1d.) Storming the Castle

Exemplar, still very close to Erick, grabbed him as she began sprinting. She started moving before the finger was fully aimed, but actually grabbed and moved Erick with barely enough time do dodge the full blast. She didn't let up her momentum if Yitur decided to track them with the fire.

Power:7

The very pathway that both Luke and Carlos stood on suddenly jerked up, light melting over the tamers' feet to secure them in place.

Meanwhile, the two swords shot toward Yitur again. Upon reaching him, one would swing from the bottom left to the top-right, and the other would swing from the bottom right to the top-left. Yitur, now with his back to the wall, wouldn't be able to back up to avoid the attack.

Meanwhile, the light streaming in from the window behind flowed over the sword that had been knocked away from her and somehow been pinned beneath the block that Exemplar had thrown. The sword was jerked about, dislodging the block, before rushing toward Yitur.

Meanwhile, the light flowed away from Iko. All of the light. Iko was left in an expanding sphere of perfect darkness which, now in his B form, he would use appropriately. The sphere was not solidified, and would only cause the pain of being out in direct sunlight in the summer without a shirt on for a few minutes.

Shobatsu beat his wings again, moving toward Yitur. This was going to end now, and by his own weapons. It had to be so. The seed of his own undoing would be created by his own hand. It felt... right.

"Such a simple display... so easily interrupted..." Yitur mutterred, looking at the attack by Shobatsu, quickly analyzing it and figuring out its weakness, again, rather simply: he quickly stabbed his blade forward, hitting both streams of light, destroying them easily as he turned the hilts toward himself, trumping the C-rank control over the blades with his own A-ranked control, in close range: if blocked at all, there was simply not enough force to take and throw the blades directly and hit him. The third blade met the blocking of another, also halting as Yitur cut the light, showing control over all four blades again.

Meanwhile, Yitur pointed over at Iko's sphere of darkness, realising that he was truly blind in that situation: a quick, dark pulse of energy shot out, almost too quick to be seen, towards the sphere, as Iko began to condense this darkness, waiting to rank up...

As Exemplar was running, she reached a point where the ball of darkness was between her and Yitur. She manufactured Hydra and fired it at Yitur as soon as it and one side of her face was an inch out from behind the darkness. This was possible because Yitur stayed in the same place.

The sound of the weapon firing would be impossible to hear before it impacted, seeing it in time would be highly difficult, especially to recognize the danger in time, unless Yitur had encountered railguns before. Considering the speed of the bullet, if Yitur had any abilities fast enough to dodge or block with, he would have killed all of them with it earlier.

The bullet was aimed at Yitur's skull to blast a hole through his brain.

Shobatsu had by this time, however, ranked up. Carlos had been momentarily distracted when the platform had risen, but had time to channel his energy into his device once more before Yitur's attempt to retake his swords. The wingéd knight of light beat his wings mightily as he extended his powers to the room.

The light, cut by a blades' width, once again reformed nearly instantly. It moved with the blades as the wizard turned them around, and hauled back on them as soon as his attention was diverted, possibly in an attempt to get them out of his immediate control before he could exert more will toward holding them. Now, however, there was the force of a B rank hauling on them, which might tip the scales in Shobatsu's favor.

The other sword halted in its strike before reaching Yitur's field of supreme control as the other blades experience difficulty, and withdrew, waiting for a definitive sword-to-sword ratio.

The wall of insubstantial light immediately solidified as the bullet passed through before focusing in the area the energy was about to hit. The energy, being a loosely defined and mass-less object, would hit the curved, smooth, hard surface of the light and either disperse, causing very minimal corruption to everything in the room, reflect to one of the poison pits on the floor, or corrupt the light, which would disintegrate.

Even if the light was destroyed, however, the light would still be being pulled from the sphere, leaving Iko with his darkness...

By note of periphary, Yitur was aware of Exemplar's location, and, by the ability to sense a rise in the focus of power in one area, Yitur knew exactly where the attack was coming from, and had a fair guess as to where it was going to. On that note, as soon as Exemplar got a sight on the other end of the darkness, as the mental 'trigger' was being pulled, Yitur moved his head to the side, the rail flying by, missing his head entirely.

Meanwhile, Yitur increased the focus on his swords, pulling them toward himself, away from the light, looking intently around the room at the targets. He chuckled... all it would take is one acceptable sacrafice to get away...

Knowing this, he raised both of his hands, and pointed his purple-glowing fingers at opposite corners of the room, far out of Shobatsu's range of controlled light.

Meanwhile, Iko ranked up, the armour covering the face barely hiding his malice, as he stood up, floating in the air using the Dark Tendrils. The same red aura surrounded him as before... he contorted the darkness around the floor below Yitur, awaiting the moment to barrage him...

Carlos and Luke would suddenly find themselves attached to the wall above the doorway, the solidified light no longer being lifted by Shobatsu. The wall of light surrounding the darkness suddenly vanished, though now the darkness was being controlled by Iko, and no longer required any help from Shobatsu. The pathways over the pits vanished. The third sword was suddenly pinned against the ground as the light connected with the floor, solidifying, holding it in place.

All the light in the room being controlled by Shobatsu suddenly vanished in a flash as he ceased focusing on it at all, save his wings and the platform holding the tamers. His focus and power was all diverted to one other target. The two swords by Yitur.

The power pulling the swords away suddenly ceased, which would result in the swords jerking back toward Yitur. A sudden intense power instead hammered down on the hilts, flipping over the blades before Yitur would have time to refocus his control of the swords, and pushed them toward Yitur. This all happened at the same time, in a matter of seconds.

The two swords would now be stabbing toward the wizard's torso, being driven there by both Shobatsu's power and Yitur's. Even if the wizard suddenly and desperately tried to push the swords away or aside, in the course of about one second, maybe marginally more, the swords would hit. There was already great force behind the stab, and there wouldn't be sufficient time to redirect the blade's tip enough to avoid taking a hit.

Carlos blinked. "Well, this is certainly turning out interestingly." he said to Luke.

Exemplar, who was still running across the ceiling (I didn't specify that she was running on the floor ), tossed Erick out a nearby window.

He crashed through it with a vehement yell of, "Damn, too fast!" Last he could be seen, he was falling down.

Exemplar modified her course across the ceiling to be a nearly direct run at Yitur, making sure to avoid the spells headed for the corners of the room.

She held her gun prominently in her left hand and she advanced at her quick pace towards Yitur.

Power:6

It was an interesting defense: Yitur simply added force in addition to Shobatsu's, causing an increase in rotation speed, the hilt hitting instead of the blade, as the immensely-thrown blades 'rolled' past Yitur in one motion, embedding solidly in the wall behind him. Yitur smirked... even when being thoroughly thrashed, he wasn't going to be defeated...

The part of the poison made on the wall receded to the floor below in the pit, quickly rotting away the wall and floor... the only supports in this room were what was in the walls. With no base, the 'attic' simply began collapsing inwards in the matter of an implosion: Yitur, being closer to a wall, would disappear in the instant after the swords hit, before Shobatsu could reform the light. He would simply use this teleportation to flee. As a note to Exemplar, he kept his true focus on her, ready to move in a rather arbitrary direction when she took her aim(s).

Meanwhile, the room would be collapsing inward, a great danger to all of them... Iko stood, pressing his darkness outward and running towards a wall, intending to protect Luke and Carlos in his own shield... everyone else, would have to protect themselves and their tamers...

Shobatsu was not a fool, however. An aura suddenly appeared around him. Yitur was bathed in a warm, yellow light. The light would not affect him directly, though. The light from the aura suddenly formed into a solid sphere of light surrounding Yitur, Shobatsu, and the swords, which expanded and got more solid by the second.

The falling masonry would be easily blocked by the sturdy walls of light, offering no escape to the wizard. The sphere would also float, if the floor gave out.

"I can't let you escape after all you've done," said Shobatsu, the third sword flying to him and into his hand. A white light then encased his hand, as though reinforcing his control over the sword.

Meanwhile, the swords continued to cut through the stone with the combined force of a B and A rank pushing it, now swinging up toward Yitur's back...

Exemplar, who had been running towards Yitur, jumped inside the aura just before it solidified. Her feet skidded a moment down the sphere as she stopped, her right foot sideways and back to steady herself.

She brought her gun up as she landed, her other hand brought up to her wrist to steady her aim.

It was aimed at Yitur's heart this time, her face impassive as the power built up and she pulled the trigger.

At this range it would be harder for Yitur to dodge, but easier for Yitur to counterattack.

Yitur smirked at the non-coinciding moves, bringing his left hand forward, the brunt and length of the arm in front of the bullet's line of fire as she pulled the trigger: by this point, Yitur would have angled his arm correctly, able to feel the bullet as it fired through, while possibly throwing off the aim entirely by batting the barrel while keeping the palm over the hole, as she pulled the trigger.

Through this once instant, Yitur would vanish...

The thing was, the visiblegun was not actually the thing firing the bullet.

In order for Yitur to have blocked, he would have had to notice the power surge and move before the attack had been launched.

Obviously, he had suspected the gun to fire the bullet towards his heart and had blocked as such. He would have had to start moving before the attack truly came.

He had not expected the bullet to fire out of Exemplar's left wrist when she pulled the trigger, the real railgun inside Exemplar's right arm, aimed towards Yitur's brain, avoiding any swords.

The power was transferred from the visible gun to the not visible one with the speed of an electron, as it was literally electrons, so, Yitur wouldn't be able to notice this or react in time.

This would hurt Exemplar obviously, but not as terribly much. The thin layer of skin and flesh destroyed would easily be regenerated or ignored if necessary.

All this time, through the wreckage of, a DaCre new to the battle had been navigating. Over the top of the sphere it had climbed, invisible to those inside the sphere, moving fast enough to be invisible to those outside. Black, tattered robes fluttered in the sheer wind of his passage coupled with the breeze coming from outside.

The figure paused at a certain spot of the sphere, gripping several green diamond-like objects in its fists. It knelt down, pressing its hands against the sphere, diamond points on its palms and the sphere. Then, he pushed.

The diamonds were shoved through the sphere in a feat of incredible strength, shooting down in a barrage from above the wizard with even more incredible speed. The wizard was distracted, and likely wouldn't even take note of the silent, speedy diamonds before it was too late, considering they were coming down from out of his field of vision.

The diamonds would stab down into Yitur's body from above, causing absolutely no pain whatsoever, just before the bullet entered his head.

...

Shobatsu blinked as the attacks occurred in rapid succession, his acquired sword suddenly feeling very inferior.

His aura would heal Exemplar's wound faster than she expected, the entire damage healing over within three minutes if given the time.

Yitur simply vanished, the diamonds falling to the ground as they missed, Yitur having leaned his head slightly forward into the bullet, confident that the gun was the source. Still, it was an effective measure to run away, when seriously damaged...

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Suddenly, the building's foundation shook, a black wind twisting around the castle, a measure put in place if Yitur were to ever lose... it wasn't designed to kill; its powerful force was specifically programmed to seperate the group that defeated Yitur into smaller groups, distanced far apart in the landscape. With a power above A-rank, the wind would temporarily knock out tamer and DaCre, and transport, nay, teleport them acrossed the landscape...

Iko, Shobatsu, and partners would find themselves near a lake, in an unfamiliar purple forest. Echo, Tesla, and partners would find themselves in a 'living' desert (as opposed to the destruction), near an oasis. Exemplar and Jikkon would find themselves in a shack inside of a meadow, a peaceful abode where Valeria, oddly enough, would find them waking.

The shards did hit Yitur, however, entering without any pain at all.

First, the bullet was traveling at such an insane speed that Yitur's leaning his head forward wasn't going to make much difference at all time-wise.

Second, the bullet was moving so fast that it wouldn't cause pain on its travel through, which was the entire point of the attack. The shards would have time to enter before Yitur actually felt pain from the attack and teleported.

All of this would be lost on Yitur immediately, however, as he would have absolutely nothing to tell him that the attack had been successful or, considering he hadn't noticed it's launching, that the attack had happened at all. Never the less, something was happening inside of Yitur...

Of course, he wouldn't be in a position to think about this, considering the part of his brain used for thought was Out Of Order.