The Regal Rper
Mad Scientist
Paladin & Nadia | JFK Airport, NY
Time was a strange thing when you were amplifying your entire body. Seconds didn't become seconds, they could be extended further. In the Soul Bridge between Resonance, in the Soul Space the law of time functioned differently and in amplification, when you reached a certain degree or level of utilizing your spirit energy the laws of time started to slow down-- though not always in obvious ways like it could or would for truly talented Amplifiers.
Nadia’s incoming attack was easy to read but difficult, given the close combat proximity, to dodge. The high knee had two options, try to block and give up the ground or take it and lock her down. There were a few things running through Yeong’s head, take the initiative and try to kill Nadia, distance himself, or push forward. Right now Sonnetta was possibly dead if not out of commission, it was just Brennan and him left, they were losing this in numbers and he knew clearly that had it not been for this terrain shift, perhaps they would be doing slightly better. His next action changed how this fight went on.
Nadia’s hit did land but so would the soul menace that Yeong charged into his fist. The knee didn't land dead center, striking his plexus and stomach all at the same time, rather Yeong shifted in the few seconds he had between the blow landing and the boost that came with another Paladin down, to get his fist in just a second faster than Nadia’s leg would land. Turning his torso by leaning slightly to her inner space past the raising leg, making it possible for his fist to go flying straight into her solar plexus as she connected with his gut.
With Soul Menace, even if she caught it, the result would be the same.
’This whoreson..’ Nadia thought as the attack came in close, these paladins were nothing but trouble as she seen it. Though the traitor witches had the priority of her killing intent, the church was now pushing it, or whatever they called themselves. They were well matched, but she was just a hair bit faster in the long run, an endurance run did not favor him.
As the blow struck home it was not without feeling, but it was not to the extent or effect that the Paladin had counted on, Soul Menace could not be overlooked, but she had her resonance up and was and had emptied her body of air and her knee acted as a wedge as the blow stuck home, she felt it, felt it a lot, she even had to take a knee before focusing a wrathful face upon the unknown Paladin. Then there was the situation with Adrian’s sudden vanishing. For now, more immediate matters were taken into consideration.
Dani could feel herself increasing her hold on the reins, however with that came awareness of the lack of madness reverberating to her. Adrian’s had begun to feed back into her the moment her own began to set him off, but now there was just hers. ’...W-Why can’t I sense him…’ Dani murmured internally with an overarching sense of dread. She couldn’t assume the worst. She couldn’t sense the other paladin either, not that she was the best at soul perception anyway. However her anxieties would still weigh on her. ’...Bastards… Rat, fucking, bastard…!’ She growled out.
’He is likely just out of range, he neither the paladin would die so easily, but if we do not focus here, I cannot say the same of us.’
’I know… I know…’ Dani replied, though the growl in her voice hadn’t yet gone. ’What’s the plan here? Take the heat you’re giving me and shove it up his ass?’
’Old Russian tactic, while I try pulling myself together, we bait him into the back foot, then hit him from the sides. I- I don’t think it is good that we kill them, but we have little choice, they are helping the enemy and will not talk to us. I cannot fight him as if he were just some peasant on a bridge, if I don’t go all out then we are at his mercy.’
Except the paladin didn't seem like he was about to let them push him to the edge so easily. By the time they'd finished the short back and forth, that minor gap Nadia had made to take a knee had already been closed. Yeong was very aware that there between them, Nadia had the physical advantage, and his time limit made this battle of attrition his disadvantage.
At the same time with Adrian's sudden disappearance spiritually at least, Dani would at least find her own madness wasn't becoming this terrible weight she barely could handle any longer as she found it easier now to rein it in.
At least until the chipping in the resonance began again as Yeong struck with his blade.
Nadia for her part withdrew the blade and spun, leaving Yeong and his overeager charge to carry him forward as she rolled with he knee to the side, rising up in mid swing she took Dani upwards, aiming to slam her with sideways swing into the armored knight, she was grateful that at least the madness was dying down now, but she could tell the man was trying to break apart their resonance, it would not be so easily done however.
He blocked it with both blades, the act again causing a dissonance in the resonance. Yeong followed up with a move that shoved Dani’s blade to the side with raw strength pushing back against Nadia’s before he raised one blade up and struck Dani with Soul Conduction running through his second blade again.
As Yeong pushed the blade back, Dani’s hissed in response. The flames spiked and flared in response to being battered back and from the tip spawned the fiery scorpion tail. The appendage curved immediately upon sprouting, coming back towards not Yeong but his weapons. She hadn’t found something she couldn’t melt with the damn thing yet. ’Let’s see how you do without your fuckin’ toothpicks…!’
With the actions of Dani, Nadia did not know just how to take it, attacking his weapon never occurred to her, as they were tools, the real danger was in the hand that used it. Which on that note, there were now other things to consider, but the present held the attention of herself currently. With Dani’s heat that one sword should melt, even as he hammered and prodded at their union and resonance, she was not sure what would happen ultimately. The current plan was simple: take the heat from the melting blade and use that to fuel Dani, or to heat blast him as she leveraged back in with her own power, readying her left hand. ’I’m not sure if we’ll have the power to take on those witches too, this holy rollers have fucked everything.’
The effect Dani wanted was successful. Not only did she end up superheating the weapon, melting it in the process but before Yeong could do anything of significance he was forced to drop the blade Dani’s tail was heating and create some distance as it was completely demolished.
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