Chapter 226: Discipline Results

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.

Discipline Results

In a matter of moments, fractures within the air encompassed everything of my barrier, spreading steadily till it appeared nearly as if there have been extra cracks that air. The fissures linked, intersected, and grew with every passing momentand then there was a sound someplace between breaking glass, shrieking metallic, and the explosion of the Brahmastra because the items started to fall away. Ranging from the underside, the air merely appeared to drop, falling away just like the items of a shattered window and vanishing into the void till all that was left have been Gilgamesh and I. For a second, there was no mild, no warmth, no air, no something and it nearly appeared like we might comply with the items of the world down into the void.

However then the second handed as actuality got here flooding again in like air filling a vacuum. From my nearly exterior perspective, I may see the place the variations laid, the edgeshere, a barren, blasted plain on a dull rock. There, a forest stuffed with animals and life. An empty metropolis, a destroy just like the one we destroyed, and numerous different variations. Within the sky of 1 world, I noticed a moon that was complete, whereas in one other laid wholly alien skies. Quickly the photographs have been streaming by too shortly to really pin down.

This was step one of Et in Arcadia Egoa failed try at denying existence. The whole ability was a failure, actually, regardless of its huge energy and potential; it did not even come near engaging in what it had been designed for.

I’d know. It was my ability, in spite of everything. Not only a ability I knew, however one which I had made in a earlier life.

Et in Arcadia Ego had been supposed for Malkuth. In opposition to an enemy whose foremost weapon was successfully actuality, the plain answer would appear to be simplenot straightforward to perform, maybe, however conceptually easy. If Malkuth might be faraway from actuality, from the principles he bent to perform his objectives, he’d be powerless, or no less than a hell of a weaker. It was an fascinating concept that was sadly doomed from the very begin.

You’ll be able to’t take somebody exterior Realitythere is not any ‘exterior’ Actuality. In a variety of tales, you’d hear about issues ‘exterior’ the Universe and such, however that was a contradiction; you possibly can’t exist exterior the Universe, as a result of the Universe is, merely put, ‘all the pieces that exists.’ And even when it did ‘exist,’ it in all probability would not be one thing you could possibly work together with. Folks would possibly envision it as an incredible void with the Universe hanging in it, however Actuality goes past stuff like that. Outdoors Actuality, who was to say that something like house or time had that means? How may you journey there, then, or exist there? How may you even make a doorway to a spot that did not have legal guidelines governing movement or interplay? These have been all Common ideas, in spite of everything.The supply of this content material nov(el)bi((n))

Ultimately, Et in Arcadia Ego had been an formidable try that obtained smacked within the face by a dictionary. Even the void it conjured up because it tried to push all the pieces away wasn’t ‘exterior’ the Universe; it was nonetheless ruled by quite a lot of legal guidelines and ideas, which was a part of why the world shortly seeped again in. Positive, there could also be alien locations or exceedingly hostile locations, however something that existswell, exists. It is Actual. This that are not actual, aren’t logic. That was simply fundamental logic. Et in Arcadia Ego had been an illogical try at beating a foe who was bending logic to his trigger and it simply hadn’t labored; irrespective of the place you attempt to go, some issues are nonetheless there.

However within the means of failing, it had created one thing superb in its personal proper.

Because the world swirled round us like some type of chaotic sea, I felt it as issues started to solidify and emerge, influencing and guiding the method with my very own energy. I let a grassy plain bubble forth first earlier than drawing up a mountain vary. The sky flickered, a dozen completely different variations of it portray over themselves earlier than it solidified right into a singular picture, after which air crammed the areas. A solar shined down on us from above, making issues heat and shedding mild over the empty fields.

They have been items that should not have gone collectively, every taken from a special world. Et in Arcadia Ego was a dimensional barrier like Naraka, nevertheless it achieved very completely different ends. If Naraka created a replica of the world by stepping apart, then Et in Arcadia Ego tried to push these inside its attain between dimensions and crammed issues in from stolen, copied items. It wasn’t restricted to a replica of wherever I occurred to be, which had its usesthough, in truth, the dimensional shenanigans that Naraka allowed far outweighed nearly any downsides it created.

Alternatively, creating personalized maps wasn’t the one factor Et in Arcadia Ego was able to. When Ior my former self, ratherrealized that we could not take away Malkuth from the sport the best way we might initially supposed, we might shifted gears and tried to beat him at his personal as an alternative. Thathadn’t labored both, nevertheless it proved helpful in its personal means, because the ability allowed me to shift and alter guidelines in ways in which my different limitations didn’t.

However one other benefit that I foundand some of the helpful ones on this explicit casewas that it was quite a bit tougher to interrupt out of than Naraka. I’d know; my counterpart and I had performed with Trespasser a good bit in what time we might had earlier than the battle. It meant that I might be no less than moderately assured that Gilgamesh would not merely shatter it and escape, and greater than something that opened up choices.

As a result of in right here, I did not have to fret about collateral injury.

It might be misleading to say that I would been holding again towards Gilgamesh; I used to be hitting him with all the pieces I may afford to, barring what methods requires preparation and arrange, resembling this one. However I had been conscious of my environment, just because I wanted to account for my mates. That wasn’t them holding me again or anythingI wanted them right here, each to maintain the Grimm from ganging up on me and as part of what was to comebut the very fact remained that there have been some issues that you simply could not do whereas appearing as a part of a group, merely due to the specter of pleasant fireplace. That is why I dropped the Brahmastras earlier than bringing them in. The very fact remained that I could not do that with out them, just because this step of the plan required me to have the ability to combat and deal with Gilgamesh alone for a reasonably vital period of time and if I would saved my limitations in Patientia as an alternative of the Brahmastras, I would have been beneath fixed assault from each route since this started, which might have sophisticated issues to say the least.

But it surely labored effectively sufficient, no less than for the second, pushing him again far sufficient to maintain from touching the floor of my luminous sphere. Even so, with every passing second, I may see bits of his flesh fall away in tiny droplets as he continued to soften.

He was in a foul place and he knew it. He could not get away from me whereas we have been nonetheless inside my Sanctuaryor not far sufficient away to really matter. At greatest, he may maintain his distance barely, paying heed to the sides in order to not wraparoundbut there was nothing to carry onto anymore, nowhere to actually disguise.

And I hadn’t even begun to maneuver.

This was the mixture I would created and, pricey because it was, its energy was plain. Coaching my newer expertise up sufficient to utilize this had been troublesome within the time I would allowed myself, however the deck was stacked in my favor. I would had energy to burn, Etz Hayim, my Sephirot expertise, and all my different expertise boostersand I would spent all my time coaching in as Accelerated a state as attainable. Nonetheless lengthy it had been objectively, this final week had been months for me, and I would spent each evening and day coaching indirectly or one other. I would centered on all the pieces I assumed would possibly assist, bettering my newer expertise as a lot as attainable, and Agni, Surya, and Aurora had been close to the highest of my checklist, merely due to their synergy. Due to the truth that Tiferet’s degree requirement fell with every degree it gained, I would managed, simply barely, to make the minimize in just a few locations of worth.

I would say the outcomes have been suitably spectacular. With my management of this space, there was nowhere for him to go. Due to Tabernacle, I may carry my limitations with me, however its true energy was extra subtleI may additionally flip it off, planting my limitations anew. Due to that, I used to be free to maneuver my limitations round nevertheless I felt like, with no warning to Gilgamesh, leaving my free to nook him and minimize off paths of escape at will. With each passing second, he’d take injury and I would made certain that Sanctuary was as small as I may make it, insuring there was nowhere really protected. And the extra injury he took, the extra he’d should heal, and the more serious he’d undergo from the insidious results of the Brahmastras. Already affected by standing results and amassed injury, this was about as removed from an excellent battlefield as he may get, with no selection however to take injury continually, his means to maneuver and evade meaningless towards one thing he could not escape.

As such, I used to be a bit shocked once I heard him converse.

“This brings again recollections,” Gilgamesh stated, rigorously retaining to the sides. After a second, he grew a pair of mechanized wings that linked to a backpack like construction, and contours of crimson circuitry stood out on his white armor. He appeared to stabilize himself them, extra alterations to his arms and toes permitting him to higher maintain his distance as he watched me. “One in all Gevurah’s methods, wasn’t it? As extreme as ever, I seeyes. This was Lucifer, wasn’t it? Helel ben Shahar.”

Lucifer (Energetic) LV1 EXP: 0.00% MP: 10000000

The Star of Morningthe Gentle Bringer. Created by the Archangel Gevurah because the flame of Judgement, it devoured and consumed the Fallen, rising within the heavens to point out {that a} new day had dawned on a damaged world. In time, it light from the world and hid itself from the eyes of manbut although the solar units, it additionally rises, ready for the time to burn away the shadows of the damned. With this ability, the person could name forth the ability of the Solar, searing his enemies with the flames of Gevurah. Results improve with MP, INT, WIS, Fireplace Affinity, and ability degree.

All issues inside 1 kilometer of the person are drawn in direction of them with a base drive of roughly 28g.

All issues inside 1 kilometer of the person are by the person’s stellar radiance, manifesting within the type of great warmth and light-weight.

All issues drawn inside 100 meters of the person enter the Star of Morning, with temperatures rising dramatically with proximity to the person.

Extra 10000000 MP used per minute.

I tilted my head barely, however did not reply. That it had been one in every of my fellow Archangels who’d made the ability wasn’t information to me, however the truth that Gilgamesh had seen it and survived the encounter was disagreeable. Admittedly, not completely unexpectedI’d gone into this with a plan that just about nobody had any proper to surviveand then adopted it up with a bunch of different plans, within the pursuits of creating certain. Most anybody I knew would have died to no less than one of many issues I would hit Gilgamesh with, nevertheless it the legendary Grimm went down that simply, they would not have survived lengthy sufficient to make it into fable and legend. I would introduced all the pieces I may to this combat; worst case situation, I may really attain into my Stock and convey out a kitchen sink. It appeared unlikely that it could do something, however I used to be going to get to make use of that joke sometime.

“I’ve seen it earlier than, for sure,” Gilgamesh continued after a second, as if to fill the silence. He was nonetheless melting and generally drops would fall via the underside of Sanctuary, come again via the highest, and land on his armor. “Although I am unable to say it was a very pleasant expertise then, both. Gevurah was all the time so good at destroying thingsit might need been higher to name him Golachab, in the long run. Are you aware of that phrase?”

I continued to stay silent, figuring that if I had time to speak, I had time to do higher thingsdestroying my enemies, for example.

To begin with, I Fluctuated proper subsequent to Gilgamesh, bringing with me the warmth of a star.