Strife of the Reborn (RP Thread)

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

Weakening Kusanagi was, well, it was a foolish endeavor to say the least, with the sheer number of buffs she possessed and the rate at which she grew.

Making up for any loss quickly, Kusanagi would release her energy to attempt to slow down the opponent, while moving and swinging her sword to reflect anything aiming at her.

She fired several blades at the enemy, which would converge and home to hit any weak points it might have. At the same time, the fire in Kusanagi's aura seemed to change to something more dangerous.


Murakumo watched this go on, for now electing to see what happens, however she clutched her sword tightly, and seemed intent to interfere at the best time she could find.

 

[Paul_Frank]

As the wind blows and the hands rush the others, Lailah's forcefield grows multiple dragon like heads, and rushes forth to bite at the being

At the same time, she uses her On to increase the range of her Vanity Cutter, slicing at the being from afar using the power of truth, to cut through all magic and nonsense.

 

[Yobo_Blue]

The left hand chasing Drake throws out a black hole-like attack, absorbing the lightning and moving towards Drake. Kiara’s cutlasses strike it, but the wind throws them slightly off course, making some of them only graze it. The hand gets away with only slight burns, but upon a slash hitting a “crunching” sound can be heard. The sunshine does seem to be slowing its regen, but not entirely negating it for some reason, and the hand used some sort of power to cause the fire burning it to coalesce, sending it back at Kiara

As the right hand charged towards Kusanagi, Ikkath uses his staff to send a wave of electricity to push the right hand back, allowing Kusanagi’s blades to strike the hand, which seems to change tactics as it is hit with more attacks, all fo which produce a similar crunching noise, louder than the one before. It then moves back and points a clawed finger. As it does so, a strange power washes over Kusanagi, and she gets the distinct feeling of “being someone else”, after which point she is no longer constantly growing in strength. As it does that, it failed to notice Brusel’s blast heading towards it however, and gets blasted back.

As Lailah attacks Sophia, she produces numerous ribbon clones and sends various elemental barrages at the heads, while the one attacked parries the attack with her flaming sword, and causes a pillar of light to burst from under Lailah’s feet.

 

[Listentomyrhytm]

"Go die!" Brusel states, as his power grows once again, glowing a strong red overwhelming the golden aura and color of his body. Then he raises one hand upwards, then the other, liberating a barrage of pink colored energy blasts which go upwards and rain upon both hands, homing with all of his power.

 

[ZephyrosOmega]

"Can the rest of you take down the hands? I'll go for Sophia myself!"

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

The left hand chasing Drake throws out a black hole-like attack, absorbing the lightning and moving towards Drake.

Drake enlarged the necrosword in a wave of black matter.

The black holes were simply assimilated by All-black ones because they did not have the mass of a real one, it only took a couple of seconds, unlike the real ones, which would take weeks.

"All-black assimilated before black holes and stars, do you think that will stop me?" shouted the demon that had The Proto-Symbiote in a gigantic size (like the size of a car)

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

Kusanagi had many ways of countering this, although it didn't matter much in the moment as her level had already risen to the point where the reduction was made irrelevant.

But she uses them anyway.

A single sword is summoned that taps Kusanagi and applies the effect of Rule Breaker to cleanse this, as well as her cutting to cut away the power, while DeSpell is cast and for good measure she also uses the Force.

Even if all this wasn't enough, her own innate evolution abilities should be able to block this effect out rather soon.

The swords that had already struck the opponent didn't go anywhere, they twisted into its flesh and began cutting through space and time, they began severing the opponent in its entirety, the one they had already struck.

While Kusanagi herself teleported in from above to plunge down with an all severing slash, that created 8 converging slashes around the hand.


Murakumo remained watching, she was specifically looking for a good chance to strike "Sophia" herself, an opening to land a decisive blow.

 

[Paul_Frank]

"Take care of the hands huh, I'll try that, sure."

Lailah relies on her borg to hopefully block the beam as she flies upwards, after reinforcing it with her magicka and On. She then readjusts her earlier swing, bringing it down onto onto arm that was previously attacking Kiara.

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

Having approached and observed the scene from afar for a short moment, Llwn, sitting on a distant building, speaks some words into Lailah's mind.

"I see you're busy, but do you mind explaining the scenario to me?"

 

[Yobo_Blue]

As Lailah turns her attention to the hand, Sophia attempts to use this moment to slash her with the sword, though Ikkath notices it and sends her into air with a lightning attack, converting the damage sustained by the wind into power and hitting her on the chest with a pressure point inducing pain to incapacitate her briefly while throwing out a chain lighting attack to push back her clones


The flame the left hand through at Kiara passes by her due to her natural Anti-projectile powers, but it lands behind her and explodes, allowing it to burn her barrier some. The left hand clenches it’s fist, subjecting the weakened Drake to a massive crushing force, breaking all the bones in his body. Brusel’s attacks ram into it and hurt it more, once again creating the noise of cracking, but the hand returned fire with a massive energy blast sent from its palm, ignoring Lailah’s slash which leaves a massive gash in it.


Kusanagi notices that her evolution stopped until she severed the connection between the power affecting her and herself. However, as its severed, she notices the connection begin to start to reform slowly

The right hand also clenches its fist, reforming the slashes space-time from Kusanagi’s blades and launching them at her, as tendrils of light appear from within its wounds and throw her blades back at her as well. Her eightfold flash connects however, and a massive shattering noise is heard as the index finger is sliced clean off. Once it shatters, Kusanagi can begin to analyze the right hand, and can see it has some sort of special protection, but specifics on it aren’t immediately discernible, and it seems to be recovering itself over time. The severed finger however begins changing and turning into a malformed draconic creature of comparable size to the hands, though missing its lower half. It breathes a wave of golden energy at Kusanagi from behind, one she can sense is extremely dangerous.

 

[Listentomyrhytm]

"...Heh." Brusel smiles, as he grows larger, the attack incoming, however, he with his two hands simply grabs it. Tightly, as he then throws it back towards the left hand, quickly following it up with a Kamehameha! It being extremely massive due to his increased size.

 

[ZephyrosOmega]

Kiara appears in front of Sophia. "Yomi."

She emanates her personal realm outwards, overwriting the world around it. "Sophia, if you're in there, just know that I've wanted to do this for a long time."

She readies Tonbokiri.

 

[Paul_Frank]

@Hl3_or_bust

"Sophia, the priestess from before, tried to do some ritual here to summon her God, and the being that summoned us here twisted what she managed to summon, and you can see what that's done to the humans here."

"This led to us fighting back against it."

@kyoto

After responding to Llwn, Lailah's barrier begins attacking the hand, biting at it to keep it still. Where she had slashed previously, there was now a blade made of shadows stuck inside the hand.

The blade itself didn't seem to cause any harm, although it caused a beast made of chains with a handcuff as its skull, and a beast made of chains with a bicycle gear as it's skull to appear, and begin attacking both hands. The beasts' heads used some sort of symbolism to potentially interfere with Sophia's various spells.

Lailah herself floated higher up in the battlefield, trying to keep a view of everything at once.

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

The swords being launched at Kusanagi just... turn right back around at their enemies, or dissipate into thin air if they lack the room to do so.

They would then continue as they were, aiming to sunder space and time around the enemy to cause destruction to it. As for Kusanagi herself, her evolution would on its own grow against the link being established to begin with, making it all the more difficult to try, but she would sever it whenever it got close with a telekinetic blade.

Kusanagi simply teleports to avoid the wave, then appearing behind the one who breathed it, and slicing, with her Relic aimed at its neck. The finger might've successfully broken off and turned to this, but it turned into something with a neck. While she slashed with the relic, it would also be assailed with fire that drained away and fed on its own very energy, along with the slowing effect of her telekinesis being applied. She was aiming at this one to finish it off cleanly. Her sword cutting off escape paths by distorting and thus making it harder to evade, along with the cutting off it does just by being present as a threat.

The main hand would continue to be assailed by blades, which were telekinetically controlled with equal skill to Kusanagi's own, and did not stop being made. These blades could deflect, they could even think for themselves if she willed it so, and she would aim them at the best possible angles.


@elsewhere

Murakumo looks on, seemingly slightly dejected now, as she had intended to see what happens to Sophia, but now she'd have to go into that dimension if she wanted that. She considered her options while watching everyone fight.

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

The left hand clenches it’s fist, subjecting the weakened Drake to a massive crushing force, breaking all the bones in his body

Drake felt all his bones broken and he spit blood even though he rubbed his face due to his helmet on.

"Although I don't know if you are there, Sofia, I swear I'll get you out of this .... and i'M" Drake falls to the ground.


".... and I'm going to break you" the broken body regenerated and emanated a now bluish Dark aura, DT activated now.


He turned his hammer at extreme speeds and a powerful AoE beam came out, it was a God Blast that had a colozal size that it could consume the hand due to its size

 

[Hl3_or_bust]

@Paul_Frank

"... I see. You all don't seem to be having much trouble with that, though."

Llwn thinks in response. A few of his concerns were addressed, especially why the thing they're fighting feels like Sophia, given their descriptions of her, but there's still the issue of that second Kusanagi-like void, although it appears to be watching from a distance as well.

Interesting.

 

[Yobo_Blue]

Yomi envelops the battlefield, though the wind continues. The left hand clenches it’s fist, creating a twisted space time distortion which causes the god blast and Brusel’s attacks to be rolled together, throwing the combined energy blast at Lailah instead, shredding through the barrier biting it. It then points at Sophia, and suddenly Lailah’s curses are rebounded upon her and their effects affect her as well.


The right hand, having regrown it’s finger, clenches into a fist, releasing a wave of energy destroying all of the blades in the vicinity including Lailah’s cursed blade. The space time distortions created before from Kusanagi‘s previously cleaved space tear into her back, drilling holes in her shoulder blades and spine, slowing down her natural regen. As the distortions pass through, some disrupt her path cutting, allowing the dragon to fold space-time just enough to teleport out, losing its right side to Kusanagi’s Fire, as it breathes its own blast from behind her, though as it’s jostled and weakened, it is shot at a angle that would barely graze Kusanagi’s left hand, burning it’s outside. However Kusanagi is able to discern that if it hits, the burn will damage all of Kusanagi’s bodies.

Sophia quickly purifies herself of Ikkath’s inflicted pressure point technique, as she swings her sword at Ikkath, which he dodges and counters with an Foresight boosted Extreme Speed to knock her down. Her ribbon clones preoccupy themselves with sending a flood of ribbons to attack Lailah. As the battle rages, the winds intensify, leaving anyone without a currently active barrier of some sort with cuts all across their body as the wind begins to tear their skin off. Waves of earth, fire, and water, appear as the wind blows them across the entire battlefield, being thrown around by the wind into everyone except Sophia and the hands

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

"damn it, $@#$!!!!" from Drake's body a number of chains with Hellfire and dark power come out in the direction of Sophia and her hands, now he only wanted to destroy her with his hands .

 

[Listentomyrhytm]

Brusel quickly regenerates from the wounds, however enveloping himself with a dome of energy, shining a purple color before turning entirely golden. Then the redness from his skin goes away as his Kaioken wears off. However, he flies high into the air, as he does a series of hand signs, before with his mouth, opening wide as he releases a wolf made out of flames. Then quickly he spits out various ghosts which are similar to him in appearance. And finally... he summons a giant snake which erupts from the ground, all of them charge for both hands, trying to do something. "Go get them!" He shouts.

 

[ZephyrosOmega]

Kiara activates Quintessence, amplifying her strength and speed by a factor of ten. She then splits into no less than eight duplicates surrounding the enemy.

"Bishamonten's Eight Phases Wheel Charge Formation!"

Each of the duplicates lunges in at sub-relativistic speed, striking sophia with no less than eight space-warping, regeneration-negating spears.

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

@fight

Kusanagi looks annoyed as she acts to dispel the effect the distortions had on her, however partially intrigued. Using these as projectiles like that? A very interesting notion, that one was.

Kusanagi warped again, this time she did so just as the dragon was about to breathe, hoping to leave it less time to react as she appeared behind it with her scythe in motion, aimed at its neck for a finishing blow.

"Come, Yamata-no-Orochi."

Could be heard at the same time Kusanagi appeared, summoning the snake god construct behind her, which swung its 8 arms, each wielding a different blade, at the hand itself, while Kusanagi was aiming to finish off the dragon.

The 8 blades each cut space, time, causality and fate, for now it was merely a slash with all 8 to deal more damage, but more was yet to come from the serpentine god, that much was clear.

@Hl3_or_bust

Llwn sees the woman standing and contemplating something, before she flickers briefly and part of her seems to move, but part stay.

@Murakumo

What happens is that Murakumo had left some of her senses at the fight to observe, and saw Ikkath being in danger. She left something of herself in case Llwn wanted to talk to her, but also advanced forward herself.

By Ikkath, Murakumo appears, sword swinging to intercept attempts at striking him, release a massive space-time tearing slash at the enemy, and reflect them away with her technique. From her body exited a wave of deadly tendrils around them, to both block attacks and strike at the opponent, with these tendrils avoiding Ikkath or other allies, but erasing anything else that contacted with them.

"Do not die here."

 

[Paul_Frank]

As Lailah is afflicted by her own karma curse, she carries on ignoring it. Leaving her barriers up and deciding to not use magic for now.

She raises a hand toward the blast that was sent her way, trying to nullify and absorb it, she then ramps up her absorption, trying to suck the energy out of Sophia and her attacks.

Two more Lailahs split off the one currently being attacked, one takes the Vanity Cutter from the other Lailah, and stabs at the hand again, while the other rushes down some of the clones, trying to get rid of them using just her strength and On.

@Hl3_or_bust

'It's not the easiest, but I'm sure we can handle it if we go all out, yeah, feel free to join in I suppose."

 

[Yobo_Blue]

The right and left clapped together, causing another wave of weakening to wash over the entire group, as the winds picked up and intensified, sweeping up Brussel’s maneuver in the process and beginning to rip off the skin of anyone without a barrier.

Kusanagi successfully destroyed the dragon plaguing her, decapitating it with ease, but the slowed healing is not so easily removed. The right hand raises itself, and summons a tornado infused with divine power, earth, water, and fire, which begins closing in around her, as it creates multiple blades of empty space and sends them at her.

Lailah fails to absorb any energy from the attack, which hits her head on and destroys the three bodies she summoned previously, preventing restoration. The left hand then turns its attention to drake, whom it crushes into a small space and throws into Brussel

Sophia, with her own acceleration and speed, creates more ribbon clones, as her attackers are buffered by the wins she is seemingly unaffected by, allowing her to spread out her clones as her ribbons meet Murakumo’s tendrils, and her clones fend off Kiara’s attack, before most of those are burned by the chains Drake summoned before. Ikkath for his part summons his own tornado and throws it at the hands, summoning lightning to damage them further and hopefully counteract their winds.

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

Drake resists the sensation of being crushed through sheer will and is thrown at Brussel, but he pulled himself together as quickly as he could, using Ultra Instinct and his Teleportation, he accelerated in zigzag into overdrive towards The left hand, this time with All-black who It was covered by several chains of infernal fire+Golden power

 

[ZephyrosOmega]

"Oh, so that's how you want to play? Fine, then!"

Kiara hangs back, manifesting her barrier and Sunshine around Sophia instantly, an attack that should bypass several layers of fire resistance and burn her to a crisp, barring extraordinary circumstances. her clones all jump out of the barrier and start to unleash their own attacks, adding their own barriers and sunshines to the mix, further increasing the heat and damage going on inside and adding to the layers of the dome-shaped barrier keeping Sophia down. At the same time, Kiara pulls back with her spear.

"Tonbo... KIRI!"

She throws the lance, sending it out with all of her magical energy. Due to its nature, several things take effect at once. Firstly, the power of Gae Bolg resting within it prevents it from being dodged or blocked. Secondly, space itself twists, preventing Sophia from teleporting away should she attempt it. The blade deals more damage to divine beings, prevents the effects of regeneration, and of course, striks the true body, preventing intangibility attempts from working should she try to use them.

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

@Fight

Kusanagi had fine enough control of her own body, and potent telekinesis, which she used to counteract the effects the wind was having on her to start, while her power began rising up once again by nature.

For the tornado converging around her, she released several swords, which would attempt to reflect it away in each direction, hoping to disperse it that way, as she herself rocket upwards through a mix of flight, gravity interference and teleportation, aiming to avoid the spatial tears that way. As she rose, her Orochi released Unending Blades, slicing with all 8 swords, aimed at the hands and any attack that may come in the way, and leaving trails of slashes that lasted for some time after, mirroring the powers of her own blade.

Whatever damage she did take was mitigated by a number of factors, from her Nothingness to the Force ability known as Reduce Injury.

While she flew upwards, she attempted to use her environmental control as her construct attacked, hoping to further disperse the harmful winds and factors around here, as it afforded her a significant degree of control over such things.

@Murakumo

The tendrils would annihilate the ribbons as they met, hoping to reduce the possibility of them interfering wherever possible.

Murakumo seems to attempt to slow Sophia down through a mix of dark aura and temporal interference. She fires a vast wave of destructive energy with her sword, but it seems to be a trick, as rather than be aimed at Sophia, the attack seems to turn, controlled by her command of energy, and aimed directly at one of the hands, who she imagined might be too occupied to deal with a surprise attack.

 

[Listentomyrhytm]

Brusel sighs, as his body gets a bit strained, kaioken vanishing as his body slowly regenerates from it. However, he detransforms and then... his hair goes white, eyes gray. He quickly zooms in to try and attack the hands directly, summoning Ultimate C-MOON to barrage them, along with himself releasing a massive flurry of air punches.

 

[Paul_Frank]

@fight

The three bodies are blasted back, and torn apart by the attack, clearly dead beyond repair. Then, their energy flares up, and, stronger and faster than ever before, as if pulled along by some unseen force, they ignore the winds due to the small tornado around each of them that turned any approaching things into confetti, and they split up, one going to deal with the remaining ribbon clones by tearing into them and delivering several different, debilitating curses, such as paralysis and nullification of powers.

Another goes back to the hand, going to make contact before dispersing and delivering a curse that caused its attacks to instead be directed at the other hand, Sophia, and her clones.

The final teleports behind Sophia's main body, using what's left of itself to stab into her, also disappearing as it delivers its last few curses, including paralysis, power reversal, and sense interference, so she'd be more likely to be hit by Kiara's attack.

 

[Yobo_Blue]

As all the attacks converge on the hands and Sophia, a large energy burst knocks everyone back away from Sophia and the hands, as the weather seemingly stops. The hands move on their own around her, before Sophia seemingly starts glowing. Suddenly, the energy build up stops, as large amounts of golden energy flow into the hands from Sophia, before she collapses on the ground, entirely drained. The hands dissolve into a single Golden portal, which begins to glow. You can feel it begin to manifest something after forming

 

[Listentomyrhytm]

Brusel sighs, as his Ultra Instinct runs out. However he looks into the forming portal, worried. "This cannot be good..." He says, making sure for everybody to be in his range, just in case he needs to teleport out.

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

Drake watched what happened with All-Black in one hand and Mjölnir in the other, ready for anything.

"...."

 

[Paul_Frank]

As the portal appeared, the existing bodies for Lailah faded, as the post mortem On powering them ran out. Rather than take the time to send a normal body out, Lailah projects one nearby the location using her consciousness this time, and this body grabs a pack of playing cards from her pocket, throwing them out toward the portal.

"Kartensoldaten, greift an."

The cards come to life, and, in a desperate bid to potentially stop them from having more fighting, try to push the portal closed

 

[ZephyrosOmega]

"Here comes the big one! Get ready!"

Tonbokiri returned to Kiara's hand as she started to levitate further into the air.

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

Kusanagi and Murakumo both stood with their swords ready.

"Something's coming. Let us wipe it out for good."

Kusanagi declared.

In a gamble, she directed the construct of On that she had made, Yamata-no-Orochi, to have its heads converge around the portal, attempting to consume anything that came through as the time had come for them to feed.

 

[Yobo_Blue]

As everyone prepares, the portal flares brightly, as a dragon like the one Kusanagi killed appears from it, the portal not moving an inch, before it grabs at Orochi, wrestling it, before biting off one of its heads. Casting it down, it flew into the air triumphantly.

”It is too late for you. My manifestation has been achieved by draining her energy. Bow now and I may spare your life”

As it speaks though, Ikkath slams down his staff, summoning a lightning bolt that binds the dragon, leaving it open for another attack

”I don’t think so. We’re killing you once and for all.”

 

[Oliver_de_jesus]

"DIIIEEE!!" Drake struck his hammer against his sword to launch a black lightning with gold edges.

 

[The_Divine_Phoenix]

The construct was dispersed by Kusanagi for the moment, having served the purpose of drawing its attention well enough.

She looked at the blade on her arm.

@Paul_Frank

I need to land a hit on its neck. If we can do that, I think that'll be the end of it.

She informed Lailah telepathically.

At that point, Kusanagi released her anti-divine flames in full force out of her blade, mixed with Hellfire which fed off the very energy of the target to perpetuate itself further, creating a raging storm of flame and aiming it at the thing, swinging her blade to perform Draw Slash with the flames being released.


Murakumo instead begins filling the air with bombs made of Force, hoping to limit its opportunities for movement, before teleporting at another angle, aimed more behind the thing, and releasing Stigma at it. As she does this, several swords begin orbiting around her for defense and offense alike.

 

[Paul_Frank]

@The_Divine_Phoenix

Right, I'll see what I can do.

Lailah claps her hands together, and as she pulls them apart, a black shadow appears, snaking it's way to the dragon rapidly, in order to restrain and paralyze it.

As that was sent out, several swords made of condensed curses are also sent out, one which reversed the target's perception, inverting everything they saw, heard, and sensed, one which slowed their reactions on top of this, making them sluggish, and a final one that made them more susceptible to damage.

 

[Listentomyrhytm]

Brusel raises his hands, as he creates a big ball of energy. He throws it forwards, then utilizing his Gravity Cage, he tries to hold the beast in place... with x100 gravity! He would also fire eye lasers, attempting to do something.

 

[Yobo_Blue]

As the dragon was constrained by the bonds, it flailed around as its senses were taken away and it was bound down by Ikkath’s lightning chains, Brussel’s cage, and the raw force of Kusanagi and Murakumo. As they attacked, the shattering sound from before could be heard once again, and this time it’s “armor“ cracks.

Those with information analysis can see the nature of its immortality, which could not be bypassed by any one person. However, the more different sources of energy are applied to it simultaneously, the weaker this effect becomes

As the dragon struggled against its bonds, its “armor” began to regenerate on a fundamental level, and it began to break out of the sensory effects placed on it by Lailah. It began to glow with great intensity, as it charged energy within its body.

“This blast will send you all screaming to hell! You will regret not accepting my mercy!”