"ROARRR!"
Celeste unleashed a powerful dragon roar in response to Alex's command and charged towards the creatures.
Erica, slightly shorter than Celeste, swiftly returned to her original size and dashed towards the crystal creatures.
Blake and Kelly, back to their original size, leaped from Celeste's back and landed on the water, freezing the sea's surface to create a solid footing.
Bianca also sprang from Celeste's back, landing on the frozen sea, and charged towards the creatures.
Ember, typically not one to engage in battles, let out a screech as she transformed into her majestic form, soaring towards the creatures and attacking them with fire.
"ROAR!" Erica roared magnificently, a golden beam of light shooting out from her mouth to strike the crystal creatures.
Not to be outdone, Celeste unleashed her fiery breath, capable of incinerating even a dragon within seconds.
Kelly and Blake unleashed a powerful water cannon, directed at the creatures.
The attacks reached the creatures, but they seemed unaffected, except for the water cannon, which caused some damage, though the creatures began to regenerate.
"Magical attacks won't work against them... Use physical means and destroy the red cores of these creatures to eliminate them," Alex, still atop Celeste's back, announced to his companions. He drew his glaive from storage, invoked the flying spell, and prepared for battle.
Flying toward the phrase resembling a honey bee, its core nestled in its midsection, Alex accelerated with impressive speed.
Sensing Alex's approach, the phrase gathered light within its body and swiftly launched a missile of light in his direction.
"[Shield]"
Alex quickly conjured a shield spell to defend against the attack and continued his advance, slashing his glaive diagonally with the added effect of the [gravity] spell. The glaive effortlessly cleaved through the crystal shell, shattering it and destroying the red core.
Meanwhile, Blake and Kelly summoned numerous ice rocks, hurtling them at the phrases like meteors, while also protecting their allies with water and ice shields.
Bianca engaged in combat with a beetle-shaped phrase, employing her sharp claws in an attempt to break its crystal shell.
Ember, proficient in elemental attacks, utilized her beak and claws to strike the phrases while skillfully evading the light missiles.
Celeste employed her powerful jaws to crush the hard shells of the phrases, while Erica coiled her serpentine body around the creatures, constricting them and crushing their cores.
As Alex observed their fierce battles, he found himself confronted by the manta ray and remora phrases.
Suddenly, the remora phrase approached Alex too closely, unleashing its light attack against him.
"[Shield]"
Alex barely managed to erect a shield spell, defending against the attack, but the impact sent him hurtling through the air.
As he soared, Alex invoked his gate spell, opening a portal that teleported him above the remora phrase. With a swift strike of his glaive, he cleaved the remora phrase in two, obliterating both of its cores simultaneously.
"[Rock Crash]"
"[Gravity]"
Alex summoned an earth spell, conjuring a massive boulder above the phrase. He then invoked the gravity spell, causing the phrase to plummet onto the frozen sea, creating a colossal crater of ice and shattering it into fragments.
The battle concluded with Bianca and Ember taking down the final phrase.
***
"What a troublesome creatures they were..." Bianca muttered as she watched Alex examining the phrasium, the material which made up the body of phrases.
"Hmm.. those sure were some unusual creatures, I have never seen anything like that before" Erica muttered more of amused than annoyed by the phrases unlike Bianca.
"My Liege, do you know anything about those creatures?" Ember asked Alex looked deep in thought as it tinkered with phrasium with modelling spell trying to create different objects.
"Well I know a bit about those phrases and... though not much but they all are closely related with the Babylon"
"Related with the Babylon?" Erica asked as she was curious about the phrases.
"Yup.. I will tell you all about them during our travel.. let's resume out journey to Egret for now"
Saying so Alex put all of phrasium and shards of phrase's nucleus in his storage while hopping back of Celeste and resumed their journey to Egret.
***
"Wow! Phrases..interdimensional invasion and destruction of entire civilization of humans.. that's quite a history these beings got there" Erica said as she finished listening to phrase's history.
Alex explained them the history of 5000 years ago where phrases almost destroyed this entire world and how Regina Babylon fought against these beings with the help of frame gears.
Though he didn't mentioned about Ende or Sovereign core or something but just the overview of these phrases and their weaknesses while warning them all about the future that awaited the and his goals to fight phrases.
Since Alex has gotten himself a nation and nice foothold in this world he doesn't intend to just sit back and let it get destroyed by these crystal bastards.
Alex has long decided to battle against these creatures and not depend upon Touya for the safety of the future of the world.
For this reason did the Alex started to search for Babylons after finding the workshop by accident and wanted to mass produce the frame gears and have his army of Arcadia equip them and battle against these phrases.
"Something is coming.." Kelly said as she looked down at the water where a large shadow could be seen coming towards the surface at a very fast speed from below the water.
"My Liege, the sea serpent is here" Celeste's voice rang out and everyone looked down at the blue aquatic dragon bigger than Celeste herself making its way out of the water looking at them and bowed towards them.
"It is wonderful to see you again, Azure Monarch. It is a pleasure to
meet with you all as well, the Golden Monarch, the Black Monarch, the White Monarch and the Flame Monarch"