[center][img]http://i.imgur.com/0JQHlYZ.png[/img][/center] [b][sub][code]Germany.[/code][/sub][/b][hr][hr] The skies above Germany were fraught with the sounds of roaring, slicing, slamming, various explosions, and aggressive shouting. The village below those skies was quiet. Well, quiet in comparison. Still pretty chaotic. Inanna thought it was better down there, anyways. If one was very scrutinous (and very generous), one could deduce that the young golem looked maybe slightly more mature than he did two weeks ago. His robes had been further ornamented with a couple of extra layers, and he could summon a somewhat less clueless look about himself when the situation required it. That innocent look in his eyes had yet to fade, though. A green portal opened in the sky, followed by a torrent of water that rained down upon a burning building. [color=darkred][i]Is this really worth our time?[/i][/color] Inanna shrugged. He thought so. [color=darkred][i]Is it even helping?[/i][/color] Well, it looked like everyone was trying to fight the dragon. That was fine. He could just make sure the town didn’t burn down in the meantime! Inanna closed the portal, the makeshift waterfall being cut off until he made another gate in space to a nearby lake. And so he did. He repeated the process several times, until he eventually put out every fire in town. Smiling, he looked back up at the dragon, and his eyes widened as he saw part of it get engulfed in a massive sphere of light. [color=darkred][i]Could that be-[/i][/color] Welp! Time to see if there was anything else that needed fixing. He turned his gaze back down around ground level, catching a glance of… Oh! It was that lady from the tournament! The one with the straps! Even if she looked a bit down, she seemed a lot better than she did after she threw that giant robot. Humans must be pretty resilient. [color=darkred][i]They really aren’t...[/i][/color] “Hello!” Inanna called out, holding his staff in one hand above his head as he waved with it. “I saw you during the tournament! What brings you out h-” he was interrupted by a figure tripping over his foot, sending various fruits rolling across the pavement. He was about to help when he realized that it was like those robots that shot at him in Rio. It pointed its gun at him, and he heard the sound of many more robots behind him follow in kind. He let out a yelp, bullets whizzing past him as he fell into a portal and emerged in the air a few feet away from the crowd. [hr] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/ZFBsm2b.png[/img][/center] [b][sub][code]Germany.[/code][/sub][/b][hr][hr] Seshat had continued to lead the dragon somewhat closely ahead of it before it had decided to speed up, and getting caught against the wing with a reverberating thud as she failed to keep up the pace with it. Her rifle leapt out of her hands, sliding across the dragon's appendage until it dissolved into blue light as the dragon rose higher into the sky. Curses. Well, if this machine was going to outspeed her, she would have to ground it. She checked to make sure that there were no other Nomads too close to her. Her entire suit of armor began to glow with arcane light. A light that radiated ethereal beauty set off-kilter by a growing sense of danger. In an instant, Seshat was obscured by a downright enormous sphere of that same light, that expanded outwards in all directions and enveloped most of the base of the wing. In another instant, the light faded. And except for Seshat, everything that was enveloped by it was simply gone, exposed internals of the wing sparking or leaking various substances. Seshat herself floated in midair for a moment as the torn wing twisted and fell off the dragon’s side. Her futuristic, robotic armor had vanished, replaced by sleek but archaic plate and mail of the past. She spotted robots swarming through the town right before gravity regained its hold on her. Was the dragon just a distraction? What was going on here? The safety of the town took priority, but she was determined to succeed whether she knew or not. She kicked off the wing, sending it falling further away from the town. Her spear materialized in her hand as she activated Overboost once more. She held the spear forwards, skewering three as she came in for a landing. They were firing upon a barrier of ice, concealing what she supposed was another Nomad. Curious. She held her spear forwards and planted her foot on the robots impaled on it, kicking them off and sending their corpses sprawling into their comrades. She rushed over the downed robots and raised her spear high. “SET!” the warrior cried. A crack of thunder echoed as lightning flashed down from the sky, arcing from the point of the spear and into the nearby robots, frying them. She summoned her greatshield, turning around to block a hail of gunfire from the remaining foes. She held it forwards as she charged towards the bots and smacked one aside, sending it crunching against a nearby lamppost. Seshat impaled another robot and then held her shield forwards once more as she glanced back at the Nomad behind the fort. “Are you unharmed?” she asked, wondering if she would have to worry about this one. [hr] [center][img]http://i.imgur.com/ZohkpEb.png[/img][/center] [b][sub][code]Rio.[/code][/sub][/b][hr][hr] Rosie tensed up a bit… That darkness, that turmoil, that inner tension that lay within the hearts of all… the air was [i]thick[/i] with it. He looked around the area. Normally he would be somewhat offended that Sage had ignored him, but he didn’t care. He had to find the source. His concerns were quickly answered by the symbiote’s scream. He squinted as he tried to get a better look at it. Then he smirked. “Well aren't you a deliciously edgy creature,” he observed smugly. “Mind if I have a bite?” he strode forwards. In contrast to Sage’s dramatic leaps, Rosie remained somewhat reserved as he drew his paintbrush and stuck the tip in his mouth. He withdrew the brush, now coated in a strange black liquid, and drew a Dark Bomb next to the symbiote, right in the path of his partner’s arrows. The demon chuckled quietly as the first arrow collided against the bomb, sending pitch-black sludge flying in all directions as the other two arrows flew onwards.