[h3]Pthumeru Yharnam layer, the Old Labyrinth[/h3]
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Farren was the first to follow up his first attack with a shot from a blunderbuss straight into the warping flesh of the rapidly mutating thing that resembled Arrayah less and less by the second. Fired from a couple of meters away, most of the quicksilver pellets hit the surrounding flesh due to the enormous innate spread of the blunderbuss' projectiles, but at the same time that also meant it was borderline inevitable that some of them did manage to hit the wound itself. The reaction to this was instant, as the afflicted area seemed to suddenly swell and leak some manner of disgusting, necrotic-smelling yellow fluid.

But while Farren was doing that, Ophelia took the time to follow her completed eldritch weapon's instructions and evoked the power of the Archspark, which switched the very nature of her blade from being arcane-based to being bolt-based. When she immediately followed up this change with a repeat of using the ranged attack of the Profane Abyssal Blade, plunging her sword into her shadow once more, they all found that the actual manifestation of the attack differed quite a bit from how it had appeared the first time. Whereas before the blade emerging from Arrayah's shadow had been black, it was now an intense shade of sapphire blue; still a thing of darkness, yet seemingly giving off a hint of color it did not have before.
The blade thrust up into the monster's body, but this time it neither shattered nor deflected when it met her hide. Instead the unnatural attack seemed to simply bypass Arrayah's skin and flesh entirely, phasing through her without inflicting any physical damage... except that from the point of contact, electric sparks and fingers of crackling lightning seemed to be shooting out and crawling across her exterior. When Ophelia immediately retracted her sword, a fine mist of steam remained behind as the projected blade disappeared.
Though the damage did not seem to particularly hinder Arrayah – as almost no damage had managed to do so far – it was clear that the voice had spoken the truth: her sword had hurt Arrayah much more than when it had been attuned to the arcane. Sadly even this increased damage seemed almost beneath her notice due to her immense and recently replenished vitality.

Yet even though both Farren and Ophelia managed to land a couple of attacks first, it seemed that the abomination's writhing and screeching finally reached a crescendo. Very abruptly the flesh just below Arrayah's left arm bulged, only for the skin to burst in a spray of blood as a fourth arm seemed to grow out of her explosively, as long, strong and clawed as the three others had now become. Her new hand immediately shot out and viciously slashed at the nearest target: the Moonborn Hunter, who had been bludgeoning her hip with a charged Tonitrus. The attack was shockingly fast, even faster than Arrayah had been before, and even the Moonborn did not have time to react before blood splattered from the wounds left by the talons of their enemy. The Hunter stumbled backward and fell to the floor; still alive, but sufficiently eviscerated by the attack to need a second or two to regenerate.
Then Arrayah reached down toward her waist with all four of her hands, and placed one set of left and right hands on what would be equivalent to her hips and one set on her hind body. With a deafening wail that all but completely drowned out the sickening noise of rending flesh, she liteally tore herself apart. She did not cut, but pulled her own flesh and bone apart with sheer brute strength, spilling obscene amounts of blood as she did so. Ultimately her hind body simply collapsed on the floor, its countless limbs still twitching in death-throes but rapidly growing still, while Arrayah's top part dropped to the floor about a meter from it, still very much alive.

Arrayah's hands reached toward the floor and raised herself up, using her arms as disturbingly insect-like legs. And then, in a flash – the speed of which they would immediately realize was that of a quickstep, though its range appeared much longer – she was within a meter of Ophelia, with one of her left hands lashing out to claw at her with blinding speed.