Ch. 16 Rescue in the Ruins

[VirusZero]

Andraia's Reaction Blaster hit the devil and like expected it blew it's watery coating away. Though this time, in a display of teamwork, Rai had used his chain rod to pull the core of the enemy away from the water. And with a punch of significant magnitude, Rai obliterated the core and sent a cascade of shrapnel littering the ground.
But then was quickly savaged by another of the water mechs as it's arm extended and caught him right in the stomach and sent him flying backwards to meet ground. He landed right before Andraia and asked about her freezing them.
"I can do that... but you don't want to be anywhere close when I do." She stated simply.

With that she jumped away from Rai and the others, thankfully just in time to avoid the bulk of the bomb exploding. Though she still got hit by some of the impact from the shock wave and was sent crashing into the ground. The elbow of her broken arm landed first and with a loud crack, pieces of armour on her elbow broke away. When she stood back up, her entire forearm hung loose.
She grimaced, her sensors were indicating the damage. She realised that her attack against the giant paladin enemy must have done more damage to her arm than she thought. Otherwise her elbow would never have broke like that.

But she didn't have time to dwell on it. She had to help put down these goo things.

As she stood away from the others, she engaged her absorption power. Though this time she began absorbing purely the cold energy. The air around her began to flow as the temperature began to rise drastically. The area had been somewhat cool before (due to it being a cave like area) but right around her the temperature had reached several hundred degrees and was still climbing. Her fingers began to glow a slight red as the temperature rose directly around her, indicating how hot she was making the area.

One of the water devils noticed her standing still and decided to attack. It threw it's massive stretch fist directly at her. But as it got close the increased temperature began to cause the fist to bubble. Finally when it was just about to impact, it's entire arm exploded into a massive burst of steam. It reeled back as it's attack had failed and cost it a bunch of it's liquid coating.

However by this time Andraia's attack was ready. A second later she raised her hand and a beam of the purest blue erupted from it. Her beam hit the water devil directly in the chest and for a second it looked like nothing had happened... But then as her beam exhausted it's power and ended, her beam's effect took hold and that Devil's entire fluid body shifted structure. The molecules lined up and went rigid and it became a solid block of ice, with the core trapped firmly inside.

"Another one down" Andraia stated as she lowered her remaining hand, which had returned to a normal colour. She moved away from the area quickly, hoping that the rest of her body would cool down without too much issue.