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Following Alan's lead, Morgan made a target of the ones surrounding Quin quickly but carefully, then closed her eyes. Ki, a smoky sort of appearance this time, started to eminate from her and wrap around two of them. She ran up to the two it was on (the ki was taking her energy) and with a small knife that she usually carried was able to dispatch those two. She looked for more to repeat the process on.

She was on a line of them, all charging towards her when she noticed the creature Quin had been able to produce. Something she would need to remeber for later, it was certainly no technique she had taught him. With another burst of ki she held a larger group, then moved in with her weapon again. If things got more intense she would have to make energy balls, even though throwing them was somewhat haphazard.

Levaticus turned to Quintilius, and carefully paced toward him, around away from the demon as far as he could distance himself. Perhpas upon the man's death- he brought the bar of light from around his sword out, it extending into a massive pillar again, this time letting it shoot outward toward Quintilius instead of swinging it at him, ignoring all the chaos around. "So you can control it, can you? But for how long? How long will it do your bidding, and what will the price be? It is foolish of you to think you could perfect such art on your own. This is where you will bring yourself down, should you live long enough. The only power one can use, is a power restrained! Something so open will crush it's master and prey alike, fool!" he snarled, as the bar of light grew out, crushing stone it brushed against as if a giant hammer struck all it touched. he spoke quietly after, a constant mumbling of spell, watching with hope of it killing the man, and perhaps banishing the creature upon it, and wrapping flames around his arm, readying to use them as well. All else he lost sight of, including the broken and discarding puppet peices pulling aside to the secondary puppeteers, where the next wave was already being created of their remains.

A fist came out of nowhere and caught Alan under the chin, sending him careening backwards. He landed right at Lavaticus' feet. Alan braced for another blow but none seem to come. Lavaticus seemed completely absorbed in watching Quin and the demon. He also seemed to be muttering a spell.
Well we'll end that. Alan grabbed Lavaticus' foot and tugged hard, pulling him to the ground. He snatched a sharp rock from the ground and it became a knife. Pressing it against Lavaticus' throat he shouted at him. "Give!"

Alan rolled sideways away from the huge blade coming down towards him. He ran over to where the other two were standing and picked up his stick. The stick became a huge tree again and readied itself to do battle with the monstrous contraption. "I'm running out of energy. This cant go on much longer or I'll have to break out."
The tree wrapped a branch around him and set him in the trough between two limbs where he could see and direct it.

The puppet crumbled like any other, falling apart and over the edge of the roof, landing in peices, and all it's stings attatched to went limp. That left only one, and a lack of puppets to control, with the mass of their remains now being destroyed. The second one would have to buy him time, with just keep them from moving, to let the demon protect them from another swarm of smaller puppets. This was no victory, but while that demon was an unknown factor, and as of yet could not be assessed as an oppurtunity nor as a danger for more than the immediate time. So, he would collect the item that was of importance for certain, and perhaps what he had seen could lead to better knowledge to make use of the Silver Demon. The second master puppet took it's hords to the bar, pulling it's self behind them from roof to roof, to watch from just a bit further behind. Meanwhile, back where he watched, Talivar would find his way to Richardo, and make certain he dealt well with Areberus. More failure could not be accepted by his lord.

The tree bashed the little puppets to bits as they came at it. Alan didnt even have to tell it what to do. The battle was simple now, just beat all the small enemies untill they were all gone. Alan checked himself over and looked at all the injuries, none of them were life threatening, though a few would need medical attention. He pulcked a few leaves off the tree and they became bandages which he wrapped around some of the easily available injuries.