An Air Elemental… this little beast was actually an elemental, somehow shaped into the ultimate avatar of flight.

In the time it took the fire breather to recover, Lilith had been successful in plucking the bloody orb from within her own body. With no hesitation, she threw the ball straight down, as hard as her supernaturally powerful arm could hurl it.

She took a split second to watch for its impact on the art co-op roof and thus caught sight of the projectile that came hurling up at her from the ground below. Malahidael had launched himself at her, jumping fifty feet into the air from the same rooftop to intercept her current dive. He was fast, so fast that she upgraded her assessment of his abilities. His vampire-like skills were very much like an old, old vampire, harnessing whatever arcane energies the bloodsuckers tapped into to push his already superhuman jump into something closer to being shot from a cannon than a leap. But his vector was straight up and she simply backwinged, stopping her forward flight, letting him shoot up past her, his lethal sword unable to reach her position several yards away.

She leaned forward, flapped forward, and jabbed her spear at an upward angle, looking to stick the evil black blade deep into his exposed groin as his jump reached its apex.

He inverted. Somehow just flipped himself over, knocking her attack away with that hateful sword.

It didn’t matter, as his attack was spent, gravity starting him on his way back to the ground, albeit slower than a natural object that couldn’t subvert the laws of physics with vampire mumbo jumbo.

She flew around his descending body, putting it between her and the annoyingly dangerous remaining four drone balls, taking the opportunity to jab and slash at him with the lethal point and edges of her SHUKUR. He fended off every attack, but his lack of maneuverability hindered him, frustrating him.

She flapped upward, letting him get below her, taking the opportunity to glance down at the impact results of the ball she had thrown. What she saw was a spreading black circle on the roof of the building below. It was like a pool of oil, except for the tiny sparks of light spread throughout the blackness. It looked more like an upside down nighttime sky than a portal between worlds, but the Summer Queen had presented it to her as the highest level of portal technology, the pinnacle of the magic arts that created holes in the fabric of reality.

Unfortunately it needed more time to fully drill through space and time, so she was left with evading her enemies as she waited to beat a shameful retreat.