Villain of my own novel

Chapter 384  383. The Liabilities (2).

A circular hue materialized in front of Core's right eye which targeted those she intended to target. She had literally managed to keep an eye on her allies and her enemies at the same time thanks to her skill, brainstorming everything to use and make it so that it would be her team that would come out on the top, while she rested upon Frostine's horizontally manifested Frost attributed wall that was set afloat.

Neal, Arngrim, Amanda, Dominic, and Belinda also rested atop the slab of ice, before a visible cold sigh escaped Arngrim's mouth as stood up ignoring Core's orders to stay still.

Core merely glared at him which he shrugged and jumped off of the slab; he took out his scythe from the inventory as he neared the ground, just as he was about to land, he swung his scythe vertically downward as if to cut off the force accumulated, and it worked.

The force that pulled him down was cut, allowing him to land on the ground without a hitch before he lunged towards Grace's veins marred back, while the flames on his body flickered as if scared of something, but since Hana was focused on lowering the number of clones marching at her and masochistic Katline, who bulldozed at the clones uncaring for the injuries sustaining, she didn't notice her flames' strange behaviour while enveloping Arngrim.

Arngrim soon passed Grace and Louie, while the former seemed to be immersed in casting a difficult spell. Arngrim stepped into Hana's flames dyed domain in a matter of seconds, but he halted at nothing.

It wasn't long until he reached the masochistic Katline and began to berserk-ly swing his scythe, uncaring for the clones that fell apart as soon as his scythe touched them. The numbers that remained in hundreds dropped down to tens in a matter of mere seconds.

His prowess shocked Vine and the doll who couldn't figure out what kind absurdity his swings were causing, but they knew he was a threat as soon as they understood that he was cutting through mana itself. And to Vine and the doll, who had inextinguishable amount of mana but amounted to not much without it, he was the worst kind of enemy.

The doll channelled void's mana in her body upon Vine's unvoiced command, right as her body was about split into pieces, Arngrim pointed his freehand at them, making them shudder at the uncertain.

"Mana Drain!" Arngrim exclaimed under his breath with a grin on his face;

Yet,

The doll's body still split into parts, but they didn't turn into clones as Vine had willed to, while he felt as if all the mana that cruised through the doll which was taken from his void was drained without even a hint of it remaining in the doll, making him shudder at the understanding that dawned upon him.

Arngrim was the second person to scare Vine after Eshwar, but none of the Arngrim's teammates were surprised to know that; since they knew that even though he only had one ability, he could be as terrifying as one could expect in a world of mana.

"Well, I didn't expect that." Vine leisurely commented under his breath, but soon regained his calm, as his vigorous mana poured out from the depths of his existence, helping in manifesting his domain's manager, the doll, who was adorned in ribbon ball gown.

The doll hugged Vine like a dog that hadn't seen its master for seven hours straight, uncaring for the strange expressions directed at it and him.

Well, no matter what, since Arngrim's attack merely affected the doll, the latter's clones were still engaging against Hana's, Katline's, and Arngrim's constant bombardment.

Katline's skelies were hindering Arngrim's scythe swings, but since she didn't even glance at him when he slashed through them, Arngrim too stopped minding his swings.

"Root + Vine control + Nature Servant!"

WHOOOOSH-!

"GAIA'S WRATH!" Grace roared as her greenish mana exploded out of her body, with exhausted huffs puffing out of her mouth.

While in the state of concentration, Grace had spread her "Roots" skill's range underground while Seo Hana's flames raged on aboveground; her vine control skill caused the roots underground to form spikes that pierced out of the ground at her will, while her nature servant skill made humanoid figures of vines to manifest and fight for her or according to her will.

And finally, her Gaia's wrath called upon a guardian of nature to fight for her. The guardian was a nearly 20 feet humanoid figure purely made out of vines, with a bright bluish green core at the centre of its chest. Hana's flames raged upon the guardian and set ablaze a gigantic beast which was considered to be an ally, but before long, it absorbed the fire elemental mana, making Hana's flames its own without affecting Hana, those flames' original owner.

"One last spell....." Grace muttered under her laboured breath before taking a deep breath,

"Gaia's Maidens!" Grace cried out loud, as her greenish mana exploded out of her body again, split into four ethereal figures which then manifested into reality as leafy and rooty armour adorned figures, that had greenish hue blazing in their eyes as they gazed ahead at those that were a threat according to Grace's commands, as leaves and roots exploded out into existence out of thin air and merged, forming swords and shields that the maidens held before rushing towards the hostile entities.

While Louie glanced behind and noticed a cocoon of vines securing Grace's now exhausted and unconscious body, while the rest of the overgrown vines continued to hold the ball of vines high, aboveground. As Louie contemplated upon what to do with that ball of vines that held Grace within, "She should be ok!" Core's voice sounded in affirmation which killed Louie's hesitation to leave Grace behind as he rushed towards those that needed him.

And the one who needed him the most currently, turned out to be an unexpected person, but he didn't hesitate to rush towards her once he assumed that she would bleed to death if not given a time to breathe.

"Do not, Louie!"