Chapter 76.4- Doom Days
Added 2025-09-28 21:47:45 +0000 UTCHe twisted his wand and sent a spell I did not recognise. I dodged it just to be safe, and it streaked past. He then sent another one that I dodged as well, but that proved to be the wrong choice as even the sensation of the spell passing me by felt like being punched in the throat.
I just barely put up an aegis shield to block the next spell. It spread over the shield like it was some sort of infection, black tendrils spreading from the point of impact until they reached all the corners of the shield, and then to my shock, Russo wrenched his wand to the side, and my shield followed, shattering into a million motes of light.
So shocked I was that I could do nothing but dodge the next spell. And like its predecessor, dodging it felt painful. There was only spell I knew of that had a similar effect but I knew it was not that one he was using. Eris’ dagger was a very noticeable spell when it was cast, and that definitely hadn’t felt like that one should have. I moved backwards, trying to create more distance between us so I would have more space to react, a movement I was forced to seize as I felt the ground behind and beneath me turn to ice.
I breathed out, and fire bloomed. This time, it was not blackfyre or cursed blood flames, but the fires from hell themselves, that wrapped themselves around me in a circle, melting the ice, evapourating the resulting water into steam and then speeding around into a shield around me. The fire fought me just as much as it fought its surroundings, but I had stubbornness in spades and my magic would never be my undoing. I watched the look on Russo’s face, even as I felt my magic beginning to run out.
I pointed at him, relaxing my grip of the cursed flames just a bit, and they swarmed. Two basilisks and a dragon formed from the flames heading for my opponent. He danced backwards, forcing the dragon back with a swing of his wand. With another wand motion, he lifted walls in front of the basilisks to hold them back. Walls that only held up for a couple of seconds each, and then he was forced between all three of them again.