Re: Broken Blades [Zorolo]
Well, that was fun. My feet had met with that shadow energy, and I had been thrown away like fiercely by that attack. After that, a powerful moving dagger came towards me, and I elected to evade; I wasn't a big fan of shadow magic, since it did disrupt my aura, but still, aura waves could meet with shadow and stop it. Even so, just the slightest bit more shadow magic, and my aura will be overwhelmed, but still, the clash of the powers still generally would prevent any attack from moving too far.
Suddenly, as soon as I looked, Tsuukai had disappeared. I had seen this skill before, I think. Cadenza had used it, and Mesfido as well, if I recalled correctly. Well now, if I could completely recall how he did it, I would have began my search, but I was still at a loss for how in the world a person could simply dive into the shadows around them. Still, this meant I had to be careful, and simply not moving was a good enough way to do that.
When the realm had finished forming, I had felt a brief instance of the cold bite of winter, even through my jacket, but I quickly used my aura to stabilize the temperature around me, returning it to a normal temperature and warming my body up. Now then, I actually had to get to finding the Master of Shadows. That would be a bit tricky, but I felt I had more then the ability to know when something was coming.
I closed my eyes, and the world of auras opened up. The movements of anything in the dark corners of this realm would be easily found from here, mostly without a sun to create shadows beneath or around me. I let my mind's eye search for the warrior that I found myself in conflict with. Suddenly, I felt a change, a movement of a mass of shadow magic, and knew where Tsuukai was coming from.
Quickly I spun around, moving my sword to block the attack from the Master of Shadows. The clash of swords sparked it off and we both stepped back, my sword thrusting forwards, and Tsuukai ducked, thrusting his blade upwards. I stepped back, spinning my sword around, knocking the sword away and dragging my golden blade along the ground in a slash. The Shadow Master jumped back, avoiding the blade of my sword. After his feet touched down, the dark clad man vanished again, probably hiding into the shadows.
That skill was clearly going to become annoying, and I knew it. Sadly, there was nothing I could do, for so long as there was shadows, that meant places to hide. All I could do was close my eyes and rely on my Spectral Sight to keep an eye on the attacks the dark clad man was making. Even that could be unreliable, since I was certain that Tsuukai had probably come up with some kind of skill to create puppets or something similar out of shadow magic.
A sudden mass of shadow energy came towards me, but it wasn't enough to be the Master of Shadows. Still, common sense told me to move, and as I moved, I felt him appear, forming behind me from a nearby tree and making a slash at me from behind. Crap, no time to defend!
I could hear and felt the grinding of the dark fencer's blade against my armor, and the force that cut a few of the links. I jumped forwards and turned, slashing my own sword and narrowly missing the dark haired man as he stepped back. That had been definitely close, and the fact I had missed him stated several things. However, I did hear a clank from him as he landed from his backwards jump. He had his own armor.
"So, you wear chain mail as well?" I asked him, getting ready to attack. Tsuukai made no move, which meant I'd have to find out for myself. My blade split the air and moved towards the dark haired man, who quickly moved from my sword, finally vanishing again as we drew close to a tree. I leapt back, putting myself in the center, away from the shadows. This wasn't going to be easy.