Coin world events
golden eye vs hanging strings
By: B30 who loves to read
A young man by the name of Adam embarks himself on hunting the bounty of a mass murdering swordsman named Hazonoki walker ex-disciple of mugen the sword-god, he also grapples at the personal motivations of wanting to protect others from death outside of team-c's influence on him.
This mission was given to him by the federal alliance as a secondary bounty assigned from the upper brass to test him as he is amongst the younger of team-c and still lacks sizable experience compared to the older members.
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Floating through the endless reaches of stars and planets a black starship appears in the midst of the galaxy nearby.
currently harbinger the famed swordsman murderer know as walker or the puppet as he code named by the federal alliances data analysis system, in the distance standing atop a gold platform, manifested by a young caramel skin toned man with sharp golden eyes and tapered haircut & puffy Afro along side a black backpack hanging off right shoulder slightly with his cargo pants have bagginess to them with a white tank top covered over by a hoodie following the two loose belts around his waist.
The young Adam outfit was very unique for what seems to be the usual bounty hunting business attires but as always he did keep a weapon on hand at the right side of his hip is attached holster to hold his specially made weapon his personal divine instrument as he refers to it as testamento magnifico a White and Red hand cannon, with ornate swirls engraved around the barrel, the barrel is also bulky and comfortably heavy. That has a Brown wood handle with white wrappings, tuned to Adams personal preferences.
Each quick footed step he takes forms small sized golden platforms of bursted hollow energy in air around that he manifests under his feet, as he is currently traveling through space heading to the location of this masked samurai killer.
The federal alliance said this bounty was more personalized due to the amount of high class agents Walker has killed and for me I see this as noteworthy experience needed for me to grow & reconcile with the losses of the previous dead at my hand… Adam thought inwardly.
picking up the intense hollow energy signature of mad samurai walker visually able to see him in the distance few hundred meters as he's emitting large waves of hollow energy that's covering the entire planet sized ship he seem to be on, while the lingering energy stretched out thinly nearby into space around him, Adam taking this into account uses an assassin technique known as "silent step" a stealth ability where he erases his own presence and hollow energy signature.
Dropping atop the ship then making his way quickly through one of the massive air ducts connected to upper levels of blackstar landing into room that he comes out of smoothly as to not draw his presence even slightly, "when I made my approach towards this ship I noticed some of these rooms have strings of concentrated hollow energy attached to them, forming interconnecting lines all around the roofs of the current ship level that I'm on". Adam notes to himself.
"This puppeteer seems to have his strings set up all around as traps and if a person is unsuspecting of these strings they get caught in between the lines then end up being strung and dead before they even realize".
Adam smells a scent akin to rusted iron and follows the trail knowing who's presence it is " he is here close by and more then likely waiting for me but because of that it looks like this'll be game of cat & mouse through this whole ship."
"Nonetheless, I've gotta be wary of the civilians and try not to bring too much damage onto this ship."
without letting a second pass Adam releases silent step allowing his hollow energy signature to be picked up by walker and with it Adam immediately starts moving towards his location at rapid pace utilizing another effective skill that he picked up fast from a bounty hunting women named Elisa called "burst-Flow" a method of both fighting and high speed movement where Adam applies small but precise burst of his own hollow energy under his feet when moving , Which captures the air points allowing boosts of speeds or using this as a method of attacking by applying it into physical hits via punch or kicks.
In the distance, A man in with black hair tied into a topknot bun covered in rugged bandages and a rose patterned kimono that's wrapped around with black & white checkered cloak on him, carrying a silver & pink blade that has two pointed black hilt including etchings he marked himself on the blade, in which he named it "Yuma" a powerful divine instrument that he uses in tandem with trigger ability which calls "death by hanging strings".
It's a deadly trigger that grants walker the ability to control and summon invisible powerful razor sharp strings that can slash and cut through almost anything including other high levels of durability & reinforcements like the exoskeleton of broodmother or the scales of dragon of annihilation.
Atop of this his skills were developed highly by following the teachings of mugen and being one of her five main disciplines he developed his way with the sword extensively under her tutoring , allowing Walker to be highly proficient and adaptive in utilizing Both his swordsmanship & ability for many different situations such as long range to mid range distances covers, being Able to increase his attack range via extending his sword through strings, he can also utilize this ability in other ways being capable of creating multiple clones with half of his hollow energy output to help him fight against groups of people or provide faster self restoration through applying his strings and stitching up external or internal damage much better.
Walker whil residing on the third floor of the blackstar ship moving quickly & efficiently through a crowd of people darting in-between masses as then he picks up Adam hollow energy signature nigh-immediately, An luminous golden hue washes over the whole area causing him to look up towards the fourth floor area seeing Adam standing there hand already at the hip of his gun ready to fire.
"Hey there boy you seem damn pretty powerful for someone who seems so young." Walker yells out in a raspy voice as he himself itches for the fight. his hand already on the blade's hilt then in the next moment he leans forward into crouching down into a sword stance similar to that of the Iai style.
Adam in the same instance of walker body movement changing to a fighting position, he immediately he fires off a shot from the hip of his gun, the bullet zipping towards walker aimed at his hand on the hilt to try and temporarily disarm for even a single second.
walker reacting instantly to bullet coming towards him slices through the air flinging his hand upwards in the motion of a blade, creating something that's not wholly real but a dense manifestation of his swordsmanship in the form of his own hollow energy which then cuts cleanly through large section of the third floor area on blackstar ship taking out Multiple heavy structures and massive sized objects like pipes & buildings in his nearby direction.
"Where are you Adam!! Come out and face me I know of you from team-c efforts across other star systems including your little scuffle in heavens domain quite the feat of you surviving this much despite your experience." he says with voicely air of joking disrespect.
" but don't worry I'll be sure to make sure Mugen knows of your death as well as Elisa and they can reap the feeling of my wrath for exiling me".
Walker using burst flow propels himself upwards into the air, quickly taking his sword Yuma following through with a slice in front of him in a horizontal motion directing, then rapidly imbues his strings into his blade creating & extending the range slicing through where he last sensed Adam hollow energy signature.
Within that moment he felt it right above his head an incoming compact flurry of finger gun shots rain down upon him piercing all throughout his body, Walker flexes his hollow energy reinforcement to minimize the damage. In next the next second taken, Walker clumps up bundles of the razor sharp string, producing from his body which he initially believes block the shots. but in the instant he does that he realizes instantly that the hits he just took aren't some normal hollow energy bullets, the piercing pain he feels is creepily similar to old situation he was once in before and barely survived ending up in white palace custody after those certain events.
" This pain I feel is scaringly familiar and do not like it but those damned finger bullets don't exist until hitting my body I need to be weary of that card he holds in his deck." Walker jumps back, using self restoration he rapidly repairs the wounds he was dealt from the rain of finger gun shots upon his body.
Split-second, four separate bundles of strings formed together into clones of himself Walker sends these out to cover different sections of the ships exits or possible escape routes which Adam would try to use leave out from, while bouncing around the area Adam is using a mixture of silent step to cover his signature and his recon drones he summoned to obscure his physical presence while pausing his silent step briefly at different points to get Walker into thinking where his location is because of him blipping in and out.
The drones he has set are small and lightweight no bigger than a small bird. The special thing about them is when compiled together in a flock they create a field of reflective invisibility by using the light refraction around to bounce off the drones wings flapping constantly.
Adam realizes this puppeteer is dangerous and it's best to form a strategy of alternating between his long distance finger gun shots & burst flow to keep himself mobile while trying not to get in walker range too easily. As he's aware of his opponent's superior swordsmanship skills and experience compared to him, although despite knowing this Adam believes in wholly in fighting as free as possible and appears in front of walker challenging the mad swordsman's head on now.
" So you're the swordsman whose blade is wild and unrelenting when in combat, I've heard plenty about you through information I study up in databases I store in my head thanks to another ability of mine".
As this is a solo based mission assigned to Adam he's making sure to keep his output at constant medium to high end level rating for this fight so as not to actively destroy and wreck things around him more than needed already.
"Oh look at you trying to be a hero by reducing your output levels and protecting the people moving away from me." Walker noticed hundreds of humanoid sized robots dropped down all around him forming a wall in between him and civilians on the black-star ship.
Adam jumps off one of the drones that were obscuring his presence floating in midair for fraction of a second fires another shot from his hand-cannon, a loud rings echoed from barrel. the sound bouncing through the whole ship level crashing right into Walker right leg the bullet then forms into bright red orb and then immediately implodes on itself taking a chunk out the swordsman thigh.
Second shot rings off again from his gun chilly smoke flowing out from the chamber of its barrel this time bullet warps and shapes into a freezing blue orb that was aimed towards the ground making immediate impact & freezing over the surface of around 140 meters between himself and Walker.
The Idea behind is to reduce the rapid fast sword string movements used when walker is applying the aggressive Iai style swordplay to his attacks. A moment later he releases long range strings in the form of multilayered miniaturized javelins that shoot out in between his sword strikes as to slip up Adam, a method in which he using to try an close distance on adam at any moment.
Walker noticing the freezing effect applied to the general area jumps back while sending more slashing attacks through frozen mist covered around him to hit Adam, in the midst of this while jumping back he quickly focuses on healing back up leg allocating a portion of hollow energy output to healing it near instantly but because of this the output towards his slashes were slightly weakened because of it only by 1% percent difference.
Adam seeing slashes flying through air Careening at him he calls upon his recon drones forming them into large wall which covers about 50 meters in front of him with the slashes coming they collided against wall having a few manage to cut through some of robots body and hit Adam's body cutting up both his arms and a side of his stomach luckily though the rest of slashes were taking care of thanks to the recon drones he manifested brunting the attack.
steam blows off the slashing wounds Adam took quickly healing them up via his self restoration with the wounds closing up he focuses back more of his output into his trigger ability again.
While this happens Walker now fully healed dashes forward at Adam noticing the slight weakening of his output and goes to strike at his head Turning his blade to side as he swings it at Adam horizontally again, he then fake the motion halfway pulling the sword up to try and cleave off his head from even more elevated angle.
Adam seeing this attack aim for his head narrowly dashes backwards avoiding the slash by hairs margin. Shortly after avoiding the strike in tandem he uses burst flow to boost himself back up then forward at Walker again, Adam smiles as he flying ecstatically through air his index and pointer fingers clasped together aimed at the swordsman then Adam yells out "25% output: net" following up, A massive net of chained together adjusted outputted finger gun power shots riddle Walker again with Adam's output being high enough to take off his left arm and deal significant internal damage to walker's body.
Hazonoki moves back instantly using his string trigger ability to pull his chopped off arm and reattach it back, fusing back together with Walker strings stretching out pulling back the muscles, bone and flesh altogether, rapidly healing it up the rest of his outer layer damage with his self restoration.
Hazonoki makes the decision to Hide his hollow energy signature temporarily, a method commonly used within battles to surprise an opponent when attacking in the midst of combat darting in between the buildings around himself waiting a moment to strike again.
"This boy is quite a deadly hunter, he's extremely precise with his aiming capabilities & hollow energy control. I'll need to be wary of that 25% outputted finger-gun net." he lampooned inwardly.
What I need do is to use my strings to cut through the physical shots he manifests with his innate trigger, then fine tune the output of my slashing attacks that are combined with my own trigger ability to increase my blade's lethality tenfold. Walker thought silently, while still dodging around waiting to strike.
Second later comes.
Walker dashes forward moving at blinding speeds while repeatedly infusing his hollow energy output and trigger ability into his sword creating five pillars of large condense strings that are coupled together; bursting forth releasing a multitude slashes & strikes that will destroy everything around him in 200 meter radius continuously until the everything is reduced to rubble and dust in which he dubbed this attack move
"five pillars of falling colors ".
The Slashes continue tearing through blackstar ship as people panic and seek any nearby shelter in the other levels of two and one while the third level of the ship is still currently being destroyed, Adam drops down from one his picture crash a move of his, with another two orbs he has already set up for use and both being thrown out one being his yellow orb and the other is bronze colored.
Adam Hastily Extends his index & pinky fingers in a outward motion again leaving the rest of his hand in a folded position firing off the two orbs he had set up prior to activation, the first yellow colored orb burst open in front of five string rainbow colored pillars walker created via his trigger ability; Adam then freezes all of the slashing attacks for 1-minute & 50 seconds, while following up utilizing he the secondary bronze colored orb to block any extra incoming attacks as two massive train-door carts form into reality then slam together reflecting both of the bandaged swordsman's hollow energy string attacks and his physical sword moves.
Walker reacts to the second orb attack splitting it a portion of the ship off to create an opening to jump out into space he twists his body around preparing to draw his sword yumi again hands place in reverse grip motion with the pointer & index fingers partially extended out with him.
"This boy's hollow energy is extremely potent, his reserves are allowing him so much freedom in use of his abilities
"But even still that doesn't matter to me I'll simply just cut him down, with the swift precision of my aggressive sword style." Walker's Hollow energy spikes.
Adam senses the immediate and intense pressure of an oncoming occurrence coming in the direction of the slashed hole on the side of the ship opened up by the mad swordsman Walker, the crowds of people that had cleared out earlier hear the rumbling noises of the ship's side wall being destroyed. Adam notices this and takes immediate action before dealing with the occurrence he sensed, focusing his mind on using complex configurum to generate and create massive metal walls big enough to connect and cover up the hole slashed open, stopping the vacuum from damaging the ship anymore.
"Haha that's a good thinking kid, but you'll need to do better than that
Walker exclaims outloud with his blade,mind, and body now all simultaneously with a deep sync, condensing a significant amount of hollow energy funneling it through his scabbard then through the blade.
He then says in low deep breath
blade held tightly around his hand.
"Hanging blade formless white"
Walker blade ejects out from his scabbard akin to someone firing off a high powered bullet from a rifle's chamber. purple hollow energy traces leak out, following hundreds of needle sized strings formed all around his blade.
Part-2 coming soon.