[At the cursed land]

[Lara and Nara point of view]

Mirage mirror. A mirage spell capable of reproducing anything that are reflected to it. The spell main advantage is that, it's capable of overturning the tide of a battle trough advantage in number. Of course, the clone wouldn't be nearly as powerful as the original, and the clone will disappear should it takes enough damage, or after a certain period of time, or the caster mana dwindle or the caster die

Still, given how the curse land is brimming with the mana of mirage, light and dark, the mirage portion amplify the spell further, and since the devil mirage wolves takes advantage of it, the number of devil canines keep on coming nonstop.

One after another, the mirage wolves bare it fangs toward us.

""Sickles of wind. Protect us!!"" [Lara, Nara]

A wind spell, shaping itself as sharp sickles, surround both of us, cutting through any mirage clones that tried to get near us. We put even greater amount of mana than usual as to make it stay longer, as well as to cut down the enemies numbers

""From below!!"" [Lara, Nara]

Or more specifically, from our faint shadows. It's night, but the full moons are bright enough that our shadows can houses the night stalker. A dog of pure darkness, with only prominent part being the full red eyes without any pupils. A creature of pure darkness that is weak to light magic, and so

""Light chandelier!!"" [Lara, Nara]

We gather our mana and form a massive chandelier that illuminate our surrounding, trying to kill every last one of it, but

""Tough"" [Lara, Nara]

Not only it's tough, but it's intelligent enough to use the mirage mirror to duplicate some clones, and the clones make suicidal attempts on tainting the chandelier with it own body. One by one, although small, it leave a blackish spot that blocks the light from the chandelier magic, and just in under five seconds, the chandelier light is there no more

Without mentioning a word, both of us quickly scan our main target, the true bodies of the pack of mirage wolves. If we want to escape from this canine nightmare, we have to first kill the mirage wolves

""Whip of fire and thunder"" [Lara, Nara]

Launching a wide range spell, the whip of fire and thunder hit every foes indiscriminately. From the small earthly jackals to the large three headed cerberus. None are spared from it

~Bark~

The hell hound however, quickly eat the fire portion of the whip, and as for the thunder coyotes, it redirect the attack back to us, multiplying it by two folds, but unfortunately for the thunder coyotes, us homunculus can simply absorb the mana

((This is... Are they toying with us??)) [Lara, Nara]

They aren't like wild animals or monsters, hungry for food, but rather, they're actually toying with us, trying to waste our mana and stamina so that...

((So that the hunter devil can finish us in one go)) [Lara, Nara]

That seems to be the likely case here. If that's the case

"Lara!" [Nara]

"Hmm!" [Lara]

Lara prepare her spell. Gathering massive amount of water and earth mana, Lara first makes a large crater underneath all of them, and a dome of earth surrounding them, creating a huge sphere. Nara on the other hand, prepare both himself and his twin sister adaptability mana, and once it is all set

"Raging whirlpool!" [Lara]

With she herself in the center of the sphere, Lara fills the sphere with water magic, drowning all of her enemies. Not only that, she make sure the water keep spinning haphazardly, making sure the devil canines keep getting slam into the thick earth wall. Finally, fine ice needles are unleash, hitting and piercing the canines at various places. Eyes, hitting the right ear, piercing and exiting through the left ear, in between the toe, some even swallow it. The hell hounds tries to evaporate the water, but

(Not on my watch!) [Nara]

Nara slices them all with his scythe. Unlike Mahsuri or Charlotte, his and Lara power decreases when they're under water, so the strength, speed, accuracy and lethality in each swing of him decreases, even with the adaptability magic help, but since his opponents are in more helpless and dire situation than he is, it net out and thus, each swing of his scythe causes massive damage to the defenceless devil canines

Just as he's about to make one final large swing to finish them all simultaneously, two long tail long paws Ahuizotl, or more commonly known as water dogs, emerge from underground and drag both Lara and Nara with it. The two, late on detecting the monster, were forcefully dragged into the ground, where devil volcanic wolves surround them and tried to melt them down. They try to escape, but the water dog entangled themselves, prepare to die alongside Lara and Nara. Having enough of this, the two chant

""EXPLOSION!!"" [Lara, Nara]

Large underground explosion, leaving traces of muscles and organs of the devil canine, while hurling the two of us up in the air, before landed on the ground rather haphazardly.

""Hurt..."" [Lara, Nara]

The explosion, and the landing, cause significant injuries, especially their arms and legs.

""No!!"" [Lara, Nara]

The hunter devil, suddenly show itself. With multiple weapons at his disposal, the large hunter choose a large axe, and he swing the axe, almost chopping Nara right hand clean. The force is strong, strong enough even without any magical enhancement, it shatter the ground underneath it.

Just when they're about to fight back, two familiar mana can be sense from behind. They distract the hunter for a bit, who also detect the two mana, but

""Oh no you don't!! Space magic: Entrapment!!" [Lara, Nara]

A cube of entrapment chain and trap the hunter inside. It's made without any thought, so it shatter easily with a single swing, but

""Damn you!!"" [Hunter devil]

The long range water and dark spear hits the arms. It also carries two familiar space mana, on which

"Get away from Lara and Nara!" [Singa]

"Space chain!" [Linda]

Linda chain down the hunter, while giving Singa the chance to stab the hunter throat. He hit the trachea of the hunter, only for the hunter, through sheer will, grab Singa's broadsword out, and toss it aside alongside him. Linda tried to use her scythe and swing it to the hunter's neck, but again, through sheer will, the hunter grab it and slam Linda into the ground, before having his space dogs open up a portal, retreating along with other surviving devil canines.