Lower Glower Flower Shower Power

[~Emi~]

Anavita Jutsu
Rank: "B"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: Living creatures are not affected by this Jutsu Enhancement, but all other creatures (such as undead and constructs) are.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Developed to minimize casualties when fighting undead infestations in civilized areas, this Jutsu Enhancement causes the Jutsu to ignore living targets. Living creatures are not affected by this Jutsu, but all other creatures (such as undead and constructs) are. Jutsu Handseal/Chakra Increase: 1/2 Rank.
Limit: Must learn from Universal NinJutsu.


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Emi tumbled out from the Hiraishin as it was an unusual version jumping from unfamiliar dimensions into their normal one. When his motion stopped, Emi just lay down in the grass and looked up in the sky, breathing slowly the fresh and nicely smelling air. Despite that he wasn't very picky of his situation, he had really missed the real world and how pleasant it was in comparison. They had landed upon his mark in the land of fire, but it was unusually beautiful as the trees that surrounded the entire area was blooming with pink sweet cherry blossoms. Emi captured a few while soared through the air and smelled them before blowing them off into the air once more.

Have you ever considered retiring from adventuring?

The question was for his friend, which he yet hadn't confirmed had followed him, but the question also worked for himself. He had started to dislike the fact that there were so much death and destruction surrounding all of his adventures and interactions with the ninja world. But as he lay there, he began to wonder if it possibly was his own fault that there were so much casualties. The ones with the powers did after all decide how the scenes would play out, had he just not been strong enough to reduce or remove the collateral? It was a tricky question as he considered himself extremely strong in comparison to most people, and most things that was bad had been outside his control. But as he continued to ponder, he realized that everything that was structured or living that had been in the way was always a risk.

Even though he had luckily never killed any civilian or innocent in his fights, he knew that it was just a matter of time while using that massive jutsus that he knew. To restrict himself from using them was however not an option, as that would limit himself more than what would be worth it while fighting the most dangerous of foes. So the Hoshigaki began to wonder if there was a way for him to subconsciously always protect the people around him, and only affect the ones considered hostile. It was a difficult task as he knew that he would have to discipline his mind enough to focus on every creature within the area of effect and clearly decide if they were to be affected. Since Emi had fought while using his inner eye active at several occasions, he knew how hard it was to focus that much while fighting. But to take that extra challenge to become so much better champion had him feel like he had to learn it. Smiling Emi corrected his long robe to allow the heated temperature of the lands feel less uncomfortable before placing the hands behind his head as a pillow. He could stay there, enjoying the peace and just relax.

[Skulking Shinzu]

[Enter from Here]

“What do you consider a normal element? I have seen illusions. Time and space bending. Even techniques that rip apart the fabric of reality to manipulate gravity. What is ice compared to that?” Zuruel chuckled at Emi’s question as vague broken memories clicked together. “In contrast to those feats, ice is just a matter of combining wind and water. I’ll teach you if you want… Once I figure out exactly how I’m doing it.” It was still partly instinct and blind luck. Not that he had time to figure it out properly. Emi may not have noticed due to the brave front he was putting on, but the Kedoin was massively exhausted and dangerously low on Chakra. Then, as if to seal their fate… Darkness enveloped the duo as something swallowed them whole. “Very well…” He relented by grabbing hold of Emi’s hand. Through his dark vision, he could see Emi’s attacks had no effect on this new foe. There was no choice. They’d have to regroup and come back later…

…

Like a spear hurtling from the heavens, Zuruel stiffly slammed into the ground headfirst with the entire upper half of his body being swallowed by the soil – leaving only his tensed legs poking diagonally out from the floor. Soil, plant life and pollen entered Zuruel’s nostrils at that moment as he attempted to take in a breath of 'air', resulting in a harsh and explosive sneeze that seemed to propel him out of existence in a flash of purple light. The Kedoin was gone for a good few ominous moments, until finally, he returned in his usual jester-like civilian form along with a familiar companion. “My, my, if it isn’t-” Before he could finish, the shadowy ball of fur telepathically interrupted. “Emi!!!” Lady’s voice joyfully filled Emi’s mind as she approached with her shadowy tail wagging furiously. She looked different. Slimmer, wreathed in darkness and her eyes no longer shone orange. Now, they gazed with the intensity of red.

“Retiring? What a strange question. There are far too many things out there that need to die before I can even consider a retirement.” Lady rolled her eyes at the response. “Anyway – Emi, Emi. Which Emi are you?” Zuruel squinted at his friend while analysing his body carefully. There seemed to be a strange knowing air to Zuruel. A sense of power and confidence that the previous Zuruel lacked. “This is definitely pre-goofball-Zuruel Emi.” The Kedoin shot a glare at his companion before smiling at Emi. Zuruel’s nose tickled as the pollen of the surrounding flowers assaulted his enhanced sense of smell. However, as if showing mastery over his body, he did not sneeze. “Regardless. You must be here for the same reason as us. Ready to kill some monsters?”

Tokens: 1

[~Emi~]

?/40, second post



Zuruel had managed to get along on the ride, which was good, but the thing that got Emi to spin back on his feet was when he heard Lady. Even though she looked worn from what ever she had been doing, Emi was thrilled to see her again, especially in the world of the humans. A smile spread itself across his face and he waved at his lost friend, knowing full well that she was one of the reasons that he needed to find a way not to destroy things. His initial idea was that he would just need to favor fighting with taijutsu while in inhabited areas or around people he wanted to save. But then as Emi looked at Lady and her state, he had a flash back on all the times where he had fought close up to his opponents and the effect had gone almost worse than the technique based ones. So he then knew that he would need to concentrate to make his techniques safer, so that he could use that more.

I'm really glad you're back lady, but what happened to you? You look half dead and your chakra beacon was in the lands of demons.

But he was barely able to wait for an answer as some trees in the distance began to shake violently. Since he doubted that he would be able to get much more peace, he turned to Zuruel to answer his statements.

I believe that elements and the things you mentioned are completely different things, but the fact that you consider ice a combination instead of an element of its own proves that it's a complex version. I'd love to learn it later though, but the monsters you seem to seek might already have found us. Do you believe the imps followed us here? Also, what do you mean, which Emi?

The Hoshigaki then took a deep breath as he turned to face the commotion with the trees before dashing off in the direction.

I guess our lives are bound to fighting until we ourselves perish.

But despite that he got a little depressed about the thought, the thrill of a fight empowered his senses and made him unable to avoid feeling some joy of being able to try to find a way of not hurting things. He began the study by observing himself as he moved through the trees and how he had to move to get past the trees without hitting them or slow down in his tracks. As he thought about his movements, they became a little more stiff, but he was able to notice that the most important part was to make early turns that was as minimalistic as possible.

Please stay back Lady, recover some of your strength.

Since he had imagined that he would need to have full focus on which individuals he didn't want to hurt, Emi also tried to memorize the exact position of both Zuruel and Lady. A task that proved extremely difficult as he ran past the trees and tried to look out for any incoming threat. There was a few times that Emi almost had lost Zuruel's exact location due a tree that Emi himself almost crashed into other vegetation in front of himself. That's when he realized that not only the other individuals was things he had to know where they were, he needed to have all other target memorized as well. He wasn't sure if he would even be able to do that. But as they approached the shaking trees, he figured that he could just as well practice.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Biting Wind
Rank: "D"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: This Jutsu creates an animate wind of freezing cold air that moves and attacks a single target as directed by the user.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 30 meters + 15 meters per Class Level. Duration of this technique is 5 minutes per Class Level. The breeze is a touch attack, dealing 6 Armour Points per Class Level of subdual damage. The wind is invisible, and gains all the bonuses of an invisible attacker (though it cannot be used to deliver sneak attacks). The wind strikes as a Jutsu rather than a weapon (and thus can hit incorporeal creatures for 50% damage) and always strikes from the direction of the user. It attacks its designated target once each round unless directed to a new target by the user (which requires a weaving movement). Creatures that take damage from the wind must make a Fortitude save. On a failed save the target is shaken and suffers a -5 penalty to attack damage and -10 to skill checks for 5 round per Class Level.
Limit: Must know Ice Release.

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“H-Half dead!? No – this is just a new form.” Shadows danced around Lady to distort her true shape. If Emi was familiar with Shadow Genjutsu, then she’d know that it was a permanent cursed version of Wraith Form. “I died multiple times… Each time reforming in a new plane of existence until Zuruel finally found me with Loki’s assistance. I suppose one of my corpses ended up in the Land of Demons.” Zuruel took a step forward to interrupt. “Morgana actually. But it was Loki that helped with my memories.” He said while dramatically poking a finger at his temple. “Imps? That brings back memories…” The Kedoin stroked his chin as he stepped in front of Lady. Whether his companion knew it or not, all this dying and reforming had definitely taken a toll on her. In contrast, Zuruel felt like a new man. Stronger even. It was time to test his strength.

Spotting movement in the distance, Zuruel took in a deep breath and swallowed some air to expand his core. Enlarged with air pushing his chest outwards, Zuruel began to summon his Chakra and draw it into his core where it pooled together to form an abundance of energy. Carefully, he then conjured images of blizzards and even ice cream in his mind. As always, his Chakra merged with these thoughts and used the connotations behind the words to transform its properties.

From that moment, a large pool of ice elemental Chakra birthed itself into creation – giving Zuruel plenty to work with. To test his powers, he decided to start with a simple Jutsu. Whistling, he created a tune that brought the wind itself under his control. Carefully, he used the subtle melody to push the wind towards the location of the movement. However, before the wind could fully obey, he also made sure to release a pulse of his Chakra at his technique.

The pulse of energy struck the invisible wind and merged its properties with the element. Once a simple breeze, the temperature of the technique drastically lowered to create a wind so cold that its touch would feel like a bite. Grinning at this, one final fluctuation in his melody blasted the wind towards the target(s) with a command to never relent in its pursuit until the foes had been bitten enough times to bring upon deadly frostbite

Tokens: 2

[Christoff]

Emi +20
Shinz +10 Learned

[~Emi~]

?/40, third post



As they got close enough to be able to see what was stirring the trees, Emi saw there was a couple of undead creatures that were taking massive chunks from the vegetation. The sap quickly got corrupted and the trees lost their normal basic color, as if they were getting turned into a morbid version of undeads. The frozen attack that came from Zuruel seemed to call for their attention, stopping their attack on the defenseless trees. Since they were among a very tight area, he figured that he had to practice his way to handle techniques from the get go. So Emi began with an easier version by making a few smaller boulders from the ground beneath which were made just as hard as rock to inflict as much damage as possible.

That sounds quite impressive Lady, I wish to learn more about that ability of yours when we have time. It sounds like I'm lagging behind on cool moves here, Zuruel also seems able to do completely new things that are most interesting.

He chuckled a little while feeling a pinch of sadness in his soul, his dream since he had been small had always been to ascend, making his lack of progress quite sad. But he didn't have the time to think about it, he had to remember what things he had to consider while sending the techniques flying. His mind created a mental battle grid, in which he placed Zuruel and ladys positions as exactly as he could, but also all of the trees and undeads. The grid almost instantly got too detailed and the general positions of a lot of the things got lost into his confusion. The first boulder was then send off a little too early for his comfort, but as he didn't have the time to hesitate he just aimed at the closest one. As the projectile flew forward, Emi realized that since he had lost exact positioning of some trees and Zuruel, either thing could've compromised his attack.

Luckily nothing came into the path of the boulder that he couldn't anticipate, so he had been able to have it go around two trees before knocking the long and thin Zombie away. The second tree had however been hit by Emi's technique as the turn around the first one had been too weak. That had made the boulder start spinning and could've made it even harder to continue to avoid targets, but the biggest let down with it was that a large chunk of the tree had been blasted off. So to better up his confidence, Emi immediately threw another boulder the exact same path as the first one had gone but with altered path. He had the initial turn be a lot larger to give him the space to properly turn around the second tree. Without even being close to hitting the second trees initial form, the boulder swung past everything in the way as if it was nothing until it finally crashed into the already prone undead.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Frostfell
Rank: "S"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: User drops the temperature of an area to use cold jutsus.
Special: Handseals
Drawback: ---
Description: Range of this technique is 30 meters + 15 meters per Class Level. Area of effect is 30 meters cube per Class Level. Duration of this technique is 5 hours per Class Level. The area the user designates becomes a frigid and icy environment, immediately dropping the temperature by 3 temperature bands. For example, if the temperature is moderate, it drops to extreme cold. If the new temperature is below the cold band, all water is turned to ice and all earth and stone becomes everfrost to a depth of 15 meters per Class Level. Air within the area freezes, resulting in a heavy snowstorm lasting for the duration of the Jutsu. Snow accumulates only if the ground temperature is below the moderate band. Living creatures caught within the area when the Jutsu is performed instantly turn to ice. If a creature successfully saves (Fortitude), frostfell deals 30 Armour Points of cold damage per Class Level. Creatures entering the area after the Jutsu has been performed do not take this damage; however, all creatures in the area are subject to the normal effects of cold, snow, and ice for the duration of the Jutsu. Objects in the area, including those held by creatures, are instantly covered in a thin layer of frost, making them slippery. Multiple frostfells may be performed in the same area to increase the effects (dropping the temperature by an additional 3 bands). The temperature band cannot be dropped below unearthly cold, no matter how many times frostfell has been performed.
Limit: Must know Ice Release.

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“I get bored easily.” Zuruel chuckled at the mention of his new powers. “Today ice, tomorrow, who knows.” As Emi manipulated the boulders, Zuruel extended an arm aimed at the general vicinity of the foes while focusing on his Chakra. Utilising the ice Chakra that he had already summoned earlier, the Kedoin began inscribing commands into it. Most notably, he wanted anything touched by the technique he was creating to instantly freeze and turn into nothing more than frost.

However, how would this work? Zuruel already had experience with firing rays of Chakra. Even blasting the entire area around him with a wave of Chakra would allow him to quickly freeze everything around his radius. The only issue was, it wouldn’t be true ‘freezing’. Zuruel knew that if he blindly fired his ice Chakra, only what his Chakra touched would be frozen. More specifically, only the surface layer of objects would be covered in frost.

This wouldn’t do. Zuruel wanted a way to freeze everything right down to its core. Like what Lady could do with her crystal Jutsu. Focusing intently, Zuruel’s Tenketsu began to open at various parts of his body so that the Chakra flowed in equal parts to his limbs before travelling even further down to the furthest extremities. The Chakra was now ready to manipulate. However, it needed more commands before the whole technique could be released. That would require thought.

Tokens: 3

[Christoff]

Emi: +10 TP
Shinzu: +10 TP

[~Emi~]

30/40, 4 tokens



The technique to avoid hurting things was however not complete, as he still didn't feel secure on where everything was. It proved to be harder than he had imagined to be aware of everyone at all times, and he doubted that it would help to even use his minds eyes. So as he send another couple of boulders away, he began to wonder if there would be any simpler way of doing it. When he turned the stone around the damage, it went through it, having the tree completely undamaged from the passing while still getting past it. That had Emi realize that he had focused completely wrong, he needed to make sure that the attacks were incorporeal to the things he wanted to protect.

The only thing he knew that could be completely harmless to living things if properly molded, was chakra styles that functioned as waves. But to add that kind of property to a very physical attack could be far beyond his reach, even though he felt like it was too tempting to not try. Because if he would be able to make his attacks incorpreal, then he could've found a way to take a step closer to his ascension, which would've been the first time in months he did such a progress. So despite his pessimism around the technique, Emi came up with an improvised form of a chakra wave and what kind of weave he would have to do to make it happen. Then he turned to face the last boulder that he previously had created and began to entwine the weave into the general structure of the creation.

It acted weirdly for moment as it seemed to phase in and out from existing before settling with a weird form that was slightly hazier than normal. Emi tried to touch the surface of the new form of boulder and noticed that even though it was not physical anymore, it felt more like water than anything else.

Since you're so creative, mind helping me ascend? You're likely one of the few in the world that could.

The boy said in a jokingly manner as he tested his control over the semi-physical creation before launching in a straight path towards the undead. The first tree it reached was however hit by the effect, even though it was a lot less dramatically than it usually was. So after that Emi guided it a little, which made him notice that if the attack only slightly hit things, there were no damage to them. But as the boulder reached the undead, the splatter of black blood told him that there were no reduced damage upon it. "Almost perfect", he thought.

[Skulking Shinzu]

10 | 100

“Ascension… Heh.” Zuruel focused on manipulating his ice Chakra. With every mental command he sent it, the more he forced the Chakra’s temperature to drop. He didn’t just want it to be cold as it released. He needed it to be bone chillingly freezing. That would take a lot of energy. Potentially more Chakra than he had every used before for a single technique. Knowing this, he began summoning more Chakra and manipulating it into an ice element. “You’ll have to fill me in. What does an ascension involve?”

As Emi answered, Zuruel began directing the newly formed ice elemental Chakra into the reserves in his extremities. Instantly, he felt a chill that betrayed even his Kedoin cells. He done the near impossible. Create a technique so powerfully cold that even his cells were dying at mere contact with the energy. However, that was a double-edged sword. Zuruel could release the technique instantly to minimise damage to his internal organs, but that wouldn’t always be practical in battle.

Zuruel knew he needed a way to hold the technique and then release at his leisure. Pondering, he wondered if he could layer his insides with an armour of Chakra. Perhaps, with any luck, this would act as a buffer and prevent the chilling effects of the more powerful Chakra from damaging his internals. It certainly worked for fire Jutsu. Knowing this, Zuruel began to summon pure Chakra with no element and drew it into his core for easy manipulation.

Tokens: 4

[Christoff]

Emi +10 TP Learned
Shinz +10 TP

[~Emi~]

Inescapable
Rank: "A"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: The user can grapple creatures larger than normal.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The sineater becomes impossibly difficult to dislodge once they have begun to draw out an enemy’s sins. Whenever the user hits an enemy with an unarmed strike, they are treated as having a grabbing Grab special attack. For every 2 points of Spring Time of Youth Points invested in their Gentle Touch ability the maximum size category of creatures the user can grapple is increased by 1.
Limit: Must be a practitioner of The Eight Celestial Gates. Must be a practitioner of the Sineater Philosophy.



0/70, 5 tokens



Emi watched as the fairly small group of undeads busy by his comrade using ice techniques and himself with the freshly improved stones. There was however an eerie smell going through the area right before one of the darkened trees began to move and crack. Black ooze ran down its sides and a face along with spikes appeared on the new creation, making it look horrid. It was even stranger as the tree seemed almost as confused as the Hoshigaki as it appeared to mime a "Help me" before having its eyes turn red and its bark turning into the same green color as the undead. At first Emi began to channel chakra as if to throw more rocks at it, but as he had seen that the newly created creature hadn't really been evil, Emi wanted to find an alternative route to defeat it.

Lady, do you think you can purify it?

If there was a possibility, Emi wanted to try it. But as that meant to overpowering or restricting the tree, he suspected that it could be quite hard to do as the tree most likely could break most chains. So the boy channeled his physical chakra into his hands and swiftly moved over to the train and began to physically push it away from the rest. It was however so strong that Emi was barely able to move it more than a couple of meters before the giant tree arm grabbed him around his waist and tried to throw him away. As he was already prepared that such an attempt would happen, Emi grabbed on to the arm that held him, making him stuck on the back of its hand. A few violent shakes then occurred as the tree tried to get rid of the clingy Hoshigaki, but Emi was able to maintain his grip until the other hand came crushing down upon him.

Ascension... is pretty much to turn divine

Emi replied in between the blows. Even though he rarely took crushing damage, the smash did hurt quite badly, making him understand that he couldn't take any more of those without trading equally back. So as the tree stopped for a brief moment to see if Emi was completely smashed, the Hoshigaki ran up on its back and clung to the bark there. It was however quite awful as the consistency of the bark was the same as a corpse, making Emi wonder if there actually was a way to turn it back. But since they hadn't even tried it properly yet, Emi imagined that he couldn't give up the hope just yet. So he used his chakra to maintain his position while he tried to reach out for any branch that got close enough for him to grab. It did however prove to be extremely difficult as the tree moved around so quickly that the swiftly moving branches seemed to vanish faster than he could react.

[Skulking Shinzu]

20 | 100

Zuruel forced all of the pure Chakra into his core and as he did this, he carefully pushed it into his limbs along with the ice-cold Chakra. The difference was, instead of mixing the two energies together, he ensured the two different types of Chakra didn’t mix together. Instead, he allowed them to remain separate as he pushed the normal Chakra underneath and coated the inside of his limbs with it. That way, the pure Chakra acted as a barrier and prevent the chill form the ice Chakra from reaching him.

Zuruel immediately felt better. The cold sensation from holding his technique within his body vanished. He could now maintain the ice Chakra inside himself for as long as needed until the moment came to final release. This gave him more time to work out the next part of the technique. Releasing it. Should he fire the energy as a cone of frost? As a blast all around him? There were many options. However, few he could use while in the presence of allies.

“Divine… Have you heard of a Witch named Loki? Perhaps she can assist you. I have witnessed her ascension myself into… Baby-Goddess status. I believe that’s the term she used.”

Zuruel chuckled as he pointed his palm high in the sky. All of Emi’s practice to avoid harming innocents gave him an idea. He always fired his techniques directly for powerful effects. However, what was the need here? Emi was protecting the group from the front. This gave Zuruuel precious time to work with. Focusing, he blasted all of the ice Chakra he had been building up until now directly into the air with a vertical pale blue beam. There seemed to be no target other than the heavens themselves.

“I have long since lost the ability to purify...” Lady cursed at her own weakness. “However… Give me time and maybe I can learn something…”

Toks: 5

[~Emi~]

?/70, second post, 6 tokens


Since there were almost a dozen large branches that could still act without any threat of the Hoshigaki, Emi knew that the only reason the tree wasn't a threat to Zuruel and Lady was because it was distracted. So whenever it turned to face either one of his friends, Emi made sure to give it a good punch straight in its back to draw the attention back to himself. It was proved to be quite effective as the undead tree just became more and more angry, making all the more branches come after him. Emi then moved along the back a few feet to make himself get into a closer proximity to some of the branches. That made it easier for him to follow the base movement in the undead, because even though there were very wide movements from the branches, they based on how the base turned.

Wait? Someone is currently ascending?

That new information had him stop his attempt to reach for the branches, which was long enough for him to get one straight in his face. It did however not knock any senses into him, the fact that his dreams hadn't been unreachable the whole time had him feel ecstatic. But it also filled him with renewed motivation, to reach for his goal and not give up because it was the easy thing to do, adventure and power was his life. His eyes flared with intensity as he jumped out from the tree and grabbed on to one of its limbs using a chakra infused powergrip. It was only barely able to keep him attached, but as he only needed that, Emi was able to follow the branch until it crossed the path of another. Emi then reached out and grabbed the other one as well, which lashed him in his palm with intense power.

I would very much like to meet this individual, but would she even be want to share her secrets?

The tree was starting to walk too close to Zuruel and Lady again, and as Zuruel didn't attack directly they were starting to get in danger. So Emi stopped the branch by the ground by attaching his feet to it before he powerfully pulled backwards. It did however not get as effective as he wanted, due to the fact that the branches broke off and the tree stumbled forward towards the duo. Emi then felt panicked and dashed around the tree using the common bodyflicker and ran up on an uncorrupted tree before shooting himself off. The tackle was quite unexpected by the tree, which allowed Emi to move it back all the way to its initial position. But as he landed in front of the tree and made himself ready to make another attempt to force down the giant, he saw that the undeads were still active walking around biting more trees. That gave him a bad conscious, as he had focused so much on that one and hadn't stopped the reason the tree was actually doing badly.

[Christoff]

Emi +20 TP
Shinz +10 TP

[Skulking Shinzu]

30 | 100

Zuruel’s pale blue beam fired towards the heavens and reached taller than any structure in the area – acting like a beacon. A risky gamble, as he knew it’d draw the attention of the undead. However, if the principles of his technique worked and he massively dropped the temperature of the area, it would likely instantly wipe out some of the lesser undead by freezing the weak tendons and rotting muscle. Knowing this, Zuruel continued pumping fuel into his technique until the beam of pure-freezing energy began to widen into a pillar.

As the freezing beam struck the air, it began rapidly cooling everything in the area. Zuruel knew it would work. The wind did the job for him. As the wind passed air through the beam, it would be massively cooled. This reaction in turn, would create more wind and thus, force more of the air in the area to circulate into the blue pillar and cool. The clouds above, once faint and white, slowly began to grow darker under the presence of this technique.

Zuruel knew then that if he could make it snow, he’d cool the temperature in the area even further. Likely, to the point where even the undead plants would freeze to death. However, how was the question. Pondering, he separated his two hands so that instead of one beam if ice energy, two fired into the sky in a ‘V’ shape. This would allow him to rapidly cool two parts of the sky and everything below at once. His efforts were doubled with this technique, but it still seemed lacking.

“I believe she already has ascended.” Zuruel chuckled. For once, he felt like the knowledgeable one. “She shared her secrets with me. Unfortunately, I can’t do the same unless you agree to become her Familiar. If that’s something you can agree to, then I am sure she would reveal her secrets herself.”

Tokens: 6

[~Emi~]

?/70, third post, 7 tokens



The sentient tree seemed to have gotten quite furious from Emi's attempt to defense, making it move both faster and with more determination. It was bothersome as he still had to deal with the smaller undeads, but he figured that he would just use the large tree as the weapon to eradicate them. So he went through the information he had gained about the strength and movements of his opponents before he began to run towards it. When he was than two meters away, Emi threw himself to the ground and skidded in under the tree and grabbed as many roots as he could reach. They were very slippery from the black goo coming out from the husk with the same consistency as oil, but by using the physical chakra for his gentle fist, Emi still got a couple.

He then made sure to tighten his grip as he still was gliding through and when he finally came out on the other side, Emi used some chakra in his feet and pulled for everything he was worth in the roots. Since he had chosen only roots from the opposite side of where he was gliding, it forced the tree to fall away from his two friend and unto one of the eating undeads. The impact was gruesome as the undead creature turned into a few chunks of meat spread across a large area with only a bloody mess where it once had been. The tree that it was eating on however, did take fairly small amount of damage, but sadly did not survive the corruption. Emi grinned uncomfortably as he saw yet another tree succumb to the darkness and turn into an abomination with the grim purpose to spread its decease.

Familiar? Sounds like something that wouldn't be very good for me. I haven't had any luck in binding my loyalty, also, I don't think Nenyana would be very pleased. But what has stopped you from ascending then? Except for your memory loss.

To make sure that the first one didn't get up too fast, Emi gathered as many of the roots that he could grab and entangled them all together before doing the same thing with the branches. He was doing it too slow however and it wasn't as effective as he had hoped. So when the second tree had fully transformed the first one had almost gotten back in a proper stance with Emi clinging to its body. The danger has just doubled, making him wonder if they shouldn't just back off and have a new united assault against them. But he feared that it would only allow them to become even more enemies until they would be overrun. So he instead tried to figure out a way to force the trees to get into each other ways while he awaited Zuruel to stop their movements completely and Lady to heal the corruption. The fact that they weren't even close to a solution however forced him to keep an eye for the surroundings, because it could get much worse, very fast.

[Christoff]

Emi +10
Shinzu +10

[Skulking Shinzu]

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Zuruel quickly realised that his two beams were going through a ton of Chakra to maintain. Besides, what good was a technique that preoccupied both his hands for ten minutes? Dismissing the technique, he began conjuring pure Chakra to coat his insides once more. Once this layer of protection was created, Zuruel began conjuring ice Chakra and intensifying its effects so that it possessed the power to instantly freeze anything it came into contact with.

“Give me time… If I can freeze all our foes, Lady can take her time purifying them.”

Normally, this would be dangerous for Zuruel to manipulate within his own body. However, as always, the layer of pure Chakra acted as a defensive barrier, which was something he had learned how to do from observing Tenkai users. With an abundance of sub-zero Chakra now pooling in his core, Zuruel raised his arms in the air once more. However, this time, rather than maintaining a beam of energy, he simply compressed all of his Chakra into a dense ball of frost.

Once complete, Zuruel fired the dense ball upwards like a pale blue missile. A few seconds later, once it had reached high enough and was swallowed by the clouds, it detonated. Clouds darkened. Winds picked up. Most important of all – frost began forming on everything below. It had worked. The rapid and violent explosion of ice Chakra high in the sky had led to the temperature of the area rapidly falling. However, at what range? What radius? How far could the cold reach? Zuruel still had much to figure out.

“That’s a shame. I would have enjoyed bringing you back to the Hallows. Something tells me you’d enjoy it there.” Zuruel pondered for a few moments. “Would you consider coming back with me to become a Hunter? It’s essentially what we do anyway, except with juicy perks.” Zuruel snickered as he patted down his cloak. The ringing sound of coins bumping into each other echoed into the area. “I wouldn’t know where to begin with an ascension. Loki achieved her form through… Complex and specific means. That same opportunity isn’t available to me, unfortunately.”

Tokens: 7

[~Emi~]

30/70, 8 tokens




The resulting effect of Zuruel's technique made a thick coating of ice cover almost everything in the vicinity of him, making both Emi and the trees gain difficulties moving around. Since Emi's size was far smaller than his opponents his speed dropped far more, but as an organic creature he was able to crack and heat up the needed areas to not be fully immobilized. It was however so cold that the shark began to shiver and he couldn't bare to hold on to the trees to hold them down. So instead he focused on just quick impacts to keep them off from their feet, which was insanely effective with the ice on the ground, making them slip. When he saw that they had such difficulties with the terrain, Emi stopped and made sure that it didn't change for a few seconds before he dashed over to the real undead. They seemed to be fairly unaffected by the cold other than they didn't seem to be able to bite into the trees anymore due to their new hardness.

Well, it might be that being her familiar is less binding than it sounds, but I will follow you to meet her regardless.

Despite that the opponents didn't move any different from before, as Emi attacked them from behind with his powerful attacks, he could feel that they were incredibly hard. That had him believe that the undead had been completely frozen to the core, but were reacting with the help of some kind of technique. It was a horrible way of manipulating dead beings, but as Emi had fought them for years, he knew that the necromancers only saw them as tools. So to avoid any further implications from not taking the undeads down, Emi immediately grabbed the closest one and made sure to get a hard hold on the undeads head. It was hard for him to do as the strength in it had for some reason increased and it wasn't affected by his hold very much. But Emi was determined and squeezed as hard as he could muster while keeping the opponent stuck.

Wait, her form? You mean like the cursed forms we are able to take?

He asked as he still wasn't sure if Zuruel had recovered all of his memories just yet while pushing away the ungrappled undead that seemed to want to come and aid its friend. But Emi kept on pushing against its throat until the neck suddenly snapped with a creepy pop that was not even close to what it usually sounded like. The Hoshigaki then pushed the undead down on the ground and grabbed the arms before pushing them back into their end position and beyond. Another creepy pop was heard, but as Emi considered himself ready for the next one, the head of the broken one turned around and began to laugh manically. It sounded awful and caught Emi off guard and gave the second undead the opportunity to get close to the boy. But despite his bad opening, he was able to turn the positions into him holding that undead as well. To make sure the first one didn't move back up to him, Emi moved away while forcing the grappled one along with him.