Farris looked away from the clash between Henry and Zack, no because of the blinding lights, but because of a thunderous supersonic rumble, she felt stirring the still air of the Graveyard. True to her senses, the moment Farris turned around she was met with the Machina fighter jet nearly at 'point blank range' of them.
"We are under attack from the Machina forces, ready your guard!" she barely had time to alert the others of the attack before the plane's nose flashed. Thankfully, the laser shot at them had a small delay necessary for its power cells to charge up, even that split second was enough to let Farris react and erect a crystal wall between them and the plane. Farris wasn't anticipating a laser so her barrier wasn't focused enough to deflect it, just disperse the energy by harmlessly refracting it.
"They are turning back for another shot. Look out for any ground troops they may be covering," Farris said as the aircraft turned around, motioning to strike then again. This time, however, she knew what to expect. Aside from being ready to defend them against the physical ordinance, Farris was prepared to deflect that laser cannon back at the plane in case it fired it again.
"Nothing that he didn't do a thousand times over," Victoire replied to Fran regarding the succubus' commentary on Henry.
"Yet my intuition tells that there's something different this time around," she added before pushing the thoughts of Henry aside for the moment and focusing on the task at hand.
The Blood Countess teleported to another far away location and set up a couple more roses field in relatively well-covered areas. One was planted at a hillside, in the shade of a mausoleum and the other in a dry grove. Despite being closer to where Victoire sensed the presence of a few humans, thus she assumed to be close to the Machina base camp, those roses would have plenty of time to grow before being spotted from afar, being especially shielded from the apocalyptic battle taking place at the center of the Graveyard. Victoire set one more subterranean field, her trump card, in case the 'decoy' fields she has been setting above the ground ended up being destroyed because of some unforeseen Diabolus ex Machina.
As soon as she was done with these preparations, Victoire changed focus to try and prevent any android from stumbling into her traps. Splashing some blood on the ground Victoire summoned a pack of wolves as well as creating more shadow bats to spread around the gloom Graveyard. She let her familiars loose to track and scout ahead for any potential prey that Victoire could eliminate at once. If Victoire could find some living victims to feed off from, it would be for the best, if not androids were good as well. The Countess herself would stay hidden in the catacombs, for the time being. As soon as, or if her familiars found any prey, only then, she would decide how to proceed.
[D. Rose Radius: 240/60/60/30/30 meters] [Catacombs/Underground Coverage: 0.4/0.2/0.1 %]
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