The rainbow platform repaired itself, as Sera looked around the field of battle. Her eyes moved between potential targets, but only one fight seemed truly precarious.


    With a few wingbeats, she closed in the distance. Her long lance reformed into her golden glaive, with her flames dancing at its edge. She moved back her arm and cut vertically, trying to catch the Transcended from behind.


    The woman wearing black leather armor and using a katana moved just as fast. She took one step to the side, and let Bea''s blade fell short. She didn''t punish the mistake and instead changed her stance.


    The glaive cut a clear arc through the air. Sera meant to cut the woman in half, but she used her katana expertly, and deflected the incoming strike with relative ease.


    Bea didn''t let the opportunity go, and immediately after recovering, she attacked too. The wooden blade moved to disembowel the woman, but by taking a step back, she evaded Bea''s strike.


    In the next few seconds, Sera and Bea perfectly altered between attacks. The woman used all her power to defend or evade their attacks, but she got no chance to retaliate, and it was only a question of time when the first strike would go through.


    Sera''s glaive gave her the first wound. A clear cut on her upper arm appeared, and got cauterized by Sera''s cleansing flames.


    After the first wound, the next two appeared within a few seconds. While Sera attacked, Bea moved to the side and slide behind their opponent. She cut the back of both thighs of the woman, seriously restricting her movements.


    They started to heal fairly quickly, but without their healer, it would take too long. Sera and Bea didn''t give a breather to the woman, and continued their onslaught.


    By the time the other Transcended came to help their comrade, she already gathered dozens of wounds. None were life threatening, but they all limited her range of moves.


    The first to arrive was the beetle woman. Sera finally saw her transformation and whished she hadn''t. Hundreds of fist-sized dark purple angry beetles flew towards them.


    With her flames Sera tried to kill them, but only a few got burned. It was like their chitin armor had a strong flame resistance, which made sense.


    Unlike the southern army, they specifically sent this army to kill her. The Central Command wouldn''t be dumb enough to send people with clear weaknesses towards her abilities.


    They dispatched Transcended whose powers can restrict her own. It would''ve been a great plan, but they miscalculated. None of them knew of Bea, Damien, and the others.


    Their potential and power level came as a surprise to these six killers, and with them being distracted, Sera could take out their healer and communicator with ease.


    Without him, their overwhelming suppression came to a halt. Adding Sera and Kastral into the mix, the easy battle turned into a losing combat quickly.


    Sera tried her best to stop the approaching swarm, but her crowd control failed, and she didn''t want to explode the platform. But since the fight became more focused and chaotic, other''s from their group arrived to help.


    First, a cloud of freezing air hit the swarm. It did no damage to them, but their wings froze solid, stopping their movement. The cloud stayed persistent, and the water vapor in the air electrified, as the twins sent an especially powerful bolt into it.


    Sera, Kastral, and Bea fought with the toad, not making much progress, but keeping the noxious gases away from everybody else. The three of them were immune to its poison for various reasons.


    Sera''s and Kastral''s flames cleansed their bodies from any debuffs and harmful effects. Bea just simply healed faster than the damage applied.


    Damien, the twins, and Cass fought against the beetle woman. They were making much better progress than Sera''s team, but the end of their fight was nowhere near.


    Out of the three, Lucy and Kim had the easiest fight. The already crippled woman didn''t last long against their onslaught of attacks.


    Kim also began the petrification process on her, and after a few dozen seconds, her legs gave out. At some point, she tried to change her balance, but her feet and ankles were already stone.


    With a clean cut, Kim got rid of those pesky outcroppings. But before the woman could even hit the ground, Lucy''s scythe cut her head off, too.


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    She did the exact same process of absorbing her corpse, and with it, her power grew. By the time she left the shrivelled headless, feetless corpse behind, the Essence of Life and Death was her personal companion.


    Lucy ran straight at the beetle woman, and before anybody could react, her scythe passed through her impenetrable armor, killing her on the spot.


    The potent essence entered her body, but she absorbed it too fast. She felt lightheaded, and Damien had to catch her before she fell over.


    While Lucy struggled with empowering herself, the fight with the toad was coming to its end. As a bait, Kastral flew into the sky, letting the toad target him.


    It turned towards the hippogryph and shot its enormous tongue at him. Before it could''ve reached him, Sera intercepted the tongue, and as the toad''s eyes widened, she used its tongue to spin him around herself.


    The toad lifted off the ground, faster than it expected, and after making a few circles, Sera let go. It went into the sky, flying away, but Kastral went after him much faster.


    Since they had no way of penetrating its skin, they let nature take care of their problem. In the sky, Kastral caught the toad and flew even higher.


    When he was high enough, her claws let go of it. The giant toad spun around itself, falling with terminal velocity towards the platform.


    They didn''t think one fall would be enough, but they were prepared to do this repeatedly, until they got the satisfactory result. That''s what Sera and Kastral thought, anyway. Lucy had other ideas, though.


    When she assimilated both Transcended''s essences, her eyes went to the falling toad. Her grin widened as she took a step forward. On her back, a pair of dark green smoke wings appeared.


    With her scythe, she flew into the sky, straight at the falling toad. The poor Transcended could do nothing as death approached it.


    Lucy''s scythe passed through its body, cutting it cleanly in two. A shower of purple blood covered Lucy''s body, as the last of the six Transcended finally died.