The artifact froze Noelle solid. Several illusion layers broke, and the artifact turned into Nilah. Giana let out a scream of pleasant surprise and the [Boss music] changed to indicate a phase shift.

  Wow that was rough. Agnis said while dusting himself off.

  “Huh what’s going on?!”

  Shouldn’t you know what this is Toxic Donkey? This is Phase 2!

  “Shitty fox! Vinny, Yvonne, watch out!”

  Agnis had started using [Fire Dragon Festival] and flaming no-winged dragons started to swirl around him and flying over to the party.

  Ah right.

  Agnis drew a familiar peculiar rune.

  Silenam

  Giana got silenced again. She reacted by covering herself in frost mana and started to dance.

  I guess freezing you to the floor isn’t going to work twice.

  Agnis shifted stance and used [Frozen Ground] and tried to make Giana slip. Giana was a water user and was a dancer with excellent balance, so this didn’t bother her.

  Overpowered vixen.

  He shifted stance,made large motions and swung his arms. sending frost dragons at Io.

  “Kyle help!”

  “What am I supposed to do against those!” Io was flying away with Toxic Donkey on her back. Toxic Donkey kept flinging poisoned daggers, but they got blocked by the many ice and frost dragons swirling around Agnis.

  “How many levels of overpoweredness do you have, shitty fox!?”

  As many as are needed. Nilah! Ignore Giana, keep an eye out for Vinny and Yvonne. Use foxfire when they move.

  Nilah acted as a watchdog and made sure Vinny and Yvonne wouldn’t pull any stunts. Agnis hopped on a frost dragon and followed Io while interrupting some casts that Giana tried to do to help her allies.

  Io was freely flying around when she got caught in an ‘invisible’ net.

  “Shit wires again! Io try to melt them” Toxic Donkey took out the vial he needed to go into [Toxic Donkey] mode. He opened the jar and poured it over his suit. “Wait when did I get this jar?”

  His eyes and nose got assaulted by the gas that the blue liquid gave off and he started to cough.

  Agnis looked at the vial in his hands. Hmm this looks dangerous, even more dangerous than my blue Scoville Nightmare extract. Don’t think I don’t know that you’re a poison expert.

  Toxic Donkey’s eyes started to sting and got blurry. “Ahh what is this!”

  Blue Scoville Nightmare extract as I said.

  “Kyle!” Io tried to help, but didn’t know how to help him.

  I’m sorry Io but I’ll help him after he passes out. Now what to do about you?

  Agnis shattered several illusions as Giana was flinging charm magic at him.

  Oh, how smart.

  Agnis shattered an illusion Giana had created. Giana was actually next to Noelle, attempting to break her out of her frozen state.

  A foxfire blaze went off behind him as Yvonne and Vinny tried to act and Nilah was throwing foxfire around. Agnis swapped himself with Giana to prevent Noelle from getting broken out of her frozen state.

  I’m sorry but fighting you and Noelle together is a pain in the ass, so I can’t have you free her. Oh… I’m screwed.

  Another illusion layer of Giana broke, as Noelle had already been thawed and Agnis got embraced from behind.

  “I’ve stabilized him. Blast him with charm magic Giana!”

  Hey! This is bullshit! How am I supposed to win against this overpowered combo?

  Giana walked over to Agnis and [Transformed] into ‘Seduction Giana’. Agnis used [Blood and Thunder] and looked over at Nilah. She had done her job and written a rune on Vinny without him realizing. Agnis wrote one on himself and waited for the right moment.

  Permaya.

  Giana unleashed her charm magic, the runes glowed and Agnis swapped with Vinny at that moment. Vinny took the full brunt of the charm magic and turned into a lovestruck zombie.

  Phew that was close

  He used [Fire Dragon Dance] and sent them after Yvonne who was quite close to him.

  Giana turned around and both Noelle and Giana looked wide-eyed at Agnis who had successfully escaped.

  What? I wouldn’t be a fox if I didn’t have some aces up my sleeve.

  Giana was silenced so she couldn’t give Vinny any commands, so all he could do was dive at Giana so Noelle had to knock him out.

  “Troublesome brother!” Noelle stomped, and 2 mana waves went out. Noelle went 7t mode and Yvonne went 4t mode.

  At least Vinny is useless. Io catch! Dunk this over him.

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  Agnis threw a large can of milk at Io as Toxic Donkey had passed out. Agnis used [Accel step] as Yvonne was firing strange lasers at him, and the petals also seemed to have something with them.

  Hmm, my first time seeing a 4t mode. You use those air pockets to jump around, eh? It would be a shame if someone popped them!

  Agnis changed stance and used [Tempest Step], followed up with a tornado kick, creating small tornadoes, followed up with [Blender] and popped all the air pockets.

  He dodged something big and heavy flying at him. [Wind Blades] shot through the room, but most flew at Yvonne, who had a rough time evading all the [Wind Blades].

  Why are you hesitating Noelle you can end the fight easily.

  Noelle stomped, and a strange appliance got formed out of polygons.

  Uhh what is that?

  The nozzle glowed, Agnis shifted stance creating gestures as if his hands were pressing into glass and used [Mirror] to reflect the laser that shot out of it. It broke the [Mirror] and send him flying into a wall.

  Ugh, stupid lasers.

  Agnis jumped out of the wall as Yvonne and Noelle were still shooting lasers at him. His evasive maneuvers sent out [Water blades] and [Fire Blades] in random directions, so both of them had to prepare to defend or evade every time Agnis evaded. A song filled the room as Giana wasn’t silenced anymore.

  Uh oh. Nilah lets wipe out all the mana.

  [Eternal Winter] went out and the attacks dropped. A blurry image appeared behind Noelle and froze her back.

  “Be a bit nicer to your big sister.” The ice on Noelle’s back had a grid appear on it, and the frost disappeared. She turned around and pointed the nozzle at Agnis and blasted a hole through his torso.

  the scene cracked and an illusion layer shattered.

  “Ugh, why is it so hard to detect and disrupt your illusions?”

  Dunno, maybe you need a bit more practice.

  Frost mirrors appeared and reflected the lasers. Agnis got hit by a [Rabbit Kick] which sent him flying, but he didn’t seem to have taken damage from it.

  “Huh? That should have hurt.” Yvonne said confused.

  Well, it did. I guess. Just 3 stacks of [Frozen skin] left.

  “I’m happy so you’re not completely helpless Yv, blow up the whole room.” Giana sung and danced, and 3 different sturdy barriers appeared on the party.

  Oh, this doesn’t sound good. How about we talk this over at a dinner or something?

  “If you make it a date, then sure.” Giana said while sending out charm magic.

  Uhh, I didn’t expect that answer.

  Agnis said while shattering illusions to get rid of the charm.

  “I know, get him Yv.”

  Innumerable petals gathered around Yvonne and a fire [Dragon] incinerated all the petals. Killing Yvonne, reducing the amount of lives she had by 1 and launching her into a wall.

  I’m sorry about that. I hope you have enough lives left.

  The 4t mode dropped as Yvonne got knocked unconscious after getting launched into the wall. Agnis made some movements resembling claws walking forward and the fire [Dragon] turned into a lightning [Dragon].

  “So, this is Dragonvein.” Giana looked around, and it was only Noelle and herself that could fight. “I’m going to do it after this attack hits, Noelle.”

  “Ok.” Noelle stomped and [Crystal walls], [Crystal Domes] and [Crystal Armor] went out as the red lightning [Dragon] crashed into them. It tore through the defensive skills, but it made the color drop to purple when the two got hit.

  Giana took no damage and it tickled Noelle.

  Seriously?

  Giana glowed and used [Grand Sacrifice].

  Oh fuck. I guess this is where I lose.

  The whole party got back up healthier than ever.

  Wow talking about overpowered.

  “Protect Giana for 30 minutes!” Yvonne said as she went 4t mode again. Toxic Donkey got his [Toxic Donkey] mode off and Vinny started shooting poisonous vines.

  The weakened purple [Dragon] turned into a fire [Dragon] after Agnis puffed smoke and made strange gestures with his hands and arms. The [Dragon] focused on Vinny and Yvonne as it had become sentient. Nilah was assaulting Toxic Donkey as she was immune to his poison.

  “Agnis! What the fuck is wrong with this overpowered fox of yours! My poison doesn’t work on her!”

  Glad you like her! Give her a good hug, will you? And also get frozen while you’re at it.

  The endboss Agnis got boxed in and had to choose to take a charm attack of Giana, a [Crystal Punch] from Noelle, or a [Dragon Punch] from Io. The endboss had the feeling that the [Crystal punch] didn’t care about how many [Frozen Skin] layers were left while the [Dragon Punch] seemed the least threatening.

  Agnis shifted his position toward the [Dragon Punch] as Giana had cast a crafty illusion so he had to move toward the charm attack to take the [Dragon punch]. The hit connected and Agnis got sent flying into a wall.

  Giana pouted. “He saw through it…”

  Io flew at the endboss and kept barraging him with punches, which he kept deflecting.

  “Get punched!”

  Nooo!

  Punches started to get through and broke through all the [Frozen skin] stacks.

  “Yess!” Io said as she got fiercer with her punches.

  Whoa that’s brutal, that would hurt if it was me who was there.

  Giana looked at Agnis who was standing where Noelle was standing seconds ago.

  Io got punched and launched away. “You need to put more of your back into it, Io! I’m sorry, but I suppose I have to do this again!”

  A grid appeared on Agnis.

  Uhh truce?

  Agnis used [Transform] and the grid disappeared.

  “Huh what? Well, I’m stumped, well done little brother or... I guess you’re a little sister now.”

  The endboss took off her hat and made a polite performer bow.

  Well then, it’s time for Phase 3, let me introduce myself. I’m known as Agnès Oures in this form