As long as Aria stayed alive, Ray had no chance; even if he succeeded in killing the weaker one, Aria could easily get rid of him.
"First, I need a way to defend against her novas." Ray, instead of Aria, flew toward the horseman; its body stood the same as before.
"Going somewhere?" Aria, with a longbow at hand, shot a crystal arrow toward him, which duplicated itself into smaller pieces. On the other side, the horseman did the same as before; he drew the string of his bow, summoning destruction and fusion arrows at the same time.
Ray called for his equipment from his soul, a red crystal much like any other magical crystal. From the ground a blood rose, shaping a big tower until it reached their height.
"Passage to Babylon." The tower's structure changed from blood to red crystals, and with a boom, it exploded into air and ground; anywhere the fragments touched, portals of blood came to beings. From the red portals, figures like Ray came out, each with his power at level 3.
