'What do you think, how many of them are ihere?' Nyx tilted her head towards him as they approached the churtrahis pce is even smaller than my old .'

  Leo hummed, an old memory of this building's interior ing to mind. "Twenty? Maybe thirty?" He frowned. "Uhere is a ing gate ihen we're probably looking at something closer to three digits..."

  'Agreed,' she purred, lig her muzzle. 'Hopefully, there is one here. They just might mao eain us.'

  He rolled his eyes, pausing a few feet away from the half-open doors. "I swear, yetting more bloodthirsty with each hour. What's up with that?"

  Nyx shot him a dry look. 'I'm still a Voidling. It's in my nature. Maybe you would feel the same if you hadn't forced your bloodlust into hibernation."

  Leo opened his mouth to speak, only to close it again. "Okay... Fair," he finally grumbled out. "Though I still think you're taking it to the extreme. Those Soullings are weak. Nothing to be excited about."

  'That's your opinion, not mihe feline gave him her equivalent of a shrug. 'Now, do you want to knock, or should I?'

  He sighed, shaking his head lightly. "Go ahead," he stepped aside. "They won't e outside anyway. Of that, I'm pretty sure."

  'We'll see about that,' Nyx huffed as she passed by him and sat down in front of the mangled doors half covered iilim. 'Watd learn.'

  Choosing not to ent, Leo took a few more steps bad observed about a dozen shadow tendrils rushing out of her body. They all struck the door at different pces, going straight through the old wood and Void matter.

  You've got to be kidding me. His eyes widened a bit.

  'Not at all,' Nyx sniggered and pulled with all her strength, both physical aal.

  The entrance groa first, the crag of wood filling the area. The low popping and bubbling of Vetilim soon joihe noise as the entire door moved. Yet it wasn't enough, and so with a roar more powerful than any other, the feline pulled again, her cws digging into the ground.

  The entrance shook for o time before exploding into pieces, shooting debris in their dire. Nothing remained of the door apart from a big hole, illuminated by all kinds of light ing from the inside.

  "Well," Leo grimaced, removing a blob of Vetilim from his head. "You definitely got their attention. Good job."

  Warning! of Soullings is reag to the invasion. Forced awakening of inplete Soulfme in progress. Good luck, survivor.

  Soulfme? He shook his head just as two Voidlings appeared in the hole. Ah whatever. I will find out soon anyway.

  Reinfort filled his body, standing firm as the final line of defense against Soullings. At the same time, pure Essence covered his hands, the thin yer providing him with the tool required for the part of his pn.

  Nyx! Leo called out, taking the first step towards the Voidlings. Leave those two to me. You go have fun. Just don't go too deep. Wait for me.

  'Got it!'

  The feline slipped past the two Soullings with grace the beasts could never match. They still tried to turn, probably hoping to hit Nyx in the back, but it was too te.

  Leo pounced owo, and with his prote active, they ood a ce. Hell, even if they faced him head-on, the result would still be the same.

  Minor Takeover.

  It took barely a blink for the link to appear in his head, for the teique to settle deep in the Voidlings' souls. It destroyed every bit of loyalty they held for their and subdued their instincts. There was no pce for wild, untrolled as when they had orders to listen.

  Find the empty building and hide there. Don't e out until I call for you. To no one's surprise, the Soullings gave Leo a shallow bow and floated away from the church. That's part one of the pn. Now, to finish it.

  Furious squeaks and shrills of pain echoed out of the operance, aook them as an invitation. With his skills still active, his bdes snapped out, the usual bck fsh swallowing them whole.

  He burst into the Vetilim-ed church, his eyes instantly falling on the multiple bodies on the floor. They still glowed with all the colors of the rainbow, but with each sed, the light dimmed as the corpses shrunk into themselves.

  A bit to his right, Nyx ran around a small army of Soullings. Whehe monsters got close, she just drifted away at the st moment, her rge body notwithstanding. As she did that, her shadow tendrils and other structs fought for her, giving the feline all the time she wao py with the slow, colorful blobs of Essence.

  Leo chuckled and averted his gaze. No reason to cut into her fun while there lenty more iing stuff here. Like for example, the other dozen or so Soullings floating around in panic or the colosal mass of swirling lights h where the main altar should be.

  That's got to be the Soulfme. It's eveing power from the tower. Leo mused, notig the stant river of crimson energy flowing down from the ceiling onto the rge struct. This must be the Mirage's role here. Curious.

  Despite wanting to ihe Soulfme right away, all the monsters in the area moved to intercept him. He even stumbled a bit as an invisible force hit him in the chest. Yet that was all it did.

  Leo rolled his eyes and summoned a whole arsenal of shadow spears above his head. As quick as they appeared, they shot forward even faster, finding a new home in the bodies of the Soullings. Some died instantly while others pushed onward, their pained squeaks filling the air.

  Yeah. No. He snorted, sending another volley at them. This time, all the Voidlings crumbled to the floor, their light dimming. Anyone else?

  As if they heard him, the remaining Soullings, even those still fighting Nyx, retreated. Like one unit, they flew towards the swirling mass of energy and jumped iheir bodies disiing on impact.

  Huh. Didn't expect that.

  'You ruined my fun,' Nyx whined as she sat beside him. 'Why did you kill them all at once?'

  Leo arched an eyebrow. "Weren't you the one who said we could up this p five minutes?"

  The feline scowled. 'I ged my mind.'

  Of course, you did. He remarked, rolling his eyes — a gesture that had bee increasingly frequent over the past two days. "Whatever you say... Now, focus up. I think this might be more eaining than some glowing on fodder."

  During their short exge, the mass of power in the distance remained anything but idle. Almost like it was breathing, the mass stricted before expanding again. The swirling colors i mixed, slowly settling for a deep purple. Only when that happened did the movement stop, and the eity desded to the ground in a spsh.

  Leo blihinking that maybe something had gone wrong. But suddenly, the blue liquid rose, ref into a floating giant slime. The thing even had weak fmes lig at its heavy body.

  Definitely curious.

  Soulfme (Voidling) | Rank: E- | LVL: 17 | Type: Soul, Aerial, Fire

  And it's weak... Leo sighed, a shadow wall meeting a wave of blue fire released by the Voidling. It just washed over his affinity, not even doing a bit of damage. Yeah. Really weak.

  heless, they couldn't leave now, or at least Nyx didn't want to. The feline already bouowards the Soulfme, ons of shadows f behihe wild Voidling tried to hit her with wisps of fmes, but just like with any other projectile, she dodged out of the way.

  For a moment, Leo thought of just letting her deal with the slime, but then an idea entered his head. He flipped a swit his soul, and the two -scythes materialized in his hands, the on already ed by the Kiss of Death.

  Without moving from his spot, he spun both s ahem go just as Nyx reached the Soulfme. Her projectiles slid into its massive body, but apart from a few squeaks, the beast didn't seem hurt.

  Not for much longer.

  The Bdes of ed Inferno sunk deep into slime, all but the s disappearing from view. This time, the beast let out a screech full of pain, a call for help.

  There won't be any. Ignition.

  Fmes spread over the dark metal links, reag the Soulfme within a sed. The blue fire dang across its body flickered out in an instant as the Voidling once more colpsed to the ground, howling.

  Got you. Leo grinned. "Nyx! Finish it!"

  Nyx didn't need another invite and jumped high, shadows gathering arouails. When she reached her apex, she flipped, shooting three lohin waves of dark energy right at the slime.

  It ood a ce.

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