Ngh... they are just going to keep coming... Master, how is your mana?
[Any one of these enemies would not have posed any problem for her. Even the corruption itself was manageable for a time. But... one after another after another, the last few days had been constant fighting, whilst her Spirit Origin was under the assault of the darkness. Her thoughts blurring into a red smear with each push of her Monstrous Strength.
Already, her mana consumption had escalated drastically, and it was all she could do to hold her mind together- to stop her body completely mutating into Gorgon's form. But that wouldn't last long. Her manifestation frayed at the seams even now, as scales covered her legs and arms, golden claws glinted in the light, and wings rippled beneath the surface as they threatened to burst from her back.]
I- might not-... be able to stop it-... I should- apologise for- f-for that-
[Everyone was readying themselves to head to the pillars and put an end to this, weren't they... she just had to move. But even now, more enemies were approaching- as her legs threatened to give out from under her.]
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