As Sasha and Silas discussed what to do next, a voice would suddenly appear in both of their heads. The voice was that of the small, and mysterious, girl Sayo who had been left outside of the base. [i]"To your left is a hidden door. It should lead to a hall that connects you to the other side of the building, allowing you to go up the way Henry went. You should hurry though, as right now our other two friends are fighting a tough opponent. You need not worry about running into anymore enemies though, they have been cleared out".[/i] After that, the voice faded from their minds. She really was a mysterious sounding girl, especially with how still and soft her voice was. Coupled with the fact that she was only Level 5 and somehow in this organization of strong people also was something to consider. Still, the two of them could either follow Sayo's advice and find the secret door on the left wall, or try and run all the way back to the outside, then run all the way up through the route that Henry's group. With their basic running speed, which stemmed from DEX and STR, as well as the Ban Family Foot Technique they could do that in a short amount of time if they didn't feel like trying to find some random secret door. --- In the meantime, Lucian, Mike, and Ren were still fighting against this strong opponent, who fortunately got stunned by a failed casting of a spell and also got clobbered by Nero and Touma for some serious damage. Mike moved first, rushing forward as he activated Spirit Blade to create the highly consumptive blade of spirit energy and used the Tamashi no Ha for a hopeful extra punch. Thankfully he was still a bit stunned as Mike rushed forward, so he wasn't really able to ready himself to avoid despite the large gap of distance between him in the Gamers, nor was he able to adequately dodge at all. --- Mike Attack: 83 - 24 Seishin no Ken - 18 Skill Bonus = 41 Miss --- Unfortunately, despite being stunned, he was barely able to still get out of the way of the somewhat poorly executed attack. Fortunately though, the assault on him hadn't finished yet as both Gnome and Rai now acted, Gnome aiming to help Mike flank Taichi by smacking the utter crap out of him with her rather large, earthen club. --- Swing 1: 67 (Miss) Swing 2: 97 (Fumble) --- Gnome wasn't doing so hot this battle either. The first swing missed, despite two people being in proximity to a stunned, or more like staggered, opponent. The second swing went in such a wide arc that Gnome accidentally flung her club across the room and fell down in the process. It was easy to say that even she wasn't perfect and this was not her time. Rai, in the meantime, was throwing multiple lightning bolts at Taichi, the likes of which each drained 30 MP, a good chunk, but they were pretty powerful from previous experience. --- Bolt 1: 26 (Hit!) Damage Dealt: 10 Bolt 2: 13 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 25 Bolt 3: 2 (Critical) Damage Dealt: 75 --- The first two bolts did little damage, despite the second one being dead on. Perhaps it was because of the man's high Resistance, which was 50, although since Lucian hadn't used Observe he didn't really know this. Rai was only a basic elemental after all, so it was easy to see that he wasn't all that powerful, and just draining MP at this point. The third bolt, on the other hand, hit the man dead on in the chest, a loud cry escaping from him as, probably thanks to his staggered state, the lightning bolt charged all through his body, making him fall to the ground on one knee, Lucian quickly activating the Whirlwind Shield after commanding his Elementals. Perhaps though Lucian would need to bring a bit more power than what Rai had if he wanted to keep inflicting damage, but without Sylph getting to use an Elemental Synchronization technique with just Rai and Gnome would be difficult since, according to what the books he used to learn elemental magic taught about the elemental relationships, Earth and Lightning do not get along, and neither do Air and Earth since Earth is strong against Lightning and Air strong against Earth. "You... fucking brats..." Taichi was gritting his teeth, as he was getting pissed now, but electricity charging through him in that single moment paralyzed him, allowing the Gamers another preemptive strike. One that Ren took full advantage of. "Demonic Lightning" is what he chanted, finishing the spell charging as a bolt of blackish lightning shot from his fingertips and straight at the man. --- Demonic Lightning: -9 (Hit, Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 63 Damage --- Taichi was taking a slight beating here, but all of these attacks were just putting small dents in his HP rather than large chunks. He was incredibly tough, as were those who managed to do a total of 500 Damage to him with just two attacks. It was clear that they were all much more powerful than the Gamers. After that, Ren quickly just pointed, and both Demons gave a nod as they set about to attacking Taichi however they thought best while Ren cast Aqua Arrows once, before chanting "Giga Spiral Bolt" and aiming his hands towards the downed Mage. "Try to cover me while I charge this thing up!" It was Ren's most powerful Skill, and their only trump card, and he wanted to take this man down before he could perform any tricks, like the one that nearly cut Lucian in two. --- Arrow 1: 92 (on die) Miss Arrow 2: -14 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 23 Arrow 3: -17 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 23 --- This man was not only tough, but somehow was passively blocking Ren's spells as well, as Ren could tell that something was making him have a high resistance to all of Ren's magic. It also didn't help that the first arrow was completely off mark, but hopefully a powered Giga Spiral Bolt would change all of that. The two demons, in the meantime, got to work trying to rip Taichi a new one, Galkyr especially, its claws glowing yellow as it attempted to slash Taichi multiple times with high powered swipes. --- Power Swipe 1: -26 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 80 Power Swipe 2: 19 (Max Damage) Damage Dealt: 80 Power Swipe 3: 58 (Miss) --- The first two glowing swipes tore into him, making him cry out, Melee being probably the more effective choice here than magic apparently, Lilim starting on firing bolts of lightning at the downed Taichi as well. --- Bolt 1: 100 (Fumble) --- However, Lilim didn't do such a thing, as she went to fire one, the power she tried to summon somehow backfired, making it exploded in her hand and throw her back, Ren muttering a curse as this happened as, despite having him on the ropes, they were barely damaging this guy except bit by bit, and Ren needed all of the help he could get while he tried to charge the Giga Spiral Bolt. He had MP Potions, so he was going to pour every last drop of MP he had into this attack.