EPISODE 39 — The Blade and the Spore
🌌 EPISODE 39 — The Blade and the Spore
🎯 Title: First Impact
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🎬 OPENING SCENE — Kainos' Night Arena
📍 Location: Special arena, volcanic metal floor, pulsing with dull heat. A fine electromagnetic dew covers the surface, vibrating with each breath of tension.
Around, the spiritual stands levitate, the spectators in temporal bubbles that adjust to the rhythm of the fight.
In the center, two figures:
— Kairos the Samurai: sword tilted against his shoulder, legs apart, steady breathing, eyes half-closed. An aura of silent concentration.
— Kiralypse, organic/digital hybrid: translucent body covered in blue electric spores, fungal pulses beneath his skin. His face seems to regenerate every moment, his phosphorescent, toxic-green eyes scanning the arena.
💬 Inner Voice (Silent Judge):
> "Let the confrontation begin. The ages are shattered here."
A silent gong resonates in everyone's mind. The fight begins.
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🎯 PHASE 1 — The Observation Duel
🗣️ Kiralypse (advancing slowly, arrogantly):
> "You are the oldest... but not the fastest."
🗣️ Kairos (still standing):
> "Speed is nothing... if the sword already knows where it strikes." »
💨 Kiralypse suddenly leaps → spongy arms spiral → Spiralspore (trails of green spores circulating around him at high speed)
👁️ Kairos precisely backs away → activation of the Eye of the Blade: his pupils turn pale gold, each breath becomes rhythmic and tactical. He visualizes each spore as an angle of impact.
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🌀 PHASE 2 — First Brutal Contact
🌿 Kiralypse plants his arms in the ground.
Instant roots explode beneath Kairos, aiming for his legs.
🌀 Kairos leaps → perfect rotation in the air →
⚔️ Technique: Void Wind Crown
🌀 Active Gravity: PALE BLUE
He traces a sharp circular arc of air, which severs the root before impact. Green ash rises into the air.
🗣️ Kairos (falling back into guard, breathing controlled):
> "You stab into the moment... I cut into eternity."
Kiralypse unleashes his first forbidden attack:
🫁 Pulmonara — his ribs suddenly burst open → acidic purple toxic breath, in a straight line.
🌀 Gravity: DARK PURPLE
🛡️ Kairos plants his saber in the ground, kneels:
💠 Shield of the Fallen Lotus — a spinning jade-green circle forms, absorbing and purifying the toxic wave into a sugary mist.
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🧬 PHASE 3 — Surprise and Counter-Strategy
The two combatants are 3 meters apart, breathing heavily. Sweat beads on Kairos's face. Kiralypse makes wet circuit noises.
🗣️ Kiralypse (panting, mocking):
> "You don't breathe like you used to, old master..."
🗣️ Kairos (small smile, spitting out a trickle of blood):
> "Even an old master... can still invent."
☯️ He slowly activates:
💠 Holographic Void Circle
🌀 Gravity: TRANSPARENT WHITE
He duplicates his body 360°, each illusion being semi-solid. Kiralypse attacks one of the duplicates, pierces it... but the image disintegrates.
💥 A real blow to the back knocks him to the ground. He coughs spores, claws at the void, turns around...
Kairos has already become invisible again.
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💢 PHASE 4 — True Combo: Attack / Reaction / Counter-Attack
🎮 Kiralypse (furious) expels:
☣️ Spora-Vortex — 3 toxic red fungal orbs
🌀 Gravity: INCANDESCENT RED
Kairos traces a vertical air rift:
⚔️ Minor Aether Rift → 2 orbs are sent back.
The third orb hits his left arm. He grunts in pain, a hiss of spores creeps under his skin.
🗣️ Kairos (grimacing):
> "Nice surprise..."
☄️ He throws himself to the ground → slides like a skater, slicing Kiralypse's root-like legs, causing him to fall on one elbow.
🌿 Kiralypse blasts a burst of dorsal roots toward Kairos's torso.
Kairos parries with a forearm and launches into the air:
⚔️ Combo activated:
1. Dark Dragon Shear → 3 cross cuts
2. Solstice Strike → luminous vertical uppercut
🌀 Cross Gravity: MIDNIGHT BLUE + LIGHT YELLOW
Kiralypse is launched into the air, violently hitting the energy dome ceiling, which vibrates and cracks slightly.
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🧘PHASE 5 — Short pause, sacred breath
Kairos kneels, places a fist on the ground, panting.
His left arm trembles slightly, a black sporic line visible under his skin.
🎙️ In the stands:
👤 Spectator, whispering, tears in her eyes:
> "He's getting old... but he's still at his best."
🌿 Kiralypse slowly gets up, his body split open on his left side, spores falling in a blue rain around him.
🗣️ Kiralypse (deep voice, slow, but tinged with ecstasy):
> "You hurt me, ancient one. But I haven't sprouted yet." »
☠️ His back opens like a mutant flower, a giant energy stalk rises skyward, releasing luminescent stellar spores.
🌫️ The arena is filled with a toxic blue mist, spectators activate protective bubbles, and the weakest faint.
🎬 The scene freezes on the image of Kairos standing, saber raised, facing a creature that is now partially divine.
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💥 To be continued in Episode 40: Blood of the Ancients
> Kiralypse is in advanced germination.
Kairos must decide before the divine spore hatches... or fall with the world.