Beuce used regular Blizzaga
Beuce used Dark Blizzaga
"Thanks Kaida. You the homie!" Beuce called out to Kaida as she healed him. He'd been planning on draining, but now it seemed like he didn't quite need to. Instead, he took up a stance with his keyblade and cherry blossoms began to fall. With one quick slash, he cut across the darkside's face. Beuce used Zantetsuken
Beuce stepped forward, still in his Dark Knight form, and looked up at Hughes, the one who had summoned this massive horde. It seemed like they'd finally fought their way through the thousands of heartless and made their way to him. This was the last step, and they were ready to end it and win their way back to the realm of light. Hughes called out and summoned forth one of the biggest heartless he'd ever seen. A darkside with glowing runes around it, crackling with a white lightning all around its body. At first, it seemed so dauntingly enormous that it came into question how you'd even go about attacking something like that. Beuce however, looked to both sides. The three next to him were Kaida, Stratos, and Hikaru. If they couldn't stop it...Well, there wasn't much point in thinking about something that wouldn't come to pass. He chuckled at Stratos. "Arma would probably eat this thing for breakfast. And I don't mean that in a figurative sense either." He said with a laugh. With that, he returned the fistbump Stratos offered him. It was a simple gesture, but there was a lot of meaning behind it. Beuce had realized it a bit ago, but Stratos wasn't someone trying to catch up with him anymore. They were neck and neck, and it was the beginning of a friendly rivalry. Beuce smiled, not reacting to the black and green energy that seemed to collapse inward on itself, leaving Synchronous Gale in his hand. The moment he took hold of it, a world of possibilities opened up in his mind. Links he'd never thought of before began to connect and form. Grinning, he readied himself for Stratos' plan. "Let's do this!" He said, propping his foot against the keyblade and kicking off it. As he flew through the air to The Stormbringer, he spread wings of solid light, and called forth its power. Normally, he would fire it out as something of an energy projectile, but this time he gathered it around the keyblade, coalescing it into a massive blade of light that he slashed across the heartless' face. Thunder couldn't beat faith either, and you can certainly bet he was going to preach it. Beuce used Faith
Swapping out Oblivion for Synchronous Gale Changed Stats 6 (+1) MP 51 Strength 11 Speed Swapping out Drain for Seeker Mine Final Command Loadout Dark aura Splattercombo Seeker Mine Zantetsuken Faith Blizzaga
Beuce attacked with a combo
Beuce activated the light aura and used faith
Beuce looked up at the massive creature looming over them. They were divided from about half of their group, while Karina and her new gang were handling what seemed to be a spiraling vortex of shadows. He wasn't sure exactly how that worked, or what you'd even call it. A shadownado? Shadnado? No those both sounded dumb. Besides, there was a far more pressing threat. He looked to the rest of the group that would be fighting the darkside before them and charged forward to join them. Pouring his lifeblood into the darkness, it gave him strength in return. He floated up into the air and propelled forward, stabbing and slashing at the dark side before performing one last downward thrust that released a burst of energy. Beuce used Dark Aura
GEARING UP FOR BATTLE BEUCE: Going to assume we can spend crowns before the battle. If we can't, I'll edit accordingly. Spending 50 Crowns on 5 AP 58 crowns remaining Spending 30 on 1 strength 28 crowns remaining Equipping The Dark Knight Job (AP 10/34) Equipping Skill Commands Dark aura Splattercombo Drain Zantetsuken Faith Thundaga Gear: Equipping Oblivion Equipping Moogle Badge Abilities High Jump (AP 11/34) Combo (AP 13/34) Aerial Sweep (AP 15/34) Combo Plus (AP 16/34) Air Combo Plus (AP 17/34) Finishing Leap (AP 23/34) Equipping Blitz (AP 25/34) Equipping Second Chance (AP 29/34) Limits: Equipping Trip around the Sun (AP 34/34) STEEL: Posting his stuff for him because the dude's on a tight schedule Crowns: I dunno i'm going to assume nothing Equipping the Ninja Job Skill Commands: Ninja Vanish Barrier Surge Fire Strike Vorpal Blitz Reluctancy Break time April Showers Keyblades: Artisan Shard and Starseeker Abilities: High Jump Combo Combo Plus Aerial Sweep Air Combo Plus Finishing Leap Blitz Dodge Roll Second Chance Item Boost Limits: Tempered Fate
Stratos was directing his Golem into the swathe of heartless before them, and it seemed to be doing well. However, three Invisibles seemed to recognize that the boy was the one controlling it, and judging from their clearly hostility toward him, it seemed like they figured if they got rid of him, the Golem would go too. They were right, too. So Beuce stood in their path, making sure they wouldn't be able to accomplish their task. They acknowledged his desire to protect his friend, and honored it by dealing with him first. The trio all rushed forward at once, assaulting him with a barrage of greatswords from every side. Thanks to the enhanced awareness that was granted to him by his aura, he managed to keep up with them, but only barely. He spun his keyblade around and caused a burst of dark fire to spin around him, damaging and forcing back all three of them. One invisible seemed to throw his sword into the ground and combust into a ring of black flames and encircle him. Beuce ran to try and avoid the ring, but it simply traveled with him at the same speed. It was also made difficult by the fact that the other two were still slashing at him without mercy. Finally, the circle enclosed on him and the heartless stabbed downward along his back, having rematerialized above him. Beuce gasped as the blade tore across his skin. He'd only just managed to avoid a fatal blow, and that was only thanks to the innate damage resistance given to him by his Dark Knight Job. He panted, realizing that this was going to be tough. "Alright. You wanna play it that way? We can do that." Beuce concentrated on the darkness within him, and summoned it forth in incredible spades. This attack was stronger still than even Zantetsuken or Faith. A white aura began to glow around him as his form grew darker, creating a massive contrast. He rose slowly into the air, while the invisibles prepared themselves for whatever assault was about to come their way. Yet, even knowing it was coming, they weren't able to defend against it. All at once he rushed forward through the air and delivered a powerful slash to the arm of one of the heartless, immediately severing it and causing it to fall to the ground and vanish. They turned to him in an attempt to catch him, but it was for naught as he opened a portal of darkness to carry him elsewhere. He emerged behind one of them stabbing through it and throwing it to the ground before once again vanishing through a portal only to arrive elsewhere. The third invisible was a little bit more prepared, knowing he would be next, and attempted to slash at Beuce as he came through the portal, but the master spun below the blade and cleaved the heartless in half. Circling back around, he once again came for the first one whose arm he had severed and planted his blade directly into its face, instantly killing it. This time instead of going through a portal he hovered over to the one laying flat against the ground and plunging downward. When he impacted and impaled his keyblade through the neck of the heartless, he sent forth a surge of energy into it and through the ground, causing a massive explosion Total Words: 608 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 1020 Blessed Thief: 30 Total Munny: 510 Heartless Defeated: 3 Invisibles 5 darkballs heartless Injured: neoshadow 14/15 Enemies Remaining: 879 Neoshadows 885 Darkballs 6 Invisibles
Beuce looked on as yet another massive horde of heartless pressed forward at them. The waves seemed to be ever increasing in difficulty, and while they weren't at the point of being overwhelmed yet, he could sense that they wouldn't last too much longer. Not to mention, this wave didn't contain a single regular shadow. A sure sign that things were picking up. Then, he heard a loud shout from a familiar voice. Looking over, he saw Karina, Mizu, and what seemed like the team Lea had taken her to put her on. A smile broke out on his face. She certainly seemed to be doing well for herself since she'd left them. Not only that, Mizu was with them. He hadn't the faintest idea what had happened to her since she was taken by Nequa, but she was alright now. Given the size of "sprinkles" the golem, better than alright. He'd managed to learn the spell for summoning Golems, but he had clearly far from mastered it. The air grew even colder as he looked over to see a second golem, this one made by Stratos. With a Zantetsuken through a few neoshadows, he made his way over to the boy. He'd apparently sent his golem off to charge into the horde directly, so he'd need someone to watch his back as that job didn't leave much in the way of personal combat. As soon as he reached him though, he dropped out of his data form. Evidently, unlike jobs, those came with time restrictions. It made sense, given that they didn't even seem to come with any inherent drawbacks like jobs did. Nevertheless, he didn't waste much time thinking on it and directed his attention to Stratos."Yo. What do you say after we get back to the realm of light, we hit her up and have her teach us how to do that?" He said, motioning his head to Sprinkles the Blizzagolem. "Though, first we need to actually get out of here. You keep doing what you do. I'll watch your back." He said, readying his blade. Normally, when he transformed into a job, he was enveloped in a red and blue light, and whichever attribute the job resonated with the most then engulfed the other. If the job was focused on duality such as ranger, the both grew bright. This time however, there was no light. Instead, a geyser of darkness erupted from the ground beneath him, leaving only a silhouette as his clothing shifted to armor. When the geyser of darkness subsided, Beuce was now far more well armored, and his clothing's color scheme had changed almost entirely to black. An air of darkness radiated from around him, but as an Invisible neared, he had yet another power to unlock. "Blade" He said, reawakening his aura of swordsmanship. He hadn't ever actually fought one of these before, but he'd seen other struggle with them, so he assumed they were they strongest of the bunch outside of the enormous ones. The invisible slashed downward but Beuce managed to parry it with peerless bladework and jumped forward, kicking off the face of the muscular heartless with angel-like features. He threw he keyblade in the same Javelin style he had been to defeat the other heartless, but the invisible simply caught it in its hand by the blade. There was a slight stream of smoke and inky darkness coming from its hand, indicating that it had been injured by it, but it was on the whole still fine. Beuce launched a blast of dark thunder, traveling through the keyblade and destroying the invisible. He'd managed to beat it, but that was certainly concerning. Total Words: 632 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 960 Blessed Thief: 30 Total Munny: 480 Heartless Defeated: 1 Invisible 9 neoshadows 1 darkball Heartless Injured 1 neoshadow 12/15 Heartless remaining: Defeat 952 Neoshadows Defeat 963 Darkballs Defeat 21 Invisibles
Luther stopped, eyes wide at what he saw. Tango hadn't taken his blow, but had lost all the same. It took him a moment to process what happened. Luther looked at the three arrows piercing through various places in Tango's body and then over to Melus. He was interrupted by a cloud of flames enveloping him, though they didn't burn him. Instead they were...Inviting. They acknowledged him as their master. They coiled together and entered his body through his chest. He felt...warmer. There was now another element inhabiting his body. One which he could utilize as he saw fit. Still, he looked down at the defeated Tango. This wasn't what he wanted. He didn't want to win because Melus had helped him cheat. The man in the black coat offered his hand to Tango. "Ignicio De La Vega, you have been spared. Had I won that fairly, it would be a different story, but there is no honor in such a battle. Live here, and challenge me once again to reclaim your stolen fire. Then, we will truly have a battle which history will remember." Luther said, indicating that he was actually letting Tango go. From what he said earlier, apparently the winner of the final fantasy had the right to spare or kill the defeated.
Beuce chuckled as Aislinn said that he seemed to be holding up perfectly. "Yeah, well, this isn't my first rodeo. Though from the looks of things it definitely might be the biggest." He said, looking at the horde still to come. They hadn't even crossed the halfway point yet, but Beuce wasn't discouraged in the least. The words Stratos had said to him at the beginning kept echoing in his head. "Yeah yeah I know, keep a faster pace." He muttered to himself, readying his keyblade and Scouter Disc in much a similar stance to the one that he'd seen Rinzler use with his scouting disc up near his head, trained to throw and his keyblade stretched outward for melee combat. "So...Aislinn right? I don't think I ever actually caught this but how exactly did you end up in the realm of darkness in Mizrabel's castle? Doesn't strike me as a particularly great tourist location, but you saved us there so I never really thought about it much." He went forward, ready to defeat the last remaining bunch of heartlss in the wave. They'd almost finished, and then they were to move on to the next battle. Between them, this had been far less harrowing than the last time they'd been forced to battle an incredible horde of heartless, despite the fact there were even more of them this time. Maybe that spoke volumes as to how much stronger they'd become. There were only four remaining darkballs in all the wave. They, at least comparatively, were incredibly non-threatening. Aislinn had even injured one of them already for him. Still, despite the overwhelming odds against them, they just simply snapped their enormous jaw at him like they always had. His data form apparently gave him enhanced mental capacity. Something about processing power? In any case, he managed to counter it with ease. He knocked the spherical heartless back with his keyblade and threw the scouting disc forward, sending it straight through the black ball like creature and derezzing it like he had with all the others. He wasn't particularly why they did that, or even what "derezzing" was. He didn't know anything about computers. Until recently, he didn't even know they existed. He batted the injured one aside and brought down the scounting disc as it returned to his hand, taking out the second one. He flicked his wrist and sent another virus out, the coding draining into the darkball and slowly eating away at its health, though this time it appeared to be stronger due to the upgrades. With only one last to go, he brought down another pillar of light to decimate the final one. Once it was gone, the virus claimed the last. "Well, that about wraps that up. We've got that out of the way. I'd say we're a little under halfway done." He said to the two girls nearby. They seemed to be having a conversation about Luna being a princess. He was honestly kind of interested. She talked about protecting her people. She said that was her duty. "Yeah, I can understand that. Maybe not in the same way you look at it, but I can definitely sympathize with you there." He thought back to his homeworld, and wondered when he'd get a chance to reclaim it. He was still alive, so the King's Gambit was still in play. He'd be willing to bet Sorenia wasn't as weak as he remembered, either. Total Words: 614 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 900 Blessed Thief: 30 Total Munny: 450 Heartless Defeated: 4 darkballs Heartless remaining: Wave cleared
"Sorry, but i'm afraid the one who's going to walk away with both elements is me!" Luther yelled out. He flexed his illusion powers to their maximum heights to direct Tango's attention to where he wanted it. It didn't even extend to only Tango, but Melus as well. The force of his killing intent was amplified by thousands. No matter what, it would set off the fight or flight instinct of anyone who laid eyes on him. He directed as much attention to himself as he possibly could, and charged at Tango. If he got burned, so what? A little bit of fire wouldn't kill him immediately, and as long as he could pull this off, he'd win. With blinding speed, he closed the distance between him and Tango. It wasn't that the flames weren't affecting him as he pressed through them. With his blade trained to kill and the bloodlust behind it amplified to such an incredible extent, there was no way tango would be able to resist training his eyes on it. In fact, the more skilled he was, the more his every instinct would scream at him to block that strike, and right before the strike was delivered or knocked aside, the weapon slipped from Luther's fingers and his hands reached toward Tango's face. A loud and boisterous clap resounded through the air. No one could keep their guard up after being so violently ripped out of such incredible focus. It wouldn't take him but a moment to regain it, but a moment was all that was needed.
Beuce had all but cleared out the remaining heartless in the immediate area of him, but there were sounds of battle all around, and he hadn't the time to relax. The last few neoshadows nearby rose from the ground. Not nearly as many as had tried to encircle him before, four in total. These ones seemed to acknowledge that there was no way they were going to be able to beat him with pack tactics like the others had tried with their slim numbers. However, blood was running down the right side of Beuce's face, obscuring his vision a great deal. He'd closed his right eye at this point, and would heal it when he got a minute to breathe, but right now it was pretty debilitating. The neoshadows threatened to pounce on him at any second, so he did something none of the heartless expected him to do. He ran away. More specifically, he turned around and dove forward, a bike materializing underneath him. The engine whirred loudly as he sped away, faster than the neoshadows could hope to catch. In fact, they ran after him, only to be caught by the ribbon of light and immediately destroyed in much the same fashion as the one who had been struck by the disc. Only one managed to evade this, to which Beuce simply turned his head and waved a hand at it. A malevolent looking purple string of code surfaced around it and infected its body. It wasn't instantaneous, but over the course of the next few minutes, it would wither away from the virus and eventually meet the same fate as the others who had tried to face him. His job in this area done and now in a perfect position to go help elsewhere, he steered his bike toward the closest face he could find, being Luna and Aislinn. His turns were incredibly sharp, all at exactly 90 degree angles, and the ribbon of light seemed to trail his movements exactly. He sped by and intercepted a neoshadow that had its sights set on Luna. Whether or not she could've dealt with it on her own didn't really matter. It wouldn't get the chance to find out as the moment it tried, it crashed into a bright blue wall. "Hey princess! Don't get cozy now! We're almost done with this bunch but i doubt we're even close to finishing the whole thing." He dismounted his light cycle which then faded away into cubes of light. Beuce ran along with the ground to try and disperse some of the inertia carrying him forward. "Need any help? I just finished the bit over there. Wait..." He looked over as the final neoshadow succumbed to the virus and became derezzed like its brethren. "Okay now i finished over there." He threw his scouting disc at another neoshadow, causing it to ricochet off and hit a regular shadow, then return to him. He brought up the console once again and began to punch in another random string of letters and numbers. Evidently, he was either really lucky, or coding was incredibly easy. He once again felt another boost in power as all his abilities, as well as his basic parameters increased in power. "You two holding up alright over here?" He asked the two women. Luna he knew fairly well, and Aislinn...Well he hadn't interacted much with her. She hadn't made a good first impression, but that wasn't everything. Total Words: 617 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 840 Blessed Thief: 30 Total Munny: 420 Heartless Defeated: 10 neoshadows 2 shadows Enemies Reserved: Neoshadow (Rydia) Invisible (Rubicante) Heartless Remaining: 116 Shadows 54 Darkballs 56 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 1 Invisible (Reserved)
This leg of the battle seemed to be drawing to a close. He hadn't done much to participate in it, though his Thundagolem seemed to aid Stratos greatly in his battle against the darkside, but he was going to make sure he at least helped finish it and hopefully he would be more proactive in the next portion of it. Now that the darkballs in the immediate area were over and dealt with, neoshadows began to perform their same old tactic of encircling him as pack hunters. However, this time there was no delay to size up their opponent. They simply went straight for the kill. Having little time to react, Beuce swung his blade at a nearby neoshadow. The heartless spun forward in midair and landed on the blade, running along it and getting in close. It swiped at his face, managing to get in a good swipe that left a mark along the right side of it. Beuce gasped in pain as the claws tore through his skin. He could feel the claw pass over eye, just narrowly avoiding blinding him. He wondered if the Shedim Lords would be so charitable as to give him another. While he was amused by the thought, he didn't waste any time breaking away from the heartless. If he'd been there any longer, they would've torn him apart. He reverted to his regular attire in a light burst, removing himself from the soldier job. It was far too slow to combat neoshadows and was almost certain to get him killed. Not to mention, the claw marks across his face were stinging pretty badly, and blood was beginning to cover his vision. He called upon a power that he had forgotten about for a while. Honestly, he wasn't even sure why he could still do it. His clothes darkened to a solid black, and gradually the lining of it began to glow with a neon blue light. He felt...different on the whole. Perhaps because he was no longer made of solid matter, so much as a collection of data. It was a strange experience to have the whole of your being transformed into a completely different substance. Well, he wasn't even really sure substance was the right word for it. Nevertheless, he reached onto his back and produced his frisby like weapon, his identity disc. With a quick flick of his wrist, the light went from its normal blue to a bright white, the perfect element for combating creatures of darkness. He tossed the disc straight at the neoshadow who had clawed his face and it went straight through the thing's chest. Unlike when they normally exploded into a black smokey substance, this time it seemed to shatter in a very computerized looking fashion, jagged bits of it laying on the ground before finally buzzing and fading from existence. So that was what they meant by "Derezzed". The disc came back to him, having bounced off some sort of surface and returning to his hands. He put it down, parallel to the ground and it floated, bringing up a user interface complete with a holographic keyboard. Punching in various random entries that he assumed to be strings of code, he suddenly felt quite a bit stronger. Apparently, whatever he had done, it gave him and all of his abilities quite the upgrade kek dan mating call. Total Words: 602 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 780 Blessed Thief: 30 Total Munny: 390 Heartless Defeated: 10 neoshadows 3 shadows Enemies Reserved: Neoshadow (Rydia) Invisible (Rubicante) Heartless Remaining: 118 Shadows 54 Darkballs 66 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 1 Invisible (Reserved)
Beuce looked to the next set of enemies to be defeated and ran over to face them. A cluster of the floating spherical heartless known as Darkballs. Since they seemed to be far slower than his previous adversaries, he decided that it wouldn't be such a terrible idea to do something that packs a bit more of a punch. As usual when he shifted jobs, his body became enveloped in a red and blue light. As the energy spread out over his body, the red began to overcome and drown out the blue, indicating the dominance of power in this form. When finally the light faded, Beuce's clothing was made of far heavier fabric, largely comprised of red with a black trim around it. His arm felt like it was nearly torn from his shoulder at the sudden increase in weight from the object in his grip. The large grey steel double ended great sword plunged itself into the sand from its sheer weight. For a moment, he began to think Soldier may not have been such a fantastic idea as he'd forgotten just 'how' heavy the thing was. Then, an idea struck him square in the head. He had something that made maneuvering swords much easier. Focusing inward, he called upon his blade aura. An eerie silvery glow began to wrap around his silhouette, and his senses were immediately sharpened to a supernatural level. With the assist of the almost auto pilot like instincts granted to him by the aura, he managed to lift the massive blade from the ground to actually be wielded. It wasn't so much that it weighed less or that he had gotten stronger, but his grip and muscle movements were all far more efficient than they would've been without the aura, allowing him to do more than singular swings with the beast of a weapon. One of the darkballs evaporated into smoke and floated down toward him, expanding and biting at him. However, it was met with an explosive swing, instantly destroyed by the massive force of his cross slash. Spinning in a circle, he picked up more and more momentum, and eventually let the blade go, spiraling out and crashing through several of the darkballs before changing direction midair and coming back to its master. Beuce slid backwards, leaving deep heel prints in the sand as he caught the great sword. It was only due to the enhanced strength soldier that he was able to stop the blade. It was certainly a difficult weapon to use, but the power it packed was worth the effort. Readying himself into a stance, cherry blossoms fluttered through the air, indicating the command he was about to use. Once his Zantetsuken was fully prepared, he dashed forward with uncharacteristic speed and cleaved most of the darkballs remaining in half. One by one they exploded in a puff of black smoke, followed by a glowing red heart floating off into the sky to who knows where. No sooner than he'd finished the command, three darkballs charged through the air, rapidly gnashing its teeth in an attempt to bite down onto who had begun tearing through their ranks. Coating his blade in ice, he jumped into the air and slashed downward at the first, instantly destroying it. Still full of energy and his blade still empowered, he jumped up and repeated the process for the second of his assailants. Finally, the third one got the worst of it with the strongest blow, given that it was an aerial enemy. Also some shadows died. Total Words: 632 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 720 Blessed Thief: 30 Total Munny: 360 Heartless Defeated: 17 darkballs 1 shadow Enemies Reserved: Neoshadow (Rydia) Invisible (Rubicante) Heartless Remaining: 171 Shadows 55 Darkballs 77 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 1 Invisible (Reserved)
Beuce began channeling his mana into the circle once again. To be honest, part of him wished that he hadn't sent his thundagolem away from him to help Stratos with the darkside as it could've defended him from the oncoming heartless. However, the heartless finally started to thin down, and there weren't as many left to prevent him from summoning. His limit had long since run out, and he'd only managed to get the Thundagolem out in its empowered state. He may use it again later, but for now, he just had to finish these things off as quickly as he could. He'd been a little bit inconsequential in this fight, but he wasn't thinking about that right this second. He reverted back to his base form and picked up his keyblade. He'd call on his golems later, but right now he figured it was better to get into the thick of things. For now, it looked like what he'd be fighting was mostly neoshadows. Lovely... The heartless darted around him with speed far exceeding his own. They encircled him in some kind of pack hunter mentality. He'd figured out a way out of this before, but there was no guarantee that the same tactic would always work every time. The keyblade master extended his keyblade and shot forth a burst of lightning from it at one of the Neoshadows threatening him. It electrocuted it, causing it to convulse on the ground and eventually explode. This, however, prompted the others to actually begin their assault. Beuce rushed forward in a shoulder charge, surrounded by barriers on all sides made of hard light. While it didn't stop their assault entirely, it protected him from the most immediate damage and managed to get him out from the middle of them. It even managed to take a few out as he went. Quickly redirected their focus, one managed to scratch him on the back, leaving a large claw mark on it as blood began to run down his back. The cuts weren't very deep, but they still made Beuce wince in pain. He spun around and grabbed the heartless by its face, using the darkness to drain out its life force and repair his wounds. It didn't quite fix the whole of them, but he could certainly deal with them and fix them later. As for the rest of them, he balled his hand into a fist. Light shone through his fingertips as though it were cupped around some bright source of energy, and he swung his fist downward. With it, four pillars of bright white energy crashed down from the sky onto the heartless attacking him. Unable to dodge the faith spell in time, several more neoshadows fell to it. Following it up, Beuce took a stance, and cherry blossoms floated down from seemingly nowhere, filling the air. With one blindingly fast cut that not even the neoshadows could every hope to see coming, let alone evade. In an instant, the rest of the neoshadows who had attempted to swarm him were destroyed, along with a couple of their lesser cousins. The horde was certainly beginning to thin itself out, but he knew that this was far from the end. They'd only fought two of the large enemies, and there was no way that they were the toughest of them. With the behemoths it was Arma. With the bloticles it was Timothy...Well, actually he was the strongest because he was also Arma. Would there be another Arma in this fight...? That would certainly be a rain on his parade. He glanced down to his left arm and gulped. Total Words: 626 Exp: 60 Total Exp: 660 Blessed Thief: 30 Total Munny: 330 Heartless Defeated: 10 Neoshadows 2 shadows Enemies Reserved: Neoshadow (Rydia) Invisible (Rubicante) Heartless Remaining: 175 Shadows 89 Darkballs 78 Neoshadows (1 Reserved) 1 Invisible (Reserved)
Luther looked on as Tango seemed to be wildly upset about the fact that the first round had been over so quickly. Luther was slightly confused at this, as it was largely his fault for not being able to keep up with him. Still, he did have a point. If it didn't last very long, there was no point in doing it. He wanted to draw out this feeling of adrenaline as long as he could. When the second round started, Tango summoned forth an enormous flaming dragon. If he'd had his illusory powers, then he may have been able to defend against it by misdirecting it and evading it. However, he had no such luck. While he didn't want round two to be over quite so quickly, he had little choice. The dragon struck him head on and incinerated him. It was only by the rules of the final fantasy that he survived it to go to the third round. "Well, You may have had a point with it being over too quickly, but I believe this is where the fun begins. Now neither of us are shackled by any constraints. Come at me with everything you've got!" Luther began to control the battlefield as his power came surging back into him. While Tango had access to that dragon, approaching would be a difficult task, and now that he was wise to his tactics, even hitting him once he'd gotten close would be an ordeal. To be honest, he wasn't even sure he could beat Tango at all. If that dragon so much as clipped him, the burns may well count as a fatal blow. Luther laughed to himself, he'd have it no other way. This was what he lived for. With renewed vigor, having seen his opponent's full power, he ran forward, creating a barrage of split second illusions to misdirect.
