Folgen narrows his eyes. 'Fast!' He shifts his stance, adjusting his grip on the longsword. With a quick step forward, he swings his sword in a wide arc, aiming to catch Shifu off guard. But Shifu effortlessly sidesteps, his katana sshing down at Folgen's exposed side. Folgen barely mao twist away, feeling the bde cut through his armor.
Shifu suddenly accelerates, a surge of fiery energy enveloping his body as he activates one of his more advaeiques. With a fsh of movement, he appears behind Folgen, his katana raised for a downward strike. Folgen, caught off guard, barely mao blo time, the force of the blow sending him sliding back. The impact cracks the earth beh him.
Folgen takes a deep breath, his eyes narrowing. He adjusts his stance, shifting to a defensive position. With a fierce battle cry, he charges again, his sword raised high. Shifu doesn't move. He waits. The moment Folgen is within range, Shifu unches himself forward, his katana fshing like a beam of light, instantly parrying Folgen's bde aside, leaving a deep cut across his chest. Blood sprays into the air, and Folgen staggers back, clutg the wound. His breath es in ragged gasps as he tries to maintain his footing, his once-pristine armor now tarnished and cracked.
Shifu, radiates overwhelming fidence. His aura burns brighter, the purple fmes flickering ominously as if feeding off his resolve. "Is that the best you do, General? I'm starting to think you’re all bark and no bite."
Folgen’s eyes fsh with anger, but he forces himself to remain calm. "Don’t get cocky, monster. I’m just getting started." With that, his body glows faintly with ahereal energy, and his grip on his longsword tightens. "You’ll regret uimating me."
This was an effect of his unique skill [Spearhead] it allowed him to steal the skills of any of his subordihat fall in battle, granting him a wide range of bat skills. Activating the skill [Enhanced Reflexes] and [Strength Booster] he immediately increased his power.
He lunges forward with renewed speed, his sword slig through the air in a powerful horizontal swing. Shifu steps into the attack, his katana parrying the blow with calcuted precision. The csh creates a shockwave that ripples through the battlefield, scattering debris and f both batants to slide back.
Shifu smirks, his sharp teeth glinting in the moonlight. "Not bad, you're actually strohan the boy. I won't go easy on you." His aura fsh for a moment before he surges forward, his movements fluid and uable. His katana weaves intricate patterns in the air, each strike ing faster and sharper tha.
Folgen struggles to keep up, his longsword barely defleg the relentless onsught. "Damn you!" he growls, swinging wildly in an attempt to create distance. But using the exact same skills as Folgen, Shifu is relentless, closing the gap with a [Fsh Step] that leaves him directly behind Folgen.
Without hesitation, Shifu strikes, his katana bzing with purple fmes as it arcs toward Folgen’s exposed back. The general twists just in time, raising his sword to block the attack. The impact sends vibrations up his arms, and he grimaces in pain, but he refuses to yield.
"Where did you learn that?!" Folgen asks through gritted teeth, his voice edged with frustration.
Using one hand, Shifu slowly presses down his katana on Folgen's sword. "From you obviously. It's a good movement skill."
Folgen growls, activating [Magic Bde], causing his bde to shimmer with a golden light. With a ferocious roar, he unleashes a devastating ssh that cuts through the air like a thunderbolt. The sheer force of the attack forces Shifu to leap back, his katana raised defensively.
The grouween them erupts in a cloud of dust and debris, obsg their vision. Shifu narrows his eyes, his heightened senses alert for any sign of movement. Then, from within the cloud, a massive wave of energy hurtles toward him, a follow-up attack from Folgen.
Shifu doesn’t flinch. Instead, he raises his katana, the purple fmes intensifying as he els his own energy. With a powerful swing, he cuts through the wave of energy, with his own wave of energy, dispersing it in a burst of sparks. The dust clears, revealing Folgen standing at the ter, his chest heaving from exertion.
"You’re tenacious, I’ll give you that," Shifu says, his tone almost admiring. "But your desperation is showing. Let me put you out of your misery."
With a burst of speed, Shifu closes the distaween them once more. His katana glows with an otherworldly light as he prepares to deliver the finishing blow. Folgen braces himself, his grip on his longsword unyielding, ready to meet the attack head-on.
Their bdes collide in a deafening csh, the force of their strikes creating a whirlwind of energy that sends shockwaves across the battlefield. Folgen pours every ounce of his strength into the exge, their movements a blur as they trade blow for blow.
Finally, Shifu finds his opening. With a deft maneuver, he disarms Folgen, sending the longsword flying through the air. Before Folgen react, Shifu’s katana is at his throat, the purple fmes lig dangerously close to his skin.
"It’s over," Shifu decres, his voice calm but firm. "Yield, or I won’t hesitate to finish this."
Folgen grits his teeth, his pride warring with the reality of his defeat. For a moment, he siders trying to wrest trol of the situation, but the look in Shifu’s eyes tells him there’s no point. With a heavy sigh, he raises his hands in surrender.
"You win, monster," Folgen says bitterly. "But don’t think this is the end."
Shifu lowers his katana, the fmes dissipating as he steps back. "It’s only the end if you make it so. Refle your as, General. Perhaps ime, you’ll think twice before crossing bdes with a kijin."
Without another word, Shifu turns and walks away, leaving Folgen to colpse to his knees, his pride shattered.
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Razen’s face twisted in a mix of fusion and fury as the Spirit Drone hovered beside Kaede, its glossy bck visor pulsing with faint blue energy. “What… what is this abomination?” he demanded, his voice crag.
Kaede smirked. "Wouldn't you like to know." She watched as Razen struggled to stay standing. 'Actually Artificia, I would also like to know. For your information, this was not what I was thinking. What did you actually do? What is a spirit drone?'
It utilizes advanced levitation for omnidireal mobility, autonomous deaking via a quantum putational core, and modur appendages equipped for bat and precision tasks. Defensive systems include adaptive energy shielding, while offensive capabilities rely on directed-energy onry.
In esse is an autonomous, hybrid entity,a fusion of meand eics, designed for optimal performand synergy with you.>
Artificia’s tone shifted, almost smug.
Kaede g the h drone, her eyes fshing with numbers as she analyzed it. This was the effect of her subskills, [Instant Analysis] and [Meancy], allowio view all of the mae's funs and abilities. 'Whoa Artificia, what the hell is that?! Where did you evehe magicules for that?!'
Kaede gnced back at Razen who looked truly exhausted. "Huh. ." She smiled. 'Although, what are you going to do about the spirit i's basically trapped in there?'
This process will termihe earth spirit's inal sciousness, repurposing its core energy into a stable and effit system that serves as my physical form...>
Kaede was shocked. 'You're... killing it? No you 't do that. Besides I don't think I'm ready to give you a physical body just yet.' Kaede thought back to all of the stories she'd heard about robots taking over the world. It was a little childish, but who knows.
<...>
'Just leave it the way it is. You still trol it right? Without f an artificial intelligence?' Kaede asked.
The Spirit Drours focus to Razeing a low hum as if analyzing its arget. Its sleek flided forward with an eerie precision, every movement exuding an aura of intelligend purpose. Kaede stepped forward, her body seemingly growing much rger to the worn down sorcerer.
Razen raised his staff, his fidence crag but not pletely broken. “You think you defeat me? I am the greatest sorcerer of Falmuth!”
He began ting furiously, drawing a torrent of magicules into himself. The air crackled as he unleashed a massive burst of fme, the inferno spiraling toward the Spirit Drone. {Nuclear on}
But the drone didn’t flinch. With a flicker of blue light across its visor, it extended one of its sleek arms. A translut shield of energy materialized before it, abs the fmes effortlessly. The fire dissipated like water against stone, leaving Razen staring in disbelief.
“That’s… impossible!” he hissed.
“Resistance against magic,” Kaede corrected, her tone almost mog. “With immunity agaih magic. That's really impressive, Razen. As expected of the stro sorcerer of Falmuth. Your summon is incredibly strong. Well, my summon "
The Spirit Droaliated. A burst of blue energy erupted from its right arm, a trated beam that screamed through the air with blistering speed. Razen barely had time to erect a barrier, but the force of the attack smmed into him, sending him hurtling into a nearby wall. He coughed, blood trig from his lips as he struggled tain his footing.
“This ’t be happening…” he muttered, his voice trembling.
Kaede’s gaze was unwavering, her smirk growing. “Oh, it’s happening. I could kill yht now, it would be oh so easy for me.”
Razen gritted his teeth, desperation clouding his eyes. With a flourish of his staff, he jured a swarm of magices that rained down on the Spirit Drone from all dires. The drone weaved through the storm with inhuman agility, evading every strike with ease.
As Razen prepared another spell, the Spirit Drone closed the distan an instant, its movements a blur. Its articuted arm extended, a bde of pure energy f at the tip. The bde sshed through Razen’s robes, narrowly missing his torso but severing his staff in two.
Razen staggered back, the broken halves of his staff cttering to the ground. “No… no… this isn’t how it ends!” he shouted, his voice crag with panic.
The Spirit Drone hovered ominously, its glowing visor fixed on him like a predator sizing up its prey. Kaede stepped forward, her tone cold. "Pathetic."
She sighed. 'You're not worth it. Artificia, have Kirara and Shifu reached the extra point?'
"Cool." She turned away from the sorcerer lying on the floor. "Later Razen. I pray we never meet again."
Razen just gred at her through blood stained eyes, as she walked away.
Kaede g the h drone for a moment. 'Hey Artificia? How strong is the spirit drone?'
"Is that so?" Kaede chuckled.
Earlier, Kaede had given Kirara an orb that had a unication node. Allowing it to act as a phone.
#Hello Kirara, what's going on? Aren't you at the extra poi?# Kaede grinned already aware of Kirara's predit.
#I am. Just one question.# Kirara's voice sourained as she spoke. #Why, Kaede, am I looking at a pne right now?!#
Kaede chuckled. #I'm on my way Kirara.# She took a gnce behind her, looking at the destru she and Razen had wrought upon the capital in their fight.
"This should keep them busy for a while."
[Cover Move]
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This is basically what Kaede saw when she looked at the spirit drone's profile through [Instant Analysis]
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Spirit Drone: A Produeand Spirit
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Material position:
Spirit Metal: The War Gnome’s body was posed of a unique magical alloy with high energy ductivity, structural resilience, and adaptability to magicules (the world's equivalent of energy quanta).
Modified Crystal Lattice: The atomic arra of this alloy has beeructured, optimizing it for kiic durability, energy efficy, and thermal resistance.
Energy-Ied Design: The material is imbued with the War Gnome’s residual magicules, creating a posite substahat merges physical matter with magical energy.
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Power Source
Core Funality: The Spirit Drone is powered by a Magicule Energy ReaER), created by stabilizing and taining the War Gnome’s core energy.
Meism: This reactor operates simirly to a zero-point energy device, harnessing ambient magicules and verting them into usable power.
Efficy: High energy density and near-perpetual energy avaibility due to tinuous absorption of free magicules from the enviro.
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Mobility
Propulsion System:
The drone uses magohydrodynamic (MHD) levitation, which exploits iioween magicule flow and the physical enviro for friless movement.
High agility is achieved through vectored thrusting meisms, allowing omnidireal mobility.
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Funality
Tooling Systems:
Modur Appendages: Each arm refigure its internal meisms for precision tasks, such as:
Laser cutters for material disassembly.
Energy-based onry for bat sarios.
Mianiputors for crafting and repairs.
Nano-Iion Tools: Enables manipution at the molecur scale for advanced material synthesis or destru.
Sensors and Sing:
Spectral Analysis: Infrared, ultraviolet, and magicule spectrums.
LIDAR Mapping: For real-time spatial awareness.
Energy Resoe: To identify unique magical signatures or nearby threats.
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Defensive and Offensive Systems
Energy Shielding:
A localized energy field geed from the drone’s core protects against both physical and magical impacts.
Dynamic adjustments allow energy redire or absorption (akin to Kaede's Devour skill).
Beam onry:
A directed-energy on utilizing magicules, akin to particle beams in modern physics.
Features a tuput, capable of delivering trated bursts or wide-area energy dispersals.
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Iion with Artifibsp;
The dros as aernalized subsystem of Artificia, operating semi-indepely but closely ied with Kaede's ands and bat strategies.
Feedback Loop: Direunication with Kaede via neural ical links enables instantaneous coordination.
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The reason it's s is because, Artificia had pnned for it to be an emergency body for it to materialize in, if its master is ever in danger. So it made it as strong as possible, especially since Kaede wasn't paying for the cost of magicules.