As usually indifferent to acts of death, Lilith haven't reacted at all except for slightly raising her eyebrows. The moment Dino smiled to her, she knew exactly what he was about to do. Watching the body collapse to the floor, her gaze very slowly came back to lock with Dino's again. "Yeeeaah, about that...Remember when I asked you to behave...?" Her voice wasn't scolding in the slightest, rather neutral or even amused. The woman opened her mouth again perhaps to continue the thought, but closed it right after. She instead brought her hand up to her face to massage her nose bridge, as she began to chuckle and shake her head with eyes closed as a sign of giving up. "...You're really a hopeless case aren't you?"

Once she calmed down moment later, Lilith observed both guardians and little angels leave, recognising Abra's work in the latter - indication of progress, most likely. "Ah...Maybe we'd really be better off murdering our way through all this..." The woman murmured to herself. "Anyway, I guess we do know what happens next, no?" She turned back to Dino and appearance of Abra and his words further convinced her in that thought. She looked towards the new made thrones but haven't moved from her spot, her attention shifting to the doors, listening to what is happening outside.

Nocturn's eyes picked up the creature aura and he lowered his stance, bracing himself for impact with hands ready to grasp whatever threatens himself and Matthew behind him.

"Matthew!" He yelled as he met head on with the beast. He attempted to grapple the beast as it approached, grabbing the claws and landing his own electrified punches. The gears in his spine whirred as the virus smelled meat. "Matthew, take it out!"

Anna gave Timothy a pat on the back, "silly goose, you don't have to be strong to help your friends. Right now I bet they're facing off with the creature in the dungeon. I bet what they could really use is someone to cheer them on!" Anna threw her arms in the air in excitement. "See there's..." She stopped for a moment to get a headcount of the people in the room, "four. There's four of us! And then you've got friends out there so we can easily work together to break me.. Err I mean us out of here!" She looked to Celestial and Castro for backup.

Matthew needed no further prompting. He lunged forwards, hands blazing with sparks, aiming a punch right at the beast's snout. Depending on his accuracy, the beast should launch backwards 30 feet. The wall behind the creature was approximately within this distance limit, meaning the beast should smash into it pretty hard. Should. Otherwise, he and Z-Dude were toast. There was also the possibility of missing. That would also be unfortunate.

As the two forces collided, Nocturn could feel himself be dragged back, his feet unable to secure him as the monster rushed into him. However before the monster could take advantage of its strength, Matthew sent it flying back where it hit the wall and crumbled onto the floor. However it didn't stayed stunned for long as it got back onto all fours. In the dim torch light they could see one of its arms grow larger and thick, matted brown fur grew as it morphed into a bear's arm. It swung the heavy limb and its claws sparked on the stone walls then with another roar it rushed the two.

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"Don't know what you expect out of me Anna." Castro sighed, "Unlike you guys my restraints are a bit more cumbersome." He nodded at the thick bands of chains and metal that wrapped around his body, their orange runes glowing almost as brightly as the torches.

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The wall before Lilith, Dino, and Abra turned into a multi-panel television and it gave them surveillance of the entire workings of the city. They could see villagers shutting themselves in their houses and soldiers line up on the battlements. The walled city was surrounded by a multitude of armies sporting different colors and coat of arms. "We don't know how they got here so quickly! Some of these armies shouldn't even have access to teleportation magic, much less magicians capable of using it!" One of the soldiers shouted. "We should just surrender!"

"Are you out of your mind? They won't spare us!" The captain shouted back. He scratched his head. "How did they find out so quickly? Now look here men! We are either going to die protecting these walls, or die begging for our lives! Which way do you want to go out?" He bellowed and the soldiers roared back, raising their weapons.

Abra just laughed as he shoveled popcorn by the handful into his mouth. "You guys just condemned an entire nation. I have never been prouder."

Dino giggled at Abra's words. The giggle slowly but steadily became louder, stronger, degenerating into pure hysterical laughter. Saying Abra's words were a joke to him would've been an understatement.

"A nation in one of your puppet worlds! A nation that has no absolute influence on anything or anybody!" he shouted with a huge grin on his face.
"You are so fast at discarding this on us. On me specifically. But one of the soldiers clearly said that some of the attackers shouldn't even be here. I wonder who invited them here..hmmmm??" he mockingly stated, waving his gun towards Abra, but with no intent of actually shooting.

In a moment the grin vanished off his face. He spun around, heading for the exit.

"Let's go. We've got people to find."

Lilith looked at the wall, and once more her eyebrows rose, seeing all the armies of different colors at the gates. Almost a familiar view. "Well I rather expected local riots or something according to these lines but I guess that'd simply be too small of a show for you..." Her words were obviously addressed to Abra, but she hasn't peeled her eyes off the screen. When the magician was done 'praising' them the woman turned towards him with an indifferent expression, not smiling however.

"Well, technically it wasn't..." Dino's maniacal laughter interrupted her before she even started. At first Lilith thought that he had lost it, but the fact that the man pretty much summarized all she wanted to say, except in his own way suggested that he still very much had his wits in check...Or at least they haven't gotten much worse since they've met.

Dino headed towards the exit, and Lilith took last look at the screen and then Abra, before following merc's step. "Yeah...Let's make it snappy before all hell breaks loose.."

Nocturn's virus began to act up as electrical surges began to whip around the gears. He smashed his fists on the ground and with a bellow of its own to answer the creature's, the zombie of Lantern's Cross charged ahead with the intention of grabbing the overextended claw and rip it off with his mechanical jaw.

Celestial looked over at Castro, trying to figure out how they could get him out of those restraints. "You said the only thing that can take them off is the person who put them on, right? Well, is there anything else that can get rid of these things? Like a kill switch or anything? 'Cause I'm getting real sick of not using magic."

Abra shrugged, "I do admit I may have had a hand on speeding up the inevitable." The two left the mad man cackling in the throne room and walked out into a scene of chaos. Knights streamed back and forth while servants and what looked to be the court magicians were scrambling about with their possessions and anything else they could fit inside their pockets. The way out was in front of them down a long hallway and there were a multitude of hallways that people coming in and out of except for one.

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As Nocturn bit down on the monster's arm, the beast bellowed in pain and raising its arm, picked up the zombie and it swung down to smash Nocturn onto Matthew, the monster's large and heavy limb blocking Matthew's attempt to blind it.

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"Well if you can't kill the one who made it, you need to find someone who is resistant to magic to take them off. Basically once they grab hold of the bracer, they'll short circuit them and shut them off. It could also be done, much more messily by someone with a lot of magic power. Just hope the thing doesn't explode too violently after overloading it." Castro turned his head as he listened to the roars. "Seems like your friends met the monster. Hope it doesn't go silent for your friends' sake." The prisoner obviously implying that if the beast went silent then it meant that it was too busy feeding to roar.

Matthew put up his hands defensively, but he couldn't push off Z-Dude's body in time to evade. He slammed into the wall, squished a little flatter by the zombie's much heavier form. He collapsed in a heap, springing back to his feet and staggering a bit.

"Owwwwww!" he cried. "That kind of hurt!"

Shaking his head to recover, Matthew crouched, ready to dodge, studying the beast. Yes, his blinding attempt had made somewhat of a difference.

"Z-Dude?" he asked. "Can we somehow take out one of its senses?"

"I'll tear of his arms," Nocturn replied. "Take out its eyes, Matthew!"

The zombie stood on his legs and allowed the virus some more control. He could feel the mask ebb in power but he kept it in check and he charged forward again, his arms burst with electrical energy as he rammed himself onto the beast's chest. Both arms dove in like a professional diver into a pool, this time however, it was metallic hands and a chest cavity filled with delicious blood. He'd attempt to rip out the organs, one by one as he satiated himself with the crimson liquid.

"Well, is there anyone here who is resistant to magic?" Celestial didn't want to risk having any explosions, plus he had a feeling he wasn't a strong enough magician yet to overload the cuffs. He hoped that Anna was resistant to magic, but he knew that would be too convenient. He wanted his spell book back so badly. He wanted to feel the pulse of magic running through him and feel the magical energy around him. He felt so...mundane not being able to use his powers.

Anna seemed to think long and hard about Castros situation as he explained the removal of their bonds. "Well why didn't you say we didn't need a key? I know just the friend who is super good at everything magic and would be happy to help out any pals of mine. All you guys gotta do is help me get out of this little underground slice of home and she will gladly help us out!" Anna clapped her hands together, "and as for Mr Castro, Celestial can carry him!"

Anna smiled at the other three with hope and determination.