Chapter 224: Shove

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.

Shove

I managed to react on the final second, citing my arms in protection. His hand crashed in opposition to them with sufficient power that I felt the bones shatter, floor to mud straight away, and it barely slowed down his claws. They bit into my brow and dragged down via my eyes, one in every of them catching my nostril on the way in which. I felt them cut up my lips, shatter my higher and decrease jaw, and almost tear the latter freed from my face solely. I felt it because the claws continued down, snapping ribs like twigs and shredding my entrails.

On just about anybody else, it will have been a deadly wound.

On me, it simply harm like a bitch. Not physicallytruth be instructed, getting stabbed within the mind actually did not harm a lot and I used to be so accustomed to ache that I simply dismissed all the things elsebut within the harm it did. Due to my not too long ago improved Vitality, I might restricted that drastically, however nonetheless, it harm.

However it purchased sufficient time for my different self to evade the blow, stepping backwards as I took the hit and dancing out of the way in which. He prolonged a hand towards me and Gilgamesh each, snapping his fingers directly.

There was a sudden cracking sound, however assault outpaced itin half as a result of the entice had already been set. Gilgamesh had walked into the bounds of our Vajra, the invisible markings laid upon the bottom round us, and it was only a matter of letting them unfastened. We might set them as much as react after they have been tripped, however with an opponent like Gilgameshno. Even when he could not dodge the assault itself, there was a second earlier than the method accomplished the place he might escape. Higher to pin him down, first.

So we did. I took the hit. My different stared at him with Gorgon activated, different hand flinging a fast Bind his manner, and for a second he wasn’t free to easily leap out of the way in which.

In that second, lightning struck. Not a few times, however the higher a part of a dozen occasions, Vajra altering the circumstances to be best. I felt it when Gilgamesh was hit, partly due to the switch of shocks, however primarily as a result of his claws convulsed in my guts. Even so, I used to be shielded from the worst of it by my pure defenses, and as Gilgamesh flung himself away, I solely stumbled barely.

My different was at my facet straight away, consideration targeted as mine was as Gilgamesh hit the bottom and landed on his toes, armor already rippling once more. Insulating himself, maybe? Decreasing the conductivity of his armor, virtually definitely. Given such management over his personal construction, he’d have the ability to scale back the harm drastically, mitigating it solely if it fell into the bounds of his model of Kavacha. Even now, he was extra stunned than harm, and I might purchased myself solely moments to behave.

Finest to make use of them correctly.

I did not must look at my different self to know we have been considering the identical factor, and we shed our Elemental Embodiments as as soon as, unleashing each Metallic and Fireplace. Our Elementals gathered round us as religious presences, urgent shut as they targeted on our enemy earlier than unraveling and coming again collectively.

Gilgamesh launched an odd, virtually mechanical sound as he watched us.

“You continue to have extra tips, I see,” He stated, although he should not have been in a position to see my Elementalsor, at the very least, nobody else had ever been in a position to, after they weren’t manifested. His eyes have been good, then, little question boosted by his new go well with. Sadly, that most likely meant that my plan to confuse and disorient him with Delusions and Fantasies was most likely doomed to failure, although it might nonetheless have worth if I performed my playing cards proper.

“I got here to play, in any case,” I instructed him as I felt my counterpart making his transfer. He did not conceal himself, as such, a lot as undertaking a picture of himself over his bodya trick each of us have been greater than accustomed to, which made it simple to comply with his lead. This was a dangerous transfer in its personal manner, particularly in opposition to an opponent like this, which was why I might kept away from utilizing it till now, butwe have been clearly going to want all the assistance we might get. Mixed with what we have been getting ready to do subsequent, this transfer would price us drastically. It was sufficient to make me take into account simply going all out proper now, however

No. I could not enable myself to be frightened and break from the plan. I nonetheless had my fair proportion of playing cards to play, the issues I used to be organising and maintaining hidden. I might want to make use of them quickly to get probably the most use out of them, however issues like Keter and the Arcana would price me even worse than what I used to be planning now. I had to make use of them correctly and make them depend.

In addition to. These ways had dangers of their very own, apart from their worth tags. I might be taking probabilities with them regardless of how I used them, which was all of the extra cause to not let myself be shaken.

It was one thing I embraced, right here and now.

Gilgamesh lifted his left arm to dam my coming strike, the limb bulging barely and taking over a extra armored look simply earlier than my claws related. I felt my talons crack and break in opposition to his conceal, generally pulling up the flesh round them within the processbut none of that confirmed and my claws raked his carving swallow marks into his forearm. I let the merchandise of Venenum spill from the venom sacks in my knuckles as I struck, spraying the wound with one thing corrosivemy failure to create the alchemical legend that was the Common Solvent, nonetheless potent sufficient to liquefy natural matter.

The Grimm hardly twitched as the perimeters of the injuries started to shimmer barely, welling with dissolved pores and skin that was shortly changed. As an alternative, he raised each of his arms, arms flashing out like lightning bolts as he clasped his arms on my arms with a grip that powdered bone. His shoulders bulged then, inflating till it appeared virtually as in the event that they’d been changed with tough spheresand then a number of ports opened alongside its floor, spewing price what at first appeared like smoke.

I knew higher, particularly because it flowed over and engulfed me. The ‘cloud’ was truly only a swarm of tiny, tiny Grimm-thingslike the magical nanites I might talked about earlier than, solely taken extra actually. They even appeared technological at a look, tiny machines product of tiny items of Grimm-bone. They lined me, gathering to assault cells and bury themselves in my pores and skin as they tried to tear me aside piece by piece.

It did not work. Even on that scale, my expertise have been nonetheless lively, hardening my pores and skin to an absurd diploma and pushing again their invasion. Past that, Kavacha was nonetheless at work, and although it appeared to acknowledge the swarm as a single assault, it nonetheless blunted most of their efforts, offering me ample time to counterattack.

Seeing as imitation was the sincerest solution to inform somebody to go fuck themselves, I gave Gilgamesh’s latest trick my very own twist, sending a wave of alteration throughout my pores and skin. On a stage invisible to the conventional human eye, cells started to convulse, pulsate, after which warped violently, changed into membranous ‘shells’ for my creations. The tiny creatures that got here forth have been repurposed components of my very own physique, and so they crawled over my pores and skin, surrounding and attacking their Grimm counterparts. On the micro-scale, the distinction between expertise and biologyespecially magical expertise and biologywas restricted, and our microscopic forces may need appeared evenly matched had somebody been in a position to see them struggle.

They weren’t. We each had our benefits and limitations that have been shifting the battle this fashion and that. Gilgamesh’s fundamental edge was his capability to provide and encompass me in a devouring cloud of his creations, thick sufficient that had another person wandered into it, there would not have been the slightest hint left behind. I, alternatively, was extra restricted, being pressured to maintain my miniature minions shut at hand; they have been machines obeying instructions and even one thing I might difficulty orders to with a thought, simply one thing I created and managed with my energy and restricted to my shut proximity. Whereas I most likely might exceed these limits, it will imply adjusting my connection to them and I wasn’t positive how a lot command I might retain as they distanced themselves from me and have become one thing really impartial; sadly, I used to be guessing not a lot. And seeing because the talent I used to be utilizing had been one thing I obtained from Conquest

No. Organic warfare was a bitch to regulate and include at the most effective of occasions. Magical organic warfare stolen from one in every of my biggest enemies and nonetheless touched by his energy? In all probability wasn’t one thing I ought to play with in the midst of an already delicate state of affairs.

In addition to, I had benefits of my very own. In contrast to Gilgamesh, I used to be simply as able to combating underneath a microscope as I used to be on the battlefield and I guided my forces accordingly, aiding them when essential with cautious purposes of Psychokinesis when essential. It was sufficient to push Gilgamesh’s forces again, because of my safety from their assaults; he undoubtedly observed what I used to be as much as and commanded his creations to assault mine, however they did not struggle with the thoughts of a strategist behind them. Mine did and overcame his forces, if solely briefly. He’d swarm me once more in a matter of moments, however not earlier than I had time to behave.

It was sufficient to make Gilgamesh let go of me as my minions turned on his claws, a legion of them swarming to chew at his bladed arms. It solely lasted a second earlier than there was a sudden flash from his claws that slew most of our creations and the smoke from his shoulders modified, changing into a mixture of airborne poisons, together with nerve gases and worsegaseous contact poisons, prion infestations, and extra.

I superior into the sunshine mist, trusting my defensive expertise to see me via the hazard as I adopted Gilgamesh again. He lifted a hand, one other of these odd spheres forming between the claws of his hand, and I noticed energy gathering at the same time as he aimed it at me. I did not a lot as hesitate, reaching out to understand the orb tightly in a single hand, a collection of Lux Aeterna’s gathering round my hand.

We checked out one another, each our masks eyeless and but nonetheless conveying what we needed to sayand as one, we each fired.

There was an odd crackling sound, as if a lightning bolt have been in some way breaking. Colours performed throughout my imaginative and prescient and all through the spectrum, standing out oddly to my senses after which merely collapsing into the purpose of intersection, the place Lux Aeterna clashed with the matter he’d summoned. Mild and darkness performed throughout the sphere, balancing for a second after which breaking down simply as quick. Energy collapsed right into a tiny level after which burst forth.

As I used to be flung away, I felt as if my arm had been blown away simply beneath the elbow and I used to be despatched careening via the air, earlier than hitting and sliding throughout the bottom whereas it shattered round me. I regained myself after a short second of disorientation, turning my slide right into a horizontal flip and turning myself Psychokinetically to land on my toes. A hand got here down to understand the bottom, my pace pulling it via fifty extra meters of dust earlier than I managed to cease myselfand I noticed a gap.

Abruptly, distance grew to become meaningless and I used to be beside Gilgamesh in a heartbeat. He’d executed a lot the identical factor I had, slowing himself with the claws of his left handprobably as a result of the claws of his proper have been merely gone, erased simply beneath the knuckle by no matter interplay of forces we might brought about. One way or the other, he did not appear stunned to see me and rose to fulfill my assault. As my fist collided together with his personal, it was visibly crushed, collapsing till my wrist was close to my elbow and revealing the trick I might hidden inside my forearm. As my flesh fell slack, warped by means of my energy as a substitute of the harm, half a dozen purple tendrils burst forth, whipping in the direction of Gilgamesh’s head, neck, and chest, sinking calmly into his pores and skin. My different hand got here up, held simply earlier than him, after which I shifted the association of my existence, components of my different self rising at the same time as bits of me sank.

Wings unfold out from my again, feathers black however marked by purple coloured eyes harking back to the Panoptes. My arm modified, too, eyes opening down its size and one thing like a mouth showing on the heart of my palmand as area shifted and warped, Mud crystals fluttered from my Stock, rotating across the limb in three circles. Energy gathered round and inside me, flowing into some hole section of my arm that had been put aside for the duty, glowing via my pores and skin.

I fired.