Chapter 217: Longshots

DISCLAIMER: This story is NOT MINE IN ANY WAY. That honor has gone to the attractive bastard Ryuugi. This has been pulled from his Spacebattles publishment at threads/rwby-the-gamer-the-games-we-play-disk-five.341621/. Anyway on with the present…err learn.

Longshots

The airship was all however silent because it rose into the skies of Mistralboth on account of the leading edge know-how that had gone into its design and due to the somber ambiance inside. My household was gathered on this airship, ostensibly for the sake of coming with me to Vale and cheering me one; whether or not that might truly occur trusted quite a few components. If issues proved too harmful, I would shuffle them off to relative security utilizing Raven’s portals, hopefully making it a bit more durable for my enemies to search out them by main them within the incorrect path right here and now. Moreover, what occurred within the coming hours may effectively change all of my plans, simply to the extent of inflicting me to blow off the match totally. Positive, it was a practice and a part of our tradition and one thing necessary to plenty of individuals, however I used to be making an attempt to cope with the apocalypse right here; if it turned out the top of the world was scheduled for the primary day of the match, I made no guarantees.

And, after all, there was the elephant within the roomI would not want anybody to cheer me on if I used to be brutally murdered within the subsequent few hours. Grandmother and I had shared the tough particulars of what I used to be doing, leaving out bits just like the Riders and Malkuth and the final reality of issues just because that information was a bitch to stay with even in case you have been in a position to establish the contaminated. I did not actually need to burden them with the information that the enemy I used to be no going through had already succeeded at killing me as soon as or that he’d destroyed the world and trapped it in a seemingly countless cycle of struggling and destruction, both. Or the truth that

Nicely, the purpose was that there was numerous horrible shit that we could not do something about. Frankly, if my soul hadn’t hotwired my mind and I truly had some want for such a factor, I in all probability would have had a tough time sleeping at night time. I could not bear to depart my household behind with out not less than telling them I used to be going into life-threating hazard, however mentioning the stakes appeared extra merciless than the rest. If I failed right here, this wasn’t one thing I wished them to attempt to keep it up for me or get extra deeply concerned in. I could not think about there being many type fates awaiting them down that specific street.

So as a substitute, I did my greatest to play it off as simply one other horrific and harmful mission, the categories Hunters went on all of the timeand, naturally, usually did not return from. Because of this, they have been treating the matter with a form of grave respect, taking it critically even when they did not know what awaited me.

“Jaune,” My mom whispered, taking a look at me as Mistral slowly moved additional and additional away. “Are you positive about this? If it is as harmful as you say”

“It might’t be helped,” I answered calmly, ensuring to remain relaxed even when it was rising tough even for me. This may be a giant day, after allit would possibly even go down within the historical past books in some unspecified time in the future. Here is hoping it was as one thing optimistic. “Ozpin thinks it is necessary, as does Grandmother. Somebody must verify the place out.”

“However does it have to be you?” She requested, fingers twitching in odd, jerky actions. It was a nervous behavior she’d picked up currently; although the time she’d been with out most of her limbs was by now far dwarfed by the point she’d spent with their replacements, it was virtually as if she was reminding herself that they have been nonetheless there.

Or maybe she was simply reminding herself of why she’d wanted them within the first place.

I attempted to make my smile reassuring as I turned to face her.

“Why would not it’s me?” I returned. “You understand what I can do and so does Ozpin. Odds are, I’ve the most effective likelihood of success, it doesn’t matter what seems to be ready for me there.”

“That is what worries me,” She whispered. “He would not ship you on a standard mission.”

“Good factor I am not a standard Hunter then,” I replied. “I am going to handle, Mother. I promise.”

“I am going to maintain you to that, Jaune,” Violet stated, seeming extra relaxed on the floor. “You higher keep secure, you hear? I have been wanting ahead to seeing you within the match, ; in accordance with Olivia, you have been making a large number of Haven and I need to see what you are able to do on a public stage.”

“I would hate to disappoint,” I replied, nodding at her as soon as to indicate I understood the phrases she’d left unstated.

“Personally, I would choose it in case you saved issues a bit neater, Jaune,” Olivia interjected. As a instructor, she in all probability ought to have been again at Haven, however she was apparently going together with as a chaperone for the scholars who’d determined to return in early. Or one thing like that, at leastI did not pay a lot consideration to the official clarification. In actuality, she was going alongside as a result of Grandmother stated so and no one argued.

“That does not appear to be it is ever going to be doable,” I informed her in truth. “Fairly frankly, my life is a large number. If issues begin breaking down round me, simply blame it on who I’m as an individual.”

“Not even bothering with excuses anymore?” She puzzled, sighing to herself.

“Extra simply not bothering to lie,” I corrected. “Would possibly as effectively simply embrace it. The explanation the whole lot went to hell round me is as a result of: Of who I’m as an individual, the alternatives I made in life, or due to one thing I did in a previous lifechoose one.”

Olivia launched a relatively unladylike snort, rolling her eyes.

And there was a barrier there, of that I used to be sure. I may see it in a means that was new to mebut then, I would by no means seen Naraka from the skin earlier than. There was anot fairly a shimmer however extra of an iridescence to the world once I checked out all of it, peering into the reality of issues. On the identical time, I may really feel one thing someplace between an itch and a stress between my shoulder blades, which was one thing I used to be conversant in; Trespasser was alerting me to a barrier in my neighborhood. A second later, a window even popped up, asking me if I would prefer to enter.

I clicked no for the second and continued to stare exhausting on the approaching ruins, wanting one final time, simply to verify.

After which I nodded to myself as soon as, as positive as I could possibly be. If there was any secret energy supply or one thing on this aspect holding the barrier in place, I could not see it. As I would hoped, it appeared someway self-perpetuating, that means it was all however divorced from this dimension as long as nobody particularly tried to interrupt by means of it. And an archeological and historic marvel this place could also be, however there have been extra necessary issues at stake nowand hell, it was my historical past anyway, dangerous ending and all. As such, I took a quick second to memorize each element I may after which

Nicely.

Then I destroyed Jericho Falls.

It occurred rapidly, set off by nothing greater than a minute twist of my Aura, after which a flash of blinding white mild descended from the heavens.

It was the Brahmastra.

Three Brahmastras, to be exact. It wasn’t one thing I would be able to alone, not even after per week to coach itwhile the Brahmastra leveled rapidly relative to its utilization, it was nonetheless one thing that I may solely use as soon as a day and I hadn’t had that a lot time to play with it.

However simply because I may solely use it as soon as a day did not imply I could not retailer it. I could not put it into my Stock, alasattempting to place the created spear into my helpful pocket dimension had merely resulted in a window telling me it could be a foul ideabut there was one other means.

This was the results of Patientia and, considerably paradoxically, a substantial amount of endurance. At first, the character of the ability had not modified within the slightest because it leveled up, however after reaching degree twenty-five, one this changedI was in a position to retailer one other ability inside my Aura. The identical factor had occurred once more at degree fifty and, after a big quantity of effort within the hopes of grinding it to the subsequent benchmark earlier than the possibly-literal deadline hit, just lately occurred once more at seventy-five for a complete of 4 ‘slots.’

How I would spent them had been a matter of nice deliberation for me over the course of this weekI’d gained a good variety of new choices in that point interval and there have been quite a few ways I may probably exploit. In the long run, nonetheless, I would boiled it down to 2 principal choices. The primary was, after all, my therapeutic expertise; on the finish of the day, stuff that would preserve me, or probably somebody I cared about, alive in an emergency was exhausting to beat. Whereas I may simply heal myself or others within the midst of fight, some effectiveness would in all probability have to be sacrificed for the sake of expedience. If I had the time and energy to spare to totally cost a therapeutic ability, wellthen I in all probability did not really want one.

It was the kind of factor I wanted once I was about to dieif one thing broke previous all my defenses, emptied the wells of my MP, after which floor me right down to my final hit level and compelled me to depend on Second Likelihood. If I may heal myself at a leisurely tempo, it wasn’t actually an emergency, and so I would lengthy since promised myself to at all times preserve not less than one ‘full restore’ on me.

Sure, I absolutely meant to be a type of assholesone of these online game enemies who make you grind them right down to a single hit level after which promptly heal again to full well being and make you do it over again. I hated these guys once I was a child. I am fairly positive everybody hates these guys. However this is the factor; the most effective factor on the planet is when somebody actually, actually, actually desires you to dieand you simply do not.

However, there was additionally one thing to be stated for actually, actually, actually wanting somebody to die after which making it occur. The Brahmastra was by far the toughest ability I had to make use of, just because it is cost time was atrocious and it may solely be solid as soon as a day. In a pinch, it was doable I may use nearly another ability, as long as I used to be prepared to burn sufficient Mud crystals to make it occur, however in a struggle, I would solely get one shot with the Brahmastra and if it wasn’t a gap transfer, I would by no means get it off in any respect. With the ability to retailer a number of of them received round each the cost time downside and the restrict on it is use, nonetheless, and it was a really devastating weapon.

It had been a troublesome name. Further heals would have served to provide me extra of a life line, however dropping a Brahmastra on an enemy’s head was its personal reward. In the long run, I would made my selection for one easy purpose; I would solely get one Second Likelihood. The usefulness of two full heals dropped considerably with the information that if one thing large hit me, odds have been I would not survive to make use of the second. I may nonetheless use it to heal my wounds and restore MP, after all, however these weren’t essentially price a slot. Saving my life was one factor, however ultimately, killing issues earlier than they might harm me was higher than simply therapeutic from the injuries they inflictedbecause they would not be hurting me a lot once they’d been decreased to ash. As such, I spared a slot for a single full heal and, as a substitute of utilizing it simply to observe and grind, saved the final three days’ price of Brahmastra’s in my Stock.

And I hurled all three of them into the guts of the ruins. This was, I had determined, the most effective time to make use of themright on the very begin. Nobody knew we have been right here, nobody was significantly on guard, and there have been numerous Grimm that wanted to die. I did not really consider that I would get all of them, however anybody I killed now could not intervene later. Adam, Autumn, Gou, and Raven can be placing their lives on the road to carry off any survivors whereas I clashed with Gilgamesh; the most effective factor I may do to assist them was to do my greatest to restrict the variety of survivors. This was my greatest likelihood to take them out and it wasn’t as if I may danger utilizing the Brahmastra whereas my family and friends have been on the battlefield. It was now or by no means, actually.

Evidently, the outcomes wereimpressive. Because the three spears descended in direction of the unsuspecting smash, they pulsed with an internal mild and the method I would set in place with their creation reached its inevitable conclusion. On the final second, I noticed among the Grimm look upwards, however it was too late to note now.

There was a blinding flash. A sudden rush. An annihilating, consuming warmth, seemingly carried alongside by a power just like the hand of Godand I used to be nonetheless far, far within the air. There was sound accompanying it, too, however I may hardly hear it; there was a quick, large roar after which silence. For a second, my ears burst, my eyes went blind, and the sunshine of the Brahmastras plunged my world into darkness.

Part of me puzzled if this had ever occurred earlier than. I wasn’t the primary particular person to ever wield the Brahmastra and searching into what legends remained, there have been tails of the weapons clashingbut had three ever been hurl in direction of the identical goal? I did not know.

However what I did know was the results of such a factor. Because the second handed and my sight and listening to returned, I noticed what I would achieved.

I would blown Jericho Falls off the map. And I meant that as actually as I couldsomeone was going to have to really redraw the map of this space in some unspecified time in the future.

“Hey,” I stated belatedly.