664 10/11 2:58 (Autumn, Day, Midrar)
Luna breathed in deeply, feeling the rising heat that surrounded her body and finally deciding that the desired moment was way too close for comfort, as confirmed by her eyes being able to see how the last layer of Black Blood surrounding her was slowly starting to boil, despite the vacuum separating it from the rest and her own Vital Mana being used to reinforce the vital fluid.
The white haired one did not hesitate further, standing up fully as she carefully created a bow of almost solid Black Blood taller that she is and then needing to use all of her strenght to pull back the string of her weapon, a long spiraling arrow of Black Blood being nocked and pulled back with immense force.
As scarlet tongue started to press ever more against her dome of Black Blood, causing it to start boiling and writhing ever more intensely, and leading her to what some would consider a very risky procedure.
Just after a Runic Array formed in the inside of her arrow, a wide hole in her barrier forming and in so doing allowing her wild flames a way towards herself, as demonstrated by the flames that were quickly devouring her blood and falling down upon her body.
As the heat of the dark flames reached her, Luna calmly breathed out and together with her vaporized blood, her arrow was launched.
As two of her Skills were imbued in the bow and arrow, her Divine Power in the bow to maximize the force of her throw and True CalamityEternal Mastery within her arrow itself, the Runic Array within the arrow starting to suck in more and more of her Vital Mana through her Black Blood to activate itself fully while still in mid-air, traveling not even a single centimeter thanks to its incredibly fast flight, starting to collapse in on itself.
"[Annihilation Burst]!" Luna's voice sounded out the name of her newest, experimental Art, activating it.
Luna's arrow shattered, the Energy and Black Blood involved crumbling together a forming a dense, almost line-like mass of force that shattered and pulled at everything around itself with its own gravitational pull on, shattering and devouring her bow itself before attracting the Blood Flames into itself, growing bigger and heavier.
Her projectile slammed against the wall of the fourth wall, impaling itself into it to form a link between it and the fifth wall, connecting with the flames and blood on the other side, starting to pull them in too and rapidly expanding in size until it could no longer remain stable.
The arrow detonated, releasing a directed beam of destruction that demolished an hole right through the fifth wall, opening an escape for Luna.
The Lunarian calmly blurred forward, crossing the distance between her and freedom in less than a second, easily landing on her feet well outside of the cube, her eyes immediately finding Grug and Mark as she prepared to attack them directly from within the burning trench caused by her previous attack.
The blonde activated his Unique Skill, running forward in stopped time to stop Luna from reaching Grug, his Time Walker allowing her to reach her just before it ended, their fists crossing immediately and forcing them both to step back and launch further blows to their opponent, dozens of punches being exchanged in a single second until this clash was ended by Luna hooking one of her feet around Mark's knee and pulling his leg out from under him, unbalancing and opening him up for further strikes.
The blue-eyed one landed on his hands, immediately launching himself sideways and in so doing dodging the axe kick that crashed down on the place his head was just in, the ground shattering as she released a wave of Vital Mana in concert with her attack, the ground rippling upwards violently into spikes that forced the Human to retreat even further.
Mark slammed one of his feet to the ground, launching himself to his feet while simultaneusly kicking towards the Lunarian's own foreleg, forcing her to step back briefly before she stepped forward again, ammassing Vital Mana around her fist before releasing it in a concentrated beam that tried to skewer him in place.
As his eyes widened in alarm, he was only saved by the ground beneath him rippling sideways and throwing him away, his eyes involuntarily moving to Grug to thank him for his prompt intervention despite his Soul-deep ache caused by the constant Channeling of Energy, noting how he already drank another of their Rising Potion to be able to intervene at all.
Mark concentrated back on his opponent, Lightning-Attribute Mana flaring wildly around him and causing Luna to raise a wall of Aura before herself, the Lunarian barreling right through it and slamming against the Human, sending him flying and crashing down on the ground away from herself, stunning him just long enough for Luna to stomp down on his chest, a wave of Aura pulsing from her body and slamming him even harder against the ground, creating a crater underneath them.
The Human breathed out in pain, wheezing even more once the white-haired one's foot crashed down hard on his body, his hands weakly trying to grasp his enemy's ankle. "Y-you - " He tried to sound out only for the red-eyed one to smile, Vital Mana accumulating around her foot before it detonated, tearing a yell from him.
Luna raised one of her hands, Air-Attribute accumulating around her right hand and forming in a long blade that she swung at her opponent's neck, aiming to beheading him right then and there.
Before she could bring to an end the Regressor, she alted her action, swinging her blade sideways and deflecting away a steel pillar, resulting in the other six following suit and leaving her unharmed from their attempt at impaling her.
And having struck one of them, she was able to confirm with her own eyes from the way that all of them reacted at the same time to her strike that they were currently being treated as a single whole, which meant the confirmation of another Unique Skill being involved in the fight.
Her eyes moved to the tall Half-Dwarf, wondering if he was the culprit behind the spikes launched at her but excluding him for two major reasons, the first being how he was way too exhausted to intervene in the fight by this point, especially considering how if he had a similar Unique Skill he could have used it either in their previous fight or to at least ease the burden caused by the creation and maintenance of his prison.
There was the possibility of a presence of an Oath that prohibited the direct use of his Unique Skill while in a fight to explain his lack of use, certainly, but she excluded such once she considered how the feeling of his Mana did not show the same limits and irregularities common to those that have an active Oath.
Her eyes made to focus back on the Human currently struck beneath her feet, lighting up at once as her lips quirked up and showed her fangs, petrifying Mark at once. "You have some other friends nearby, don't you?" She casually asked, her gaze searching for the others People fighting her and causing Mark to freeze briefly.
Before the blonde could properly react to her words, the white haired one disengaged from him, launching herself away and this way being safe from the high-pressure water that would have pierced her chest otherwise.
"Oh?" She sounded out curious, her eyes moving to meet the humanoid mass of softly glowing water that now separated her from her preys, watching the blue light that flowed to form their body, spiking up slightly in various different, ever charging locations. "A Flowing Spirit with a fully manifested physical form?" She asked full of curiosity as she had never fought one of them.
Luna attacked at once, a wave of Black Blood flooding towards the Spirit and clashing with a crystal clear wave of water, causing her eyes to widen in pleasured surprise as she watched her vital fluid being dissolving into its derivative, becoming first a mix of solid shadows that sunk down and blood, the second dissolving further into water and its other components.
"This is not just a Spirit's power." She sounded out, her lips twisting up in a full grin as interest flared brightly in her heart, a wave of Vital Mana being released towards the Spirit at once and meeting a similar fate to her blood, destabilizing and collapsing at once.
"This is… Purification?" She asked in wonder, her eyes opening wide and being followed soon after by her smile as a feral desire for destruction started to shine in her piercing gaze. "But natural Spirits cannot be formed by multiple Attributes and Purification requires at least the Holy-Attribute and you are a Flowing Spirit, a Water-Attribute one. How did you do this?"
Her question went unanswered, Luna being forced to concentrate back on her newest opponent as they passed on the attack again by creating small spheres of glowing liquid floating around their body that launched an high-speed rain of projectiles towards her body.
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