Legacy of Forgotten Times 173 Goddess of Lightning Vs Stone of Nigh

"You can always surrender you know?" Rina offered him a way out. She really didn't want to fight him if possible. She was scared that she might accidentally go overboard and kill him. There was no need for more bloodshed tonight.

"You would like that wouldn't you?" Linri said as he started to walk towards her. The air around him started to freeze and whenever he said a word you could see a white mist leaving his mouth. 

[Ice Armament] X 3

An armour made out of slowly covered Linri's body from head to toe leaving only his left arm which was equipped with [Bracers of Nox MK I]. Then a pair of ice sword and shield materialized on his left and right hand respectively. His face was covered by the ice helmet but Rina found Linri's eyes disturbing. His azure blue eyes had changed colour to an eerie shade of red. Unfortunately, she had not noticed the [Silver Serpent Bracelet] hidden under his armour giving the same light from its red ruby-like eyes. 

Rina was surprised by that. She was sure that he was a fire mage so why did the air suddenly started to cold? Why was he covered in a suit of armour? Still, she did not any time to ask answers to these questions as the fight had already started and the environment was in her favour.

You see, this place was not made of cement, it was made of steel to keep its supernatural prisoners. There also used to be runes and enchantments protecting the whole place but due to not being maintained for a long time, they had already ceased function. Still thanks to her ability this place was like a home ground to Rina. In this place, she could cling to any surface with electromagnetism.

However, she did not back down and cling to the roof for advantage. She always welcomed the challenge. Just like Linri, she started to walk towards him, lightning sparks appearing all over her body.[1]

[Impact Bolts] X 4

Rina created two lightning bolts in her hands and threw them at Linri with [1.5x Above-average Speed]. From her point of view, Linri seemed more like a warrior than a mage. In other words, she can not let him get close to her but also at the same time she could not open too much distance between them as that would reduce the likelihood of her own attack hitting him. Her [3x Superior Accuracy] made it so that she could see even his tiniest movement but given distance this attribute would lose its usefulness.

Linri dodged the lightning bolts with his [2x Exceptional Agility] but when he got close to Rina she kept her distance with [Electric Slide] and slid back. Linri was frustrated. He wanted to surprise Rina with his sudden dodge and get in a hit. Now that she was aware of his maximum speed she should be able to guess his dodging routes and fire her shots according to it.

[Icicle Strike] X 2

Since she was keen on keeping the distance and he, himself had to fight that way as well but his means were limited compared to her.

Seeing the big blocks of ice heading towards her Rina kept sliding backwards with [3x Superior Speed] until she hit the back of the room where she used [Static Cling] to climb the wall and dodging his attack.

That was fucking bullshit!! Linri was sure that this attack would hit her since she didn't have an agility stat. Let me explain why there are two movement-related stats in Autumnfall. You see, agility is used to move your body in tight spaces like for dodging attacks or doing intricate movements that require impeccable body coordination while speed is used to move your body in a single direction. That should explain why agility was always favoured over speed in the RP club. However, here we see that speed can also be used to dodge enemy attacks if used correctly. If you can simply outrun the attack why bother to dodge it, am I right?

Linri knew that a prolonged fight was not to his advantage. Compared to Rina's whooping 500 prana pool he only had a measly 200 prana pool and he had already spent 50 of it. He did not know the exact number but it should also be the same for Rina if not more. However, since she had so much prana it didn't matter to her while Linri was pained over his spent prana.

[Fast Bolts] X 4

While Linri was tracking her movement on the wall Rina shot two more lightning bolts towards his direction. He got ready to dodge them just like before but they were travelling at [3x Superior Speed], passing his [2x Exceptional Agility] by a whole rank! This, coupled with the fact that he was expecting them to be slower than before caught Linri off guard making it so that he was hit by all of them.

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Name: [Linri Harclaw]

Health: 80 / 100

Prana: 150 / 200

Stamina: 193 / 200

Age: [15]

Race: [Human (?)]

Attributes: [Expand]

Primary Ability: [Stones of Day and Night]/[Expand]

Secondary Ability: [Thermal Sense]/[Expand]

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Fortunately, he was wearing an ice armour that had [1.5 x Above-average Endurance] that reduced the damage he took. Parts and pieces of the armour were already falling down. If he took any more of those attacks it wouldn't be long before the whole thing simply shattered. Despite the armour possessing good endurance since it was limited by its material, it had low durability. Which kinda didn't help him when he was just a sitting duck! 

Linri swore to Lozna that if he got out of this alive he was going to find Muffin (Rondo) and give him a good beating. You fucking copy cat piece of shit! Who gave you the bloody right to create such an overpowered character!? Of course, the original creator was Kamachi Kazuma but since he was not here Muffin was the next best replacement. 

[Ice Wall]

Linri created an ice wall that covered him. Actually, it was more appropriate to call this a dome rather than a wall. This wall only had a [2x Exceptional Endurance] so it should let him gain some time to think and possibly make her waste mana.

*Bang* *Bang*

Before Linri could even take a breather the dome already started to shake. At least it didn't get destroyed right away. Okay, so what do we know about her? She moves at Superior speed and has a bunch of lightning bolts depending on the situation. She was sliding on the walls so there was no way to get close to her. Then-

*BANG!*

A fist-size lightning bolt pierced the wall and hit Linri on the chest!

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Linri coughed up blood and hastily mended the wall back again with his [Ice Manipulation]. WTF! how could she hit so much with a single attack! The wall was already at [2x Exceptional Endurance] so how hard can you hit you crazy bitch!? 

"Are you going to keep turtling in there or are you going to fight like a man?" Rina shouted from outside his ice dome.

You know what? Linri was not going to take that lying down. 

[Heat Vision]

Linri watched Rina as she stood still on the wall to his right. She must be feeling confident since he was just hiding in there. A chance!

[Ice Manipulation]

The dome split into thousands of needles just a little thicker than 1 cm wide. This was the reason he was so confident in his ice ability. He could control the ice around him like it was an extension of his own body while controlling fire made him feel like he was holding a stick and trying to move objects by hitting them with the said stick.

Since he was going to give up his defence there was no need to just use a part of the dome so he used all of it. All of the needles head towards Rina, who was not able to react in time since she did not have an agility attribute, dealing massive damage.

This was one of the attacks he came up with against Udcek's skeleton horde. He did not have enough prana to use [Icicle Strike] for each and every one of them while if he used [Ice Armament] to create weapons he was bound to get tired eventually. That was why he came up with this attack. At first, he could only create pseudo-icicles and over time the number of attacks started to multiply while his control over ice got better and better.

"How do you like me now?" Linri said haughtily to Rina who was stabbed with ice needles all over her body.

[1] You are approaching me? You thought it was Rina, but it was me DIO!

Chapter end