Hunting Hunters (Job: Irina, Jin)

Jin was surprised as his attacks hadn’t managed to cause any significant damage. ”His defenses are faster than I thought. If only I had more time to rest”, he realized his weakness. Jin didn’t have enough stamina and maryoku for this fight, he needed more strength. This was no time to indulge in these thoughts though. He needed to deal with the matter at hand. With the use of his previous spell, he was back to his earlier condition. He had only recovered that much maryoku in this much time. ”Ah well, I’ll just give it my all”, he made a final decision.

Soon after, Irina stood up on her feet again determined to fight Harper. To make things more easier for her, Jin decided to make one final attack and leave it all to her. He could feel her demonic aura since she wasn’t that far away from him. The symbols that had appeared on her body were of ominous nature. Not the kind that Jin had ever witnessed before. This was no time to ask about that either, even if she had this aura, it was still Irina. He knew in his heart that despite the appearance he could still rely on her and he was going to do so. ”Here I go” he said to Irina without turning his head to look at her. It was almost like saying good bye, that’s how his tone had suggested it. He wasn’t sure if his attack would prove to be useful but he was going to try his best.

The preparations were complete, the two warriors fetched their boomerangs and waited for Jin. Jin summoned up cold based projectiles using his spell: Piercers. He launched them towards Harper, who deemed them unworthy to cause any significant damage and simply decided to dodge. This was not a single spell though, right when those projectiles got close, they exploded. This was the fusion of the second spell : Miniplosions. The explosions caused were also cold based, so Jin intended to reduce the temperature of the entire area where Harper was. Even though it was slow but it would prove useful to dull Harper’s sharp movements. The cold did make it difficult for the body’s muscles to move with their natural ability. Right after the explosions, the warriors launched quite a few boomerangs from each side and Jin rushed in for the one final blow. An armor made of maryoku appeared around his right arm as he got closer and closer. Right when he got next to Harper, he aimed a straight punch for Harper’s torso using the cold element. He had finally launched the one final strike and his signature move: Emperor’s armor. The attacks from earlier had managed to cause considerable damage and then cued with the attacks from the warriors from two different sides, his signature attack managed to land a direct hit.

Harper was sent off flying as Jin stood all sweaty and breathless, he had used a lot of maryoku to make this happen. With the last of his strength he turned to look at Irina as he smiled: ”I’m counting on you”. With those words, he fell to the ground having no more energy to continue.

Irina barely moved for a while, Jin had free reign to attack Goldshine all he wanted for this moment. Irina was actually trying to regain a proper conscious state even though she was standing. Nova watched in horror from the sidelines as Jin finally collapsed from exhaustion, she herself didn't know what to do and given Irina's current state she was afraid to intervene. Irina watched as Jin collapsed listening to his final demands, while Goldshine recovered from Jin's assault. "You damn dogs, I don't even know who hired you but I can tell you this, I will make this tomb your graves." He barked launching another sword like creation of crystal at Jin's now unconscious body, clearly he wasn't too interested in letting him pull another possum prank. However Irina wasn't about to allow her comrade to get hurt any further even in her half unconscious state, lunging into action she blocking the large blade, the wind grinding the entire thing into tons of chunks. "Damn, that sword what the hell is that." Goldshine barked clearly on the edge of losing it. "Goldshine..." Was Irina's only response as she seemingly vanished from Goldshine's line of sight. "What the..." Goldshine was cut off as his back was ripped wide open by the wind sheathed blade of Murasame. "GOLDSHINE!... Irina once again repeated as she once again vanished only to strike Goldshine's legs. "Damnit at this rate..." Goldshine panicked as he found some of his barrings and finding where Irina's current position was and began to cast a spell. "Crystal Make, Dragon!" He announced as a dragon flew forward aiming to crush Irina in its massive jaws. The impact of the dragon hitting the ground where Irina stood was large leaving tons of dust and rubble flying all over the place. "Take that you harlot." He muttered as if finally satisfied with defeating his adversary when he froze when a single word was whispered into his ear from behind. "Goldshine." Before he could even turn to face Irina several slashes hit him from all directions the wind enhanced blade grinding away flesh while the blade itself did it's own damage.

Before the dust from Goldshine's previous attack had settled, Goldshine was laying on the ground barely alive left at the mercy of Irina who had severely mauled the man with pure swordsmanship alone. Irina's right eye was once again closed though the mark on her shoulder remained glowing and the wind still wrapped itself around Irina's blade. Irina found herself on her knees, once again in a conscious state of mind. Her actions however managed to cause the bleeding to increase leaving her in an even worse state that before. Dragging herself over to Jin she sat down lifting his head and rested it on her lap. "I think next time, I should be the one who over exert myself." She whispered as Nova finally crawled out of her hiding spot and as if she knew what Irina was going to ask was already armed with medical supplies. "You could have ran." Irina spoke to her as if she knew exactly how scary she was when she brutalized Harper. "Your swordsmanship is still beautiful even if you are scary sometimes." Nova explained as she began to wrap bandages around Irina's Shoulder. hmm maybe it wouldn't be such a bad idea to teach. Irina thought to herself.

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Word Count: 565
Archmages Seal: Activation Wind 3 Posts
Health: 70%

Jin had lost consciousness and his grip on time, who knows how long he had slept in a strangely comfortable and warm place. His head was pretty comfy which prolonged his sleep. After a while, he finally moved and woke up. He opened his eyes to find Irina to be very close and the warm place to be her lap. She was all bandaged up and so was Jin, though his injuries did sting quite a bit. He sat up and looked at Irina and then looked around to find their opponent face first on the floor. He wasn’t surprised nor shocked, he expected the outcome. ”We did it!” he said as Kaya who had been sleeping all this time on Jin’s stomach woke up and shouted ‘yay’. He could notice that he had worried Nova, Kaya and Irina too probably. ”Sorry for making you all worry” he said as Kaya leaped and smacked his head, ”Don’t make me worry again, hmph!”.

Jin was now feeling some sort of strength since he had been resting for a while. He stood up and walked towards Harper who was no longer conscious. Jin tied up his hands since they were supposed to capture him and keep him from doing anything suspicious. After that, he walked through the door that had opened and found the vault. The vault that was supposed to keep the legendary items of the first wizard saints. Powerful weapons capable of wonderful things but also destruction in the wrong hands. As instructed, Jin begins to pile up all the secret weapons and locates a mode of transportation. They needed to be careful with these weapons while they took them out of the ruins. With the help of his friends, they came out of the ruins with the weapons in their possession. Jin told the local law enforcement about Harper’s location and they rushed in to locate and apprehend the once famous mage.

After that, the two mages along with their pet and pupil went to deliver the weapons to ERA; who had promised to keep them safe. As thanks, both of the Black Rose mages were given one legendary weapon each. Jin thanked them and finally the two were off to make their way back after a long and testing job.