Rematch and Vials
Zach rembered his last fight with the taken, Erik Ornn. He rembered the fire, the lting of his armor burning of his flesh, his hand ruined and scorched to the bone. Erik hit hard, he was powerful, and both of them knew what each other could do now. This was not going to be the sa fight. Zach had been filled with willpower, that was no longer the case. He was still powerful, close to what he was, but the churning ocean was now calr, more controlled. He had overwheld the three taken before, but sothing told him that this ti it would not be so easy.
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Vitor inhaled the gas from his concoction through the delivery device in his mask, he had set it so that he would be dosed slowly, to prolong the effect. His stats rose in preparation for the fight. He wasnt as confident as Zach seed to be, but Vitor was from the sects, he knew how to fight. It seed that the enemy and Zach had already decided on how they would fight, the minotaur seed focused on Vitor. It was a sha, Vitor wouldve rather fought the fire user, he had so very powerful fire resistance concoctions. He had made it a point to focus on them after he narrowly survived a few alchemical fires. Those were nasty.
The fire dragonlings roared, and sohow that announced the start of the battle. The minotaur charged, his hamr swinging. Vitor inhaled and jumped to the side, his muscles burning. He ran in between the buildings as the ground where he used to stand got cracked open by the massive hamr. Before the minotaur raised his hamr again, Vitor threw the two vials in his hand. They spun through the air, but the minotaur noticed them and jumped out of the way as they fell. The impact cracked the vials and the liquids touched air, then ignited, sending a concussive blast out. The minotaur was caught off guard and the blast made him stumble back a step, and Vitor jumped through a wooden door, shattering it to pieces as he crashed inside. It was a small building, a ho, but he noted the back entrance.
He heard running behind him and prepared. His techniques were ant only for alchemy, mixing and preparing ingredients, not combat. But for most things, he didnt need them. He was in the Eternal Realm, he was naturally stronger than most. His storage was filled with vials, elixirs and potions, as well as various powders and concoctions. He pulled two, one in each hand. He hit two of his fingers together, activating a ring and creating a spark that ignited the fuse, then he dropped a skin bag to the floor. He ran out of the building through the back door, just as the minotaur entered the building. His bag exploded, and black smoke filled the room. The minotaur didnt even slow down as he crashed through the back wall.
Vitor opened the vial in his other hand and threw the contents out. Droplets of acid fell on the minotaur who stopped and summoned a shield to protect himself.
The minotaur hadnt cared for the smoke inside the building, had ignored it, even though it would have torched his lungs if he had inhaled it, and it wouldve burned if it had touched his skin. That ant that his armor was completely a closed system. He had so sense that could track Vitor, because he followed after him, though he crashed through the wall and not the door, so the smoke had impaired his vision. Whatever sense the minotaur had it didnt give him an exact picture of the world around him, only locations of peopleVitor assud.
He ran into a small alleyway as the minotaur dealt with the acid. His hand reached for his mask, and he turned the dial, increasing the dose to its maximum. He inhaled and his body bulged beneath his robes. He unscrewed the spent vial and threw it in his storage, then screwed in a new one. On the right side of his mask he opened a slit and poured a potion into storage and imdiately started to drink through his straw.
The minotaur roared and then glowing cracks spread across all buildings around him. Vitor cursed and jumped into the air as every building around him exploded in a shower of debris and light. Big pieces of stone flew all over the city, hitting everything, toppling other buildings, a dozen blocks were turned to rubble. He saw a flash of light in the distance as one of the big pieces of debris pinged and ricocheted away from a do shield, one of the slave blocks. The fighting was doing too much damage, he saw waves of fire coming down and lting stone back where Vitor ca from. They couldnt let the fights threaten the cities. Where was Naha? He wondered, she shouldve been just behind them, ambushing them. It didnt matter right now.
The minotaur looked up from the ground, then pulled his hamr back as he prepared to attack. Vitor pulled out a large round bottle, that flashed with yellow light. Before the minotaur could attack, Vitor cracked the bottle and pointed his hand at the man on the ground. A bolt of lighting crossed the distance instantly, turning day into night, followed by a thunder that shook the world. Where the minotaur used to be, now was a crater, but he could see light from deep within it.
Vitor grimaced as he shook his hand, trying to stimulate his numb fingers back into life. He fell from his jump, and landed on a rooftop, imdiately, he set out in the direction of a wall. He had to take this out of the city.
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The fire dragons lted the stone where Zach stood just a mont before. He stepped through space, with his Evading Through Space and onto a roof nearby, evading the attack. He could only use that skill perk if he was actively evading an attack. Conveniently, Erik followed up the attack imdiately with more waves of blue fire that kept coming at him, forcing him to evade again. The buildings that got hit lted imdiately, as if they were made of ice. In just his opening attack, Erik had turned an entire block to slag.
The heat perated the area, he could feel it even through the armor. He used Telekinetic Armor over his equipnt, layering a bit more protection. He could even see Erik inside the flas, all he saw was a ball of churning blue fire that spat out streams and waves of it in his direction. Zach, jumped back, moving away from another attack, and then heat and light fell from above. Zach hadnt even noticed Erik gathering an attack above him, he herded him where it was. Trapped him for a great attack that couldnt be evaded. Zach rembered the sensation of having his armor lted over his skin, rembered the stench of burning flesh. It was his fault for getting in this situation, he was too slow. Naha had warned him, she told him that he took too long to get into a fight, to fully commit to it. It was a consequence of living such a long life with no stimuli but his own actions. When he was faced with others, he liked to think, and more often than not, he could afford to be less decisive. His connection to Ti just exasperated the issue. He could afford to take it slow, could allow himself to think and not just act.
The door to the Plane of Ti pulled open, just a tiny bit, enough for his perception of ti to beco even more slowed. He thought, and made a plan.
He raised a hand and froze space around him with |Perfect Field of Frozen Ti| buying a few monts of ti. Fire surrounded him, it burned even while frozen in a mont, he could see it trying to move slowly, burning his skill, burning space itself to prevent him from stepping away through it. He could feel the traces of Soul Essence in it, the fire would burn more than his flesh.
|I Focused And Saw All Flaws|
[Aspect True Sight]
He moved toward the frozen fire reaching for the ti all around him. He felt the connection with the Plane of Ti, a sight of a river filled his mind. A river filled with currents, he felt at one of them, understood its path and purpose. With his will he reached out, channeling his manipulation of Ti through his skill.
|Of Ti, Movent, and Space|
A wall of frozen fire trembled, then moved back, the stream of ti that carried the flas halted, then reversed, a tiny amount, but enough. A path was open through the inferno, and Zach stepped through it. He landed on a rooftop hundreds of ters away. The mont he was out of the area of his influence, ti resud, a ball of fire engulfed everything. An entire section of the city, dozens of blocks, all turned to lted stone. A giant hole filled with nothing but steam and red liquid stone.
There was no way that he could allow this to continue in the city, the defenses that they had put in place could not survive sothing like this. A glancing attack, perhaps, but this was beyond them.
Zach turned and jumped toward the walls, heading out of the city. He sensed fire behind him as it swallowed wind currents, introduced flaws that werent there in the natures design. He evaded, stepping through space until he landed on the wall and then jumped off of it. Mid jump, he turned, and looked at the blazing sphere of fire coming after him.
[Arsenal Wings: Wind]
[Last Sovereign of Terra]
[Ancient Heritage]
[Phantom Avatar]
[Lord of Grace and Woe]
Wings of wind appeared on his back and he blasted toward Erik. A mont after he achieved his fastest speed, he blinked close. The heat was imnse, he felt his will shudder at the sudden pressure, but Zach didnt slow at all. He swung his blade and activated Shattering Song. The fire was blasted away by the wind and vibrations, and his blade passed through the center of the infernoand found nothing.
A blast of fire engulfed him, and he felt his Telekinetic Armor crack, nearly falter under the assault, in the split mont it took Zach to beat his wings and blast the fire away as well as fly up. He turned and saw Erik floating a bit away, now clearly visible, but the fire quickly building up around him to shroud him in it again. Zach blinked again, exiting the teleport next to Erik.
He was swinging his blade before he even finished the move and found only empty space. He frowned and turned as he sensed an attack. He stepped away through space and got altitude with his wings. Erik had his hands spread, and fire and the heat from the city were rising, moving toward him in one giant wave.
Zach blinked again, this ti pulling on the Plane of Ti. He arrived almost a mont before he left, the space trembled and ti whined. His mind was moving faster, and he clearly saw what happened. Erik flashed to fire the mont Zach used his blink. Sohow, he was detecting it, but it was too fast for even soone like him. It also felt almost automatic. An item? A power that he didnt know about? Either was possible.
As his blade missed its mark again, Zach realized that it was his blinks that were triggering it, which would an closing the distance the old fashioned way.
Arsenal Infusion: Wind. His wings and blade dissipated as the perk made all his wind powers unavailable. But the Wind itself cald around him. Instead of falling, Zach found himself gently held in the air. Erik turned the great wave of fire from the city into a dragon the size of entire city blocks, it roared, and the air heated up, the forest beneath Zach caught fire, the grass on the plain, the air itself turned hazy.
Zach manifested his Ti Blade, and then flew straight at it.
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