Chapter 221: Splitting Up

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.

Splitting Up

My Aurora exploded into existence round us and instantly aspected in the direction of water, taking type as a weird, personalised water spout. As Gilgamesh entered my vary, I felt his presence as a swift shifting object actually burning a path by means of the flowing wind and water, boiling something that touched his pores and skin with friction alone.

He was quick, extra so than anybody I might ever fought, and that made all of the distinction in a battle. A lot of the Grimm I opposed have been large creatures and there was one thing to be stated for thatbut they have been unwieldy, too, so large that every little thing they did appeared nearly glacial. It wasn’t, really; logically talking, any of the Grimm moved at really absurd speeds given their dimension. However to me? They have been largely simply large targets. A number of the Grimm, the really highly effective ones, had different methods round such issues, however people who did not

Nicely, they have been a giant a part of how I might gotten this robust.

And Gilgamesh wasn’t like them in any respect. If something, he’d been constructed with their weaknesses in thoughts, leveraging the absurd bodily prowess of the Grimm to much more absurd ranges, with out something to carry him again. I wasn’t silly sufficient to imagine that he did not have the rest up his sleevemy life was hardly ever that easybut even with out no matter he was holding in reserve, he was on a distinct stage than the Grimm I might fought so far. He was quick by my requirements and with nothing however his bodily stats, managed to maneuver at speeds I might solely match with layered expertise and outright time manipulation. It was, fairly frankly, sort of ridiculous.

However so was I.

I held my Aurora in place for under a second, gauging his strategy, after which Fluctuated, flickering away simply as he minimize by means of the area I might inhabited. At the same time as I moved, I let Xihai slip from my flesh, her religious presence seeming to rise from my pores and skin like water vaporand whereas I disappeared, she remained simply the place she was, forming a forming a bodily type from the encircling water. That was a part of the rationale I hadn’t put apart Varuna immediately, in reality; although I did not take into account it the most effective of my Elemental Embodiment expertise, it did have a good bit going for it, amongst them the informal capability to both summon or create water. With none enhance in price, Aurora had generated an enormous quantity of water; sufficient to flood skyscrapers and greater than sufficient to serve my and Xihai’s wants.

As Gilgamesh hit the opposite aspect of the tough sphere my Aurora had created, he did not pierce throughrather, the sphere distorted, a portion of it stretching out with him and turning it into an odd cone-like form as water pulled at him whilst he pushed ahead, slowing him barely. On the similar time, the tough coils of the previous water spout transitioned into precise coiled, full with darkish blue scales. It spiraled upwards, water swirling right into a extra particular form because it gathered into the type of giantess with six arms who’s physique flowed seamlessly into the serpentine scales simply above her waist. At the same time as Gilgamesh lastly broke freed from the water’s grasp and actually exploded out of her again, she did not a lot as flinch, water shifting again into place ever as what was boiled away started to condensate. As a substitute, she merely checked out Gilgamesh with 9 pitch-black orbs; two in her face, one at her collar bone, and one on every of her arms, slightly below the place her shoulders merged. From every of the eyes got here a gradual stream of clear water, flowing into and feeding the remainder of her physique.

Of all of the enhancements I might made previous to this battle, this was, whereas not the best, positively one of many closest to my heartmy Elementals had made the leap from Lesser Elementals to True Elementals, with my Elemental Affinities all doubling within the course of. Extra importantly than that, nevertheless, was the modifications that had come to my associates.

“Cease, monster,” Xihai stated calmly, forming the sounds on her personal as she watched her foe. “We can’t will let you do as you please any longer.”

Gilgamesh stopped for a second to easily have a look at her for a second earlier than making a wierd sound, like somebody clicking their tongue however by some means off.

“To be anticipated, I suppose,” He stated, trying again at me. “As per traditional, you might be startlingly divided for one meant to characterize unity.”Go to no(v)eLb(i)n.com for the most effective novel studying expertise

“You haven’t any thought,” I answered, shifting my toes barely as I targeted on gathering my energy.

“We’re united in all of the ways in which matter,” Xihai declared, Gilgamesh. “A creature reminiscent of it is best to perceive that.”

“Maybe so,” Gilgamesh allowed simply. “Nonetheless, it is attention-grabbing. Are you an identical, beneath the floor? Or have you ever modified in demise as nicely, spirit of water?”

“All issues change,” She stated, as if the query was meaningless to her. “In life and demise and time. I’m not the identical as I used to be, whether or not yesterday or a thousand years beforeyet what does it matter? No matter has been gained or misplaced, as long as you’ll be able to proceed on, that’s energy.”

Gilgamesh tilted his head and regarded her, having to tilt his head again to take action.

“Nicely stated,” He answered, nearly as if applauding the phrases. “However I might disagree considerably. Even in any case this time, not less than my coronary heart has not modified, nor my will. In my eyes, I take into account that to be what makes me strongthat it doesn’t matter what occurs, I’m nonetheless myself.”

“I would not take into account it a matter of pleasure to stop to vary,” Xihai stated. “That which doesn’t change merely stagnates and that which isn’t added to is doomed to say no; these are easy details.”

“A valiant effort,” He stated. “I’ve at all times thought of Elementals to be worthy foes and their very nature could make them appear unsurmountable, for even the entire destruction of their bodily types accomplishes nothing. Butthat’s provided that one is unaware of tips on how to take care of them. I hope you did not count on me to be caught off-guard by such a factor; there are advantages to a number of millennia of expertise.”

“So I can see,” I mused, hiding my fear. None of my Elementals appeared injured as such, however no matter he’d accomplished to them had come as a shock. I suppose it was most likely the primary time any of them had felt ache and I did not like seeming them that approach.

“Do you’ve some other Elementals you want to summon?” He prompted. “Or maybe to merge into some higher types? Or are you alone now?”

“You will discover I am very hardly ever alone, I feel,” I replied, casting a look round. “My apologies for holding you ready, nevertheless; I used to be a bit preoccupied.”

“Had been you now,” Gilgamesh answered dryly, trying me over as soon as earlier than chuckling to himself. “Very nicely; I am away it is a trick of some variety, however I am curious, so I shall play alongside. Let’s proceed our recreation, Archangel.”

I did not a lot as blink as he swung his sword in the direction of my head, Fluctuating shortly to the aspect. In that very same second, I took a breath and the world round me erupted into flames, Agni setting my renewed Aurora on hearth. I fanned the flames shortly, activating my different strategies to show the world round me right into a hell for anybody caught inside.

It ought to go with out saying that I made positive Gilgamesh was standing proper subsequent to me on the time.

The traditional Grimm truly flinched as soon as, recoiling on the sudden rush of flames. He did not evaporate as lesser Grimm had, did not even begin to instantly burnbut I noticed his armor warmth and glow and knew it will need to have damage. He recovered shortly, nevertheless, lashing out at me with one hand with out the slightest care about coming into the core of my flames and

Um. Nicely, technically, what he did was seize my head with one hand, raise me off the bottom, and slam me again downbut when Gilgamesh was doing one thing like that, it was the kind of factor that was greatest described with phrases like ‘smite.’ The already damaged floor shattered for an additional few hundred meters as he plunged me straight into the sphere of molten earth my presence was creating, driving me down till I hit one thing strong. I reached up reflexively to seize his wrist, instinctively making an attempt to leverage him off, however in a contest of pure energy, Gilgamesh most likely had extra in his fingertips than I did in each arms. He held on and made it clear he wasn’t letting go as his grip tightened on my cranium, different hand pulling again to strike me within the face, pushing me additional and additional down.

All his consideration was targeted on me now, which was technically what I might needed, however I admit this wasn’t fairly what I might had in thoughts.

However oh nicely. I might lengthy since accepted that improvisation was what I did for a dwelling. And Gilgamesh was proper about one thingit was a lure.

As Gilgamesh pulled again a hand to strike me once more, clearly intent on pummeling me a couple of hundred toes deeper into the bottom, he abruptly flinched as soon as, a spear of gleaming white piercing cleanly by means of his chest. In contrast to me, it appeared he had a little bit of hassle seeing clearly beneath a forty meters of molten earth, however to his credit score he did not query ithe simply moved, throwing himself away from me with sufficient drive that the miniature lake I might created all however exploded outwards, leaving me behind.

A second later, nevertheless, a hand reached out to me and I took it gratefully, letting somebody who hadn’t simply gotten smote pull me out of the lava.

“Are you okay?” A voice requested as I coughed barely. The harm wasn’t too dangerous and most of it was stopped outright by Agnibut I might swallowed some lava whereas I used to be getting punched within the face and it tasted fairly horrible.

“After all,” I stated, shaking my head barely. “It is me in any case. I could not look myself within the mirror if I could not shrug off one thing like that.”

“True,” The voice stated, serving to me to my toes. Or serving to me upright, quite, as we have been each floating within the air in the meanwhile. “We good to go then?”

I nodded and appeared up at him, smiling barely. Gilgamesh hadn’t observed what I might accomplished once I Fluctuated away from his attackor quite, he hadn’t observed that I might Fluctuated twice.

I suppose that could not be helped, given what he did not know; in any case, I might left the identical place each occasions.

“Hey, Jaune,” I stated to myself. “Nonetheless trying horny and wonderful, I see.”

“Rattling straight I’m,” I replied simply as I scanned the encircling space. “You too, Jaune.”

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