Fortuna Verto

63-Chance Opportunity

The two returned to their second battlefront to encounter absolute pandemonium. Everything might have originally appeared balanced, but the conflict on this side had quickly shifted in their enemy's favour.

Axln brought Lyun over to a seating area, having shifted directly into the citadel after bringing them both directly into the air. The whole thing had been almost a demonstration of strength, using her chaotic potential to simply carry the weakened woman and then jump the distance. Mheridz had passed her more than a few concerned glances then too, but by then she was already out of the room. She headed to the rift mechanism, finding Luna currently trying to process repairs on it. Well, that was quite unfortunate, but she could still handle rifts on her own. Committing her own potential to the cause, she rifted out back to the ground below. She arrived to witness a demonstration depicting the depths pandemonium had befallen, even the colossal having stumbled on an unsettled stone foundation, to then slip into an area that just happened to be molten at the time, the entire weapon sinking into a bog of liquid stone. Several destroyers around her had their weapons spontaneously fail, the unit then suddenly detonating from the intensity of elements within. As she took a step forward, she suddenly slipped to her back, the ground below her having at some point frozen into a slick surface. A chaotic fiend rushed to confront her, so she turned her own weapon upon it.. one which had happened to be without ammunition at the time. That startled her, finding the thing's shard had been lost at some point during their encounters.

「There are a vast number of disturbances here, the flow of probability has been outright decimated by chaos.」 So they really were suddenly as unlucky as they looked. Axln was outright forced to simply consume her opponent with her chaotic arm, not having the chance to weigh the options still available to her. Logically, she would have every option.. but logic didn't mean shit against the laws of chance on this side. Things could go wrong just because things could go wrong, without any degree of rational cause. No wonder their foe had opted to that path, it even felt as primitively chaotic as they were. 「At its core, probability is the law of chaos, effectively being randomization itself. Chance is then one of the few chaotic factors present with all principles, as a result of being exposed to temporal chaos.」 That possibly explained why things were going so poorly even more. Axln herself felt like she might not directly have been affected, but the impact of her actions would be then influenced. That too was easy to explain, her chaotic nature making her far more resilient to factors of chaos. It still might not even be enough, she wasn't exactly made of chaos herself, the direct part of her feeling unaffected wasn't even her physical self.. that would still be vulnerable. The only part of her which was safe was her chaotic aspects. Everything else of her, or anything from everything else on this side, well.. nothing else was quite so lucky.

Axln started coughing suddenly, having all too suddenly simply gotten sick in the unfamiliar environment.. even with protection from her power gear which would have worked against that. Of course, over-exposure to the void, something that can make people ill.. it really was quite unfortunate that such had so suddenly occurred. It was also unfortunate that they actually didn't know anyone especially skilled at healing. Axln retailored the effects of her power gear to cause a direct healing effect.. but her concentration broke mid-way in a coughing fit. During this distraction, she remained unaware of the threats around her, one of the fiends lashing out while she wasn't paying attention. Axln went flying by the wave force itself, slamming hard into a rock in the process. Axln felt herself drain in the impact, and not just from her breath. Looking down, she discovered that the rock she had flown into happened to have a protruding part, which had sliced right into her leg. She collapsed to the ground, caught between struggling to catch her breath while struggling to even stand. Her foe however had no interest in providing the opportunity for either. It wasn't even an especially powerful fiend, actually one of the weakest, and yet that was suddenly enough. No one else was faring any better either.