Chapter 210: Firefight

DISCLAIMER: This story is NOT MINE IN ANY WAY. That honor has gone to the gorgeous 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.

Firefight

I floated above the Grimm in a sphere of strong white, the sunshine so brilliant that standing inside it virtually made me really feel just like the world had been washed away. It was a large factor, encompassing a quantity that far surpassed many buildings, and it moved as I did. Exterior the bounds of the sphere, gentle fluctuated and flowed in shifting patterns of blues and greens and comparable colours, the sunshine of my soul interacting with the air in unusual methods.

Although I felt their consideration on me keenly, not one of the Grimm had been fast to assault. These Grimm had been sufficiently old, expertise sufficient, and, thus, clever sufficient to know a lure once they noticed one and I may all however hear them take into account tips on how to greatest take a look at my Aurora with out endangering themselves. Although their our bodies had been being pressured into increasingly more grotesque shapes, they did not appear to really feel any specific urgency as they monitored me and tried to resolve on their first transfer.

It was clever habits, I acknowledged. Honestly, the primary one to assault me would have been at a reasonably extreme drawback.

However that did not imply they had been any safer hesitating.

I took a second to resolve upon my goal earlier than selecting the Humbaba as a take a look at of my talents.

The second I did, I vanished.

Flux (Lively) LV1 EXP: 00.0% MP: 10000

It’s stated that the flexibility to resolve one’s personal place on this planet is likely one of the soul’s biggest presents. This ability modifications that reality from a metaphor to deadly weapon. By violently twisting one’s Aura into complicated patterns, the person of this method is ready to alter their place in area, permitting them to cowl quick distances immediately. Utilizing this method requires each great energy and focus, because the person should have the self-discipline to power their soul to redefine the situation of their physique with out disassembling themselves completely within the course of.

Vary: 10 meters.

In what I may solely scarcely name a second, I felt myself fly aside, tearing at seams that I did not suppose existed. It wasn’t materials items I used to be diminished to both, nor even absolutely power, however moderately a cloud of potentialities in a trend similar to after I’d used my Dimensional. I may really feel it because the likelihood of me present in a single place was diminished to zero and as my odds of present in one other raised to at least one. For my physique, it was an unspeakably unusual feeling.

However I used to be greater than only a physique, now greater than ever. From the concurrently inner and exterior perspective granted by Sahasrara, I noticed my second in a unique wayas if I would been viewing myself with one eye and had abruptly switched to the opposite, altering my perspective. I willed my physique to be elsewhere, erasing it in a single place and all however remaking it in one other.

Finish consequence? I appeared immediately in entrance of the Humbaba, shifting quicker than the attention may see to seem in entrance of him, catching him throughout the fringe of my Aurora as I did. Directly, the Humbaba flinched as if in agony, small clouds of white smoke rising from his pores and skin as if he had been burning within the gentle. He tried to lunge backwards to flee it however I adopted him step for step, maintaining him throughout the vary of my energy and turning up the warmth.

Actually.

Elemental Soul (Lively) LV1 EXP: 7.14% MP: 250

The shifting of Aura in accordance with one’s Elemental Affinity, now refined to the purpose of transformation. Not like its predecessor which empowered the person by imitating the properties of the chosen aspect, this ability permits the person to immediately remodel his Aura into the bodily type of a component. Energy modifications because the caster’s INT, ability stage, and Elemental Affinity develop. Solely doable for these carefully attuned to the forces of nature.

Aligns Aura in direction of a particular aspect.

Enhances the results of the suitable Elemental Aura, whereas so aligned.

Extra 250 MP used per minute.

Elemental Soul was a ability I would performed round with considerably, however had been pressured to restrict my use of for a lot the identical cause as Auroranamely, its breadth. Whereas it was a merely sufficient ability at its most elementary stage, when used solely with my Aura, it was additionally one thing that would simply go uncontrolled. Utilizing Hearth for example, if I used Elemental Soul whereas limiting myself solely to my Aura, all it could do was wreath my physique in flames. If I used it along side Aureola, nevertheless, the results of the ability would broaden, surrounding me in a raging bonfire that would incinerate something that got here close to. Used with Aurora?

The world round me grew to become a raging inferno, engulfing the Humbaba together with the whole lot else round me. The flames weren’t simply bodily, both; Elemental Soul enhanced my Aura, as a substitute of changing it, which meant that the results of Aurora mixed with the sudden hearth to strike on the Grimm much more deeply. The flames had been scorching sufficient that the bottom round me liquefied in moments and swiftly started to boiland had a traditional human abruptly discovered themselves inside simple attain, they’d have melted at the same time as they burned.

However evidently, I wasn’t content material to cease there. Not after I nonetheless had playing cards to play, at leastand I would chosen to play with hearth for a cause. As a result of I used to be utilizing my Aura to create them, I may really feel the flames as simply as in the event that they had been my very own limbs, swirling round me and rising brilliantly from the sunshine of my soul. Round me, I may see the patterns within the sky shift to reds and purples, as if the solar was setting, however greater than that, I may see the Aura throughout the flames, blazing scorching to my senses. However as a substitute of drawing away from that, I reached out to the feeling and drew it inwards, fanning the flames hotter and better with every passing second.

The mixture of powers I used to be utilizing now was as spectacular as I would imagined it could be, but it surely was additionally my first time testing it. A part of that was as a result of a number of items of that puzzle had been comparatively new additions to my repertoire, Agni most notable of alland a part of it was just because it had been troublesome to check. The issue with issues like Elemental Soul and Surya had been pretty apparent; it was troublesome to turn out to be a raging storm of elemental energy with out drawing consideration. If I attempted to make use of it whereas at Haven, it was doable I may achieve this with out anybody noticing, regulating the movement of warmth to maintain anybody from getting burned or noticing a sudden enhance in temperature, forestall my Aura from incinerating something I got here in touch with, and regulate all the opposite components that made life troublesome within the heart of a firestorm or a hurricanebut it could be actually troublesome and there was a relentless danger that I would by chance incinerate somebody. It wasn’t one thing I would been keen to check, even figuring out what I used to be able to.

Honestly, that was additionally why I hadn’t tried it out round my teammates, both. Fires as scorching as those I used to be making did not want contact to burneven the world outdoors of Aurora’s attain had been rendered pretty inhospitable to life by the sheer warmth that was being let off. Had there been any Lotus Eater timber left standing in Brahmastra’s wake, I would have sincerely puzzled if they might have combusted or melted from being so shut. Whereas the results of Aurora itself had been restricted solely to these I acknowledged as enemies, the flames generated by my different expertise would burn pal and foe alike and on condition that they’d progressed to the purpose of constructing individuals evaporate, that was a little bit of a difficulty.

So whereas this mixture of expertise was one I would wished to attempt for some time now and have been including new expertise to ever sense, the actual fact remained that it was one thing restricted to conditions after I was surrounded by issues I would not miss.

Equivalent to, say, this complete godforsaken continent and the whole lot on it. I had no cause to carry again right here and given the infestations of the Grimm on the whole and the Lotus Eaters specifically, it may do with an excellent razing, anyway.

As for Aurora itself, I would prevented utilizing it for 2 predominant causes. One, the sheer breadth of the lightshow it created was a ache within the ass to cover, even for meand it wasn’t one thing that would simply be hidden behind an phantasm, both. Whereas I may make my Aura a lot more durable to note than most individuals’s because of the ability Tranquility, it was a relative factor and the effectiveness dropped with blatant shows of energy. As such, whereas the veritable explosion of Aura attributable to Aurora is perhaps comparatively muted, it could nonetheless be like taking an lively tuning fork and shoving it in opposition to the tooth of any Hunter close by, which might draw the kind of consideration I did not need. I did not thoughts individuals figuring out I used to be highly effective, as long as they obtained that info on my phrases and in such a manner that it was advantageous to me.

However I do not want individuals to know the total reality, becauseas I’ve turn out to be more and more conscious of over timeit’s actually onerous to plan for issues you do not know about. Which, enthusiastic about it, might be additionally why all of my enemies are so tight lipped, the bastards.

The second cause was much more easy; Aurora routinely struck out at these I acknowledged as my enemiesbut I acknowledged lots of people as enemies. Lots of people that I’d simply as quickly not pay attention to that reality. Whereas I’d be in shut proximity to individuals like Cinder particularly, it wasn’t one thing I may likelihood; in spite of everything, if I made a mistake and a battle broke out, she may most likely lure me in some sort of additional temporal blender and kill me earlier than and after my demise. No, thanks.

However once more, none of that mattered right here and it was my likelihood to chop unfastened with out worrying an excessive amount of. And the place I used to be going, I knew full nicely I would not be capable to maintain something again.

That in thoughts, I flicked my gaze from the Morrigan to Garmrand then used Flux to seem above the previous, Reaching out with my energy to take action.

Attain (Lively) LV1 EXP: 0.00% MP: 1000

The flexibility to succeed in past the bounds of the mortal body by use of the soul. By expending nice energy to take action, the person of this ability might enhance the vary of one other ability by thirty, even when that ability would usually require bodily contact with the goal, by which case it as a substitute offers a variety of thirty meters.

I got here down on the huge crow, touchdown immediately between its wings and letting my Aura deal with the remainder as gravity pulled me by way of the large Grimm. Whilst I fell, nevertheless, I lifted each of my palms, gathering energy into the type of a pair of spears. The one in my proper hand burned with scarlet incandescence, whereas the one on the correct appeared like nothing greater than a plain and easy lance. I threw the crimson spear first, an Agniyastra bolstered by the facility of Agni, and watched because it caught the Garmr within the shoulder and blew the colossal limb clear off earlier than exploding right into a column of fireside that flooded forth in each route, as intense because the flames of Surya. The Garmr launched a sound someplace between a roar, a howl, and a scream because the flames washed over him and left him a rapidly thinning determine as matter sloughed off his body. I watched him calmly for a second, gauging the injury I would causedand then threw the opposite spear to check it.

The easy lance appeared, at first look, like nothing a couple of of my Magic Missiles, if maybe a bit longer and a contact thinner. The considerably golden colour that capped its ideas was pretty simple to miss, particularly whereas it was in movement, and it wasn’t wherever close to as visually spectacular as my Brahmastra or Agneyastra and even Gungnir. Even its results had been pretty subdued compared to its compatriotsit shimmered as soon as in midflight, touched the cranium of the huge Grimm, and vanished into its cranium. There was no flash of sunshine, no explosion, nothing.

However the Grimm dropped like a puppet with its strings minimize.

Longinus (Lively) LV1 EXP: 17.96% MP: 80000

A legendary spear stated to have been bathed within the blood of a god. Initially nothing greater than a easy weapon, it was stated to have been exalted by the expertise and have become one thing far larger. It’s stated to haven’t any bodily kind however to have the ability to pierce any protection by slicing by way of the very area its goal occupies. Earlier than the sting of the spear of Future, all issues stand equal; it cuts by way of no matter is in its path with out distinction. Energy will increase with INT, ability stage, and Steel aspect affinity.

Full protection penetration.

I landed because the Garmr fell to the bottom with an earth shaking thud, rolling my wrist. As I would anticipated, Longinus appeared like a reasonably troublesome weapon to make use of. Whereas it is moderately exorbitant value was mitigated considerably by my different expertise, it was pretty costly for what it didwhich was base injury. Granted, it was base injury that totally ignored the opponent’s defenses and pure sturdiness, however nonetheless; in comparison with the injury of Agneyastra or any of my different, far cheaper assaults, it had performed a reasonably minor quantity of harm.

Alternatively, if I encountered an opponent I in any other case could not scratch, Longinus would enable me to at the least do some injury. I puzzled if it could work in opposition to Malkuth’s physics fuckery.

One way or the other, I doubted issues could be that simpleand even when they had been, he may most likely discover a solution to work round it. Nevertheless it was nonetheless a pleasant thought.

Shaking away the ideas, I turned my head in direction of my subsequent opponent, the huge ‘peafowl’ that was the Panoptes. I say ‘peafowl’ as a result of even earlier than theremodeling the Brahmastra had given it, the Panoptes was a reasonably monstrous trying factor, with the whole lot from its physique to its plumage coated in large eyes, right down to the very nails of its clawed ft. Additional, whereas its eyes had recovered from the injury of the Brahmastra, they’d come again mistaken, with lots of the eyes both grown over with black scales or diminished to large blobs of tiny crimson orbs, considerably harking back to egg sacks. It was sort of hideous, butwell, I had no leg to face on when it got here to eyes. I may win a staring contest with a number of hundred of the beasts and have eyes to spare whereas doing so.

Nonetheless, I settled down in entrance of the creatures and snuffed out my flames with a thought, seemingly giving him a gap. And certainly, I used to be outright inviting the monster to assault mebecause there was nonetheless yet another factor I wished to attempt.

Taking a gradual breath, I activated Kavacha and waited.