Chapter 218: Enlargement

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.

Enlargement

The explosions of the Brahmastras had thrown me excessive, additional into the air than the portal Raven had used to drop me off initially. I waited for a second, already working to refill the emptied slots of Patientiaand gladdened by the truth that nothing instantly tried to kill me. I may inform already that I hadn’t killed all the Grimm, but it surely was at all times good to know that my enemies could not outright brush off my finest assaults. They’d been surprised, if just for a couple of minutes. Even higher, the dimensional barrier that existed alongside Jericho Falls had been unaffected by the blasts. I might been nearly sure it would be tremendous, however not utterly.

Time to maneuver on to the following step. I centered my consideration on my Aura for a short second after which despatched a shudder by way of it, releasing a sign in direction of my distant goal. A second later, I felt her consideration on me and two extra portals swirled to life at my sides. Adam strode shortly by way of one whereas Autumn, Raven, and Gou entered by way of the opposite. I caught every as they walked into open air, supporting them with my energy.

“God we’re excessive,” Adam famous. “Whenever you stated we would be dropping in, you meant that actually, did not you?”Up to date from novelb(i)n.c(o)m

“Sure,” I answered merely.

He sighed and shook his head.

“No matter,” He stated after a second, focusing his eyes on the large clouds under. “You actually did not maintain again, did you? Did you even go away any for us?”

“I did not maintain again particularly within the hopes of not leaving anybody for you,” I replied. “And also you should not maintain again both, as a result of I failed.”

It wasn’t a shock, not hardly. I might been all however positive moving into that I would not have the ability to take all of them out with my opening transfer; it was why I might labored so exhausting to grind Patientia to its subsequent bench mark after which loaded it with all of the Brahmastras I had obtainable. If I might been sure that the Grimm could be hit exhausting sufficient to cease them lengthy sufficient for me to take action, I might have waited one other day, charged a fourth Brahmastra, and hit them even harderbut the sight earlier than my eyes type of made me glad I hadn’t taken any possibilities.

All all through the ruins, Grimm rose. They have been few in quantity, fortunately, and lots of of them regarded badly hurtbut they have been there, standing again up after I sucker-punched them with three of my best assaults. If I might had a fourth, I may need gotten a number of extra, however

My gaze drifted in direction of the chief of the pack. Location hadn’t a lot of a problem when it got here to my Brahmastra’s; even a single one had the vary essential to cowl Jericho Falls. Even so, I might aimed the spears with the intention of inflicting as a lot harm as doable to the most important threats, figuring that the lesser ones could be worn out regardless. And in the event that they have been, nicely, I might have despatched Raven the opposite sign. If greater than a handful of the Grimm may stroll away from a trio of Brahmastras to the face, we might have been in method, method over our heads and the one logical factor to do could be to run the fuck away. Because it was, the numbers have been acceptable. Not idealthat would have required me to have killed everyonebut not as unhealthy as they might have been.

Past the quantity of surviving riffraff, nonetheless, there was one other essential factor I might wanted to checkjust how sturdy the legendary Gilgamesh actually was.

The outcomes on that entrance had been directly anticipated and worrying.

The creature my energy had recognized as Gilgamesh did, if reality, look pretty human. He was a person of middling peak, with a inventory of just about shockingly darkish hair, arrange in spikes. His pores and skin was as darkish as many of the Grimm, the place it wasn’t lined by his bone-white armor. He carried a easy trying sword at his aspect, manufactured from the identical materials as his physique, and his faceassuming he had a face beneath itwas lined by a easy masks. It was extra elaborate than many of the masks I might seen, carved like porceline to offer the impression of a relaxed human face.

Aside from the eyes, in fact. There have been as crimson as an of the Grimm’s, and staring proper up at me. Gilgamesh did not appear impressed, excited, and even anxious to see me, not that it was simple to gauge the feelings of the Grimm; if something, he merely regarded expectant.

Worse, he did not look notably damage, both. He hadn’t fairly shrugged off the blows and I may see the injuries it had left when it had seared at his flesh and armorbut he wasn’t precisely falling aside, both. His limbs have been all the place they have been presupposed to be, his eyes have been nonetheless in his head, and all informed, he regarded shockingly intact for a man who I might made positive had taken the worst of the blasts. It was just a little off-putting, honestly. I imply, I hadn’t actually anticipated to take him out with my first assault, however I might type of been hoping for a bit extra of a response then ‘Ow, that damage. Why would you do such a factor?’

However now that I might seen the outcomes, I needed to resolve the way to proceed from right here. From the start I might identified that Grimm’s response to my assaults massive a part of gauging our readiness for the battle and I used to be happy to notice that many of the Grimm regarded worse for put on. They have been injured sufficient that I used to be pretty sure I may defeat any one in all them in battle. However Gilgamesh was one other matter and seeing him standing there wasn’t notably encouraging. If he was actually that robust

“Jaune?” Raven requested, concern edging its method into her voice. “Are we continuing?”

I stored my consideration centered on my goal at the same time as I turned my bodily eyes in direction of my associates.

“Many of the Grimm have been damage badly by the blast,” I stated critically, readying myself to reply to any sudden strikes. “But it surely appears Gilgamesh is manufactured from sterner stuff.”

“Clearly,” Adam snorted. “We knew he could be.”

“How unhealthy is it?” Raven requested.

“Nowhere close to as unhealthy because it may have been,” I admitted. “He isn’t unharmed, after allif he had been, I might have known as this off instantly. Then again, he is not as damage as I might have preferred, both. Although, granted, none of them are as damage as I might have preferred. They’re alive and every little thing.”

“However you suppose we are able to win?” Raven requested. “Do not you?”

The second earlier than it did, Raven and I each moved. For her half, she strode a number of steps ahead, pushing off with the final right into a newly opened gateway and flickering again into existence proper behind on of the Grimm round us. In the meantime, I merely willed myself ahead, vanishing as I Fluctuated.

Gou’s touchdown was deafeningly loud, ludicrously consideration drawing, and amazingly destructiveand we each meant to benefit from it. I reappeared immediately behind Gilgamesh, drawing energy into my palms and lashing out mercilessly at his again. In my left hand, I cast Longinus, the space-rending spear’s tip aimed for Gilgamesh’s head, whereas in my proper, I gathered orbs of sunshine, biking them in preparation of the inevitable.

And on the final second, Gilgamesh moved. His physique blurred as he turned on a dim, bone-sword coming as much as cleave at my neck just like the reaper’s scythe. I did not flinch, staring down the blade at the same time as I felt my heartbeat quickenand continued with my very own assault. I flung Longinus in direction of his left eye from as shut as I may handle, silently daring him to abort his assault or take the blow. On the final doable second, he twitched as soon as, angling his face away from the blow and letting it as an alternative reduce a clear line throughout his cheek, sending up sparks because it carved by way of the fabric.

On the identical time, his assault struck my neck, breaking the floor of my pores and skin and swiping clear by way of, casually eradicating my head from my shoulders. Not solely that, however the power of the blow was so nice and its passage by way of my physique so disruptive, that the stumps on each side bent and ruptured, giving me a sense of exploding grotesquely. I felt myself come aside as I used to be almost blown aside by the strike

After which I got here again collectively. It wasn’t simply the same old nature of the Gamer’s Physique, eitherno, I felt myself stream again into place, like water refilling a vessel.

Precisely like that, in truth.

Varuna (Lively) LV1 EXP: 0.00%

An historic method named after its consumer, one of many Apauruseya of Vytal. The person that turned often known as Varuna was born was born to the raging would possibly of the ocean, in a land of limitless storms and waves. As its waters flooded the lands of Remnant, Varuna heard a tune throughout the sea and answered it together with his personal, calming its rage and taking it inside himself. Although misplaced to the receding grip of the ocean, Varuna quickly returned, reborn from the facility he used to carry again the seas. In time, he joined the ranks of the legendary god-kings of Vytal, having internalized the a part of himself that he had sacrificed to the ocean to be able to attain for brand spanking new heights of energy.

Water Affinity rises to Max.

The consumer of this ability is resistant to Water Elemental assaults and has elevated resistance to bodily assaults.

Lively MP-based expertise that don’t naturally share an affinity with an Aspect method be given the Water Aspect at no extra value.

Solely these with a Water Elemental could use this ability.

A Water Elemental is probably not manifested whereas this ability is lively.

Just one Elemental could also be merged with on this trend at a given time.

At the same time as I got here again collectively, my now liquid kind piecing itself again collectively from a storm of droplets, I continued to achieve out with my proper hand, greedy Gilgamesh’s face and firing unleashing the total would possibly of Lux Aeterna. The blast plunged the world into darkness, drawing in all indicators of sunshine and devouring every little thing in its path. The torrent of sunshine swept over Gilgamesh from level clean vary, searing by way of the world on the pace of lighttoo fast to dodge from right here even when his pace matched or surpassed my very own. When the sunshine returned the world, a scar of destruction glowed incandescently throughout the battered panorama, a glowing model of energy.

Gilgamesh grabbed my wrist and introduced his sword round once more, slicing by way of me from head to toe with power sufficient to make the remainder of me explode right into a rain of droplets. It hurtnot a lot the injure, however the easy must piece myself again collectively in its wakebut it had its personal benefits and I had methods to compensate.

Coming again collectively, I Shed half a dozen skins, trailing a small river of water behind me all of the whilea feat I might as soon as completed with Mud Eater, now carried out with a easy mixture of Bai Hu’s final ability and Varuna. I circled him as soon as utterly earlier than operating into after which over him, taking his subsequent hit full on after which slipping by way of the streams I might made as simply as air.

Then, with out even trying, I snapped my fingers and froze the entire thing with a flash of Deposition, freezing each the water and the Grimm inside it. Rotating on my heel, I flung a hand out in direction of it and shattered it, crushing the misshapen sphere of ice to powder.

There was a slight cracking noise as Gilgamesh lifted an arm in protection, the final of the ice cracking above his armor. Regardless of the sequence of hits, he hardly appeared injured, trying extra aggravated than anythingand I used to be positive.

It wasn’t only a matter of defensive potential, for all that he was sturdy as fuckI may see how a lot harm every of my hits have been doing and the outcomes appeared acquainted. No, greater than that, whereas he did not appear like something I acknowledged beneath the lens of my Third Eye, he appeared related sufficient that I used to be fairly positive I used to be heading in the right direction.

Heand maybe all of the Grimm, now that I considered itwas made out of ‘Unknown Matter,’ like the type I used with Kavacha, however totally different. How totally different, I wasn’t positive, but it surely undoubtedly wasn’t the identical materials, even when it labored on related ideas. Something I threw at him was going to get a giant chunk of its energy merely ignored.

I smiled.

Guess I would just need to hit him tougher, huh? It was a bit early, nonetheless, butwell, what was the purpose of getting trump playing cards in case you did not use them. So let’s begin with this one, first.

I lifted my hand at him, gathering my returning energy, and exhaled a gradual breath.

“Ohr Ein Sof,” I stated.

By elevating Lux Aeterna to stage 99, you may have gained the ability ‘Ohr Ein Sof.’