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The Blessed Woodlands

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YOLF:
Lubei

The clearing filled with thundering and screeching, and the pain changed nothing. Lubei glared through it and squeezed the beast impatiently. Ice was already crawling over the metamorphic fur and only hastened, covering the spike before it could pierce deeper.

At the same time, that left the firebird to scorch him, but it had made a mistake approaching from the side where he could not easily draw his sword. With an icy ring, the dao jumped from the sheath to his free hand, and with one movement, Lubei hurled it at the flaming wings.

Kotomine_Rin:
Lawrence

The spike pierced true,yet there was no blood, not even a wound, yet the spike had pierced his shoulder truly. The demon resisted brilliantly, hurling his blade at the bird and tightening his grip against the black beast to choke the heat and life from it. The bird squacked and lost its trajectory, plummeting downwards, while the lion's entire side was being encased in ice. And the frost was growing with such speed one would expect it to show panic.

But it didn't.

"THAT HURT DAMMIT!"

Lubei erred gravely thrice. The first error was a simple failure to prioritize the right target, focusing on the immediate danger rather than the shadow looming above him. The second was one of pride and confidence, believing his power to be enough to settle this here and then he doubled down on his frigid offense instead of retreating to a better position.

But it was the third one that could have sealed his fate. The third, and gravest of them all, was simply assuming he was dealing with ordinary foes. And that was a fatal sin.

Because instead of being encased in ice like a normal foe, the lion exploded into countless spikes and expanded in a moment, piercing his hand immediately and theatening worse! Lubei only had that moment where the frost shattered to avoid being completely skewered. However, there was solace in the fact these thorns were not aimed to kill. He could dodge, surely. But a fiery magic circle appeared behind him. If he moved behind carelessly, he'd be right in the middle of a pillar of fantastic flame. And as his pieces moved, Lawrence's body was being hurled upwards by the impact and the hot gusts of air and fire.

"What will you choose?" Lawrence genuinely held no hostility towards Lubei when he asked this question.


Vanguard

"Not bad!" He grit his teeth and cursed the fact he missed. But she was fast, and despite being clumsy, her movements surprised him. Her initiative.

And the fact her claws had sunk into his flesh and armor. Kuh! Blood splashed all over, time slowed down to the point the two could look at their reflections over the splashes and droplets of blood. That was the surprise he was being hit by.

Her surprise was the fact she didn't reach the ground.

His lightning. No, his techique, coursed through his entire body. Even his flesh. Flexing his muscles with lightning, they were elctrocuted and spasmed so hard, they tightened like a vice around her digits. Her hand was inside him, but pinned inside his armor and muscles. Blood flowed from his mouth, he was wounded and she was not. But it didn't look like she was closer to winning. His aura was so heavy it was almost crushing. Vanguard was serious.

And the lightning's eyes were staring down at her.

But what moved towards her face were countless blurs of his fist, moving down on her body like divine hammers. "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!"

Umbra of Chaos:
Uria

Elongated claws were lodged into the man's leg, fists came down from above, and Uria made an instinctive decision. Their hand reverted, darkness fleeing from it as the shadowy limb became human again. The sudden shift tore their nails straight from their fingers, but it gave them the time to scoot back and avoid the onslaught. Almost.

A thunderous fist crashed against their collarbone. There was a loud crack as it shattered and their chest cave in. The other had just barely missed crushing in their skull. Instead an ear had been sent flying through the air and a noticeable gap revealed their brain. The glancing blow had shorn off the flesh and smashed right through the bone. But even then the demigod was smiling-- no they were outright laughing. Laughing in joy, in excitement, even as their bones reset and a serene light already began closing the hole in their head. Even as the faintest pink outline along her regrowing ear showed it was not fully restored. "You're too much fun, Vanguard!"

But Uria did not leap at him again. They felt the crushing force, the change in the air, and flipped over. Their hands were claws again but the shape was different, not for rending but for digging. And like a mole, they turned all their speed and strength towards the ground they were pushed against and doved into the earth.

YOLF:
Lubei

He pulled away fast enough for only his palm, fingers and arm to be shredded in the explosion of lances, but his back was trapped against his elemental enemy, and in an instant, his position of strength was overturned. Lubei fumed against the master of the familiars, against the neighboring clash he could only glance to from the corner of his eye for a microsecond, and against his mistake. He didn't have time for this.

The demon king roared a contemptuous cry, and the world was swallowed by white. Giant slabs of ice broke out from the ground towards every direction and scattered brilliant mist in the air, as the black lion's ball of death was slammed away, and the burning magic circle was consumed from below by cold mass along with the blaze. More spikes rose wildly out in the clearing, even towards the armored warrior.

And Lubei sent his glare at Lawrence, causing hundreds of sharpened icicles to array themselves towards him, flying up with a singular shriek.

Kotomine_Rin:
Lawrence

The demon's scream caused the cracks on Lawrence's face to deepen. Frozen spires erupted everywhere. These lances of pure frost shot up to the heavens like the lord's indignant scream, spreading accross the burning battlefield and freezing it solid, spreading icy mist everywhere.  COuntless frozen lances shot up to the skies straight towards Lawrence, who was wide open. Sweat formed over his ashed body, and somehow the fear made a smile crawl on his lips, despite the clear fear.

The lion sank into the shadow cast by its master. Their positioning was genius, this must have been intentional. However, no matter how good Lawrence's play was, he had moved his piece one step too late.

"Oh my."

The icicles impaced in the sky. It was so far up, it was impossible to tell, but there was no mistake that Lawrence's body had broken against it, and now shard of ice fell to the ground along with his tattered clothes. Only the mist hid his prideless corpse.

Vanguard

"..." He stared down at the ground, only to land on it himself. But the frozen spikes erupted all around him, and smashed straight into his flesh and armor. He hadn't seen them coming, and wasn't ready to deal with them.

Because they just shattered against his body. And as his soul trembled and gnawed on itself, lightning cracked, surged, and erupted from him- turning the ice into no more than broken shards and the shards into dust, until even that dust melted away into nothing.

"Don't anger me." He gripped his ax hard and only glanced at the demon lord, warning him that his ire was only due at what laid beneath. If he kept this up, he'd have to take him seriously too. But the charge that built up from that knight's soul was truly insane. If he unleashed a blow like that, he'd annihilate this whole area to smithereens.

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