An Owl's Rise

Evelyn watching her barrier fade away gaped in horror.

The trump card Melisandre had given her as a means to defend herself was now gone.

Her body was weak from poison and her magical energy was beginning to run low from constant use.

The situation was grim, and it seemed that there was little she could do to fight back.

Luckily, she had a moment to collect her thoughts. The azure haired man was waiting to see if destroying her barrier would break her spirit and she would stop resisting.

Her eyes darted all around and she looked for anything that might help her.

This was not like the time with the empress dryad when it was only her and her opponent in the area. Numerous battles were going on all around them.

'Overall, the humans are winning but there are three tyrant rank beasts here who are putting up good fights. I need only get one of them to take on this guy for me while I get away.'

Evelyn's mind raced as she picked out the best path for her to escape, and she soon locked onto her target.

The two headed goat was currently doing battle with a woman clad in lighting.

It was expertly using its earth magic to move around in normally impossible ways and used poles made of earth to absorb any blasts of electricity that came for him.

And of course, there was no way that the human woman who was a practitioner of lightning magic was going to be able to get into close combat with the two headed goat that was easily twenty-five feet tall and had powerful body.

'They will do. The goat is the only one in a one-on-one battle, making it the perfect target.'

Having decided on her course of action Evelyn turned towards the battle she was going to intrude in to try and make her escape.

"Do not think you will be able to get away from me!"

With the wave of his hand the azure haired man sent out the tendrils of the water jellyfish he had conjured, and they moved to encircle Evelyn and give he no path for escape.

They moved in faster than she could normally react to, but she had been subtly weaving her insurance while racking her brain.

Three gravity traps she had set around herself all went off at the same time around her.

The first two pushed back the incoming tendrils while the third was placed directly behind her.

Gaining immense momentum like she was launched by and invisible spring, Evelyn shot away from the tendrils that closed around her a moment too late.

Then when she got in range of the battle between the two headed goat and the lighting magic using woman, she activated her gravity field and extended it out only to the woman.

'Reverse Press.'

Targeting the woman, Evelyn hit her with the greatest lowered gravity she could the moment the woman had accelerated in another direction.

This caused her already swift movements to be even faster, and she found herself unable to avoid a collision with the wall of the gorge.

Thanks to the opening that Evelyn had just created the two headed goat used his magic to control the wall of the gorge and the stunned woman found herself swallowed up by the earth.

'And for the final touches.'

Sensing her opponent coming from behind, Evelyn turned around with a goading smirk on her face.

The Azured haired man who as previously acting haughty and invincible, now had a twisted expression full of rage.

"Aqua kunai."

Evelyn watched as her persistent adversary cast a new spell and dozens of sharp and fast-moving projectiles came for her.

However, this was exactly what she wanted, and the final gravity trap she had been preparing appeared before her and acted as a shield.

With it she redirected the kunai that would have hit them and sent them right for the goat.

Of course, her power was pretty much invisible, and the two headed goat viewed what just happened as the azured haired man attacking him.

He quickly turned his attention towards his new enemy and the two headed goat rushed past Evelyn.

She was no longer his target after her assist and the fact that he was just hit by a powerful human.

'So, I guess he is my scapegoat.' Evelyn thought while restraining a chuckle.

A fierce battle between the azured haired man and the two headed goat then began, and he no longer had the liberty to focus on Evelyn no matter how much he wanted to.

Though despite the fact she had gotten rid of her biggest problem, a new one had emerged.

Her use of gravity traps and reverse press had left her scraping the bottom of her magical energy reserves despite the extraordinary amount she had.

The number of powerful spells she had used were simply too many for her to continue firing off in rapid succession, and the poison in her system was slowing her natural recovery down.

'I want to get out of here, but above me is too many battles going on. I will have to go down.'

Evelyn turned her head down and began descending back into the depths of the gorge. Her only hope of escape to go back down and try to lose the humans that were after here.

The azure man tried firing off more spells at her and shouted and screamed in fury but could not get away from the two headed goat that had become his opponent.

"Everyone who can get away, after that owl. Whoever captures her will be rewarded by me personally and given a higher position within the sect. Catch her alive if possible. Dead if you must." Yelled the Azure haired man.

In response to the order from their superior all the humans that could broke off and pursued Evelyn. But of course, it would not be so easy for them.

For as many humans as there were, there were just as many if not more beasts.

Now that they had joined this battle, they found it difficult to abandon it. And a few of the humans even took mortal wounds when trying to disengage from battle.

Nevertheless, four of them did get by and continued after Evelyn. Intent on getting the reward and rank up for capturing her.