The ground basically rejected the black box. Vines encased it and flung it out, ejecting it from the earth. The ground was starting to break, straight tears were forming. The temperature was rising, the snow in killzone Alpha began to melt.
The box refused to be rejected, seemingly absorbing the thermal-kinetic energy from the vines, and stopping their movement as it continued to sink, fighting its way out of their grasp and continuing its descent. The more the vines and what not tried to fight, the more they empowered it. As such, it did not loose any time from the distraction on its way down, and was right on course despite the vines. It would reach its target soon enough.
Jikore continually lowered the temperature as the ground's gasses caused it to rise. It was a battle of the wills here now, to determine which would win. Jikore knew what he was doing, and was determined to be victorious in this battle. It was his mission, and he wasn't going to let a couple of tremors in the ground stop him. He had to be strong.
With a deafening, echoing boom, and flash, lava erupted in enormous quantities, flinging itself right at the Anrufe in Alpha.
Jikore and Reli both reacted accordingly, Jikore being sure to distance himself from the lava, while Reli seemed to embrace it, as his red electric magic surrounded him and the lava both. It was causing the lava to explode violently, raining back down upon the ground, erupting all around UnStellar, Felix, and Kaley. He was using their own lava against themselves.
The earth opened into a cone, Kailey had triggered a volcano right underneath them all. It rose higher, and more and more lava was striking at them like tentacles, hot as the sun. The force of the volcano explosion would send them flying. Kailey was in the funnel, which was being built fast with strong frozen lava and continually growing taller and even MORE lava was being flung in to the air at the Anrufe. Ash and gases would fill the air, and it was toxic. The ash would render air travel almost impossible. It was a spectacle to behold. Through it all, Kailey calmly perched in the core of the volcano, surrounded by rock. Hey very clothes had melted off, and she replaced them with lava and frozen lava armor. The volcano was an extension of her will, and she manipulated every part of it. The earth fed her more gasses and lava, and she continually dished it out in unwaning power. Wave after wave struck.
It was becoming intense, and despite the constant redirection of lava and attempts at freezing the air around them, this was too much. Whatever they had done, it was strong. Point Alpha was no longer a suitable location for fighting. They needed to get out of the area and attack from much higher in the air, out of the range of the ashes which were rising up for miles now.
A portal also absorbed the black box, sending it into a pocket dimension and closing immediately.
The black box seemed to absorb the very magic around the portal, or at least, was trying, but it would take some time. It was slowly eating away at the portal, breaking down its base magic and using it as fuel. It would be a bit before it could get through, though, so the portal had succeeded in at least slowing it down. It kept struggling, fighting...
The volcano triggered violent reactions outside the Killzone, hurting other Anrufe operatives with earthquakes and tidal waves.
As the effects began to be felt all over the planet, other Anrufe operatives dealt with it by using wards to try to calm the Earth.
The figure, had disappeared and reappeared away from the volcanic explosion, covered in his solid water sphere, with its strange scorpion tail with sickly green tipped stinger. However, He had left, a number of specter runes in the air where he was, thus where the volcanic spell erupted. Considering that they were not physical, the volcanic blast would have no effect on them. You see, he did not teleport, on the spur of a moment, he invest a new kind of transportation. He move from one snowflake to another. He Snow Traveled, being a brand new kind of transportation, there was no way to block it this round. He had brought Jikore with him, working with his comrade.
The Figure was floating high in the sky, well away from any earthquakes of tidal waves. The figure did not need to breath the air, he never had breathed natural atmosphere for the entirety of his life, why would he start now?
Only, the Tidal waves become solid, not frozen, but solid. Nor did they stop acting like a liquid, just if hit would be solid, and as hard as steel. Even if evaporated this water would remain solid. Four huge tidal waves, of solid structure crashed into the eruption, as the Specter runes began to drop the temperture in the local are to near absolute zero, turning the lava to stone near instantly should there be nothing that could counter absolute zero that the area would hit soon.
This temperature spell, would effect not just the local area, the whole planet was becoming colder, as the planet wide blizzard raged, concealing the figures and Jikores location. Even then, there were hundreds of copies, illusions of them all over the planet if the would detect them over a planet wide blizzard and the figure magic signature obscuring other signatures by being all over the surface due to the storm.
Anything Jokore did, the figure would have the illusions do the same.
The moment Jikore and the figure escaped from Point Alpha, he set to work coordinating with Reli's efforts in Point Alpha itself. He began to target enemies, such as the trio who had been in Point Alpha (though it seemed one had escaped), and began to freeze their blood and lower their body temperatures. He also helped to reinforce the planet-wide blizzard.
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This...Sound would ring out through the planet, as the many Pseudo-Magic Cores operating within the Aegis Contingents on world began to activate. It was not the sound of the symbols being read out as what they were, but yet only those symbols could represent what it sounded like even so. And with the sound, the planet began to heat up. Yes, there was a spell cooling it down, created via magical means. Just as this was also a spell, created by Pseudo-Magic. The snow itself would melt, as the Pseudo-Magic regulated the planet's temperature against the magic utilized by the enemy operatives. As well, the Pseudo-Magic, guided by the Mechera controlling it, did nothing to stop the effects of their ally's volcano, allowing it to rage unaffected. But...This was mostly a by-product of the attack itself. Fire erupted in pillars through the battlefields, aimed at the Mechera's foes.
As the new spell came into play, Jikore was sure to put all that much more attention on the spell of he and the figure, trying to override it, successfully quenching more of the rising fires. On the planet, Anrufe operatives such as Red Zero actually used the fire to their advantage. Red Zero began to shift the location of the fire, moving it, localizing it, so that instead of erupting all over the planet, it would only rise up near her, the fire mage.
The Soldiers at point Alpha were frozen, but thawed out due to the above re-heating of the planet. All of the Aegis contingents opened fire at their foes, while those with energy shields operated them in order to protect from harm.
By this point, the only Anrufe left in Point Alpha was Reli, who was well preoccupied with the mass, utter chaos going on all around him to worry about some petty soldiers. As he continued to manipulate the lava around him, sending it this way and that, causing it to explode in massive components, he sent a large blast of the lava right at the Aegis Contingents. It's path would also catch incoming projectiles and burn them on its way towards the Mecheran soldiers.
He was not affected much by the toxic air, not after some time to adapt to it. That was what he did best. He adapted to whatever fighting style he needed to adapt to, and right now, it was ground, lava fighting. The earthquakes were calming, and so was the lava, as a result of the blizzard spells, but as Reli continued to fight, he was using what remained of the earthquake and lava to not affect him, but affect his foes.
Of course, it was hard to fight with a wall of portals around him. So, he was not relying on mobility. He was using the lava to find his enemies, manipulating it to flow through the labyrinth and find its way through the maze. As he found paths through it with the lava, he carefully walked them, searching, as his lava, too, searched. The portals, of course, also served as a bit of protection against blasts of lava he could not stop in time.
The Soldiers, making up the bulk majority of the forces, made up most of the casualties received by the Mechera side, but did damage as well; their powerful rail cannons, machine guns, and missile launchers were all fired at once. The Angel Knights fired off their grenade cannons and their assault rifles at the foes, while the Defenders used their massive, shoulder-mounted sniper-cannons at hit the foes with extreme accuracy. The flying Shields fired off their plasma cannons and machine guns from the sky, and as well, fired their beam cannons directly for the foes. While the foes were just infantry, the Mechera...Well, they'd no reason not to be overkill. Especially with how destructive they seemed to be capable of. As for the massive waves of solid water, once they saw how the things worked(that is, being solid rather than liquid) used this to their advantage. They couldn't really stop it, but after it hit them they were (relatively) unphased; it hit with the force of steel, sure, but these were giant mechs made of a material far stronger than steel. Again, they did suffer casualties, but it didn't wipe them out. A tidal wave to one of the Aegis...Really more like a normal wave, it left them a bit more battered with the extra force but they were able to still move just fine. They fought under the water as normal, the pillars of fire strangely unaffected by the water(though obviously not burning the water itself up), with the [37|=1|23] 'spell' keeping the water from freezing by infusing it with heat once the mage tried to freeze it. Of course, anyone else caught in the way of the water prooobably wouldn't be in the best shape...
Any Aegis outside Point Alpha would find themselves caught up in the battle of heat vs. ice, one minute being frozen solid, and the next, being heated. At the time, there was virtually no Anrufe infantry on the ground for them to fire out, besides the spread out members of the Anrufe, and it was unlikely that any would be found, but if they were, they responded by using their advanced levels of magic to wipe out some of the soldiers before disappearing into the harsh climate. Over time, the vast cooling and heating of the planet would cause all metal on the planet to expand rapidly and fall to pieces. This would wipe out a good many of the enemy.
On the other battlefields, the Mechera used Pseudo-Magic to attempt to fight back the enemy magic(Pseudo-Magic 'pockets' to stop the spell circles from being close enough that the explosions harm them, re-writing the magic in the seals themselves to be redirected back at Zere, the ones set on fire...Er...were set on fire? They wouldn't really melt that quickly, I should think..., using Pseudo-Magic for a 'true sight' at the illusions by making particles of Pseudo-Magic spread around the area in order to determine locations rather than conventional sight, and relying on that data instead), but otherwise fought mainly the same.
Fighting back with Pseudo-Magic would not give the Mechera an advantage. It would only serve in their interest to try and even the playing field a little bit, but the Anrufe would still have the advantage. They were, after all, accustomed to fighting magic on magic battles. It was the kind of fighting they knew best. They were well trained and able to fight back as they continued guerrilla warfare, slipping into the shadows constantly and attacking bit by bit. For instance, the spell circles compensated being limited in how close they could get by making their explosions bigger (by expanding the size of the spell circle itself), Zere regained control of his seals (people tried controlling his seals all the time) and once more launched them at the enemy, Red Zero continued her attempt on making the enemy melt by raising fire temperature, and the illusions only continued to layer themselves over with more illusions in an attempt to further damage visibility. The Mechera were not likely used to this type of warfare. The Anrufe were.
In space, the Mechera would see the foes attacking in slow motion. This was not shock, was not disbelief. This...Was how they saw the physical world. Was why they could react within miliseconds, could plan entire strategies in the span of a half of a second.
And also how space itself cracked and broke open right in front of the opposing fleet as soon as they fired. Their shots would be swallowed whole by the gaping maw of blue, and pass through space of the Mechera dimension for a brief amount of time(about .25 seconds) once they reached the end of the tunnel, before yet another crack in space appeared, this one leading back into the Mortal Dimension. Right behind the enemy fleet.
As attacks directed at the planet appeared right behind the scattered fleet, most ships used their mages aboard to teleport the artillery back towards the planet, while others reacted by raising their shields accordingly. Some used the redirect of fire to their advantage, absorbing kinetic energy of the incoming fire to further power more fire at the planet. Many of the initial attacks were not redirected -- there was no way the Mechera's redirect could sweep the entire radius of orbit.
Both ID-Gates remained, shielding the planet in case of more enemy fire, and also allowing the shots to pass through back at the enemy ships if they dared attempt it.
Upon realizing that the ID-Gates were what was stopping their attacks, the ships merely FTL'd directly into the upper-atmosphere of the planet, past the ID-Gates, compensating for inertia and gravity before preforming the maneuver. Once they completed this action, they continued firing on the planet. They were intent on bringing it down.
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As fire rained down once more, now all the more stronger, massive craters began to burrow into the planet, and much of the Mecheran ground forces were wiped out from upper-atmosphere. A few Anrufe ships dared fly low to the ground from the upper atmosphere, to assist in the destruction efforts. Fighters -- Raven fighters -- were deployed to start digging into the ground below. This assault was just beginning.
The small fighter was now very close to the Mechera Fleet, and it seemed to be unleashing some sort of radiation.
The Torch and River fields were now ready to fire, and they were strategically placed on opposite sides of the planet, but due to the blizzard below, the Torch did not yet fire. On one side of the planet, water began to jet down en masse on the planet from high above. It wasn't simply like rain, it was a jet of water, it's pressure easily causing mass erosion the moment it hit the ground. The planet started to flood, slowly. Much of the water froze, freezing enemy Mechera with it, but the flood continued, and most Anrufe operatives took to the sky to avoid being caught up in the flood.
Decay fields also began to be raised over areas on the planet below, targeting planet structure. The planet was in shambles, with all of this fighting going on. It was only a matter of time before it exploded.
OOC: 2/4 posts till Time Tower Sun is charged, 1/17 posts until Core Bomb explosion (1/2 posts until it eats through the portal), 1/15 posts until attacks cause core detonation (taking into account the various attacks on the planet), 1/15 posts until Ravens reach core of the planet, and 1/20 posts until planet is flooded.
