Chapter 232: Journey

DISCLAIMER: This story is NOT MINE IN ANY WAY. That honor has gone to the attractive bastard Ryugii. This has been pulled from his Spacebattle publishment. Anyway on with the present…errr learn.

Journey

Arcana

Lively & Passive) LV1 EXP: 0.00%

The compendium of secrets and techniques, the final word thriller. The Arcana exists as a illustration of a soul’s journey, each by way of life and past, and in so doing, illustrates the truths hidden inside. By mastering this talent, the consumer comes to grasp the trail they’ve taken and learns learn how to use the information and knowledge they’ve acquired to forge a path for themselves throughout time.

Upon studying this talent, the consumer learns to entry the reminiscences hidden inside their very own soul, recalling their previous and current lives.

As well as, this talent could also be activated for no price, permitting the consumer to attract power from inside themselves within the type of the twenty-two Main Arcana.

These results activate in correlation to the consumer’s current state and should change accordingly.

As I activated the Arcana, I felt one thing clear kind inside me, descending upon me from above. It did not include any flashes of sunshine or cinematic riots of energy, as a result of I wasn’t drawing power from it or unleashing something.

I used to be the Arcana. It was a crystallization of what was already there, a refinement of who I used to be, who I would been, and who I wished to be. In a means, it was the closest I would ever come to my previous self’s Semblance, as a result of a Semblance was itself an expression of who an individual isbut on the similar time it was greater than that. It was an intermingling, a dialog of the center and soul, and it drew components from the each of us. Or somewhat, from me.

And it was like my coronary heart had began beating after a protracted interval of nothingness.

Malkuth’s grip on my neck did not slacken due to my inner shift, nor did our state of affairs change. I do not assume he’d observed but, as a result of it wasfor nowstill one thing purely inner, however I would want to decide on my second fastidiously. I saved something from exhibiting on my physique with cautious management and lifted my gaze to have a look at my buddies.

The battlefield had gone nonetheless at our entrance, the Grimm clearly recognizing their grasp. They appeared to virtually fade into the background with out really transferring, darkish tremors rippling over their flesh. Nothing prolonged from Malkuth directlyor, at the very least, nothing prolonged from Gilgamesh’s bodybut I may see them recovering slowly. Maybe his consciousness of them was sufficient to achieve out from the opposite aspect of their portals or maybe they merely drew power from his presence; both means, I noticed wounds slowly knit closed.

Extra importantly than them, nonetheless, I noticed my buddies. I noticed Autumn excessive above us, nonetheless floating on the wind, and noticed her multifaceted eyes targeted on me. Her expression did not change, however I may really feel her feelings shift as she drew matter and vitality from her inner nicely, making ready herself for a battle. I may inform from the indicators left on the battlefield that she’d already made use of her powers as a Preta, however that did not cease her from readying herself now.

Beneath her stood Adam, Gou, and Raven. My greatest good friend, my workforce, all targeted on me. Adam pursed his lips, hand on his sword, and beneath his masks his eyes targeted on me and the hand at my throat. Looming over him, Gou flicked his eyes over Malkuth and I, however the majority of his focus then turned to the remainder of our workforce and I may really feel his ideas shift in direction of protectiveness.

I may all however hear their ideas; Adam readying himself to place his all right into a single assault, distracting Malkuth at an important second to permit me to flee, even when it price him his life. Gou readying himself to die if it meant permitting the others even a slim likelihood of escape.

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Lastly, I turned my consideration in direction of Raven, whose eyes had been targeted totally on me. I seemed by way of her masks to satisfy her eyes, each of out gazes regular. Beneath completely different circumstances, I would ship her a refined sign with Psychokinesis or Pathokinesis, however with Malkuth so close to I did not dare give him an indication.

As these items went, Power and the Chariot weren’t the worst ones I may have wound up with. Beneath the circumstances, I may have simply manifested the Tower or the Devilwhich had their makes use of, positive, however actually weren’t the kind of issues I wanted proper now. Power and the Chariot had their very own downsides, however they had been comparatively manageable.

Power restricted me to extra bodily MP assaults, resembling Bai Hu’s abilities, my Strike abilities, and different issues that boosted my bodily assaults. My different MP assaults would successfully do nothing, coming aside at the same time as I attempted to forged thembut that was no actual loss at this level. I would already hit Malkuth with a horde of such assaults and he’d merely brushed them off like they had been nothing. MP skills that weren’t assaults had been left untouched as nicely, so I nonetheless had entry to most of my persistent abilities like Acceleration, my sensory skills, and so forth. Now if I would misplaced these, that might be one thing to fret about, however as is the one issues I would really miss had been Longinus, Lux Aeterna, and Ohr Ein Sof, and even these abilities hadn’t been doing in addition to I might need hoped. However fortunately, I nonetheless had entry to all of them, in a way.

In spite of everything, I wasn’t the one one who’d activated the Arcana. Due to the character of Thaumiel, I successfully had two picks from the deck; one for every of us. It was a bit difficult, as a result of the Arcana concurrently acknowledged us as being united and separate, however the outcomes had been pretty good so I could not complain. Fairly frankly, if I would been preventing alone, I am unsure I would be prepared to danger utilizing the Arcana in an actual battle; all it will take was a foul draw to close down some important a part of my technique and I used to be screwed. As a substitute, I used to be ready to attract two playing cards and we couldn’tor, at the very least, had but todraw the identical Arcana, so we had been solely really screwed if we each received unhealthy hand’s, which was comparatively unlikely.

As an illustration, the place I would manifested Power, my different had manifested the Chariot, so whereas I used to be unable to make use of MP assaults that did not improve my bodily skills by some means, he was restricted to assaults that did not naturally include cost instances, fortunately ignoring the results of Hyper Soul. That meant he may nonetheless use issues like Longinus, as long as he did not attempt to cost them previous their regular limits; it wasn’t best, nevertheless it was manageable.

Now, had issues gone as deliberate, I would have continued to maintain Gilgameshor Malkuth, because the case could beoff stability, controlling the tide of the battle each step of the best way and directing the battle. That was the easiest way to make use of the Arcana in spite of everything; to not let circumstances outline you, however to outline them as an alternative. Had I been in a position to undergo with my plans for Keter, I ought to have been in a position to get at the very least the Star or the Solar, and possibly each. The World was unfeasible, but when I would finished issues proper, it might need even been potential to manifest Judgement. Even with how robust Malkuth was, as long as he was restricted by Gilgamesh’s physique I used to be pretty positive that might have been sufficient to determine the battle.

As a substitute, right here I used to be. If I would activated the Arcana from the very starting, I might need gotten the Magician, Excessive Priestess, or possibly even the Hierophant, nevertheless it was a bit late to fret about that now. And admittedly, it most likely would not have modified something.

I’d simply must do my greatest with what I had.

Even earlier than felt my counterpart prepared himself, I used to be transferring, dashing in direction of Malkuth with all of the power I may muster. Whereas the results of my obscenely enhanced Power differed from my different’s improved Dexterity, there was at all times a specific amount of overlap between power and velocity. With each step I took, the bottom appeared to ripple beneath my ft, hardly even feeling solidlike I used to be working over water as an alternative of earth. My ft sank into the bottom with every step, breaking by way of some type of wall, and every time the ripples expanded far sufficient, the bottom shattered but once more, strained far past its limits. As I rushed for Malkuth, something that would break, broke, however every step pushed me what appeared like leagues ahead.

Malkuth lifted a hand to dam as I got here nearbut it was too late for that, now. Simply earlier than I reached him, I activated Bai Hu’s Lunge and shut the final meter straight away. The second my fist struck his guard, a shockwave expanded from the purpose of connection and flashed outwards at an astonishing velocity, destroying every little thing it touched. The now totally shattered floor was pressured down by the strain, lowering every little thing close to us to superb powder, and no matter smoke and dirt nonetheless lingered on the battlefield was promptly swept away.

Although Gilgamesh’s masks reveal no expression, I preferred to assume Malkuth widened his eyes in shock. As a substitute of stopping me like he most likely supposed, I drove Malkuth again, forcing his ft to pull lengthy trenches within the floor. We went fifty meters, 100, 200, after which even additional, hardly seeming to sluggish as we handed by way of the just about frictionless sand. A contact belatedly, Malkuth lifted his different hand in response, reaching for me.

I lifted my eyes to his masks and smiled.

A second later, one thing tore by way of the world. My different self crossed the battlefield at full velocity, layering all the abilities he needed to improve it even additional, and his passage brought about virtually as a lot destruction as my assaults had. A colossal fireball started to broaden from his distant place to begin, solely the flashing waves of vitality out pacing his strategy. In virtually the identical second I observed him, he handed absolutely by way of my physique and struck Malkuth head on, fist hitting the identical hand I had. Malkuth abruptly vanished from my sight, the assault carrying him most of a kilometer away from me and leaving me to climate the remainder of the fireball.

I braced myself, holding on at the same time as I felt it wash over mebut although the power was unspeakable, I had the power to face in opposition to it. I felt my flesh burn and my eyes hiss and crackle inside my head, however I could not name to Suryasta, trapped as he was inside Keter. As a substitute, I merely waited and endured, understanding what was to return.

Certain sufficient, I noticed my different return not more than a second after his departure, hand firmly clasping Malkuth’s head. The Bane of the Prometheans bolstered his already ludicrous velocity, aided by every little thing else he’d been in a position to convey to bear, and Malkuth’s physique was held parallel to the bottom by the velocity of his retraction. My twin handed by way of me as soon as once more on his means again and we occupied the identical area as soon as againbut this time we did not separate, and I allowed myself to be reeled in alongside them.

On the final second, nonetheless, I activated the Yellow Path, altering our directionspecifically, straight down. We moved with the total extent of my power and my twin’s velocity and straight away, I shifted our maintain on Malkuth, turning him as we moved.

Reality be advised, within the midst of my numerous musings I would as soon as questioned how a lot you’d must hate somebody to attempt to suplex them to loss of life.

The reply was, in fact, ‘considerably lower than I hated Malkuth.’

For sure, we added one other crater to the battlefieldbut nobody preferred Jericho Falls anyway.