Marvel: Incursio

The rocks in Liam's surroundings cracked before disintegrating into dust as the sound wave struck. The ground beneath his feet shattered, sinking him deeper into the mountain under the sheer strength of the combined sound attacks.

The soundwaves were infused with dimensional energy, and with such overwhelming power, it didn't take long before the noise bypassed Incursio's defenses. Despite blocking most of the sound, his ears began to bleed, and he started to get disoriëntated.

His body's regenerative cells all flowed to his eardrums, working frantically to heal the damage and adapt to the frequency. While Liam tried to jump out from the hole, but was quickly slammed back down, sinking even further into the rock.

As he got pushed furthur in the mountain, Liam summoned his domain, creating massive, energy-reinforced pillars in front of him to shield himself from the sound waves.

At the same time, the sound waves continued spreading across the landscape, distorting the air and unleashing immense, unnatural pressure onto it.

The effect from this on the environment around them was catastrophic. Lightning strikes flew through the sky, which had started to fill up with storm clouds, and massive amounts of rain started falling down. This massive storm started on top of the mountain before spreading miles away from it.

When the harpies lost sight of Liam, they stopped their sound attacks, confusion spreading through the flock as they screeched at one another.

Frustration darkened the stone giant's expression. Enraged by the loss of its prey, it swept a massive hand through the air, snatching a handful of harpies and stuffing them into its mouth. The act wasn't out of anger alone. It absorbed the harpies' flesh, blood and energy as fuel for the energy circulating through its massive body.

Crunching down on the harpies with its stone teeth, the giant smashed both arms into the ground and began charging energy within its limbs. Moments later, it released several short bursts of energy into the ground. Seismic shockwaves went through the mountain, shaking it violently.

Liam's domain didn't break as everything outside the domain fractured and collapsed, but Liam was sinking deeper into the mountain again. The shockwaves weren't random—they were directed specifically at him and the structures he had created to protect himself.

'I need to get out of here,' he thought, still a little disorientated from the sound attack. 'And I'm killing those annoying fuckers the moment I do.'

This was his first encounter with an enemy capable of using sound-based attacks. Though he knew people like Black Bolt had such power, he had not expected to face it so soon—and certainly not from creatures like these.

He couldn't create portals because of the tear above, so he extended his domain into a sphere 200 feet wide around him. While temporary safe from sound attacks, he created a new pillar beneath his feet and used it to lift himself back towards the surface.

As the pillar went up, Neontote changed into its dragon form and a whip-like construct appeared in his left hand.

Meanwhile, tremors continued to ripple across the mountain, triggering small landslides that turned into larger mudslides because of the falling rain.

As the pillar reached the surface, Liam jumped off it and canceled his domain, as it didn't couldn't even reach the harpies in the sky. Since the domain wasn't very large, creating and canceling it didn't cost him that much energy.

"They're too high in the air and too spread out for me to use my domain effectively," he observed. The creatures were scattered over a large area in the sky, covering a radius of one to two miles while flying several hundred feet above the ground.

'Fine. Neontote for the harpies, domain for the giant,' he thought, concentrating fully on executing his plan. 'I should be able to hit them with the whip.'

Bending his knees before jumping up with all his strength, Liam launched himself into the sky. The harpies didn't remain idle either. Their mouths opened in unison, unleashing more soundwaves aimed directly at him.

As Liam reached the peak of his jump, he swung his whip towards one of the harpies closest to him. The sound waves came straight for him, but he managed to pull himself up just in time.

The sound continued to chase him as he swung up. Liam slashed through the harpy he had latched onto, making blood rain down as its body fell to the ground.

When Liam reached their height, the harpies ceased their sound attacks to avoid hitting one another. Their screeches became louder in anger as they changed tactics, lunging towards him with their razor-sharp talons.

Meanwhile, Liam swung his whip towards another harpy that had lunged at him with its talons. This time, rather than killing it, Liam grabbed onto the feathers on its back and channeled energy into the transformed Neontote.

Neontote erupted with blue flames as Liam released the stored energy. The harpy he held onto started falling from the sky, overwhelmed by the intense pressure of the flames.

Swinging Neontote around in wide arcs from left to right, Liam focused on expanding the reach and width of the flames by pouring in more energy. A massive blue inferno swept across the sky, consuming six hundred harpies in a few arcs.

 As their charred bodies plummeted to the ground, he canceled the flames and prepared to raise his whip towards the next harpy within reach, as he jumped off the harpy that was falling to the ground.

After decimating the first few large groups, the remaining harpies scattered, trying to fly as far away as possible in different directions. They weren't fleeing but rather attempting to gain a safe distance from his flames to continue using their sound attacks.

A few harpies on the outskirts resumed their sound attacks, aiming from afar. Liam clung to a new harpy, using it as cover to dodge.

The dodged sound waves crashed into their own kind, striking their companions in the back and knocking them from the sky with blood flowing from their bodies.

Meanwhile, Liam raised Neontote and unleashed another blast of blue flames from the back of another harpy, incinerating three hundred more before he had to use his whip to swing to the next harpy.

As he clung on another harpy and started channeling energy into Neontote again, he noticed the stone giant preparing a new attack with dimensional energy below and frowned.

The stone giant planted both hands into the ground, channeling energy into the rocky surface before him. Another tremor went through the mountain as the stone gaint's energy pushed into it.

After a few seconds, the stone giant slowly rose up again, lifting a massive boulder the same size as its body from the ground. With a powerful throw, the giant launched the massive boulder at Liam, flying through the stormy sky like a speeding missile.

Seeing the massive boulder coming his way, Liam abruptly released his grip on the harpy's feathers and jumped off its back. He released the stored energy in Neontote and used it to propel himself away from the projectile.

Flying through the air, he raised his whip to latch onto another harpy. As he glanced back, all he saw was a bloody mist in the place he had just been.

As he looked around some more, he noticed something. 

'These creatures are far more intelligent than I gave them credit for,' Liam thought. The harpies had adapted quickly, splitting into smaller groups. Only, leaving only a few large clusters he could still exploit.