//I thought the sky darkening was only a localised effect.//
Despite the darkness, Tesla could see Zeros' and company. As he passed them by he shot his plasma rifle into the air and called a greeting: "Salutations."
He then arrived at Bandervil, floating above the ground, and this is what he saw:
Makhno swerved around and slashed his sword at Quintus, but this time the old man was prepared. Quintus grabbed the sword and swung Makhno around (with his one remaining hand) and into the shield around the fortress. The shield broke because of the force and the explosion threw Makhno a few hundred metres before he regained control. Makhno then threw a homing fireball at Quintus.
Crap, thought Quintus. He was still bleeding heavily despite his spells to stem the flow, as he was preoccupied with avoiding further attacks, and was in great pain: it has not been a very clean cut: skin was shredded, muscle torn, the artery in the air was severed in several places, longitudinally and horisontally, from Makhno's very fast hacks (he did not make one slash, but several high strength hacks as he went passed), and the bone was literally splintered, with pieces stabbing into the already torn muscle.
Quintus dodged the fireball, but it swerved around towards him. Crap! He dodged it a few more times before it hit the stump of his arm again. He screamed in pain as the blood loss was stopped by the burning shut of the blood vessels. He became nauseus because of the smell of burning flesh, but only for a split second, as he then blacked out due to the pain from his stump of an arm: which was still burning as the fireball had not yet dissipated. The fireball was still moving forwards towards his centre, consuming him slowly in flame. It was travelling up the shoulder (this fireball is very dense and at very high temperature, and is about the size of a tennis ball).
His body fell from the sky and fell towards the plateau below, with the wolves waiting in the forest below that. However, due to a freak wind, his fall was slightly skewed and he landed on the edge of the plateau, on a sharp cliff, slicing through some flesh on his back and snapping his spine. As he fell down towards the plain near the forest he finally died, and the spells in his body that automatically resisted damage dissipated. As his body landed on the ground it was completely engulfed in flame from the now unhindered fireball, and the wolves nearby scattered.
Makhno, hundreds of metres above, spat down at Quintus' burning body in disgust and loathing. The path of the droplet of saliva arced down with great accuracy downwards, and would be there in a few seconds. Makhno then ignored it and flew towards Melkoth in order to assist Durruti when he reached them.
While this was happening:
Durruti and Melkoth flew very fast at eachother, exchanging many many spell attacks, making a very impressive light show between their bodies as the spells deflected and collided off eachother, and detonated, sending shards of spell in random directions before they decayed (whole spells never decay before activation, but shards of spells do due to their incompleteness).
The two combatants reached eachother and grappled. They each sent powerful spells down their arms, and each had to use very powerful shields to block the undodgeable attacks, and this energy (from the shield and the attacking spell) was discharged as explosions due to the high energies involved: this happens to all shields of a similar type: of course, when the shield is overcome, all of its energy is released, not just some, causing it to make its own explosion, like what happened with Ein at the Blue Minotaur temple. Any impact, however, will cause the shield to lose some energy: those not permeable to air, for example, would be continuously releasing energy as the air particles collided with the shield,, and so would need to be continuously supplied with power to be sustained, and even those not impermeable to air would be having many discharges due to small, but not quite as small as air, things discharging, and air particles less often. This is why all the city defences which are unmanned shields require large generators. //I love inventing physical laws! However, I am sure you people will not mind this one: it seems almost to be aconvention already!//. All these attacks and subsequent discharges and explosions (and these discharges and explosions being blocked by still more shields etc., //you can see where this is going, no?//) made Durruti and Melkoth disappear from sight as explosions flew around them, making them look like a small extremely localised star (but not quite so hot).
Shortly after Quintus has broken the shield around Bandervil with Makhno, two very large spells (and corresponding shields) from both Makhno and Melkoth caused there to be a very large and asymmetrical discharge. This discharge went down at an angle, and struck Bandervil, flattening half of it and leaving a crater that was 30 metres in radius.
And still they grappled.
Haraldur jumped up in the air, transforming back into human form (which was more flexible: more fine manipulator, more opposable thumbs, etc.), above the fissule, and a shield came out of his body, smashing the skeletons down onto the ground, making them explode creating small craters.
As his clothes rematerialised around his naked body, Haraldur pointed his sword towards Abodahon, and he pointed his left hand up towards the darkened sky. In the sky, clouds appeared and started to churn around in a tornado. Tesla and Makhno were momentarily blown about a bit before they managed to stop themselves being taken by the wind. As the tornado's angular speed increased, sparks could be seen within it, but some force, obviously caused by Haraldur, was preventing them from escaping. Then, just as the whole tornado had now been ionised, ripping apart all its molecules and leaving a super-reactive plasma as the tornado, lighting up the sky (and increasing in brightness, though now large amounts of gamma rays were being produced, more than the normal light, and x-rays and ultraviolet rays, though these all were blocked in order to not kill almost everyone in the 100 mile radius) along with the small starlike thing that was Durruti and Melkoth, a whole appeared the the shield around the tornado (though only allowing through the electrons), and it was directly above Haraldur. Instantly one large lightning bolt came straight down towards Haraldur, in an absolutely straight and half a metre diameter cylinder, and touched his fingertips and went through his body. The bolt went through his chest and down his right arm and down his sword and then sprayed towards Abodahon in a 20 metre wide (where Abodahon was) cone, which did two things: most of it went straight towards Abodahon in order to absolutely destroy him, as direct attack, however, some formed a sphere looking like a 3D spiderweb, which then started to shrink. If touched it would release a vast amount of charge into Abodahon's body. //I wonder how, with his metal arms, Aboahon will avoid that!//
Then the shield around the tornado increased in impermeability, and so blocked everything that went in and out of it: so that there was now no wind, no light from it (even though there was still a huge amount of charge and ionisation there), and the shield around it looked like a cone shaped blob. Haraldur then brought his left hand down and the shield with the tornado inside rushed towards Abodahon, and then broke when it was very close to him. The 3D web thing was broken and discharged all its energy at Abodahon, while plasma rushed out in all directions in something resembling this:
Even if Abodahon does not get killed, or even injured by this massive attack, this is what happens to the surroundings:
A crater is made that is 800 metres in radius. This crater is lined with a glass-like substance (as part of it is made from the same stuff that is in glass), and is very smooth (and in years to come the whole area was very popular with children who liked to slide down into the crater: getting back out was harder, but not impossible. Keep note that there is no fallout: there was no nuclear explosion, and so no release of neutrons or radioactive elements: though it was hot enough, the pressure was not quite there to initiate a fusion reaction: after all, it is nitrogen and oxygen, mostly, and some water vapour with hydrogen (but not enough to cause any significant fusion) and so greater temperatures and pressures are needed for fusion than with hydrogen, though if it had been just hydrogen fusion would have taken place. Also, even if fusion had taken place, no fallout would have resulted as the products would not be radioactive), though not yet as it still needs to cool. Apart from that the crater is empty. Around the crater is many hundred metres of burning (and flattened) forest, and beyond that just flattened forest. And a few dead wolves (most of the wolves are quite far away on the other side of Bandervil).
Bandervil, well, the part of it not flattened by Durruti and Melkoth, is probably quite shaken up now from tremors through the ground from the (non-nuclear!)explosion. A few towers have probably collapsed.
After the explosion had died away, Haraldur said, audibly but not too loudly, "What's cooking?"
Tesla unfortunately had been affected by the blast and was thrown into orbit by his own shield discharging its energy as it protected him from its effects. He could bee seen flying through the air as a sort of metoer, but in reverse, flying upwards, as the shield rubbed against the air, heating it.
When he reached space, he managed to keep all the air inside his shield. Now, how would he get back down? Hmmm... Ah, of course, a directly downwards teleport. He looked down: by the time he had recovered some of his energy he would be above Kandarin...
//This has to be the most pyrotechnic post ever! Quintus dies from a fireball and then is burned up (he is still burning as of the end of this post: I am going to put that fire to good use, do not miss it!), Durruti and Melkoth release huge amounts of light and ionise the air around them to form plasma and have huge amounts of explosions, Haraldur uses a hugely ionising tornado to attack Abodahon with a huge burst of lightning and then throws the plasma at him causing something similar to a nuclear explosion, and then Tesla flies up into space as a huge fireball!
Oh, and Dude Man: If Abodahon somehow does die, then the conversation we discussed having earlier can still take place but with Duilin as a stand in.//
