"And let this creep go around doing whatever sick crap he's got planned? Not if I've got anything to say about it, Ref."
Nicole jumps aside mere moments before Volcras can slam into her. She pulls Olympus Wrath free from its sheathe, spreads her dragon wings, and takes off like a bullet towards the incubus. Deflecting his projectiles with her Zeus-forged sword, she attempts to deliver a momentum-enhanced kick right to his groin upon closing the distance.
"So you're Refia's brother, huh? Never thought it'd be possible for me to feel even more sorry for the poor girl, but congratulations, you just proved me dead wrong.."
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jan 3rd 2022 at 4:44:32 AM
Volcras gets a chain lash to the stomach, ouch. He staggers back, before getting Belphegor's powder all over him. While it works to keep him disoriented at first, Nicole's Groin Attack proves ineffective by virtue of hitting biological armor plating, and he goes into his blob form once again, shooting off a chunk of his own mass that contains the moth powder while the rest of him reverts to normal. "Hehahahahahah!"
Refia looks at her hands. Sparks of white dance around them, but she winces and backs away. "Energy attacks. We have to use ene-" She is shut up by a tentacle of black energy shooting up from the ground and wrapping around her face, muffling her.
"I won't hurt my baby sister, but I can't have you spoiling the fun too soon!" The limb yanks Refia out of the dark bubble, separating her from everyone. Volcras watches until she's definitely gone, then turns back to the other good guys and creates a wall of blackness in front of himself, which surges forward to try and plow through everyone up to and including Piovre through his ice shield. There would be no way to stop it with brute strength, but it's low enough to the ground that they can try to jump over.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."A tentacle, huh? Man, I really want to wreck your face.
Too unnerved to make another quip, Sandra jumps over the wall and shoots two chains into the ground, one at the side of each of his feet. Then, she pulls on the chains to suddenly slam down his way, attempting to smack her feet into him.
If he attempts to stop her, as he did before, then Sandra coats her legs on fire Sanji-style and attempts to transform her slam into a series of vicious stomps!
Edited by Bolded1 on Jan 3rd 2022 at 2:24:54 PM
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterPiovre sees the wall of dark and realizes he’s gotta either move it or lose it.
The Italian, with a little help from the demon’s scorpion-like appendages, boosts himself up into the air, dodging the wall and firing his shield at the foe while he’s at it, the shield shattering upon impact against whatever it hits.
With great power…you know the rest."Well, that's a little too late, pretty sure we've all heard that." Belphegor commented in a dry manner as he glanced at the black bubble surrounding them. The Prince of Sloth simply watched as a wall of black threatened to devour him whole, and simply hopped upwards into a bubble made of air to avoid being crushed.
"You are one annoying son of a bitch," With a swing of his katana, Belphegor shattered his own air barrier into a barrage of shards and sent them flying towards Volcras with the intention of tearing him apart, leaving only a platform to keep him in midair. "you know that?"
Honestly, Belphegor doesn't even think one of Asmodeus' kids is this annoying.
"Between having you for a brother and the Queen Bitch of Hell herself for a mom, I'm honestly amazed Ref turned out to be such a sweetheart!"
Nicole flies over the oncoming wall of darkness, aiming Olympus' Wrath right at Incubus. Since her attempt at nailing Volcras with a well-placed groin kick ultimately proved unsuccessful, she sends a potent bolt of lightning from her sword arcing through the air towards him.
"Okay fair," Volcras says to Sandra moments before narrowly dodging her attacks. He briefly buckles as Piovre's ice shield crashes into him, but remains in place and spreads his arms, letting Belphegor tear him up. He tanks the Freeze with a grin that would sicken even a Darkness-level masochist, and finally just sidesteps Nicole's lightning.
"Oh, Refia isn't the only one who's like that. It's just, most of the others who didn't like doing what Mommy asked were either smart enough to leave the family or dumb enough to stick around with their defiance until she killed 'em. Refia was just a pet project for her, to see if she'd get results worth her efforts."
He places a hand on the ground, and the blackness spreads to envelop every surface within his no-leaving bubble, from the ground on which they stand to the sides and roofs of buildings. Then it spreads to his enemies, trying to encase them in the stuff and then explode violently.
"And by the looks of it and the licking she gave me, I'll admit. Lilith got the engine of destruction she wanted, but it's pointed at her with no changing course. That won't stop me from trying to enjoy myself."
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Well, you know what? Forget the kicks, I just want to- Sandra, while leaping back, get covered in the goo and explode... not, but she still emerges with burns and bruises, on top of her clothes being scratched up.
Wipe you out! Sandra raise her hand, and fire a plasma blast, attempting to hit and knock down, or stun, him outright. Then, she throws a chain at him. It has a pointy bit to try to stick into the demon, at which point she attempts to project lightning and fire through it and into Volcras, while holding tightly unto the chain.
Let's see how you handle that!
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter"You seem fine, aside from the fact that you are a sexual deviant. Lemme tell ya, not even Asmodeus' worst incubus is as down bad as you." Belphegor snorted as he maneuvered his air platform, avoiding the black tendrils that attempted to wrap him up. 'Sick fuck would probably take this as a compliment anyways, no point in more idle chatter.'
The Prince of Sloth quickly sheathed his sword and concentrated, his platform avoiding the black tendrils for him in the mean time. Then, the demon drew his blade and unleashed a powerful thrust powered by air pressure towards Volcras from a distance, aiming to pin him to the ground. Belphegor realized that he can't exactly kill the incubus, but at least he can tear him up again and again to help the others.
Edited by cyzja922 on Jan 3rd 2022 at 6:16:53 AM
"Hey!" Piovre looked to Belphegor as he landed. "Nothin' wrong with a little sexual deviancy. Got called that a lot back in my day," The five-century year old spared a glance, before an idea struck him. A pillar of ice was formed under his feet as he shot up, to delay the goop, before he created a ball of ice out of vapor in the air, around which the incubi's energy was wrapped. With his control over ice, though, he was able to send the energy directly back towards the enemy by moving the ice within, planning on exploding the (admittedly attractive) incubus with his own attack.
Edited by ISZATSO on Jan 3rd 2022 at 6:33:08 AM
With great power…you know the rest.Aftermath
Thranix considered himself a resourceful individual, but not especially book-smart — and yet, he was wise enough to know that the trauma in those bones would never truly leave them. He turned his back to the parts... and walked face first into Hadraniel, causing both to stumble back slightly.
"My apologies, I shouldn't have been so close."
"Eh, I shoulda watched where I was going, don't worry."
Hadraniel nodded, and then snapped his fingers. The corpse behind them began to dissolve away into ashes, which faded into motes of mana that rejoined the pulsing flow of the cosmos. All that was left was a tiny, glowing orb — golden, charged with the power of reality.
"I will make sure that this is passed on to a worthy keeper — your world need not suffer any further, Other... uh... Other Megan. ...That didn't sound official, I'm very sorry. I will also be sure to return your war-machine to you, Megan."
The Dreamwalker stiffled a laugh, and simply said, "Don't worry about it!"
"I have some time before that needs to be dealt with. Until then, payment is in order. Select what you like from the hoard on the other side of the portal — my servants have been working to move everything to a more manageable spot. If you feel... particularly unclean raiding that hoard though, let me know if there's anything you might like. I should have similar items in my own treasury."
With that, Hadraniel and Zophiel exited through the portal. Thranix and the Dreamwalker followed close behind, leaving just Megan there.
...
Well for a moment at least.
Hadraniel speed-walked back through a moment later, carrying a supply of hybrid healing and stamina potions for Megumin and Sporacles.
"Can't believe I almost forgot about these two...," he mumbled as he gave them a vial each of the potion.
—
"Yeah, I didn't figure I'd get these back either. Hadraniel had been putting me through some training drills with that potion to make sure it would work before, and this... well, this hadn't happened before now. Wonder if it's a side effect of this place...?"
She gazed around, now able to properly admire the grandeur and infinite majesty of Yggdrasil without having to worry about anyone trying to kill her.
"My tail...? Hmmm... maybe! I get the feeling that doing that might prove complicated, but I'm sure I can figure out something in time!"
Edited by OmegaShadowcry on Jan 3rd 2022 at 10:12:01 AM
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalous"Jeez. What a shitty family."
He then comically panics when the goopy doopy starts spreading onto him once he touches down from his jump.
"AH"
Kazuma points his hand straight down and shouts "CREATE WATER!" in a bid to wash off the fucking goopidy goop on him. This will probably hurt himself a little bit too - that is a torrent of water.
/\。。/\"It really says something when the dude who didn't even know Ref was his kid for god knows how long actually has the most normal relationship with her."
Sheathing Olympus' Wrath for now, Nicole transforms into her Draconic form
and flies back before unleashing a sizable gout of Arcane Fire Breath at the goop in a bid to completely incinerate it.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jan 3rd 2022 at 7:14:34 AM
"Cool," Reyna says breathlessly, giving Megan a thumbs-up.
"Hah! You're starting to remind me of Ref-" Volcras grunts and gasps as Sandra does a Scorpion move on him, and he rips out the chain with his bare hand to prevent her from trying to chain it into a fatality.
He casts an offended glare at Belphegor as the latter speaks. "Hey man, 'down bad' implies I don't get laid."
The darkness at his feet erupts upwards, sending him launching at Belphegor fast enough that the Razor Wind stab doesn't have enough force to send him towards the ground, simply piercing through him instead. Just before a collision, though, he teleports behind the Prince of Sloth. "I have a harem, I just like adding new species to it! I'm a collector."
Anticipating a counterattack, he teleports around Belphegor again, but this opens him up to get interrupted by Piovre's ice ball. His returned energy seems to damage him, but not by very much. He responds by creating a spear of black ice and throwing it at Piovre, cackling all the while.
He looks at Nicole with a creepy-ass grin. "I guess you haven't met her little found family, then. Honestly, you call yourself her friend but you don't know each other's other friends?" He leaps through the air and attempts to nail Nicole in the gut with a dive kick.
"What kinda relationship is that?"
Edited by KiriK on Jan 4th 2022 at 1:53:21 PM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Sandra profits from him taking his attention off her and begins to spins her chain together, using her inherent power, friction and control over lightning to set them on lightning-fire holy shit.
She then proceeds to attempts to wrap him up with the chains, in a bid to restrain and harm him. If it works, she uses only one chain, and uses the other as a flail, spinning it on and on for momentum before yeeting the chain into the air... and tugging on it with her finger, sending it hurling down his way with the power and speed of a meteor.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitter"And 'get laid' is a downplay of what you're doing by a HUGE margin. You should really get a hobby that isn't sexual in nature." Belphegor snorted as he noticed Volcras teleporting behind him. Not wanting to make any sudden moves, the man anticipated an attack to his back and prepared to counter, only to find the incubus teleporting away again and right into an ice ball.
Taking the chance that Volcras is attacking others, the Prince of Sloth suddenly drew out a different weapon: A cross-shaped baton with a gun barrel at the end. Belphegor held his gun in one hand and his sword in his other
, taking a shot aimed at Volcras' spine. The shot was enhanced with air pressure so it can take a good chunk out of his target upon hit.
Volcras' kick connects, sending Nicole flying a good distance back. Upon recovering in midair, she snarls at the incubus, bearing her maw of razor-sharp fangs.
"Oh, don't act like you give a shit about Ref now, dude. Lilith's the only one who's treated ever her worse than you! Unlike you two, I actually care about her! If there's anyone who doesn't have the right to go calling someone out for having a 'bad relationship' with Ref, it's her fucked up excuse for a brother!"
She soars back into the fray, charging something in one hand. With her other hand, she attempts to seize Volcras by the throat, hoist him into the air, and chokeslam him with all of her considerable might.
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jan 4th 2022 at 11:57:14 AM
Piovre hadn’t the time to dodge the spear, as he was pushed back by the black energy breaking on impact.
He had to teeter to keep his balance on the pillar, as he looked down at the fight below. "Two can play at that game!” He shouted, drawing his hand back as what started forming in midair as an ice spear became an ice pillar, about ten feet in length and a foot in girth. With a grunt, he pushed his hand forwards, sending the pillar flying towards the incubus.
Edited by ISZATSO on Jan 4th 2022 at 12:38:16 PM
With great power…you know the rest."Ooh-hoo-hoo, bondage!" Volcras says tauntingly as he gets caught, at this point clearly actively trying to piss his enemies off as opposed to just being horny.
"What can I say?" he says with a shrug, before his arms lose all muscle control via a lost chunk of spinal column. "I'm good at what I do."
As he is momentarily paralyzed, Nicole is free to grab him, but this interrupts Sandra's attack via her getting dragged along and slammed as well. "And now you're just putting words in my mouth. I said Refia's found family, the people she chose. I was just correcting you."
He gets smashed into the ground and promptly warps back to his feet, the hole in him regenerated. "I've lived millions of years, and I may not like the idea of having friends, but I know what friendship looks like. And nobody has a better relationship with Refia than the person she nearly died to protect from me. And if you think her estranged father is the best she's got, you don't know who that is, which is stupid."
Volcras scoffs as the Snipe arrow puts a hole straight through his head. "Honestly, do you think I'd be stupid enough to try and defend my position while I'm fighting you? You'd expect me to back down first, or try and surrender. I'm just making banter because of how boring you-"
And then Piovre's pillar smashes into him and rips off the left half of his body. "... Much better."
Volcras melts into black goop that splats into the ground-sludge, and then a number of fully-formed copies of himself emerge from it.
One of them rushes Sandra with a punch, and she may be surprised to find out that Conservation of Ninjutsu is not in effect, because this blow could send the Sister-spawn flying through several small buildings and into the wall of the containment dome, which will get her stuck as the darkness forms into restraining shackles. That Volcras then melts away.
Another flies up above Belphegor and attempts to spike him into the ground with an overhead swing, where he, too, will be restrained by chains that form from nothing. That Volcras also dissipates.
Before this can look like a trend, the third and fourth Volcras-es simply barrage Kazuma, Nicole and Piovre with a storm of railgun-like energy bolts that could rip through them just as they've ripped through him, and those two stick around afterwards.

Well, there goes casual.
Stepping forwards to meet the oddly dressed man, Piovre groans and stretches his arms, the necklace on his chest glowing a nice shade of blue. Gauntlets forge themselves on his hands out of seemingly nothing, as five tentacles emerge from his back.
The demon Sarchonai has revealed himself, or…parts of himself, at least. The first thing this demon does is, with a wave of his hand, create a floating shield of ice in front of him, just thick enough that it can guard against incoming attacks yet he can still see through it. He wants to get a feel for the attacks that his foe may have.
With great power…you know the rest.