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[i][b]The fight continues.[/b][/i]
Assisting: [@Ti]
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Despite the cold night air, Yalen felt perspiration trickle down his face. Even if it was just the head, raising a Halassa’s blood temperature to its boiling point was not an easy feat given his painfully average capacity. He cut the flow of power off, the creature now doubtlessly slain. Such a disgusting death. If he had a little more time to prepare, Yalen might have been able to formulate a less painful attack. The act of taking life weighed heavily on his heart, but Yalen believed this was the only choice. There was no cure for aberration madness after all.

There was a sudden spike in ambient energy in the direction of Ayla and Jocasta. He bore witness to a pair of Halassa bearing down on them. Ayla had engaged one with a musical assault, rendering the beast powerless as it began to attack the empty air. Jocasta wasn’t paying attention, and Yalen almost began channeling another spell to save her when she blew the reptile away without warning. [i][color=#FD5E53]Such power![/color][/i] The speed at which his fellow tethered was able to draw and release a kinetic attack of that size was unexpected.

[color=FFE4B5]"That's one more down, b-but it took a lot out of me. I've got your backs, though! I'll...I'll scan in the distance for any more. Gods help us if there are!"[/color] Jocasta was out of the fight for the moment. The others appeared to be handling themselves just fine. Ayla’s situation gave Yalen cause for worry however. She was safe enough thanks to her illusory melody, but the musician wasn’t going in for a killing blow. Her performance was probably too complicated to divert any energy towards her offense. 

[color=#FD5E53]”Hold it there for a moment Ayla! I can help!”[/color] Yalen refocused his efforts on the blue Halassa. He was recapturing the heat radiating from the dead one as energy for a new conjuration. The enemy was dazed and confused. It was easy for the priest to probe deep into the body of the armored tortoise with his mind. He sought a vulnerability that would allow him to slay the maddened animal without causing undue suffering. 

[color=#FD5E53][i]Perhaps I can try this…[/i][/color] Yalen was a doctor and a cleric before he was a mage. Though he had little experience with animals, there were aspects of anatomy shared amongst most land dwelling creatures. It took him a few seconds to locate the Halassa’s major arteries. With his sixth sense, Yalen was able to feel every ounce of fluid flowing through the Halassa’s blood vessels.

Yalen had only recently been granted the special permission to receive instruction in a third class of spellcasting. As a chemical mage he was a novice, but there were basic tricks that even an inexperienced user could make use of. One of these was manipulating the body’s unconscious signals to wreak havoc on a foe from the inside. Using his knowledge of medicine, Yalen began orchestrating the Halassa’s demise. 

Inside the Halassa, a multitude of false signals were being sent to the creature’s platelet receptors. Yalen was fooling its body into believing that there was major bleeding located in every important blood pathway he could think of. The aorta was the easiest to locate, just above the left ventricle. The coronary arteries were also compromised. Yalen made sure to target the blood vessels in the head and neck as well. In a couple minutes, the Halassa would begin to suffer several strokes and heart attacks at once. It was his hope that a sudden onset of brain death would render the creature unconscious in its final moments.