Mu, upon witnessing End Narktus teleporting above them, felt anxiety building in his stomach. The man quickly tried to create his Crystal Wall to protect the Pica team and the triplets, but he is too far away from the ABC trio to shield them.
Upon realizing that, Mu suddenly leaped into the air and directly created a Crystal Wall to contain most of the rain of stardust (Taking the Bullet), but at the cost of placing intense strain on his body, especially his arms.
Mu gritted his teeth as he feels like his hand is about to split open, as he called out to all of his teammates. Now is your chance to strike!
Vs. End Narktus
Hatch closes the portal to Clarilú's world, and open another over his head, teleporting the Stardust bombs going over him back to Narktus' head!
Loli! Whirlwind!
A strong wind blows from Loli's wings, sending away the bombs directed to Pica-Pica outside of the battlefield.
Roco goes with Clarilú back to the front of Narktus, to heal the ABC's. Meanwhile, the three trios fires their Tri-Attacks at the same time, expecting to attain the status aliments on the "new" Narktus.
Three freaking ghosts!"... I am going to brew some tea and lie down...", Jeritza mutters before just walking back into his house and shutting the door.
Intrigue
At the ruined temple, the High Priest of Darkness walks up to the spot that the Door of Darkness had been sealed at once more. He holds out his hand as if placing it on the door itself, despite it not being there anymore.
... or is it?
"I have returned..." , the priest says as he throws some cards on the ground, all showing faces of people.
"Are these enough?", a ghostly voice rings across the temple.
"Yes. I have calculated the necessary energy needed, and gathering enough souls was simple enough with the power of my Millennium Eye."
"Then proceed, Dark One."
The priest takes a few steps back before clasping his hands together while his Millennium Eye starts to glow. The soul cards catch aflame, the fire a pure black. As they burn, screams of agony ringing throughout the priest's mind, a vague, ghostly manifestation of the Door to Darkness appears, black substance forcing its way through.
The cards, as well as the souls inside, burn up completely, after which the Door to Darkness disappears again. Enough substance has escaped to form into Killer Bat
◊ though. Seems like he just doesn't know how to stay down.
"I told you it was enough." , the priest darkly chuckles.
"Yes, you did... now I will continue what I had started."
Killer Bat starts flying away... only to suddenly find himself caught by a golden glow and unable to move.
"W-what!?"
"Where do you think you're going, emissary of darkness?" , the priest asks as he turns to him, Millennium Eye glowing eerily. "You and I, we had a deal."
"Release me this instant! I will achieve my goals on my own! Binding myself to others has only led to failure, time and time again."
The High Priest of Darkness nods his head, making an amused sound, after which the eye's glow becomes brighter. A laser shoots out of it, connecting to Killer Bat, and when the priest gestures for him to come towards him, Killer Bat finds himself pulled by the Millennium Eye's magic without his consent.
"You and I, we need each other's powers. And I am not one to let myself get tricked so easily."
"Stop this immediately, you... you are a mere PRIEST! Don't you know who I am!? I am Killer Bat! I am not just an emissary of darkness, I AM the Darkness!"
The High Priest of Darkness raises his arm, grabbing Killer Bat by the back of his neck when he's fully pulled to him.
"Darkness? What a coincidence."
He viciously throws Killer Bat to the ground. A black aura forms around the priest as Killer Bat gets sucked into his shadow forcefully, unable to escape even as he claws at the ground. Once Killer Bat has been forcefully bound to him, the High Priest of Darkness lets out a somewhat feral growl, followed by a dark laugh.
"So am I..."
In the year 202X, all is devastation... Soon, any last shred of hope had by the saintliest optimist shall die and decay.Perhaps somewhat alarming, yet another Shadow Construct split off of Auri — replacing the other one which had just run in and gotten itself asploded in an attempt to strike at End Narktus.
"Damn... Impatient today, eh?"
She waited until she could find an opening, and then attempted to shoulder-charge End Narktus to the ground, and in turn opening him up to an attempted axe-assisted grapple from the Shadow!
Despite being a construct of literal elemental darkness, it was surprisingly weighty — about as heavy as Auri herself, or perhaps slightly lighter.
"The Stick has sentimental value. It's like an enormous, hideous teddy bear we can kill things with." -rikalousEnd Narktus creates a wall of shimmering stardust to block Nicole's attack. "Not quite."
He looks up and sees some of the stardust falling back down upon him, but he disperses it before it can explode. Then he uses his stardust wall to block the Tri-Attacks.
And then Galacta does the funny hax. Scronch.
He does not seem pained or even mildly bothered, but his left arm has, in fact, just gone completely limp, dangling as if broken.
This allows Auri and her shadowy double to grapple with him, for a moment, but given how he has closed his eyes in concentration, it's clear something is coming.
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Mu, after taking most of the stardust carpet bombing, finally descended to the ground and breathed heavily. Fighting someone on par with a Gold Saint's power without his Cloth truly took a toll on his body, but it's nothing he can't endure for the moment.
Though, the Saint noticed that End Narktus is closing his eyes and concentrating. This immediately ticked off his alarm and caused Mu to yell at Auri.
Throw him away from here!
Mu immediately dashed towards Roco, Clarilú, and the ABC, ready to shield them from whatever is coming. Somehow, the Saint has a feeling that even Crystal Wall might not stop what's about to come.
Edited by cyzja922 on Jul 29th 2021 at 7:39:53 AM
Roco heals the ABC's and Mu. Clarilú, being the great detective she is, notices something is off with Narktus: he is concentrating.
She takes her own megaphone, and shouts: Everybody! Get behind Roco!
Hatch and his sons and the Pica-Pica arrives on time behind Roco's shell, casting over himself Protect.
Meanwhile, Pipo seeks to save the triplets, and he grabs one triplet with each hand, while Loli grabs the other with her legs. They flies upwards, trying to avoid the upcoming danger.
Edited by BombonBombin on Jul 29th 2021 at 10:32:58 AM
Three freaking ghosts!Corrin is chilling out in the lake at GOLDENGLOW ESTATE, planking in the water even in full armor. This exposes him to the sun but he doesn't mind, instead appearing to be sleeping.
Whenever he threaten to sink or hit something, his draconic tail simply arrange him back into floating or quietly push the obstacle or him off.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterGoldenglow Estate
Refia is flying around the Arena. Eventually, she notices the large estate and dives towards it, landing on the ground. Her wings, horns and tail retract into her body as bright red flames surround her, then disperse to reveal human
◊ clothes.
◊ The plating around her arms and legs has also disappeared, taking the claws with them - aside from her pointy fingernails.
"Hmmm..."
She doesn't seem to have noticed Corrin.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."He also apparently doesn't notice her, since he just keep on sleeping. Thankfully enough, this can be resolved pretty easily by the sound of Corrin's tail snapping against the water to pull him back in the middle of the lake, when he was about to hit the shores.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterRefia hears the tail snapping and hastily turns in that direction. Sparks dance in her eyes before expanding into a pulse that blankets her surroundings in red, highlighting living things with color...
And Corrin's highlight is practically glowing with his energy. Refia, understandably afraid, runs and hides behind one of the elevated platforms meant as guard posts.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."He tries to hear her out, but struggles with that yet. Not sure on what to do, he just shake himself really hard to get the water out.
I'm... I'm a man worth of trust, don't worry! I'll... sit there and wait for you to announce yourself, huh, take your time! He does just that, and sit down.
Nautolan picture belongs to Bonesmarinated on twitterOmega
Auri grabbed her shadow-copy's axe and once again invoked the Precursors, calling upon them to imbue strength into her so that she could yeet the shadow - and End Narktus with it - away.
If this failed, the shadow itself would attempt to interrupt him with a headbutt right to the face. If the plan worked, it would pummel him with its legs mid-throw.
KiriK
End Narktus gets yote, but he maintains his focus, and a massive field of stardust expands from him to encompass the entire area.
No explosions this time. However, everyone can feel their movements slowing as he uses the stardust to somehow manipulate spacetime, also forcibly teleporting Auri's shadow away from him.
And if they're all slower... dodging is going to be a lot harder.
"I have viewed the history of this world. Let me remind you of something that has been forgotten."
'Draining' some stardust from the field into his hands, he changes its fundamental makeup, turning it into a gout of fire which he sends hurtling forth.
But this is no ordinary flame. Those brave or unwary enough to get struck will not be damaged, but instead be imbued with the fire itself, granting an incendiary property to their attacks - and, in the case of attacks that already produce fire, making that fire stick to whatever it hits like napalm.
Nicole, if she is among those struck by the flame, will recognize this as a Friend Ability!
"Of course, my counterpart would not be so generous as to willfully give these to you... but you understand, this is for the sake of practice. This is the kind of thing you might need."
He then proves his point by sweeping his hands outwards, causing lights in the stardust-field to glimmer before firing devastating lasers every which way, turning the whole battlefield into a hazard zone.
"... Refia." She awkwardly waves back, minus smile.
He doesn't seem to be able to feel my energy through the glamour, she notes.
She closes her eyes, lowers her head and sighs. Better to be up front about it. "I'm... a demon. I felt your power and was scared by it."
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"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."

The Arcane Beam hitting the spear directly causes it to explode. What else did you expect?
It's enough, however, that the dancers' songsplosion manages to consume End Narktus For Massive Damage, cracking his armor and sending him reeling. Auri and Fenrir's attacks combo him, managing to deal a bit more damage to the armor, but he outright no sells Galacta's telekinetic hold.
"Impressive."
He suddenly teleports directly above the Tic-Tac-Toe and Pica Pica team and basically carpet-bombs their position with a rain of stardust.
"My younger self would not afford you that opportunity, however."
"Nothing in particular. I just came by to see the horse."
He opens a notebook and a fucking pegasus pops out of it.
As confusing as it is, there is definitely something truly unnatural about Saturn, even if his claims of 'designing' the horse are just mad rambling.
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."