The second technique of using lights is quite simple. Since everything is made of essence and starlight and moonlight are just parts of essence, Onse simply removes some amount of moonlight from the object, making it glow red, and infuses themselves with the stolen moonlight.
Elias took some moonlight from the rock and infused himself with it. It was quite simple really, he just imagined his belief in the form of a blue light, took his belief out of the rock and infused it into himself.
Since opposite lights attract, and essence tends to be whole, he was attracted towards the rock.
Elias looked around as he flew to the rock. The Duke was nowhere to be found; vast walls had risen around the enormous square, and, most concerning of them all, multiple people were flying towards the same rock.
"Holy-" Elias quickly diffused the moonlight into the environment and fell on his back, scraping the rough stone beneath him.
Elias started laughing like a maniac and ran towards where the Duke once stood. His speed was unmatched here; after all, not only did he possess the strength, thus speed of a Laity before becoming one, he stacked the benefits of the pond of strength and the ritual.
Therefore, making him twice as fast as everyone around here.
Elias was stopped from gaining confidence almost immediately, though; His body seemed to glow dim red before flying towards his left,
Shit
Elias quickly tried to infuse himself with moonlight to balance the starlight out but whoever had infused him was smart enough to keep infusing him with starlight.
Elias slammed into another man who immediately slapped him — before he could do anything though, he flew past the man and slammed into another woman.
The woman was quite smart and immediately covered herself with starlight, causing Elias to fly back to her.
Before he flew close enough for the woman to attack Elias, the mysterious Laity infused Elias with a huge amount of starlight.
Elias instantly repealed from the woman, but surprisingly was still flying towards his right.
The group of priests was all orderly grouped together while the duke explained Deity's Disciple to them, thus were in proximity.
Elias flew into another man; however, he was brushed off as the man was fighting someone else.
He slammed into another woman.
He slammed into another man.
Whoever is attacking me is obviously targeting me. Only me, not the students of Haoki.
Moreover, he seems to be extremely good at using lights.
As he flew into a small opening, Elias finally was able to see something other than the Priests fighting each other.
He saw himself flying towards a building!
At this moment he realized that the whole square where they were fighting had plenty of buildings, and him flying towards one who had serious implications.
It would not be assassination or they would have been more discreet. It might not even be malice; someone is using me.
Do they know that I have a trump card?
Elias's eyes widened as he realized another fact: what if their goal was for him to collide with the building?
"Fuck fuck fuck"
Elias started washing himself with moonlight to weaken the speed, but to his surprise, he was instead engulfed by moonlight.
And his speed of flying towards the building increased!
Quickly changing lights infused should be twice as hard as normally infusing!
Elias chuckled as waited to fly closer to the building.
…
Ladro instantly used the second technique to go towards the place where the duke once stood. Hiss technique was impeccable.
He precisely used enough moonlight and starlight to dash towards the place the duke was once standing, but used it sparsely enough to be able to observe the battlefield.
Instantly he scanned the area to find people whom he may deem morally wrong and a potential enemy. A list of people who succeeded in the ritual for the first time appeared in his mind as he stopped where the Duke was once one.
The reason he went there was simple: it was the closest tall place around him. He chose one target and rushed towards it.
Lo de, a 26 days old man who used his lover's heart in the ritual. That was not all that bad; after all, it was something his memories and nature dictated.
However, he showed immense hatred towards lighter skinned people and could be a problem for Ladro; after all, Ladro's skin was quite pale.
He ran and infused himself with moonlight and infused Lo de with starlight, using the first technique along with the second technique to have maximum efficiency and speed.
The first technique was using the essence in the atmosphere and extracting lights from it and infusing the lights into something.
Ladro slammed into Lo de, kicking him on his crotch. Such an attack would not disable seasoned fighters and priests — which they all were, but could give Ladro a second faster reaction time.
Ladro punched Lo de's neck; using swift movements, he slammed Lo de into the ground.
He punched Lo de in a smooth and controlled motion, attacking precise places, inflicting maximum pain and sensory damage to stun Lo de while mixing fatal attacks.
Ladro infused himself with moonlight and infused another priest with starlight to leave Lo de's lifeless body and attack his next victim.
Ah, the dead saint's fighting style still works like a charm.
Soon he used precise, practised movements to destroy another man who could be a threat to him.
He relied on punches and sensory overload to stun another woman, before infusing his hand with moonlight and the woman's back with starlight to pierce her body.
However, the woman infused her left hand with starlight and Ladro's head with moonlight just before dying, causing her lifeless hand to rush and hit Ladro.
He smiled at the futile attempt and shrugged off the pain; covered in blood, he infused himself with moonlight and someone else with starlight to quickly escape.
These kids have not fought enough to brush off pain yet.