Royal Road
Rie nibbles her lip, as Vergil creates another weapon from demonic energy. Still, any edge they could get would be worth it.
With one hand, Reuben controls the stabby chins while they're up in the sky, and they trace the three sides of a large triangle with faint lines of light, then start spinning while holding said shape. His other hand is back shoving around in the portal.
"Oh, guess I finally hit a nerve." Dagrún's image says with a smirk after spitballing for a while. "I don't think your mother would ever love you. How could she? You're a monster. And I don't mean the whole demon thing you have going on - we don't make value judgments on that."
As she says that, her real self collapses the barriers over the echoes down to protect just the gadgets inside. Once Vergil starts taking out his anger on the echoes, they burst from the damage into deafening, pulsing shockwaves, combined with the flash grenades and stink bombs going off to overwhelm his senses of sight, smell, sound and touch all at once.
Dagrún continues, now speaking telepathically. '' "You care for nothing in the world but yourself, and the sad thing is, we've seen people like you time and time again. You were hurt by some tragedy or person or other, and so you lash out in response. Guess what, tough luck."
Rie briefly reveals her real position as she goes on (semi-)direct offense, not that it probably matters much at this moment. Having built up a shockwave attack of her own, she reaches out at Yamato with her palm, but doesn't release it directly. "Constructive Interference - Quivering Palm!" Instead, she amplifies the latent vibrations built up within the sword to deadly levels, forcing either A. the sword to shatter into a hundred pieces from the inside, or B. the sword to withstand and release the shockwaves, which in turn would lead to either C. Vergil taking a good chunk of the blast while it's flung at high speeds, at which point Reuben will teleport in to grab it and immediately port it away into a pocket dimension, or D. hold on to the sword for dear life and take the full force of a shockwave strong enough to implode an entire row of houses.
Oh, and the pudding moves to be visibly in front of Vergil afterwards, just floating and chilling.
Lord of D.'s skill activates.
Draconic Defender
Negates Posing Skills of opposing figures affecting Blue-Eyes allied figures.
Speed Round
Kaiba waits as well, and when he sees Beerus panic, he quickly chooses the largest number currently on screen.
230%
For a total of 20700.
Kaiba grins.
"Looks like I'll be going first this round."
-
Supreme Kai's World
Back in the simulation, Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon attacks Beerus first, sending a powerful, damaging glow from its body in the form of an energy wave directly towards Beerus.
3750
Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon then appears, following up with another triple blast from its mouth.
6750
While barely exceeding Beerus' remaining HP, this marks the end of that figure.
Lord of D. then attacks Goku with another weak, draconic air slash wave.
0
... but it does nothing. Goku's defense exceeds Lord of D.'s attack.
"Hm? Did he just say something?", Areui asks himself, after which he lands, his wings disappearing back into the tattoo on his body as he pulls up his hood, and he hides behind a rock as he, too, carefully continues to follow after Giygas.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Jan 2nd 2021 at 12:06:48 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Friendly Advice
+1000 to your ATK and +300 ATK to allies on the field. This turn only.
Extreme Battle
+500 to your ATK and +350 to your DEF. Repeatable.
Beerus remains surprisingly calm - amused, even - at the defeat of his figure self. He raises a finger to his snout. "You've got me wondering. If that dragon hadn't sacrificed itself to assist us against Zorc... might it have made for a worthy foe?"
—
It's his turn next, and Vegeta attacks Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon with another Galick Gun combo.
5740
DEF Down DMG
-90 DEF to all opponents on the field. Repeatable.
SPD Down DMG
-130 SPD to all opponents on the field. Repeatable.
Next, Goku attacks Lord of D.
3024
—
There's an electronic chirping noise. Kaiba's Ultimate Attack is ready for use.
Extreme Battle
-15% to opponent's Ultimate Attack Gauge.
Not anymore.
UTG Down ET
-2% to opponent's Ultimate Attack Gauge.
Beerus does some placement-switching. He can't have everything, so he's sacrificing the use of Extreme Battle.
— - — - —
Goku - Vegeta - Whis
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-
-
-
BEUD - — - —
BESD - Lord - —
Goku HP: 3302
Something comes up. This is probably what Kaiba's been dreading.
Whis's Training
-30% to all damage taken by allies on the field. This turn only.
ADM Up SP (R)
+10% to damage dealt by all figures in the row. This turn only.
DDM Down SP (R)
-10% to damage taken by all figures in the row. This turn only.
ADM Up SP (R)
+10% to damage dealt by all figures in the row. This turn only.
DDM Down SP (R)
-10% to damage taken by all figures in the row. This turn only.
ADM Up SP (R)
+10% to damage dealt by all figures in the row. This turn only.
DDM Down SP (R)
-10% to damage taken by all figures in the row. This turn only.
A setup like this is almost definitely what led to his defeat before. That's +30% to damage dealt for all of Beerus' figures on the board, and -60% to damage taken. They've become devastating tanks.
Friendly Advice
+1000 to your ATK and +300 ATK to allies on the field. This turn only.
Giygas continues going in, making his way up the path to the Eldergleam.
As the others follow him, they may see glittering sparkles - like some kind of dust - drifting gently through the air.
Edited by KiriK on Jan 2nd 2021 at 5:38:49 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."The grenades all going off at once disorient Vergil greatly, but not enough for him to not notice the Yamato start to vibrate violently inside its scabbard. It's durable enough to not shatter, leaving Vergil with two options.
His entire body shakes under the built-up force as he unsheathes Yamato, revealing the blade's quaking form. He grips it by both hands, dissipating his other blade, and pulls it close. At first it seems like he's attempting to use his own strength to stop the blade from vibrating, but upon closer inspection, one can see the Yamato's blade stab into and through Vergil's torso.
He grits his teeth as the blade impales him, the vibrations rumbling through his body when he starts to lift into the air, suspended by the still-vibrating sword. In a flash of purplish light, both the blade and Vergil himself are gone. In his place hovers a very different looking man
. A moment passes as he looks around the battlefield, suspended in mid-air.
"Hmm. Fall to Hell."
In an instant, chaos
breaks out across the battlefield. Three demons, each with radically
different
forms
, appear and begin attacking. The sound of crackling electricity rings out as lightning begins to fall from the sky at random, the bird familiar cackling as he soars in circles above. The panther lets loose a fearsome roar as it leaps at the pudding, expanding its body into a large ball of spikes. The golem begins swinging its fists rapidly before firing off a purple laser from its singular eye, the ground the beam travels over exploding as it passes.
All the while, the man remains suspended in the air, spinning in the air and gesturing in random directions, seemingly commanding the demons to attack.
Kaiba grins as he watches the battles play out.
"Why don't you ask it yourself?"
After some potential confusion from Beerus, he may hear some large wing flaps above the two of them, followed by the sound of something heavy landing.
Looking up will show him the real Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
◊, now standing on top of a building and looking down at them with all three of its heads.
-
With Ultimate Dragon and, surprisingly, Lord of D. both surviving (and Shining Dragon not being attacked), Kaiba gets ready to re-arrange his board.
Then he sees Whis being placed and looks genuinely nervous.
"So there it is again...", he mutters, clearly remembering that the Whis figure was a vital part to his defeat last time.
He probably won't be able to take anything out with that 60% DEF buff, so he figures he might have to focus on surviving this round and mounting a counterattack next turn.
He realizes what he has to do. He just hopes that it will pay off.
— - — - —
Goku - Vegeta - Whis
-
-
-
-
— - — - BEWD (1)
— - — - —
Engine of Destruction
+500 to own ATK, +1000 to ATK and SPD of all allied Blue-Eyes figures.
-ATK Up T3
+500 to your ATK at start of turn 3.
By placing solely Blue-Eyes White Dragon, the second part of Engine of Destruction would activate. It would mean he'll take a bunch of damage, but he calculated that he'd survive the turn this way.
Maybe, if he's lucky, Blue-Eyes would at least be able to deal some damage against Whis and make him easier to take out. If he can take out Whis, there's a chance.
"What's with these sparkles? ... are those what's put this guy in a trance?", Areui wonders as he still stealthily follows Giygas, staying in the shadows. With his dark clothing and hair, as well as a lot of experience sneaking around from his cursed days, he easily blends in.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Jan 2nd 2021 at 1:04:55 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Royal Road
"You first." Dagrún's image says before finally dissipating, as her attention is called to more pressing matters - namely the golem. Though the laser isn't targeting her specifically yet, she knows her real body's going to be flushed out sooner or later. "Sorry guys, I can't focus like this. At least I can stop with the speeches now, it was getting tedious."
"It's alright, save yourself first." Rie replies as they're finally forced to fight directly. They're still souped up and relatively refreshed, mind you.
"Hm, that does throw a wrench. Let's deal with these first." As Dagrún's projected invisibility and illusions dissipates, Reuben teleports out the heads and triangle for future use, and to hide one of their attacks.
In their place is Dagrún jumping out of the hole she was hiding in, but now there are a dozen of her. They fly out in different directions, one of which goes to the siblings' side for safety. "I can't throw out huge blasts of elemental magic on my own, but..." Rie holds out one of her energy blades above them, shifting its elemental nature from light to electricity to act as a temporary lightning rod. "Stay at a distance, but not too far." She advises her teammates.
Except she's really saying it to throw the new man off. Dagrún acts like one of her many duplicates while she's really heading not to safety, but towards the bird. She breathes out a spray of purple bubbles, out in its general direction. Each of them create a little bit of turbulence around them until they surround the bird, at which point they quickly pop one by one in a series of small kinetic explosions to keep it busy, if not damage it. Tapping Rie's shoulder, Reuben then sends her out to swap places with the more heavily injured Dagrún, as she slashes wildly at it with her other energy blade while it's hopefully still stunlocked.
With each swipe, the pudding splits into different pieces, the total sum of their masses becoming more than the original. It seems like direct physical (especially cutting) damage is only going to make it grow. They don't attack at all directly, but are quite sticky, becoming dead weight all over its body. Rie's suspended X-blades attempt to capitalize on it by launching themselves in a series of slashes to rend the panther into pieces while it's distracted, if not smothered. That leaves the golem untouched at the moment.
"So there it is."
Beerus smirks.
Speed Round
The Speed Round is irrelevant. Kaiba's only hope of outspeeding Beerus would be if the former got 300% and the latter 100%, which does not happen as soon as Beerus gets a 300% of his own.
"Taaaaaaake THIS!"
—
Vegeta does his usual Galick Gun combo - on Kaiba's Master.
11024
Kaiba is lucky it's not him being directly attacked, or that'd have hurt too hard to think straight. As it is, though...
The still-alive Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon both activate, the latter from the sidebar.
ATK Down MHP50
-1000 to all opponents' ATK.
DEF Down MHP50
-210 to all opponents' DEF.
Beerus notes that with a bemused "Oh," as Whis goes up next and smacks Blue-Eyes White Dragon about the head with his staff, finishing by teleporting behind it and chopping it in the back of the neck for an easily-survivable 1794.
Finally, Goku goes in on the Master with his Kamehameha combo, dealing 7345 damage. Kaiba lives by the skin of his teeth.
Upon reaching the tree, Giygas can be heard talking to someone.
Found you. Is it really true? Have you been...?
Edited by KiriK on Jan 2nd 2021 at 6:20:47 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Kaiba's Duel Disk activates, creating a protective aura around himself. This doesn't do a damned thing to lessen the damage, that'd be cheating. What it does do, however, is lessen the impact of the attacks on Kaiba's being.
And then he realizes that he doesn't actually feel the damage being done to him anyway.
"..."
He'd been playing too many mystical duels for his own good.
Anyhow, with his 'Life Points' now being in a critical state, he can no longer afford to take direct damage.
-
Blue-Eyes White Dragon (1) retaliates with White Lightning, launching the destructive blast towards Whis.
1336
"More than I'd thought.", Kaiba smirks. Even in this situation, Blue-Eyes continues to impress him with its raw power.
It wouldn't be enough to destroy Whis with next turn though. Only Ultimate Dragon should have enough raw power to do that. But he'd still have to cover his whole field, so if he were to go second again, he might have to sacrifice a lot in order to get through Whis.
Blue-Eyes would get its next boost at the start of the turn, so he has to play it too. Meaning that his choice is between Shining Dragon and Lord of D. as his third creature...
Areui, hearing this, peeks out from his hiding spot.
"He's... talking to a tree? Either this guy is crazy or he's seeing an illusion."
He looks conflicted.
"Maybe I should wake him up. This could be someone's trap."
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Hiding behind one of the Eldergleam tree's massive roots, Loki watches as Giygas begins conversing with what seems to be nobody in particular.
"So this is either a case of sleepwalking and I had nothing to worry about, or we're dealing with an unseen guest whose intentions are currently unknown..."
Edited by IchigoMontoya on Jan 2nd 2021 at 4:37:52 AM
A number of lightning strikes near the bugbear are drawn to Rie's blade, while more continue to occur farther away from her. As Dagrún sends her bubbles up towards Griffon, the bird, he laughs and begins to crackle with electricity. He spreads his wings wide and unleashes bolts of lightning across the area around him, burning the bubbles up before they can reach him.
"Burn baby, burn!" Griffon shouts, cackling, when he sees Rie approaching quickly. He tucks his wings close to his body and enters a dive, heading straight for the bugbear. His speed allows him to slip through her slashes unscathed, although she does manage to slice off a feather or two. Griffon manueavers underneath her legs, taking off high into the sky to put distance between her.
Shadow, the panther, returns to its original form, the pieces of the creature weighing it down significantly. It uses its powerful hind legs to leap into the air, its form changing into a spinning saw blade that sends the chunks of the pudding flying off itself. It's unable to avoid the X-blades and is knocked out of the air, tumbling to the ground as it shifts back to its original form.
The golem, Nightmare, unleashes one final beam across the arena before disappearing. Griffon and Shadow do the same. V, the man, grins and teleports from his original position to a spot where he is an equal distance to each combatant.
"I envy your optimism." He says to Dagrún before gesturing to each of them, sending a wave of white, spectral canes from his body. They implant themselves into whatever surface they land on before bursting, causing a small amount of damage to whatever they're in.
V himself vanishes in another flash of light, revealing Vergil to have reappeared, still impaled on the blade of the Yamato. He pulls the sword from his chest with a grunt and slowly stands, grimacing in pain. He's definitely hurt after that move.
With the turn over, Turn 4 begins.
ULTIMATE ATTACK READY
That's huge for Kaiba. The front-center space on his side of the field lights up with a swirling field of energy.
Beerus makes only one move - repositioning Goku behind Vegeta.
— - Goku - —
— - Vegeta - Whis
-
-
Friendly Advice
+1000 to your ATK and +300 ATK to allies on the field. This turn only.
Whis's Training
-30% to all damage taken by allies on the field. This turn only.
Extreme Battle
+500 to your ATK and +350 to your DEF. Repeatable.
- Goku's HP: 3302
- Goku's ATK: 5850 + 300
- Goku's DEF: 1730
- Goku's SPD: 2330
—
- Vegeta's HP: 6500
- Vegeta's ATK: 6480 + 1000
- Vegeta's DEF: 900
- Vegeta's SPD: 3280
—
- Whis's HP: 2064
- Whis's ATK: 2630 + 300
- Whis's DEF: 4160
- Whis's SPD: 3240
Mother... I...
I would do anything to save you!
The concentration of dust is much higher here. Nothing will seem to happen if it gets on the observers, though.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."This time, Kaiba quickly calculates what would be the best move.
— - Goku - —
— - Vegeta - Whis
-
-
-
-
— - BEUD - BEWD (1)
— - BESD - —
-
Blue-Eyes White Dragon (1)
SPD Up T4
+750 to your SPD at start of turn 4.
Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon
Final Fusion
+30% to damage dealt and -30% to damage taken. This turn only.
—-
BEWD (1)'s HP: 5206
BEWD (1)'s ATK: 8000
BEWD (1)'s DEF: 1250
BEWD (1)'s SPD: 3250
—-
BEUD's HP: 4181
BEUD's ATK: 8500
BEUD's DEF: 2500
BEUD's SPD: 4000
—-
BESD's HP: 7500
BESD's ATK: 6000
BESD's DEF: 750
BESD's SPD: 5000
"Mother? Oh, this is definitely some kind of trap.", Areui thinks to himself. He makes his wings appear once more and gets ready to fly towards Giygas at the slightest hint of a surprise attack on him.
Edited by DevilPsyco on Jan 2nd 2021 at 2:06:27 PM
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Speed Round
Beerus' total SPD is 8850, while Kaiba's is a staggering 12250. All he needs to do... is not screw this up... and he'll have the definitive upper hand.
Beerus gets 300%, making his final SPD 26550.
The glittery, sparkly dust in the air suddenly comes together and takes the form of a woman in a traditional kimono patterned after a moth's wings. She stares down Areui and Loki, speaking into their minds.
Please, allow us just another moment. Then I can explain.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Royal Road - Airspace
"Tch." Rie spits in frustration as their combined assault fails to work. She follows it up higher into the air, before it suddenly disappears. The beam goes wide against her, but moves right up against Dagrún and Reuben, the former breathing a kinetic wave while being held on to by the latter to propel themselves in the opposite direction and away from being seared.
The impromptu lightning rod's contained blade form starts to destabilize and quiver from the lightning assault, suggesting that it can't take too much of a battering. Thankfully, before that happens, the storm ceases. It still deactivates to prevent itself from blowing up for the moment. As V throws out an array of canes in all directions, the siblings put up their shields to block them, taking out a chunk from the explosions.
Then Vergil reappears in V's place. "Oh great, he's back."
"Now."
Rie stretches her hand out, focusing three points in the air as she acts as a focus to help Reuben teleport the stabby heads back in. Having prepared the first half of the shape, they all dash and converge next to Reuben's position as they fully trace out a pyramid. She then reaches out to pull her energy blade back to her side, which thanks to V's own repositioning, puts him right in its path. As it approaches, she reactivates it, then commands its core to melt down and release in a big explosion while Vergil is still weakened - not even intending it as the main attack, just an expensive distraction.
Dagrún follows up with a wide-angle kinetic breath this time, weaker in power in exchange for reach in order to slow Vergil down even further with impeding force to his movements. Thanks to how their respective attacks are shaped and angled, it just about covers most of the volume of the pyramid.
Reuben then readies the main component of the actual spell. And this time, the heads work exactly as advertised.
"Chins that cut through space and time! "Pyramidal Extension - "Plane Shift!" With the traced-out shape acting as a containment field, Reuben attempts to rip open a much larger portal to shunt everything in it (mostly air), Vergil included, into an alternate dimension. If this is successful, he'll be sent into a place of endless sky and clouds, where he will proceed to fall for thirty minutes, all to reach the win condition of their match in an unconventional way.
Edited by AqueousBunnies on Jan 2nd 2021 at 8:31:22 AM
Once more, Kaiba seems to have bad luck with the numbers. He actually looks a little nervous.
The largest number he comes across is 220%.
"Let this be enough.", he says as he picks it, bringing his total SPD up to...
26950
A difference of only 400 points.
Kaiba grins widely as the scene shifts to the simulated world once more, knowing that his monsters will attack first.
—-
Blue-Eyes Shining Dragon sends out another glowing pulse of energy, this time at Vegeta.
After this, Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon emits a dark glow, one that expands and darkens the entire area. Lightning strikes from the heavens as all three heads start charging up their attack.
-
"Time for the ultimate dragon's ultimate attack! Neutron Blast!"
-
Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon, staring Beerus down, unleashes its most powerful attack, launching the charged beams all across his field.
This takes out all of Beerus' figures, their HP dropping to 0, and dealing an immense amount of damage to Beerus' HP.
When the skies clear again, Blue-Eyes White Dragon (1) takes its turn and fires another White Lightning attack, this time right at Beerus.
Areui pauses, looking at the woman.
"... who are you?", Areui asks, eyes narrowed in suspicion.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Attracted by the smell of a battle about to be won in the same way a dog is attracted to the scent of meat, the almighty Exodia lumbers into view, observing the final moments of the figure battle with... what seems to be intrigue? Perhaps amusement?
—
Beerus' Master is left at 900 HP.
ULTIMATE ATTACK READY
He smirks. "Well, I suppose I've as good as lost, but it's not over 'till it's over."
He places his Frieza figure front and center.
Tyrannical Terror
-170 DEF to all opponents.
It was easy, really. I appeared to him in the form of Queen Mary, his surrogate mother. As for who I am...
Giygas fires a PK Beam at the Eldergleam, blowing up the tree. Just someone with his best interests in mind.
A high-pitched cry
rings out from beneath where the Eldergleam sat, and the womanly form... disperses. Wooden shrapnel falls for a bit, but it is soon replaced by a gentle rain.
Edited by KiriK on Jan 2nd 2021 at 7:47:36 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Vergil turns, breathing heavily, and swings the Yamato in the direction of the explosion just as its about to reach him. The blade cleaves through the space in front of him itself, causing the blast to be diverted around him.
He's unable to react to Dagrún's breath attack, the force causing him to slide back further into the center of the triangle.
He slowly starts to make his way towards his opponents when the portal opens and he's dropped into the alternate dimension along with the rest of the debris laying in the containment area. A couple of minutes pass with no sign of him returning.
Suddenly, a rift in space appears adjacent to the enemy team. It opens, revealing Vergil once more. He takes a fighting stance, inhales...
And falls to one knee, stabbing the Yamato into the ground to brace himself.
"Damn you..."
He finally collapses, the fight over for good.
K.O!
While Kaiba doesn't seem to notice yet, the Blue-Eyes Ultimate Dragon on the roof definitely does, and despite its intimidating nature, it scoots away a little as it looks at Exodia. It knows better.
Kaiba, grinning, puts the Shining Dragon across from Freeza, and the Blue-Eyes White Dragon (1) on the upper right.
Engine of Destruction
+500 to own ATK
It's immediately clear what Kaiba's going for. The Shining Dragon won't kill Freeza, and Freeza won't kill the Shining Dragon. Meanwhile, Blue-Eyes has an open shot.
"I suppose I'll live to see another day.", Kaiba says.
Meanwhile, none of them will be able to know that Exodia is not the only onlooker. There's someone inside the nearest building, looking through the window...
"I hope you don't think I'll fall for a vague answer like th-OWMYEARS!", Areui says, covering his ears upon hearing the cry.
When the cry stops and the gentle rain falls though, he calms back down.
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Royal Road
A red demon, visually reminiscent of Vergil's Sin Devil Trigger form,
◊ descends.
"Ey Vergil, if you ever get another chance, maybe try using Beowulf? Or, y'know, teamwork?"
With his shittalk delivered to his brother, Dante promptly flies off before Vergil can attempt retribution, and a spidery boy
◊ comes to deliver the usual healing... in the form of tomatoes with a letter M on them, one of which he hands to each team. "Now be good and share..."
Despite the goofy appearance of the tomatoes, one bite is enough to restore your vitality to maximum.
Edited by KiriK on Jan 2nd 2021 at 8:01:41 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

Beerus: 7040
Kaiba: 9000
Beerus, in his omniscience, cracks a wry smirk at the number 9000.
Speed Round
This time, Beerus is much more careful, waiting his time for -
No 300% ever appears on his end. When he sees the line of percentages ending, he panics and grabs 200%. He grits his teeth at the 14080 and looks to see what Kaiba got.
Giygas finally comes to a stop in front of the entrance to Eldergleam Sanctuary
◊.
In here... he mutters, seemingly more to himself than to Areui or Loki.
Edited by KiriK on Jan 2nd 2021 at 4:50:52 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."