by TacticalFallacy 10th February 2013, 11:26 am
Having strengthened himself a bit in close combat from his experience, Aldous felt little pressure from the carelessly executed combination of kicks and punches. Sure, the increased gravity amplified his punches by a bit, but they were only truly boosted if they came coming down from above, which Giyo had overlooked in his ability. Because he had dispersed his attacks by so much, the fact that he had missed 5 of his attempts to hit Aldous made it even worse, as the three that did hit him left nothing more than simple bruises and while his footing was still a unsteady from his own stalagmite a moment ago, he could still find the strength in him to continue standing.
Without hesitation, as Giyo came charging at him from two metres away with those two balls of gravitational energy, Aldous immediately responded with his barrier. But instead of pointing it at Giyo, Aldous pointed at the tip of his fading stalagmite up in the air. "AMATERASU FORMULA #13: FOUR-SPIKED SHIELD. COMBO: REDIRECTED STALAGMITE!" At his command, a large circular seal with four triangles at its border appeared just touching the top of the energy cone, before completely consuming the energy stalagmite as its effect activated upon contact with the spell. Aiming it straight down at Mr. Graphfey, Aldous felt stress on his nerves as the shield spell up above unleashed its absorbed payload at him. Instead of a stalagmite pointing up in the air though, the Vorpal Stalagmite was sent ripping horizontally through the air, straight at Giyo with its energy point, the explosive power from the Shield causing it to be even stronger. As it engulfed Mr Graphfey in its giant energy mass, no doubt injuring him, Aldous did not hesitate as the gravity balls were now released at him from within the stalagmite, hurtling through the energy as they were about to explode.
"AMATERASU FORMULA #15 and #16: CROSS AND SWORD!!" Aldous immediately reacted fast enough as he raised his left arm, the large black cross on his left forearm facing up straight at the two balls, which combined to form a single explosive, thus only one block roll was needed. His attack would have been more effective if Giyo had chosen to use them one after the other but it seems that was just one more of his mistakes, as Aldous' Cross easily took the explosion, sending him sliding a metre back but otherwise uninjured, thus distancing the two by three metres. Fluid as ever and not losing a step, Aldous kept an eye on the silhouette of Giyo's being damaged inside the energy cone as his right arm produced the bright vague one-metre-long blade of energy that was the Sword. Placing it on top of his Cross, Aldous focused on his target as he tried to once again control his new spell.
He succeeded. Finding within him a steadiness he thought he never had, Aldous fired out the crossbow projectile perfectly on mark. The Cross and Sword combined together to form a large shaft that was two-metres long and as large as a person's chest. Due to its nature as a combined attack, it was also C-rank in attack power and hence Giyo's Force Field should not be able to defend it. If it hit Giyo, it would end this duel, for it would be powerful enough to pierce through his entire chest and pin to the wall of the arena. Naturally, it should have killed him if that happened, but the nature of the arena made it such that magic were not able to kill people. Therefore, Giyo would just defeated outright. Either way, Giyo would be heavily damaged by both the Redirected Stalagmite and the Cross-Sword.
Hoping that his attack worked, Aldous kneeled onto his knees as he felt himself try to catch his breath. He had used a lot of his energy doling some of his powerful attacks. He just hoped he did not need to use his greatest attack of them all.
"Heavy Rain....," Aldous muttered under his breath as he raised his hands up into the air, preparing that massive invisible seal that would be needed for this spell.
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