"So tell me more about this dream you had" Eternia asked as they left the tent towards the training ground."....This the whole Astral Postition thing you were talking about?" Kiko replied, raising an eyebrow. It was a long word, but splitting it up helped. Astral being the whole, dream stuff, and Postition being like seeing the future but in reverse."Mmhmm. Seeing someone using Void Stepping means you were a fight that was ly...street level, as it were" Eltaria ented, stopping outside the Fox Fire firing range.
Being here so deg she might as well try it out, Kiko took a deep breath and exhaled. "Before that, my fox fire is stuck. Apparently some guy was going to talk to you about it?" Kiko prompted, looking to Eternia with a raised eyebrow."Mmm, that's just aeonic overflow. You've a very strong soul, and so you needed a more specific way of doing Foxfire for it to actually work. But now your First Gate is open, you circumvent that blockage by having an outlet you couldn't block up if you tried" Eternia replied. It was o hear that her broken tail bit was now not broken, so she turned back to the target and focused on the warmth in her gut. Grasping that warmth, she lifted it up, and it actually moved this time which was great.
"He was..." she spoke, in an airy distracted tone while fog the heat towards her tails. It was weird, to direct this metaphysical heat to a part of her body she had only had about a week or so, but she did so pretty well. "A powerful man..." exhaling slowly, and then taking an ihe tip of her tail tingled, and after a few seds, she shuhe heat out of the tip and fired it off, carving up the earthen mound behind the target. Sighing with disgru over the miss, she'd lean back a little and shake her head.
"Let off some cool shit though. Like this ohing where he went-" She'd fil her arms round in what felt like mystical reverence. "-Fulgar Ulti-" suddenly, without warning, her arm was gripped hard enough to make her yelp in pain. "What the hell?!" she demaurning to the woman with bared teeth. Though, she was frozen in her anger by the sight. The woman had pulled down the hood that covered her eyes, and those eyes were crazy. A brilliant purple iris surrounded a deep blue pupil, looking into which felt like she was being pulled into a deep, eternal void from which there was no escape. No desire to escape. It would be so perfect, to be trapped within her."Don't do that" Eternia said, pulling Kiko out of her revere. "Words have power, and you don't o know what you are saying for your Soul to know what you are saying. Don't repeat magic that you hear, because you will cast it, and if it is outside of your capability to sustain, it will take a terrible toll on your body. And besides-"
Eternia would turn towards the targets and hold out a finger, pausing for a single sed before speaking."Fulgar Ultima" oken, and a reveberation in Kiko's soul shook her entire body with the aeonic shockwave. Lightning bsted out from the woman's fingers, thick bodied and vicious beyond recourse. The groued beh it's harsh power, air screamed into psma from the heat, and a good mile in front of her was just a two-foot wide, white-hot trench. Hissing with the sheer heat, the sound of trees colpsing uheir ow now there was a massive hole in them was heard over the sudden evaporation of the ambient water, and rapid cooling of the ground-turned-magma.
"You don't want to be letting one of those off without pruida's no exaggeration that it cut through a city in a heartbeat. And you'll rarely be able to avoid everyone ih. This, is why we are careful, subtle, and somewhat secretive. Low grade First Tier magus are generally somewhat dismissive of Magic. Most of what they do is aplished by easily portable teology. But, as you grow in power you outstrip what you carry with you and beore and more dangerous until" Eternia would finish, by gesturing to the cataclysm she had just left in her wake.
Kiko would stare at the cooling trench, and then shake her head and turn away from it. "That is-" she didn't mao finish that sentance, as Ele glomped her and Kiko had to stagger to keep her footing. "Cheating on me already?~" Ele cooed, looking over to Eternia with a smirk."Unfortunately not. I am Eternia Normis, Utmeradn? of the Disciples of the Crab" She introduced herself, with a light bow."Ahh, Crab peeps. There's a teacher ere, Ezra Tai. Senrata of the Disciples of the Crab. Which she tells me means something like 'Being that may teach' or something like that" Ele nodded softly. It was good to meet another one of them, espeically ohat radiated su aura of power. "So, d'ya box, darlin?" Ele asked, letting go of Kiko and stepping up to Eternia."On occasion, to be sure" she replied, and then followed Ele's motion to go to the sparring ring.
It gathered a few people round, ied in seeing this new woman and how she matched up. Ele was no slouch, so fighting her was a good showcase of capability. Kiko art of the crowd watg, and part of the rea wheook off her cloak and jacket, revealing toned muscles and a powerful back."Holy Va, you were hiding some guns, aye?" Ele asked with a hearty ugh. Attrag a ref, he gave the order for three two minute sessions of sparring, and then started the match. Watg Ele rush in and throw a flurry of blows that Eternia expertly deflected with her guard, Kiko became aware that Ele had been holding ba their fights. The Kitsune was a lot better than she was showg in the fights with Kiko. Two minutes went by in a breeze, and Ref called time, breaking the tart.
Returning to their ers aing a quick rest, the sed round began. While the first was quid probing, getting each other's measure. The sed was vicious, a massive step up in power and violeo a point that fifty seds iernia caught Ele across the jaw with a mighty hook. For a sed Ele staggered, looking like she might recover. And then, eyes rolling bato her head, she colpsed to the ground, and Ref called the end of the spar iernia's favour.
"I thought you were the schorly type!" Kiko excimed, running up to Eternia and staring."I am. There are two ways to be better at magic. Stronger e to the source, or stronger vessel. Either is suffit, but to bee a Sed Tier Magus, you need both in spades. Which is why Sed Tier Magus are not to be dismissed in situations where magi not be used. Now e on, lessons await"
