As Julio was being dealt with and Arachne led an army of her Arachneia to fight against the Frost Army and protect the city, in the outskirts of the battlefield, another battle was happening. A sorceress has been pushed to her limits, as a giant white wolf, a metal slime, and Maria's Poison Body Ego was all it took to force her to this state.
"Hahhh… T-To think you would betray us , you damn beast!" Roared Anastasia, glaring angrily at the giant white wolf, Claw.
"Betray?" Asked Claw with a laugh. "You're the ones that didn't even considered me an ally, what loyalty should I have for you?!"
"You damn dog…" The sorceress gritted her teeth, covered in wounds and with several parts of her body being half frozen, while deadly poison was coursing through her veins, and quickly vomiting a mouthful of blood. "Guh… And you…"
"Hehe, it has been a while, Anastasia." Maria giggled, her poisonous body ego form overflowing with bubbles of poison and corrosive liquid around her body. "Are you having a hard time?"
"Y-Youuu…!" Anastasia roared. "When I learned that you were a ghost, I couldn't believe it! You fucking bitch! You came back to life just to ruin my life! I should have Jonathan for me, that was the deal THEY promised me!!!"
"For you?" Maria laughed. "Well, it seems that even before he knew I was here… He was already rejecting all your advances."
"S-Shut up!" Anastasia cried. "Jonathan is a crazy creep obsessed with a dead woman! Why doesn't he look at me instead?! I am so pretty and beautiful! Everyone praises me, and there are so many male nobles that want my hand in marriage! I am the ideal most desirable woman… Yet that arrogant bastard of a man…" She started gritting her teeth tightly.
"Preferred a ghost over you?" Laughed Claw. "Kahahahaha! Yeah, it is FUCKING hilarious, bitch!"
"Anastasia, I knew you had a crush with Jonathan back then." Maria sighed.
"Eh?" Anastasia asked angrily. "And yet you still became his girlfriend?!"
"I told him many times you were in love with him." Maria giggled. "But you know what he always said?"
"W-What?" Asked Anastasia. "What… did he said?!"
"He laughed." Said Maria with a perverse smile. "He said you were a spoiled little girl, and he wasn't interested in you at all. He only saw you as his little sister and would never fall in love for someone like you. You never had a chance, not in a million years, Anastasia."
Anastasia's face was filled with rage, even turning red… Her eyes became bright red, as flames slowly started emerging from her chest, unfreezing her frozen wounds provoked by Claw's ice magic, as the power of miasma and chaos started coming out of the Demonite Core in her chest.
The power combined with her own Skills and Magic power, and her powerful Class, the Scarlet Flame Sorceress, a Class almost equal to the Heroes, many even called her the Hero of Flames already…
And such power erupted into countless black flames, her anger and fury incapable of being contained anymore. Her jealously of Maria for taking away Jonathan, the only man she had ever loved, consuming her completely.
"Jonathan is mine… MINE, MINE, MINEEEEE!!!"
Her entire body continued to change as it grew larger, covered on flames, she suddenly resembled a giant maiden made up of black flames, as two black angelic-like wings surged in her back, made of black fire.
The shockwave of black flames spread everywhere, as Claw, Mercury, and Maria struggled to keep ahold of the ground within the presence of Anastasia's ever-growing magic power.
"Once I kill you for real this time… Jonathan will have nobody else to go than me… And he'll prostrate in front of me and ask me for forgiveness!" She laughed. "He will become my man… My toy." Her face distorted, showing a perverted smile. "Hahhh~ I can't wait!"
"I can't believe this young farm girl ended becoming this degenerate." Sighed Maria, laughing.
"SHUT UP!!!" Anastasia roared, rushing towards Maria as she unleashed countless giant black fireballs out of her flame body. "[Abyssal Demon Fire Rain]!!!"
BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM! BOOM!
Black flames covered the entire snowscape. The snow melted and only dried grass below was left behind. The flames absorbed the grasses tiny souls and any vitality within them, and even the ground was burned and infested with miasma, turning black.
"Hahahaha! This is IT! This is the power I needed to do as I please! Julio doesn't matter! If he dies I wouldn't care at all! As long as I have this power… I am unstoppable. I can do ANYTHING I want!" Anastasia was drowning on her own power, her ego constantly growing further and further.
"You're so full of yourself, you damn bitch!" Claw barked, using his frost magic to evade or defend against her flames rapidly, on top of his body was Mercury and Maria. "Maria! Do you have a plan to get to her?!"
"Yes, an easy one. Just jump there." Maria said with a smile.
"J-Jump?! And get roasted alive?!" Claw asked, opening his wolf jaws in shock of the request.
"Don't worry, we're there for ya~" Maria giggled. "Right, Mercury?"
"Guuu! Guguu!" Mercury nodded, now much smaller than before.
"What are you planning- UWAAH?!"
Maria quickly touched Mercury and then Claw at the same time, using Spirit Fusion on both at the same time, and forcing the two to become one as well, through her own powers!
Claw was shocked as he saw Mercury transform, fusing with his body and then turning into a brilliant silver armor around his body, while Maria merged with his own soul and kept the two together with her powers.
A dreadful aura of poison spread around his body, emanating a terrifying power. It fused with the power of his ice magic, and his beastly aura, transforming him into a giant werewolf with armor and red fur.
His power and aura, even for a second, seemed to match Anastasia's.