Ragnarök-RP Thread

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

Overpowering David's gravity was, indeed, a dangerous move. The sheer force of gravity around the center of the condensed field would put an absurd amount of pressure on her body as she passed through it. Assuming she didn't nullify the force behind the move, it would deal heavy damage, likely even crushing parts of her body if she chose to barrel through it completely. It was the strongest gravitational attack in David's arsenal, and thus would not be easily overcome by brute force.

Should Kiara proceed in powering through the attack, despite the risks, it would likely slow her down enough to buy David time for a counter strategy. David would suddenly compress every single cell in his body, rapidly building up potential energy inside his body as his body seemed to visibly shrink. It was as if every fiber of his being was being flexed at once. Assuming Kiara continued her approach, the moment before she touched his body, he'd immediately release the compression, violently decompressing his body to create a powerful, point-blank shockwave, slamming into her if successful. Even assuming she dodged this attack, David would allow the resulting force of the shockwave to launch him backward, allowing him to rapidly open up the distance.

 

[azontr]

Kiara clasped her hands together, intertwining her fingers as she gathered the energy of the Hermes in a single point. Realizing David would exploit the gravity slowing her down most likely, she began to find other ways of increasing her power to completely nullify the force and barrel through the gravity field and David at the same time before he could move away or counter-attack. She violently increased her muscle mass, the strings of muscle tightening around each other violently to increase her physical strength while she continued to concentrate the Hermes into a single point around her intertwined hands. It was akin to a supernova that she would create in the Dream World, but, since she didn't have nearly enough strength to actually replicate a supernova, she had to go with the next best thing. Call it a 'mini-nova'.

Kiara, in the final instant as David began compressing the cells in his body, released the 'mini-nova', and added onto her forcefully increased physical strength, allowed her to barrel through both the gravity field and David should he not dodge with the absurd power she'd released. It was an insane amount of power she gathered in only those few instants, and it most likely shattered both of her arms, and possibly a few of her ribs and some other bones from the sheer force that she had produced, but if she cared about that, she wouldn't have done it in the first place.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

David quickly altered his strategy as Kiara barreled through his gravitational field, much faster than he had expected. Seeing that he couldn't dodge forever, David opted to meet the attack head-on, despite the insane power he knew was radiating from her body. David rapidly thrust his arm forward, before quickly expanding it, the hand becoming a massive barrier of flesh and bone. Concentrating all of the knowledge and adaptions he had gained from fighting Kiara up until this point, David surrounded the flesh with multiple layers of an extremely thick, fire-resistant exoskeleton...before wrapping the mass of hardened flesh around her nova-enhanced strike. The sheer force of the attack would doubtlessly destroy the mound of flesh, yet, David's goal was to contain the absurd strength of the strike, buying him enough time to launch a counter before she could cause further damage, even if it meant sacrificing his arm.

Should this strategy be successful, David would immediately launch a vicious kick onto Kiara's broken arm, further crippling the limb and knocking her away if successful.

(Edited cuz I misread the comment srry-)

 

[azontr]

Edited cuz I misread the comment srry-)

(Lol dumbass.)

Kiara would then pull off another dangerous strategy. In the final instant, she concentrated another mini-nova around her legs at a much faster rate than she did with her arms as she noticed that he was beginning to use his own flesh to contain her attack. Concentrating a dangerous amount of energy, far more than she should be doing so quickly, she swung her body, releasing the mini-nova from her legs at him to increase the strength of the attack and to finally actually hit his body. The rate at which she gathered such an absurd amount of energy without a doubt annihilated the bones in her legs, and knocked her away from David as a last ditch effort, but she didn't plan to cut any corners now that she could afford to take attacks.

Should this be successful and she was knocked away, Kiara immediately began to tighten her muscles and solidified flame around her ruined bones, using her minor control of her body to put the damaged limbs back together, allowing her to get back into a combat stance rather quickly with the improvised technique. It required her to split her focus between combat and body control, but, she found it more favorable than fighting with all of her limbs dysfunctional. She couldn't really do the same with the damage around her ribs, but she'd simply fight through it, blood gently trickling from her mouth.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

David's body had continued to 'store' the information from Kiara's attacks throughout the fight, slowly but surely improving his body's instinctive reactions against her relentless assault. Consequently, the fraction of an instant it took Kiara to charge up her secondary attack, was all David needed to react. In an instant, he split off what remained of his arm, akin to a lizard splitting its tail. Simultaneously, he propelled himself backward, launching a burst of gravity from his soles to rapidly open up the distance between them, landing several meters away.

Should this be successful, David would further mutate his body, sprouting an additional arm directly under the one that had been destroyed. He may not be able to regenerate the arm he had lost immediately, but he could replace it, for the moment.

All the while, David's skin would further morph and change. The exposure to such a powerful attack kicked his body into overdrive. A thick, black barrier of skin began to rapidly form around his body, almost as if his body had been completely 'charred'. The skin was smooth and extraordinarily cool to the touch, almost akin to a rock. The combination of chemicals within each cell made the outer skin extremely difficult to iginite, and allowed it to resist much higher temperatures than normal. It wouldn't outright negate Kiara's attacks, but it would likely force her to use more power to make them effective against him.

 

[azontr]

David's body had continued to 'store' the information from Kiara's attacks throughout the fight, slowly but surely improving his body's instinctive reactions against her relentless assault. Consequently, the fraction of an instant it took Kiara to charge up her secondary attack, was all David needed to react. In an instant, he split off what remained of his arm, akin to a lizard splitting its tail. Simultaneously, he propelled himself backward, launching a burst of gravity from his soles to rapidly open up the distance between them, landing several meters away.

Should this be successful, David would further mutate his body, sprouting an additional arm directly under the one that had been destroyed. He may not be able to regenerate the arm he had lost immediately, but he could replace it, for the moment.

All the while, David's skin would further morph and change. The exposure to such a powerful attack kicked his body into overdrive. A thick, black barrier of skin began to rapidly form around his body, almost as if his body had been completely 'charred'. The skin was smooth and extraordinarily cool to the touch, almost akin to a rock. The combination of chemicals within each cell made the outer skin extremely difficult to iginite, and allowed it to resist much higher temperatures than normal. It wouldn't outright negate Kiara's attacks, but it would likely force her to use more power to make them effective against him.

Kiara breathed out as she kept her shattered body in check with precise muscle control, the flames around her arms and legs beginning to build up and ignite. They kept their blue color, signifying the immense heat that still built up within them. "Calm down... You got this... You got this." She thought to herself as her stance tightened once more, her position shifting. In response to David's evolution, Kiara began to 'train' herself mid-combat. It was akin to what she was doing in their last spar in Atlantis, with the young hero sharpening and concentrating her heat to even higher levels each time David saw it fit to change himself in response to her attacks. She shifted her weight forward, moving into an offensive position, not losing confidence.

"I got this." She thought to herself once more, before waiting for David to make his move.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

David breathed out, clenching his fists.

"...Can't afford to keep losin' limbs like this... I'll overtax my body if I make too many sacrifices..." David thought. His eyes narrowed, as he began to examine Kiara's limbs.

"...Judging by her limbs though...she can't afford to use...whatever that move was too much either, she's bound her broken bones, but that doesn't change their condition..." David thought. He slowly shifted his stance, going upright with his fists raised on either side of his body. David's arms began to mutate and solidify, his hardening his hands to bolster the effectiveness of his strikes.

"...Alright... let's go..." He murmured.

In a fraction of a second, David dashed forward, quickly closing the distance between himself and Kiara. Clenching his fist, he stopped on a dime, before unleashing a vicious left hook onto Kiara's skull. As he launched the fist towards Kiara, however...she could feel a burst of gravity slam into the opposite side of her body, while a simultaneous burst of gravity slammed against her legs. The force behind them wasn't enough to deal significant damage...but was meant to destabilize her balance, causing her to fall towards David's fist as he launched it at her. David was hoping to use the momentum of her fall to bolster the damage of his strike, if successful.

 

[azontr]

Kiara's footwork suddenly shifted the half-instant before the gravity hit her, with the woman circling around David while delivering a spear-hand directly to his chest, having performed the same technique she used to practically disappear from sight previously. In the process of this she refused to let up her attacks, delivering a combination of punches and kicks until she was right behind him, having kicked up a small amount of dust as she then tried to deliver a spear-hand to his spine.

 

[azontr]

(Bump)

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

"...She's circling behind me again...!" David thought. He'd already seen that technique before, and wouldn't let it catch him off guard. As Kiara disappeared, David immediately twirled around, his body bending backward as he slammed the back of his elbow against Kiara's temple. The bend of his body both allowed David to reach Kiara easier and partially negated the effectiveness of Kiara's spear hand, the attack only landing a glancing blow against his chest.

 

[azontr]

Kiara effortlessly ducked the elbow strike, forming an explosion behind herself that propelled her forward as she twisted her hand and arm, turning the concentrated heat like a drill to pierce through David and negate his attempt at negating the damage through piercing + heat damage, should she be successful.

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

Griffin analyzed the match, they were both high caliber fighters, while David was someone resistant and with good attack power, Kiara was a Speedy fighter who always attacks constantly to avoid her opponent's make a counterattack and break their defenses by piercing and heat damage.

but that was not all he was able to analyze, he see how both combat styles adapted to counter the other, ultimately this could be a battle that could last until one makes a mistake or one run out of strength.

"I will probably have to form a strategy for each one, with their possible tricks, after all, this will be a physical battle and instead of one more.... dynamic" Griffin thought.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

Kiara effortlessly ducked the elbow strike, forming an explosion behind herself that propelled her forward as she twisted her hand and arm, turning the concentrated heat like a drill to pierce through David and negate his attempt at negating the damage through piercing + heat damage, should she be successful.

As Kiara ducked David's elbow strike, David compressed the muscles in his legs, before violently decompressing them, creating a shockwave that launched David into the air. His body still bent backward as he flew above Kiara the instant before her subsequent attack would have hit him. Should this be successful, David would immediately flip in the air, angling his elbow downward. Simultaneously, he imbued himself with an absurd amount of gravity, causing him to hurtle to the ground at insane speeds as he attempted a vicious elbow drop onto Kiara's spine.

 

[azontr]

As Kiara ducked David's elbow strike, David compressed the muscles in his legs, before violently decompressing them, creating a shockwave that launched David into the air. His body still bent backward as he flew above Kiara the instant before her subsequent attack would have hit him. Should this be successful, David would immediately flip in the air, angling his elbow downward. Simultaneously, he imbued himself with an absurd amount of gravity, causing him to hurtle to the ground at insane speeds as he attempted a vicious elbow drop onto Kiara's spine.

Kiara, upon this happening, jumped into the air along with him, noticing the decompression of his muscles a split-second before he released the shockwave, kicking up more dust. In the air, she gathered heat around her legs and begin to swing them, aiming for precision and unpredictability as her kicks, as usual, came from impossible, nigh-physics breaking angles with impossible precision. She knew he'd experienced attacks of such caliber before, and as such she was relentless in her assault, using momentum from her previous kicks to gather more power for the next attack and so on so forth so that he couldn't get a chance to counter-attack.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

As Kiara jumped in the air, David immediately shifted his strategy. The unpredictability of Kiara's was praiseworthy, but David's ability to subconsciously react to incoming damage, as well as his own body's ability to bend at impossible angels, made it difficult to land a clean hit against him. Kiara's first kick landed only a glancing blow against his body, scorching the portion of flesh as he shifted himself in mid-air to roll with the blow. Before she could continue the combo, however, David immediately pushed his hands outward, before imbuing Kiara with an absurd amount of gravity, sending her hurtling towards the ground and making it extremely difficult to build much upward momentum.

 

[azontr]

The moment Kiara realized her first kick would only glance against him, she propelled herself forward and shifted the direction of her kick, making sure that she made a direct impact, making sure her timing was an instant faster than David's so that she could directly hit him, or, at least she tried to do that, should she be successful. Assuming she was successful in landing her direct kick she would continue her deadly combo of kicks, her eyes widening as she could see the effect David's incoming gravity had on the dust she had been kicking up, the reason she had been kicking up so much being so that she could observe its effects on the dust so that she could avoid the gravity.

To avoid the gravity, assuming he still sent out the attack despite her combo of kicks, she forcefully propelled herself downward with an explosion and then cushioned her fall by using skillful footwork as soon as she touched the ring floor to redirect the downward force, acting as if she was skating against ice as she came to a stop against the ropes at the edge of the ring, waiting for David to either descend or perform a ranged attack, ready for anything.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

The kick struck true this time, the sudden increase in speed gave Kiara enough time to slam her foot against him. However, even with a direct hit, David worked to minimize the damage, his vital points; veins, organs, etc., shifting themselves the instant the impact was made against him, preventing the blow from properly permeating through his body. However, the attack burned into his flesh all the same.

A moment afterward, David did indeed launch his gravity at Kiara, stopping her from continuing her assault, but unable to stop her from opening up the distance with her footwork, assuming she still chose to do such an action.

As Kiara moved across the ground with her footwork, David immediately descended from the air, landing heavily against the arena floor. Deciding to close the distance, he rushed forward, his center of balance lowered as if he planned to tackle the women. At the last moment, however, David stopped on a dime, before suddenly launching himself to her side with a burst of gravity. In the next instant, he launched himself with another burst of gravity, twisting in mid-air before unleashing a vicious drop-kick onto Kiara's lower body, attempting to cripple her legs further to hamper her footwork.

 

[azontr]

Kiara, who was still leaning against the ropes to catch her breath, instantly noticed the slight alterations in the dust and air she kicked up as David's gravity was released, allowing her to move a moment ahead of his gravity attack. In response, she launched herself forward while using her footwork, allowing her to glide across the ring like ice as she did previously, and mixing this in with the technique she used to disappear from sight in an instant, this drastically increased the precision and speed of her movements, allowing her to both dodge David's dropkick and circle back in for a spinning kick to his jaw while she was practically out of sight for a few instants. As she did this, though, she could feel a crippling pain build up in her legs, the use of such advanced footwork techniques clearly straining her due to the injuries she'd sustained using her previous 'mini-novas', but she hoped her being out of sight would hide this and allow her to keep the advantage.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

Kiara's sudden boost in speed was surprising, but David had already seen Kiara perform her disappearing technique several times throughout the fight. This allowed his body to adapt to reacting to Kiara's movements, even as she disappeared from David's normal vision. As Kiara launched her kick towards David's chin, he tucked his head down a moment before impact, the kick instead hitting him directly on his hardened forehead. His flesh charred visibly, the heat and force of the blow breaking through several layers of skin.

Yet...Kiara could feel an even more excruciating pain flow through her legs as her foot slammed against his head. He had shifted in such a way that Kiara's foot had struck at an awkward angle against his skull, increasing the risk of injury as the leg slammed against him. This, combined with the absurd rigidity of his skeleton and face muscles, created a scenario akin to a person kicking a brick wall at full force, Kiara's leg taking damage from her own attack, assuming it was successful.

Should this be successful, David would immediately slam his hand against the ground, forcefully stopping his momentum with his gravity before pushing himself back onto his feet.

 

[azontr]

David's attempt to shift his direction would've been successful if this was simply a normal movement technique, but, mixed along with her ability to glide along surfaces and redirect power with immense accuracy, as well as her disappearing footwork technique, made her kick strike true somewhat despite his efforts to redirect her attack, hitting him only an inch or two above his jaw. And even as she felt an absurd amount of pain run through her legs, the woman didn't seem to feel it, or well, she did, she was visibly in immense pain from the sheer rigidity of David's skull(assuming his jaw is still that tough), but she kept pushing onward anyway, tightening threads of heat and muscle around her shattered bones to forcefully keep them in place, displaying immense willpower as she generated a 'mini-nova' around her leg once more, it wasn't as concentrated/compressed as her previous ones, but it served to increase the power of her kick drastically before David could get in a proper counter-attack, even if it did only serve to make keeping her shattered limb together even harder.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

Despite David’s continued adaptation, there simply was not enough time for his body to move. Kiara’s mini nova kick struck true, his jaw audibly cracking as the foot impacted his chin. A large, deep gash appeared on his chin, and his skull rattled violently from the impact. If it wasn’t for his previous adaptations, the heat alone might have melted through his lower jaw entirely.

Quickly, David slammed his momentum to a halt, before launching himself forward, attempting to grab Kiara by the waist. He figured that, if he had control of her hips and waist, it would become much more difficult for her to launch another successful kick from that range. Assuming this was successful, David would immediately slam Kiara to the ground, forcing her to land on her side in an attempt to cripple one of her arms.

 

[azontr]

David was quick in launching himself forward, but so was Kiara in winding up her next attack, forming another 'mini-nova' as she spun around in the air, performing another nova-charged spinning kick to his head the instant he had begun moving forward in an attempt to use his own momentum against him in a short enough time frame he'd be unable to process a counter-attack. Hopefully, at least. As Kiara did this, her face contorted with pain, the bones in her legs practically being pulp at this point due to the sheer force she was exerting on herself. To make sure she could maintain the power of her strike and keep her limps functional despite the excruciating agony, she had to literally solidify flames and graph them into/create new artificial bones and muscle fibers out of solidified flames, having to do so with a few other parts of her skeletal system such as her ribs which seemed to have been sufficiently broken.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

David managed to react the instant before Kiara's kick had landed, the spinning motion giving him just enough time to defend. The moment before impact, David hardened the muscle and bone around his head, partially nullifying the force behind the blow and causing even more pain as Kiara's leg slammed into the ultra-hard surface. Even with that nullification however, a deep bruise appeared where Kiara had struck him, his skull creaking painfully from the impact.

David's body began to mutate further, now, his skin bulging before hundreds of small, yet extremely sharp, spikes erupted from his skin, covering his entire body in an attempt to increase the damage Kiara was taking from her own attacks. The skin underneath the spikes continued to mutate, forming jagged, rough bumps along the surface, akin to sandpaper, yet magnified by several orders of magnitude. Even if the spikes themselves were destroyed, slamming into such a hard, damaging surface would still damage an attacker's limbs if they strike him hard enough. It was clear David had caught up to Kiara's pain, and was counting on her breaking her own body before she could break his.

 

[azontr]

David managed to react the instant before Kiara's kick had landed, the spinning motion giving him just enough time to defend. The moment before impact, David hardened the muscle and bone around his head, partially nullifying the force behind the blow and causing even more pain as Kiara's leg slammed into the ultra-hard surface. Even with that nullification however, a deep bruise appeared where Kiara had struck him, his skull creaking painfully from the impact.

David's body began to mutate further, now, his skin bulging before hundreds of small, yet extremely sharp, spikes erupted from his skin, covering his entire body in an attempt to increase the damage Kiara was taking from her own attacks. The skin underneath the spikes continued to mutate, forming jagged, rough bumps along the surface, akin to sandpaper, yet magnified by several orders of magnitude. Even if the spikes themselves were destroyed, slamming into such a hard, damaging surface would still damage an attacker's limbs if they strike him hard enough. It was clear David had caught up to Kiara's pain, and was counting on her breaking her own body before she could break his.

As soon as David began to react, Kiara rocketed herself forward with another 'mini-nova', gripping onto his head as tight as she could and slamming her still nova-powered knee onto his face directly, the added power partially mitigating David's attempts at defending as the heat seared through him. Using two 'mini-novas' at the same time, while drastically boosting her speed and power, injured her significantly, blood visibly pouring from her nose and mouth as she kept solidifying fire within herself into prosthetic bones, muscles, and even blood vessels and veins as she could feel some of them pop within herself. But... she didn't care. She had nothing within herself to protect now, so there was no reason to hold back. She coughed up puddles of blood and she didn't care, only putting even more power behind her knee-strike.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

David's head flew back, blood spurting from his broken nose as a portion of his face was burnt from the impact, momentarily blinding him in one eye as the heat burned his eyelid. His jaw visibly audibly cracked from the attack, various fractures rapidly building up within his skull from her repeated assault. However, this didn't stop David from immediately forming the spiked, sandpaper-like skin he had planned to create. He threw away his offense entierly, now focused on forcing Kiara to continuously destroy her own body from her attacks.

 

[azontr]

Kiara only continued to tighten the artificial muscles and bones, hardening and expanding them like she would her real muscles in order to increase her power as, disregarding David's now spiked skin, she slammed her knee into his face once more, even more power behind it than the previous attack. And she did this again. And again. And again. And again. And again... She wasn't stopping. Each time she harmed herself, she forcefully seared herself back together and kept attacking.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

David's skull continued to fracture more and more as Kiara's kicks slammed into his face, the repeated assault breaking multiple bones in his face. His head now resembled more of a burnt mass of flesh than anything else. However, David's body would desperately begin to repair itself just below the surface, using hardened mucus to forcefully 'glue' his bones back into place, before wrapping them in a cast of hardened hair. The blood, that had begun to flow freely from his wounds, would suddenly stop entirely, as David solidified it within his body. Even as Kiara continued to grow in power, David's body continued to adapt to the desperate situation, making it difficult for her to score a decisive strike, even from such an advantageous position.

David's flesh suddenly began to bulge slightly, as David rapidly built up air inside his body. In an instant, the remaining spikes in his body suddenly shot forward, propelled in a manner akin to a blowgun as the spikes slammed into Kiara's body, stabbing into her flesh if successful.

 

[azontr]

Kiara would've kept punching, but, noticing the spikes coming her way, she immediately jumped away to the edge of the ring, leaning against the ropes once more. She definitely had the ability to continue her attacks but... If she did, it'd turn into a battle of attrition between the two, something she couldn't afford. She was in a far worse state than David was, and he had multiple far superior ways of healing himself than she did. A battle of attrition was the worst possible outcome, and one that even Kiara's reckless self could realize from a mile away. She breathed out.

"How do I win...?" She thought to herself, her breaths becoming shaky. She was running out of firepower, and he had more options of defense than she had. She couldn't let herself be put on the defensive, that'd be the end of the fight. She was beginning to panic internally...

"Am I going to lose again...? I... No I... I have to win... I... ha... I have to calm down... I'm worthless... I'm weak...! N-No! Calm down! It's just a spar...! You're not worthless and you're not weak... Y-You can do it... We can do it... We can..." Her thoughts were becoming incoherent. Swiftly, Kiara got back into a stance, beginning to tighten the solidified flame she was using to hold herself together to the max. The pain was still there, but, with this, she could mitigate her physical injury, which was indeed simply giving time for David to recover and adapt, but it was also giving herself time to recover, which was more important in the grand scheme of things.

"Focus.. Calm... You're happy... You're having fun.. fun..." She thought to herself, the heat around her limbs beginning to intensify. Even now she continued to train herself, the concentration of her heat rising, her impacts being built to be akin to piercing tank shells, meant specifically to break through even the strongest of guards. She clasped her fists and awaited David's move.

"I'm... having fun...!" Kiara said out loud. It was hard to tell whether she was talking to herself or informing her sparring partner that she was indeed enjoying it.

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

"I see, this fight seems to mean something more than a simple training that two soldiers would do, it is more a form of strange fun that can get out of control and become a competition" thought Griffin noticing Kiara's sudden comment

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

David slowly stood to his feet, his body trembling slightly. He wasn't in as bad of a shape as Kiara...but not even he could remain unarmed after taking such a fearsome barrage of blows. His face began to morph and mutate rapidly, restoring itself to some semblance of its original shape. Though the damage wasn't healed, his body's first aid was enough to restore his sight and other bodily functions. He breathed out, the noise raspy from the burned flesh surrounding his throat. Raising an arm, he rubbed his neck, his body rapidly wrapping his injured skin with a fresh layer of hardened tissue, sealing his wounds. It was specifically designed with the adaptions he had formed from taking so many miniature nova's, the flesh extremely resistant to even the hottest of flames.

"...I feel the same way, Kiara. Been a while since I've gotten this kinda workout...!" David said. Slowly, he got back into his stance, his hardened muscles bulging and tightening. He began to mutate his eyes, forcefully strengthening his kinetic vision in an attempt to bolster his ability to perceive Kiara's swift movements.

"...Can't be too reckless here...now that she's reinforced her flames, I can't count on her body falling apart quick enough. She should eventually run out of strength....but when? Can I last that long...?" David thought.

Hesitating for a moment, David clenched his fist, before unleashing an intense burst of gravity at Kiara and the surrounding ropes, attempting to disrupt her attempts to recover.

 

[azontr]

David slowly stood to his feet, his body trembling slightly. He wasn't in as bad of a shape as Kiara...but not even he could remain unarmed after taking such a fearsome barrage of blows. His face began to morph and mutate rapidly, restoring itself to some semblance of its original shape. Though the damage wasn't healed, his body's first aid was enough to restore his sight and other bodily functions. He breathed out, the noise raspy from the burned flesh surrounding his throat. Raising an arm, he rubbed his neck, his body rapidly wrapping his injured skin with a fresh layer of hardened tissue, sealing his wounds. It was specifically designed with the adaptions he had formed from taking so many miniature nova's, the flesh extremely resistant to even the hottest of flames.

"...I feel the same way, Kiara. Been a while since I've gotten this kinda workout...!" David said. Slowly, he got back into his stance, his hardened muscles bulging and tightening. He began to mutate his eyes, forcefully strengthening his kinetic vision in an attempt to bolster his ability to perceive Kiara's swift movements.

"...Can't be too reckless here...now that she's reinforced her flames, I can't count on her body falling apart quick enough. She should eventually run out of strength....but when? Can I last that long...?" David thought.

Hesitating for a moment, David clenched his fist, before unleashing an intense burst of gravity at Kiara and the surrounding ropes, attempting to disrupt her attempts to recover.

Kiara moved swiftly, her tightened artificial leg muscles releasing an immense burst of strength that allowed her to instantly close the distance. Kiara began to deliver a flurry of her supercharged punches towards David as soon as she was within a reasonable distance. These attacks were meant to hit and harm, yes, but Kiara didn't expect this first flurry to hinder him, she was testing the waters, confirming his condition to formulate her plan for the rest of the fight. She had to make no mistakes. Every movement that came after this flurry had to be without error.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

Kiara moved swiftly, her tightened artificial leg muscles releasing an immense burst of strength that allowed her to instantly close the distance. Kiara began to deliver a flurry of her supercharged punches towards David as soon as she was within a reasonable distance. These attacks were meant to hit and harm, yes, but Kiara didn't expect this first flurry to hinder him, she was testing the waters, confirming his condition to formulate her plan for the rest of the fight. She had to make no mistakes. Every movement that came after this flurry had to be without error.

The punches impacted heavily on David's body, burning into his flesh, but could not completely scorch through the protective, fire-proof tissue he had created to protect his body. This, combined with his body's constant shifts, forced many of the blows to miss their mark, preventing the impacts from fully hindering him.

Forcing his arms outward through Kiara's barrage of attacks, David connected his gravitational field with her body, forward gravity slamming into her from behind to push her into his grasp. Should this be successful, he would immediately arch his back, attempting to viciously suplex her into the ring.

 

[azontr]

The punches impacted heavily on David's body, burning into his flesh, but could not completely scorch through the protective, fire-proof tissue he had created to protect his body. This, combined with his body's constant shifts, forced many of the blows to miss their mark, preventing the impacts from fully hindering him.

Forcing his arms outward through Kiara's barrage of attacks, David connected his gravitational field with her body, forward gravity slamming into her from behind to push her into his grasp. Should this be successful, he would immediately arch his back, attempting to viciously suplex her into the ring.

Kiara instantly used her footwork technique to disappear from sight, moving out of the area of effect of the gravity while simultaneously delivering a punch, that, with her immense skill, hit multiple parts of his body repeatedly despite her seemingly only throwing a single attack, so even if he could account for her disappearing, he would be hit regardless. Her precision had increased drastically as she sharpened her senses to their limit, and it was exemplified in how she was more accurately targeting his shifting vitals and body.

 

[The_man_with_the_Midas_touch]

This time, David's eyes could track Kiara as she moved, his hyper-enhanced vision allowing Him to perceive Kiara's footwork as she attempted to disappear from view. This awareness of Kiara's movements allowed David to just barely shift his vitals in time for her precise blows, his body shifting technique pushed to its limit as it struggled to react to Kiara's barrage. Raising his elbow upward, he immediately slammed it down on top of Kiara's head, delivering a vicious bionic elbow as the women attacked him.

 

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Kiara backed up merely a few nanometers from David's elbow, dodging it narrowly with extreme precision and speed as her barrage picked up, attacking multiple times and thus rapidly hitting multiple areas across his body in higher quantity as she increased the rate of attack, not giving him any chance for counter-attack as she mixed in the flurry with subtle footwork to make herself even more difficult to hit or counter-attack against.

 

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David's defensive technique was superb, his precise control of every single movement of his body, combined with his millennia of training, truly cemented him as a masterful defense specialist. Thus, for the first few moments of Kiara's barrage, David was able to continually negate much of the damage. He rolled with the punches, shifted his body with the blows, hardened his muscles at the point of impact...he pulled every skill within his defensive arsenal.

Yet...should Kiara continue her barrage...David would begin to falter. The attacks began to land heavily against his organs and weak points, his body slowly backing down in the face of such speed and precision. David could feel blood well up into his throat, the intense heat and force of the blows threatening to bend his knees where he stood. In a desperate attempt to stop Kiara's barrage, David hardened his fist, launching a vicious uppercut directly onto Kiara's jaw. Gravity would bend and pull around the blow, David attempting to pull Kiara into his attack to ensure it landed.

 

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Kiara used her footwork to clip out of the gravity's area of effect and avoid the blow before it happened, as she usually would, appearing behind David. At this point, David would be able to easily predict such a move, but, this time, she didn't stop moving... Continuously using her footwork to appear and reappear in various places, sometimes even mid-air, she continued to deliver a flurry of attacks, mixing in dozens of forms of punches and kicks, some that David hadn't even seen before, seeming to be moves she simply made up on the spot to increase the sheer unpredictability of her flurry as the number of attacks at this point was akin to a literal hurricane of attacks, unavoidable in their nature.

"Go... down...!!!" Kiara exclaimed to herself internally. She just wanted him to go down at this point. Her entire body hurt so much, and keeping up this flurry of bones only made the pain increase with each blow. She didn't know if she'd be able to keep this up if he didn't go down soon... But she had to. She had to fight through the pain and keep attacking. She could feel her body start to become numb at this point...

 

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David's body was steadily breaking apart by Kiara's devastating volley of techniques, his bones gradually cracking and crumbling from the force of her fearsome assault. Blood would have poured from his opened wounds...had such a substance not been immediately evaporated by Kiara's burning heat. His body constantly attempted to form adaptions to her attacks, rapidly mutating to bolster his defenses...yet it was too quick, the attacks slamming into his body before he could adapt or defend against them.

David breathed out, his legs nearly buckling as stars danced within his vision. Yet...David wouldn't go down. Not without a fight.

Raising both hands, he concentrated the gravity across the entire ring directly onto his body, forming another Gravity Crush directly on top of his body. This Psuedo-Black Hole extended across the whole ring, pulling everything towards the center: David himself. This made it extraordinarily difficult to avoid, even for someone with advanced footwork like Kiara. Additionally, the sheer force of gravity made it extremely difficult to pull away from, David pushing his gravity to its utmost limit to create such an intense gravitational pull.

Should this successfully stop Kiara's movements, even for a moment...David would attack. His arm's muscles bulged to their limit as he slammed them downward, delivering a devastating Mongolian Chop directly onto Kiara's shoulders, attempting to crush her body to the ground before she could deal the decisive blow.

 

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Kiara's eyes widened, noticing David forming his pseudo-Black Hole merely a moment before he formed it. But... that didn't mean she had any way to avoid it. She couldn't leave the ring for the spar, and the AoE of the attack spread across the entire field. Moving in any direction that wasn't forward, directly towards David, the source of the pull, would be extraordinarily difficult, especially with her current strength. She didn't know what to do. Was she going to lose?

"I... I can't..." She thought to herself. Losing. She'd lost plenty of times before. "I... I need to be stronger... I have to..." But during this particular Lostbelt, it stung her. She couldn't help but feel... worthless, as she was put in this situation. As if she was inadequate. As if all her hard work, all her training, would only ever end up in her losing something. She knew that in comparison to David, she'd probably lost far less fights and experienced less hardship, and yet, even so, she could not shake this irrational fear and despair building up within her chest. She had to abandon that mindset. She had already talked about this with David and Rory. She had to get rid of it. She had to change. She had to know that she didn't have to be the strongest, or that it was fine to be inadequate. She had to. She had to, she had to, she had to... "It's fine... It's fine...!"

"I'm fine...!!!"

Kiara slammed her foot onto the ground, charging forward as she shouted out those words. Forward. That was the only direction she could go without being crushed, after all. She had to make sure this last shot count. She pushed her irrational, childish fear of losing such a simple loss to the back of her mind, and continue charging forward. She wouldn't give up this time, no. In an instant, in order to increase her power, she released a large 'mini-nova' behind herself, which pushed her forward at even greater speeds, with Kiara exploiting the gravitational pull pulling her towards David to increase her speed. In that same instant, she copied David's Mongolian Chop, her hands colliding with his in an attempt to knock them away at the last moment and break through his guard.

 

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David's hands clashed violently against Kiara, the downwards blow slamming heavily against hers. David had the advantage in raw power, his muscles visibly bulging and writhing in his arms...yet Kiara's built-up momentum made the difference. The combination of her speed, miniature nova, and the pull of his own gravity managed to give her enough force to knock his hands off course, his hands pushed away from her body before he could complete her attack. At the last moment, David made one, final attempt to strike Kiara. Mutating his broken, battered torso as he created a third arm from his abdomen. The arm immediately shot outward, launching a punch aimed toward Kiara's skull to knock her out while her own momentum was still pushing her.

Should Kiara avoid, mitigate, or endure the blow, David would be left entirely open. His body was at its limit, trembling violently as he attempted to stay on his feet. A single, clean strike would be enough to push him over the edge.