The army of elementalists rush past DG and stefan3B, ignoring them as they let out war cries. stefan3B starts to get nervous when he sees the elementalists run right beneath him as he is floating in the sky.
“What… They are rushing to the city, is this a secret seige? I cannot let this happen!” said stefan3B in his mind.
He charges up his blade and holds it by the handle, rising it, but before he is able to launch an attack, DG dropkicks into his liver, a direct hit which breaks all of stefan3B’s focus, knocking him on the ground. stefan3B is able to recover right before he would be ran over by the herd of elementalists.
“Close call.” said stefan3B in his mind, slightly shocked.
DG charges up a blast in his palms and prepares to launch it, just then, stefan3B had a deep realization.
“Whenever I try to charge up energy I either fail or not even do too much damage…” he looks back at DG and sees him charge the blast, his eyes widened “That's it! Now I get it! Now I understand! This power isn't meant to be charged! It's supposed to be a rush, a chipper! I'm supposed to be light and mobile, not tanky and powerful! That's my purpose! That is what this power is all about! The power of the sun! To flow as smooth as light! He takes too much time to charge up his energy, that's why…” DG launches his dark blast, stefan3B releases his pent up energy and makes his body lighter, making himself able to dodge the blast freely, the blast causing damage to the army as a result. DG starts to charge up another blast, but this time, stefan3B dashes, kicking him in the kidney then grabbing his head and slamming him down “I'll play differently!” said stefan3B in his mind.
DG frowns slightly and locks his sight onto stefan3B.
“So he's changed his fighting style, good, I'm sick of training with shadow elementalists.” said DG in his mind.
DG charges up a dark orb between his palms for 1.30 seconds and then unleashes it, launching dozens of dark energy blasts at stefan3B. stefan3B lets out a cry and slowly swings his sword, then he swings it once more and he launches twice the amount of blasts DG threw at him, but they were all sharp beams of light, which freely pierced through his attacks, reaching his body and perforating it.
“What the-” said DG in his mind, right before having holes created in the upper part of his right thigh, right next to his right shoulder on his triceps and one which barely grazed his heart.
DG instantly bursts with power, healing his wounds just as fast.
“If I run out of energy now, I'm going to die, my coat is keeping me alive!” said DG in his mind as he rushed stefan3B.
He dashes towards him with a kick, which is blocked by his sword. DG starts laughing like a maniac as his face was up close to stefan3B.
“HAHAHAHAHA! DO YOU REALLY THINK YOU'RE DOING ANYTHING? YOU'RE MAKING ME STRONGER BY THE SECOND!” screamed DG.
stefan3B was groaning slightly, calculating his next attack as he pushed against him, feeling that DG got stronger once more. stefan3B suddenly pushed DG off of him, using the boost given, they both started fighting in the air.
“So the key to win against him is to nail piercing blasts, the reason why I did no damage to him when I slammed him in the ground was because I tried to damage his elementalist coat as a whole, not destroy his insides.” said stefan3B in his mind.
Both of them fly in a curved way right into each other once more, clashing on contact, but continuing to fly. stefan3B uses his sword to try and chip away his elementalist coat, DG simply punches stefan3B. Both of them manage to dodge each other's attacks. stefan3B flies down then back up and adds energy to his flight, boosting his speed slightly. He put his sword in front of him and summons several beams of light behind him. Once they clash, DG feints his quick dash and manages to punch him in the face insanely strong, but his smile quickly fades when he sees the several beams of light pierce many parts of his body.
“Gah- a double attack?! Impossible! Fraud!” said DG to himself as he was fully stunned.
As his fist lifts off stefan3B’s face he can see his burning green eyes and absolutely deadly furious expression. What DG didn't know, was that he purposely slowed down his rush and moved the energy from the rush into his right fist, as his whole purpose was for DG to land a clean hit on him, to assure him that he has the upper hand, only for him to use his true attack, now with his right fist fully charged, he punched DG in the face, all the pent up energy from his fist exploding at once, briefly chipping away a part of his face and knocking him in the ground at insanely quick speeds. DG slowly gets up from the ground with his eyes widened, then he regains his consciousness and quickly stands up, with anger.
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“How many times are you going to slam me in the ground?!” shouted DG as his face healed back.
“Ugh… I feel heavier already… How much can he keep going…” said DG in his mind, stressed.
A small trail of blood starts pouring out of his mouth. He wipes it gently with the back of his palm.
“If you're going to play like that… I'm going to step up my game too!” DG’s eyes start glowing purple “Servant of Helios!” said DG to himself.
He groans roughly then puts his palms on the soil, dozens of large sharp tendrils sprout out of the ground and go up towards stefan3B.
“Dodge that!” shouted DG.
stefan3B is surprised by the sudden tactic.
“I must be faster than that.” said stefan3B in his mind.
The tendrils do not attack at once, it seems that only one at a time is aimed to attack him, the others are focused on circling him. stefan3B easily dodges one of the tendrils and then cuts it, however, this made nothing but split it into 2 different tendrils.
“What the-” but he couldn't finish his sentence as a tendril smacks him from behind his head.
stefan3B is pushed down a little, when he opens his eyes, he finds himself in a sphere fully created by the tendrils. stefan3B panics and starts sweating, he aims the tip of his sword at the sphere and casts several small beams of light, but all of them evaporate weirdly before even touching it.
“It's eating my energy!” said stefan3B.
He charges up a blast, then on release, it slows down progressively, fading away as it barely scratches the surface of the barrier. Just then, stefan3B had a second realization.
“The reason why my attack worked was because my beams already had a charge up of velocity before, it wouldn't have had the same effect if I wouldn't have flown firstly… In other words… Mustn't I first charge a lot of energy, and then release it all at once in a barrage of small attacks, instead of releasing it all at once?”
stefan3B glares at his sword for a second then begins charging energy as his eyes were closed, then, a few moments later, he unleashes all the energy throughout sharp rays bursting out of his aura, like a star, successfully piercing the trap and poking random holes in it, loosening it enough to be destroyed.
“Why won't he die already?” said DG to himself before grabbing tighter onto the tendrils and slamming them into the ground, together with stefan3B, as it caught him off-guard. stefan3B quickly bursts with energy from the ground and escapes the tendrils, not hesitating to lunge once more and create sharp beams as he did so. DG already knew what he was going to do, he used the remaining tendrils to block the rays of light, ultimately pulverizing them in an instant, then manages to feint stefan3B’s lunge and launch a kick to his side. Suddenly, DG stops his place and raises his right elbow and hits behind him, hitting stefan3B in the face and making his nose bleed. Apparently, stefan3B knew that he was going to feint him and so, he left an afterimage behind, but, DG realized this and countered him easily. stefan3B’s body flashes once more after being hit in the nose and he appears behind him once more. DG gasps, however, he knows what he must do. Once stefan3B punches him, his body flashes as well, both of them start a clash of afterimages, each and every one of them forcing themselves to outsmart each other with every strike. DG appears above stefan3B and spins vertically then slams his kick into him, stefan3B dashes away to the left, his afterimages disappear.
“At this point, this sword will slow me down, it's too big.” said stefan3B before launching a volley of light beams at DG.
DG vanishes and leaps into the air, the beams of light chase after him.
“So his attacks target my energy, this might actually be tough to deal with.” said DG in his mind.
DG looks down at stefan3B and he notices a certain small white spark in his right hand.
“That's it! The reason why his beams didn't vanish when I punched his face, I need to hit the limb that controls all of his attacks.” said DG to himself.
DG charges 2 quick wheel saw projectiles and launches them, one at stefan3B and one at the light beams, which destroys 3 out of the 5 beams, 2 of them hitting him directly, but as usual, he heals back everything. stefan3B is not taken by surprise, he simply leaps upwards as well, charging up his feet before launching. Now, both flying upwards into the air, almost reaching the cube, while viciously staring into each other's eyes. stefan3B decides to take out his sword and charge into the cube. DG is panic-stricken and quickly charges up an energy beam in one hand and shoots it, hitting stefan3B directly, forcing him to lose his boost and fall down before managing to regain his balance. DG quickly rushes towards him and tries to grab his face. stefan3B braces himself right before he would grab his face, then, the moment DG touches him, he releases all the energy charged up in his body before launching, releasing all of it in every direction in the shape of sharp rays, which briefly pierce DG in most of his body. stefan3B takes no time to kick him down into the ground before falling down himself slowly and landing safely down. He watches the small crater covered by a dust smoke for around 7 seconds… but nothing comes out of it. He sighs relieved, then instantly, his yellow blitz fades out and he falls flat on his back, huffing and puffing heavily.
“Heal… that…” said stefan3B, on the verge of passing out.
Meanwhile, the army summoned by DG was rushing towards the main city, Ares, Darius, Radu and Cat being their only stop.
Ares perks up and then turns to Radu.
“Make an earthquake, shatter the earth, make them trip, do anything your element is capable of to slow them down.” He turns to Darius “Make lightning nets, place traps, again, do anything in your power to slow them down”.
“What will you do though?” asked the cat.
“I have my own triumph card.” He lights up his elementalist coat, support mode “You needn't worry about that, I haven't used this technique in two years, can't wait to try it again.” said Ares with a slight smile on his face.