So, i'm back. My computer wasn't working properly and my cellphone is slow as hell, so i couldn't access wikia this whole week until now. But we got a lot of updates. There's too much stuff to put in a single post, so i'm going to post them all separately. Once everyone has read the latest post, and any discussion about them is over, i will post the next one. Here's the first.
Reisen's Noble Arts, Deus Ex Machina:
A shadow was cast over the length of the Dome.
ÒÇîEh? Did the sky suddenly darken?ÒÇì
ÒÇîYou're kidding! I didn't bring an umbrella...wait, what's that?!ÒÇì
One after the other, people began exclaiming as they looked up at the darkened sky.
This was unavoidable, for the shadows which had darkened the skies had not been cast by clouds, but by rubble that were even now falling from on high, falling into the ring one by one as though attracted by some unnamed force.
ÒÇîWh, what is this?! All of a sudden, buildings, cars, even trains are starting to drop into the ring! Were they carried in by a tornado?!ÒÇì
No.
Indeed, the amount and content of the rubble was akin to that of a tornado had it swept through a town. But had it been a natural phenomenon, then such an unnatural occurrence as not having a single piece of rubble land in the stands but instead gathering in the ring would not have happened.
This was the work of man.
Specifically, the work of the pierot who laughed mockingly at the chaos sowed throughout the Dome - the work of none other than Reisen Hiraga.
Stretching his strings out beyond the Dome grounds, he had picked up the detritus along the coastline, scrapped cars and even unmanned trains, bringing them here into the ring.
For what purpose?
This would become clear soon enough.
ÒÇîWh, what?! The mountain of rubble that fell from the skies is are now merging! This shape...it's a human?! It's taking human shape! The mass of rubble is combining as though attracted by a magnet, and is forming the shape of a giant human! ÒÇì
That's…!
Ikki and Stella, from their respective places in the stands and in the ring, recognized this.
They had seen it before, on that stormy day in Okutama!
That Noble Art that used string to piece together inanimate objects into a giant string puppet-
"Deus Ex Machina. Fufu, it's like a giant robot. Cool, isn't it?"
Fully formed, the puppet of rubble stood fifty meters tall - this was Puppeteer Reisen Hiraga's ace.
So Reisen can build a mech. Here are some details and feats, for both the mech and Stella.
At some point in the formation of the rubble, he had entered therein. Indeed, this puppet that was controlled from within was just like a giant robot.
So its an actual mech. Cool. Now for the feats.
And so Reisen's fully-formed ace began its attack on Stella, wielding in the twisted combination of concrete and steel pipe that was its left arm eight train cars lashed together to form a whip, swinging it down upon the crimson knight in the ring.
That power of that blow was such that it did not merely stop at crushing a single human, smashing the ring itself and shaking the Dome to its very foundations.
ÒÇîToo strong! The ring is shattered by the train-whip of Deus Ex Machina! One quarter of it has been completely blown away, raising an impressive dust cloud! Is Stella alright?! ÒÇì
She couldn't be.
Being made of stainless steel, the train cars were somewhat lighter - but they nonetheless weighed in the tons.
One lash from such a whip would reduce a human to unrecognizable atoms.
However-
ÒÇîCertainly, I would be done for if that were to hit me. But that whip of your puppet's is dull. It won't hit me at all!ÒÇì
At that moment, a bolt of red light pierced through the smoke screen of dust - none other than Stella Vermillion, the knight clad in flames.
She had evaded the train-whip with ease, and riding the dust cloud created by the impact she landed with one great leap upon the right arm of the train-wielding Deus Ex Machina, dashing upwards towards its shoulder in one go-
-and in one strike she cleaved off its head, an amalgamation of a heavy truck core and assorted surrounding detritus.
Stricken from its roots, the head plummeted to the ground, raising a din of clanking metal as it splintered like glass - truck, traffic light, empty propane gas cylinders and all.
Stella landed amid the rubble as they were pathetically strewn about.
So we have more AP and Durability feats for Stella coming up later. We also have some things for Tsuruya and her "lightspeed" Noble Art, but that's for another post.
