Chapter 230: Retaliation

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.

Retaliation

For sure, Keter was the primary to shut the gap, crossing the intervening house as if it wasn’t even there. It wasn’t teleportation or something like that, eitherhe merely reworked himself into mild and moved, abruptly closing in to assault. A hair-thin line of searing white mild prolonged from his finger straight by the middle of Malkuth’s chest, proper by the place we might final seen the portal that sustained him.

A second later, he flickered as soon as, the motion on barely seen to my eyes. Spears of white mild surrounded Malkuth in an enormous sphere, a whole lot upon a whole lot of them created straight away and bursting upon him simply as shortly, hardly seeming to even begin shifting earlier than connecting totally. Keter flashed as soon as and was elsewhere by the point I registered it, a column of sunshine extending from his hand to attach with Malkuth’s hideand then there have been two extra, every born from a barely totally different place at Keter’s facet. By the point I seen that his hand had moved, dropping to his facet just under the place the three beams of sunshine had come from, he was closing in, fingers reshaping into vicious claws as he grasped and tore at Malkuth’s flesh, ripping away small chunks.

Even for me, watching him was like watching a defective or poorly reduce video and seeing it stutter and skip moments or scenes. He was someplace, however then he was some other place by the point I seen it, one motion already accomplished whilst he moved onto the subsequent. He was simply testing the waters, not losing power on any large shows of energy simply but, as a result of he knew what Malkuth was succesful ofand, after all, as a result of he knew what I had in thoughts.

Regardless of that, my different and I have been mere moments behind him, fluctuating into Malkuth’s quick proximity with energy already gathered. My extra highly effective assaults flew at him from each side, however they have been hidden amongst hordes of different assaults. The transient dialog had given me ample time to regain my power, particularly as we have been not sustaining Lucifer, and we might each recovered to fulla indisputable fact that we have been all too completely happy to show. Right here and now, I did not dare maintain again, so my twin and I conjured two circles of firing spheres round Malkuth and let free with every thing we had.

I knew from the start that the majority of what I had obtainable would not workand that what was left most likely would not work wellbut each hit I geared toward him had a function. The Magic Missile, even with their protection penetration, have been unlikely to trigger him any actual harm, however they have been low-cost sufficient to supply in large portions even once I was regular; right here, with Cathedral working, Sahasrara activated in full, and a dozen different issues stacked in my favor? They stuffed the air such that it was troublesome to inform the place anybody ended and one other started. Combined amongst them have been Thunderbolts and Far Slayers, transient flashes of sunshine sparking round semi-luminous arcs within the air, masked sometimes by the bursting of Flares. They have been a minor addition, all instructed, however with their value as piddling because it now waswell, it was a cheap technique, even when essentially the most it did was trigger scratched.

Above them got here my different technique of assault. Gungnir did not make as giant of a displaying as its lesser cousin, however nonetheless appeared by the handfuls, the a whole lot. Surya surrounded my twin and I whilst our Aurora’s flared to embody him, my very soul reaching out to claw at my enemy. I centered Atlas on him with a thought, crushing him beneath an enormous, lingering weight whilst I launched flashes of plasma in the direction of him, froze him with Deposition, slashed at him with Psychokinetic blades, and extra, filling in virtually each house left by the primary layer of assaults.

And beneath that, after all, I hid the massive weapons. Longinus wasn’t simply distinguishable from a Magic Missile at first look, and within the virtually stable wave of assaults now flying in the direction of Malkuth, it might have been a bit tough even for me to pick the deadly needle within the barely much less deadly haystack. The physique Malkuth was utilizing nowGilgamesh’s bodyhad no typical vulnerabilities; hell, even full incineration on the coronary heart of a miniature star hadn’t been sufficient to place him down for the depend. In comparison with that, stabbing him in his non-existent organs was pretty meaningless, although I aimed a number of sucker punches in that path anyway, simply in case he although they have been secure. The remaining adopted Keter’s instance, aiming in the direction of the portal inside him, already at the least considerably broken by the primary Longinus. If I may destroy that, I would reduce Gilgamesh off from the faucet and he’d be simple pickings. In addition to which, it might get Malkuth out of the image, which was an excellent factor just about irrespective of the way you sliced it.

One may suppose that, given the onslaught we have been unleashing a single, man-sized goal, the three of us may get in one another’s waybut we did not. For my twin and I, holding out of one another’s approach was virtually easy, with our senses turned as much as max and Pericognition accounting for all the main points with out want for acutely aware enter. With the Mathematician’s Reply, angling our assaults such that they did not collide was only a matter of timing and forethought, and we slipped blows by the gaps in one another’s assaults that the majority would not have thought existed.

For Keter, issues have been a contact totally different, however the course of was, if something, even easier. From his perspective, we should have been shifting at a glacial tempo and he may aimor even approachthrough the storm of assaults with out issue. Greater than that, his quickened perceptions and Elemental nature gave him quite a lot of choices that will have been inconceivable for many anybody else. Beams of sunshine each large and skinny flashed throughout my imaginative and prescient impossibly, ducking beneath and passing by assaults because it approached Malkuth. The laser twisted, curved, after which flat out bent round something in its path, evading each impediment to burst upon his masked face.

The assault tore items out of themsometimes nothing however tiny slivers, reminiscent of within the case of a fortunate or well-aimed Magic Missile that simply barely did some extent of harm, and generally in a lot bigger chunks as he was struck with the sunshine or pierced by by Longinus.

And thru all of it, Malkuth remained nonetheless. Whilst chunks have been torn from his physique and his left arm got here free, he hardly appeared to note. He floated within the void we might created round him, ignoring or enduring the assaults we unleashed for a number of full seconds earlier than elevating his one remaining arm, a uninteresting inexperienced pulsing outwards from it.

Suddenly, my firing spheres got here undo, shattering on the contact of the sunshine as if struck by some nice power. The assaults I would already used to fill the house continued on their path, breaking towards his dwindling disguise, after which there was nothing for a second however silence.

“Telekinesis?” Malkuth requested, tone someplace between and amused. “Ah, no; in your case I suppose it might be Psychokinesis, huh? As anticipated, you are thoughts”

I shut him up with a fist to the facethree fists, technically. I smashed my knuckles into the left facet of his face whereas my different went proper, whilst Keter appeared between us and slammed his fist into what would have been a human’s nostril. Malkuth leaned again on the power of the sudden assault, barely shifting in any other case.

It ought to go with out saying that I did not cease there, thoughI saved punching. Ruthlessly, relentlessly, incessantly, the three of us hit him many times, bolstering ourselves as finest we may. I Accelerated quicker than I ever had earlier than, channeled my Stamina utilizing Qigong, drew from Bai Hu’s magnum opus, and did every thing I may to make each hit depend. Although I noticed his HP slowly lower, I wasn’t significantly satisfied it was actually affecting himbut, if nothing else, it was satisfying as all hell. I punch Malkuth within the face a few thousand instances and it felt fairly goddamn good.

Then I abruptly felt like I would been reduce in half, which felt much less good, and it took me a second to appreciate what had occurred. With pace that was startling even for me, he waved his arm in an arc that he in some way managed to nonetheless make appear casualand it tore cleanly by my twin and I as if we have been no totally different than the void round us, such that it might have reduce us in half if not for the Gamer’s Physique.

As he did, all of us saved our eyes centered on Malkuth, hoping he would not abruptly moveor reasonably, that he would not have the ability to give you a approach round stopped time inside stopped time, at the least not on brief discover. If it was the true Malkuth, that most likely would have been a pipedream, however inside Gilgamesh’s physique, he was restricted too that physique.

As soon as Keter was outdoors of Malkuth’s sphere of affect, nonetheless, my twin and I started to make use of Tachyon for what it was finest atbuying time. Although the approach itself was outrageously costly, it nonetheless supplied a possibility to react or put together with no need to fret about outdoors affect; if, as an illustration, I did not have most of my finest abilities working always anyway, I may have used it to use them suddenly. That wasn’t a difficulty for me, after all, however I nonetheless had a number of methods to make use of it that tended to turn out to be useful.

Like organising a sucker punch.

As time returned to regular, I fired one other full batch of Lux Aeternas into Keter’s again, offering him with a sudden and large ‘cost.’ Directly, his physique started to waver, look spiking oddly and shiftingbut he held himself in place whilst my twin launched his gathered energy inside the bounds of Malkuth’s luminous sphere.

Or reasonably, his barrier, for that is what it apparently counted as to Trespasser, a indisputable fact that I grew to become sure of the exact second it labored. However it did work, and that is what issues.

Keter fired a blast of power into Malkuth’s chest with sufficient power to wipe cities off the map. Malkuth launched a hiss of breathe because it hit residence, the sunshine pushing him half solution to the sting of Sanctuary, and it rose right into a close to scream as the sunshine handed totally by him. This time, the sunshine acted as if his physique have been a prism and trails of in a different way coloured mild streaming out from his pores and skin as he bore the assaulttrails that scattered randomly, hitting the perimeters of the Sanctuary and passing cleanly by. In a second, the close to empty house inside my barrier was lined in a community of lasers that have been greater than intense sufficient to chew by something of their path, reminiscent of, you recognize, me. Considerably extra hit Malkuth, however they merely scattered many times, including gas to the fireplace and doing little to assist issues.

In a second, nonetheless, I felt my different self Fluctuate into the identical house as me and Keter moved, wings unfolding to encompass us. Every laser that struck him was absorbed cleanly and he channeled the facility anew into one other blast at Malkuth, holding it one him with brutal energy.

This time, nonetheless, Malkuth was ready and raised a hand in entrance of him simply earlier than Keter fired. When the large column of sunshine got here inside centimeters of his hand, it abruptly bent upwards, passing over Malkuth at an angle and slipping by Sanctuary’s partitions, crossing the house behind us, then behind Malkuth, after which elsewhere, immediately filling the areas with bars of searing Mild the consumed Malkuth straight away whereas Keter saved me secure from hurt.

Then one thing hit us that wasn’t mild and Malkuthwho’d let the blast push him by Sanctuary’s partitions, I realizedgrabbed Keter, holding onto the formed mild of his physique as simply as flesh. Along with his different hand, he grabbed me, pulling me up by one in all Keter’s wings by the throat.

“Into the nook with you,” He stated with a click on of his tongue earlier than turning his physique as soon as after which jettisoning the arm greedy Keter, sending him in the direction of the middle of the sphere. The indifferent arm started to bloat in midflight earlier than abruptly beginning to shrink, crushed into an virtually imperceptible gap straight away. Instantly, I felt gravity tugging at my flesh, the sunshine round us vanishingbut Malkuth appeared above such issues and he held me nonetheless. “And now that the lightshow is out of the best way, what’s say we take this outdoors?”

Nonetheless holding onto my throat, Malkuth dove in the direction of the closest wall of Sanctuarybut as a substitute of passing by, one thing unusual occurred. Because the warped house made contact with Malkuth’s flesh, I felt one thing like static erupt in my thoughts and had psychological photos of error messages.

After which my limitations shattered like damaged glass, returning us to the wreck of Jericho Falls. Directly, the combating appeared to fall silent, all eyes centered on us. Within the eyes of the Grimm, I noticed fealty. Within the eyes of my pals

Malkuth drew a gradual breath and I bought the sensation he was smiling. He’d seen then, rattling him.

“It is at all times good to be again,” He stated, sounding deeply glad. “Nowwhere to start out? Do you will have a desire as to who will die due to you this time or ought to I simply flip a coin?”

I grit my tooth with out answering.

Not good. Keter wasn’t gone, of that a lot I used to be surebut he was trapped inside the darkish pit Malkuth had conjured, now rotating lazily above us. There was no signal of the horrible gravity from earlier than, however there was additionally no signal that he’d escaped shortly. I would recognized factor may come to this, but when that they had, I would deliberate to make use of his assist first, as a substitute ofthis.

However there was no serving to it now.

Left with little selection, I reached deep within myself, crossed my fingers, and activated the Arcana.