"I can't believe myself. How could I let her get hurt like that?" Elsword thinks to himself.
He, Chung, and Rena are currently all tied together with their backs to each other.
After capturing them the demons crudely cuffed them and brought them back to this obviously hastily built military encampment. Most of the "buildings" in the camp were tents filled with holes, each looking as again it had been the loot of some recent victory.
The only actual building is a small square brick hut, which appears to have built in a hurry within the last week. It is into this building that Elsword watched the demons drag the unconscious body of Aisha.
Ever since they were captured the only thing Elsword can think about is Aisha. Demons and other creatures of the army of darkness swarm around the camp, each of them staring at the 3 with disgust as they pass by. Chung has finally awoken from his earlier mishap, and he and Rena are currently attempting to formulate some sort of plan to escape, but Elsword pays them no mind. He is utterly distracted, lost deep in his own thoughts and worries.
"I'm such an idiot. A failure. She was hurt right in front of me, and I did nothing. I stood there and watched her get beat down. Then I allowed them to take her into that building. Who knows what they're doing to her in there? I've failed her. No. It's not over yet, I can still save her, I will save her. "
"I have to save Aisha," He mutters.
"Huh?" The other two say, confused by this sudden outburst as it related nothing to what they were discussing.
"I have to save Aisha!" Elsword cries out again, this time his voice filling with rage.
As his anger grows, magical blades begin to rise from the ground, cutting the ropes binding them, and cutting through the soldiers of darkness in the area surrounding the three.
Without hesitation Elsword jumps up and grabs a war sword that one of the demons was wielding before it touches the ground. It's a low quality weapon, but it'll do for now.
He charges toward the brick building, his rage growing with each step.
Rena manages to find a poorly stringed bow on one of the demons corpses, and expertly removes and restrings the bow in a matter of seconds.
Chung, unable to find a suitable weapon, simply remains close to Rena as she rushes forward to aid Elsword.
As Elsword rushes toward the door he is hit by a sudden bolt of dark energy, knocking him back but not down. Elsword looks up at his assailant. It is a demon in red robes carrying a massive wooden staff that contains a blue orb of magical energy at the end of it. Surrounding the mage is an aura of pure dark energy.
Rena without hesitation fires a barrage of arrows at the demon, but it surrounds itself in in a thick shell of dark energy, deflecting her arrows as if they were mere insects being swatted away.
The demonic mage immediately launches a bolt of dark energy at her, but Rena flips out of the way and dodges the attack.
As the mage is staring and focusing on Rena, Elsword lunges forward at the demon and connects, his crudely made demon sword cuts deep into the mage's side, causing a spurt of black blood to be released. The demon collapses to the ground and the small party relaxes somewhat.
"I've only seen Aisha use that type of magic before, have the demons taken her magic from her? We have to find her now, I'm afraid of what they may have done to her," Rena fearfully declares.
Before Rena can even finish her sentence, something begins to rise out of the body of the fallen mage. It begins as a deathly purple gaseous substance just leaking out of the fresh wound, then the gas begins to form into a spherical shape above the body. As the purple gas continues to seep out, a shape of some sort begins to form from within the gassy substance. The robes of the mage begin to deteriorate away, and eventually so does his body, and the bodies of all the demons laying around. All the while the shade fades more and more into existence, forming a floating body with what looks like well adorned purple robes. The face is completely blacked out, although the eyes seem to glow menacingly bright. It has no legs or arms, but it's hands float away from it's body, the hands appear to have claws sharper than any beast the groups ever seen. The purple gas continues to surround and seep off of it's body, moving in a continuous motion about the creature as though controlled by some force of gravity the creature holds.
Elsword, still in close proximity to the floating being of darkness, attempts to charge at it and slice through it, but as he attacks he simply passes through it. The being conjures a field of darkness that explodes violently outward, sending Elsword flying off into the air, landing hard against the ground.
Rena quickly adjusts her footing and begins firing several arrows at time. The arrows pass through the dark being as if it isn't even there, as if it doesn't really exist, and the being acts as if Rena doesn't even exist either.
Chung realizes that Rena has just exhausted all of her magical powers to release that barrage upon the being, and reaches to his belt where he still has a few leftover items that the demons didn't think to take. They are small unassuming orbs that no one but Chung would see any use in. Chung removes one and throws it on the ground by Rena and a massive field of blue light emits out from it.
"Thank you Chung," Rena says with a smile and a wink.
Rena quickly enchants an arrow with cold energy and fires it at the being. While the arrow seems to pass through without any sort of damage, the cold aura surrounding the arrow seems to damage the being, and the dark creature suddenly seems to take notice of Rena, flying straight at her, still appearing to be completely emotionless, as if it's chasing after Rena simply as if it were a task it was assigned rather than out of rage or self-preservation.
As the creature moves towards her Rena flips into the air and launches an arrow super charged with magic right into the being. This time the being receives the full damage of the arrow, and although it still doesn't appear to be angered, it does come after Rena with much greater haste, and a much greater want to be rid of her existence.
The being of darkness sends forth a stream of the dark energy surrounding it, and Rena deftly dodges strike after strike until the being slams both hands into the ground, causing dark energy to erupt from the earth, hitting Rena and sending her crashing into the ground.
Chung looks down at his belt, and notices he has one more of the spheres, this one a little different. He throws the sphere at the dark being, and it stuns the being temporarily as Chung rushes in to grab Rena's unconscious body, running as fast as possible to get her to safety.
Elsword, now standing and having just witnessed what had just happened, finally feels fear for the first time.