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I had the most powerful magic, and the need to use it. Lifting my right hand, I summoned forth my Mana, converted it into magic, and spoke my own word of power. Much to her surprise, I could still cast with my right hand, despite its missing digits. “You aren’t really going to do this, are you?” Shart asked. He was making his way over to me with only the barest hint of floundering. “Hoopie!” The spell pierced her barrier, turning the now useless boundary a bright blue. Her expression was a mix of terror and amazement as the spell bypassed her defenses and impacted her. Her ass exploded in an echoing cacophony of flatulence. It was literally the loudest fart I’d ever heard. As someone whose mother-in-law used to regularly drive people from the room with her anal symphonies, I considered myself an expert. I highly suspected Bashara was the kind of lady who didn’t fart in public; she must have been saving that one up all day. She blinked several times, as she checked her status log. It was time to execute the second part of my plan. Grabbing Shart, amidst his squawking protests, I yelled my battlecry. “Poke-Shart, Go!” Then, I flung the invisible demon straight at her head. Shart only weighed thirty pounds or so; I was more than strong enough to fling him at a pretty good clip. His cry of “you bastard” slowly faded the further he flew. I had hoped that being hit in the face would knock her off balance. That would have given me a moment to pick up my sword and close. Actually, I hoped it was possible to hit her at all; despite Shart’s ability to fly, he wasn’t very aerodynamic. I couldn’t win a spell duel, considering I had only one good hand and didn’t know any good spells. I was going to have to engage her in combat. I sincerely hoped that my invisible familiar would give me an advantage. I hadn’t calculated on hitting the top of her head with Shart’s Belly Button of Holding. Her head disappeared, completely buried down to the top of her shoulders. Her body, however, still worked. She was careening around, her hands furiously pushing on the demon. The remaining bandit, coincidentally, looked at Bashara just as her head vanished. Incorrectly assuming that I had some sort of head vanishing spell, he tried to break and run. You can’t run away from a homicidal badger. I managed to get within arms’ reach of Bashara, just as she had successfully begun pushing Shart off her head. She had freed her mouth and was screaming. As she continued pushing, her nose popped free. I felt only slightly bad when I grabbed the demon and pushed him all the way down. In seconds, only her feet were exposed. Then, I pushed those in as well.
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