TWG 30 - Bombardments from the Clouds
*rumble* *rumble*
All sorts of light faded away as the dome of clouds closed off any speck of light that tried to pass through.
It was a world of total darkness.
Floating in the center of that dark world, Harrstorm's yellow eyes gleamed in the dark, darkness was of no trouble to him.
Right at that moment, a small, bland cloud had condensed 50 meters in front of him.
Harrstorm's eyes squinted.
The cloud was floating slowly towards him when suddenly, it abruptly blasted out a sonic boom!
*puff puff puff puff puff*
In all of a sudden, 10 more sonic attacks shoot out of the wall of clouds at the same time as they bombarded Harrstorm from all sorts of direction.
Harrstorm, no matter how fast he is, couldn't possibly defend an attack almost at the speed of sound itself. With it, he raised his two arms to protect his two ears as his body shot down below.
" Bang Bang Bang Bang!! "
Bursts of Sonicbooms assaulted his body from every side as he continued to fall downwards. Even his tough scales couldn't possibly withstand an attack like this continuously.
But, those sonic booms showed no mercy. Another puff puff puff sound resounded in the dome, this time, 15 sonic booms appeared with a deafening roar.
Harrstorm gritted his teeth as he prepared to endure those blows once again, but this time, he no longer just defended, at the front of his large teeth, wind elementals began to surge forming a hazy pentagon and at the end of his tail, a whirlpool of wind arose.
" Bang Bang Bang!! "
15 Bangs resounded in the dark space, along with the muffled grunt of Harrstorm.
This continued on, waves after waves of sonic booms blasted into Harrstorm as if they were missiles. Although the damage 1 sonic boom did to Harrstorm wasn't much, if a hundred of them were stacked together, even he would be in danger.
After nearly a hundred hits from those sonic booms, the wind elementals gathering around Harrstorm's mouth is already prepared to fire off a pentagon beam and the whirlpool of wind at the tip of his tail had already became significantly large.
" Raaaaaaaaaaa!!! " Harrstorm bellowed in rage, he wildly swung his tail and fired off his beam but suddenly.. just before he could even release his attacks,
A " puff puff puff puff puff " noise rang throughout the whole domain. That puffing sound was no longer countable in tens but thousands!
It was as if a a rain of sonic blasts had fallen in this dark world, thousands of small booms rained down upon Harrstorm. These sonic blasts are much weaker than their counterparts earlier, but with thousands of it together, it was much more deadly than those sonic booms.
Harrstorm's eyes gleamed with a peculiar light as he swiped a glance at the surrounding dome, facing this attack, he had no choice but to fire off his beam immediately, taking a defensive posture once again. His innate ability, the prismatic beam is indeed powerful, those grey wall of clouds were nothing in front of it as they were shredded into pieces, piercing through it into the skies outside.
However, it was only a small part of that dome, and soon, new clouds began to form once again, closing the hole earlier on.
Meanwhile, Harrstorm had to take battered blows of thousands of sonic blasts with his body.
In the end, he coughed out a mouthful of green blood, his body dropping even further down.
Harrstorm's position now is no longer at the center, but he is now more than halfway into the wall of clouds below.
But Folhorn would never give him a chance to retort. Another " puff puff puff " sound broke out, 20 more sonic blasts attacked.
And once more, Harrstorm endured, falling even further down below.
After enduring another series of blasts, green liquids began to flow out from Harrstorm's thick scales which were now in a tattered state.
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The damage had obviously piled up on him.
Right at this moment, Harrstorm suddenly opened his wings and shot down below into the walls of clouds. In his mouth was another prismatic beam ready to fire!
He was now just a distance away from those walls!
At this moment, no puffs sounded out, but Folhorn's voice rang out instead. " Planning to break through? Do you seriously think you can leave this domain through such measly means?? "
The voice of Folhorn was transmitted everywhere through the cloud walls, with it, no one could ever detect his location just by his voice alone.
When Harrstorm reached 200 meters away from those cloud walls, the cloud walls below began to shook heavily, splitting apart to form a ' mouth ' on those walls.
The ' mouth ' then belched out a splattering blow of heavy wind!
Yes, belched out!
And at that very same moment, Harrstorm's beam too, fired out!
The two attacks faced off each other, Harrstorm's prismatic beam was clearly much more powerful, it immediately tore past that belch of wind but alas, it was just too small!
The ' belch ' blasted directly into Harrstorm, don't underestimate this belch of wind, even though it was much weaker than Harrstorm's prismatic beam in power, its abilities does not lie in splashing damages.
Instead, that belch was like an outpouring flow of water, washing away Harrstorm halfway back into the center of the domain!
But Folhorn was not done yet!
The ' mouth ' below, while it had received damage from the beam, is just too large for that beam to entirely scrap it apart.
The ' mouth ' shaped into a blowing motion, and then, blasted out a big missile of wind!
Harrstorm, who had just escaped the belch instantly drew his two hands to the side, wind elements swirling on his claws.
" Rippling claw! " he roared, swinging his claws towards the missile.
Ripples of wind at an X shape slashed at the missile, which managed to rip it apart into small pieces, before ultimately disappearing.
But that did not mean that Harrstorm came out unscathed, in fact, he was incomparably tattered by now, green blood flowing from the chips of his scales.
" That belch earlier..Folhorn you damned bastard, you actually managed to incorporate the ' stream ' part of water laws into your wind attacks! " Harrstorm shouted out, an unsightly expression on his face.
However, what replied to him was not Folhorn's voice but the sound of puffs instead. The sonic boom attacks had began once again!
" Kuh! " Faced with this, Harrstorm had no choice but to leap back into a defensive posture and hold out.
This was the frightening innate ability of Folhorn as a sonic beast. These clouds are just like an extension of his body, he could transmit his sonic attacks at high speed through these clouds and attack from all sorts of direction.
What was his opponent even supposed to do?
Attack? Where was one suppose to attack him when they cannot even locate him.
Defend? Those sonic booms can blast out from all sorts of direction and with its blistering speed no once could possibly defend completely.
Avoid? There's no need to mention this unless one can move at a speed higher than the speed of sound.
Escape? Then all he need to do is blast em back into the center!
This domain of his is indeed frightening, but there are always exceptions. For example, the former King of Mythical Beast Forest, The Vajra Thunder-Wolf could just active his innate ability : Vajra Thunderstorm to break apart this domain of his and leave.
Finally, after Harrstorm had endured another set of blows. Folhorn's voice resounded.
" Why don't you surrender already Harrstorm? Remembering our past relationship, I can allow you to leave with your life intact as long as you never step foot into this mountain again. "
Hearing this, Harrstorm laughed maniacally. " Are ya pitying me Folhorn? Perhaps inside this domain of yours, you are indeed invincible. "
" But what if we are talking about OUTSIDE this domain? Fafafafafafafa!! " as soon as he laughed out, two blasts of fire burst into the domain, lighting the dark world with a flash of bright light.
The 2 spot where it had burned were actually where Harrstorm had fired off his beams at!
After the fire died down, a series of shouts could be heard coming from out of the domain. " Lord we have come!! "
It was a pack of wyrms and some other races gathered together outside of Folhorn's domain.
After shouting out the message, they began to wildly attack at the two spots again.
" Fafafafafafa, you think all I've been doing is hunkering down Folhorn?! " Harrstorm's maniacal laugh continued to reverberate across the domain.
" That rain of sonic blasts earlier on might be powerful, but it has 2 weakness! One is that you cannot produce such kind of attacks continuously, The second one is a weakness I have made possible! "
" You used it to detect the location where it isn't purely made out of the clouds I formed. " Folhorn's calm voice resounded soon after.
" Yes! Smart as ever Folhorn! Fafafafafafafa!! "
Usually, Folhorn's domain wouldn't have any sort of weakness, and even attacks from the outside wouldn't so easily break through his clouds because it had its own defensive mechanism but remember, he had formed a part of his domain from the cloud forming magic!
Harrstorm had took advantage of the rain of sonic blasts to detect the weak spots of this domain.
One, he had determined to be the weakest spot out of all and so he fired off a beam as a mark.
The second one he found to be slightly stronger, so he intentionally tried to get near to it while at the same time having a feel of the defensive mechanisms it had. After all, hundreds of years had passed, surely he wouldn't expect Folhorn to not improve his ability.
" Fafafafafa, what Folhorn? Aren't you gonna say sprout some words of: Aren't you ashamed to call your subordinates on a one on one fight or something? Fafafafa! "
" Well, although you already know this, I'll just say it. I don't give a damn about face! Fafafafafa!! " Harrstorm laughed at the top of his lungs.
Surely, Folhorn had already known the personality of this old nemesis of his, which is why he wouldn't even bother to say something like that.
" Ehem, Now Folhorn. With two group of my subordinates attacking outside and me attacking from the inside, let's see how YOU survive this!! " with a laugh, Harrstorm shot straight into the wall of clouds and began to attack wildly.
At the meantime, Folhorn, hidden in his domain of clouds, looked at the situation with a cold glint.