“CHAWWGE!!” yells Punkin, as she runs towards the Legion, with a smile stretching from ear to ear.

“She is fearless like her mother…”sighs Cer with exasperated amusement, as Cer chases after Punkin.

Shaking her head as she watches Cer and Punkin run off, Arwyn opens a mysterious book summoned from her coat and draws out two different pairs of magical talisman earrings and hands them to three nearby spirits donning hooded cloaks. Those two are incorrigibly lovable aren’t they? Toro, Roger, and Nancia, your family needs you. Bring these to them and attach one of each on them, please. Thank you.

“HARHARHAR!! You two are still here? More for me to devour! Shriver you and the little one will be mine!” scoffs the Legion as it launches a barrage necrotizing blasts of energy towards the direction of the farm where Kala and the others stand.

“Guess our job is to defend what’s left of the Apiary and Haeven’s people. Let’s do this!” Shouts Kala with fervor as she raises her beaded bracelet and consumes the energy blasts with it. “I don’t know how much I can consume before the beads are full.” I need you all to build a barrier and protect the people while we are at it.

“Lord of Devastation, grant me your magic blessing to wreak havoc!” Miyas pleads to the sky as she transforms back into her childlike form and takes hold of her ribbon wands and begins to wave her wand in the shape of constellations across the air. “Hehhehe. This is going to be fun!!”

As Miyas casts spells to amplify the power of Kala and the others, Toro, Roger, and Nancia quickly attach the talisman earrings to Cer and Punkin.

As soon as the earrings clip in place, Cer and Punkin are able to hear each other’s thoughts and a surge of energy rushes through their body and pulls at their essence as if being tethered to the very air itself.

Grinning from the successful operation, Arwyn starts giving instructions and commands to coordinate everyone. So now you can hear each other with the lupuscani talisman, we can coordinate better instead of guessing and getting lucky. With the felistal talisman, you can port at-will now! No more gambling and hoping for a lucky break, Cer. You both have limited charges. So do use it only if you need to. Pupu, use Kylan more, you are well protected. Kali and Miyas will provide the drafts of wind to make you soar!”

“Inverse energy!” giggles Miyas as she taps Le Gateau, Runt, Akiraion, Neko, and Cherub with her ribbons before darting towards the Legion.

Instantly, the four Methi Gamheers and Cherub feel surges of energy connecting them to the air.

“You can port again, I reversed your state. Basically moon magic like the lipstick I used on Cer.” shouts Miyas to everyone behind her as she charges through a black mirror and disappears..

“OOOH HIDE AND SEEK!” yells Punkin as she disappears into the air with confidence and a reckless excitement and reappears high above the Legion and begins gliding across the sky while casting bubbles and launching them at the Legion.

“Wow. She is a natural! I guess I shouldn’t expect anything less from the daughter of The Demon Shriver '' proclaims Akiraion as he and the others begin opening black mirrors in strategic areas for Cer and Punkin to port through.

Save your ports for dodging and hiding. Arwyn tells Cer and Punkin.

Following Punkin, Cer disappears into the air and reappears on one of the Legion’s arms and runs up the Legion’s arm to launch jabs at the Legion’s face with Fang before making various attacks from different sides of the Legion through porting.

As Cer attacks the Legion, the Legion attempts to grab Cer but feels something catch its arms.

Appearing out of a mirror directly in front of the Legion, Miyas stands grinning as she multiplies her ribbons and uses them to shackle the arms of the Legion to hold them in place. “Converse effort!”

Instantly, the arms of the Legion drop to the ground, unable to move. The more it tries to lift, the harder it gets. The more energy it puts into something, the same energy will be proportionately used against it. It’s basically fighting itself now.

Then redirecting her ribbons to Kala and Kali, Miyas taps them both and casts a final spell to replenish Kala’s bubble storage and Kali’s lei line materia for weaving. “ Be wise with your usage, this can only be done once and only once for your magic sources. Reverse depletion! I am limited to the magic I can use now, I am depleting myself.”

Feeling re-energized, Kali starts weaving webs and nets to trap the Legion in a cage and drain its energy while creating a barrier to protect everyone else from its toxic and poisonous draining touch.

Kala opens up another port with her demon triangle, unsure if the spell actually worked in renewing the used up bubbles from her storage.

To Kala’s surprise, a barrage of bubbles launch out of the port and start coating the Legion and the cage with bubble potion as they pop, slowing its body and weighing it down.

Chuckling from the turn of the battle, Arywn shouts out to the Legion. “Don’t feel as strong when you aren’t leeching mana from Cer huh? We thought you were strong. Try resisting a unified purification. This is your path of absolvency! It is written in the future’s history. Accept what is to come next.”

As Kala and Punkin’s bubbles continue to hit the Legion and the cage, the remnants of the bubbles that pop mix together their components of tears and honey, creating a thick solvent coating the Legion and the cage.

Kali, make a funnel with your net and blow air into the cage. Commands Arwyn as she continues to taunt the Legion to draw its attention from the others and Haeven’s citizens.

Nodding, Kali manipulates her nets and webs and spins them into funnel-like tubes tapering into the cage surrounding the Legion. “Earth’s Bellow!” With a stomp of her foot, the earth rises and creates wind tunnels amplifying the wind that Kali redirects into the funnels, exponentially increasing the force of the wind blowing into the cage.

As the solvent dissolves some of the Legion’s soul made armor, the rest of the coating of the bubble solution on the Legion begins to expand with the air, growing into a large bubble surrounding the Legion.

“You can’t contain me for long. Bubbles will not hold me! It could not stop me before and it will not stop me now! This bubble cannot shrive me.” growls the Legion as it attempts to regain control of the battle.

Satisfied with her plan, Arwyn scoffs at the Legion. “You sound like you may have fought one of us before. Not many stewards of this world can create shriving bubbles; that is a very trade-secret type of magic. Perhaps we need history’s wisdom.” Snapping her fingers, Claira’s book of mysteries is summoned from Cer’s pocket and zips past the battle and hovers in front of Arwyn. “Let’s see if this jolts any memories. May you be open to speak, for you have knowledge that never sleeps, magic of abundance and boundless sharing, and wisdom for the unsparing.”

Upon opening Claira’s book, the iridescent spherical concentration of dust of Clarity emerges. “Hello sister Arwyn. How may I be of assistance? What would you like to know?”

Pointing towards the edge of the Western Woods, Arwyn redirects Clarity’s attention towards the Legion. “Do you know what that is? Is that a Legion of Moraghan? How do we defeat it?”

Glowing brightly, Clarity exclaims “I know it. You cannot defeat it. That is a Legion of Uniagonia. The Demon Vorax is at the center of that Legion. Once exposed, it will devour everything nearby.I would not recommend dissolving its armor.”

“Well that really is not an option. Its armor is already dissolving. What can we do to stop it?” Asks Arwyn, as she prepares to transmit the information to everyone else.

“Nothing. You can cast nothing. You can use nothing. Nothing can absolve it ” responds Clarity before beginning to siphon all the mana and mystic dust out of Claira’s book of mysteries.

Seeing Clarity siphon all the mystic, memories, mana, and materie from Claira’s book, Arwyn inquires ”What are you going to do? Any good ideas of how to solve our conundrum? If we don’t dissolve its armor, it will poison and leech us all. But if we dissolve its armor, it will devour us.”

“Teach those that are loved and maybe they can find a resolve.” Responds Clarity as it continues to siphon the book.

“Just because things are taught, does not mean things are learned.” Shrugs Arwyn with a sense of cynicism and skepticism.

“No idea is ever simply just a good idea or bad idea. It can be helpful or unhelpful. There is no good or bad, only a learning lesson.” Responds Clarity as it finishes siphoning all of the mystic and mana from the book before darting towards Cer and the Legion.

Sensing a familiar energy, both Cer and the Legion draw their attention to Clarity.

“YOU!!! How are you there?!?! I CONSUMED YOU!!!” screams the Legion as it struggles to break free.

Seeing the Legion distracted, Cer takes the open opportunity to catch the Legion by surprise and ports high above the bubble encompassing the Legion and cage, preparing to pop the bubble and send the Legion and the demon Vorax to the sorters.

Just before Cer begins the descent, Clarity closes the distance and in a flash, collides with Cer, instantly enmeshing into Cer’s consciousness and halting Cer’s attack.

I see…thank you Clarity. I now know what Claira knew.

Raising Cer’s left arm, Cer shows the prayer beads and mutters.

Suddenly the bubble is filled with darkness as Cer free falls towards it at great speeds.

As Cer pierces the dark bubble’s surface like a crashing meteor, a monstrous silence fills the air as all noise ceases and the souls and remaining people break free from the Legion’s spell of control.

“Daddy!! NO!!!” screams Punkin as she tries to port into the bubble, resulting in her talisman earrings breaking from the magic energy field while getting ejected into a black mirror and reappearing next to Arwyn.

“OW! My BUTT BUTT. AHHH MY Earwings! THEY BREAKEDED!” Pouts Punkin while she rubs her bum from the fall.

“You cannot enter that. Only two people can enter that divine darkness. One is sailing the seas with the dead, and the other is already in it.” announces Miyas as she dispells her magic along with the others.

“What is that dark magic?” asks Runt.

Turning back into her adult form, Miyas responds with a grin. “That, my friends, is Nothing.”