Arc 11.34: Cyrus vs Dumnorix part 2

Φ As I continue to swing my tail violently around him, ripping through all the trees around me, I move closer, but then he says, "Red branch battle arts; Tulip."

Then all around me, he constantly moves in ever-changing patterns. In terms of speed, my eyes can keep up with him easily enough, but it's his patterns that are throwing me off.

The way his footwork goes throws off my sight again, and again, and every time I blink in those split seconds, he is gone. There must be some kind of trick or method to how he moves like that. But I can't grasp it.

Though I don't need to, just focus on the feeling. Back during my battle to defend Orb, my body could grasp Red branch battle arts even though I didn't know how it worked, couldn't focus on that and use it to know where he is going.

As Dumnorix jets around, I stop my movement and hold my tail up in the sky, and as I feel him approach, I smash my tail where he is breaking the ground. But feeling nothing but the ground against my tail, I move my eyes to him and see that he has a wound against his shoulder.

I hit him, now is the time to press the attack!

I dash forward, and he assumes a stance, one similar to clover, and my body freezes. Right now, all the senses in my body are telling me I can't attack or dodge, right now I need to block!

I bring my tail in front of me and send spirit energy following throughout it, and then Dumnorix, grabbing his large lance like tail as his main weapon, says, "Red Branch battle arts; Ultimate art Morning glory!"

Then, in an instant, he completely vanishes from my sight and by the time he comes into my sight again, I am already feeling an intense impact against my tail.

As the force from his speed and trust all are spent into my body, I lose my footing and get sent flying back as his thrust continues forward. This is simply too powerful; he is going to rip right through my tail!

I quickly activate my legacy on my tail, and I manifest as much darkness as I can to put some distance between his tail and mine, but the sheer force of his attack still continues, eventually making me fly backwards through a series of trees.

With my back against a bunch of fallen trees, I stand up and look at my tail, which is leaking blood, and as I try to move it, intense pain fills my body, making me fall right to the ground.

With his hand on his chin, Dumnorix says, "Didn't even go halfway into your tail, and you're already falling down like that, it seems that area must be sensitive. It explains why the scales on your tail are so incredibly thick."

Fighting through the pain, I stand up and say, "T-Take this se-eriously. This isn't an experiment."

Walking forward, I pick up my sword and then activate my legacy on it while deactivating it on my tail, and Dumnorix laughs a bit, then says, "Before you request me to take this seriously, please at least be able to activate your legacy on two places at once."

Holding my sword up, I say, "Activate your legacy, it will be f-fair."

"Not a chance. My legacy is aggressively offensive, you'd die."

"I won't die!"

Charging forward, I manifest darkness at the side of my blade and use it to boost its swing strength as I slam it against Dumnorix, but in that moment, he appears behind me and says, "It's already over!"

I turn around and prepare to swing at him with my sword, but blood bursts right out of my right arm, and staring directly at it, I say, "You cut me?"

"I finally figured out the trick on how to get through dragon scales. From now on, fighting you is no different than fighting a human. Let's call it quits before I end up seriously harming you."

Seeing his face of assured victory, my anger rages, and from my legacy, I generate darkness and use it to extend the reach of my sword. And with one large swing, I cut through the forest, and then I charge at him, giving it my all.

I can't fall like this. Right now I need to be strong, I can't allow any more tragedies like what happened to Paribanou to happen again. Even if I have to force my body to keep fighting right now, I need to defeat him. Because right now, in Aplos outside of Orb, he is the strongest.

Fighting through the pain, I extend my tail and use it to fight in combination with my sword, but the entire time Dumnorix retains a smile on his face, then he says, "I guess I need to teach you how utterly outclassed you are."

Dumnorix kicks me in the face and says, "Red branch battle arts; Skyflower."

Then, with tremendous force, he kicks off my body, sending him flying back. Then, holding his sword in front of his body, he says, "I will show you why being in the Morrigan Squadron is such an honour."

Dumnorix presses his hand against a spike, and as he does, I feel a memory that isn't mine rush into my head.

Sitting in front of a table. A woman with a crocodile tail and green hair says, "It seems the beastkin have come back with a trump card. To think something like this was even possible. Queen Medb is a genius of her time. Weapons that can override a genetic limitation."

In front of me, Dumnorix's sword blade turns blood red and on his right shoulder, a giant flower blooms that turns into a mantle, and then he says, "Watch and be amazed."

Plunging it into the ground, he says, "Beast blood battle arts; Ceangailte."

Soon, all of the flora around me moves toward my body and starts to bind my body. "Druid powers?"

"The power of the druids is granted to the beastkin who wield these blades, the Calatin!"

With one lunge forward, Dumnorix approaches me, and I quickly rip out of the binds around me, and then as I use my legacy to try and strike him, but he dodges, and as he does, a series of seeds appear in front of my eyes.

Then Dumnorix says, "Red branch battle arts; Starflower."

In that moment, he thrusts each of the seeds into my body while pushing me backwards. Manifesting as much darkness as I can; I push Dumnorix off, but as I do, he says, "Beast blood battle arts; Fas."

Inside my body, I feel immense pain, then from little holes in my body, I see little trees sprout and rip the holes into big gaping wounds as they grow out.

Sheathing his sword, Dumnorix says, "And the battle is over. If I grow those trees any more, it with rip apart and destroy your internal organs."

As I fall to the ground from pain, I say, "I am n-not finished!"

"There is no more combat left to have. I have pierced your scales, outdone your swordsmanship, outmanoeuvred your superior physical abilities, and held back all the while. It's over, go back and rest in your mommy's bosom."

The more and more blood that flows from my body, the blurrier my vision gets. It feels like any moment I could fall and die.

I should be stronger than him, my body is superior, and my legacy is powerful. Even this sword that I got the sword I have was made from a kovosaurus fingers. I shouldn't be getting crushed by him like this.

I need to be stronger, I need to bring out more of what I was capable of, just like the first time I used my legacy. I was lost in that trance, lost in my emotions, lost in my need for victory.

I will win, I must WIN!

From the sword and my tail, the darkness of my legacy bursts out and covers the right side of my body, and I feel my blood boil as I stare at Dumnoirx with rage. I shout, "I WILL WIN!"

I charge forward and manifest a giant blade of darkness that is three times the size of the tallest tree in the forest, and I smash it into the ground, breaking it into pieces.

Φ Holding my sword, I say, "Advent? No, just a release of power. Guess I will have to rip up a bit of his organs to calm him down, he should survive it."

Cyrus rushes forward at me, and in that same moment, I activate my blade and say, "FAS!"

Soon, the small trees on his body start to grow, but as they do, the darkness invades his body and starts to devour all of the trees, absorbing them into it.

Feeling excitement run through my blood, I say, "I didn't expect that?"

Φ I can't be stopped now. If I lose this battle, if I don't surpass myself right this instant, I won't be able to keep everyone safe, I will be left without anything except being a failure.

Manifesting a giant tail of darkness, I use it to smash whatever is in front of me along with my blade, and as I do, I curse it all and scream, "I WILL WIN, I WILL WIN, WILL WIN, WIN! WIN! WIN! WIN!"

Dumnorix dodging my blade jumps out of the forest, and I follow him, shouting, "WIN!"

But as I emerge from the forest, in front of my eyes lies a family of nightmares with a series of bags on their backs, walking towards Căderea-dracului.

I need to stop, but I can disperse this level of darkness in an instant. If I don't stop right now, I am going to crush all of them! No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no!

Suddenly, from my side, I am hit with a bunch, at a speed and impact similar to the morning glory, and I am sent flying away from the people into a crater where I lie on the ground.

I try to move my body, but as I do, a surge of pain comes over me. Did he hit me with that move again?

Standing up, I move forward to see if the family is ok, and as Dumnoirx finishes posing in front of them, he walks up to me with his right fist filled with blood, and then punches me directly in the face.

As I fall to the ground, he says, "You lost control of yourself and almost killed a group of people. Failing to protect people is one thing, but endangering them to your own stupidity is another thing altogether. You should be ashamed!"

As his words ring through my mind, all I can do is hold my cheek and try my best to keep the tears from flowing out of my eyes as I think over what has just happened.

 But then I suddenly feel pressure all around me. In this moment, it feels like my entire body is being gripped by an invisible hand that holds me tight.

Looking forward, I see Dumnoirx's body moves in the same fashion as my own, with pressure being placed around his body.

Then I hear, "You're both under arrest."

Turning our heads, we see another group of nightmares, with one in the middle having legs that look like an amalgamation of different animal parts, a chest big like that of a gorilla or a norka with two tiny arms at his side, and two tails that look like giant fists.

Both of the tail arms tighten their grip, and then he shouts, "As a 5th seat in the Cursed land army Fundamentāls, YOU BOTH ARE UNDER ARREST!"