A test of Courage

Zuo had asked for the guild to show them all of their strength and needless to say he was not disappointed. But he wasn't fazed either. As he pulled back his fist from the crater it made in the ground he inspected the situation. Ren's reaction was underwhelming but not unexpected, Zuo made a mental note to spend some time on that boy. Kara's reaction had a bit more spunk, but also not unexpected however he was a bit surprised that she didn't attack immediately. But the old man didn't complain, one less attack to thwart. Kariline also seemed to be taking the prep route instead of the immediate attack route so Zuo did not feel the need to do anything about her yet. Kihia was the first to really take action with a battle tactic the old man had seen once before but despite Kihia's increase in strength and skill it wouldn't be much more effective then the last time he saw it. The frozen knight's ice broke almost harmlessly off Zuo's super hard stone, almost harmlessly. It manage to create some small cracks and weaken the stone some but with a negligible amount of magic power the damage was mended. The golem would have launched a counter attack except Kihia seemed to have dug his own grave via gravity. At least until Naraca saved him a few moments later.

Aegiel seemed to be taking a support role, good for him, so he wasn't on Zuo's smash list at the moment. Next came Kaligos, the earth dragon slayer... Who was apparently hungry. Zuo was surprised to have a bite taken out of him and half that surprise came from wondering how Kaligos's teeth did not shatter. Sure he was a dragon slayer and all but this was no ordinary stone, it was created and reinforced by a magic force far greater then Kaligos. Regardless a single bite out of a 40 meter tall earth golem wasn't even worth healing, but it was oddly insulting so Zuo decided it merited a counter attack. With his left hand Zuo snatched at Kali in an attempt to grab him. If he was successful the golem's massive hand would completely encase the dragon slayer. If this succeeded Zuo would them promptly squeeze him, attempting to crush him within his hand. At the absolute worst he would break a couple bones and render him unconscious, it shouldn't be lethal. (Keyword: shouldn't be) After enough time had passed that Zuo thought would be enough to incapacitate Kali he would be gently dumped on the ground, as gently as dumping can be. It seemed like a sound plan, that could only go wrong if Kaligos dodged or could somehow eat his way out of stone fingers each bigger then himself. Also the off chance Zuo would accidentally kill him.

Anywaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay...

At the same time with his free right hand Zuo would block the large stone foot attempting to kick him. "Now now you should know bet-" The old man was cut off as his head was assailed by a pair of celestial spirits summoned by Talen. The wind and arrows bounced off without doing much damage but it was irritating he looked down at the celestial spirit mage to scold him for attacking while his hands were full. With all this going on he was caught completely off guard by the attacks of Cyrus, Zhu and Naraca.

The old man gritted his abstract teeth as the three attacks hit home. Naraca's great sword making a sizeable incision under his arm, Cyrus's bullets making several small but deep holes in his torso and Zhu's shockwave causing the ground at Zuo to sink while shaking him up a bit. By this time he would have set down Kaligos and let go of Ophelia's stone foot. He pressed his hands to the ground on either side of him and the ground re-elevated and the cracks caused by dragon quake were undone. "Zhu please try not to cause senseless damage to the earth if at all possible. Dirt has feelings too you know." If there was any doubt that Zuo was senile, it was gone now. He then curled his hands into fists and the damage done by Naraca, Cyrus and Kaligos quickly vanished as quickly as the damage from Kihia's attacks. "Good good but not enough. I do believe it is my turn to attack again." Zuo then spread his arms wide and opened his fists into open palms. With a movement like lightning he clapped them together unleashing a thunder like clap followed by a shock wave of sound that blasted everything in the valley. Not near as strong as a direct punch but far more efficient against a multitude of opponents.

Ren of course was extremely intimidated when Kara began threatening him. Kariline said he was needed, and that kind of lifted his spirits. He watched everyone attack with wide eyes, he had seen most of them before but it was still pretty amazing. He was about to act when Zuo began to speak. Ren wasn't exactly listening, because he was terrified of the gigantic golem. He of course didn't have a good standing position, so when the sound wave came by he fell over. He looked up and saw that they had actually done decent damage. Ren was encouraged by this, and decided it was his time to act.
By that he meant defending himself.
Ren scrambled up on his feet and closed his eyes, attempting to calm himself. The loud noises were pretty distracting, but he had to focus. He took a deep, shakey breath, and his voice squeaked slightly as he used his only defensive spell. "Water Body" was all he needed to say before he felt a headache come on. This was quickly washed away however as he began to feel lighter starting at his feet. He had to concentrate, or else it might only cover one of his legs. Once he felt ready he opened his eyes and looked down. From his point of view, every part of his body was water. However, to others, they would notice a large area on his back that was still in a solid form. Ren felt rather prideful as he thought he has pulled it off. Now thinking he was completely safe, he ran up to join the others.

Everyone attacked at once, of course, making Ophelia rather confused. The plan... The plan... The noblewoman kicked off her shoes and began sprinting to get a good view of the golem's back. "This is more trouble that it's worth!" The noblewoman grunted as she finally got a good enough view to summon one of her spells. She let go of the skirt of her dress and raised her hands into the air. "Iwa ningyō!" Her voice boomed.

The ground beneath her feet rumbled as a large statue of Ophelia's upper torso began to erupt, the noise it made was incomprehensible cooing as it mimicked the same gesture as Ophelia. As the girl clenched her fist, so did the mimicking statue. Ophelia swung her fist at an angle, causing the statue to throw a punch at the large golem's back as an attempt to hit it at least once. As the statue reeled its arm back, it let out an echoing moan and then a grunt when it shot forward.

Ophelia stared up at the golem, then at the doll whom ceased moving after mimicking her one move.

The shockwave

The girl moved back, far enough until she thought she was a safe distance(What she thought was safe) away from the shockwave

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(OOC: Upon discussion me and Kihia have switched spots in the posting order)

(2014/06/29: Aegials post is to be skipped due to inactivity. Next post goes to Kariline Kaido)

Paydirt! Naraca's blade cut into the rock with surprisingly little effort. One his blade sunk into the rock tilited it upwards, causing it to slice upwards into the shoulder, so that as he rose up it would cut through a large portion of the lower and back shoulder as he rose up, leaving a 6 foot slice deep within.

So this rock was normal...He expected it to be hardened by some sort of magical power. Upon going high into the air and above the top of the golems head, he saw as Cyrus was able to successfully pierce the rock with several bullet like projectiles. Following that, Zhu caused a shock wave that actually staggered the golem. Ophelia tried to strike a blow, yet was pushed off by one of the golems arms.
Naraca's eye's were narrow as he studied it, watched it react. This thing was moved by magical energy, however the rock itself wasn't modified, it was just rock.
It might not even take magical power, he thought...Although physically speaking, it's arms were far bigger then tree trunks and naturally would be quite difficult to chop through. Yet it could be done...
The golem was not as slow as he expected something so big to be, it's movement was easy to predict, but the movement itself was good enough speed. It was also unclear how much Zuo could actually manipulate this golems body, with the magical energy flowing through it, who knows what it's capabilities were.
What was clear was that this thing was strong, it could take a lot of damage, it acted likely by Zuo's control, it had no legs, so it couldn't move from it's spot. However, it clearly didn't like getting hit, this thing could tank hits, but it felt the damage, even the little bits of it. This thing could be taken down...Yet they would all have to work together.

"Kihia" Naraca uttered, still holding the boy with his free hand.

"I want you to save as much magic as you can, yet keep your Terrain move handy." He explained before beginning to fly a little high for a moment to get a better view of the location. He saw the golem turn, raising it's injured arm up for something.

Why?

Oh no...Kailigos...

Naraca quickly descended down towards the golems large head.

"I'm dropping you off, you know what to do!" He said sounding rushed. He quickly got within a safe distance to drop Kihia right on the golems head. The thing didn't have a neck, so it was unlikely it could shake him off by simply turning it's head side to side. Even if it could, he knew the golem would have something much worse to worry about.

Once he dropped him off, Naraca looked towards Kaligos the golem was in fact going to reach for him.
Was it gonna try to kill him? Would it hurt him badly? He didn't want to find out.

"Kaligos look out!!!" He roared loudly to get the boy's attention.
The things hand was so damn massive, could he even dodge it?!
He had to stop it, now!!

Tightening the grip on his great sword, he noticed the golem was reaching for Kaligos with the arm that suffered that hit that he and Kihia did. How injured was this thing really? Maybe he could test this things limits...
Kihia's attack was healed by the golem, but Naraca's was not.

Dashing right for the golems shoulder, Naraca switched to a reverse grip on his sword. By manipulating his descent, he'd attempt to ram the tip of his blade into the golems shoulder so that it would sink in all the way to the hilt.  
If that attack connected, which to him there was no reason why it shouldn't, he would keep a strong grip on the sword and adjust his body so it was horizontal in the air and very quickly start to fly forward. If all went as planned, he would keep the blade inside the arm while flying around the shoulder in an extremely fast circle, he would be sure to line up his sword with the cut he made earlier, thankfully it was healed yet, and he'd attempt cut all the way around the shoulder, making a full circle. Top that off with the sheer strength and magical power, the force of his earlier attack, plus this new one, would be exactly enough to cause the arm attacking Kaligos to fall right off. That is IF, he was even able to get this far.
If the arm needed a little extra push, upon making the full circle which would only take a mere 3 seconds, he'd begin to pry the arm off until it fell off the golems body. Therefore stopping not only the attack on Kaligos, but the shock wave clap all together.

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MP: 100%
Attacks: Natural Strength, B rank + Sword power, B rank = A rank + Previous A rank attack on attacking arm = S rank = Removal of Golem arm attacking Kaligos and stopping shock wave clap.
(^ Only upon contact mind you)

Her jawline twitched as Naraca told her to step back. What?! She was always on the front lines, and now she was to be used like a tool? Kariline just furrowed her brows, her eyes angry with a fire behind them. Instead of arguing with the fool she just listened and turned around. She apparently had to use her power to support Ren and Cyrus, how comical.
Kicking up a bit of dirt behind her, Kariline picked up the pace, glancing to see how defeating the monster was playing out. Kihia, Naraca, Cyrus, shoot even Ophelia put some hurt on it. she grunted, she should be out there as well, putting her life on the line just the same... Curse him for holding me back.

Just as she got far enough away, yet closer to Cyrus and Ren, a large wave went off. The pure force of it blew up a wind of dust and dirt that whipped her hair around and she staggered to her knees. The sound made her ears ring as she tried to stand again. Dazed, it took a large amount of effort to recompose herself. By the looks of it, the clap had effected the whole valley. Nearly laying all the grass flat.
Her arm stung, and she glanced down to see a cut across her arm. Apparently the wave picked up debris and sent it flying. Could have been worse, and she wasn't close to dying, just a little blood. They were angering Zuo, and in return they were going to get their ass's kicked.

" Okay, lets go." She muttered as her ankle glowed and a strong wind picked up around her. Zuuricai, appeared from a large cyclone that dropped down to the earth. After a quick shake she ran her hand across his back. the large winged, and horned dog stood firm. She thought about what Naraca said, he wanted Ren and Cyrus both in the air... but three people would be too much for him to carry.

" You guys will have to go without me, " She yelled to Cyrus and Ren. Zuuricai walked up to them both, waiting for them to hop on so he could soar. Kariline couldn't just stand here and wait though, Concentrating, she closed her eyes for a moment. Trying to reach for the magical energy inside of her, the summoner felt a bubbling feeling come from her left ankle. Acid began to pour from it, and from the viscous liquid, formed Henich... her acid demon. It was a glowing green color and had spikes running down it's spine. His tongue fell to the ground and a acid saliva burned into the grass where it laid.
She did it! She summoned two at once. Perhaps it wasn't the best idea, as Zuuricai didn't look too happy.

Either way she walked up beside her demon, she was tired of standing on the sidelines. With a quick snap of her fingers, Henich rolled into a ball and spun forward, gaining speed over the distance. The path of which he rolled bubbled and rot and decay from his acid.
Leaving a trail over the monster. Henich began to roll around the demon along it's torso area, circling it so the sides would be eaten away.

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Magical Power :
80%

Health:
90%

Spells:

Duration: ( for both { 5 posts} )

Henich's attack, 3 feet diameter, and all around torso.
D ranked Damage of rock eating acid

When Talen heard that Zuo scolding him, the summoner was understandably scared, but the rest of the guild was counting on him, so he put his fear aside and prepared to continue the attack. However this was when the rock golem clapped its hands together, creating a massive shockwave. Aello was fast enough to fly away from Zuo to a great enough distance so that the shockwave was weaked so that it did not to hurt her, just knock her back a little. Artemis was not as fortunate. She was sent flying back and was dismissed in mid air. Talen did not fair much better then the huntress. He was knocked back a few feet and landed on his side. Talen got up and dusted himself off a little. The summoner wanted to bring another celestial spirit to fight, but he did not have the strength  yet since he had just summoned two spirits at onec.

After flying back to her position, Aello resumed her attack, buffeting the guild master with another gale blast. She doubted that her attacks were doing anything, but it was all that the harpy could do against such a large opponent.

OOC:

MP: 85%
HP: 80%
SE: 10

Duration: Aello- 3 posts
Cooldown: Artemis- 6 posts

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Ni-Ju found himself very lucky to have kept his distance as the golem's shock wave passed harmlessly over him. Crawling slowly  through the grass to minimize attention to himself,  Ni-Ju found a nice thick clump of grass to hide in, approximately  twenty feet from the back of the golem and took aim. "Water Mastery: Cloud Make bullets."(x2 D-rank spell Cloud Make:Bullets) He whispered and let fly two bursts of three inch long cloud bullets at the back of the recently attacked arm of the golem in an attempt to draw attention away from his more combat useful guild mates. Without pausing to see the outcome of his mosquito-like attack, Ni-Ju turned around and and set about repositioning himself a little further from those huge arms til he could possibly help in some way.


OOC:

HP:100%
MP:80%

Cyrus jumped onto Kariline's demon and grabbed Ren's arm to hoist him up, but his hand only met with water until he hit Ren's back and hoisted him up, "What exactly... was he trying to accomplish?" he thought. Either way, when both mages were on they took off into the sky soaring around the master's dangerous rock form. "Sir Ren, I need you to focus. If we attack this thing together, we should be able to do some damage, as Lamia Scale's Water mages. Cloud Make: Whip!" he shouted, causing three strings of cloud to snake around in the air, whizzing here and there, making their way towards Master Zuo. They attempted to strike him in golem form's rock arms and head.

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HP: 90%
MP: 60%

Zhu was still standing his ground ready to get out of harms way the moment it came towards him. He felt he was ready for any attack and would dodge any oncoming attack. At least from a direct attack. He did however catch the sentence that was said to him and this made him angry. He would do whatever it took to win, and in this situation he may not have had any other choice, and it was clear that something needed to be done, or he would end up dead. Despite the guild master seeming to be in control of his mind and fully functional he was still trying to break members of his guild and this was something Zhu couldn’t understand.


When he was finally ready to make his attack he was struck by the sound wave created from the mighty slap, and felt the force. As the wave passes he holds his head screaming in agony at the sound that had been created. Despite his ringing ears that would probably never work again he raised Green Dragon up to the sky and summoned lightning to the blade. Without a second’s hesitation he leveled the weapon at Zuo and let the lightning fly. He wouldn’t let his ringing ears be the death of him and once he let it fly he rushed forward zig and zagging as he tried to get closer to the Giant.

70/100%
1/4 Dragon’s Quake cool down begins
Green Dragon CD 1/4
Lightning strike CD Begin

Kihia nodded at Naraca as he told him what to do, “To aid in that I will need the Geruks back…” Kihia drew the Geruks out of the sheathe awkwardly revealing the spell had yet to be activated. I only have a few seconds until the spell activates on its own… After a moment Naraca had dropped Kihia off ontop of the head of Zuo’s massive Golem. Kihia knelt the for a moment making sure he could maintain the spot even if Zuo moved around suddenly. He looked around the massive head formulating a possible plan until backup can arrive. I need to maintain this spot… at least until Naraca gets back… I may have an idea… Kihia sheathed Icarus onto his back for a moment and then held Geruko and Geruka in each hand. (If the shockwave transpires Kihia will endure the shockwave(Getting 5% knocked out of his health but maintain his position)

Kihia tapped the centers of the weapons and watched has the chained partisans activated. Kihia then swung both of the weapons in a way that the chained partisans swung towards two separate notches that decorated the Golem’s head area. If these “Hit” they will wrap around each notch, when this happens Kihia will pull the Geruks back tightening and locking the partisans blades to part of the chain to prevent them from unraveling. After this Kihia will place both of the Geruks in their sheaths and tighten the sheaths to prevent the Geruks from slipping out of them. This will anchor Kihia in place on Zuo’s head, he will do nothing more but analyze what happens next and wait to initiate his next plan. However if this fails, Kihia will simply have a wild ride trying to stay on Zuo’s head.

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MP:70%

Ice Make-Chained Partisans:

So the assault was underway. Needless to say Master Zuo was tanking every hit as normal. But even he would have his limits and the sheer numbers here would eventually wear the old man down whether he liked it or not. Kara had two options right now; she could cast Silent Assassin or Solid Hammer and go on the physical offence, or she could stay back and attack from range until a better opportunity presented itself. Given how the rest of her guildmates were striking, the latter seemed to be the better option. With this in mind she raised her hands up above her head in a Y-shape. "Kali, it's dinner time! Amethyst Make; Apollo's Arrows!" she yelled out, creating numerous arrows above her head before thrusting her hands and arms forwards. The arrows shot through the air towards the golem's back.

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HP: 100%
MP: 85% (-5%)

Apollo's Arrows = 2 post cooldown remaining.

Spollo's Armor = 2 post duration remaining.

Kaligos swallowed the rocks he had taken from the earth golem. Instantly Kaligos felt a swarm of energy and magic power rush through his body. It was overpowering Kaligos had eaten earth magic before, but nothing on this scale and even the bite he had taken was more then enough to power him up. His violet eyes glowed for a moment as he felt a feral surge in power. His eyes narrowed and became draconic, his blood surged with power. Everything about his body had a charge that he had never even come close to feeling before. Added to that Kaligos's skin gained a new texture Usually he was covered in a layer of sand as every time he used his magic the skin would shed off as a layer of sand, making sure that unless he had just gotten out of the shower even casting one spell would basically ruin any chance he had of 'looking clean'.

This was different. His skin gained a texture them that he had never seen before, though he could feel that he was tough as stone there was no added weight to it like his normal magic. Instead it was like his skin simply were scales made of stone. His claws and fangs were more pronounced as well, and in general Kaligos just felt amazing.

Sukiro had trained him only a little in the ways of what to expect being a dragon slayer. So he had no idea the thrill that came with Dragon Force. His skin was practically glowing with magical energy, and this was off of one bite of the S rank magic. "So this is what she meant. Well then... I guess that's put a fire in my belly!" Kaligos jumped coming to his senses all of which were hightened it wasn't just the normal 'I can smell steak five miles away.' This was everything hearing and vision it actually took a moment to adjust, and in that moment he grabbed onto the giant earth golem and pulled himself onto the creatures back.

Kaligos found it actually rather easy to sink his claws into the rocks as he climbed, avoiding the massive arm as he scrambled up the stories tall building that was there guild master. He was charging at a pace that surprised even him getting almost half way up the back of their guild master, before he jumped backwards into free fall.

Kaligos took in a massive breath magic energy causing his entire body, as not one, but two different magic circles laced over one another. One was Kaligos's usual golden earth, but the other was a dark purple. "Roar of the earth dragon, Roar of the venom dragon, combine them together and you get."

"Decay Roar!" Kaligos placed his hands over his mouth and let loose both his dragon slayer roars. Both an acidic cloud of purple gas, and a violent sand storm combining together their C rank magics to make one brand new B rank spell. Normally this would have been exhausting to the point where Kaligos would have been at least a little winded, but here it was so simple, and all of it aimed right at their guild leader.

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HP:100/100
Mana: 100/100
(Dragon force activated)

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Things had clearly escalated in the second wave of attacks. He was taking heavy fire in all direction and being as large as he was he had no way to defend against it. Especially dangerous was an attack launched by Naraca or rather it seemed dangerous. Zuo's shoulder seemed to have "TARGET" written on it in big red letters as lots of spells went it's way. Now Naraca was performing a move that appeared to by trying to slice it off! Zuo was tempted to try and stop him but at the same time was curious to see if he would be able to manage it. Alas while it was a noble attempt Zuo's arm was still attached to his torso despite Naraca's well planned attempt. So Zuo's thunderous clap went off without a hitch- almost. As the golem's two massive hands clapped together the old geezer felt a great deal of pain in his shoulder. He looked over to see that he had accidentally aided Naraca's plan to remove his arm and the force of his own clap finished the job breaking off his massive arm.

"My my quiet the plan you had there Naraca. I must also commend all of you for your attacks so far. Despite being faced with a seemingly invincible opponent you do not falter and come at me with everything you have." With his left arm he caught his falling right arm by the wrist and held it up in the air "You have all impressed me with your power and done commendable damage to my golem. But it is now time I return the favor." All over the massive stone construct the combined efforts of the Lamia Scale mages was beginning to take it's toll. Cracks were forming especially around the base of his torso where he was taking heavy fire.

Yet everyone except Zuo seemed to be rather unharmed, this didn't seem real fair to him. So what did he do? He began using his own arm as a flail. With his attack range effectively doubled he began thrashing about his severed arm like a massive club. He swung it wildly and slammed it into the ground over and over all over. It was pandemonium in the form of an attack. Nowhere was truly safe on the ground or in the air in front or behind or even climbing on the earthbound immortal itself(for as Zuo lashed out his upper body was twisting and shaking all the while giving them all the ride of their life).

The salvo of attacks lacked accuracy and refinement but more then made up for it in their unpredictability, power and the sheer difficultly presented by trying to dodge such a massive weapon. To get out of this the mages would need speed, agility, planning, endurance and a lot of luck.


OOC: Posting order as requested by Naraca
Ren, Ophelia, Naraca, Kariline, Talen, Quote, Cyrus, Zhu, Kihia, Kara, Kaligos and Zuo

Ren squeaked as he was suddenly picked up and placed on a flying demon. He was panicked as it flew into the air and he had to pay attention as he was given instructions. "Ah... Okay!" he nodded, even though he didn't understand. However he saw Cyrus attack and knew what he had to do. He hesitated to attack, due to fear of being shot off in the air. He had to think quickly. His panic caused his defensive spell to fade away at a rapid pace. Soon enough he was completely solid again, and he could finally hold onto the demon.

"CYRUSTHISMIGHTSOUNDWEIRDBUTCANYOUPLEASEHOLDMEREALQUICK" he blurted out as he lurched forward. Ren, assuming that Cyrus was holding onto him, prepared himself to cast his offensive spell. "HOLD ON TIGHT" he shreiked before swinging both his arms, his right up and his left down "W-wings of love!" he muttered, not daring to the say the spell loud enough that someone might hear him. After a few moments of headache, the knockback forced him back with a violent jerk, but he wasn't falling to his death so Cyrus kept up his end. The torrent of heart-laced water shot its way forward to the Golem's face.

magic and stuff:

There was a moment of relief as Ophelia saw the arm of the giant golem fall off, although that moment of peace was soon ruined as she watched it grab its arm and swing it about. ”Good heavens!” The noblewoman growled as she gripped on the skirt of her dress. I just want this day to be over! Out of frustration, she grit her teeth as she now had another obstacle to get past. She began running again, her eyes frequently glancing up at the sky for the arm.

Her dress… Her hair! They were all messed up. Ophelia didn’t even have her shoes anymore, they were lying somewhere on the field. And now her bare feet had to touch the ground.

Ophelia was practically breathless, having to maneuver to the golem’s back. ”THIS PLAN IS STUPID.” The girl yelled. Her rage was the only thing the fueled her running. Slowly, ever so slowly, she caught sight of the golem’s back. She let go of her dress and swung her right arm forward. ”Rock form: Fist!” She snarled. A large rock sculpture of her arm emerged from the ground aiming itself at the golem, mimicking her right hook.

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(OOC: Sorry for the wait, hope you enjoy)

It was a great and insurmountable difficulty to take off the arm of the beast. With his sword as deep as it could go into the rock skin of the giant golem Naraca pulled the hilt of his great sword like a lever to try and pry the entire arm off. The effort itself he knew would not be enough, in fact he woulda have stopped earlier were it not for a single motion he saw that the hulking rock monster began.
It's shoulder rose up with it's hands, and it's palms were flat as they slowly came together. At first Naraca felt his instincts almost force him to get up and get far away. it looked at first like they might turn into fists and ram the ground. His body bending down would no doubt make Naraca have to get up to get Kihia off em.
However the arms started to reel inwards towards each other.

Could it really be...?

Thinking about it for a moment, the golem was being attacked from basically all sides, it'd make sense that it would need to act in a manner to deal with everyone due to the sheer amount of attackers. It did make sense...A clap! A clap with it's strength so thunderous it could send a wave of force that could send everyone flying.
Would it be strong enough to rupture the organs? Maybe, maybe not...He didn't want to find out.
However...Yes, yes the shock wave would be powerful, and with the arm already somewhat close to coming off...Yes, this could work. If this golem was as powerful as it looked then it might just do the job for him.

It's hands were coming close together, now was the time to get clear. He looked up quickly at Kihia who was already preparing to shield himself. He'd be fine.
Naraca quickly ripped his sword out of the golems shoulder and shot up into the air and flew up high. His hair and clothes danced madly in the intense wind that beat his face. He flew enough for the shock wave to dissipate below his feet harmlessly, to which he instantly zipped right back down towards the golem.

His eye's were quickly drawn to a truly relieving and satisfying display. He didn't celebrate, far from it, but as the the massive earth made arm fell to the ground, he found himself give out a very small sigh of relief, and with that, a very large booster in his confidence.
They really could do this, they could win.

From how high he was he saw everyone working together, everyone fighting together against insurmountably foe. He didn't even know some the people here, it was unlikely some of the people here even full knew each other at all for that matter. Yet hear they all were...
This was a team, as team that if working together, could truly win this fight. In retrospect it was rather laughable that so much effort would be required for just a single one of Zuo's spells, but all things considered, the golem was taking a lot of damage, and Naraca knew he couldn't hold up forever.
However neither could they...

Naraca's eye's narrowed when he caught the Zuo turning to reach for his arm. Was he gonna put it back on? Could he do that? No, no, couldn't he just regenerate a new one? Whatever the case, thankfully the lumbering giant was slow, and no matter how this battle went no one could say the golem won based on it's speed.
Naraca could see this battle wouldn't get anywhere with the way they were fighting now, breaking this thing down completely wasn't impossible, but who really knew if they even could break it down? They had to do something else, something more.

Some idea's were brewing...

"Kihia!!" Naraca shouted as he began to fly down towards the ice boy who was on the golems large head.
Naraca took a quick look down, seeing the rock bound giant was moments away from grabbing it's arm. Naraca floated in front of Kihia.
"Listen! Get down to the ground behind this thing! Rally everyone with you. You got me?" He said clearly, hoping that Kihia would pick up on what he was saying. They had experience working together, and Kihia was getting better at knowing Naraca thought, with what he had told the boy, he knew that'd be all he'd need.

With that, Naraca turned around and flew within shouting distance of Cyrus and Ren. By this point the golem picked up its arm. Naraca turned his head to see it grabbed it's own arm by the wrist instead of the shoulder. So, it looked like it wasn't going to be reattaching it. It was going to use it as a weapon.
"Follow Kihia!!!" He barked as loudly as he possibly could to Cyrus and Ren as well as the demon they were riding on. The demon knew English, it'd understand Naraca's words and register that whatever the plan was, it would be to follow the ice boy.

Now for everyone else that was outside...They wouldn't be able to hear him, so couldn't give then any auditory cues, but he could get there attention visually.
"Shining Eye's" He whispered.
His amber colored eye's, with a blink, suddenly shone two bright, powerful lights from his eye's like two spotlights. His's eye's absorbed the light of the sun and mimicked the brightness, his eye's being more then bright enough for everyone to see. The white lights cascaded over Quote and Talen who were far away, Naraca made the lights bright at first to get there attention. He however blinked once and then turned off the spell once they were looking up at him.
With his great sword he'd simply pointed towards the back of the golem, showing that they had to go there. He'd also gesture with his finger for then to go that way.
There was no doubt Zuo saw him doing all this, and heard him doing all this.
So he knew there was only one thing he could do now.
He saw the golem would began to prepare for it's big, crazy swings of it's own giant arm.

"Zuo!!!" He yelled out
He blinked his eye's, the two bright powerful lights turning on again and this time not holding back, with the brightness of looking directly into the sun the light would shin against the entire front of the massive golem. Where it saw from, Naraca knew it wouldn't be able to see a damn thing with lights this bright. He stayed within it's arms length, he knew he'd see any slow, blind attacks coming a mile away.
"Be ready! For you face Lamia Scale!!" He shouted before, as fast as he could possibly go he charged forward towards Zuo.
The fastest speed he could travel with his flight and rank was mach100, and in order to close the distance, he did just that.
As he did, he did two things.

He held his sword out in front of him, and used the inertia of the his forward momentum and the weight of his sword to spin fast, real fast, so fast that one could not track with naked eye's where his sword was, it seemed to be all around him, the same went for his body. He spun so fast he looked exactly like helicopter propellers keeping the chopper off the ground.

The second thing, was his utter these words
"Bio-Organic Hardening"
And at the same time, let a little magical energy activate the flame lacrima within his sword. The lacrima heat up his black sword so it was red hot around the entire blade. Making it able to cut through most hard substances like butter, even though it was easy enough before...
Further more, Naraca let the lacrima heat up to the second stage of the lacrima, causing the sword to ignite into flames. Making it a flaming sword that heated up, and powered up the blade even further.

Due to his magic, Naraca was actually immune to the disorientation of spinning so fast and knew which was he was going, and knew right where his target was. Making in a flaming, spinning buzzsaw coming at straight towards the wrist of the arm that was holding the golems other arm. A much thinner target then the shoulder, and going much faster. Wasn't it obvious what would happen if contact was made? It would be like before, far from it.  

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Spells used:

Shining Eye's:

 

Bio-Organic Hardening:

 

MP% 105% - 25% = 80%

Attack results: Great sword = B-ranked + First and Second level fire lacirma = A ranked + Natural Strength, B ranked = A.5 + Bio-Organic Hardneing, B-ranked (Sig spell) = S ranked attack.

Watching as Zurricai, Cyrus and Ren took off into the skies she brushed her hair away from her face. This sucked, so much. Why was he always pitting himself against them? Was it to display his dominance? Kariline just gritted her teeth, She felt so useless in this kind of situation. Mainly because Naraca put her into that position.
She was trying to remember the plan, and as she saw Ophelia running off it came to her. She had to make her way all around the back of Zuo and his Golem. She grunted and took off in her run. She wasn't out of shape, not even close, but it was a great amount of size comparison. She chose to get closer and run around his torso at the closest point.

But as she started to get closer she noticed that Zuo grabbed his displaced arm and picked it. No! he was going to put it back on! Kariline started to sprint faster. Henich taking his place behind her when he yipped. From up above she seen a large shadow pass over her quickly. Zuo wasn't putting his arm back on, but using it as a weapon. A large flail! When he swung back around, he pulled up then down fast. The arm grounding itself into the earth.

It had to be barely 10 feet from her when it made it's descent. Was he trying to hit her? None the less it missed, but only barely and the after effect of its fall was just as bad. Dirt and dust exploded and Kari was knocked back just from the force that the giant arm put off itself. She tried her best to shield herself but it failed as she was flung. She landed hard into the ground, with enough force to take her breath away. Henich had stepped away as it seen the oncoming attack and ran to her side.
Kari coughed as the dust settled and tried to push herself up. This was nuts! He was trying to kill them! Her head spun as she recovered from being groggy. However, she felt a warm and sticky sensation on her face. Touching her forehead she realized that she was bleeding and had hit her head harder than she thought.

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Health :
55%

Magical Power :
80%

Duration : 4 posts ( for both )

Talen looked as his guild mates continued pound Zuo with attacks. He had to admit that it looked awesome, the guild working together, all of the different magics flying at the giant golem, it made Talen glad that he decided to join Lamia Scale.

Shaking his head, Talen refocused on the fight. He saw Naraca fly up and shout for everyone to follow Kihia's lead. Looking around Talen saw Kihia behind Zuo's golem. Talen started to run to join up with Kihia when he saw the golem pick up the the arm that Kihia and Naraca had removed earlier and lift it over it's stony head. What could he be... Talen's question was answered as Zuo started to slam the appendage all over, trying to hit anything within reach. Aello simply flew higher to stay out of the reach of the arm, however, Talen was not so lucky. As he ran, one of the mighty blows landed only a few feet from where he was, the shockwave sent him crashing to the ground, ears ringing. Getting unsteadily to his feet, Talen walked the last couple of feet to reach the ice mage. "What's the plan?" the summoner asked, somewhat out of breath.

OOC:

MP: 85%
HP: 75%
SE: 30

Duration: Aello- 2 posts
Cooldown: Artemis- 5 posts

Ni-Ju didn't even feel the impact as a fist sized stone from Zuo's flailing arm glanced off his left temple, sending him toppling to the ground. As the world spun before his eyes, Ni-Ju felt as if something inside his head had reached its limit. With a resounding crack that echoed through halls of his mind, Ni-Ju's magic shattered. Fighting his way through the first pain he had ever experienced in his life with nothing but a cold and determined will, he began slowly pulling the fractured pieces of his magic back together into something that,though whole, resembled the original magic only in the barest sense. This new magic that had taken shape within him held none of the creative warmth that he had associated with matching magical flows to use another mage's spell. Only a strange feeling of calm as if everything was distant, akin to the feeling he would sometimes get when he had been seriously hurt.

Struggling back to consciousness as if feeling his way blindly through a dense fog, Ni-Ju found himself flat on his back looking at the sky , the vision in his left eye obscured by blood flowing freely from the small gash on his forehead. He sat up slowly, wondering what exactly he had been doing here just in time to get a solid reminder as Kariline got knocked to the ground by the force of Zuo's improvised arm flail. Working more on instinct then anything else, Ni-Ju cast forth his new magic with all of his strength at the top of the broad earthen chest of the golem. As his magic came into contact with a small loose stone falling from Zuo's chest, Ni-Ju felt as whatever it was that gave a stone the identity of a stone dissolved its bonds and exploded violently. As the resulting explosion expanded outward it touched four other rocks tumbling from Zuo's neck setting off a cacophonous chain of explosions.


OOC:
HP:60%
MP:78%

Macro Earth Detonation Cooldown: 2 Posts

-The attack used in this post is a Macro Earth Detonation but my character doesn't have a name for it at the time.
-If damage goes through it should be five C rank spells worth of damage. (Initial explosion and the four from the chain reaction.)

Cyrus quickly latched his arms onto the other mans waist. Keeping him steady as he shot his water blasts, he began noticing the group start to initiate a second plan, "Change of plans Sir Ren, we're going to be flying somewhere else," the water mage's body lurched back in exhaustion and Cyrus braced himself as the beast they were riding on began to twist and turn, changing their flight path to circle around the master's creation. Dodging carefully, the demon skillfully managed to avoid so much as a glaze from the master's wild and childish attack strategies. He looked down. It appeared that Naraca, one of the most physically capable of the group had the master at least busy. Meanwhile the second "group" was circling around to the back, clearly with a plan in mind, temporarily he attempted to get his guildmate's demon to swoop down so he could review what was going on with them.


HP: 90%
MP: 60%

As the great arm made of earth, and stone came flying around like the giant club it was being used as Zhu swore loudly and used his favorite weapon as a make shift shield. He spun it around in front of him like he would normally do, but the blade just wasn't strong enough to really stand up to something as powerful as the great stone arm club. As the club came into contact with Green Dragon the blade snapped into several pieces and the force of the impact sent Zhu flying away towards the beach.

He was sent tumbling and sprawling into the sand. He growled as he slowly rose to his feet looking at the giant that was only about 45 meters away due to the fight constantly moving. Zhu walks over to the water and dives into it soaking himself and his clothes with sea water. As he emerged he was brandishing a new sword that was dripping with the ocean water. He took this opportunity to put his plan into action. He rushed back towards the action and while it did take him a bit of time to arrive he was close enough to the action in order to get back into the fray. He looked at the giant and found that he had a perfect shot. He lifted his new blade and slashed it in front of him sending the water that was covering the blade out towards the giant earthen behemoth.

80/100% HP remaining
65/100% MP remaining
2/4 Dragon’s Quake cool down
Green Dragon CD 2/4
Dragon strike CD 2/5

Kihia braced himself as he saw Master Zuo reaching down to pick up the arm, when Naraca flew infront of him he nodded, and watched as large man flew off towards his own objective. The back huh… so be it. Kihia endured the first few flails of the Golem he had anchored himself to, when he finnaly got the rhythm he nodded, Time to initiate this idea… On one of the times Master Zuo threw himself backward as he flailed about, at this moment he quickly dispelled the two chained partisans and jumped backwards. He reached around and grabbed Icarus as he fell through the air following along the massive Golems back, as he did this he watched and measured how far off the ground he was. This should be a good distance… Kihia pointed Icarus at the back of the golem roughly 10 meters above the ground, I fuse these two spells together… Ice Make Long Bow… and Great Lance… may the Lance Arrowhead of Icce Make Aeokor… find it’s mark… Kihia took a deep breath and said, “Ice Make Aeokor!” He watched as the spell formed forming the ice bow and the giant lance shapped arrow, he then launched it aiming directly at the center of Zuo’s back ten meters above the ground. Kihia then focused on his own landing, and leveled himself out as he fell. He then angled himself to get closer to the Guild Masters backside, and put on leg below him and one hand in a attempt to slow down by sliding down the back of the Golem. He gritted his teethe has he felt the skin on his left hand start to be rubbed raw. After a moment he managed to land on the ground with no more serious injury.

If that attack is successful: He will detail out to those who made it around him to focus on the point Icarus and hit and start forming a small hole into the back.

If the attack is Unsuccessful, he will still detail out the plan, but give a rough estimate where the focus point will be.

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HP:80%
MP:50%

If it didn't hurt some much Zuo would be impressed by the combined efforts of the guild. So it was a shame that the event would have to come to an end. For a moment the old man had forgotten himself, caught in the heat of the battle but in a moment of clarity he saw what had become of his little "exercise." For as his light-tolerant giant rock eye stared through Naraca's light flash(completely unaffected of course, you can't blind a rock) he noticed the effects of his own attacks. On the ground Kariline and Naji Ku had both seemed to suffer potentially severe head injuries, true in a battle people got hurt but this battle was meant only for experience. Battles where a great mages fights a number of lesser mages to strengthen their teamwork is not an uncommon training tactic however it can easily go astray.

It could be said that the mages of Lamia Scale were too strong for their own good. Zuo had intended to hold back for the safety of his guild mages but as the fight went on it became apparent that holding back wasn't possible. He was being forced to use his full strength and with it injuries and accidents were sure to follow. With that conclusion reached the golem stopped. Even as a blast of attacks descended on it he did not move. Even as Naraca cut off his other wrist, even as Kihia shot a large lance in his back, even as the rocks that composed the golem randomly exploded at one spot he just stopped. The glowing bands of magic power faded and after a moment the golem began to crumble and shrink.

No debris would fall on the heads of those below, the geezer made sure of that, rather it all retracted within Zuo. After a long minute what had been a 40 meter tall golem was now just an old man in the middle of a bare patch of dirt. "I apologize for the abrupt ending to our exercise. However I do believe we have injured who need attending to." While it was not visible Zuo himself was extremely exhausted and for the umpteenth millionth time he felt real damn old. "So please let us get medical aid to everyone who needs it and rest for those who need it. Once everyone is taken care of I guess we can have a picnic or something. I would like to talk to everyone about what happened here and why."

Ren was still panicked as all the action continued. He found it unusual however, that Golem had suddenly stopped moving. It definitely wasn't that Ren wanted the Golem to start moving again, however he expected his Guildmaster to keep fighting. When all the attacks ceased, the Golem crumbled and there stood Zuo in the now mostly ruined field. "A picnic? That sounds safe! I mean uh, fun!" Ren let out a sigh of relief, finally all of this fighting was going to come to an end. A picnic sounded lovely to Ren, and was kind of upset he hadn't planned for such a thing beforehand. He could gather water if anyone needed it, though he was sure someone had gathered lemonade earlier. Then again after everything that had happened he wouldn't be surprised if the lemonade was spilled.

Ren was glad he had survived the ordeal. Earlier Zuo had said for sure they were not going to suceed, and Ren took that to heart unfortunately, as he did with any threat. Ren was definitely not going to let his guard down though, whether it was paranoia or not he was still wary of any tricks the Guildmaster could pull. Ren scanned his eyes along the ground for Ophelia, to make sure she wasn't among the injured Zuo had been talking about.

... What... It was over? Just like that? Ophelia stood in place and watched as the golem crumbled and Zuo emerged. "Are you... Are you kidding me?" She whispered, raising a brow. She ran her fingers through her messy hair and let out a long cry. "I HATE THIS. I HATE THIS SO MUCH. MY HAIR IS A MESS, AND MY DRESS IS RUIIINNNNNNEEEED! WHERE IS MY BUTLER!? I DEMAN A MOIST TOWELETTE." The noblewoman dropped onto her knees and ruffled her hair up before sobbing where she sat, obviously upset with what was happening. She had worked her bum off to have the guild master just STOP where he was and demand a picnic. A PICNIC. Oh my, Ophelia would need to vent... Immediately. "REN." She yelled out and snapped her fingers for the young boy. "LET ME PUNCH YOU IN THE FACE." The girl demanded.

She sat where she was and slouched over slightly with her elbows touching her knees. "Ugh... I'm so beat... I need tea!"