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Chapter 81: The Red Portal

"Hah!&8221; Arial’s yell echoed, quickly drowned out by the ferocious roar of the cascading waterfall as she stabbed forward A war Aura surrounded her as she focused, her blade of pure light stabbing forward and then expanding

WHOOSH

Stea off into the air as her blade instantly melted it At the same tie section of the waterfall tre for a brief moment The previously liquid ice shook and see to normal for a brief moment

"Now Dorian!&8221; She called out

"Eonfire, covering up the solidified portion directly in front of them The powerful heat from his flames forced this part of the waterfall to re it to transform back into its odd liquid ice form Space continued to solidify as Dorian focused on it

Arial ducked under this frozen ice, into a s that had appeared She continued to stab forith her swordIce Waterfall

A se of the ice

Dorian kept up with his Emerald Flames The Flaonfire, and didn’t require too y to operate, relative to his current Soul Spell Matrix Class

WHOOSH

Gradually, they began h andthe ice in their way, and Dorian’s E, a long, several e

The further they walked under the ice waterfall, the colder it got Ice for in the air as theythe layers of cold creep up

Minutes slipped by

The bridge itself was long, at least a hundred or so lanced behind hi The path they burnt into the waterfall was left open

His head whipped back forward as he threw another wave of E the roof stable as Arial broke throughas they kept the front part of the ice path stable, the rest of the solidified space would re and unbroken

Soon, 15 e!&8221; Arial’s voice was tense as she yelled at Dorian, over the noise of the waterfall

The center of the bridge didn’t seem very different to Dorian coe was the solden floor

Their enemies had yet to arrive

More ress

When they had reached roughly 90 of the way down the bridge, their luck finally ran out

WHOOSH

A sixth sense in the back of Dorian’shis left hand out in a punch His raceful and practiced, the

CRINK

A crunching,out as Dorian s it into the stiff ice wall on his side It dinged off the frozen ice, falling to the ground with an echo that was drowned out by the waterfall

He winced as he glanced at his hand briefly, seeing a spot of blood The steel projectile was infused with a th that he couldn’t entirely deflect The power of Law

"Dorian! Flames!&8221; Arial’s voice called out, in half a panic

She was devoting her full concentration and force towards pushing ahead If she wanted, she could protect herself froress would slow immensely without Dorian’s help, however

"Eneonfire, sealing the places Arial had just melted as she worked closer and closer towards the exit

"Damn We’re almost there!&8221; Arial swore aloud and threw herself forward, golden light searing around her as she frantically stabbed through the ic: Core Javelins!&8221; Siegfried lobbed a dozenwaterfall path He frowned as he watched the black skinned humanoid at the end of the path deflect them masterfully

His Core Javelins were unlike some of his other Steel Spells They would reed Further, they would stay behind even if he was knocked unconscious or ran out of energy, a pery in them would dissipate after a few seconds Unfortunately, they didn’t seeainst the black skinned hu his eyes His javelins could only do so much at a distance He was a close coht Spells that carry heat?&8221; Their only Light Mage apart froroup of six shades was currently standing where Dorian had been roughly 45 natures of the Lightsworn Fox and her subordinate had paid off The subordinate of the Fox was covered in strange fla its temperature to conature

The only initially difficult part was the status of the world around theround fortress were constantly vibrating with energy, s

Thankfully, after they’d painstakingly tracked the duo for around 15 h the fortress, one that was easily trackable The Fox and her subordinate had been unable to cover their trail with the limited time they’d had

Their path was already cleared for them, and the trail obvious This allowed the Shades to race after the duo at a record pace