10/9 14:47 (Autumn, Night, Mysterious Island)
Sider and the Fake-Kobold ran towards each other, the two crossing the distance between them in just a couple of seconds, a flurry of claw attacks leaving behind short-lived spacial fissures that the Werewolf was forced to carefully avoid or risk suffering damage that would ignore her defenses entirely thanks to their nature as spatial distortions.
Meanwhile her own blows slipped between the cracks only for them too being hastily dodged by the Draconic one, well aware that it couldn't afford to take her Terran Lightning-infused blows casually in such a situation as otherwise it would be opened to the black-haired one's devastating attacks.
This continued on for a while longer before Sider stomped downwards, the earth beneath her feet erupting to disrupt her opponent's footing, forcing this last one to jump away while breathing out a small amount of fire, thing that it learned how to do thanks to its increased Rank, to stop her from taking advantage of its distraction.
The two of them barely landed away from each other only to immediately jumping back in, Sider covering her hands in a more dense layer of Terran Lightning that she launched forward before moving suddently left, trying to trap the Fake-Kobold in a pincer attack and forcing it to jump over both the attack and the Cultivator, pulling back one of its fist covered in a dense layer of Fake-Qi before punching downward.
A long fissure opened in the air beneath it, an attack made by weaponizing the natural spatial distortion of a Cultivator at the [Core Creation] Stage combined with the corruptive and malevolent essence of the Fake-Qi to create a flaw in the World, a powerfull yet incredibly short-lived attack that would have brought her to ruin if it had landed.
However, "if" was the correct term to use as while the attack was incredibly fast when it comes to reaching its target, the preparations needed to actually launch it were obvious enough that, when combined with its obligatorily straightforward trajectory, rendered it quite easy for her to dodge.
Even so Sider's guard did not lower any but instead intensified as she was well aware that if she was struck by its attack, in the best case scenario she would simply die while in the worst case she would be immediately filled with enough corruptive Fake-Qi to be twisted into becoming either a Monster or an Abomination in a manner not dissimilar to the stories of Liches forcing enough Negativity in a Person to turn them into various forms of Undead.
She immediately kicked downwards, a long staff rising behind herself as she jumped back, taking it firmly in her hands before using it as a lever to pull up a boulder before immediately throwing it at full force to her still-airborne opponent, this last one reacting by simply slashing the projectile in two with an hand elongated like a blade clad in Fake-Qi, using the two halves as platforms from which to launch itself from.
Sider raised her staff in an instant, forcefully absorbing the rock around her into it to increase her staff's lenght in an instant to try and spear the Kobold through the heart, the scaled one crossing its hands before itself and grabbing the spear around its blade, intent on pushing it away from its body, the spear continuing on past it while the Kobold itself continued on its flight towards the Werewolf.
Suddently while it was still mid-flight, it was struck from behind by a boulder, the spear having flown past it, impaling in the roof before retracting and bringing with it a rock half-sphere that she smashed into the Core Creation-Stage Cultivator, the Foundation Establishment-Stage one stepping sideways and the staff retracted even further, smashing the scaled one in the ground and leaving it struck between the boulder and the floor.
Sider didn't hesitate, jumping high and twisting, black and gold lightning focusing around her hands and exploding around her body in small lines of Terran Lightning fusing together in a long spear that she then threw towards the stuck Kobold, her lightning bolt impaling right through the boulder and impaling both the Monster itself and the little pieces of Thunder Gem that she previously spread all over both the floor and the boulder itself.
It detonated in a burst of long destructive rays of Terran Lightning, the ground detonating in an instant, while the Werewolf impaled her claws in the roof above her, pulsing her Mana in the rock before with an effort of both will and physical abilities she pulled the rest of the roof down in its entirety down on the Kobold, connecting them with the room above and forming a dome around the reptilian.
Silence stretched on for a couple of seconds, Sider landing and starting to breath in deeply a couple of times to make sure that she would recover as much of her energy as possible, all of her senses stretched out fully and to her limit without transforming any further, searching for any and all traces of her opponent, unwilling to believe it could die with just that.
Belief that was proved true when she suddently jumped back, a spatial distortion appearing horizontally to sever the dome in two in an instant, before another one appeared vertically, bringing an end to its short-lived entrapment before turning towards its opponent, absorbing as much of the Fake-Qi around itself as possible to Reignite the amount stored within its Core to accelerate its Qi Circulation.
The Kobold swung an hand, its claws lenghtening fully and sending forth three different spatial distortions, the Werewolf not esitating at all into both creating a pillar beneath her feet to rise herself up over the incoming slashes before grabbing the topmost part of it, reinforcing it with her Mana and bringing it down in a merciless swing, trying to hammer her opponent in the ground immediately.
The Kobold smashed on the ground immediately rose despite the column trying to press it down before roaring, its Fake-Qi exploding and causing countless spatial distortions to destroy the area immediately around it together with its roar, leaving itself heaving because of the inefficiency of this assault, being far from mastering its newfound abilities as a Cultivator.
Sider did not hesitate, reaching out with her joined hands towards the Kobold and releasing long, thin tendril-like Lightning-Attribute spears that connected back to her hands and stabbed into the exausted Kobold's body by navigating around the distortions in space it created and was currently trapped by, paralyzing it with their electric charge.
A core of Earth-Attribute Mana formed between her hands before, taking advantage of the fact that the Lightning-Attribute was the easiest to convert into various Composite Attributes by using Forms derived by the Lightning-Attribute, spreading her Terran Lightning through her attack, her black lightning striking the Kobold and sending it on its knees.
Sider carefully proceded onwards, the black electricity moving only around her left hand while more Lightning-Attribute Mana formed a spear in her right hand, nearing the Kobold enveloped in the spatial distortions it itself created, being careful to stay as far away as possible from the slowly spreading cracks.
She struck at once, lenghtening her spear, passing around the cracks in the air and piercing the Monster's head at once without any hesitation, pushing it through a series of cracks and ripping it into pieces using the spatial distortions it created itself, disappointed in its latest overreliance on the powers it gained with its increase to the [Core Creation] Stage.
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10/10 7:21 (Autumn, Day, Midrar, Base)
Sabel quickly led her two friends away from the gym, unwilling to assist to what her Mate was playing with while also scared of what Luna could learn from Jay considering how just behind them the white-haired one was at the moment sending forth a rain of attacks of all kinds of Composite and Primary Attributes.
Just before the Humans could leave the room entirely, she caught a glimpse of her next barrage of attacks caused by Jay's previous and quite casual remark about Altered Attributes and under Sabel's black eyes, Luna started to Alter her Composite Attributes by adding in her No Attribute Affinity and fuel them with her blood thanks to her access to the "Elemental Manifestation" D granted by her Familiar Holder Artifact #11, the Ring she made to serve as a Vessel for Core.
And so the Composite Attributes corrupted even further, twisting into even more destructive versions that continued to rain freely upon her targets, her lips widening in a smile that showed off her sharp fangs, her eyes shining brightly upon seeing the rampage before her.
The black-haired one quickly turned back and started to push her friends away faster to quickly remove the three of them from her Mate's reach, unwilling to risk being pulled into a situation where Luna would ask how exactly Clerical Spells worked before somehow starting to Cast them on her own, despite her very low opinion on Gods.
*Luna Gains the Ability Skill "Attribute Conversion" E.
Mafel stood behind with Luna, carefully observing the way she was wielding her Attributes to create new Curse-Attribute Spells for the future, more specifically Spells with the purpose of weakening her eventual opponent's Resistance to the Altered or Composite Attributes as needed.
And it certainly did not hurt her decision any the fact that watching Luna create so much destruction called out to a very deep part of her and she couldn't help but admire her Mate, especially once combined with her own physical attraction to her, meant that she had quite the difficulty to drag her attention away from the red-eyed one.
Meanwhile Amber herself quickly followed her youngest Mate away, wanting to spend more time around other People and certainly not wanting to make some friends now that she had the opportunity to, moving quickly but suppressing her desire to run after the three Humans and trying to converse with them, intent on gaining some friends for what was actually the first time in her very long life, relatively to the rest of her Mates at least.
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