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#Post#: 1529--------------------------------------------------
Aki [2-10]
By: Chente Date: May 14, 2022, 12:12 am
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Aki slowly landed onto the ground, a hazy vision before him;
everything vibrating seemingly in and out of existence.
Aki || Slowly? Something wasn't quite right, was it?
Aki clenched his fist - was there something? Anything? Where was
he, right now? He had to reorient - People were in danger,
still.
But as soon as it cleared up, Aki was suddenly hit by a
repugnant smell.
Aki || War. He'd been on a battlefield for days, now. The smell
- it wasn't enough to make him falter. What was he seeing right
now?
A room. Stone walls, blood everywhere. Papers and.. Tools. Tools
of all kinds.
Aki steadied himself - was this reality, or a vision? What did
he -see- right now? His mind runs amok, seeking familiar sights.
Familiar voices. Familiar sensations. Anything to ground itself
with.
Tools to flay, to harm, to cut, to make one bleed. Tools to
break, crush and torment. Whips, hammers, nails and rope. A cage
hung from the ceiling.
The only semi-familiar thing was a humming from past the door.
Aki narrowed his gaze. Torture...
Aki waited, briefly, to see if it'd enter. Was it getting
closer? Further away? Was it stationary?
Everything was so hard to calculate the position of. But the
door seemed to come closer to him.
Aki reached out to it, at that, beckoned to open it by the slow
drift.
Aki pushed? Pulled? He wasn't sure, anymore - he just knew that
he was opening it.
As Aki reached out, he found himself in a field; as far as the
eye could see. Flowers, grass and the blue sky.
Aki inhaled. It was quite a sight, after all he'd seen these
past few days - but a part of him felt it wasn't set to last.
Aki inspected the locale, slowly - casually.
Yet one thing was in the center, one person who was out of place
almost. The serenity of the landscape was upset by his presence,
the flowers beneath him dead.
Aki steeled himself - his nerves, his focus, his mind - and
approached.
Rupert :: I dreamt a dream! That all the people of this world
could be saved from our sins, and of our perversion of nature.
Aki :: ..
Aki :: ..?
Rupert :: Purging the heathenous lands, saving lost souls and
being the martyr for their sins! I bleed and suffer for them. I
kill so that they do not. I am the shadow born from their vices.
Rupert :: But rejoice. They are to be made perfect, transcendent
and supreme. Only then will our creators look upon us with glee,
bliss and exuberation.
Rupert :: Reborn. Remolded. Remade. Reforged.
Rupert spun around, stepping around the field of flowers as he
rose his arms to the sky-- taking in the surroundings. "How
glorious my dream. How glorious the dream of our creators."
Aki stepped - closer. Closer. Closer. Footfall, now - heavy
steps. A hand reaches out toward Rupert's shoulder..!
Aki grabbed onto Ruperts shoulder. "Behold. The grandeur of a
new world is upon us. The souls before us are prisoners not by
my hands, but their own. What they create, they can destroy. And
for them I act; upon their words."
Aki gave it a tug, seeking to force his attention if at all
capable.
Rupert :: Thus I ask you; Aki of Sento. What worth is your
agony?
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- Ez :: Len! ..Len!.. Len!
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- Ez :: You need to.. to.. help.. help..
Aki! Aki!
Aki :: Have you ever considered the hypocrisy of your words?
Len attempts to continue the plan as it was.
Len if he could manage to move, that is.
Aki :: For even a moment, has it crossed your mind?
Len Thanatos, and the like.
Rupert :: What heresy perches your tongue, lesser being?
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- Ez :: You.. you.. ready? Ready?
Len was ready.
Len(Flamedestroyer) whispers ----> Are you going to warp me in
to whatever hellscape he's in, or something?
Aki :: You preach for those that seek not your aid, and enable
only those that do.
Aki :: You ask not their desire to become better, but claim to
act in their interest and the interest of those above them all
the same.
Aki :: Do you consider yourself so blessed as to say what others
want for them?
Elijah has joined the RP.
Elijah would wake up from his coma.
Rupert :: And to that I respond; what makes them the arbiters of
their destiny? Even I arbitrate not my own.
Aki :: No wonder Madundar was so faithful.
Rupert :: I was returned as the perfect soul; untainted by the
physical kingdom of light. Given life once more, thanks to
Akashas truth. But I act only as their word. Their hand.
Aki :: What doesn't?
Aki :: Each act is one of my own choice. Each breath is one I
choose to take.
Aki :: Obligation did not hold me here, in this war. It did not
compel me to fight.
Rupert :: Like a child; those acts need not be your own. Our
father and mother; who art in Paradise, shalt be the ones to
guide us.
Aki :: Our destinies may not be shaped by ourselves in our
fullest - that's impossible, for so long as there are other
people in this world.
Aki :: We shape each other. Not those above us.
Aki :: You asked of me my Agony, didn't you?
Aki :: What weight is my agony to you, but nothing - to you, who
cares not for it?
Aki :: It is of no worth to you.
Rupert grimaced. "Does a father not force his son into
discipline? Does he not punish the child; aid the child? It is
the same for them as it is for us! You speak of platitudes you
do not understand!"
Rupert :: Ignorant heathenous words, that go against all that
has been for centuries!
Aki :: To me, though, it is everything - for to suffer is just
proof that I am alive and untainted by whatever nonsensical
spiel you continue to spit.
Rupert continued, shouting. "In the age of the gods! We
worshipped them, we acted as their children."
Rupert :: They gave to us life; they gave to us being. We owe
all to them! Higher beings, of a mind, strength and level far
beyond us.
Aki :: That age has passed. If they did not intend for it to
come as such, then perhaps they should have used their
apparently boundless wisdom to plan further - or is that concept
lost to you?
Rupert :: Does one not bow to their king?
Aki :: Your King is not my own.
Aki :: Not even amongst themselves do they find peace.
Aki :: If they are just as flawed as us, why should I devote my
everything to them?
Aki :: If they truly care, why are you alone the blessed?
Rupert growled, visibly shaking with rage at Akis words for a
second before calming. "You.."
Aki :: If you believe as such, then perhaps you're just as
flawed as them.
Aki :: Just as flawed as me.
Aki :: Just as flawed as every other person that fought and died
for your flaws.
Aki :: ..it is not inherently evil to be selfish.
Aki :: TO want more.
Aki :: Even you want more, do you not?
Rupert :: This is a shame, Aki. You are a part of the disease; a
part of the machine. You are cancer. A brainwashed sheep.
Covered in sin, vice and evil. You have just commited the
highest, grandest sin of pride.
Len weighed his options. hat was he seeing now.
Aki :: I believe you misunderstand.
Aki :: I hold myself above no other - I merely ask that no other
hold themself above me.
Aki :: If you'd give that the name of Pride, then -
Aki :: What, exactly, are you?
Rupert :: I.. I live only for their being. Only for their word.
And that of His Highness.
Rupert :: I am free of sin. Free of lower emotion.
Rupert :: They tasked me with being all that is holy; to bring
about the Advent War. I started it!
Aki :: You're far more Prideful than me, ye' who speak ill only
of those you beleive lesser than yourself.
Aki :: believe*)
Rupert :: And if they are perfect and I, their creation, follow
only them; then am I not perfect too?
Rupert :: What makes me prideful to you, Aki!?
Aki :: The fact you believe yourself perfect.
Aki :: If you, and those gods were perfect -
Aki :: Nobody, not even I, would find fault with you.
Rupert :: !!
Aki :: And doubly so - If you are perfect..
Aki :: How are they above you?
Aki :: What more have you to rise to?
[And the King rightly chuckled. "You who understand not pain or
suffering; for thy have suffered such greatly that all is
suffering to you. I command thee to ease thy suffering and gaze
truthfully; for this is the truth, the whole truth and the truth
you shall know."]
[The king replied to his disgrace. "Ease thyself of pride and
willfulness, and seek suffering not from others or thy lords but
in thyself. For despite this insult, I love you as I love all of
Man, and you must learn to take this love into your heart."]
["For thy pride blinds thee to thy fellow man; thou are no
greater then I."]
Rupert (9500 Damage)
Aki :: If you find them an unreachable, unparalleled existence -
and you consider yourself the same, then is there any greater
showing of pride? Of arrogance!?
Ruperts armor broke in a instant, Akis words having broken
through his power. His hair uncurled, his body trembled and he
looked himself over. "What..? Its lies.."
Rupert :: I am.. perfection. I am the incarnation of justice. I
am purity, virtue given form. I am the hand of the heavens,
their mortal guide.
Aki :: To be flawed -
Aki :: Is not inherently evil.
Rupert :: I heed not.. the flaws of lesser man. I refuse..
Aki :: If so, then...
Aki :: There would be no good in this world, or in the heavens
above it.
As Aki spoke, he saw a hole open up, as Len fell out of it and
to his side.
Len(Flamedestroyer) whispers ----> Am i still stone?
Len :: Holy hell.
Len :: Now that I tihnk about it, that's an oxymoron.
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- Ez :: This is Rupert's Mindscape.
Len :: And also alliteration. TRuly, a grand phrase.
Rupert :: But then.. if I am not perfect.. what role have they
given to me..?
Len(Flamedestroyer) whispers ----> Quick question. How are you
guys doing on the outside, though?
Len :: Is he...is he ahving his third act breakdown?
Aki :: ..I can't answer that for you.
Aki :: I'm not perfect either.
Aki reached a hand out, slowly, to Rupert.
Aki :: If neither of us know, then are we truly so different?
Rupert :: Then.. what would they create if not for their image,
their world? Unless..
Rupert's Longinus suddenly appears before him, surpising him as
he takes a few steps back. "My spear? It's.. what was its name
again?"
Aki stepped forth, alongside it, his hand still extended - "I
couldn't tell you."
Cercis(Shavil Dark) whispers ----> Shenanigans time? Y/N
As Rupert reached out to it, it glew before him. "I am Rupert
Azathoth, First Templar of the Taminism Orthodoxy, Inquisitor of
Salendria and Advisor of the King. And in his name I fight, and
for the world of the gods. And yet.."
The spear changed before Rupert as it emitted a pillar of light.
"..So that's what I was."
Aki , finally, allowed his hand to fall. "What is it?"
Aki :: I never did name my blade, now that I think about it.
The pillar of light around Rupert began to switch; what was once
light-attributed became but dark. And it grew, oh did it grow.
Len :: Oh.
Len :: That doesn't look good.
Aki glanced - skyward. This was the extent of what he'd grasped,
wasn't it?
Longinus (Divine) transmutates, becoming Devil's Spear (Ancient)
Aki :: This is its true nature, is it not?
Rupert :: Imperfection blankets me. I am mortal, like you-- but
given form by the heavens. The man known as Judas Yuhwe died
many years ago.
Darkness covered Ruperts gauntlets, greaves and helmet coating
them as they shapeshifted.
Aki inhaled, steadying himself.
Len :: Y'know.
Len :: Kinda looks like from here he's garing himself up to beat
our asses.
Aki :: I really do make my own problems, don't I, Len?
Len :: Seemingly so.
Rupert :: I have tortured hundreds. Slain thousands, and caused
immense agony. Now I see my true face.
Len inspects his own body. HOw was the stone going
Len :: Bro.
Rupert :: It is beautifully.. evil.
Len :: You're ridiculous!
Len :: You jsut went from one extreme to the other.
Aki :: I grow tired of the extremes.
Len :: Glanced upon who you truly were and then rejected it
again.
Len :: Are you being serious?
Aki :: I'm glad we're on the same page..
Len :: How arrogant you gotta be to imagine that you have to be
some paragan of suffering or salvation.
Len :: You're just you.
A dark hellfire covers Rupert, as he transforms. "I am no
paragon of evil; I am merely an evil man."
Len :: Well, I won't deny that.
Len :: So...what are you gonna do about it?
Rupert :: For what reason I was reborn I know not; but I see now
what truth there is behind the 'machine' I once cowered before.
Len :: From what I recall, you came back as a deal to save your
wife and kid. A noble pursuit.
Aki :: Words will reach him no longer.
Rupert :: Wrong. Morn rests in the gods hands now.
Rupert :: I am not fit to look upon him once more, not with this
face.
Len :: Then tear him from them.
Aki assumed a stance, holding his half-blade in a reversed grip
like a dagger.
Len :: Why not rebel against hte divine, and take your family
back? You certianly have the power to do it.
Len :: And I cna promise you they won't be too judgmental about
hte whole thing, though I certainly will be.
Aki :: I laid Pandora to rest with these hands, as per her
request.
Aki :: Do you ask of me the same?
Len :: Every momento f thsi war, your wife was working to the
bone.
Len :: To both revive MOrn.
Rupert :: Kill me if you can, but you will most likely die
trying. I will turn this earth blaze.
Len :: And to get what little was left of you.
Len :: Are you just going to tear all of that hard work away?
Aki :: Are you asking me -to- try, Rupert?
Len :: Give up, on who you once were to be The Templar, the
INquisitor, Right Hand of the King.
Len :: You don't have to.
Rupert chuckled. "I wanted to kill Morn since the day I came
back. The answer I gave to the guardian of the gate."
Rupert :: "Moral balance is not divine balance. It was not only
I who was meant to die; she and he also were. To leave nothing
but an empty village by the sea."
Len :: Akasha did this to you, right?
Len :: Warped your existance, removing empathy, removing common
sense, even. Leaving some proto-angel abomination.
Aki :: I held her soul in my hand, at a point.
Aki :: It was as light as any other.
Len :: And yet, you haven't tried to resist its pull.
Rupert :: If you saw that day; you know that was never true.
Aki :: I didn't.
Rupert :: My last words; were spent cursing her existence.
Pandora. Pandora. Pandora.
Len :: Or perhaps calling out to her to live.
Len :: After all, that is what I saw.
Len :: I saw a father do the only thing he had left to protect
those he loved, and begging them to survive.
Rupert paused. "Maybe. But that man.."
Len :: I saw not Rupert Azathoth, but the man he once was. Who
he still could be.
Len :: That man is you!
Rupet :: He died many years ago. And his soul still rests there.
Rupert revealed his leylines to you; and what soul he had.
Rupert :: Ready your arms or die, Advent and Warrior. I tire of
your vain attempts to 'make good out of me'.
Aki :: Do not preach death to a necromancer and one who has
defied it time and time again.
Aki :: I anticipated this.
Len(Flamedestroyer) whispers ----> What soul did he have
Aki :: I spoke, knowing of the end result.
Aki :: Not once did I wholeheartedly believe that I would find a
peaceful, effortless resolution for you.
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- Empty.
Aki :: I exist to struggle - and today, you struggle with me, as
we both have many times before.
Len chuckles.
Rupert :: Good. You'd be a fool to believe otherwise.
Len :: So that's it, then.
Len :: No other option but to kill you? Lest you go on another
'grand crusade'.
Len :: Holy hll.
Rupert :: We are polar opposites. No matter who I am, I cannot
abide by your existence, Aki of Sento. You are a thorn in my
world.
Aki :: I will put you to rest, and with these hands of mine,
assure such.
Len :: And i will help.
Len :: Maybe.
Len :: Probably will just die but hey, been there done that,
right?
Rupert squinted. "Dimshear."
Len(Flamedestroyer) whispers ----> How much time has passed
since Len spoke to Lopt, anyway?
Len that ability...Len had seen Elijah perform it before. But,
it required souls. Souls of which Rupert didn't hav..did he?
Souls began to pop all over Rupert as he brandished his Devil's
Spear, ready to kill. As quick as he took this new guise, he had
already began to use Akashic artes.
Aki brought his blade back, maintaining a perfect guard as he
held every angle.
Aki focused, briefly - on that soul.
Len(Flamedestroyer) whispers ----> Ez, if possible, bring Elijah
into the mindscape. He's probably asking for it anyway.
Rupert :: I have carried the sin, weight and suffering of every
soul I have ever purified. They were to rise to Paradise, but
now they will fuel my descent.
Aki :: Speak not this shame.
Aki :: I'll put them to rest with you.
Len Stepped forward into nothingness, the world itself becoming
null and void for a rief moment as h, too, entered an akashic
trance.
Aki :: When this is over, that weight will be mine to bare.
Len :: I wonder if they'll give me a raise after this.
--
Aki :: In this world, I believe you are the one least like me.
Rupert :: What makes you think that, Aki?
Aki :: Ideals.
Rupert :: Is it the sheer difference in the weight of our
beings?
Aki :: Thoughts.
Aki :: No -
Aki :: It's your demeanor.
Aki :: I am thankful to have met you.
Rupert :: Oh? What, did my 'demeanor' remind you of what to
avoid becoming?
Aki :: No.
Aki :: I would never become as such.
Aki :: But...
Rupert pushes Len and Aki back.
Aki :: I can't find it in myself to blame you for what you've
become.
Len :: God damn!
Aki :: We both struggle the same - the weight of it means
little.
Rupert :: Do you pity me? Sympathize with me?
Rupert :: Do you empathize, even?
Len :: I despise.
Aki :: An assortment of the above, and more.
Aki :: Is it not human nature?
Aki :: It does not sway me. Weaken me. The thought doesn't even
reach for a moment the course of my actions -
Aki :: That is why I understand.
Rupert :: So it seems. I've become much like many of those who I
took to the gaols.
Aki :: I understand why I can't reach you.
Len had philosophized with so many ridiculous people on this
journey. And yet, each time he had not the power to defeat them
in combat nor in words.
Elijah(Niceman1488) <---- r u rdy
Len A phrase repeated in many works of magic, even in htevery
earhts he molded rung in his head. Was this to remain true.
Aki brought himself up, standing at the ready with blade, still,
in hand.
Len :: But this is not a constant.
Cyrus :: [Elemental Wall!]
Len :: That's in the chant for earthen tide, isn't it? Funny
phrase.
From beyond the veil, you hear Cyrus' voice ring out.
Rupert :: How do their words still reach us here? Is it..
Realizing, Rupert shook his head as he facepalmed. "Ah, I forgot
about him. The Advent of Purson. It explains how you came here,
Undertaker."
Len got up once more. He was used to this, this level of
suffering at least. He coudl be stabbed, shot, nuked. He would
rise up once more. That was what they would want. Even moreso,
it was what any good Sum valued.
Len :: Yeah, I've got friends in high places. SPeaking of.
A magical field surrounded Aki and Len, as they felt protected.
Aki :: Earlier, Rupert -
Len :: Ez, if you can hear me, I need you to let oscar and yours
hands pierce throug the barrier for say, .2 seconds.
Aki :: The way you spoke.
Aki :: You wanted me to try, didn't you?
Aki :: Do you want me to succeed?
Len stretched his arms outward, whether they would touch flesh
was another question.
Len Theoretically, with Ez already in the man's head, this could
succeed.
Rupert :: Even now I swing; osscilating between light and dark.
The holy man in me; and the true revelation.
Aki stood at the ready, blade in hand - shattered, but resolute.
Len(Flamedestroyer) whispers ----> Gonna be honest with you
guys, I do NOT have the firepower for this one, and it doesn't
seem like Aki does either. We're gonna have to link.
Rupert :: Why was I created evil? Questions spin in me lik ea
whirlwind. I don't want to lose, nor die. Yet the voice in my
head asks such.
Aki :: Are you still Human?
Aki :: Still Man?
Aki :: What do you find yourself to be?
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- Ez :: We've got our hands full.. with
Veine! Your still prone, holding down Madundar as we speak
Len :: Heh.
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- Ez :: But shes going all out. Oscars
down, Cyrus got hit and I'm barely holding.
Len :: Outside me's still got madundar holed up. The others,
though...
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- Ez :: You've got to win, fast. I can't
hold you for long.
#Post#: 1530--------------------------------------------------
Re: Aki [2-10]
By: Chente Date: May 14, 2022, 12:30 am
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Len :: Getting their shti kicked in by Veine.
Len :: Just you and me, and we've failed once.
Aki :: I assume Azazel left.
Aki inhaled - "Failure is the first step to success, Len."
Aki :: I've lost many battles I wish I'd won in the moment.
Aki :: ..This is the first one, though, that I think I
absolutely can not lose - no matter what.
Aki :: I've thought that many times before..
Aki :: But this time, I know it.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Then let me sing you your swan song
to oblivion, sons of man.
Len It was in these moments. THese moments of despair that Len,
the risk-averse man, was at his best. For when he was away from
any possibility of lazyness, when success truly depended on his
own actions, he became far greater than himself.
Len :: Can't rely entirely on the others.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Even children must eventually wake
from their delusion.
Len :: Can't rely entirely upon you, either. Today, I've got ot
pull my own weight, right?
((OOC)) Daphne :: [Cyrus' Elemetnal Wall grants you Dark Armor!]
Aki :: Delusions are not limited to children.
Len :: Man, it's these kinds of days that I hate most.
Aki :: I will wake you from yours.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert spins his Devil's Spear around, at the
ready. "So be it."
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Your defense. Weak.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: I strike you down, sons of man.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: What power I hold, what power you
hold. The difference is immense.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Aki realized something from their clash.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Bit by bit, he grew weaker. And the power he
was losing..
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert (New World Order Nullified)
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: That was their gift too? I care not
for the toys of god.
Rupert draws his Longinus back..
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: I will kill you.. with my own two
hands!--
--
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Why won't you die?!
[Overdrive] Aki breaks their limits, phantasmal glass coming
from them as they land back on the ground in their transformed
Oversoul state!!!
Aki defends!
Aki defends!
Aki (+14 CP)
Rupert (Mortal Wound: 20 Damage)
Rupert draws his Longinus back..
Aki (Overdrive Mode: 2 Turn(s) Remaining)
Akis body emits an absolutely radiant golden aura, having
transformed past their limits..
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Even with all this power..!
Aki defends!
Error. Unable to evaluate!
Error. Unable to evaluate!
Error. Unable to evaluate!
Rupert pushes forward, spearheading Aki(462 Damage, 1920
Remaining)
Aki (De-Armor(3/3) Inflict)
Aki defends!
Aki (+14 CP)
A flash of light appears ontop of Len suddenly!
Len vanishes from sight.
Len reappears midair!
(Critical)Rupert attacks Aki(234 Damage, 1940 Remaining)
[Oblivion Touch] Len holds their hands parallel to eachother,
dark lightning crossing between them
Aki :: You ask -me- that!?
A necrotic force, beyond necromancy, beyond magic appears
between their hands.
Aki (Overdrive Mode: 1 Turn(s) Remaining)
Akis body emits an absolutely radiant golden aura, having
transformed past their limits..
Aki defends!
The force grows in size, bouncing around as Len pulls their
hands open..
Dark lightning continues to spark around Len as they hold it
together, planting their feet on the ground.
Len launches the force forward at Rupert as a large sphere of
pure anti-life.
Aki :: Can you avoid destruction?
Aki smirks as they rub a bit of blood from their mouth, slowly
strutting towards their opponents, unstoppable..
The orb strikes Rupert true, imparting the concept of Death onto
them on impact!
Aki :: Thaumic.. Arte!
Ruperts body ages rapidly, losing their lifeforce as their hair
goes white and their body becomes decrepit..
Rupert wastes away in a moment, their body on route to their
ultimate death.(5554 Damage)
Death has no effect on Rupert!
Aki :: HAH!
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: You should not be this strong!
Rupert (Mortal Wound: 40 Damage)
Rupert (Attacking has worn out)
A trail of chi suddenly follows Aki as they become a warped
blur, moving far too fast for the eye to see in that moment!
The blurred figure of Aki dashes towards Rupert, practically
sliding across the field.
Rupert gets ready!
Rupert slams his Longinus into Len(Miss! Target is Airborne!)
Bouncing off the landscape, Aki leaps in a different direction
diagonal of Aki
Rupert rams his Longinus in, knocking Len back(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
With impetus, Aki dashes to Rupert, tagging them with a strike
from their Randgrid's Blade as they freeze up, perfectly
still.(5838 Damage)
Aki backflips, performing a number of extra flips midair as they
raise their Randgrid's Blade one last time..
Aki :: Yin-Yang Exaltation!
Rupert bolts forward quickly and stabs them for the final
blow!(Miss! Target is Airborne!)
Rupert pulls back their spear!
Rupert swings their weapon around with a giant arc, slashing
everything around him
Aki(1 Damage, 2597 Remaining)
『Thaumic Arte - Yin Yang Exaltation』 Aki performs
an ultra-wide swing, striking each 'tagged' enemy with a single
fatal, finishing blow!
Rupert(8205 Damage)
The ground beneath Akis foes cracks, destroyed as a result of
Akis fiercesome might!
Aki (+14 CP)
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rueprt :: You.. you're cheating somehow!
Rupert draws his Longinus back..
Rupert pushes forward, spearheading Len(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
Rupert pulls back their spear, their eye gleaming!
Aki defends!
Aki defends!
Aki (+14 CP)
Rupert begins thrusting their spear at Aki!
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: I refuse to accept this!
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Aki with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(267 Damage, 3242
Remaining)
Len :: Yeah, i thought that too.
Error. Unable to evaluate!
Error. Unable to evaluate!
Error. Unable to evaluate!
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Aki with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(267 Damage, 2975
Remaining)
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Aki with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(The attack is
blocked by Defend!)
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Aki with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(The attack is
blocked by Defend!)
[Oblivion Touch] Len holds their hands parallel to eachother,
dark lightning crossing between them
Rupert pulls back their spear, their eye gleaming!
A necrotic force, beyond necromancy, beyond magic appears
between their hands.
Aki defends!
Rupert begins thrusting their spear at Len!
The force grows in size, bouncing around as Len pulls their
hands open..
Aki defends!
Aki (+14 CP)
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Len with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Len with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
Dark lightning continues to spark around Len as they hold it
together, planting their feet on the ground.
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Len with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
Len launches the force forward at Rupert as a large sphere of
pure anti-life.
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Len with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
Len :: Person after person resisted my ability.
The orb strikes Rupert true, imparting the concept of Death onto
them on impact!
Ruperts body ages rapidly, losing their lifeforce as their hair
goes white and their body becomes decrepit..
Rupert pulls back their spear!
Rupert (Stun(2/2) Inflict)
Rupert wastes away in a moment, their body on route to their
ultimate death.(8363 Damage)
Death has no effect on Rupert!
Rupert swings their weapon around with a giant arc, slashing
everything around him
Aki(36 Damage, 3851 Remaining)
Rupert gets ready!
[Oblivion Touch] Len holds their hands parallel to eachother,
dark lightning crossing between them
Rupert swings their spear around them, rotating it rapidly.
Aki :: Tiger Blade!
Rupert swings their spear around them, rotating it rapidly.
Rupert swings their spear around them, rotating it rapidly.
A necrotic force, beyond necromancy, beyond magic appears
between their hands.
Aki swings their blade into Rupert(The attack is deflected!)
Rupert suddenly takes flight, launching off with great stamina!
Aki rises their blade, now in a perfect position..(The attack is
deflected!)
Aki (Tiger Blade(2/2) Inflict)
The force grows in size, bouncing around as Len pulls their
hands open..
Len :: Resisted oblivion with nauhgt but pure will.
Aki defends!
Dark lightning continues to spark around Len as they hold it
together, planting their feet on the ground.
Aki defends!
Aki (+14 CP)
Rupert spins around midair, preparing to come down with their
spear.
Len launches the force forward at Rupert as a large sphere of
pure anti-life.
The orb strikes Rupert true, imparting the concept of Death onto
them on impact!
Ruperts body ages rapidly, losing their lifeforce as their hair
goes white and their body becomes decrepit..
Rupert drops down instantly, lancing Lens heart with their
spear.(252 Damage, 2545 Remaining)
Rupert wastes away in a moment, their body on route to their
ultimate death.(Miss!)
Rupert follows up with another jump, followed by another quick
descsent.
Dropping back down on Len and piercing them, Rupert does one
final skillful leap and midair flip(786 Damage, 1759 Remaining)
In a final strike of utmost skill, Rupert comes back down on Len
and eliminates them with a skybound strike.(0 Damage, 1759
Remaining)
Len is weak aggroed by Rupert (3/3 Inflict)
Rupert is launched into the air
Rupert lowers their spear.
Aki (Tiger Blade: 1 Turn(s) Remaining)
Rupert pulls back their spear, their eye gleaming!
Rupert begins thrusting their spear at Aki!
Aki :: Tiger Blade!
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Aki with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(534 Damage, 4554
Remaining)
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Aki with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(534 Damage, 4020
Remaining)
Aki swings their blade into Rupert(The attack is parried!)
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Aki with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(534 Damage, 3486
Remaining)
Aki rises their blade, now in a perfect position..(The attack is
parried!)
Aki (Tiger Blade(2/2) Inflict)
Like a hurricane, Rupert repeatedly strikes and pierces Aki with
their pike before pulling back to begin again(534 Damage, 2952
Remaining)
Aki :: Tiger Blade!
Rupert draws his Longinus back..
Aki swings their blade into Rupert(556 Damage)
Aki has grounded Rupert!
Aki rises their blade, now in a perfect position..(556 Damage)
Aki (Tiger Blade(2/2) Inflict)
Aki defends!
Rupert's attack failed due to altitude change!
Aki defends!
Aki (+14 CP)
Rupert draws his Longinus back..
Aki (Tiger Blade: 1 Turn(s) Remaining)
Aki defends!
Rupert pushes forward, spearheading Len(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
Error. Unable to evaluate!
Error. Unable to evaluate!
Error. Unable to evaluate!
Aki defends!
Aki (+14 CP)
Rupert gets ready!
Rupert slams his Longinus into Len(Miss! Target is Airborne!)
Rupert rams his Longinus in, knocking Len back(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
[Oblivion Touch] Len holds their hands parallel to eachother,
dark lightning crossing between them
Rupert bolts forward quickly and stabs them for the final
blow!(Miss! Target is Airborne!)
A necrotic force, beyond necromancy, beyond magic appears
between their hands.
The force grows in size, bouncing around as Len pulls their
hands open..
Len's stagger has been broken! (Stagger is now at 69%!)
Rupert gets ready!
Rupert slams his Longinus into Len(Miss! Target is Airborne!)
Aki (Tiger Blade has worn out)
Rupert rams his Longinus in, knocking Len back(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
Aki defends!
Dark lightning continues to spark around Len as they hold it
together, planting their feet on the ground.
Aki defends!
Aki (+14 CP)
Len launches the force forward at Rupert as a large sphere of
pure anti-life.
Rupert bolts forward quickly and stabs them for the final
blow!(Miss! Target is Airborne!)
The orb strikes Rupert true, imparting the concept of Death onto
them on impact!
Ruperts body ages rapidly, losing their lifeforce as their hair
goes white and their body becomes decrepit..
Rupert wastes away in a moment, their body on route to their
ultimate death.(9999 Damage)
Death has no effect on Rupert!
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: At this rate, I..
Rupert draws his Longinus back..
Rupert pushes forward, spearheading Len(Miss! Target is
Airborne!)
Aki :: Tiger Blade!
Len :: [The earth is unmoving, the most sturdy of rocks. But
even this is not a constant.]
Aki swings their blade into Rupert(506 Damage)
Rupert draws his Longinus back..
Len :: [Earth becomes water, water becomes a wave! Now rise!]
Aki rises their blade, now in a perfect position..(506 Damage)
Aki (Tiger Blade(2/2) Inflict)
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert pulls back, pushed to his limits.
Len :: [Earthen Tide!]
The earth moves to protect Len before turning like a wave!
[End of Battle]
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: You think you're so strong, don't
you?
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: But I am stronger! I need not be
perfect, I may be flawed-- but I will never..
Len :: I think I died like four times, so no.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: I will never admit weakness to you
two!
Aki :: Strong?
Len :: Resilient is a more apt description.
Aki :: I've lost so much, today.
Aki :: Battles. Lives.
Len :: Aki.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Yet you keep going. Without divine
will to hold you.
Len :: That Ragnarok of yours.
Len :: It touches concepts, correct?
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Without ignorance or disgrace of
suffering.
Aki :: That's why we're here in the first place.
Len :: It is not merely a tool to take a gnosis.
Len :: BUt what if we used it was a tool to release it.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: I'll end you in one hit!
Len opens his heart to his ally.
Aki :: I attempted to seize his divine strings.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert readies his Devil's Spear, golden light
and energy flowing into him.
Len :: To..lift ones restrictions.
Len :: To lift MY restrictions.
Aki :: Do you think that'd work?
Len :: Why not?
Aki plunged his grip into Len's soul, grazing their Gnosis.
Aki sought to find the restrictions placed upon it - upon Len,
as a whole, with the Advent willing.
Aki :: If we die because you wanted to get stronger I'll beat
your ass in Hell.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Len began to emit an energy as Aki touched
him.
Len :: You'd have to wait in line.
Aki :: There won't be a line if I'm in the back of it.
Len :: Heh.
Len :: Y'know when I first unlocked Antaeus, and hypnos as well,
I was scared out of my damn wits.
Aki :: Don't be.
Len :: THe power was growing, the divine curse that took away
those I loved, the community i worked for, as growing again.
Len :: Yet, here, when it's my choice?
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: I offer my left arm as sacrifice to
call upon primordial darkness! Break me, defile me and curse
this soul to all hells! For one purpose, I secure our pact. O
Angra Mainyu!
Len :: Feels pretty damn well.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert slashes off his left arm with his
Devils Spear, blood coating the flowers. (54000 Damage)
Len :: And now that i think about it, my previous belief was a
little ridiculous.
Len :: AFter all, I cry necromancy and akashci artes as natural
tools, not aligned to one purpose.
Aki :: The ability to change one's belief is proof of freedom.
Len :: Indeed it is.
Len :: And it is a freedom our opponent here shall never
experience.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: And so I call forth infinite terror
thusly with Devestation as its messenger. Thus: I beseech and
summon you in awe of your annihilation! Elemental of pain,
suffering and true justice--
Len Figured it was about time to rleease those restrictions
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Thaumic.. Arte!
Len :: What are hte lines again?
Len :: Advent of MOrtixis, lifting rstriction!
Len :: For the glory of Sarzz!
Aki tore his palm free, readying his guard.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Images appeared behind Rupert, covered in
static that spoke with him.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Lore :: Thaumic.. Arte!
((OOC)) Daphne :: Kurusu :: Thaumic.. Arte!
((OOC)) Daphne :: His Highness :: Thaumic.. Arte!
Len once more attempted to unleash oblivion.
Len :: I suppose if that's what we're doing...
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: I hold access to His Highness'
abilities, through our theurgy pact-- being a spirit more then a
man. Thus, I hold this ability too.
Len Pushed himself further, the energy within himself flowing
far more outwards, coursing throughout his entire being. He had
seen it before, in Oscar, had seen it before when he was a young
Sum, this type of will.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert raises his spear towards Aki and Len, a
ball of ultra mega deep super unstoppable superb darkness covers
his Devil's Spear.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Lens skin began to peel as the darkness seeped
from within him.
((OOC)) Daphne :: The earth beckoned at his feet.
((OOC)) Daphne :: The air around him twisted and turned.
Len At this moment, did not fear himself, nor the abilities that
were emanating forth from him. They were at his beck and call,
to be used as he saw fit.
Len To protect his friends.
Len To protect his new family.
Len And to protect his kingdom.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Radiant light peeped from Lens eyes as he
began to feel a deeper, more powerful connection with the
abilities lying deep in him.
Aki(CactuarSmoothie) <---- That attack is empowered by the
Anti-Human Equation. Its tantamount to poison to just be in its
proximity for you. But for eln..
Len(Flamedestroyer) whispers ----> If i end up shooting a big
move at him, may i name it?
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- That attack is empowered by the
Anti-Human Equation. Its tantamount to poison to just be in its
proximity for Aki. But for you..
Len(Flamedestroyer) <---- sure
Aki :: This one's gonna' be all you, bud.
Aki :: He's -really- trying to kill me..
Len Steps forward.
Len :: Yeah, Anti-Human Equation and everything.
Len :: Key word.
Len :: Human.
Aki would persevere, even in the poison-like quality.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: You recognize this, don't you?
Len steps forward once more
Len :: Like I said before Rupert, you're not very special.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: It's an ability His Highness has
from a parallel existence. And through our pact, I have it.
Len :: Someone else has thoguht of this exact thing.
Len :: This exact well, process.
Aki extends his shroud forth, allowing it to clad Len - like a
tether.
Aki was, for once, being forced to play support to the best of
his capacity.
Len :: This whole plan you're trying to set forth has already
been planned for millennia now and millennia after.
Len :: Combination.
Len :: WOrlds colliding.
Len :: A vertiable paradise for one's chosen people.
Len :: It was once my dream.
Len :: But...I've reconsidered.
Len :: I've reconsidered for I still have the soul to do so, the
power to do so.
Len :: The freedom to change and also to grow.
Len :: I wish I could offer you the same, that you could offer
yourself the same.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: You abandon your peoples goals,
then? A traitor to ones very race?
Len :: But in the here and now, I can't allow you to live, to
allow the pawns of the Angels to once more take what I desire.
Len :: I am no traitor ot the Sum. Their plan was flawed from
the beginning and too grandiose. A plan born of depseration,
rather than careful planning.
Len :: ANd once I return ot their ranks, I shall demolish it
from its very core.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Ah, you are not a traitor but a
rebel at heart. For that, I can't help but applaud you.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: Yet now.. you..
Len 's shroud of energy pulsd once more, his appearance, fading,
even. The guise of man that he had held for the past years
breaking under the stress. Revealing nothing more than what he
truly was, the Sum he was.
Len And a golden glow was added to his shroud, the familiar
Oversoul.
Len :: You could say I'm...
Len :: Greater than the Sum of my parts.
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((OOC)) Daphne :: ''DIE!'' shouted Rupert as he swung his lance
forward with all the energy crackling around it, ripping across
space and time-- warping dimensions as it ripped through the
field of flowers. The laws of order and reason destroyed in its
wake.
Aki braced himself, instinctively.
Len the crackle of energy expanded outward, it was chaotic, yet
controlled, the necrotic force beyond necromancy, beyond akashic
artes growing for a final time, and yet, for once, being molded.
No more were there restrictions against the life he coudl wield,
or what he could trade. Nor any limits to hi
((OOC)) Daphne :: It was like the polar opposite to his own UF.
A man of opposite extremes, he had switched so easily.
Len s force.
Len :: Thaumic Arte....!
((OOC)) Daphne :: Or was darkness always his true calling?
Len :: 'Aghnam 8:14'.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: !?
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: No!
Len :: And thus, the Demiurge sent forward a great serpent to
swallow the world.
Len the chains of tartarus appeared once more, but there wer
more numerous in number, they, too, began to form a shape.
Scales, a body, a manifestation of Len's will, and a defiance to
the very thing that held him to this war. He wielded the ability
of the divine.
Len And now, he would leverage it.
Len :: In his eyes, man, the Titans, they all committeda great
sin. THe cycle of life and rebiirth was slowed, they had
acquired souls in defiance to his will.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: The scriptures.. I've never heard
that one!
Len Remembered that day. Remembered it vividly. When the whole
world had been torn asunder. He remembered the divine machine,
SAEDEYE, the serpent, and the comet. He remembered his kind
being slaughtered, one of the first of the attempted purge.
Len The visage took a clearer shape, as though everything in its
being was meant to demonstrate terror and destruction. A tear
flowed form Len's eye. This awful, nay, abhorrent strength was
now his own, to use as he saw fit.
Len How ironic.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: How.. old are you? You are not a
generic Sum.
Len The endless serpent, whose coils strangle the world and
whose venom desecrates souls. This was Agaustus' gift to Man.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert turned his spear, as Zarathustra cut
through everything in its way, the beam that is against order
and reason heading towards Len.
Len :: Coil the world itself in my name!
Len :: Swallow all with impunity, Jormungandr!
Len he sent the serpent forward, sne his power forward, to
swallow and to maim, to destroy the existence that was once
Judas Yuhwe, that was now Rupert Azathoth, and end him for a
final time.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: !
((OOC)) Daphne :: The serpent devoured the beam, coiling as it
sped towards Rupert, towering over him.
Len Simply continued onward, the memories of days of eld
rippling outward.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: O gods.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: O divine comedy.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: For why was I returned as an
imperfect being? To feel penance for my arrogance..?
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: On all I am and will ever be, I
curse thee.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Rupert :: And thus, with infinite hate.. I
die..
((OOC)) Daphne :: A serpents screech can be heard as it drops
down onto Rupert.
Aki :: Rest.
Len :: Wonder if the folks back home would be proud of that
one.
Len :: IN a way, it's revenge. Perhaps a few generations too
late.
Aki :: If nothing else, I am.
((OOC)) Daphne :: Len and Aki found themselves standing back
where they were. Madundar was there, Cyrus, Ez, Elijah and
Oscar-- even Veine. But the person known as Rupert..
((OOC)) Daphne :: Was no more.
Aki tore his hand free of the light with one - final - snap.
Aki clenched it.
Aki :: How long?
((OOC)) Daphne :: The Arrogant Man has fallen.
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