[x2] Hellish Hordes from Hell - Will Mo Fall?

[Cacophony]

Saton no Jutsu (Sand Release Skill)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Sand. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Sand Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: Must have Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill) and Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release Skill).

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Pax watched as a black aura emanated from Zuruel, and in an awesome turn of events, it seemed to help him with his defensive prowess. "Impressive" Pax said aloud as he thought of ways to help defend the village he had just found. So he began to think of what he could do. It hit him as he saw a skeleton smash his previous barrier and it turned into dust... Or more accurately, Sand. Pax's mind began racing as he saw this and he instantly smashed a couple other barriers down like nothing.

It was a little discerning seeing his barriers break that easily but he had only just learned how to manipulate the earth. As the sand settled on the ground Pax formed hand signs and distributed his chakra evenly to every little sand particle around him. He nearly couldn't believe it when all the sand around him for about 5 meters began to rise into the air around him. His mastery of the wind release seemed to help him even make it this far, and he was glad he knew the wind better than anything else.

Without as much of a notice as before, more arrows fell from above Pax's head. With a keen instinct he noticed in no time that they were above him. With the onslaught of arrows above his head he had hoped his next move would work. He moved all the sand floating around him into a thick shield above his head hoping to survive. Without a contingency plan, Pax had surely put all his eggs into one metaphorical basket. Never before had he risked his own life just to test something this stupid out.

Luckily for him the arrows all bounced off the sand hovering above him, and landed in the ground around him. Without much time to react he could see a skeleton flanking Zuruel. With most of the sand around him being expended with his last move, Pax tried to get as much sand around the skeleton's ankle bones under his control. Once the skeleton raised his sword arm over Zuruel's head, Pax moved the sand under the skeleton to make a pit. The undead warrior instantly dropped into the hole in the ground. Once this was done, Pax buried him alive... well kind of?

Now that the immediate threat was gone Pax sighed and yelled to Zuruel. "Watch your flank next time!" With that out of the way, Pax put his hand on his empty scabbard where his sword would normally rest. He then ran his hand through his hair with a smirk. Cockiness was not Pax's strong suit but while the sand created a vortex like feature around him he had definitely seemed cocky enough. Without notice the chakra drained from his sand and dropped from the air. "This could be bad" He thought to himself while he held his pose.

[Ancestor Febrie]

Unlocked Potential
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has an incredible potential for improvement with 1 of their skills.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Choose a Skill. The Point limit for that skill is increased by 15. (Thus, the first time user applies this technique to a skill, its point limit becomes 140 instead of 125). User may learn this technique multiple times. User may apply this same technique to the same skill multiple times.
Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous.
Sleight of Hand

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The Duchess now that they have won ran around looking for more skeletons to tag but there rarely were any. She could have just turned incorporeal and scout on ahead. "Hey, I'll scout ahead a bit." she said to Zuruel and the rest. There was this weak looking guy again, he was probably that guy she bought her animals from. In any case he was drawing, even asking for a pose. Once she turned incorporeal she looked at the contents of his pockets, he was totally poor and no good weapons whatsoever. She looked at the posing skeletons, one of them had a rare ring, or at least it looked like it to her but most only had weapons like swords or maces and such.

Another guy named Pax joined the fray, he was using some earth jutsu. It would have been easy to lift of these weapons from them while they were posing. The Duchess would soon turn corporeal again to steal all of their weapons. She would go to each one, picking up the most likely weapon to be taken. She picked about three swords, two maces and a hammer when one of them noticed. To quickly avert the situation she pulled out a shiny ryo coin from one of his friends and began to play hide and seek with it between her fingers. This trick seemed fun enough to get the skeleton on the job, he no longer was looking at the pile of weapons she has grabbed. Instead he was carefully looking at the coin.

The Duchess threw the coin from left to right hand, always playing with the coin at between her fingers. Soon she will have to do another trick for this guy and so she pretended to drop the coin, then not being able to find it. She then smiled and pulled the coin out of her ears. It seemed to work well on the skeleton who was now applauding, a few more skeletons joined him. The next trick was to pull out this coin out of his ears or anywhere else. Of course this would draw half of the skeletons posing for Alma to her as audience. Hey these guys aren't as scary anymore.

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Ninpou: Choju Giga
Rank: “C”, “B”, “A” Ranks
Skill: Ninjutsu
Effect: Allows the user to bring to life and control a set amount of drawings or paintings.
Special: “Hand Seals”
Drawback: The objects are made out of ink, and thus very weak. Most “D” rank attacks have the ability to completely destroy the ink creations, no matter of their own size.
Description: The user will rapidly draw several objects, usually animals, on a scroll. Then, performing the right handseals, the user will bring those objects to life and use them for offensive purposes. The monsters, made of ink, also share any special properties that the ink has.
• “C” Rank- Allows for a maximum of ten small creatures at once or five medium sized creatures. This ability may be re-trained in order to increase the number of small creatures by two and the number of medium creatures by one each time this is learned. After the initial time learning this technique and four additional trainings, the user is required to perform “B” ranked training to learn more.
• “B” Rank- Allows for a maximum of twenty small creatures at once or ten medium sized creatures at once, or one large sized creature at once. This ability may be retrained in order to increase the number of small creatures created at once by three, medium creatures by two, and large creatures by one. After the initial learning of the “B” Rank, it must be re-learned a total of four times before the “A” rank may be learned.
• “A” Rank- Allows for a maximum of thirty five small creatures at once, or twenty medium sized creatures, or five large sized creatures at once, or one gargantuan sized creature. May be re-trained any number of times to increase the number of small creatures by five, medium creatures by three, large creatures by two, and gargantuan creatures by one.

Limit: Must know Gahou Tenrai

After everyone finish posing for Alma, the horde return back to normal and Alma takes the old man to safety where he placed the others. If anything dead and can fly, he might start having a problem on his hands.Before Alma could get away, the old man stopped him. “Wait, let me help you.” He begin showing Alma handseals. His memory is awesome for this kind of thing as he takes in the information and shown how to use the jutsu.

Alma takes the sky and begin drawing on the scroll he’s borrowing. He begins to rapidly draw onto it, creating five medium size birds of ink. The birds flies down and begin attacking the skeletons below. Zuruel seems to be glowing or something, the hell going on down there as Pax is using the sand. Finally, the duchess into the fray and using coins against them. It’s a weird sight, then again he just had them all pose for him.

The birds destroy a few and then get destroyed. Alma begins drawing a number of flying ghouls, maybe it will confuse them or something. His hands move lightning fast over the blank page, creating art in high detail. His hands move into fast motion once more to create seals and bam, flying ink ghouls. They come down to the ground level and help Zuruel, Abumi, and Pax fight agains the skeletons. They swing their arms, destroying the fodder with ease but once something hits them, they poof. "Everyone, I'll help from above!"

[Madame Loki]

Everyone learned

Except you PAX!!!! you get a +20

[Skulking Shinzu]

Greater Shield Focus
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User is skilled at deflecting blows with their shield.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: User's Guard Meter gains a +2 Hardness against attacks, reducing the effect of an attack against the Guard Meter. This bonus stacks with the bonus granted by Shield Focus.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Shield Focus.

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“I suppose my overconfidence was my undoing…” Zuruel scratched the back of his head as Pax took care of a creeping skeleton that was about to perform a flanking attack. “I should keep my guard up.” He thought to himself as he raised his shield and shifted his body into a defensive stance. As another skeleton approached, Zuruel dashed forwards and stopped it mid-swing by slamming his shield onto its blade. “Now!” He yelled in order to signal to the Duchess that it was safe for her to scout ahead. “Wait… What is she doing.” The Kedoin squinted as he spotted the Duchess playing with some sort of coin.

Before Zuruel could comment, the skeleton creature began to push its blade into the iron shield. “This one is strong.” He thought to himself. Despite his body wanting to release the air from its lungs, Zuruel held his breath in. He knew that by doing this, the oxygen would support his core and help prevent his body from crumpling under the strength of the boney villains. “Tch.” Suddenly, the skeleton whipped out another blade and unleashed a flurry of attacks. In response, the Kedoin lifted his shield high and stepped behind it for cover.

A series of harsh metallic clangs echoed into the air as the blades made contact with the shield. Despite the creature’s best attempts though, Zuruel’s posture was unwavering. Like a unmoveable wall, he bore the brunt of the attacks with his shields like they were coming from nothing more than a child with a soft toy. “Too easy.” He thought to himself as he dug his feet firmly into the ground. Nothing could get past him now.

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Doton - Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu (Double Suicide Decapitation Technique)
Rank: "D" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu / TaiJutsu
Effect: A technique where the user hides within the ground for a brief moment to surprise attack the opponent from under ground.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: The user takes the time to push into the ground by using their Earth Release. The user pushes into the ground quickly so that to be used against the opponent later on. The user at this point cannot necessarily move within the ground at this moment, but the user does know by feel of when an opponent is right above. When an opponent is right under the user reaches up to take the opponent and drag them back down to the ground in one fell swoop without movement or notice. The opponent is unable to move for one post and the user is capable of slamming out of the ground with one movement.
Limit: Needs the Earth Release

Alma wings are growing tired as he flies in the air. His breathing is coming unsteady and his stamina is growing thin. He flies down back to the ground and hide somewhere between a rock and tree. He waves at the others to let them know of his location. Don’t want them to attack him or anything because his location is unknown. As he rest, catching his breath, he sees a skeleton look around in the area. Alma suddenly disappears underneath the ground.

His appearance wouldn’t be seen by others as he stays underground. Once gone, he comes back up and hide in between with the others. He gives pax a slight nod as he the most fresh person here along with Abumi. An arrow comes flying high and straight for Alma. “Nope” Once more, he disappears and goes underneath the ground. The dirt turns into a hole for him as he slide down. His white clothing quickly becomes cover in dirt and no more color white virgin.

Once he saw the coast was clear, he came out once more and walked away. “It dangerous on the ground level” he muttered. However his are too tired to keep flight. Every time a stray arrow comes or directly at him, he simply slip underground. He wonders if he should stay underneath to avoid everything. It might be safer, he thought to himself as he climbs out. However, once more right back underneath, frustration is beginning to build up for the young chosen one.

[Cacophony]

Saton no Jutsu (Sand Release Skill)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Sand. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Sand Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: Must have Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill) and Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release Skill).

20-50 TP

Acknowledging the head nod from Alma, Pax knew instantly he wasn't an enemy. At least not in the current situation that is to say. Without much thought into his next move he studied the current situation again. He noticed the woman doing some sort of coin trick to a skeleton, and Zuruel's apology. He also noticed that some skeletons were circling him all equipped with swords and shields almost the size of Pax. Quickly reacting to this, Pax formed hand signs and again tried to control the ground around him. The ground around the skeleton army quickly turned to sand and buried them up to their waists with great ease.

Walking around the circle of half skeletons, Pax kicked each skull off with an amazing punt. For a while, Pax seemed to act strange... Maybe he was having too much fun, training while kicking ass. So he decided to have a little extra fun for the time being. Forming some hand signs Pax quickly marked the spot of the skeleton bodies by building a small sand castle on each skeleton quickly. He then let off a quick laugh and went back to being serious.

"Enough screwing around, I need to actually train here." He would say while grabbing one of the skeletons swords and a medium sized rock. Pax then grabbed the sword in his hand like a bat, and aimed for a skeleton in front of him. After a second he tried throwing the rock in the air, smacking it with the flat side of the blade and using one hand to form a hand sign while the rock traveled through the air. As the rock approached one of the skeletons heads, he forced the rock to deteriorate into raw minerals and sand in the air. Particles scrapped and scarred up the skeleton's face pretty bad.

Pax laughed and considered that a success for now, and moved onto his next little idea for training. Forming signs again for the hundredth time or so Pax slowly sunk into the sand under his feet. Once he was down to his neck he formed more signs under the sand and rose back up. He then grabbed some sand and just threw it at an approaching enemy for no reason. But he did get to study the cloud that it fluttered down in quickly while the enemy slashed through it. This caused Pax to jump back, kicking up more sand in his steps.

To his surprise it did stall the attacking skeleton a little bit. Just long enough for Pax to whip up a sand vortex with incredible speed. Astonishingly it was strong enough to slowly but surely dissipate into bone dust and sand. After a minute or two of watching Pax realized he was still in the middle of an active battle field. "We should look for a necromancer for the cause of all this crap." Pax said, getting impatient because he wasn't entirely sure how long the same old army could keep getting back up and attacking.

[Madame Loki]

Learned you first 2

another +20 for you Pax... slacker...

[Skulking Shinzu]

Shieldlord
Rank: "B"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: When equipped with a shield the user can perform various abilities of defense or attack.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When user is equipped with a shield, the user gains a pool of 20 Guard Meter Points, and the user also gains 2 combat options to use per round. User gains a +8 Hardness to their Guard Meter against the next attack and a +20 Armour Point Bonus to their next Shield Bash attack performed with their shield. User gains a +16 Hardness on the next attack.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Greater Shield Focus. Must know Shield Block. Must know Shield Specialization.

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“Tired already?” Zuruel smirked as he spotted Alma descending onto the ground. In contrast, he felt as if his stamina was limitless. As the skeleton warrior brandished its two swords, Zuruel effortlessly batted away the blades like he was playing a game of ping-pong. Each time the foe raised its blade to strike, the Kedoin simply predicted the trajectory of the slash and met the attack with his tower shield, the act of which causing a metallic clang to resonate into the air. For a while, it seemed as if the two would never stop battling.

Eventually, however, the might of Zuruel’s shield began to wear down on the skeleton warrior’s blades. Every few minutes, a glint would descend onto the ground to reveal that its blades were beginning to chip. “You can’t keep this up forever.” Zuruel chuckled to himself as he continued deflecting the creature’s strikes. This time, he made sure to press against the foe’s blade every time he made contact. Not only did this start to throw the skeleton off balance, but it also seemed to accelerate the degradation of its weapons.

“Let’s see what more I can achieve.” Zuruel thought to himself as he bent his knees slightly. As the skeleton pounded away with its twin blades, Zuruel’s body bobbed up and down. By doing this, he realised that he could transfer the force of impact away from his hands and instead, into his legs. Naturally, this provided the best form of damage mitigation due to the fact that his legs contained much larger and stronger muscles than his arms. The only issue was, exhaustion was beginning to kick in.

“Tch.” Zuruel scowled as he pushed the skeleton away with a quick slap of his shield. If he wanted to continue training, then he needed to find a less exhausting stance. Luckily, the skeleton’s limitless stamina and hunger for blood made it the perfect sparring partner. As it approached, Zuruel dropped onto one knee so that he was ‘lunging’. In this stance, he rested his elbow onto his thigh and supported the shield bearing arm with his free one. Once complete, he braced for impact as the skeleton began to slash away at the metal.

Despite the limited ability to move from the spot, Zuruel found the stance to be rather easy to maintain. Although he did have to focus considerably on not losing his balance after blocking attacks from the side, he did find it rather simple to block some of the more mundane strikes. “No more.” He thought to himself as he bashed his shield into the creature, the act of which shattering its swords and knocking it over. Before it could get back up, Zuruel jumped onto his feet and drove the base of his shield into the creature’s skull to destroy it. “A necromancer? How are we going to find that?”

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Doton - Dochuu Eigyo (Underground Fish Projection)
Rank: "C" Rank
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: By using the similarity of Doton - Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu (Double Suicide Decapitation Technique) the user is capable of moving through the earth and all around.
Special: "Handseals" before performing
Drawback: Technique cannot be used through Sand
Description: The user uses the basic Doton - Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu (Double Suicide Decapitation Technique) as they slam down into the ground. Doing so the user is capable of moving about within the ground capable of rising, singing and capable of pushing through the very ground in multiple types of ways. This type of attack may be used so then the user may move away from the very opponent and attack at the moment's notice.
Limit: Needs the Earth Release, Must have knowledge of the Doton - Shinjuu Zanshu no Jutsu (Double Suicide Decapitation Technique)


Everytime he comes out of underground, something is coming after him. He’s getting tired of it as holes is being made everywhere within the area, each where he was just location. “Guys, this is is getting out of hand, can’t even breath!” His breathing is so unsteady, his head feels drowsy and his body is growing weak. He goes back underground but see a number of skeletons coming his way. He performs some handseals and begin swimming underneath.

He moves underneath a rock but not directly so he don’t cave in and kill himself. He leans himself against a wall of dirt, catching his breath. “I could sleep in here and avoid the horde” he thought to himself. He leans further into the wall, his heart is racing and the air underneath is cool. His eyes feel sleeply as he begin to close them. Suddenly, he hears sounds of marking in his tunnel. His eyes open side and begin to move to get away.

Alma moves in a dash, moving quickly as possible underneath the ground. He hears them getting close. The the tunnel grows longer. Suddenly, he get an idea and jumps out, cover the hole while calling it a day. He sneaks his way back to where the others are. Duking behind trees and rocks. “It feels like this will never end, these skeletons I mean. If there is a necromancer. He might be alive, I try to track it down?” Alma asked of the group while rubbing his chin.

[Cacophony]

Saton no Jutsu (Sand Release Skill)
Rank: "B"
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: ---
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: With this skill, or release, the user is now capable of using, and performing techniques that deal with the element of Sand. This means that any NinJutsu or specialized TaiJutsu that deals the Sand Release will need this in order to be performed correctly.
Limit: Must have Fuuton no Jutsu (Wind Release Skill) and Doton no Jutsu (Earth Release Skill).

40-50 TP

"No idea how we would find it. This is my first undead army attack so..." Pax said, realizing his statement may have been asinine. Taking a second to think he sat down on the sand he had been using before he thought what he could do next. As he was thinking something inside of him told him to duck or drop or roll or something. Pax quickly formed hand signs and sunk into the sand beneath him to avoid what was coming. He then grabbed his attacker by the ankle and swapped places with himself.

Luckily for him he had done this, because attacker would have cleaved his head clean off. The skeleton that was attacking had tried to come up from the sand to get at Pax. Who then formed hand signs again and trapped the skeleton beneath the earth for good. He quickly laughed as he danced on the metaphorical grave of his enemy. He once again noticed Alma, but this time the winged man was landing and seemed tired. 

As a winged man himself, he knew how much it sucked having to land on a hard surface. So Pax softened the ground where Alma landed with his sand release. He then grew his own winds out and kicked up a sandy dust storm around one more enemy.

[Madame Loki]

+20 shin

Learned you other ones

[Deleted]

ooc: others went to bed lol


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Doton – Tsuchi Same no Jutsu ( Earth Shark Technique )
Rank: A
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Allows the user to make up to five sharks that will swim throughout the ground ( earth ) as though it were water. Two types of sharks may be made. One kind of shark may only receive C rank worth of damage before it crumbles and another that must take a B rank's worth of damage before it's gone. The latter is packed more densely with earthen minerals and is thus a lot slower than it's predecessor.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: Can only be created somewhere that has the required amount of earth, and this technique requires the user to have one hand stuck in the ground for it to work. The latter weakness may be shed once the user has obtained A rank. The distance that the sharks may travel away up to 30 meters from the user before dissipating. The sharks will crumble at the end of four turns, at which point the jutsu must be performed again to summon up another group of sharks.
Description: The user completes the order of hand seals and once he or she is finished, they will slam one hand into the ground. If the user has achieved A rank, he will immediately remove the hand, having already planted a seed that will grow into five earthen sharks that may explode out from the ground at the user’s leisure and attempt to take a chunk out of the target ( if not the entire body ). The sharks aren’t aware of their surroundings above ground, and when it comes to that, they rely on the user’s view to direct their efforts. Aside from that, the sharks are capable of hunting targets underground of their own volition.
Limit: Requires the earth release and the user must know both the Underground Fish Projection technique, which requires Double Suicide Decapitation technique.

As Alma takes shelter and begin scouting the area for a necromancer, only thing he finds is the undead. No heat, no soul, nothing really. If not for the x-ray portion, even the skeletons would go through. Alma begins to wonder why everything is immune to his eyes lately. Suddenly, a large monster, no abomination; that the only thing you can call it. Alma hands already begin forming handseals and slamming it onto the ground. The creature is about 20 feet tall.

It body is made of corpses of the dead and skeletons from the surrounding area. It stench is enough to make Alma puke. There’s art and then there’s this, this hideous being. “Everyone, watch out!” Alma screamed, warning everyone in the area. The creature picks up a large boulder and tosses it at Pax and Alma. Alma land sharks he created swims through the ground at an extreme pace and begin attacking the monster of corpses. They move like poetry in motion but lethal at the same time. They’re nothing to sneeze at in face of them for any ninja.

Alma shunshines away, getting away from the large bolder and to escape death. Alma land shark jutsu are nomimg at the creature legs. Blood is covering them from the corpses. The creature simply kicks them away, destroying them. Alma clicks his tongue. It takes nearby skeletons and absorb them into his body to heal the damage. “Damn it, this won’t be easy,” he mutters underneath his breath. Alma hands begin moving in lightning fast motion, moving in a blur. His chakra flows through his body, moving through his network in correction motion as he forms.

His hands slam onto the ground, creating several more land sharks made of dirt. It swims across the dirt and begin attacking the creature once more. One disappears before getting close; his jutsu is still rusty to perfect it. The rest get stops on and crushing them instantly. Two high rank jutsu back to back like this is wearing him out as he moves to some distance, resting up as he catch his breath. This day has been nothing but none stop fighting and saving others. From falling under genjutsu of unknown kind with him being torture and seeing a child get it head blown off.

It make sense for him to be out of breath and struggle on what going on. The creature roars and marching forward, throwing large hand attacks at Pax to crush him if he avoided the giant bolder. Alma performs handseals and then places his palms on the ground. His chakra flows and begn forming five land sharks, each made of dirt and rock. Each one are fast and deadly. They swim across the dirt and then disappear before arriving. Alma realize he’s actually too far from the creature to properly attack. Alma runs to make it to the correct amount of distance so it can attack and not get it hit by some stray attack.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Shieldlord
Rank: "B"
Skill: TaiJutsu
Effect: When equipped with a shield the user can perform various abilities of defense or attack.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: When user is equipped with a shield, the user gains a pool of 20 Guard Meter Points, and the user also gains 2 combat options to use per round. User gains a +8 Hardness to their Guard Meter against the next attack and a +20 Armour Point Bonus to their next Shield Bash attack performed with their shield. User gains a +16 Hardness on the next attack.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Greater Shield Focus. Must know Shield Block. Must know Shield Specialization.

20 | 40

Zuruel scoffed as he spotted Alma pop in and out of the ground. To him, it almost looked like a fun game of whack-a-alma. “This would be my first too…” Zuruel replied to Pax before straightened his posture as he spotted two skeletons approaching. As they pulled back the string on their bows, the Kedoin immediately swung his shield in front of him in order to give himself full cover. Once complete, he bent his knees slightly so that the weight of the heavy shield wasn’t bearing down on his knees and damaging the joints.

“Weak.” He thought to himself. As the skeleton archers unleashed their arrows, Zuruel simply pulled his elbows back to engage his shoulders before bracing to prepare for the projectiles arrival. As they hit, Zuruel swallowed a breath full of air to ensure that his core was stable and strong. Thanks to this powerful defensive posture, the arrows simply bounced off his thick tower shield without so much as leaving a scratch. “Too easy.” He thought to himself as he heard the sound of strings being pulled. Another barrage was coming.

Like before, Zuruel simply blocked the projectiles with the might of his tower shield. The only difference now, was the fact that the projectiles seemed to be explosive. “Ugh.” He groaned as his legs crumpled under the weight of the explosions. Sudden changes in force seemed to rip through his guard effortlessly. That had to be fixed. As the skeletons teeth clicked together to form laughter, Zuruel jumped onto his feet, leaned his shoulder against the shield and then pressed his full body weight against it in order to create a stable structure.

As the next set of arrows were fired, Zuruel braced himself and took the full brunt of the explosion. Although he didn’t move from his spot, he felt the force of the impact resonating from his shield into his shoulder and ribs. “Ugh…” He groaned as he dropped onto one knee. He couldn’t keep this up forever. A few more shots and his body would fall apart. “I need to mitigate the damage.” Zuruel thought back to how he had managed to stop the cannon balls from earlier. It wasn’t all strength or pure force of will. There was a lot of technique behind it too.

As the archers prepared yet another attack, Zuruel tilted his feet outwards. He knew that by pointing them this way, he could maximise his grip on the ground and prevent loss of balance. He then leaned into his shield once more whilst making sure that his shoulder had maximum contact against the cold metal. This time, however, he also tilted his shoulder upwards slightly. As the arrows were launched, Zuruel instantly found the denotation of the arrowheads much easier to deal with. Not only was his balance strong, but by tilting the shield upwards, he was able to draw some of the force behind the explosion away from himself. “Too easy… Hm. I wonder what Alma is doing?”

[Mist]

shinzu +20
not shinzu + 20

[Skulking Shinzu]

Shield Specialization
Rank: "C" Always 30 TP
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has mastered the use of one type of shield.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Choose one type of shield (buckler, light, heavy, or tower shield). With the selected shield, user gains an additional +4 hardness to their Guard Meter. In addition, this bonus stacks with Shield Focus, and Greater Shield Focus. User may learn this technique multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time user learns this technique it may be applied to a new type of shield.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Shield Focus.

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“What in blazes?” As Zuruel glanced at Alma, he spotted him dodging enormous rocks and boulders. “Catapults?” Sensing danger, Zuruel immediately hurried towards Alma’s location. “What’s attacking you?” Before an answer could be uttered, the Kedoin had already spotted the fleshy abomination in the distance. “What is…” He thought to himself as he spotted the creature toss a boulder in his direction. In response, Zuruel dragged his shield in front of him and braced for impact. However, due to the sheer size and weight of the projectile, the boulder simply knocked him flat onto the ground.

“Ugh…” Zuruel groaned as he picked himself off the ground. Unlike the cannon balls from earlier, the boulders had a lot of force behind them. “Again…” He scowled as he spotted the creature preparing to throw another barrage. In response, Zuruel lifted his shield and pressed both of his knuckles against the cold metal. From what he understood from his earlier training, he knew that this stance provided him with the strongest defence against heavy projectiles. “Focus.” He told himself as he stiffened his wrists to make sure that they did not bend or put pressure on the joint.

Zuruel then focused on the rest of his body in order to ensure that his stance was perfect. He knew that the slightest weakness would cause his body to topple over or crumple under the weight of the boulder. Firstly, he inhaled and filled his lungs to the brim with air in order to provide support to his otherwise soft organs. With this holding him up, he then straightened his posture so that his spine was neutral. Once that was complete, Zuruel braced for impact and mentally prepared for what was to come. This was going to be difficult.

As the boulder made contact with his shield, Zuruel found himself being pushed back by the sheer weight of the object. To resist, he tilted his feet outwards and dug them into the ground to slow down the skidding. “Not working…" He groaned as the shield began to push back at him. He needed to stop. To do this, Zuruel pulled himself back slightly so that his body weight was pressing against his heel. Although this alone wasn’t enough to stop him, by doing this, the Kedoin was transferring the brunt of the boulder’s weight onto his heels, which in turn, helped him skid to a complete halt.

“I won’t lose…” He thought to himself as he began to push against the boulder, the act of which causing it to harmlessly fall onto the ground a few centimetres in front of him. “Ugh…” Zuruel then dropped onto his knees in exhaustion. He couldn’t do this again, but as he watched the abomination prime another boulder, he knew he would have to. Carefully, he began to slow his breathing in order to help himself catch his breath. He then cleared his mind and focused on the task in hand. Defending against boulders was the harshest cardio session he had ever experienced. He needed to be mentally prepared so that his body didn’t give up midway.

[Ancestor Febrie]

Unlocked Potential
Rank: "C"
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has an incredible potential for improvement with 1 of their skills.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Choose a Skill. The Point limit for that skill is increased by 15. (Thus, the first time user applies this technique to a skill, its point limit becomes 140 instead of 125). User may learn this technique multiple times. User may apply this same technique to the same skill multiple times.
Limit: Must learn from Universal Miscellaneous.
Sleight of Hand

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The Duchess had to think of a new parlor trick to keep these guys busy for the rest to maul them down later or perhaps she could. She conjured two ryo coins now, she kept running them through her fingers, the skeletons had their eyes glued to it. What should she do now? Maybe she should pull out a rabbit out of someones sleeves or something. She pointed at one skeleton and signaled him to step closer to her. He was genuinely surprised and pointed back on on self to show it she meant him. She nodded and invited him on 'stage' as they say. The duchess started with throwing those coins into the audience, of course not for real, the coins were safely hidden between her fingers.

The next step was pretend to look for them, she goaded the volunteer skeleton to help her. They didn't find anything, though she started looking inside her pockets almost pulling them outside for them to see nothing was inside. The she put her hands inside the skeletons quiver and pulled out two coins. This got her another round of applause and the skeleton was beginning to head down. Quickly she pulled him back on stage and said there was another part he needed to play. While of course pulling the coins from his pockets she put an exploding tag inside them. Once she is finished with them the explosions will begin.

Her next trick was supposed to be pulling a handkerchief out of his mouth. Having almost no meat it will be harder than usual. She showed everyone a handkerchief, white one. The folded it into small thing almost as big as a shuriken. She then hit the skeletons head, he kinda got dizzy there but didn't fall thanks to her. The skeleton was now looking angry thinking it was an attack. She quickly grabbed his neck and started pulling the handkerchief out of his mouth, it was a long one but got her another applause. She sent the skeleton back down towards the center of the crowed. From a distance she noticed Alma being attacked by a boulder and Zuruel helped him out.

[Skulking Shinzu]

Shield Specialization
Rank: "C" Always 30 TP
Skill: Supplementary
Effect: User has mastered the use of one type of shield.
Special: ---
Drawback: ---
Description: Choose one type of shield (buckler, light, heavy, or tower shield). With the selected shield, user gains an additional +4 hardness to their Guard Meter. In addition, this bonus stacks with Shield Focus, and Greater Shield Focus. User may learn this technique multiple times. Its effects do not stack. Each time user learns this technique it may be applied to a new type of shield.
Limit: Must be an Armiger. Must know Shield Focus.

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[Continuing previous training]

Before the fleshy abomination could toss the boulder, Zuruel used what precious few moments he had in order to get into position. “Alma! If I die, you better bring me back to life!” He yelled before pulling himself onto his feet. With his breathing now calmed, Zuruel took in a full breath of air and then held it within his chest. He then paid careful attention to his footwork. His feet were roughly shoulder width apart and angled away from each other in order to maximise traction against the dusty ground. He needed to make sure that the boulder couldn’t push him away.

Once complete, Zuruel bent his knees slightly to ease pressure off the joints before tightening his hamstrings and the muscles in his thighs. He hoped that they would act as a sufficient buffer against the projectile’s force. Once prepared, his straightened his posture and lifted his upper chest in order to make sure that he wasn’t slouching. This provided Zuruel with maximum shoulder engagement as he placed his fists onto the cold metal of the shield in order to keep it upright. He was now prepared. As he heard a grunt from the abomination to signal that a boulder had been thrown, he braced for impact.

As the boulder made contact, Zuruel felt exhaustion kicking in almost immediately. Despite his muscles crying out in pain, however, he kept his shield straight and sturdy. As he felt his arms being pushed back from the weight of the projectile, Zuruel stiffened his shoulders and pushed back. The act caused his forearms to strain, but despite this, he continued through sheer force of will. “Yes!” He howled as eventually, the boulder cracked and smashed into pieces due to all the force acting on it.

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10/80
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Doton – Tsuchi Same no Jutsu ( Earth Shark Technique )
Rank: A
Skill: NinJutsu
Effect: Allows the user to make up to five sharks that will swim throughout the ground ( earth ) as though it were water. Two types of sharks may be made. One kind of shark may only receive C rank worth of damage before it crumbles and another that must take a B rank's worth of damage before it's gone. The latter is packed more densely with earthen minerals and is thus a lot slower than it's predecessor.
Special: "Hand Seals"
Drawback: Can only be created somewhere that has the required amount of earth, and this technique requires the user to have one hand stuck in the ground for it to work. The latter weakness may be shed once the user has obtained A rank. The distance that the sharks may travel away up to 30 meters from the user before dissipating. The sharks will crumble at the end of four turns, at which point the jutsu must be performed again to summon up another group of sharks.
Description: The user completes the order of hand seals and once he or she is finished, they will slam one hand into the ground. If the user has achieved A rank, he will immediately remove the hand, having already planted a seed that will grow into five earthen sharks that may explode out from the ground at the user’s leisure and attempt to take a chunk out of the target ( if not the entire body ). The sharks aren’t aware of their surroundings above ground, and when it comes to that, they rely on the user’s view to direct their efforts. Aside from that, the sharks are capable of hunting targets underground of their own volition.
Limit: Requires the earth release and the user must know both the Underground Fish Projection technique, which requires Double Suicide Decapitation technique.

One more time, Alma hands form handseals and slam onto the ground. His chakra warps the ground itself and mold to his image of large sharks that you see in the ocean. They swim straight toward the monster in the quickest possible path to strike. They bite and nom onto it. It roars and then swings them off and crushing them under it immense weight. “Damn it, it so powerful and heavy that my attacks alone is not enough, pax, you ok over there?”

Zuruel also seems to be struggling over on his side, bringing up if he dies to bring him back. “Zuruel, I don’t know how to revive people. Just don’t die!” The creature been throwing boulders and becoming predictable for Alma. His hands form seals, faster than the eye can keep up and slam it onto the ground. His chakra molds and begins creating sharks made of the dirt and rocks underneath. The sharks this time move around the creature and begin noming from behind. Alma clicks his tongue as his attack seems to be working, the giant tank like creature is just big and heavy, but not smart.

Suddenly, the creature begins to send out some sort of green mist from it body, Alma wonder if that some sort of fart? No the mist is breaking down his sharks to mere dust. Alma grunts in frustration, it can even do that! Thankfully, the range is limited or who knows what would happen if he gotten to close. Alma hands move swiftly, forming fast motion seals and slam onto the ground, this time they’re more durable than the ones before. However, in exchange for durability, they move slower. They move at their top speed around the creature but only to be destroyed once more from the mist.

Alma quickly move to a different location, frustrated to hell with this creature and this horde. As he runs, a number of skeletons and full blown zombies. It looks like who ever doing this is beginning to step their game up, Alma thinks to himself. His hands move quick motion and slam onto the ground, creating a number of land sharks. They move quickly underneath the ground and leap out to destroy his foes ahead of him. The skeletons become land shark fish food quickly, even the zombie whose flesh is more durable. Alma wonders why the suddenly shift of tactics, maybe who ever doing this is feeling threaten?

Alma not sure why the sudden feel of threat but now moves on top of a cliff and look down at the creature whose throwing his arms around, throwing rocks at Zuruel and trying to crush him by it large weight alone. Alma moves his sharks to jump out and attack from above. The sharks move fasts through the dirt and leap from the cliff, attacking the tank from above. Aiming for it torso and head. Blood is sprayed everywhere from Alma attack. It roars but he doubt from pain. The only thing this thing knows is destroyed, pain or emotion doesn’t exist for it as the chosen one attack is successful.
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[Madame Loki]

Learned Shin
Learn Febrie

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