Silent Cricket Filler Episode 3: The Unbeknowest Mage
Standing atop a thrown was a man covered in white robes with a long white beard and a pale wrickled face. He had his arms crossed together with the robes in wripples making it seem like he was more wrickled and skinny under the cloths. His big blue eyes gazed down at me and Kamui as she explained what was happening. This was the elder of Estagloria, Mizzy X. Deroy. Don't take his name and extremely old age out of context this guy is really powerful in the ways of Holy Magic. He is a Holy Mage.
SACRED TOME MAGE GUIDE:
Holy Mage: Also known as "Priests or Priestesses" These mages dapple in the art of light and holy magic. Do to this pure art of magic the mages tend to think themselves above "Sinners" and those who break moral codes and values. They are often very judgemental and see only the path of justice and light.
"It be'th true, Lord Deroy." Kamui said dropping to one knee while holding her wooden sword to her side. "Thy city is under attack the Archadian Battalion."
"They wanna destroy, Estagloria and the mages here. Archadia's goal is to wipe out all mages who would be a threat to them." I said taking a step forward.
"Yeah we heard it ourselves old timer. I say we get our strongest mages to the front line to defend against those bucket heads." Baku said.
Mizzy quickly looked down while closing his eyes to think. "We must gather the people of Estagloria and escape." Mizzy replied.
"What?!" Baku and I shouted at the same time.
"But...sire." Kamui tried to reason.
"Fighting only begets more fighting. If we fight Archadia back now they will only return with more warriors thus causing more bloodshed. I refuse to let my people go through such a thing." Mizzy said nodding his head.
"Noway! We can't just them destroy the city!" I started before Mizzy cut me off.
"Cities are replaceable, we can build homes elsewhere." Mizzy replied.
"YOUR JUST GONNA GIVE UP BEFORE THE FIGHT EVEN STARTS?!" I screamed with that Kamui sort of stood up seeing that I was getting out of line and pushing me back abit. I grabbed Kamui's hands and pulling them off of me. "What about the people who actually like it here?! I remember you told me along time ago great mages were born and died here in Estagloria!"
"The most important thing at the moment is LIFE sir Kelvis." Mizzy was getting alittle upset by my tone of voice and I could tell in his tone.
"Eh...do what you want. I'm going to protect this city..." I said turning my back to him.
" I have no jurisdiction under you. And you are but a guest to this city...So you may do as you wish. But I assure you, you will only be protecting a deserted land." Mizzy said.
"How can you say that about a city you've led for over 3 generations!?" I said clenching my fists. I flipped my cape up and started walking towards the golden door exit of Mizzy's throne room. "Don't worry Lord Mizzy, although you act high and mighty you care about this city but you care about the people more. So I'll protect the city...and you protect the people... we'll both win." All I heard was silence as I exited the doors with Baku by my side.
I walked down the golden lined hallways until I stopped at a large wall window that looked over the grand marble city of Estagloria. The skies were a dark gray color and dropping down like tiny pebbles were raindrops. Mages dressed in white priest like robes and golden arm pads with golden helms scrambled through the city rounding up the citizens.
"We're going to save this city." I said narrowing my eyes.
"Yeah." Baku said just as serious as I was.
With that I closed my eyes and used Shunpo along with Baku. We both appeared out in the storming rain just at the entrance of the city. I sat down in a puddle crossing my arms like Zoro staring ahead at three battleships which were slowly making their way over from about thirty miles away. Flying towards the city were three more of those smaller attack cruiser jets.
The three of them came flying at the city in a triangle formation. I closed my eyes and put my right hand on Garasu Katta, with my thumb I pushed the blade only slightly out of it's sheath. "1 Sword Style: Aeroga Blade!" I said quickly jumping to my feet and leaping into the air. A green aura covered my body as a seal appeared around the shield of Garasu Katta. With that I unsheathed my sword letting out seven slicing wind waves that slashed through the three jet cruisers causing them to fall apart in mid air.
I landed down from atleast 40 to 50 feet of air and down on the wet puddle where I sprang from and sat back down with my legs and arms crossed.
SACRED TOME TECHNIQUE GUIDE:
1 Sword Style "Aeroga Blade": This technique is a mixture of the magic spell Aeroga and the user's own Magical Energy put into play. By forcing out the magic spell with forceful energy the magical force turns into a scattershot projectile. The number of wind blades blasted are equivalent to how strong the mage is.
I sat there in waiting for a new opponent. No person or thing from Archadia may approach this city. Five pods dropped down from the Archadian battleships and jumping out of them were abunch of archadian attack dogs wearing golden armor. There had to be atleast thirty or fourty of them running towards me from the distance of the ships. I stood up and held up my right hand as my body glen with a dark purplish aura.
The dogs began to draw close and I held my right hand up to the sky. "Thundaga!" I chanted and with that five thunderbolts like beams rained down striking the crowds of attack dogs causing them to whine as they went flying through the air. Running towards me were even more attack dogs behind the first line that I had struck down, I held up one finger as my body began to glow with the same magical aura. I was summoning up a spell and they were almost towards me. When the spell was ready I held my fingerout while spinning my whole arm on an axle.
"Thundaga Rin!" I said with that shooting a huge wheel of electricity at the new line of attack dogs. The wheel slashed right through them and exploded in the middle causing more dogs, blood and limbs to go flying everywhere.
SACRED TOME MAGIC GUIDE:
Thundaga "Rin": A variation of Thundaga, only skilled mages can bend their magic spells in a certain position to gain more attack power or potency from it. These variations start with the name of the spell and the variations following which is a direction or shape it takes. Thundaga "Rin" which means Thundaga "Wheel" is one of the many Thundaga variations but one of the most powerful. Because of the attack constantly spinning it collects more energy off of the rotation along the ground charging it even more. So the more it spins the more sharp and powerful it becomes. Variation spells have no extreme MP cost.
"What are they doin'?" I asked narrowing my eyes.
"Most likely trying to wait until you've run out of MP to strike. Lay off on the magic abit and use phsyical attacks." Baku replied.
"Right." I nodded.
It was then that I noticed the rain over me had suddenly stopped, I looked up to see a figure flying straight at me from above. I quickly drew Garasu and Yamato and held them up in a cross blocking the sword attack from above. I pulled the swords out pushing the figure back causing him to go fluttering through the air abit. He flipped back catching himself and slid on the muddy floor before me.
My cape fluttered in the wind as I gazed across at this new opponent. He had extremely dark skin, even darker than mine with short black hair slicked back in a series of spikes. He wore a thick sheepskin cover over his lower body that stopped alittle above his knees that was tied with a red sash. With some sort of glowing red writing over one half of his body, it was weird looking. He also wore steel bracer that covered his whole right arm from shoulder to wrist.
"He doesn't look like an Archadian." Baku replied.
"Yeah but by the way he tried to just kill me suggests otherwise. I'd say he's a mercenary of some sort." I said holding both my swords up in a cross. He took off running towards me while spinning that long broadsword of his. I narrowed my eyes and took off running towards him as well dragging both of my swords along the ground on both sides of me. Like Genesis from Crisis Core, he made his sword glow with a reddish aura as he ran towards me. An Attack Buff...
We both clashed in the center causing the rain around us to pause for asecond and blast back away from us the moisture in the ground also blasted away like something from the Matrix. With that we both went flying back from one another, I slid back with blood seeping from my palms, there was no blood leakage from that guy though. He upped the attack of his blade.
It was hurting to so much as hold my swords after that attack but still I grasped them and held them up. "Shinaru Waterga!" I shouted as a blue seal appeared under me, I sent two waves of water flying at the dark mercenary. The waves flew past him and he was looking around as if he were confused. The two waterwaves bent backwards and came flying at him from behind.
He turned around and buffed his sword with aura then slashed both of them causing the water whips to explode. I phased out and appeared just behind him. "2 Sword Style: Crab Grab!" I shouted slashing both Garasu and Yamato upward shattering his sword and causing him to go flying back from the force of the attack. He went flipping back from the force of the attack and slammed back into a puddle of water which flew up like a geyser behind him.
The shards of metal from his sword that were broken were floating in the air around me and like a buzzing sworm of wasps they flew straight at me. I slashed all different directions clearing the sharp shards out of my way. When the last one was deflected I stood there trying to catch my breath. In the distance I could see that guy getting back up.
SACRED TOME MAGIC GUIDE:
Shinaru Waterga: Shinaru means "bending", which is what the water does. After firing it at the opponent the attack starts off looking like Waterga Sen but it intentionally misses the opponent head on then bends backwards to strike the opponent.
SACRED TOME TECHNIQUE GUIDE:
2 Sword Style "Crab Grab": This technique is a quick execution technique, Kel grabs both swords in hand and slashes both up and down at the same time like a double guilotine. This move can also be used to shatter or break apart the opponents weapons and defenses.
The guy got off of and stood up on his feet dusting himself off like it was nothing. "What the..." I started.
He held up his right hand and appearing around his wrist was a black seal. Materializing out of pure darkness was the blade and I couldn't believe my eyes...Masamune?
Author's Note: This is Richter Fanelle, DoE's character who is gonna completely stomp Kel even while he's in 3 Sword Style. Then Kel uses MIMIC to go Tensa Zangetsu on his ass. The battle is pretty friggin intense! And believe me...I know intense fights.
Chapter Trivia:
Does it cost any extra MP to use magic spell variations?
A.) Yes
B.) No