Fortunately, his sister had pulled him back just in time for him to witness the entire battle unfold. It became clear to him that they stood no chance against the warriors from the beginning. So, even if Leif were to overclock his Devourer's bracelet, victory was still out of reach.
This realization meant that his death would be in vain.
"LEIF! THAT IS ENOUGH!" Isadora's scream echoed once more.
However, he remained unfazed, his unwavering gaze fixed firmly on Seig and Evadne.
Isadora could only watch helplessly from a distance, unable to approach him for fear of being consumed by the Vylkr energy. She turned her attention to Leona and Leif, hoping for assistance, but they both shook their heads in response. There was nothing they could do. They had already tried to reach him, and he had ignored them.
On the other side, witnessing the immense, unnatural surge of Vylkr energy raging fiercely in the air, the rest of the eighteen warriors within the building and those outside wore ugly expressions on their faces.
Fifi was no exception and activated her gift immediately, ending this before things became more complicated.
At that moment, Leif swung his sword forward, sending a ripple of intense Vylkr energy hurtling towards their direction.
Fifi snorted. Even without her help, she was sure the warriors nearby could handle this attack. However, due to the situation's complexity, she decided to handle this matter herself.
With a flick of her fingers, a tidal wave of water emerged from the ground.
BOOMMM!! BAANNGG!!
The tidal wave of water intercepted the ripple of Vylkr energy, engulfing it before surging forward. It swept over Leif and the others, dragging them down and slamming them against the ground with immense force before retracting back into the earth.
With his Gearweaver sword out of reach, Leif extended his hand and circulated his nature energy, summoning one of his strongest glyphs.
"I call upon the primal beast,
In forests old where secrets keep,
With teeth of bones and claws that pierce..." Leif's chant filled the air as a glyph emerged out of his body, pulsating with dense nature energy before him.
As Leif chanted, Isadora and the others widened their eyes in shock, sensing the immense power emanating from the glyph.
Glyphs are sacred and ancient traditions among the Four-eared elves. They forge contracts with spirit beasts. The terms of the contract are established based on the spirit beast's rank--whether Lesser, Deviant, Greater, or Noble spirit beasts.
The glyph is then drawn on the Four-eared elf's body, binding the spirit beast to their will and granting them strength far surpassing their enemies.
For someone as strong as Leif to summon a glyph with a chant, especially with such immense nature energy surrounding it, indicated that he was summoning a Noble spirit beast.
"Please, stop! STOP!" Isadora's voice grew louder, tears streaming down her cheeks. They had already lost two gods' chosen yesterday; they would be doomed if they lost one more without reasonable cause.
Nevertheless, Fifi wasted no time and utilized her gift again, conjuring a sphere of water from below Leif and trapping him and the expanding glyph within its watery confines.
Suddenly, spear-like constructs materialized within the water, swiftly piercing through his body, impaling his arms, legs, and shoulders.
PUFF!
"AURGG!!" Leif gasped, caught off guard by the ease with which the spear pierced through his flesh. His blood mingled with the water, staining it a deep crimson hue before he regained control of his body and expelled the water from his lungs.
The glyph before him trembled as if the sphere of water was suppressing it.
However, Fifi wasn't finished yet. She exerted control over the sphere of water, causing it to twirl rapidly into a vortex.
As the vortex expanded, reaching a height of about 6 meters into the air, she utilized her gift to create numerous spear-
like water constructs that pierced through Leif's body at different intervals.
Each spear dissipated before reaching his vital organs, inflicting precise but non-lethal wounds. Fifi's attacks continued until she successfully suppressed the emerging glyph, and the entire sphere of water became tinged with a crimson hue painted with Leif's blood.
Then, she slammed the water back to the ground, allowing it to seep back into the earth as she deactivated her gift.
Looking at Leif's bloodied, defeated body, trembling slightly with his gaze still fixed forward towards Seig and Evadne, who stood behind her, Fifi narrowed her eyes at him.
"Although you are strong, your strength is only comparable to a two-star warrior, who may or may not possess the capabilities to defeat you despite your slight increase in strength. It might manage to turn the tides against various gods' chosen like your kind, but when compared to me, you are not yet at that level or even close to it."
"I can crush you until you become a handicap without touching you and kill you in a matter of seconds. So, if you don't listen to my words and stop your actions now, I will gladly show you what a true Vylkr warrior mode is," Fifi said with a steely resolve.
As her words ended, a surge of Vylkr energy erupted from all three of her Vylkr containers, enveloping her entire body. Her waist-length black hair raised upwards to the sky, fluttering around as if stirred by a strong wind from below, while her eyes gained an inky black tint.
Though the strands of Vylkr energy weren't as abundant as Leif's own, the density and chillness that gripped the air around her made everyone gazing at her sense the ferocity of the Vylkr energy, understanding without a doubt that the form before them was much more potent than Leif's own.
Fifi focused her inky black eyes on Leif's bloodied, defeated figure, who was still only able to move his twitching fingers.
"However, before you respond, I want you to think about those around you and the rest of your race. The various key figures of this territory will surely not take your actions lightly, especially considering the destruction you have caused in the Second Border City," Fifi added, narrowing her eyes at Leif's fingers, which paused before calmly resting on the floor.
