In a mesmerizing spectacle, they all simultaneously launched their attacks towards the duo, charging with powerful magic and skills.
Multiple intricate magic circles radiated with brilliance, encircling the two teenagers as their opponents unleashed their devastating abilities.
Each attack held enough power to turn blocks of high-rise buildings to smithereens and decimate everything within kilometres.
The ambient spirits intervened for Evan's sake, drawing up the power of nature to interfere with some of the attacks, but there was a limit to how much they could do given they were not contracted to Evan.
However, amidst this chaotic display, Evan and Eliza remained motionless.
Evan's grey irises locked with Eliza's sapphire eyes in perfect understanding, their unspoken communication guiding their actions.
Without uttering a word, their lips parted ever so slightly as they called upon their respective skills with a synchronized resonance.
"Life Energy Draining Prison." "Glacial Annihilation."
The end result was nothing short of devastating.
The winged demons, fused demonic hand members, and those unfortunate souls caught on the ground were subjected to the full force of the combined skills.
Two three-ringed magic circles manifested above and below, spanning outward with Eliza and Evan as the centre point and establishing magic power in twelve focal points around them, forming massive a Dodecagon.
Pillars of light rose up from those magic power points, pillars of light rose up and joined the two magic circles together, forming a prison green light that trapped all the nearby opponents.
Simultaneously a torrent of crimson red ice infused with the essence of destruction surged forth and crashed down upon them; the frigid icy blizzard blasting through the array of attacks they sent towards the duo and obliterating everything in its path.
Eliza's life-draining prison began voraciously sucking away their vitality, leaving them weakened and vulnerable.
Glacial Annihilation was an attack that finished off Silverwing, an ultimate technique of the Harbinger of Ice skill.
And to unleash this technique, Evan consumed two-thirds of his maximum energy reserves!
Let's not forget that blessing of destruction was active, meaning that Evan currently had 300% of his normally massive energy reserves, yet he had consumed two-thirds of that in one go!
Two-thirds of that Superior quality energy! Plus, his damage bonuses, destruction essence and Eliza's buffs.
Our dear battle priestess also didn't give the demonic hand members the chance to even conjure up proper defences as she drained their life energy and used it to expand the life energy-draining prison, so much that even those who were fighting Kayla and Milena far away were affected slightly.
The resident monsters of the Giant Bear woods had all fled for their lives, scattering in all directions, including that of Shelde, Lastham and other nearby cities.
The remnants of the investigation force from Shelde who stayed back to monitor the situation could only feel cold sweat dripping down their backs when viewing this from afar; even the A-rank adventurers that were fighting against the fleeing Giant Bears were scared shitless!
Evan's Glacial Annihilation's icy winds sliced through their durabilities and dealt them true damage while Eliza's skill sucked away their Health stats without hesitation.
While focused on trying not to die from the Glacial Annihilation, they could not do anything about her Life Energy Draining Prison.
The girl then used 70% of the absorbed life energy to strengthen the prison so Evan's Glacial Annihilation's destructive essence would not destroy it while taking the remaining 30% into her body to replenish her energy.
Since Evan could not use Life Energy in place of Magic Power as she could, she transferred her actual magic power to him and absorbed the life energy being drained to substitute for the lost magic power.
Meanwhile, the battlefield trembled under the weight of the devastating assault, as their fallen opponents lay defeated on the ground.
Some of them, namely all of the Superior stage masters and some of the inferior grandmasters below level 330 met their demise nearly instantly, consumed by the malevolent power of the crimson ice, while the rest languished within the confines of the energy-draining prison, their life forces ebbing away.
It was a resounding testament to the indomitable strength and synchronicity of Evan and Eliza, their combined powers becoming an unstoppable force that shattered the Demonic Hand's opposition with merciless precision.
Even the Fake heroes were gravely wounded and had fallen to the ground, overwhelmed by the full force of this dual attack.
The fact that there were survivors from this combined attack was only because of the fact that some of them were empowered by their demonic fusion, plus, they were Elites of the First Division.
Similar to how the current Evan could combat multiple grandmasters with his current power and emerge victorious, they would also emerge victorious if they did the same. (Of course, Evan could deal with more numbers.)
Evan then summoned a plastic bottle with a famous juice brand wrapper around it, popping it open and downing the contents as he surveyed the scene around him.
From the corner of his vision, he noticed the heads of one of the Fake Heroes go limp and reacted instantly.
Using blink, he disappeared from where he was standing, leaving the bottle in the air for Eliza to catch and reappeared in front of the Fake Hero.
And just when its head was raising up with its eyes now green in colour, Evan's ice sword flashed and the Fake Hero's head was sliced cleanly in two.
The boy made sure to slash horizontally from the middle of his eyes, making sure that they were unable to capture any images about the surrounding situation.
Without hesitation, he turned his body around and blinked once more, reappearing beside the other fake hero who rose his spear to block his strike.
But the boy wasn't having it.
At no cost could he let the First Finger reconnect to the Fake Heroes and see the scene of devastation around them.
'I can't let them know how strong I truly am, at least until the Lizard Lord Outbreak!'
He activated Limit Break and struck forward with his fist, punching the face of the Fake hero and knocking him backwards by a few metres.
The force of his punch would have sent him flying further but a translucent green barrier appeared behind him and stopped him from going any further.
Right as he slammed into it, Evan's rainbow-coloured vortex crashed onto his body, the whirling mass of aura-powered flames shredding it to pieces before incinerating it, staring from his head.
That same instant, Evan deactivated limit break and blinked back to Eliza's side as if nothing happened.
The whole scenario took less than 10 seconds to happen, fast enough that the languished Demonic Hand members could not do anything even if they could see it happen.
Eliza gazed around her calmly, deactivating her life energy-draining prison as she had reached the limit of how much life force she could drain, looking at the scene of devastation around her.
A lot of them were down on one knee, breathing heavily with blood all over, some were laying half dead on the ground, some had lost arms and legs, and surprisingly, most of the intermediate grandmasters didn't seem to have taken that much damage at all!
The broken artifacts and shields on the floor in front of them showed the reason why.
Even so, their powers had been substantially reduced.
Turning back to Eliza after downing the bottle he had left; Evan wrapped his arms around her again and spoke.
"I really want to return to the Oak Avenue Manor now."
"Huh? Why all of a sudd-?!"
Eliza was momentarily confused but she quickly grasped his thoughts after one look at him and questioned with an exasperated tone.
"Seriously Evan?"
"Yep. Seriously."
The boy replied in a no-joking manner, before giving her a light kiss on her cheek and saying.
"Let's deal with this first."
Right after that, he deactivated the Void step he was standing on, letting himself fall back to the ground.
However, despite falling from a height of over 100 metres, he didn't crash onto the ground violently and instead landed lightly on his two feet.
His actions prompted the remaining Demonic Fused Senior Members to raise their weapons with lightly trembling hands.
As she watched Evan charge back into battle with a smile on her face, Eliza turned towards the other assailants nearby.
However, her countenance had transformed into an icy visage.
Her golden hair swayed in the wind and her sapphire eyes bore into the demonic hand members with a gaze filled with disdain, irritation and disgust.
Even her opponents were utterly dumbfounded by this sudden change.
She held out her right hand and summoned the Memoria from her interspatial ring, holding the spear tip pointing downward as she spoke.
"He was getting better, you know?"
Despite the fact that she didn't speak too loudly, all of them could somehow hear her cold voice clearly, unobstructed by the explosion sounds ringing out in the background.
"And you fuckers decided to increase the corruption."
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