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Post by Bryn Halcyon on May 10, 2020 3:23:18 GMT -5
“UMU?! ”
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“ X O 2 3 1 ”
Word COUNT
Halcyon Bryn
HEALTH
MANA
MANA SKIN
MANA REGEN
SENIOR
70/70
SENIOR
20
battle data
Spells Casted - one - two - three - four - five
Actions Taken - one - two - three - four - five
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Restoration work was always played off to be a grand effort worthy for the country. Let it be known to the scribes and every bard of the land that the day to day necessities to pull this endeavor to a close was anything but that. Pulling weeds, hauling timber from the woodlands, and burying the dead. Tiring and weary work for the forsaken and fitting for the region Bryn found herself today.
Up on the grassy fields overlooking Hage, the pugilist could be seen walking about in circles. Strangely enough though, her core stayed facing the same way while in motion. Bryn's legs and feet doing all the pivot work, the girl took time to focus on channeling focus amidst motion. She found that her magic was useful in covering the gaps that her martial prowess often had, though remembering to do so required conscious thought to execute. Looking simple now, Bryn would be the first to admit that the progress shown took months to achieve. Couple red ankles and frustrated pillow screams all led up to her range of motion.
So in the zone she was, that she began to hear pulses. Pulses of mana or even the world perhaps. Or a bunch of happy birdies who thought her calm demeanor made for a good perch. Bryn's peaceful zen cracked then, as she thrusted her arms upwards while yelling,
"Git!"
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Last Edit: May 10, 2020 19:46:46 GMT -5 by Bryn Halcyon
Titaniya had spent much to long coped up at the base, boredom had overcome her and she found herself mulling over the idea of heading out into town, in the end what made her fully tipt into going out is the day was rather nice as of current and as such she got dressed in her normal black and silver clothing, her Black Bull mantle fitting in well and blending in against her dark cloak. She set on a large pair of heavy set boots and her wide hat to top things off before leaving.
In the end she came to Hage her dark and looming figure silhouetted against the grassy fields as she walked through the peaceful grasslands of this quaint little town out near the forsaken region. Why had she chosen this place to come to? Maybe she was hoping to head towards The Green Mantis base after a bit of walking around to check in with her sister, or maybe she was wanting the quiet setting away from the loud atmosphere of the bulls.
In any case she soon noticed, or rather heard another person watching as the other girl seemed to be working on some form of training. As Titaniya got closer she got a better look at the other girl, noticing no form of mantle on them that might give away if they were just a mantis training away from the base, but she did get an idea, a light grin spreading over her face as she moved closer to the training girl with rather loud and deliberate steps, though she was not stomping.
She got to the point of being right next to them, leaning over slighting her face barely visible under the shade of her outfit, standing a foot and a half taller than the pugilist mage girl. Aya spoke clearly and calmly, not giving any real tone to her voice, half making it sound dull. “A fair day to train, is it not?”
Post by Bryn Halcyon on May 10, 2020 18:49:03 GMT -5
“UMU?! ”
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“ X O 3 9 7 ”
Word COUNT
Halcyon Bryn
HEALTH
MANA
MANA SKIN
MANA REGEN
SENIOR
70/70
SENIOR
20
battle data
Spells Casted - one - two - three - four - five
Actions Taken - offered a handshake - two - three - four - five
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Better than a bird, and certainly larger, came the footsteps of a person that definitely put some individual's reach to shame. Looking on up and seeing the individual's looming over, Bryn couldn't help the whistle slipping out of her lips in response to the sight. She meant no harm by the action. Just wasn't every day she got to meet a person that literally made her feel like a dwarf. Something for the journal entry later today perhaps!
She put a bit of weight on her left heel, using it as a pivot point to then face her guest. Taking a better look brought some realizations beyond that they were a magic knight. While a ghastly pale color, the lady before her was actually quite a looker. In a gloomy, shadow-loving sort of way. The kind of individual that would be great following in some sort of con-boss, taking one of the sides and bringing that ever intimidating atmosphere to the image. Pair her with some meathead junkie type and you'd get something for the stories! Though this woman bore this image, her affiliation with the Black Bulls meant the talent was aligned with the Clover Kingdom's aims. Or did it? She couldn't remember if it was that house or the Mantis that held a nasty standard for troublemaking. 'Probably a helluva lot more fun than being stuffed next to some pompous bloke.' she thought to herself.
"It is a nice change of pace, sure. Anything to break up the monotony of the day-to-day." Bryn responded without pause, realizing suddenly that she was being overly friendly to a respectable individual.
"Ah, but I didn' mean to trouble you with my problems. I'm sure you got other things to be attendin to...err, your name miss?"
Her tone betrayed her comfort in talking formally. Internally, there was a lot of kicking for the shameless transition. Bryn shifted to offering a handshake, or it would be if she didn't fumble a bit and held a flower instead. A random flower spawning? Taking a second look at the flower, it was a loose depiction of her pure aura element. Seeing that caused the woman to sigh internally. Not only did she create a conceptually useless spell out of nothing, she definitely sent mixed signals.
"Uhh....flower for the pretty lady?" she sheepishly followed up, watching the flower fizzled into nothing. "or not...?"
Titaniya watched the girl below shift around a bit under her shadow, hearing the light whistle they gave as the smaller woman looked Aya over figuring they were both taking in her look and demeanor as well as trying to assess if she was a threat. Of course Titaniya was a threat, but not one this girl would need to worry about as of current, instead she was simply here to see what the training girl was about.
The girl broke the silence with a rather bland response in Aya’s eyes of course not that it was a bad response, just sorta lame as she was hoping for a little more spunk out of this girl who seems to be training in a more hand to handy sort of way, but the girl was trying to be a bit overly friendly about it, following up with backtracking about problems as a way to get to asking about Aya, starting of course with her name.
“It is Titaniya, or just aya if you are unable to pronounce it correctly.” she spoke in her calm and clear voice from before as one hand moved out to take off her hat, letting it hang down on her back by the ties it had, her face now clearly seen and her expression seemed cheary enough, but almost false. “And no I do not have other things to be attending to as of current.”
She watched as the smaller girl seemed to start to go for a handshake only to end up creating a flower from what she assumed was the other girl’s magic, Aya had started to go for the hand with her opposite hand, only to pause at the flower that soon faded. In response her hand moved to be palm up but fingers together as it forms a black rose made from obsidian, blood slowly trickling down from the petals. “Here. A replacement.” she handed over the flower to the other girl. “Now then. I assume you have a name as well and that you are simply training? I could be of help with that” she spoke in a more kinder tone of voice as a grin crept onto her face.
Post by Bryn Halcyon on May 10, 2020 20:05:27 GMT -5
“UMU?! ”
PLAYED BY
“ X O 4 2 3 ”
Word COUNT
Halcyon Bryn
HEALTH
MANA
MANA SKIN
MANA REGEN
SENIOR
70/70
SENIOR
20
battle data
Spells Casted - one - two - three - four - five
Actions Taken - offered a handshake - two - three - four - five
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As grungy as the image of a blood dipped flower sounded, Bryn had to admit it had a sense of charm. Better than the accident that came out of her aura just now. She took the flower and gazed upon it for a bit. The sheen and weight definitely held a sense of fragility behind its beauty. Bryn hadn't quite seen anything like it before though she shouldn't be surprised. Magic was commonplace after all!
"Ah, my name's Bryn. Bryn Halcyon." she replied, unfazed by the grin. "A pleasure to meet you Titaniya."
There was this grin that grew on Titaniya's face as her tone changed. Something about it made Bryn second guess the motive behind a magic knight taking time for a citizen's own training, but nothing immediately came to mind. Were she some person who was always wrapped in deep thought, Bryn might have questioned Titaniya outright. Sadly, she was not and nothing short of illusion magic could likely change that. Call it a boost of confidence from the cloak. One does not simply earn the right to wear it without merit.
She perked up upon the offer to assist in training. Getting to learn something from a knight in the ranks sounded like a juicy opportunity, though Bryn knew naught of what to ask for. Best to just start at what she was doing and get input from there. This knight probably had a better grasp of what was practical and what was not. The most this country girl had was bringing down a bandit or two. Hardly anything worth bragging about.
"Well I'm not sure what you would add, but I was simply doing movement and breathing drills. Pretty boring but important before starting the workout I suppose. Freedom of movement to control of one's breath is a step towards the end, so they say anyways."
Bryn highlighted this by showing her walking drill. Walking in small circles in rapid succession, moving her legs in front and behind the other interchangeably while staring squared up to the opponent. What would seem unorthodox due to how her stance seemingly appeared compromised compared to the rigid ready form of conventional styles, Bryn's form seemed almost inviting. All the while her breath was unchanged through the steps, synched with the ebb and flow.
"I know nothing of how the order of the magic trains in combat, but to me one should be as aware of their assets as possible. Kinda trying for a combination of body and grimoire, if it makes sense."
Titaniya took a step back as the girl began to talk on what she had been doing to train as well as introducing themself as well. The Black Giant did not recognize the girls first or last name, as such she assumed the other girl was not a noble in any way, well they did not look like a noble anyway so it did not come as a big surprise.
Bryn then began to perk up some as she explained her training technique and started to walk around in small circles while focusing on breathing in a rather open stance about it. Aya found this almost amusing to watch, she very much was under the mindset that her way of training was the best way to go about it, so watching someone else try to show off how they train was laughable, but of course she kept her almost friendly expression as she spoke. “Well that is great Miss Halcyon, but I was thinking of something much more practical. Fighting a real target, that is, I am sure that training yourself to fight against a real person or persons would be much better for you. Here”
With that she pulled out her grimoire, a black book the cover looking much like obsidian, the front bolstering a raised part almost to resemble a skull the center of it sunken into a red crimson color with a brighter grey clover in its middle, the crimson seeming to be stained down the sides of the skull’s face as if a bloody line of tears. She quickly flipped the book open letting it float next to her as she casted a spell. Chunks of obsidian formed together into a basic shape like armor or building blocks there of before blood flowed out from the book and into the formed armor causing 9 creatures to form at the ready with blades of blood that slowly drip as if not quite solid or as if melting “Militiæ Sanguis Incipere.” she spoke plainly with the cast.
“Now then how would you like to punt some of these.” as she softly shoved one of the 3 foot tall golems closer to the other girl keeping them from attacking for now, she wanted to see if the girl could do something to even one of these weak creations before having full attacks going in.
Applicable Perks: Puppet Master, Mana conservationist, Artillery support.[break]
Description: Obsidian rises to take a vaguely humanoid form blood rushing to fill the cracks and lift the body of the new golem. Weak in health but fast and packing quite the punch of power to them they are most use for scouting or to swarm the opponent with shear volume of golems attacking with blades of blood forming from their 'hands' it is 3 feet tall[break]
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Post by Bryn Halcyon on May 11, 2020 2:59:39 GMT -5
“UMU?! ”
PLAYED BY
“ X O 4 1 4 ”
Word COUNT
Halcyon Bryn
HEALTH
MANA
MANA SKIN
MANA REGEN
SENIOR
60/70
SENIOR
10
battle data
Spells Casted - प्रज्वलित- Prajvalit (Ignite) - शून्य - Shoony (Void) - three - four - five
Actions Taken - Continued to pivot - motioning around the golems - Cast Ignite (10 MP) - Fired a Void at the backside of the golem (10 MP) - five
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That one struck a wrong chord to Bryn. As simple of an individual she considered herself to be, there was a unique perk to it: 'smelling the fradulence.' She had a feeling the intention was there in warm spirits, but the pugilist did not appreciate the sugar coating. All the same, the difference between the two in grimoire experience was nothing to be snarky about.
In fact, she found motivation in it and could tell her biorhythm was adjusting. As she continued to pivot about and sync up her breathing, Titaniya called forth her 'practical usage' of magic ala golemancy. Seemingly crafted from the same material as the rose from before, these pint-sized golems were tasked to be the most unappealing beauty of a punching dummy today. Titaniya's methodology seemed to up the practicality at all times. A stark reminder of how Bryn used to train, which is perhaps why she picked up on the underlying snark behind the gesture. For the time being, Bryn would keep to her routine and not be goaded into attacking the golems. For how long, she was unsure. Protecting the zen and flow was truly a taxing task in itself.
To let some of that spunk come forth, she channeled one of her spells and focused on the feeling of activation. Without adjusting her rhythm, Bryn's aura began to manifest around her fists and legs. In tandem with the grimoire, the forementioned body parts began to take on a small red aura with slight embers akin to a campfire. Her movement allowed the embers to leave a red light trail as she moved about in her circle routine, which began to incorporate larger strides and a faster pace. Bryn sank her weight on the outer portions of her feet, shifting to a cross-legged seated position so that she could place Titaniya's rose down.
As she transitioned, the fluid spiral motion down was more than for show. A bullet roughly the size of a softball fired towards the golem's center mass. The spell launched came from Bryn's hand as she moved it down to place the rose on the ground. No delay, disturbance, nor deliberate surge till the spell was fired. Bryn gently tucked her present from Titaniya into the grass and shifted her center of gravity to allow her to face the other golems. Still in a seated position, Bryn responded to Titaniya.
"Not quite a punt, but more practical than you think." she said with a smile.
Titianiya watched as the girl kept up the flow of her training to start instead of attacking one of the many golems, seeming to cast herself a spell of some sort of red aura with bits like flame coming off of the other girl. This immediately cued Aya in to the fact this girl’s magic might be one that focuses on increasing her physical abilities, Aya specializes in a bit of the same sort of magic, though obviously her spells for it would be quite a nice bit stronger than this girl due to the obvious of Titaniya being stronger.
In any case the other girl continued slowly going about setting down the rose Aya had given her moving to an almost seated pose with their legs crossed, but as this happened a large bullet was sent out to slam into one of the golem’s small frames, sending to weak thing back a bit as it crumbled to dust leaving eight more golems spread around the area.
Titaniya took a small step back as she smiled soon speaking “Not a punt indeed, but adequate enough in breaking these weak training dummies.” as soon motioned at the girl whilst commanding her golems. The eight constructs move to surround the girl in a circle. “Now then, i'm going to have them attack you, well more like ill have them attack at you” she gestures some and the blood blades the golem’s possessed retracted into their ‘hands’ this being how she would have them more safely attack, and with a snap the golems lunged in to start the assault on the other girl, surrounding her on all sides.
Titaniya was very much interested to see how this girl would cope with the close up attacks from the golems, would she try to get out of the crowd and make some distance for more of those attacks? Or would she keep things close making use of the physical magic Aya now knew the possessed. No matter the means she used it was bound to be fun training this girl.
WC: 345 TWC: 1440
Sustain -4 mana Regen 20 mana
90/90 mana
Last Edit: May 11, 2020 18:26:30 GMT -5 by Titaniya
Post by Bryn Halcyon on May 11, 2020 18:23:25 GMT -5
“UMU?! ”
PLAYED BY
“ X O 3 3 1 ”
Word COUNT
Halcyon Bryn
HEALTH
MANA
MANA SKIN
MANA REGEN
SENIOR
70/70
SENIOR
10
battle data
Spells Casted - Void claw - Void Limb - three - four - five
Actions Taken - Switch to a fighting stance - Did a wide angle sweep with Void claw (10 MP) - Stored Void Limb (5 MP) - Recovered 20 MP - Upkept Ignite (5MP)
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She saw herself surrounded rather quickly, with the little munchkins fixating their weapons forward under their commander's orders. Under Titaniya's order, they raised their weapons and came together to close the ring. Bryn noted their pacing as she raised herself up with nothing but her legs. As she rose, Bryn noticed all eight were in sync. She was being taken lightly.
"Let's turn it up then." the woman smirked.
Her demeanor and stance shifted. Gone was the wide and gentle posture that walked spirals effortlessly, replaced by one with her arms raised into a loose guard. Her feet were more active, bouncing on the tips of the toes slightly as she would occasionally switch over to build up some momentum. She needed the golems to move in more to maximize the next attack's effectiveness. Little bit before four paces away, Bryn raised her knee up and briefly showed a change of color in the gentle red flame. Bryn's figure then dropped as she kicked her leg down to initiate a sweep of sorts. To challenge the length of the golem's blades came Bryn's own take on the weapon.
Her sweeping leg was trailed by a white light, which upon closer look would be a spell of sorts. A white, translucent curved blade seemingly spawned out of Bryn's foot area lashed out. Bryn put one arm down to anchor as her leg did one full rotation. She fashioned the name of 'hellsweep' given how difficult it was to do a full spin, but now was hardly the time to worry about naming conventions. The hellsweep with the extending blade granted Bryn's kick range to be equivalent to a short spear attempting to shatter her golems at the midsection. Her leg extended back once the single rotation finished, taking the ethereal blade with it as the weapon faded into the air.
In the meanwhile, Bryn exhaled as she channeled more energy from her core. Gazing upon what her fellow countryman would do next.
Titaniya stood watching as the golems moved in on the other girl, attacking all at once, however the girl had taken up into a different stance bringing her leg around in a sweeping attack, but there was more to it than that. Bryn had added a spell into the mix like a white sykle formed at the end of her foot to slice through the mid sections of the weak and small golem’s bodies.
All at once the golems fell to the sweeping attack, Titaniya keeping a smile as she started to slowly clap a bit, a steady and loud clapping that soon ended as she spoke “Well then, you certainly did well against those weak golems, wonderful.” at one side her spellbook opened a new page as if she is starting a cast.
“I suppose I should step things up a bit for you then? Give you more of a challenge if that was oh so easy for you to handle.” Blood started to flow out from her grimoire obsidian rising up with it in the shape of a new golem, two of them, growing at either side of Titaniya and growing to 10 feet tall. "Militiæ Sanguis Bellator"
The golems both look humanoid and roughly the same, one arm formed down into a mace while the other arm had a large shield-like growth to its shape. With a simple gesture and command they were set on the girl, one was more trying to attack the girl with its mace while the other was guarding the first all at the behest of Aya who had both hands out as if a puppet master pulling strings on the golems, a grim grin on her face.
This girl had thus far been rather skilled in the way she fought, then again Aya had really not been trying to hurt them and still was not trying to hurt them, much. So far The Black Giant’s impression of the girl was that they might be skilled and kind enough, so a good first impression on a woman who takes first impressions very much to heart and forms a solid and unmovable opinion on them with those impressions.
Name of Golem: Militiæ Sanguis Bellator[break]
Spell Element: Blood + Obsidian[break]
Spell Rank: Intermediate [break]
Mana Cost: 16 / 8[break]
Type of Golem: Balanced[break]
Range and Speed: 40m / 15 m/s[break]
Health of Golem : Senior[break]
Applicable Perks: Puppet Master, Mana conservationist, Artillery support.[break]
Description: A golem of mostly obsidian with blood flowing through the cracks in iys body's make up, one arm formed into a shield the other more like that of a blade. This golems main goal is to provide ample distraction in protecting its master and those deemed its master's allies, but it can of course take commands. It is 10 feet tall.[break]
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Post by Bryn Halcyon on May 12, 2020 4:27:31 GMT -5
“UMU?! ”
PLAYED BY
“ X O 4 1 4 ”
Word COUNT
Halcyon Bryn
HEALTH
MANA
MANA SKIN
MANA REGEN
SENIOR
70/70
SENIOR
10
battle data
Spells Casted - Void Limb - IGnite - three - four - five
Actions Taken - Continued to STore (5 MP) - Maintained IGnite (5 MP) - Stored Void Limb (5 MP) - Recovered 20 MP - Recovered 20 MP
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Guess the peanut gallery had matching exhibits to suit the loomer's style. Tall, dark, and awkwardly shiny when paired with the overusage of black. Unlike the little squad she manifested, Bryn only counted two. More importantly, as the lumbering behemoths began to march to her in a covered formation, it seems Titaniya was taking up a different technique. More hands on, which begged the pugilist to wonder what exactly she added on top of their strikes.
"Only one way to find out then chief."
Judging by the weapons, tackling this fight head on was out of the question. Much like her wrestling matches, tackling someone with superior reach and power was a sure fire way to kick the can early. Especially since one solid hit from the mace will likely break something in her. Yet thus far, these golems were still made of the same material and that meant it could be shattered. These were denser and likely sturdier, but that simply meant she needed to strike that much harder. Bryn stood ready and began pivot about her heels once more.
She fired off a void bullet as a test round, aimed directly at the limbs of the mace wielding golem. As that monster swung it's weapon, she swung her leg off axis forward in order to pivot inside the range of the obsidian weapon. Maces, as Bryn understood, were effecive at the ball's head. Where she stood now was just past it and while it was effective...that wind force from the swing was no joke. It threw her off balance given how close the woman was from the swing.
Titaniya kept up having her golems keep on the attack while one defended the other. Both the golems are quite a bit faster than the other girl, moving at 15 m/s to close the gap the pugilist tried to make or try to outspeed her movements of avoidance.
The left golem got hit directly in its mace arm by the other girl’s magic attack, however it seemed to do nothing at all to the golem’s body, it continued to attack just as before. Meanwhile the other golem started attacking rather than just defending the first golem, bringing it’s mace in at the girl low while the other was made to aim higher. Titaniya was trying to force the girl to think quickly and try to maneuver on the golems, she wanted the girl to learn when dealing with a golem it might sometimes be best to go for the caster, this is why she was so obviously puppeteering her golems.
She would watch as the girl’s magic attack failed to do anything to the golem, a grin keeping on her face as she spoke “Well how unfortunate that the warriors are much more sturdy than the initiates, no punting to be done here.” she kept up her stance of half looming while controlling her golems in a rather obvious way really trying to get her to think about attacking directly instead of continuing to play around with the golems that could well, easily crunch her with those maces.
Post by Bryn Halcyon on May 15, 2020 3:51:43 GMT -5
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“ X O 4 7 3 ”
Word COUNT
Halcyon Bryn
HEALTH
MANA
MANA SKIN
MANA REGEN
SENIOR
65/70
SENIOR
20
battle data
Spells Casted - Void Limb - IGnite - three - four - five
Actions Taken - Unleashed Void Limb (10 MP) - Maintained IGnite (5 MP) - Fired a Void Shot (10 MP) - Attempting to take slide past golem. - Recovered 20 MP
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On a scale of one to ten on the discreetness of the objective, she would definitely rate this a two. Bryn realized that once her spell was barely a tickle, she was paired against enemies that was out of her weight class. If she had to put down a wager on what the motive for this wave, Titaniya likely wanted to see if Bryn could discern moments where punching your way out was a terrible decision. She was disappointed that the goal this time was observation-heavy, but such was the ebb and flow of battle.
Fighting these two jokers made matters worse. She noted their advance and commitment to offense. Putting up a guard was meaningless against these weapons, let alone fighting reactively. A blitz maneuver was the choice play this time and that was likely what Titaniya expected out of her. Bryn shifted to a wide stance and kept on the balls of her feet. Her red eyes locked onto the larger spheres of the golem's weaponry, panning twice to see where they were raised to. One from the top and the other to sweep to do a classic twin cleaver. She guesstimated the second shot was at least shoulder height. No slipping through for me. Cutting off my ground path too just for the icing.
Titaniya's golems swung in unison and would no doubt lock impact at the central point of the arc. Taking one more glance, Bryn kicked off into a sprint leading into a series of spiraling cartwheels. She was en route to a collision course with the strike until the final cartwheel flip differed with an extra low squat prior to launch. Bryn then propelled herself up over where the first would strike, while catching a momentary glimpse of the second. At this point, a spectral limb shot forth from Bryn's shoulder to punch the second mace.
The lithe girl tucked in as the counter impact shattered her phantasmal limb, but not without a consequence leveraged into her favor. Taking the blowback of two forces and being on the receiving end of the weaker one meant getting the feedback of the remaining pieces. Bryn used that force but added a minor point prior to the mace's hammer point, causing it to become focused onto her disjointed limb created by her grimoire. Without further mumble talk, Bryn's choice of action allowed her to take a sudden dive towards the ground at an angle that befitted a long slide past the golem's. Pending any grandiose gap closer that she wouldn't even be mad at if in place.
For good measures, she fired another void shot aimed center mass at Titaniya. She would've aimed higher but Titaniya was freakishly tall and that would take too long to aim before firing. Bryn began to shift into a running stance in the meanwhile.
Titaniya was not exactly going for a discrete objective, just a very challenging one. Yes it was obvious she wanted the other girl to find a way to get through the golems to hit her, but that was gonna be easier said than done for the pugilist mage, this is because of just how fast she can be.
Bryn rose to the challenge however, literally. Using the golems attack to help propel her up and over the golems on an arc to come down for Titaniya. With the golems out of the way of her seeing Bryn could now see that Titaniya’s grin had widened keeping a more grim feeling than kind. The other girl had then launched an attack for Titaniya while in mid air, a similar bullet to the one she used to kill the first weaker golem.
Ttianiya saw the attack coming well within time to step out of the way, but more than that she started to run, to one side both avoiding the spell and starting a new cast, blood welled from her book moving up around her legs and suddenly she was quite a bit faster! The large girl takes long but graceful strides as she runs around to try and put the goles back between her and the other girl.
Here was the second part of the challenge. How do you go for the golem user when they are faster and intentionally keeping the golems between you and them using that faster speed. She now spoke a bit seeing that the other girl had figured the goal. “Well that was indeed a great move you pulled. It was also a bit of a bad idea seeing how it would do quite a bit of harm to yourself. So probably not something you can pull multiple times, but then again all you need is one hit on me for me to drop this part of the test.” she moved her hands up again to have the golems ready and move in on the other girl again bringing attack down on both sides of the other girl in a diagonal arc, but one swung a bit before the other as to stagger the attacking coming in hoping to make avoiding a bit harder.
Titaniya was impressed with the girl so far, they might seem much for the blow right through kind of type, but she was using her head at least a bit. Maybe Titaniya could try to convince this girl to apply herself into becoming a magic knight, preferably a Black Bull, but any is fine enough. Aya just hopped to get the girl before her sister could try and poach them for the mantises.
Rank & Spell Type: Junior ; Physical Reinforcement.[break]
Range & Speed: Self ; 10 m/s[break]
Mana Cost: 8 / 4[break]
Stats Effected: Speed + 7 m/s[break]
Applicable Perks: Full blitz, Mana conservationist.[break]
Description: Blood rushes from Titaniya's black grimoire and flows around her legs in markings patterns similar to the ones hidden on her back. The blood causes her body to grow further enhanced leading to a raised speed enough to catch up to her opponents or better dodge their spells.[break][break]
Post by Bryn Halcyon on May 16, 2020 4:13:20 GMT -5
“UMU?! ”
PLAYED BY
“ X O 5 6 6 ”
Word COUNT
Halcyon Bryn
HEALTH
MANA
MANA SKIN
MANA REGEN
SENIOR
70/70
SENIOR
20
battle data
Spells Casted - Void Shot - IGnite - three - four - five
Actions Taken - Parried the First strike - Knocked down on the second - Took INT damage - Store Void Shot (5 MP) - Recovered 20 MP
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'As expected of a magic knight' she thought to herself as the bullet harmlessly missed its target. Thankfully these spells were not winding her nearly as bad as these strikes were. She had been told that the individuals who awaken to their grimoire also gained a unique skill that served like an armor or sort upon their skin. Areas that she felt the contact of those maces definitely stung as badly as the time she was bucked off their ox on the old farm. From what Bryn assessed though, nothing was broken and that meant the fight could continue.
Catching her breath as Titaniya called back the vanguard to re-establish distances, the pugilist scoffed at the comment about the reckless assault taken. Raising her guard again, she responded, "A calculated risk, I'd like to think of it. Something I'd figure would resonate more with a Black Bull such as yourself Titaniya. Ain't you knights supposed to keep that card in the deck for when the situation calls for it or is that reserved for the pompous Golden Lion type?"
These strikes felt physical but it was difficult to utilize her physical conditioning against these golems. Bryn's right leg took the lead as her core line came down at an angle. Her arms spread full wing and then brought to her shoulder height post extension. The stance looked rigid but Bryn felt primed and fluid. Her eyes tracked the movement of the golem's mace once again and noted the difference for this assault: they weren't synchronized. It would have been less noticeable had the previous attacks not been unified, so she needed to make a few adaptations herself.
First mace strike came forward and the familiar pivot movement from earlier returned in full force. Bryn kept her extended arm forward and then quickly backpedaled upon her rear heel to step out of the mace's arc. The maneuver was not perfect however, as using her arm as the measuring point put it in harm's way. That strike came too fast for her to cleanly reset the position, forcing Bryn to hastily reset when the second strike came. She grit her teeth as it came in and raised her guard for a shoddy block. This ended with her being knocked down onto her back.
Or so it seemed to play out. That impact definitely shook her mana skin up pretty badly, but the fall was choreographed. Bryn let her knees buckle and went with the fall while keeping her body as loose as possible to resist the impact. Easier said than done, as now there was an annoyingly stinging sensation on the back of her head, but she needed to present an opportunity for one of the golems to advance into a follow up. The risk was getting the synchronized attacks to cease in order to open chances to breach the wall Titaniya had established. While the mage knight's attacks were now better at controlling outward evasion tactics due to the nature of staggered blows, Bryn had to make use of positioning to circumvent the difference in speed and reach. Her patience now put her on the ground, but in between the golems and inside their effective range of the weapon choice.
Long reach was beneficial at keep out, but a detrimental if breached. She focused her mind into a spell while en guard for the golem's next move.
