A gamble

The fight was by far much more devastating than the other. The perfect manipulation of magma didn't allow for much space for movement and when one did step onto the harsh ground their shoes had a chance of catching on fire. It was actually a surprise on how these people even survived within these chambers… Perhaps it was the reason for their truly charcoaled skin.

Yet as Ehren yet again was able to land the finishing blow, the body would dissolve into heated particles and wash away. As he did, the magma all too washed away and the room cooled down extremely quickly. Even if it was rid of all the magma the sudden change in extreme temperature could be noticeable.

Now, as for loot! The mage dropped a piece of blood copper as well as well as two pieces of adamantite would come to the floor with a cling. Along with them, was a depraved crystal. Most likely not very safe… Yet still, investigations needed to be carried out before any assumptions were to be made. Or perhaps it'd be easier to leave it alone?

As the end of the battle will occur, the man would to would be pierced by the dagger and with that would come its form to suddenly be turned to ash. "A-are these even people. . ." He wondered as he mumbled to himself. Looking down at his sandals they were badly beaten. Luckily he brought a second pair and with the room cooling down, it would be much easier to switch out his footwear. Glancing around as he turned towards the others. "These people. . . Did the temple turn them into this?" He questioned, his gaze meeting the area till he spotted a few raw materials.

"Guess he might've left us something." He spoke jokingly, motioning closer towards the objects as a group of metals were clumped together, beside it a crystal, something to which he didn't seem intent on reaching for. Instead he gathered up the materials in his arms and glanced around. "What metals will you two like? I'll take the leftover." Ehren didn't really seem to care much for the materials, but he'd take what the others didn't desire. Glancing over at the depraved crystal, somewhat wondering what was going on with it.
(Ehren Kien)
With another of their oppnents falling, Sophia landed to her knees, exhusted and drained, taking as much of her time to regain her lost mana after their fight to prepare to move forth. She looked between the others and their fallen opponent with her eyes looking between blood copper and the odd depraved crystal.

Her eyes narrowed as she stared at it before deciding to look at Ehren and Yeshua before deciding to crawl herself towards it with odd desire in her eyes, just as she glanced again towards Ehren before responding with a fanit smile.  "Blood...copper if possible...but I am also after the crystal...if none of you will mind me inspecting it...these things always caught my attention." she mumbled out the last words while making her way towards the depraved object, soon trying to close it in her grasp before inspecting from up close.
(Sophia Rockbell)
As the battle started Yeshua assumed almost immediate cetus stance and this would land him to be able to fade in and out of attack along with everyone else. Yeshua attacks although had been blocked by the magma itself but eventually the young by was able to land deadly attack along with Ehren as they quickly attacked and moved out, but of course Ehren was way quicker than Yeshua his speed was on a whole other level. Yeshua clung to his breath while breathing under this hot deep compressed place. The battle was going by fast but ye slow at the same time but in this moment Sophia would land this devastating beam and it honestly put Yeshua's beam to sheer shame. Yeshua of course was not concentrated on anything but the battle and this is because his mind when activated does not really have time for anything else. Other than what his changed personality allows him to do.

The flames raged on and Yeshua did get a little bit of burnt but it wasn't anything for him to fret about it was pretty small actuallly. Though it did seem to small burns everywhere along his body. He didn't pay to much mind to it because he was pretty much pumped full of adrenaline.

The battle soon finished as Ehren managed to land the killing blow once more and as all of these materials happened to form of course Ehren had gathered th materials. " I'll choose that thing right there." Yeshua said breathing quite heavy from the lack of oxygen but he pointed towards the adamanite. He kind of fel pretty happy that Ehren even gave him a pick of something when he really didn't have to.

" And I don't think they are even people cause people don't fade into particles."
(Yeshua)
Whoops! It looks like the Depraved Crystal was some sort of trap left behind by the Lava mage! Who knew what it could hold within?! As soon as Sophia touched it with her hands, the crystal would shatter... releasing a strong depraved fume into the room.

Everyone roll for mutations! YAY!
It seems that the closest people are the worst to pay! Sophia's whole body is hit with the fume. As it does, she would feel a huge surge of strong heat energy, as if she was burned alive. On her right hand, a small vein would form, and soon it would travel up her hand, onto her face and the rest of her body. It was as if she had just received Reiki lines, the same ones that tattoo the bodies of Oscuri but it was red and pulsating. The skin around it turns darker as if burned and it hurts if pressed down hard. -5 vit!

Ehren is the next victim of the fumes! Standing a bit further away only a small area of his face gets touched by its mutational properties. The right side of his face would explode in a blaze, yet it was not hurting him much. In a few seconds, the right side of his face became dark like charcoal with small veins of fire running through them. Perhaps this was how these people gained their skin? -5 vit.

The furthest were the luckiest! Yeshua is hit with a much smaller wave yet it aims right for the eye! His eye pulsated and too burst into a lively flame. Once the flame subdues, the whites of his eyes are now also black with the same fiery veins running through them. His vision is the same, yet he would notice that his eye can see a little better in the dark.




As the three pressure plates would be pressed, the ground under them would collapse and all three of them were now falling to their doom. Well, not really. As they flew downwards they could see the inside of the volcano… They were inside the crater now. Magma spewed and only a single structure could be seen. Right in the middle of the pit.

They triggered a rune which would propel them in the direction of the centre and once they arrived, similar runes cushioned their fall. They now stood at the domain of a creature. Blood dried into the very rock they stood on. It seems that this was some sort of feeding ground… Perhaps worse. The earth quaked under them…

Thum…

Thum…

Thum…

It seems their presence has been noted.
how he dies.]
As they fell into his chamber, and he felt their presence.. having felled his greatest acolytes.. the ultimate transgression against him. They found themselves to be in the presence of Blazican himself-- something they likely did not expect, to fight the 'deity' of these zealouts. But it will be so, that much was dreadfully apparent as the molten rock exploded throughout the room, revealing heinous, occult-fused molten lava rolling from the Balrog's massive form.

"Who dares encroach on my domain?.. Do you come to die?! You shall meet my priests in death, within my grasp forever. Fuel my flames, mortals!"

The molten, occultic form of this pseudo-demonic entity was bulky, and powerful. That much was obvious-- but then the terrifying power which this being wielded was made clear as their souls began to feel a tug upon them. Threatening to rip their very soul from their bodies. It was foreboding to say the least, of the magnitude of what they had called upon themselves.

"Do not play with fire, lest you get BURNED!!"

A single sweep of his massive obsidian spear and the room began to cascade with violet lava, threatening to kill the group unless they took action.
(Blazican )
As the group would stand upon the single plate it was sudden and quick as the group would rapidly descend till their bodies came to a halt. The air having left him which forced him to recompose his nature as he massaged the burnt side of his face. Luckily his lips were intact, yet he felt the flesh still freshly wounded. There had to be a means to remove this for with the current ordeals he would have to overcome in the future. He couldn't afford to be in such a greatly weakened state as he was now in. First a crisped lung and now a portion of his face burnt.

It was strange that all his injuries were fire related, if only they could just be cleansed in some manner, but not all things were that easy. Regardless though, he glanced over, the sickly feeling in his gut would immediately sense the danger. "W-who is that." He mumbles beneath his breathe, staring off at the magnitude of such raw power this man would release.

Forcing himself to a stand, he gripped the blade by the shaft and stared off towards the figure. "We've come to put your flames out. . . It's much better this way. You're a danger to existence itself and we'll be putting your spark on ice!" He claims as he pointed to dagger towards him. Without much time wasted, he glanced over at his allies. "We need to be swift, capable. We got this!"
(Ehren Kien)
As Yeshua and everyone else had fell down basically losing grip from the floor they were standing under they were beneath this lower chamber. It was like all that happened to them was that they got lower and lower and it got hotter and hotter. Yeshua had experienced people with some hot breath but this heat was a force to be wreckened with. Though now they were in the presence of this powerful creature he would assume. Blazican himself and Yeshua didn't even know what a Blazican was.

Yeshua was fed up with everythin they had encountered but the wrath encased in his insanity made him hunger for more and his energy fueled with a higher and higher blaze. The right eye upon his head could now see more clearer in these conditions and so he felt he himself had a small advantage.

This creature controlled lava as well.

" I have been messing with fire all day and you know what I don't get what the fuss is about." Yeshua said sighing.

" Your fire will come to an end!!!!!!!!!!" Yeshua said yelling and rushing him with everything he had.
(Yeshua)
With Blizcain's speech, Sophia spread her lips to under her nose, sighing as she held her blade in both of her hands, trying to catch as much of her breath before sending her energy to her arms and legs just as she prepared for another fight. Her entire body ached from exhustion and recent physical changes, leaving her to chuckle faintly before glaring at their opponent.

She knew that this won't be anytihng easy to face, especiallt after what they went through so far and with them clearly being exhusted. She smirked and soon spoke out towards her allies.  "Listen up...if possible, I am taking their blood for myself...so...be nice and try to leave it for me to devour...once we beat the shit out of it." she said with annoyence in her voice.
(Sophia Rockbell)

A fight between a monster submerged in lava and three ants that hurried around him. It seems that they were infact able to best him, and with a final slash the pseudo-demon fell onto his front side and stayed on the platform. Not dissolving like the other two. It seems like he was much more like a being of flesh and blood that simple adapted to the conditions of a volcano.

From his head rolled two things. A crown of horns as well as a ring! The people may choose to do what they want to with the body as well as the two pieces of loot provided!

The battle against the beast was one not to take lightly. It seemed more than capable of handling the three magi and even pressured ehren back on several occasions. Yet this didn't stop his lethal strikes, cleaving against the beast with only a mere dagger his sharpened senses would not dull over the weakened state he met this enemy in. Rather it only furthered to engage the creature with more brutality.

His gunmetal hues would become silted as the feral beast within would engage in violent contact with the beast. The flames that spewed forth, he wasn't feel a sense of dread or regret, but further empowerment. "I-I'll never be afraid again!" He shouted during the midst of the fight. Through the combined effort the three magi were toppling the beast back.

As he watched with honed senses as the beast was getting riled up, the ookami would rush forward, immense speed in his wake as he leapt up from the ground, crushing the floor beneath his footing. Into the air he went as he came crashing down, stabbing the dagger into the head of the beast. A most brutal means to end it as blood would spurt out and begin to spill around the area. Ehren himself, he was covered in whatever it was that he was in. . . Safely of course, or maybe he wasn't. . . Regardless the group had bested the creature and as he leapt from the thing and landed perfectly on the ground. He gripped at his chest, feeling the wounds already sinking in.

"I'll need some time to recover after this." He claims jokingly, a weak smile to his allies as he glanced around, hearing the sounds of objects falling to the ground. "What is this?" He mumbles, walking over he retrieved both items that fell, inspecting them closely as he did. Glancing over towards his comrades.

"We did it. . . The temple, has been defeated." A cheeky expression. . . His silted hues would return to normal and his coughing would erupt from the pain. "We should head back now. . . Maybe try to get something off this beast. If its hide could survive in here, it might make for a suitable enchantment."
(Ehren Kien)
Oh the being was a koar j/s.
As the battle had begun Yeshua charged and was swinging as fast as he could letting his form evaporate like water due to his cetus stance. But the shine of Energy glimmered behind him his wrath was revealing more of a personality of an ancestor rather than himself. The insaned boy attacked with all of his might but he was hit by some flames and had recieved some somewhat serious burns but it wasn't anything he couldn't handle himself he had it all under control. The fight raged on with Sophia's water turning into steam against the demon like person, as well as Ehren's quick poisoned like attacks. They were all three of a kind with special attacks.

Yeshua made sure though to go in when he needed to because unlike those two he couldn't handle the attacks all to well with fire but eventually he would be able to hold this off with building up his durability.

He rushed in once more attack and slicing and dicing but eventually Ehren came in once more with his fast like attack slaying the creature. And honestly it made since to Yeshua because Ehren had speed on his side which allowed him to be in the perfect postion in the right moment.

The battle was over and Yeshua was breathing quite heavily while taking off some of his armor but leaving the important stuff on. " Well that battle was pretty intense." He said looking at the body of the somewhat demon they had fought. " Hey check it this one's full meat and bones." Yeshua said laughing a bit.

There was also loot that was dropped.

" You and I both." He said replying to Ehren. " Yep  that seems about right this place is giving me anxiety." That stuff looks pretty cool" Yeshua said noticing them.
(Yeshua)
With the monster falling, Sophia lands to her knees panting loudly from exhustion and drained mana. She looked towards Ehren and Yeshua with faint smirk on her face just as she crawled towards the puddle of blood that began t oflow out of the monster. She stared at it for a good moment before deciding to take sip of the monsters blood, not knowing what exactly it was, but tried to see if her mutation became deep enough to allow her feed from fallen enemies.

She would then look towards Ehren, not realizing what she did before finally looking to Yeshua. She tried to get up on her feet despite being already  drained, soon chuckling as she mumbled out,  "Well...mind...giving me a hand? I...wasted alot of mana just to keep us from this damned ashes...I am drained..." she mumbled out.
(Sophia Rockbell)



This blood is not suited for humans it seems. As soon it touched the inner lining of her stomach it would burn. The female would be in extreme pain for the next while... until her body heals from the poison that Kaor blood is.

-20 vit for 1 year due to drinking kaor blood.
After dragging herself back to her laboratory, Sophia fell on the neaest table, with her face covered in sweat, coughing and groaning loudly as she held her stomach. before leaning towards nearest bucket as she felt its content instantly making its way out, forcing her to vomit with mixture of her stomach avids and blood.

She stares at the content before groaning and falling on her said, panting loudly as she struggled to keep herself awake, feeling her heart beating painfully in her chest just as her stomach felt as if it was about to explode, leaving her to pass out from the exhustion.
(Sophia Rockbell)