James points his sword's tip towards The Elf.
James:(Mind voice) Is that... an elf? What are they doing here?
James: Having an Elf come all the way from the North to here, Just to kill me, I'm honored.
The Elf snickers, and takes out its bow from behind its back. The Bow looks extremely Royal. The base was black and it was styled with Gold Extensions and a red Ruby, most likely a Mana Amplification crystal
The Elf: Don't think you're so high and mighty Human. I've heard of your unique Magic and skills but I am not here for you
James looks at The Elf as if he knows what The Elf knows
The Elf: Give me the Demon inside you and I will let you live.
James laughs out loud, provoking The Elf.
James: You'll let me live? Please. You're not going to get jack-shit from me.
James readies himself for battle. James was curious. Even in adventuring there were common 'rules'. An Archer could never beat a close range combatant. An Elf with a bow was even more curious,
Elves were known to be the fastest species with their incredible agility and reflexes. They were all mostly Close Range combatants not Long Range Supporters. Many more Warning Signs Popped up in James's head but James decided to ignore all of them.
James:(Mind Voice) Ha, An Archer can't defeat a swordsman like me
James rushes in towards the Elf atop a tree. As runs towards the tree, The elf readies its bow slowly, almost assured of its victory. And with incredible speeds, creates arrows of ice, and shoots them at James. His speed is so fast that he creates 2 arrows a second.
James:(Mind Voice) Haha, he's definitely using his Elf-lineage to his maximum. Look at that speed.
James still keeps running, dodging most of them. The ones he can't dodge, he defends by swinging his sword. The Elf still keeps shooting arrows, all the while smiling at James, pissing him off.
James get to the bottom of the tree and uses his Energy-Wind to jump to the Elf. James swings his sword but just as he does, The Elf quickly jumps out of the way. James holds back his strength and hits the branch of the tree, luckily, not breaking the branch. James looks around for the Elf when he hears its voice.
The Elf: Over here.
James looks at the voice's direction. The voice came from the Tree Grove behind the first tree. The Elf was now standing on a branch of an even taller tree, up away from the branch James was on. James looks back at The Elf, annoyed and Angry
James:(Mind Voice) This Asshole.
James normalizes his stance, seeing as The Elf isn't holding its bow at that moment
James: You have any intention of hitting me head on or are you just gonna dodge and run away?
The Elf: I'm giving you an opportunity right now, Surrender and you can live.
James laughs, going back to his fighting stance
James: If I surrender, I'm still going to die. So might as well die trying, what do you think? Besides, you're not that tough
The Elf laughs to itself. and puts its right arm up towards James.
The Elf: So... you know of your fated demise. And I thought I didn't need to go all out.
The Elf raises its Middle and Index fingers towards itself. Suddenly a puddle of water on the branch James was on, spikes up. James jumps up into the sky, looking down at the spike of water not turned to ice.
James:(Mind voice) (Angrily) Fucking Bastard!
The Elf takes his arms and crosses them like an 'X'. As it does this, Many puddles of water on many branches on the trees of the grove spike up and launch them towards James. James dodges most of them. but as he does, one of the ice spikes shoot through the left side of James's Abdomen.
James: AHH!
James screams in pain but he can't stop dodging. James dodges as much as can but he's bleeding and fast. He can feel himself losing control in his limbs, getting weaker. When he realizes he can't do anything, He uses his Energized-Wing magic to push himself away from the Tree groves and back on the grassy-plane.
James takes a small rock from one of his many pouches on his belt. He crushes it. As he does, his body is slightly rejuvenated but the wound on his abdomen is cauterized. James lets out a small scream, trying to hold back a louder scream as the pain hits him.
James:(Mind Voice) Silvie gave me this Healing Rune after the Demon first took me over, just in case.... This is my only backup..
James looks back at the Grove, where the Elf has come to a Branch of a tree in the grove that is more visible to James. The Elf, still with a Grin on its face looks down at James as he holds the cauterized wound.
The Elf: Do you still want to fight? I am giving you the option to die in peace, without holes in your body. Just give me The Demon
James thinks for a moment. "Why is everyone after the Demon?" James did not have neither the time nor the capacity to think about why they wanted the Demon, he came to the Conclusion that the safest hands were his own. James looks at The Elf with a cocky smile on his face replies,
James: Over my Dead Body
The Elf opens its arms up, ready to chant.
The Elf:: AS YOU WISH! Shkval strel!
Once the chant was complete, Arrows of ice, in the tens start forming behind The Elf in a circle and shoot towards and around James at Incredible Speeds. James uses his Energy Fire to create a wall of fire around him.
James: Wall of Light!
The Energy flames roared more intensely. None of the Arrows of Ice that had its trajectory pass through the Wall of blue Flame could pass through it without becoming steam. The Ice became Water and the Water became Vapor in an instant the tip of the arrows touched the wall. James used this time to think of his next move.
James:(Mind Voice) I am definitely faster than him so I could escape if I wanted. But he can still shoot at me, follow me, no matter how fast I am, an Elf capable of Affinity Magic could easily catch up or at least stay on me.
As James thinks intensely, he notices something. A few drops of water have landed on his face. James looks in front of him, the wall of blue fire, where The Water droplets fell from. The Arrows of Ice that used to become Vapour in an instant now become water droplets retaining momentum. The Water Droplets grew bigger and bigger and in less than a second, an arrow of Ice so cold that skin would freeze at its touch, barely passed through James's Ear.
James Instinctively jumps up and sees that The Elf had increased its Magic Intensity by pouring as much mana as it could into its Chant. The Arrows that have yet to shoot, shoot towards James. James tries his best to defend himself against the barrage of arrows, flying in the air, Using his sword to deflect and destroy the arrows.
James:(Mind Voice) I can't let any of the arrows hit me. I need to find a way out, NOW!
James looks at The grinning Elf who's grin only seems to get wider as James struggles.
James:(Mind Voice) If I'm going to get up-close, I need a way to deflect the arrows without losing my focus or stance. There's no way but to try this final Trick.
James's Unique Affinity, Energy, allows James to use any of the other Affinities Chants and abilities. But, this only comes from practice.
A chant, for a specific Skill, only changes the intensity of Mana applied to it. Which means, one must learn to control that affinity and learn that skill as perfectly as one can first before using the chant associated with it.
Using the chant perfects the skill while also allowing the user to pour as much mana into the skill for a proportional output of the skill.
James had never heard of the skill, Shkval strel before but, He had no skills that had any long range capabilities or any kind of deflection properties. He had no choice but to perfect the use of Shkval strel on his first try.
James flies as high up as he can, since he cannot use any other skill while learning to use Shkval strel.
James closes his eyes for a moment.
James: Let's do this
James opens his eyes and stops using his energy-wind to fly and begins to fall. Arrows are still being shot towards James but James uses his sword to deflect the ones that had a direct line to his body. James concentrates on making the ice-arrows behind him. His energy-magic twirling around, forming clusters of themselves behind James without any shape, James concentrates more, as much as he can without also getting hit by The Elf's Arrow Barrage.
James shapes arrows from the Cluster of Energized-ice behind him. They don't look perfect, with no perfect shape or size. James had no time however, he was still falling, still being shot at, still deflecting these shots, James knew this was all that he needed.
James:(Shouts)Shkval strel!
The Arrows behind him start to spin, new arrows form, with irregular shapes and sizes. They all begin to shoot towards all the arrows Headed towards James.
The Elf:(Mind Voice) He learnt the Arrow Barrage during our battle!? How is that even- Just who is this guy?!
James Readies his blade, falling towards The Elf, He planned to decapitate The Elf.
The Elf faced head on, still continuing its barrage.
The Elf: COME AND GET ME YOU BASTARD!
In just 2 seconds, the victor will be decided