“Aw…” David said, slightly disappointed.
“I guess I’ll have to figure this out with my own power” David thought.
focusing all his muscular strength into his legs, he jumped foward, his muscle control allowing him to achieve a sudden burst of power as he rocketed towards the the boy, far faster then he did previously.
Clenching his fist, he aimed a vicious strike towards the boy’s head, amplifying his strike with his conceptual manipulation to enforce the concept of damage on him.
should this strike be successful, he would instantly transition into a grapple. Grabbing the boy by the arm and attempting to throw him to the ground, using gravity manipulation to increase the speed of his fall.
Surprisingly and contrary to what Gabriel had expected, Pride jumped forward to clash with King Tiger. "What is he planning?" Gabriel thought as she went on standby just in case David was severely injured, which he probably would be.
Suddenly, the boy shifted his body, lining up his head directly with David's fist, causing both Gabriel and Rory's eyes to widen. It was a few centimeters before David's fist had hit him... What was the boy planning?
As soon as David's fist made contact with the boy's face, he moved faster than David could react, his entire head rapidly morphing into a giant mouth made primarily of shadow and teeth that consumed David. The boy swung his transformed head as he violently slammed David into the ground, his head soon returning to normal.
He followed up immediately, knowing that David would probably use his Body Control to harden his body to lessen the impact. He created hundreds upon hundreds of the Black Holes he had created when he and David clashed, slamming them into the wrestler.
Gabriel knew that she couldn't heal him while he was being violently assaulted, so she allowed Rory to jump into the fray, which followed with Rory creating hundreds of thousands of shitty swords to distract Pride from David, launching them towards Pride. She used his distraction to teleport right behind him, grabbing his arm swiftly and using her BFR to teleport Pride away, launching him into a nearby landmass, vaporizing it with the sheer impact.
"Alright, Gabriel, you go tend to David before he dies-" Rory could feel dozens of shadows wrap around her mouth. She could feel herself thrown into the air, dozens of shadows piercing her torso.
"
Were you confident in that move?" Pride immediately dashed back to the battlefield at unfathomable speeds, sending dozens of spears made of thick shadows towards Rory which immediately pierced her and generated spikes on their exterior, piercing her from the inside. Rory didn't even flinch from this, pulling out the spikes, realizing she was healing far slower than usual.
"Regeneration negation, huh? Alright then." Rory used her Fire Manipulation to instantly cauterize her wounds, stopping the blood loss and using the
Extinction Dream to bend physics itself, closing the wounds.
"
Now this is surprising... You got injured simply to save the man you claim you don't care about. What's up with that, Hero of the Dream World? Or would you rather be called Apoptosis of the Star Gods?" Asked Pride.
"You seem to be good with coming up with cringy titles..." Rory ignored his remarks about David, summoning her best sword, the
Goddess Cleaver. The blade radiated holy light, instantly destroying all of Pride's shadows, which also included the Black Holes he had slammed into David, which had only partially pulverized his body.
"
I won't be creating any shadows with the holiest of weapons in existence around. I guess I'll have to resort to hand-to-hand combat." They fought in the air, and despite his stature being that of a child, he kept up with Rory blow for blow, getting hit by some of her slashes, and parrying most of them.
"It seems he has some skill..." Rory thought as she delivered a violent drop-kick to the boy faster than he could react, slamming him into the ground as she instantly flew down to deliver a perfectly executed downward slash to cleave Pride in two.
Pride immediately got up, getting into a combat stance. "
Take this." He said as he swiftly parried Rory's
Goddess Cleaver, delivering a brutal palm-strike to her stomach which sent a shockwave through her body, causing her to cough up blood while her ribcage was pulverized.
"Shit!-" Gabriel attempted to provide healing, but Pride simply dashed towards her, delivering a punch straight to the Angel's face. "
Is healing really all that you can do in this situation? Fight." He said as she was kicked in the stomach by Pride, sending her flying.
"
It looks like you need the most discipline out of all of them if you can't even fight properly..." Pride said, focusing on Gabriel.