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Sephiroth thrust his sword with its long reach at the beast and tested if it was immune to holy energy as well turning the blade into a sort of holy lightning rod.

Sephiroth allowed his blade to slice through the demon as much as possible as he began to fly straight up to avoid the attack. Luckily the vacuum effect stopped else he wouldn't have been able to. He formed one of his magic barriers around himself and forced his appearance to vanish.

Sephiroth's blade sliced through a few of the tendrils, magma and deadly acids spewing about. The demon sniffed the air loudly once Sephiroth vanished, and with deadly accuracy and speed, whipped out a tendril to grab him.... it instantly seemed to go through the barrier, the creature's magic dispelling properties still in effect as it started to crush the angelic...

... but then dropped him suddenly, growing in rage as it turned out that tendril had been partially cut, and weak enough to tear loose when attempting to move around so much and subdue it's prey.

"Not again... W-will not fail again!"

Being a fair distance away from Sephiroth, the creature slammed it's tendrils into the ground, the rumbling of a quake shaking the area... by this time, a pair of mages had caught up and starting firing streams of the damned at Sephiroth, missing by a margin.

The demon finished it's attack, large carapaced spikes and speeding tendrils bursting out of the ground up at Sephiroth. Unfortunately, the two mages happened to be in the way. They splattered messily, in large chunks. Then those chunks raised into the air, enflamed by unholy hellfire and shot out in all directions like little meteors, those mages' death spell. Their parts punched holes into structures all around, and several pierced through large sections of Damnation. Only Sephiroth's magical barrier protected him from being punctured like a piece of paper with a spear, the parts deflecting off him and piercing into the ground and more into Damnation instead.

The punishment apparently was enough. Damnation swelled considerably despite the large holes in his body, and exploded in a shower of volatile and hazardous substances. This kept the other mages further back. In the center of the spent blast, was a naked Damnation, back in his old form, his body pocked with numerous old scares and incisions. Glowering hate was plain in his features, but he stumbled, slicing clumsily at Sephiroth with a heavily cracked sword.

"You'll... have to strike me down! I will not stop serving my Lord!"

"Jiluzix will damn yo-..."

Damnation's sentence was never finished. He tried to block the first blow, but it shattered his sword. The next several blows dismembered and mutilated his now frail body, leaving him a pile of seperated messy corpse parts on the ground that fortunately didn't seem to have a second death spell attached to them. Loud an obnoxious, and the elite seemed to have gone out with a whimper.

Now was the time to get the hell out of Dodge. Jiluzix tendrils appeared out of the ground and seemed to have started feasting on the remains of Damnation, while a number of mages were gradually starting to catch up, shooting badly aimed at long distance magical energy blasts at Sephiroth. Once they got in range, no doubt they would try their hand at that stream of the damned stuff again.

As they furthered into the tunnels, it became darker and darker, only hints of glowing crystal here and there providing barely any light at all. The imps provided a little extra through the dim by sparking up some electricity with their hands. Suddenly, Johnathon had them stop... They came to a great chasm that seemed to go on forever. The leader imp frowned.

"There were masses of lands and bridges here. Something happened to them..."

"Here. Ice, more ice crystal too. Maybe ice giant here before and destroyed?"

"Hmmm, maybe."

Testing something, Johnathon dropped a small rock off the ledge they were standing near. The sound of it echoing back to them never came to most, except for maybe the vampires after a long delay.

Jacob scratched his chin. "There could be a benefit of this. We could fly across, maybe make better time than too than just running. It is open enough. I think I seem some ledges on the sides in the distance to rest at if need be."

(In other words this is a few minutes before Damnation died)

Mindy had left the temple when all the ruckus started. Several prisoners were just loosed and a huge hole was just put in the outer wall. The chaos was almost too distracting for her to focus on her primary task. Not to mention she wasn't reordered to actively look and capture the person that somehow got loose. Which was odd... she wondered what happened. She moved on her with with her chauffeur carrying her back to her place of residents and ignored the colleagues who moved past her going in the direction she came.

"Yes about that... how did he escape? I can't seem to figure out how he had the strength to break a strong door and continue well past it when he barely had the strength to walk." Mindy would know this as she's the one who drained him. Being a biomancer it was difficult for a living thing to fake weakness to her.

After making it to the other side a third of a day later... "There's a hole in the wall about a mile down from this cliff. I need to stop for my required rest and well... Rosemary obviously needs a break." She was passed out on someones shoulders having passed out without realizing it and thus hadn't changed to a more convenient size.

"I can cloak that hole in darkness making it difficult for even I to see in it. We don't know if those following us are gaining or not and if we're lucky they'll pass right by us and we'll be behind them instead of the other way around. I can quickly make a false trail a ways and come back. Of course if they do find us, we'll be trapped there... What do you want to do?"