Corinne's concern for Christian distracted her just enough that she was grabbed around her waist, and the air rushed out of her. The words struck deeper than she wanted, but she'd spent five years with him, of course he'd know how to hurt more than wounds. "You threw me away, and I'm stubborn," she growled, trying to heat herself up.

Josh ran over to Christian, kneeling down to look over his energies. "Christian? Are you okay?"

Saul reached out and let the ash flow through his fingers before looking towards its destination. The castle. He gestured to his two comrades and hurried in the castle's direction as quick as he could, "Let's end this."

"I'm fine." Christian coughed as he rolled over and pushed himself up, "Thanks." His armour ignited and channelled flames around his sword, but the strain in expense made him wince and drop to a knee, "Help Corrine."

Solthurax cackled and lifted her higher, tightening his index and thumb on her throat, "And you came running right back to me." The rising heat forming within his palm slowly built up, but he forced himself to endure. He should be immune to fire given his nature, why can he feel this one? Then he noticed his form was starting to distort more violently on the edges. That blade that cut him, it was cold iron. Between these two ailments his powers were starting to fail him.

"Looks pretty over to me! Time to go blow up the head honcho!" Wry declared, crawling inside Guy through an eye hole to began storing up as much power as possible. Guy followed Saul, sword and shield at the ready.

Yotaizan made use of his brief period to observe while feeding Corinne more power, noticing that Corinne's fire was somehow effecting Solthurax at this point. Something had shifted, and it likely had to do with the distortion that started when his body was restored. With a deep breath Yotaizan quickly stopped feeding power, grasping his sheathed sword in preparation to draw. His wings poised, ready to send him skyward. He teleported beside Corinne, quickly drawing his sword with an air-boosted boom that launched his swing forward in an attempt to sever Solthurax's thumb in one upward arcing strike, his wings pushing upward to carry his whole body with the strike rather than having gravity fight against the attack.

Saul continued running. He reached the castle doors and quickly stepped to the side before a falling chunk of rubble could crush him. The corridors ahead were chaotic. One moment the torches would extinguish and fill the place with darkness, then violently ignite again in an epileptic manner. The entire place was unstable.

"Josh!" Christian heaved. He got up and pushed past him, running to Felicia and jumping onto her spear. He jumped off of it and turned around mid-air, cutting across Solthurax's wrist as he landed.

Solthurax shrieked as his thumb was hacked clean off and fell to the ground, oozing magma-esque blood that scorched the ground. The impact from the spear pushed him forward and caused him to drop Corrine. He turned to retaliate before feeling a sharp pain down his wrist. His blood was leaking everywhere turning the ground into a hazard. He set his sword aflame and swung to cleave through the nearest person before getting stopped by a bolt of lightning. He hissed, then found his feet were being encased in earth. Before he could react a boulder struck his chest and brought him to a knee.

Saul continued to pelt the Demon with various magics, his face stone-cold with resolve, "You're weak now!" He barked, "Give it up."

Christian took a deep breath and walked towards Solthurax whilst being mindful to avoid the growing puddles of Demon-blood. He raised his sword and pushed forward with all of his strength, breaking through the hard flesh that made the Demon's chest with a distasteful crack. He pushed further, driving the blade through Solthurax until all but the hilt was embedded inside him. The Demon's eyes widened and his roars were reduced to little more than incoherent rasps. Unbeknown to Christian, he slowly raised a hand and seized the sword, pulling it from his chest and throwing Christian aside. A wave of fire blasted from within him and smashed apart any restraints holding his feet in place and knocked everybody off their feet. He toppled backwards and fell into a pile of rubble with a deafening crash, becoming buried in the falling debris dislodged from the impact. 


There was silence for a moment. Then he emerged one last time, "No... I... refuse." He spluttered, "I will not return empty handed" His sword slipped from his hand and dissipated. He fell to his knees and his wings and tail drooped. His form started to collapse exponentially quicker, parts of him slowly fading out and in again before he started to collapse into ash at the seams. His body became a whirl of this ash, spinning around violently, though a weak outline of his visage was visible within, fighting with all that remained within him to keep his body corporeal, "You may have saved this age of mortals but I... will... burn your descendants. All of this carnage... To merely delay me." His voice lost some of its hateful edge, if only for a moment. It was almost mistakable for sounding solemn, "The abyss welcomes me home."

Guy had come to a stop as Wry began bouncing around inside the warforged, crawling out the eye quickly and jumping to the top of the head. "Hey, you're late! I've already become powerful enough to destroy demons with my mere presence, the war is basically over now!" The ambiguously gendered fairy declared.

As the wave sent Yotaizan flying back, he had managed to catch himself on the wall and kick off it to land ahead of the others, standing guard with broadsword at the ready. He observed Solthurax with a keen eye, still wary of any ploys he may attempt before he fully vanished. "Don't bother, I'll be the god eater by time you return. You'll be throwing your life away at that point."

Once Corinne herself realized she was trapped, so too did Yotaizan due to the mental node. A strong breeze slammed into the side of the rubble, using the force to burrow a thin line between her leg and the rubble to form a shield that attempted to push up and give her room to move out. Due to this split of focus Yotaizan wouldn't be fully prepared for whatever Solthurax may try, if he did try anything, but he wasn't wholly defenseless from this act.

Christian pulled himself from the rubble and leaned over to catch his breath. His blade slumped in his hand, the tip resting on the ground.

Saul dispelled the magic that empowered his hands and watched, waited.

Solthurax merely chuckled at Yotaizan's gesture, "We shall see. I will await you all... In the pits". The ash thinned and once it cleared, Zadyn stood, clutching his side. His eyes had lost their amber glow and returned to their blue-green coloration, He looked paler, his hair less of a glossy black and somewhat washed out. Oily trails of shadow continued to softly wisp from his body, "It's been quite the journey." He chuckled, "What will you do now?"

(Will change if needed, just say so, Yotaizan just isn't a risk taker when it comes to threats.)
"Not give you a chance to escape." Yotaizan replied, extending a hand and using his powers to suddenly compress the air around Zadyn in an attempt to crush him. Before even waiting to see if it worked, he used his other hand to prepare to cause an outward vacuum burst of the same space to obliterate whatever may be left. It may cause even more damage to the castle around them, but Yotaizan wasn't willing to risk any fragment of Solthurax still lurking around.

"Make sure they stay out of the way then! I have no mercy for my enemies!" Wry declared, turning to fly inside before seeing all the rubble collapsed ahead of them suddenly. "Aw, there's no way in now." Said the master of explosive magic, sitting back down on the warforged.

"Explode it or have the Golem move it." Scanlyn said after a sigh and rubbing of his nose.

"I'm satisfied now, hearing his last desperate words of intimidation." Yotaizan clenched his hand, causing a vacuum explosion within the crushing air box to create quite a mess within the contained space. "Now, Josh and Felicia, you two need to quickly situate Corinne and anyone else that thinks they may have trouble getting out of here due to injury. This castle is not in good condition, but I'll make sure no further rubble hits us." He spoke to them, continuing to face toward where Zadyn had been.

"If you say so!" Wry began charging a ball of explosive fire energy, firing the beam into the rubble and creating a cacophonous series of explosions. As the rocks came flying in, they scattered about the hallway leading toward the throne room everyone else was waiting in.

Felicia nodded to Yotaizan and then Christian before making her way to Corinne, sliding an arm around her to support her. "That's too bad of a break for me to heal before this castle comes down, i'll have to do it outside," she said, as they began walking. Corinne leaned into Felicia in order to take as much weight as she could off her leg, but it was still brutal.

Josh pressed his lips together, wanting to save as much of the castle as he could, but he knew it was all for naught. He ended the cleansing spell and turned to leave.

Yotaizan Held the roof itself up with a barrier of wind, keeping his right wing pointed upwards as if to mimic a hand controlling the air. His actual hands were busy keeping his sword ready as he used his mind attunement to see if there were any threats in the castle in front of him still.

"I'm here too!" Wry called from the hallway. Guy said nothing, scanning the hall for any enemies.