The battle continued in a series of corridors alternating in colors. The moon might have been camouflaged on the surface but underneath was a labyrinth filled with uniform tiles that all blended into each other. Until suddenly coming alive. They flashed common shapes, beeped, and executed some kind of magic code that 100% involved math. Eventually the stones returned to blankly reflecting mirror images of a seemingly infinite space again. This area where between the lines the Elementals performed their functions was only hinted at. The complexity of their rainbow colored power structures had yet to be fully revealed, but the secrets already seen would not be taken away alive by the intruders.

The area had only grown bigger as they had reached further underground. The dust knocked from the ceiling coating the moving rocks below fell over a hundred feet, while the walls were growing in the other direction. The formerly hyper reflective walls had been charred removing previously glowing glyphs, gold, and reflective materials. Mule had caused several piles of debris to be nothing but hills of ashes. He cast some kind of web onto an elemental that grew a quick acting dark moss. The stones struggled to fight back while Mule used his full concentration to wring the power out of them.

Meanwhile Edward snapped like an alligator exposing an open mouth showcasing a freshly mutated in crystals. His breath smelled of rotten bait and his body rank like he still had a long bottom. Now he was but a mutated skull detached from the neck down due to his mother’s chainsaw. He growled like a hydraulic press about to crush something.

“You all must recognize me for my power level!” He glitched while spitting real saliva at the various enemies surrounding him from all sides. “Bow before your alpha male,” synthetically babbled the talking head cut off from his original voice box and cornered.

“Haha,” laughed the alpaca standing in his place. Mule raised an eyebrow in amusement, and spit. “I can recognize a tool to utilize for my ulterior motives when I see one, and so do these Elementals,” he said.

He had empty eyes, an emotionless voice of nothingness, and a pale expressionless face that never seemed to move its mouth. What previously looked to be brand new threads that materialized out of nothing now seemed fraying with a magical energy felt almost warming. There was a creepy vibe that was incredibly alluring to things that could smell it, and Edward had been drawn into orbit like it was catnip. Wait a second it was really catnip..

Edward burst into a laughing fit fueled by madness. A messed up head rolling around the destroyed tunnel hissing. His white beard was caused by the excessive frothing around his face that looked like shaving cream. It mixed with his exposed spinal cord until he shook it off, thrashing like a wet dog with a series of spasms while hissing like a feline.

“Stay back. Buzzzz”. Edward shook with shocks of blue electricity shooting out his remaining sockets.

The Mule had been silently approaching inch by inch the entire time. He had got close enough their tendrils could touch. A sweep ahead performed by an edge tipped one handed man dressed to kill. He raised his shadowy cloak enough to reveal more than the dark filler on his outfit. Edward was momentarily mesmerized by a tip of the hat, and flash of the queer cane. Mule turned his head down letting the brim of his hat cover most of his face, and exposed a smile so bright it acted as a flash bang.

“FLASH!”

An animalistic instinct reaction he struck back before being hurt. Edward opened his still stunned eyes to see his thing lashing through the mist where Mule had previously stood vanished into smoke. The flying body part with previously unlocked 27% extension came up empty handed until latching onto an Elemental lumbering into the picture.

“Alghhhh shlichhht” said Edward, being simultaneously electrocuted, roasted, air fried, and dehydrated.

As long as he remained connected on the line to the creature it would keep doing damage. A three block triangle floating around and buzzing occasionally while perpetually humming forward. Meanwhile the crystalized tongue felt like it had become a magnet connecting to the three connected stones slowly killing him.

“Do you feel pain?” Whispered Mule’s voice from nowhere.

“Grrrr no wayzzzzzzaaaaazaaaap,” huffed Edward, with electric shocks buzzing sparks all over his flesh beginning to smoke. “Nothing I can’t handle bitch,now show yourself you rat,” he quipped.

There was more and more blocks snapping in from somewhere making it six he was connected, then another one shuffled into the growing like a game of dominoes. The Elementals continued forward at the same advancing pace, but rapidly charged up their defensive capabilities to eliminate. There were more of them joining the battle every second in the area forming octagons and other trapezoids. An air pocket formed around the tip of Edwards tongue and followed it down to his base.

“AAHZaAaAP!” He sparkled looking like he was composed of glitter, and even spit out some. “Ughh the sicker I get and the further I slip nzzaza, and The less in focus other things become, the more demons spawns,” he screamed robotically.

His mechanical voice box had become waterlogged during his trips through the flooded vent, and that had only made the sound higher pitched.

“ZAP”.

Edward launched another blind barbed tongue attack in response, but came up empty handed. Mule performed perfect timing transforming into a beast and dodged the attack in the process. He shifted into a higher gear to a charging ram that pinned its attacker's body part to the wall then broke off both horns leaving them pinning the talking head, and his entrails freeing Edward’s connection with the powerful energy that left him dazed and soot covered. Mule’s hooves, and legs again bent into pretzels while the air misted and shrieked with changing molecules. He emerged from the puff of his smoke and changed into a man dressed as a boxer with magic gloves that morphed into action.

“Wack, smack, punch!”

Individual Elements were disposed of, causing chain reactions of chaos. The battle exploded like mortars put in the tube the wrong direction.

“Aaaaah” said Edward, rolling himself forward quickling gaining momentum.

“WHAM!”

Mule was caught and knocked over like a bowling pin. The previously disemembled Elementals began re-fusing their cracks in bodies looking like shattered vases sloppily repaired. They formed four smaller square walls inside the rectangular tunnels and continued closing in. Edward smacked into them like a bowling ball knocking several connections apart with his numbskull. He bounced off one, and then gained speed on hitting the opposite wall. By the third hit he wasn’t touching the ground anymore and getting faster and faster.

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“Bang!” He blew a gaping hole in the wall.

“Your head has been further thickened %50. Congratulations on meeting hidden conditions #43!. Protip if you survive eleven explosions to unlock a reduction of %1000 explosion/flame retardant,” a robot voice boomed out from somewhere deep inside.

It echoed bouncing around all the empty area while he flew out of bounds.

“I’m unkillable haha,” laughed Edward rolling on to the other side.

“Neat,” said Mule, climbing to his paws as a boxer breed of dog.”woof, woof,”.

He charged forward, sliding under a slowly closing door made by fused elementals, and then leaping through the air after Edward.

“Let’s hook up,” interrupted Mule, sending a line of twisted substance spinning toward his target. It wrapped his head up like a spider's victim.

He hooked Edward's head and sent it spinning at a group of enemies. A tiny 1 block beeped like an ambulance, its body on little tank tracks. A bomber lit up in flashing runes rainbow until Edward hit into it smacking it away with a home run.

“Boom!” The ceiling in front of them collapsed burying blocks and kicking up moon dust.

Mule cracked two bags of crystal dust together, and then rubbed them as they hummed a spell in ancient tongue. The air in front of him turned into his own world while the two powders mingled into a combination.

“There's one down, time to farm some more,” said Mule, holding Edwards suspended in the air with an anti-gravity spell.

“Peeew haha,” laughed the man receiving oxygen again. “I can breathe well again thanks buddy, assuming you will soon let me go from this leash either once we reach safety or the immediate action is over,” laughed Edward floating high within a hazy bubble of a medicinal spell.

An explosion rocked the surface as Edward was shot through the roof into the moonlight. A trail of connecting substances of blank mass connected him to his puppet master.

“I see the human through you,”.

The surface of the floating moon had become eerily quiet until he heard the pouring water. It sounded as if a thousand rains were happening simultaneously on the rocks of an offshore ledge. The previously tranquil surface of the advancing moon was washed away as the giant natural magic spaceship was put under pressure by the waterfall at the end of the planet.

Edward was sucked back under the surface as water bouncing from impact miles away began to fall on here as rain.

“They are flying us from the core of our very flat planet through the massive waterfall at the end of the surface, brace yourself!” screamed Edward, having landed in Mule's outstretched hand that rested on the other side on the flat top of his cane.

“Get us to safety c’mon fool,” interrupted Edward.

“It’s fascinating that these creatures have remained hidden from me all these years. I wonder if they have shown themselves to many, if any , before us, but now they are on the move uncloaked for some inexplicable reason,” said Mule, camouflaging under a pile of blocks formed from toppled Elementals.

Many more enemies had entered the picture with different new forms had been added to the fray. There was one that rolled in like logs on a river. They flew on some kind of energy that controlled them forward. One log of runes would dip in a section of its invisible flying course and then the next in line would mirror this bizarre behavior. This was interspersed with the booming bass that rattled the floor on the slow approach of the next elemental combination of war.

“Hey help me escape before we hit space and I’ll help you” Edward pleaded while the walls around him closed to nothing.

“Hmmmm,” mused Mule.

The humming energy echoing from them and cracked static noises of glitching production. A dark and sinister synth played an industrial blend while steam filled the area. The blocks absorbed more blocks from nearby walls and special runes along the hall with every addition the surge of energy increased as the floor was repaired. It would keep growing until the threat was terminated. Now it was 24 blocks joined together, and another hall was completely walled off. The power levels had become sufficient to start magnetizing in new blocks from an increasing distance to grow increasingly quickly. They were trapped.

“A tank is headed our way,” said Mule.

“Well i might be hard as farc but my head ain’t thick enough for this fuck off,” yelled Edward as he rolling away.

He groaned in frustration and immediately reversed course coming in contact with a log that hit him back into place like a pool cue. In the distance a tank composed of what looked like thousand sheets of elementals stacked on top of each other like little plastic pieces. It crawled forward hovering as close to the ground as possible. A massive totem on the back charged momenta until pounding down producing a miniature quake in its wake. Another tank followed this from somewhere doubling the shaking ground.

Mule flew through a gap as a hummingbird. Edward tried to follow but was caught out in the cold, stuck in a spot not any bigger than a coffin and sprayed with any icy mist by an Elemental. Mule stared Edward in the eyes while his mouth was frozen shut from a distance.

“You are a man. You must recognize I am more than man.. better than,” Mule communicated telepathically.

“poof!” He vanished.

“Coward. I’ll eat my way out of here and then you ass!” Screamed Edward.

The rocks kept closing around while he kept biting. Little pieces chipped away in both directions until his teeth were rapidly filled down to nothing, and the hole he had eaten was quickly plugged by more flying logs. The final scream was muffled as they locked together into a tight prison system.

”Smash!”

Mule was giant octopus flopping around, and flinging blocks into each other with enough force to shatter them like glass. The area around Edward had been cleaned away.

“Now you are free to speak, but best do it quick before the flood hits,” he finished.

“Parasite,” ragged Edward internally.

He was still trying to fight a rock by biting it, but ended up sucking tentacle. The ground pulled apart in sections of increasingly growing rifts. The water poured away taking anything caught in the sinks. A massive chunk was pulled away taking the tank that had caused it and many nearby blocks falling into the lunar sea. The sound of the waterfall was immense, packing enough decimals to deafen anything with normal ears, and flatten anything not rock it immediately hit on impact. If gravity would have slowed the stream or had any effect it didn't show falling off Tenare into space.

“Splash”.

A wave of water rushed into the trench, down a matching turquoise tunnel, and then charged around a corner. The levees broke until there was the loud roar of 1000 times the force. There was a mounting pressure while everything was pushed down the corridors as they rapidly flooded.

The octopus with 7 arms flew through the hole it had smashed in the wall. Into the void inside the moving moon carrying the indestructible Edward. The water followed raging into the entry before spilling away into darkness. Mule grabbed the cut off head by his suction cups as the bubbles blew from his beak. Air bubbles also escaped Edwards mouth as he drowned while trying to get in a bite.

“Hehehe I’ve got you man don’t worry huhuhuhu,” laughed Mule, inspecting his prize.

The rest of the tentacles wrangling deeper into the cave with his four legs for movement, two appendages spread air crystal dust over the head held by final.

“I’ve got some extra arms and legs to make up for yours that are missing, hahahaha,” He laughed.