Weird Quest, but John would not say no to free stats, so he accepted. “You probably won’t let punch you for free?” he asked as he was getting dragged off in the direction of the exit gate; “Just got a Quest for it.”
“Whaddya think? Answer is no!” Rave laughed. “Ya gotta give it your best shot.”
Once they had reached the run down house, Rave put up an Illusion Barrier. Visually, nothing changed, but John got the pop-up and quickly dismissed it. “Really, you are just going to make a copy of this house our battlefield?” he asked.
“Well, sorry, mister bullshit-powers, so of us don’t just get Fateweaver powers for existing,” Rave answered, sticking out her tongue and cracking her knuckles; “Gonna enjoy beating the Brainiac out of ya.”
And with that the fight began. John barely managed to dodge the first punch. A graceless jump to the side, barely leaving him on his feet got him out of the path of Rave’s fist, cutting through the air where he had just stood. “You are way too eager to beat up, Jane!” he complained as fire engulfed his left hand. At least she was nice enough to wait for that to happen. He also removed her from his group for the mont.
“Ya enjoy a good fucking, I enjoy a nice fight,” Rave grinned like a cat that just had rediscovered her old favourite toy; “Ya knew what ya were getting into when you started dating ow.”
“I an, I guess?” John said, slowly inching towards a brittle looking wall as they had their little exchange; “No elentals ans not using Copernicus as well, right?”
“Fine by ow,” Rave giggled and then raised her hands, her suit covering the back parts of them with the plates it had absorbed from the Miales-Gloves. Then she ca at him again. Her hand collided with the Mana Protection. Blue particles scattered through the air, overcharged waste from her attack, as John’s mana bar shrunk by about 100 points.
‘Ah, I see where this is going,’ John thought as he glanced at the dense mana tumbling through the air like thick dust. At first glance it was a pure waste of mana, a showcase of a novice unable to control their exact power. However, these flakes stuck around. Concentrated as their power was, they would need a few minutes to actually vanish.
Ti in which Rave could more than easily throw a whole bunch of those out. With her having two ways to regenerate mana, one being just standing in sunlight and the other being her breathing technique, it wasn’t like she was short on it either.
In other words, that one punch made John realize that his girlfriend now had two kinds of fighting styles. Her old one, where she fought without wasting mana by using light magic and her normal martial arts, and this one where she prepared a large amount of her mana to be absorbed by Copernicus.
The question was why she deliberately chose the latter when the elentals were out of the picture.
John would have loved to look for the sun cat and see if his behaviour showed approval of his summoner’s strategy, but a second punch connecting with his Mana Protection made it more urgent to act in his defence.
He used Shardbound, combining the four that spawned into a pair that flew at Rave. One of the light blue crystals was aiming for her shoulder, the other for her stomach. The lightbearer quickly dodged the fairly harmless projectiles, just as John had wanted her to. If the enemy didn’t know about the colour coding, then they had no way of anticipating the danger of the individual shards.
While Rave was occupied, John punched the brittle wall with all his strength. While not strong for an Abyssal at his level, he was still superhuman, and Purgatory provided such excellent protection for his fist that it was more effective than using a sledgehamr.
The first punch made the wall and the stones inside crack, the second one turned the old thing into shards. “Hey, you are supposed to fight ow, not the house!” Rave complained, dodging a widespread hail of small shards that John threw out behind his back.
“I know!” John said and punched a third ti.
His fist broke through, and as he pulled it back, he took with him another stone. The upper half of the wall, now without proper support, crumbled and crashed to the floor. Dust and dirt scattered into the air, impeding sight slightly and making breathing a bit of a raspy endeavour. John’s goal had been neither; instead, he threw himself against the remaining wall and then broke through another wall with two punches.
Rave just watched him with bamboozlent. “Have you gone cray-cray?”
“Nah, just exploiting the fact that you don’t rember jack about my options,” John taunted and threw a brick at her. Rave effortlessly smacked it aside. He wasn’t done tossing things though.
In quick succession Rave had to dodge a bathtub, a sink and a toilet bowl as John dismantled the forr bathroom. The bowl hit the floor with a satisfying shattering sound while John was working on the next wall, guarding the space between him and Rave with a wall of 1 mana Shardbound crystals.
It was really just a bluff. Even a mundane person could have walked through that wall and only felt barely inconvenienced. He had to work on his actual objective before Rave caught wind of it. Too bad that he had given her a hint just now.
“…Oh dang it!” she cursed and started running, raised her arms in front of her face and broke through the scary looking wall of shards that covered the hole in the second wall John had taken apart. By the ti she arrived at the scene of John breaking through a third one, it was almost too late.
The ceiling was dangerously caving as John had deliberately targeted the walls that looked the most like they were responsible for carrying the structure. Only a bit more and everything would collapse. Rave assaulted his Mana Protection with a quick series of blows. Then she went for a long-winded punch to deal as much damage to the solid, near invisible thing as possible.
Only to find it gone just before the mont of impact, with John turning to the side. She had too much montum to stop, and the forr bathroom hadn’t been big to start with. She punched another hole in the badly tortured wall, and John added insult to injury by swinging at her.
Although she did dodge by bending her upper body away, John did succeed in hitting the wall. It crumbled, and the two-story building ca crashing down on them.
Fine dust and splinters of cent covered both of them as they threw the building off them. Rave had a way easier ti with this than he did, but he was getting better by the second; the whole destruction had made him quite a bit stronger after all.
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