10/9 14:50 (Autumn, Night, Mysterious Island)
As spikes erupted from beneath the Drake's feet, it answered by jumping, opening wide its wings and beating them once, releasing sharp winds infused with its Mana, the gusts of sharp winds falling upon the rising spikes and shattering them apart, before immediately swinging once again with one of its frontal limbs, grabbing onto an enormous spike sent flying at it by Sider.
The former Wendigo landed silently, two of its eyes focused on the Werewolf, keeping her in its sight, while the other four navigated the room, seeking possible way of attack, both for its own offense and defense as was needed for this battle, its tail swinging behind itself and knocking away a boulder thrown at its back.
Sider's eyes met its own, a dark realization filling the Cultivator at its behavior, understanding at once that with its boundless hunger muted, it could now fully bring to bear its intellect at the same time as any Person, differentiating itself from both Drakes, that normally reach that level of sapience and sentience at the A-Rank, and Wengidos themselves, too mad because of their eternal starvation to ever think at all but of devouring everything living they could reach.
She closed her eyes briefly before opening them again, all of her emotions immediately and mercilessly suppressed and crushed, leaving behind only a sharp core of determination, her cutting gaze alone trying to rip her enemy apart.
The Werewolf stepped forward, a long spear of highly compressed stone spear appearing in her right hand, pointing it with a brief flourish towards the Drake, Terran Lightning covering it to enhance its destructive potential, jumping backwards to dodge one of the Drake's limbs that tried to crush her into paste.
The scaled one did not hesitate, a rain of blows beng launched towards its prey and shattering the whole room thanks to the immense shockwaves it constantly emanated together with its blows, Sider stretching her senses to the limit to dodge the blows, the shockwaves and the rocks sent fying all over.
The Amazon stepped forward suddently, entering within her opponent's reach, rising a wall to stop one of its limbs from crushing her before continuing on forward, dodging beneath the Drake's body, jumping over its tail to land in a swift roll, turning around, impaling her hands in the ground, pulling up a great pillar horizontally and trying to smash it in the Monster's chest.
This failed as the Drake jumped, its wings opening wide before it grabbed the pillar with two of its long limbs, stopping its movement immediately before trying to drag the Werewolf up by using her own creation causing the young woman to scowl, channeling her Terran Lightning into her created pillar, causing it to burst into sharp shards that bored into parts of the Drake's paws and upper limbs.
The two's eyes met at once, both of them understanding at once the threat the other posed to their continued survival and considering such absolutely unacceptable and requiring the immediate extermination of the threat in question rendering the next step obvious to both of them.
Sider jumped over the deadly spatial distortion sent by the Drake, spinning in mid-air and launching forward a long spear of Lightning-Attribute Mana, trying to impale her opponent in place while at the same time moving sideways, posing an hand to the ground before pulling it and conseguently part of the floor up violently, intent on attacking it in a two-pronged assault; all the while her Qi Sense was focused on the Monster, trying to figure out any weakness in its body filled with Fake-Qi.
The Drake wasted no time, swinging a limb upwards and releasing a vertical spatial distortion to deal with the lightning spear before turning its head towards the rising ground and breathing out briefly, its Mana amplifying the Potency of its breath and immediately after thrusting with the blade in the tip of its tail.
Everything before the former Wendigo's mouth was pulled towards the wall, the rocks being crushed in a single point before radiating outwards in an explosion, the wall collapsing immediately and creating an opening towards a neighbouring room, a maneuver that would have been incredibly deadly to Sider, if only it would have hit.
The Werewolf dodged the attack by launching herself to the roof before remaining there, waiting out the passage of the spatial distortion, her eyes quickly finding her thrown spear bisected and mostly erased, grabbing onto the sparks remaining of her attack, taking control of them and ammassing together into a single bolt that fell upon the Drake's eyes.
Sider took advantage of the scaled one's temporary blindness to launch herself from the roof, it shattering because of the roof, towards her enemy, spinning in mid-air to land a ferocious kick to its skull right between its horns, dragging away a brief roar of pain, maintaining her momentum just enough to grab onto on of its horns with one of her hands.
Immediately a long spear of Terran Lightning formed in her free hand before she smashed it down, trying to impale its head in the ground and only being able on creating a long gash on the side of its head as it twisted around, dodging most of the blow and then continue turning at a very high speed, sending Sider flying away because of its sudden movement.
Sider twisted around, swinging her hand sideways and in so doing causing a column to rise at a very high speed, deflecting the limb of the Monster away from its previous trajectory and saving itself from being grabbed by the Fake-Cultivator, safely landing on her feet, her Qi Sense allowing her to easily observe it in its entirely and almost confirm that it either wasn't able or didn't know how to use its equivalent by the way that it missed her actions, instead needing to use its other senses alone.
And speaking of its other senses, it was only thanks to them that the Drake was able to rise its hind legs, leaning only on its two frontal ones, to dodge the earthen spikes that rose behind it before falling back down immediately after, releasing a shockwave that shattered the ground immediately around it, some of its eyes meeting Sider's own.
The Werewolf dropped down, barely dodging a sharp spatial distortion sent by the Monster before posing her hands on the ground and pulling them up, causing various stone pillars to erupt towards her opponent, the ground beneath her feet opening up and letting her flee from the conseguence of the Drake's attack, the fabric of the space-time in the room straining because of the continuous distortions.
The black-haired one mentally examined various Cooldowns and Duration of various Skills intent on waiting the perfect time for her to act, Lightning-Attribute Mana flaring around her body before raging forth in a rain of lightning spikes, intent on wearing its Vital Energy down with small, cheap hits while preparing more intense blows.
Her silver eyes traveled all over both this room and the nearby one, her Mana seeping in the ground, fighting off the Fake-Qi within it to take control of the area immediately around her, causing cracks to start spreading upon the walls around her.
The ground rippled further, cracks spreading faster and farther before it rose into sharp spikes, electricity being channeled through them to erupt in a very luminous display of electricity, forcing the Drake to jump upwards or risk being shocked and in so doing create an opening for the Amazon to take advantage of in battle.
Its great wings beat several times to maintain its altitude, quickly observing the area around it, releasing a brief roar intent on stabilizing the strained space around them, observing the area thanks to its six eyes before roaring once again, causing the earth to quake.
Sider scowled, taking note of the fact that the ground beneath her feet was now much harder for her to modify, turning more fully towards her enemy, her silver eyes narrowed in concentration, her left hand now wielding a long stone staff that she spun around herself a couple of times, stepping forward hard and shattering the ground behind herself.
The Werewolf launched herself forward, dodging the beam of Mana that cratered the ground in her former position before needing to constantly move or risk being struck down by the other, smaller beams sent by the claws upon the Drake's wings, it being intent on guiding her movements while preparing its next move.
The black-haired one scowled, her gaze quickly moving all over the place, seeking both any sign of weakness and the ideal trajectory to deal with all the attack raining down on her, before despite the distance between the two rising her weapon high and swinging down violently, impossible force filling it before being unleashed at once.
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10/10 17:21 (Autumn, Night, Midrar, Base)
Luna stood up fully, stretching slightly and letting her Aura expand fully, covering her three Mates, gently pulling them up with Auric Limbs as with a gesture she shut off the screens of their base, done with the planning and preparations.
"Let's go, after all we are going to start up early tomorrow." She commented calmly, Sabel being laid in her own arms as she moved towards their bedroom, her Human being left sputtering in embarrassment at the feeling of the Lunarian's body against her own, especially considering how her current clothes left very little to her immagination.
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