[center][url=https://i.imgur.com/5o9ObXJ.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/5A7C4iJ.png[/img][/url] [url=https://i.imgur.com/MkfZ90q.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/eNfA4dD.png[/img][/url][/center] With Aurelio protecting the coin so intently, Freya gripped and ripped his arm off… [color=4C7D1B]‘AKH!’[/color] Jelena cried out beside Freya, having jolted to and flinched away from the two of them. [color=4C7D1B]‘D-don’t rip people’s arms off like that!’[/color] [color=D53000]‘They’re on a battlefield. If they’re warriors, they’re prepared for it. More importantly, confirm,’[/color] Freya said, taking the coin out of the fingers of the arm and lobbing it over to Jelena while Aurelio likely escaped a bit. [color=4C7D1B]‘But we’re supposed to avoid hurting them, so they don’t hold grudges! We were just supposed to collect the coin…’[/color] Jelena complained as she caught the coin, whimpering as she started to look at it… and then her impression got alert as she had to look more closely into it. The fact that this analysis was taking this long had already clued Freya in as she’d already prepared to blast off. [color=4C7D1B]‘IT’S NOT IT!’[/color] Jelena said while Freya had already blasted off towards Aurelio with dramatic speed, her claws raised to knock him out. It was clear as long as he was awake he’d have no shortage of tricks which to pull against them, so Freya just went at her highest speed to knock him down as swiftly as she could…! At this point, she was thinking she may as well kidnap Aurelio and they’d strip him in the Overcity before letting him go again. [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/PYJSxqe.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/q7NoTzR.png[/img][/url][/center] So, uprooting Esther right now would take an unfathomable amount of force, so let’s say the bottom of her feet were separated from the ground instead. Losing an arm was very insignificant to Esther as she could simply collect any set of branches and just stick it onto the stump and then wood-magic would take care of the rest to develop it into a new arm. A benefit of being composed of the element you’re specialized in. That said, being lifted into the air was a bit problematic, as all of her talents were very much associated with being stuck into the ground. Now, could a tree get motion-sick? No idea, but she was very much not doing a lot until she was flung away by the winds. [color=4C7D1B]‘Woah-!’[/color] Jelena commented, swinging up her arm and manipulating the metal to make her arm extend exceedingly far and caught Esther right in mid-air, pulling the wood-monster in as Jelena then dashed after Freya. They needed to be close to one another when Jelena activated her Overcity Shift, which Jelena was certainly preparing the magic to do at any second! Because the barrier was going down very soon! [@Shifter_Master][@Ariamis] [hr] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/gmRTrWA.jpg][img]https://i.imgur.com/5ZqyPyV.png[/img][/url][/center] So Ronin had come to this little meeting with the intention of trying to steer things towards a better outcome. Hahahahaha, what a joke. Well, at least she told Veronica over the messages what happened here. She really needed to ask Veronica about how achievable her actual goal was before everything else just rushed over her like this. [hr] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/Y8OSnvr.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/OPMf9l2.png[/img][/url] & [url=https://i.imgur.com/iLfQK1p.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/On8BJR9.png[/img][/url][/center] [color=077ae6]‘…!’[/color] Mariette blinked as she was spoken to, turning around and looking off in various directions. She’d be pretty quick to see the new tower that had appeared after a few opened portals to survey the area, and then it became very apparent that she had to move. [color=077ae6]‘… The mission appears to have been accomplished. I need to pay attention elsewhere. Eli can stay for a bit. Tell her anything you need to tell me,’[/color] Mariette said to Amaryllis and Nuncio, before dropping through a portal to an apartment elsewhere in the city, before speaking. [color=077ae6]‘We are being watched. Temporarily discontinue all activity. Nightwatch protocol,’[/color] Mariette said. Her mission control briefly complained about that the second attempt to take the coin could only happen tonight. [color=077ae6]‘It’s not worth it,’[/color] Mariette told. [color=077ae6]‘Nightwatch protocol,’[/color] she reminded, and then they’d simply have to discontinue that. It didn’t seem like they’d get the White Coin. Meh. Only a slight setback, if an irritating one. [color=57a345]‘Er, hi?’[/color] Eli said, slime-girl being left behind here. [@BrokenPromise][@ERode][@Ariamis] [hr] [center][url=https://i.imgur.com/N53ToUw.png][img]https://i.imgur.com/5TcL6Af.png[/img][/url][/center] So, the order was to retreat. Not that Lea actually had to follow Mariette’s orders. Lea wasn’t part of the figurative ladder. As Asengav’s mouthpiece and messenger, she wasn’t under Mariette’s charge unlike the rest of the girls and could do as she pleased. She’d simply come here to finish unfinished business and because she wanted to keep an eye on Mariette’s progress. From what she’d heard, the plan to obtain the White Coin was going less than stellar. It did cause Lea to wonder a bit, however. From the information they’d picked up, it was apparently decently easy to have a Beacon member offer you a coin. That made her wonder… Perhaps it was all so very much easier than they’d considered? Lea found herself another patrol, that had at least one individual of the same rank as Aurelio. Making no secret of her appearance, Lea gently landed in front of them, looking towards them with her elfin eyes… [color=c1eb9b]‘I heard Beacon was handing out coins that purified monster girls,’[/color] she began. [color=c1eb9b]‘May I have one?’[/color]