An Owl's Rise

All at once, four giant cyclones made of intense flames and rending wind erupted from Evelyn's body.

In the past she could only create one of these crimson twisters, but now she could conjure four in rapid succession.

The army of mind slaves found themselves engulfed by the twisters and incinerated.

Many of the beasts deployed their magic to attempt to resist Evelyn's devastating attack, but none of their powers could even slow down Evelyn's vicious assault.

Some of the faster beasts ran away, but found their bodies suddenly being pressed against the ground.

Evelyn was not going to let a single one escape and activated her gravity field in order to increase the gravity of all the beasts around her.

In just a couple of seconds she had killed hundreds of the fiend beasts that made up the bulk of Mind Manipulating Mushroom's army. Still, these were only the cannon fodder, and the real threats still remined.

The giant blue skinned elephant that was one of the strongest beasts under the Mind Manipulating Mushroom's control pointed its trunk at Evelyn and unleashed a concentrated blast of sound towards her.

Evelyn winced when she felt the blaring sound reach her and was forced to cease her attack.

Luckily, she had already developed counter measures to deal with sound-based attacks.

Using her wind magic she wrapped herself in a dome that created a vacuum around her body.

Without a medium to travel through, the powerful sound magic the elephant was using failed to reach Evelyn.

Of course, this technique had its drawbacks since it prevented Evelyn from using her fire magic, but she had other means of attacking.

'Gravity Hammer.'

Having flown over the elephant that she deemed to be the greatest threat, Evelyn used her strongest gravity magic attack and slammed the giant beast into the ground.

Its already hefty body felt the strain of the massively increased gravity and its legs that supported it shattered under the pressure.

The giant beast barely even managed to stay conscious as it was hit with Evelyn's incomprehensible magic. It had no clue what she had just done, only that its body had grown unbearably heavy suddenly.

Now that the annoying sound magic user had been taking care of, Evelyn dispersed her vacuum dome and prepared to finish off the high tier awakened beast.

Yet, before she could, the remnants of the Mind Manipulating Mushroom's forces had rallied and begun firing a barrage of magical attacks at her.

This forced her to delay killing the giant elephant but was only a minor inconvenience to Evelyn.

She simply created a magical energy shield below her that absorbed the attacks while she gained some altitude to make herself a much harder target to hit.

From up in the air, Evelyn kept her magical energy shield in front of her while she prepared for her next attack.

All along her back she conjured several giant spheres of crimson flames and used her wind magic to compress them until they were the size of baseballs.

Evelyn launched the dozens of projectiles she had created into the air above her and then used her wind magic to send them hurtling back towards the ground.

When the first patch of Evelyn's firebombs hit the surface, they exploded. Killing everything in the surroundings.

Continuing to launch these projectiles, Evelyn carpet bombed the area while remining completely protected by her magical energy shield.

Soon the landscape that was already harsh, turned into even more of a blazing hellscape.

The flora and fauna that lived here were used to having a strong resistance to heat and fire, but Evelyn's heavenly flame burned away everything as if it was made of dry leaves.

Her uncontested reign of destruction lasted for nearly a minute, until the strongest mind slaves under the Mind Manipulating Mushroom flew into the air to directly deal with her.

Normally these beasts stayed by the Mind Manipulating Mushroom's main body as its guardians, but right now Evelyn had proven she was too great of a threat to be left to her own devices.

The first to reach her was a pitch-black shoebill the size of a small airplane.

This one of the few mind slaves that could naturally fly and was also at the peak of the awakened rank just like Evelyn.

When it got within two hundred meters of her, it opened its large beak and released a cloud of darkness towards Evelyn.

Sensing the impending danger, Evelyn ceased her attack and tried to blow the dark cloud away with her wind magic.

To her surprise, however, the cloud of darkness did not even shift and kept coming right towards her.

With her wind magic failing to counter the pitch-black shoebill's, Evelyn was forced to fly higher and avoid the expanding cloud that threatened to swallow her.

'Damn it. I can't see Krunnen anymore.' Evelyn thought as everything below her was covered by the dark cloud.

She had been keeping an eye on him to make sure that he was not in any danger, but now that would be impossible.

Unfortunately, she did not have the leeway to worry about others at the moment. Above her one was a giant six-armed scarlet mantis at the peak of the awakened rank that was poised to strike.

Being much larger and stronger than Evelyn, the giant scarlet mantis that was over eight meters tall dropped down on Evelyn and swung its six bladed arms at her.

Evelyn created a burst of wind and flame behind to blast away from the giant mantis and create some space. While she was proficient in magical combat, fighting up close was not her forte. Her body was certainly strong and her talons sharp, but her hollow bones were too easily broken when embroiled in a physical battle.

'They're not going to make this easy for me are they.'

In front of her, Evelyn found the pitch-black shoebill and a pink tapir flying on a gust of wind waiting to intercept her.