Isaac channeled earth mana and formed the sigil, using it to tap into the worm queen's magic.
This came easily, as her magic was on a different level, almost instinctive—a fact he sensed during their brief connection.
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However, her magic was weak at its foundation.
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If the worm queen had been casting fire, Isaac knew he would have been able to take control of it the moment he saw it.
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?It meant that as long as he used the technique and his sigil, he would have the upper hand in terms of magic.
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Flexing his magic as he flew lower to the sands, his magic started to work.
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Like a wave on water, the magic pulsed out into the worms of sand in the desert.
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The sandworms began to spasm and crumble as the conflicting magic destroyed them from within.
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Some of the sand worms didn’t die out right, but their reaction speed was severely reduced.
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It gave the living worms, elves, and monsters alike time to kill off the slower and newly weaker worms.
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The Spell of Earth also caused a backlash for the worm queen. Her instinctive casting slowed, mirroring the dazed state of her conjured kin.
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This gave Isaac and his elven allies the chance to capitalize on her dazed state.
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“We need to attack her now,” Isaac shouted to the elf riding on his back.
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The elf had been protecting him as he had focused on attacking the worm queen's magic. The sand worms had been attacking them relentlessly as Isaac had flown lower to the ground.
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“Indeed, we do, Isaac of fire, ” her voice was marked with determination, her wind attack raining down on the weakened sand worms.
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“Let me call my kin, Heart of Tree and Bark.”
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The elf in question was destroying sand worms in the dozens, too, but he, too, had realized the daze the worm queen was in.
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He locked eyes with them both, and all three of them acted as one.
Heart of Tree and Bark, now done with the weakened sand worms. For the lower body of the worm queen, the other worms, still struggling from the constructs and the monster wave, now free to continue their attacks.
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A green-yellow glow started to surround the elf man as nature mana motes, and his divine mana melted together under his intense channeling.
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And the spell took shape.
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Several giant vines came from the deep sands, empowered now by Heart of Tree and Bark.
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Some pierced into the worm queen's skin, binding themselves around the worm's body.
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Isaac and Spirit of Leaves and Wind were not idle. He rose higher into the sky while she continued to use her wind powers to help.
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The elf hailed a torrent of arrows empowered by the wind at the worm queen.
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Isaac gathered what was left of his mana, true fire, and his sigil of fire formed.
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The torrent of fire and arrows made the worm queen shriek in pain.
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Her body was ravaged by the combined attacks…
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But as Isaac saw, their efforts were not enough.
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Spirit of Leaves and Wind, and Heart of Tree and Bark attacks hurt the worm and pierced its scales, but not damaging it enough.
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Isaac's flames were doing the heavy lifting in the damaging part. The true flame eating up the flesh and scales.
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However. Isaac was basically out of mana.
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As the attacks continued, the worm queen recovered and sought vengeance.
Blood pooled around her, as blood from fallen beasts and worms alike. It took the shape of spikes and strands, whipping and attacking anything around her.
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Beasts and a few elves that had made it back to the fighting had to stop to defend themselves.
Heart of Tree and Bark, too, was kept busy as he tried to keep his vine onslaught against the worm's lower body.
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But her main attention was towards Isaac…
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Her giant maw turned towards him.
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‘Ooo fuck me sideways,’ Isaac swore. In truth, Isaac was spent, and he could feel himself burning his dragon nourishment by the minute.
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He and spirit of Leaves and wind were avoiding the giant maw. But each attack was getting closer, even when aided by the elfs wind.
And then he could feel his mana was about to run out too.
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Sending another stream of flames at the worm queen, Isaac half choked, then started falling.
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Mana pool: 0 / 280 ( Soul damage ~ )
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Yeah, this felt like he was spent…
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“FIRE AND SCALED ONE!”
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The elf on his back screamed at him, but Isaac, at this point, couldn't muster much energy…
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The worm queen, sensing an opportunity, sent in her blood and attacked.
Some hit, but the elf kept most away.
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The Pain was there... but the sluggishness hit Isaac like nothing before…
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Until he felt something new…
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Something that was quite like mana, but it wasn't.
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It had recently been given to the land and the world… willingly.
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And this power was offered to him now to take what he needed to kill those who threatened it, and its inhabitants.
The elf on his back stopped suddenly as she had started to yell at him, sensing the change.
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As divine mana flowed from the green heaven and straight into Isaac.
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The influx of the mana seemed to heal his wounds and his soul damage.
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Mana pool: 301 / 300 ( Soul damage minor ~ )
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Before hitting the ground, Isaac flapped his wings. Shooting right up again.
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Now empowered by more than enough mana, and it was still pouring in to him, flames started to dance around.
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A blast of true fire arced around Isaac, destroying any blood from the worm queen. The rest of the flames settled down onto the worm itself.
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Now that he had the resources, the fire kept burning, the link between Isaac and any remaining flame having enough mana to keep burning.
The sensation of channeling so much mana didn't even burn; it healed him.
Flying higher and burning his way up the worm queen, Isaac knew he could kill the worm queen; he just needed the opening.
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Luckily for him, the elves had finally arrived from the wall.
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His attacks of fire had burned through most of the worm, and just as he was building up to go for the head, a giant vine shot out of the desert ground… far larger than any Heart of tree and bark had made before.
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Looking down, he could see his elven allies and one more elf, a much taller and more powerful-looking elf, channeling the divine mana together.
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They had made their own worm of vines in a way…, could it give him the opening he needed?
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The worm queen was now on its back, in pain, and with burn marks all over its body.
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And now, with a giant vine wrapped around the worm queen, squeezing the life out of it.
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Isaac gathered his mana and more mana.
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And more…
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He was above the worm queen, and channeling the mother of all firestorms, and he was in the center.
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“You should leave," Isaac said to Spirit of Leaves and Wind.
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The elf was still shocked from the rapid shift in Isaac's conditions, but she nodded in agreement.
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Before she let the wind take her, she spoke.
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“Finish off that monster, Isaac of fire," she said, and yelled as she jumped off his back "Death to the worm mother!.”
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Isaac couldn't really agree more.
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The fire around him closed in, forming a shell that heated him. The flame pulsed once, then twice..., and he shot down like a meteor.
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The worm queen was now immobilized and looked up.
'Death to the worm mother,' he screamed internally.
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He hit and burned through the skull and teeth that tried to stop him.
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And he knew it was over in a few seconds, for the world shook.
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Not in the physical sense, but in the magical sense.
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He was also flooded with notifications.
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Congratulations
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You have killed a world-ending threat.
This achievement has been noted.
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For your contribution, you have been given 5 levels.
?For your contribution, you have been given a title.
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All his skills leveled up, too.
But the last one… would change his dragon life a lot more.
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For your contribution, you have been given 2 dragon eggs.
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