Sparks of light could be seen throughout the battlefield as two nearly invisible figures battle in a contest of speed and reaction time. Alex sent a barrage of impact-infused sword strikes toward King who responded in kind with a barrage of medal punches. Alex used his impact to blitz behind King and tried to hook kick King in the back of the head, who fazed through his attack completely. Alex suddenly dropped low and tried to sweep King's legs with his sword. King fazed through it yet again before spinning around and trying to hit Alex with a skull-shattering backhand. Alex skillfully jumped over it and went for a stab with his blade through King's throat, who deflected the blow and palmed Alex in the chest, sending him back. "You pretty good at that whole speed-boosting thing huh kid?" Alex grinned in response, causing King to smirk evilly. "How about I even the playing field?" asked King. "Trait Awakening Two: Celestial Sword Dance," said King as his body was overtaken in a blue aura.
Suddenly King disappeared, appearing behind Alex who also disappeared, this time in a burst of speed, a couple of feet away. King teleported in front of Alex who reacted well and clashed with King but was pushed back. King teleported yet again but this time above Alex who rolled out of the way, only to find King already behind him as he kicked him across what once was the community area of the mine. Alex got on his feet and quickly ducked without looking as a fist made its way over his head, Alex spun around and went for a slash just to see King gone. Only instinct saved Alex as he put his sword above him and blocked the attack coming overhead and was able to deflect it before landing a strike to King's side as he once again teleported away.
"I see," started Alex, "with this, you can now teleport as much as you want without any cooldown. King simply smiled in response, "You're exactly right, we're just about to wrap up this fight, I hope you can hold out a little longer." Alex smirked, looking the large man dead in the eyes, "I know that thing must be incredibly draining, so what's gonna hold out longer, me and my reflexes, or you and your stamina?" "Only one way to find out!!" yelled both King and Alex as they disappeared, meeting in the middle as a clash caused an explosion to ring out around the battlefield once more.
Chapter 17: Sword Dance
"BULLET STORM," Tin pointed his fingers directly at Rhyan, suddenly hundreds if not thousands of bullets barraged out of their hands, Rhyan barely reacted to this dodging out of the way of a few bullets, one even scaped under his eye, Rhyan crafted a shield but the barrage seemed to have no end, Rhyan's defense was almost at its ends thankfully for Rhyan the barrage ended, Tin's finger was blood red after his deadly attack. "SHEEESH, that one was good, honestly I'm surprised you got out of that one still in one piece," said Tin. Rhyan launched a sword at Tin to which he simply moved out of the way.
"Hey kid how many weapons do you have, must be a lot to keep throwing them around like that? You're gonna run out of blades at some point, your efforts will be all in vain, you and all of your friends have literally made your own gravel," said Tin. Rhyan makes a greatsword and rushes Tin, "I'll be making a grave alright but it won't be for me!" Rhyan swings vertically at Tin who shoots a bolt of fire at the swing throwing the slash off course, Tin follows up by activating Bullet storm once again. Rhyan parries most of the assault but gets hit several times, Rhyan does not let this stop him and makes two katanas, and launches at toward Tin, Tin shakes his head in disappointment "Not this trick again," as strugged and shoots away the katana. Unbeknownst to Tin Rhyan made Rocket-powered boots as well along with the katana. Tin smiles as Rhyan Launches himself and blurring speeds towards Tin. "You intrigue me, young man," said Tin, as he prepared to parry the sword flash coming toward him, but Rhyan baited him and launched his boot towards him instead, making direct contact with his face. Tin stumbled to the ground but ultimately caught himself, however Rhyan did not stop his assault, and instead closed the distance even more, crafting Ember Celia but enchanted with fire. Rhyan wasted no time and began boxing with Tin matching the same energy, increasing his fire output to coat his fist in flames, every time Tin punched it shot out ranged projectiles. The Clash began as sparks flew everywhere Rhyan got an uppercut on Tin and Tin socked Rhyan in the stomach. The two were going head to head. The two relentlessly clashed fist, though Rhyan was taking more damage due to the projectiles coming out of Tin. Rhyan backed off. Giving himself room to think. 'This isn't gonna work, if we keep clashing like this even with flame-boosted Ember Celia, I simply can't keep up with his firepower, the Hozeki flame is simply too strong, and unfortunately I'm not the water spirit host like Ross, so even if I enchant my weapons with water, that would make my attacks weaker, even using air would just make his flames stronger, using earth is simply to inconvenient and hard to work with, obsidian is good but mainly for swords, not Ember Celia, I need to keep my speed up but also keep it close,' "I got it!" Rhyan shouted Making and obsidian Great sword and also enchanting it with Flames, Tin fired up his fingers in response, "Let's make this fight fun for the both of us, come on boy let's play with the Devil as we dance in hell, A HELL THAT I'LL CREATE, TRAIT AMPLIFICATION, ARTILLERY REQUIEM!"
NARRATOR: Tin's domain, Artillery Requiem, allows him to shoot from any direction around him and his opponent making it almost impossible to dodge.
Rhyan lightens the weight of his sword to increase his swing speed. Tin raises his finger to the sky shooting 1 singular shot into the air, confusing Rhyan, that was until Rhyan Randomly got shot in his back. "Huh," muttered Rhyan as he got shot again across his face this was starting to look bad for Rhyan as he was not in possession to where he could no longer deflect any of the attacks. "This fight is as good as ever for you," says Tin. Tin shoots 5 more shots at Rhyan's face but he is shot in the leg by a random bullet putting his balance and making him get hit by all 5 shots. Rhyan looks like a bloody mess it looks bad for bro, Tin's domain breaks and he immediately follows up with a BULLET STORM, blasting Rhyan with a furry of shots. "You put up a good fight for a brat, to bad your path ends here, and good thing too I'm fresh out of mana," said Tin, Rhyan is standing looking like a burnt potato but does have the energy to move. 'Guess this is where the fight ends for me,' Rhyan thought to himself "Nah" Rhyan smiled "Trait Amplification Celestial Sword Dance."
