Felix reappears. "What sort of defenses one needs against this thing?"

Ari looks around for his scythe, not exactly frantic but very intense. "I can probably take it out solo but I won't say no to help. Definitely ward against fire. We don't know if it has extraneous powers but I'll be able to tell when I get there, so if you know how to protect against cold, lightning, and poison it's a good idea to have that ready if you can. Obviously it's also got claws, teeth, various spikes, and probably a sword, so physical injury wards are a good idea too. Where is my scythe, I cannot kill an overlord barehanded."

His scythe is in a umbrella rack.

Luckily, someone was already working with the book of wards. Felix sets up the most general purpose battle-ward he finds and puts the volunteers there. Which turns out to be everyone.

Ritual Ritual Ritual. Felix casts all by himself because it's faster than teaching to everyone.

And it's done. They feel the ward fizzle against their skin.

Felix briefly collapses to the ground until his brothers dump lifeforce on him. He stands wobbly.

Ari gets the scythe and spins it in his hands. "Thanks. Are we good to go? If so, let's go."

The last step is going up to the top of the tower. There is a very lighthouse-like room which is glass on all sides. But where there would be a lantern in the middle there is a giant crystal.

Fernando does something that opens all the glass windows and then he taps the crystal. Ari will have enough time to register it and all the stars in the town's sky go dark, plunging the town into darkness.

Then they are floating alongside Fernando, almost anchored to his relative position. Fernando shoots them upward into the sky, above the clouds, then... above the stars? It's hard to register things given how fast they move.

(Felix did remember to grab articles of clothing, but it didn't occur to him to go upstairs where Ari's were.)

They have time to get redressed but soon reach their destination and look for signs of demonic mayhem.

Ari manifestly does not care about clothes.

Demonic mayhem is pretty easy to spot. The demon doesn't seem pleased about suddenly being in a human city, and expresses its displeasure via burning and destruction.

Someone's trying to shoot it with what looks like a hunting rifle. It's not working.

Ari launches himself at the demon immediately, swinging his scythe like a battleaxe. The scythe cuts into the demon's flesh, but not far enough; it turns and exhales a cloud of searing flame straight into Ari's face, then slams its fist into him, sending him flying through the wall of a nearby house.

Ari will find himself less hurt then expected.

The triplets turn to evacuating people. Felix's breath gift of fire also works to stop small flames (it doesn't do much, but it helps).

Gabe is momentarily distracted by Ari being thrown like that. But he remembers to stay between himself and Henry.

Henry will use his anti-magic gift to see if he can do anything to make this demon less dangerous.

The flames around the demon die down somewhat. It looks around for the cause; when it sees Henry, its eyes narrow -

and an eye-searing stroke of red lightning flashes into it, leaving a long black mark along its side. It roars, turning towards Ari, who has stood up and is already preparing another attack. It charges, but is struck by an orb of purple energy, which warps reality around it until a ragged patch of its flesh is simply gone.

The demon screams in pain and fury. Ari's face has twisted into a terrifying grin.

Two lamp posts wrap themselves around the creatures arms. Thomas is gone (presumably via Felix) before the creature has time to react.

Somewhat is not good enough. Henry wants to completely snuff out the magic of that creature if necessary.

Ari leaps at the creature, and his scythe sweeps out to chop off its head.

Both head and body start glowing.

Ari starts running, and shouts "GET AWAY FROM THE BODY!" shortly before said body violently explodes. Windows along the street break from the pressure, and Ari is hurled through another wall.

Gabe turns and surrounds Henry with his arms. He doesn't know if the wards are good enough, he puts his gift shield up, up, up...

...there is a circle unaffected by the explosion around him and Henry afterwards.

Fernando is left stunned by the explosion for a moment, but he recovers and checks on Ari.

Ari is injured, but healing rapidly. There are burns on his back; apparently it is still possible to burn him, you just have to go kind of thermonuclear first.

"Well, that was a laugh riot," he says, wincing. "Any casualties?"

"A few from before we came here. But we should check if any civilians got hurt in the blast."

Fernando will help Ari stand with some application of the floating effect.

Ari stands and assists with the search.

Henry and Gabe hug Ari when they realize he is alright, but promptly resume the search.

People got hurt in the blast. Mostly because of the glass. One was knocked back and fell down from a balcony.

It's more efficient to let the sorcerers to transfer health on the victims - knitting wounds more efficiently - and then giving the sorcerers a healing potion.

People in uniforms soon join then. A middle-aged women approaches Ari followed by an assistant that offers Ari a blanket.

Ari reluctantly wraps the blanket around his waist.

Good. The middle-aged woman lets him resume search and rescue and starts barking orders to her officers. But soon enough she calls one of the triplets to get a report and then beacons Ari to come closer. She holds a hand to signal Thomas to quiet down. "I would like to hear your explanation to what just happened here?"