The Phoenix's shot finds its way to the spirit's flank, just above the shoulder. It gives a brief shudder as a lick of flame erupts from its ashen coat, and grows until the entire figure is burning brightly, trying to step forward on unsteady legs. The jaguar gives a final hiss before its mouth too is subsumed by the fire, and the spirit collapses in on itself, leaving only a small bit of ash and scorch marks on the city street. As the spirit falls, Marissa can feel tendrils of mana enveloping her. For a brief moment, she's seized by panic, and steels herself for the blast from some spell, but then notices that her jacket, her pants, even her Predator are blurring into the gray sky and concrete. And then she notices that some of the crowd who had been fearfully watching the exchange between her and the spirit are left dumbfounded, as if she simply vanished from sight.
Near La Sombre the woman with the monowhip pushes off on a large man in the crowd and teeters backward, heading toward a Shin-Hyung. The passenger door opens, and a figure in a black-matte ballistic mask leans out the side with an SMG, letting off a burst of fire to cover the woman's escape. She takes three or four more long strides, before the monowhip simply trails behind her, cutting a thin groove in the pavement before she collapses face-first. La Sombre too feels the effects of mana on her, and feels even more concealed within the crowd.
On the Gopher, one man with an SMG lets off a short burst into the crowd, while the other lets off a longer burst at the same. From Lil Rambo's feed, Mr. Hopeless can see three more figures falling to the fire. The third man abandons the cover of the plastiboard and sandbags to lean over the roof of the truck and fires at the man with the AK. He strikes the man center mass, and staggers him before the man can return fire after finding cover behind a parked car. Bullets punch through the windshield and out the rear window, striking the man in the leg, and another finds home in the man's left shoulder, knocking him a step backward.
