There was a moment of silence between everyone involved in the fight.
Even though the core had received a portion of his master knowledge, allowing it to cast powerful magic and even having the mana to cast them without any care.
It was still too much for it to fight against those 4.
Though she watched how each of them fought and vaguely knew their strength. That didn't mean it completely knew them.
The magic of the undead and the strength of the unknown intruder was one that took it off guard.
One could use magic that penetrated her defense which felt as if something scratched her mind while the strength of the other was a level above the others.
'A need of distance is required.' The core though.
As soon as the first piece of the broken pillar met the ground, that's when the silence was broken.
Under the armored's core feet, a portal appeared.
But at the same time, the death knight turned into mist and closed the distance almost instantly and Agares moved so fast that he too arrived in front of the armored core. Both of them swung their swords at the armored core.
Having anticipated such speed from both of them, the armored core acted beforehand and used one of the golems to come out of the portal and drag its feet inside just before the swords of the two managed to cut its armor into pieces.
The endpoint of this portal was at the very top of the center of the golden sphere on the very top.
"Come forth. Arrowheads of the light. [Mass Light Element of Piecing Light]"
The mana of the armored core spread to its surroundings, creating humanoid light elementals which had no legs and a hood covering their faces.
Despite no wings or any of the sort, 20 of those elementals floated in the air, each of them holding an unloaded crossbow in one hand and a bolt made out of light in the other hand.
While the elementals were reloading their crossbows, Sartan swung his halbert with both hands toward Vanessa.
"Girl!"
Seeing the halbert coming towards her, Vanessa jumped above the sharp weapon.
But instead of simply dodging it, she landed her feet on top of the halberts blade while her body burned intensely with black flames.
With her on top of his halbert, Sartan step forward and used the momentum of the swing to raise his halbert.
Resulting in Vanessa being shot in the air like a missile.
"Elementals! Shoot the dark elf." The armored core was ordered.
Having reloaded their crossbows and aimed at Vanessa, each elemental pulled the trigger and the bolt of light was split and turned into 5 other bolts.
"So annoying." Vanessa mumbled as she used her black flames to create an explosion to move her slightly away from light bolts coming her way. Though it hurt her hands, such a method made her not lose the speed that she was flying.
"Burn into nothingness!" Vanessa yelled as she arrived in front of the armored core with a fist raised in intense black flames.
Seeing that she was too close, the armored core escaped away from her path.
"Ugh! So annoying!" Frustrated, Vanessa didn't give up on her accumulated flames and instead swung her fist toward the golden sphere.
*Baaaaghhhh!
The results were similar to what happend with the pillar before. Cracks filled with chaos flames, breaking the golden sphere, thus destroying the source of light for the whole room.
The armored core having escaped the fate of the golden sphere, reappeared in the air before scanning the destruction of the dark elf.
But before it could do that, it felt an immense bloodlust being targeted at her.
Turning around she saw the high troll rooting his one of the floating pillars and glaring at it with a grin on his face.
Kicking the pillar and leaving a crater behind, Sartan catapulted himself off where the armored core was.
It managed to move out of the way of the flying troll's path and even moved to the side where Sartan wasn't holding the halbert.
But instead of using the halbert, Sartan reached out his hand and grabbed the armors leg.
"Hahahaha!" Laughing menacingly, Sartan made a swing and throw the armored core like a rock toward one of the floating pillars, completely destroying them just like the elemental of before did to him.
Nonetheless, the core didn't suffer much except for its armor being damaged once again.
'A need to change a battlefield is required' the armored core thought as it started acting.
"Change Reality! [My-"
Before the armored core could finish her spell, a dark mist moved through the rumbles of the pillar and appeared in front of her, the mist which a moment later turned into Danzel that thrust his sword at the core.
The armored core quickly change the spell and created the light constructs to pierce the hand of Danzel that wielded his sword.
"This won't work twice on me." Danzel said as he rammed his shield into the armored core's body. Taking the armored core off guard.
She couldn't understand why the undead would ram his shield while she had her barriers active. Doing such with a shield would only damage her armor at worst and the force would push it back and create distance for her.
As a magic caster, that benefits her.
And this exact thing happend.
The ramming shield pushed her armor in and sent her flying out of the rumblings of the pillar, thus creating distance from the undead. What it didn't expect was the same kind of magic as before to harm her core as if someone shook its mind violently around.
"T-This magic-" The core shuttered its words, but before she could even finish her sentence, Agares appeared behind it like a ghost.
"Jakino Mezasi." Agares said as 7 mist mirror images appeared from out of his body and swinging their swords at the armored core, turned her armor into shreds while Agares's swing broke through her core barrier, slightly scratching the core itself.
"Intruder!" The core yelled with its feminine voice as it created several balls of heat to explode around her.
*Booom! Boom! Boom!
With Agares being engulfed in the explosion, the core itself floated out of the explosion while regenerating her whole armor.
But once the armors chest piece, helmet, and right arm have regenerated. An ethereal longsword pierced through all her barriers right through its body. Making it hear a glass cracking sound.
The mind of the core itself feels as if a huge chunk has been cut off her has disappeared and pain that it shouldn't even be able to experience struck her mind.
Before the core could make sense of what she lost and the pain, a dark green mist appeared in front of her body and manifested Danzel.
Danzel swung once more his shield at the core's armor, sending it flying to the ground while activating [Shield Tremble], shaking once more the core's soul essence.
"T-T-his Magic... Master needs to" Before the core could finish her sentence. Danzel fell on top of its armor and pierced his sword into the right arm of the armor and freezing the ground and the arm with ice.
"I hope master Velkir will be satisfied with this." Danzel said as he put his shield into his storage ring.
And with his now free hand, Danzel pierced through the armor and grabbed the core itself with his hand. Activating his new talent [Leech Touch].
Which drained the health director of its target.
Of course, the [Leech Touch] wasn't all that power to break through the barrier of the core on its own far from it.
But the important bit of this action was that it did damage to the barrier surrounding the core's body. Which allowed [Soul Nemesis] to slowly draw the soul essence of the core towards Danzel.
Making the mind, the consciousness of the core slowly bleed out of its body. And compared to a conscious body that had a soul fitting for its body. The core was a construct that had a mind forced into becoming a conscious being.
Compared to elementals the soul essence and their bodies wear fragile but one. The core was completely the opposite. Its soul essence and body weren't one, but they were building together.
And after Danzel's many assaults of her soul essence, the consciousness of... her.
The host of the core took only a brief second before completely disappearing inside Danzel's cursed long sword.
"M-Master..." The core let out an echoing whisper before the core, became a mere construct.
Losing her mind but still containing the abilities of the core of the tower.
And once the core became a mere construct, the spell [My Worlds Will] collapsed, filling the room with light and transforming it back to the empty room where they first found the core.
"To think that a mana crystal can be turned into such a thing." Danzel stared in amazement as he read the description of the mana crystal.
[Tower Core of the Magus: Isabel (Minor Damage): The work of a Magus who created a magic tower on his own and this being the core of his work. Built by a brilliant mind that managed to store a portion of his knowledge inside the core and lost consciousness of his loved one to turn the core into more than a mana generator for the tower, but also a replica of that lost consciousness. It has been damaged by a master swordsman and the consciousness of the Magus lost loved one has been completely wiped out by a death knight.
