Sephiroth's eyes briefly widen as he is skewered like a sausage on a grill. Instead of blood, a black fog-like energy leaks out of his body.
Finally, some confirmed, real damage... and he doesn't stop smiling. He doesn't even blink. That brief shift in his eyes was his only reaction.
"You are strong indeed," he remarks, before pushing himself off and landing on his feet.
The holes left in his body are slowly spreading, slowly breaking him down. Yet his eerie calmness remains. He lifts Masamune up in both hands and stabs it into the ground. "Descend, Heartless Angel."
A cylindrical wall of dark energy rises up high into the air around Sephiroth, then spreads outwards about 20 meters before fading. Anyone it touches as it spreads will have all but the very last vestiges of vitality torn from them, leaving them at the equivalent of a single hitpoint.
Edited by KiriK on Sep 28th 2022 at 7:08:43 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."The wave washed over the stuck giant. Corrosive black gunk spilled from the inhuman beast's maw, sloughing down his arms and onto the failing form of Sephiroth as his knees buckled and forced him to lean upon his trident and jam it into the ground. "YOU..." Asriel gargled, struggling for the words. "...REAL THREAT..." Shaking from exertion, the Director raised his weapon on high over his incredible enemy, before jabbing right for his throat this time.
Edited by Panzertruppen_Ein on Sep 29th 2022 at 5:03:21 AM
(Figure begins to stalk around the library. A large imposing door lies at the top of the library, held with a large lock.)
Room 100
Seek has gathered enough power to make a change to his domain. He reaches into the large mass of himself within the cracks of yhe building and wills it to change.Outside the hotel
The bulding Seek inhabited starts to be covered in more of the black substance. The walls grow eyes on the inside and outside, and small tentacles start to grow from the outer walls. Praise the Lamb!I mentioned in my last post that Sephiroth pushed himself off of the trident and landed on the ground.
Sephiroth gets covered in oof ouch owie that hurts. Still being a freak, he raises up an arm caked in the gunk and licks it. Yes, his tongue melts off. No, he doesn't care.
His torso is engulfed in that leaking smoke, which leaves behind a trail as he dashes backwards to avoid the stab.
PALE HORSE
He pools energy into a large blue sphere, then throws it at Asriel. If it hits, Asriel will simultaneously suffer the debilitating effects of Frog, Small, and most crippling of all, Sadness. The sheer size of it is enough that Asriel will need to exert serious effort to avoid it entirely.
Edited by KiriK on Sep 29th 2022 at 2:37:30 PM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Such a mass of magic in one place could only mean serious trouble. With the few fibres of strength Asriel could muster he threw himself to the side, just barely clearing the blast with a wet slap on the asphalt. Needless to say he was in no shape to retalliate, face-down on the road as he was, his body finally failing him and sloughing apart into mush.
Malenia runs out the build and notices him (Asriel) lying on the ground. She runs to him and with a quick motion slashes down her sword. "I pray you forgive me, Miquella. But I must spill divine blood to for my freedom." this isnt an autohit, he can still be saved.
Edited by Archsage on Sep 29th 2022 at 2:56:57 PM
Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.I missed the attack aimed at Sephiroth, edited
"Out of my way."
Sephiroth suddenly turns to face the other foes and intercept them with a singular slash trailing purple light...
Which, if it hits, will send Malenia and/or Seek to another dimension where Safer∙Sephiroth, THE One-Winged Angel, throws a meteor into the Sun and causes it to explode in their faces. This will send them crashing back into reality with huge damage and a random affliction between slowing down, inflicting confusion, or temporarily sealing powers including the Scarlet Rot.
However, if this unintentional Villainous Rescue succeeds, it is Sephiroth's last act, as he almost fully dissolves into smog, leaving only his smiling face to give the parting words: "Be seeing you," before he vanishes entirely.
If the attack whiffs, he frowns for the first time ever, and only for a split second, as more of his body is engulfed in smoke.
Edited by KiriK on Sep 29th 2022 at 3:17:00 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Since she doesnt know how else to leave, she just assumes slaying an opponent will set her free.
Malenia feels the energy come close to her, with a movement to fast for the eye to follow she's jumped into the sky. She readies her sword and launches herself to Sephiroth, activating her Waterfowl Dance move.
Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.Consciousness breaks down. Form dissolves. Instinct steps in. Survival means all. Director Asriel, having lost focus and combat alike, had disintegrated into a barely-sentient puddle slithering away into whatever led away from the combat. A storm drain, a sewer grate, a broken water main, anything would do. Eventually he - or perhaps in this state 'it' was a better term - found his escape and took it, disappearing into the depths below...
Well, good news for Malenia: Waterfowl Dance slices Sephiroth to ribbons, and the evil angel fades away with little more than an echoing voice on the wind.
"I will never... be a mere memory."
Bad news: Now what?
Edited by KiriK on Sep 29th 2022 at 4:30:59 AM
"A wizard is never late, nor is he early. He arrives precisely when he means to."Malenia takes a moment to readjust her artificial arm. She feels the Rot grow stronger in her body. It had been so long since she had last fought, she knew any longer and she might lose control. He reminded herself once more, "I am Malenia, Blade of Miquella."
Best advice I ever got? Keep repeating the joke till everyone is forced to laugh.

The light swallowed the Director whole, blinding the entire street and surely convincing Sephiroth he had triumphed over this bipedal beast. Surely No One Could Survive That!
And then the flayed frame of ten feet of raw power emerged from the blast, fur scorched off and bone-white flesh exposed in many places, yet he wouldn't even flinch as he helf the prongs of his trident steady, gleaming tips kept at centre mass of his enemy's torso.