[h3]Pthumeru Yharnam layer, the Old Labyrinth[/h3] [h3][color=darkred][B]Arrayah, the Black Blade[/B][/color][/h3] “[I]Arrayah does not matter...[/I]” the whispers endeavored to answer Ophelia's questions, as they always did, albeit fainter and slower now that she was not wearing the Guidance Rune. “[I]Just touch... one awakened half with the other... and incant 'Gestalt Truth'... and in an instant... it will be made whole. But do be aware... that its other half... is surely telling Arrayah... the same thing. She is also a champion... she can also make it whole.[/I]” While Ophelia received the lethargic words of the Holy Moonlight Sword, everything seemed to converge all at once. Gerlinde maintained her rabid assault into the far side of Arrayah, while Torquil and the Moonborn Hunter stepped through after her swinging fist had missed, with each of them delivering mighty strikes to her right and left side, respectively. Ophelia stepped back and had her holy blade noisily charge its cosmic energies before flinging them through the air as a brightly glowing projectile. Farren charged in close and lashed out with his Beastflayer once more, this time targeting the wrist of the hand holding the Profane Abyssal Blade. And while they all did this, Arrayah's eyes kept shifting from one to the next... while her left hand and free right hand raised and spread to either side, palms upturned. Even though she now had five powerful Hunters cutting into her, she did not even seem to [I]try[/I] to defend herself. All she did was to move the thin arm holding her weapon slightly to the side, easily avoiding the very obvious blast of energy fired by Ophelia. Farren's strike hit, but once again barely did anything. Arrayah's eyes moved, and focused on Ophelia... no, more specifically they fixated on the Holy Moonlight Sword in Ophelia's hands. Her jaw twitched, causing her overgrown teeth to move and rip open her cheek once more, prompting more viscous ooze to flow. And then – with the speed that had seemed so conspicuously absent from her feinted attempts to ward off Gerlinde and Torquil – she abruptly brought down her black spear, blade first... and plunged it deep into her own chest. What followed only took one second: the instant the Profane Abyssal Blade pierced its wielder's flesh, inky blackness shot out along the floor where she was standing, immediately encompassing everything in a ten meter radius around her, casting it all in deep shadow. Then the shadow stirred, and from within it – from the ground [I]and[/I] from Arrayah's body – spontaneously burst dozens of black spears, thrusting upwards and outwards, aiming to impale everything and anything within the shadow. Gerlinde was instantly pierced by three different spears, while Torquil was riddled with no less than five spears. The Moonborn Hunter had sensed the danger and attempted to quickstep away, but since their quickstep was only five meters they still could not get away in time, and were stabbed by four spears. After all, the Holy Moonlight Sword could shoot projectiles as well as cause explosions... so surely it would be no surprise that the Profane Abyssal Blade had two ways to manifest its power, too.