664 10/12 0:13 (Autumn, Sunrise, Midrar)
As Amber stilled, her focus turning inward to her own violent plasma, Luna herself turned towards Sabel, her attention shifting because of the emotions of the Human, the blooming realization she felt.
Sharp fangs twisted in an eager smile as red and black eyes met before these last ones closed in concentration. 'This is what you did, didn't you?' The Human sent out using her Mate's Mark alone. 'You just faked using your Will to transmit information by altering the pressure of this void.'
'You are right. I am only using our Mark to share my words.' The Lunarian sent back happily, this time without causing her Domain to shake internally, sharing this way a confirmation that the black-haired one grasped tightly on.
After Luna shook her Domain briefly without sharing any words this time, she continued. 'How can this knowledge help you escape?' She challenged, her lips turning up even more at the certainty she could feel from the Human.
'It's simple, really. Like this!' Sabel sent back full of resolution, her Aura sharpening and turning to herself, cuts spreading at once across all over her body, her blood being drank in by the white stone that was trapping her.
And laced within the blood were her intent and desires, shining brightly and using her Aura as a medium, being rapidly absorbed by the Domain itself.
And in response to that absorption, it obeyed, even if roughly, the rock crumbling and splitting apart to free the panting swordswoman, small rivers of blood flowing from the various wounds all across her body that she herself caused.
Struggling to stay fully upright for a couple of seconds, she nevertheless used her Aura to force herself to stand up, her flesh starting to steam as Vital Energy filled her wounds, starting to shrink them but making sure not to close them completely.
Luna stepped forward, stomping once and sending a wave of intent-laced Astral Ichor beneath herself, the liquid being rapidly drank in by the ground and it erupting in long sharp branches trying to grasp the Human.
Seeing such, Sabel immediately bled on the stone around her, sharing her intent at once with it and slightly altering their path, turning what would otherwise be delibitating wounds into much less serious strikes, blows that she was able to mostly deflect away from herself with a combined use of Aura, solid light and swordsmanship.
'Why is there so much of a difference between the way the Domain obeys? It isn't because you are the one to create it.' The Human couldn't help but let out towards Luna.
This last one smiled at her, turning briefly back to Amber, the Phoenix stuck in place while trying to figure out how exactly she should behave to deal with her current state. 'You are looking too much on the big picture. Think smaller.' She hinted, carefull not to say either too much or too little.
The pale one did not wait any further, starting to move towards her other Mate. 'I do not possess any particular direct control over this place. I can only indirectly manipulate it the same way you are doing, by imbuing my intent in my vital fluid and letting this Domain drink it in. The difference between us is based on the precision of the intent and the Quality and Quantity of the fluid.'
She explained calmly, her Astral Ichor falling drop after drop upon the ground and vanishing completely into it, the floor rippling and erupting beneath her feet, launching the Lunarian towards the Human.
A greatsword of an unknown matter clashed with one of solidified light, the latter being almost sheared in half before the black-eyed one slammed her elbow into her own weapon, launching the two away entirely and in this way opening up the red-eyed one to a left punch, Rebellion concentrating through her Aura and Unique Arma alike to stop Luna from using any of her Skills.
The white-haired one's smile widened, twisting on her feet and turning a blow into merely a gracing one, pale hands grabbing into Sabel's wrist and shoulder, jumping upwards and pulling the Human with her before slamming the two back down on the ground.
Before the swordswoman could recover, Luna sat down on her stomach, holding them both down by creating long tendrils from the ground that held the two of them in place, the only way for the Lunarian to held the two of them still with the much weaker gravity of the Domain.
Doing her best to ignore their current position, Sabel forgo challenging Luna's control over the Domain, instinctively feeling that she would fail the comparison with the Lunarian and responding by flaring her Aura, brute forcing the search for any flaws in the tendrils and then launching concentrated spears of light, disrupting them for an instant.
Just long enough for the Human to grab the Lunarian's torso with her legs and flip the two around, long blades of Light-Attribute Mana forming in her hands before slamming down to the pale one's neck, aiming on decapitation.
Unfortunately for her, however, Luna was far from taken by surprise by her actions, her neck opening on her own to release a dense mass of Astral Ichor that pierced the blades, shattering them. 'I'm sorry to say but it's not going to be that simple.' She smiled, the earth beneath her body opening wide and causing the two to fall.
The red-eyed one flipped the two around in mid-air, impaling her left leg in the softened stone before this last one hardened once more, stopping her fall at once, the Lunarian safely jumping back up to the surface while the Human fell the rest of the six meters, smashing into the stone beyond the Domain's Borders with a groan, the fall far from enough to seriously injure her but more than able to buy her some time.
Red eyes briefly moved to the Phoenix, watching as her flames continued to conflict and flare, judging that she needed a small hint. 'You may currently be made of flames but remember that you are a single individual and not a collective.' She sent out firmly, turning rapidly towards her least active Mate, the Spectral Elf flying high in the sky.
Yet the only thing she was able to see beyond her Domain's Border was an immense purple mass expanding and then contracting, darkening as the Curses progressively Refined themselves.
Beyond this dense cloud, where Luna could feel Mafel thanks to their Marks, Mafel floated, overloading her Unique Arma until…
*Mafel's Unique Skill "Malice Generator" Reaches B-Rank.
*Mafel's Growth Skill "Unique Arma: Malevolent Scepter of the Generator" Reaches C-Rank.
"[Awaken]!" The ashen staff exploded before reforming, revealing to the Elf's eyes alone a much different version of her weapon, an almost liquid black and purple staff that flowed around her left hand, almost resembling a spiraling tree while its "roots" enveloped her left arm up to her shoulder.
The massive amount of Curses surrounding her started spiraling to her command, physically converging in an armor surrounding her body.
Luna opened her eyes wide, rising an arm and catching the falling staff on her forearm, the Elf having crossed the distance between the two in an instant.
The ground beneath the Lunarian bent down slightly to adjust to the force of Mafel's slam, the branches of the staff having hardened into a mace-like extension before they exploded once more, the thorned vines grabbing onto the white-haired one's limbs, puncturing her flesh and injecting her full of liquid Curses, trying to overwhelm her Status Alteration Nullification.
Luna curiously observed the Unique Arma, her Astral Ichor rapidly integrating into itself the liquid Curse-Attribute Mana, devouring and growing ever more effective at fighting it, but the most dangerous part of the strike was the way that the thorns were expanding, invading the Vampiric body, sucking Energy and granting it back to its Wielder.
The white-haired one's vital fluid grabbed onto the vines, failing at devouring the Orichalcum and so merely deciding on pulling the weapon inwardly before throwing her arm and in so doing the weapon impaled in it aside, forcefully ripping the weapon and the grey-haired one away.
The Lunarian calmly observed her shredded arm, her Astral Ichor forming various tendrils that connected the various scraps of flesh and forcing them back into place, rapidly repairing her Damage limb.
Opening and closing her newly-Recovered hand a couple of times to make certain she correctly mended the injury, her red eyes focused on her opponent, observing the armor surrounding her and sending her message. 'That is no longer a physical mass of Curses held together by your Unique Skill, is it? It is now a physical and independed Artifact.'
Mafel, unable to respond back the same way, merely wrote her message in glowing purple Curses. 'My Vow is about to end, after all, and with it my heightened State. This is the way I will be able to fight effectively until the rest of my Skills are once more available.'
She held high her Unique Arma, her hands grabbing the shaft firmly, while her armor firmed itself, long wings spreading behind her as her feet anchored her more firmly to the unstable ground beneath as she adjusted to the conditions inside the Domain.
A pale eyebrow rose, watching in surprise the way that the Elf was able to immediately adapt to the lack of air or gravity, sending out her question while her Senses kept her attention on both the location and Status of her Mates. 'You are already tuned to this habitat. How did you achieve such?' She wondered calmly.
Soon she recieved an answer that caused her to laugh gleefully. 'It's a function of my new Artifact, an automatic environmental adaptability that let's me function the same as I would on the surface of Gaea.'
'How wonderfull.' Luna sent back, observing the way Sabel was rising back to her feet with a groan and that Amber was obeying to her hints, concentrating on experimenting with the smallest embers of her body.
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