[b][i]Chapter One, Desperation in Lingayen, Part Eleven[/i][/b]

[b]Lingayen Beach, Municipality of Lingayen, Lingayen Gulf - 9/25/2022, 18:00 UTC+8[/b]

The volcano was pierced through and through, the molten rock and burning gas within it leaking out and causing the artificial structure to fall apart as it was drained of its contents. As it collapsed and its deadly load was poured into the sea, the sunset gave way before the New Moon, but the smoke and steam hid the stars. 

Tian Fei was blessed with an Arm's Master's resilience, but the forces she had unleashed were running away from her, becoming too strong for her terrakinesis to control, terrakinesis which required her Noble Arm to touch the ground it controlled. She had survived the onslaught so far by tunneling within the earth, turning the soil and rock and sand into a fortress, not even the defenders' Noble Arms could pierce. But even an Arms Master like her needed air and creating a volcano with her powers had worsened the quality of what she can draw in through tunnels and fissures in her makeshift bunker.

So she did the unthinkable and lifted herself out, lifted herself up from where she had nestled in-between the collapsing volcano to the furthest west and the 'Kaiju' construct she had sent towards the defenders' main knot. As she shook flecks of sand and mud from her glossy black hair, the fallen nun looked at where her golem/construct had fallen and realized that it had formed a dam and a bridge that none of the enemies had dared cross yet.

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She laughed out loud, shouting incoherently in Chinese for anyone besides Qingshe to defy her, pulling out her [i]second[/i] Noble Arm, a Noble Arm given to her by the Downward Descent, and which needed her to see the target; this meant that it could not be used inside the ground. Being a fallen Buddhist Nun, Tian Fei's second NA took the form of a scroll that embodied the Anti-Sutra; a symbol of base desires and illusions which entrapped the human soul. All she needed to do was find a spot relatively clear from the dust and the smoke and the steam and she can use the Anti-Sutra on her enemies and play with them all the more...

But she didn't notice that -

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"She came out," Noel said to Nemo as he picked up the latter kid and began sprinting towards Tian Fei's position, covering both of them in his invisibility field even as he shouted, "Tian Fei has been forced out! Repeat, Tian Fei has been forced out! You can't see me, but I'm headed toward her, repeat, I am headed toward her!"

La Luna's Miraculous Evasion (which increased his speed as well) ought to tide him by as he went towards Tian Fei, the mix of physical enhancement and probability manipulation clearing the way for him and the tiny teenager he held to reach the enemy in the few minutes needed for the steam to clear. And as the steam cleared, he saw her, the depraved fallen Buddhist Nun, lifting up a scroll surrounded with a dark purple aura. [i]Not on my watch[/i], he thought as he rushed towards her, and with surprising strength, [i]threw Nemo at her[/i], saying, "Kill her, now!"

If that didn't work, he'd be slicing through Tian Fei herself; either way, she'd be dead. Either way, the nightmare would be over. Whatever happened, the invasion's thrust into Lingayen would be stalled...

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