed. Lotte, meanwhile, uses a glyph to propel the girls to a level above, where the scorpions go walking normally as if it were nothing.
Amanda: Of course that thing had to leave one surprised.
Sucy: invokes another love cockatrice.
Lotte: Unfortunately it's my limit, if the creature I summon dies it ends up being left out for as long as it takes to recover, in the case of a cockatrice of this size, it would take days before I could summon it again, but I have an idea.
Yanson starts to take a deep breath, concentrating a spell looking at the book, while the scorpions were just walking normally, until being devoured by the remaining centipedes that were starting to get out of there to circulate more outside, only that soon the blonde changed the game by casting a spell that froze everything underneath, including all the creatures, leaving the way more free, but still had the issue of the stones, which unlike Bernadette, Daryl doesn't care, she wants the girls to make more effort and Lotte was using her magic to push the stones, using enough strength at least enough to open the way, where the gate was and that way they all went down with the key in hands, opening the gate and then pushing the door on the spot so much that Lotte kneels on the ground when passing by, a little bit panting.
Sucy worried: Are you all right my love?
Lotte: Yes, just the fact that we are free from the scorpions says a lot, now let's go, the castle here must still have something for us to go through before the final big showdown.
Amanda: Woah! A giant scorpion boss that turns into smaller scorpions, I know we almost died, but don't you guys think that's awesome? We had an angry battle, when are we going to get to meet something this awesome in life, I swear Annabel is going to love knowing about this part.
Lotte: Heh, of course you will, just being alive makes me happy.
At that time even the ground got a little wet due to Lotte's ice melting, which left some of the scorpions free, some of them went to the poison gland where they would take advantage to become giants and the girls' peace didn't end there when they heard knocking at the doors and seeing that they already left running at the time from there and without hesitating they went to the staircase ahead where they continued advancing through there.
Lotte: Let's close that thing too.
They all agree and at that moment Lotte goes taking some pictures from the wall and also tables, placing them in front of the door, nailing them with all her strength, besides placing as many things as she could before the scorpions escaped through the underneath door and went to the girls, so much that they went after running out only continuing without paying much attention, arriving at another door of that corridor and again doing the same, so much that they sat panting on the floor and afterwards they were laughing a lot at all that.
Amanda: Guys what's all this? Hahaha.
Sucy: I'd rather not risk it, let these scorpions get stuck in their way and not disturb us, we're doing fine here, I just hope this doesn't make some super giant appear, if the small ones are trouble, who will say about the ones of our size.
Lotte: You can never be too careful, but what now? I wonder what this place is, we passed through a corridor full of nothing, how strange, but okay, I'll try to see what was back there.
The yanson uses an invocation of a smaller creature in this case a spider passing through a tiny space where she can notice it was an empty corridor, but can also notice ropes and false floors, then she brings the spider back, drinks some potion to recover the magic.
Lotte: Thanks to the boost glyph we didn't set off any traps, it was a corridor full of them, so we're pretty safe from scorpions if those things come, so much so that I saw and there were none, in that part, not even knocking on the door, now let's go.
Amanda: Let's take a rest, at least, if the scorpions won't pass by, let's take five minutes to recover our energy.
Lotte agrees with the head and right at that moment Jasminka takes out of her bag some fruits which the girls take the opportunity to devour, besides some potatoes stuffed with some things inside, that she used to leave, in this case cheese and some cubes of ham, what Yanson was soon using a spell to cook them leaving them much tastier, they were eating and getting more relaxed, besides healing their wounds by taking potions, it was a lighter moment, while the scorpions barely got past the first door, where they just kept knocking around, some were too big and others too small, they were dumb enough to not be such a threat.
And the library was another explored area of the Luna Nova castle, where the five girls of the long range group came across huge scorpions that caused quite a bit of trouble, especially the biggest one managing to make it impossible for Lotte to summon one of the most powerful creatures she has in the book.
See you, scorpion witches...