[b]Innocence Lost[/b]

"Everyone's okay!" John said to Rachel as Orky pointed the Anti-Tank Recoiless Coilgun at the Tank, letting loose a swift lancing shell that would pierce it through and through before it can fire its machine guns. It wasn't enough to fully disable the vehicle, but its main weapon was definitely out of commission. Now it was time for John to make his move. 

With a shimmer, the young man transformed into a puddle of silvery-white fluid, his ampoules of condensed mana simultaneously opening in order to add to his mystically-liquified mass, which became a pool-sized wave that crashed into a squad of Ascendancy soldiers with concussive force.

If anyone else was observing the former child soldier, it was obvious that he was still restraining himself; trying his best to spare the lives of his enemies. As Rachel and Orky were granted an opportunity to counterattack, John surged towards the tank, his flowing mass buffeting any enemy who tried to intercept it with the force of a fire hose.

As the Ascendancy soldiers cried out in surprise and sudden fear, they shot bursts of coilgun fire at John, who just absorbed the shots with his liquified mass. He counterattacked with arms and tendrils of silvery-white fluid, which entered the coilgun rifles and lit itself on fire from within their workings, disarming entire platoons of infantrymen.

The small pool of fluid then reformed a mouth, then a head, saying to Rachel and Orky once they had made use of John's rampage to further their assault, "Finish off the tank!"

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Eldrid would follow Stella once she planted 'The Surprise', turning invisible as well. As they made their way further inside, the young man would slowly grow more nervous, as he detected the presence of... Something. Or someone. As a small roomba-like robot traveled past them, the young man would whisper to Stella and Reisus, "That robot is enchanted with Supernal Vision as well, along with two other spells; there's another Mage inside and I don't think he/she's an ally."

He used one minute saying his piece. The next was occupied waiting for Kelan, who, of course, arrived with a bang, attracting the attention of two soon-dispatched Ascendancy soldiers. With him was the Captain, Natasha, and it was clear that the two intended to participate in the battle.

"So, kids," Natasha said, "Let's go rescue Realist. But first..." She turned to Kelan as she walked alongside the former merc. "What was the purpose of that stunt? I thought you were going to fire yourselves at the enemy when they're already engaging the kids - more than they had already - or otherwise launch yourself into the middle of the climatic battle! With this... Can't you just have managed the same effect by going with them through the countryside?"

A pause to receive the answer even as they kept walking, before Eldrid would say, "Mage detected with Supernal Vision some distance to our left; perhaps they're the one spying on us?"

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Snow Cecil moved forwards with his two 'Tayanen in Shells' escorts. Despite the size of said escorts, Snow knew which paths were empty and which were not, and so was able to sneak himself and the escorts closer to Realist's holding chamber. Nevertheless, he and his group ended up in a prisoner's cafeteria two walls and a corridor away from where Kelan and the others were. Looking to his right, he saw the bright beacons of Magic that were [i]Reisus[/i] and Kelan (whose Tayanen Symbiote had a Kaisoken shard bonded with him).

He froze at that; this was too close for comfort. So Snow Cecil prepared lies to greet the Moonstrike people with, lies that would further his goals... 

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