Cosmos Fairchild
Akarana Corridor
Willpower: 10
Heat: 8/2
One could not call it a graceful strategy... In comparison to the White Shroud's purposeful, practiced steps, you gather up as much of your energy as you soul can manifest, body screaming in protest from a strain that is far beyond what you are used too, the reality of pulling forth -ripping out- enough spiritual power from both yourself and Ilia to bring forth not just one Mythic Class Phenomena...
But two.
Two in rapid succession, so close that they might as well have been fired at the same time; of course it is distinctly two spells, one cannot invoke "fusion phenomena" alone under most circumstances, as the energy signature of one's COMP is too close in nature to the User to get the 'spike' in power that comes from the mixing of two different forms of Reiki, but even if they were cast apart, even if they are really two different spells that simply happen to be exploding out towards your opponent at the same time...
It is still a deluge of magic, like a tsunami of spiritual force that had fired without preamble, out of desperation and without true preparation-!
"Two-?! Not just the Bell Charge?!"
---Perhaps that is why it is surprising, typically speaking, the 'investment' that comes with the use of this level of magic requires that one weaken their opponent first before using it... It would be a waste to discharge so much power into an opponent that would suddenly avoid it through clever use of lower level magics, and so most fights have a tendency to 'rise' in tension as they go on, both sides poking at the defenses of the another enough to figure out their style, their strengths and weaknesses, and how best to ensure that one can land their finishing blow, but this...
This was self-destruction, an acceptance of blowing oneself away along with the opponent, so long as that means that they won't escape the radius of the attack...
It's brazen.
Overly so, almost fanatically so, and combine that with this being an "unexpected move" to begin with, something so reckless that even a brand new Tamer would think it unwise, and-
---There is no time to prepare a proper defense; considering it had enchanted it's blade earlier -and had maintained that enchantment- the idea that it could oppose power with power is unthinkable, it would overheat it's COMP in the process of trying to match you head on, and dodging...!
It didn't move.
Almost as if in shock, as if truly surprised by exactly how reckless you were being, the Shroud had frozen in place for a moment as the magics had closed in on it's body, reflexes failing to fire properly as it looks around and realizes that nowhere on this walkway will be safe, that this is truly a wave that will engulf everything -possibly even Alyx as well- the Shroud does something bizarre, yes...
"D-Damn it!"
---Spiritual Power erupts, not from it's COMP, but from it's body.
Reiki fashioned into the form of a spell that surpasses traditional finishers, the peak of rate-able magic, the realm in which laws of reality truly begin to be torn apart, a step away from those fabled magics that truly do the "impossible," those that cannot be compressed into formulas, or reached through things like simple training, yes-!
This power is instinctive, it's the power of the person inside the suit, and...
---It's not a human power.
-----It's not a human power at all.
But...
Somehow...
---When the blast is over, when the flowing magics have come to dissipate, disappearing into the darkness of an eternal void as they appear in this hallway of "nothing," you are able to push yourself back up onto your feet, up onto shaking limbs, and-
"...Hah...Hah..."
-your opponent too, remains standing where they were, having endured the onslaught of seemingly limitless light-!
Will - 5
No...
No...
Endure was the wrong word...
---It hadn't touched that person at all, the magic it had used had been some form of "defensive ability," of course things like the Karns typically fall to mythic class magics, as do any number of mundane magical defenses, but-
-it was not mundane.
Light that had appeared had been the same light as that which protects the Soul Sea, the Divine Light of the Guardian Goddess of humanity, and yet-
"Ha...gah...!"
-it can't be her.
The obvious physical pain the shroud is in through use of it's magic does not fit the Goddess of Humanity who never shows weakness, no, it is a shaking pain of a shaking body, one that the shroud forces back with sheer willpower after a few seconds, and-
"I... Won't lose. I don't care what you throw at me, I've... Gotta do this-!"
-the speech gets less formal, as the White Shroud moves closer to who it actually is...
Alyx gets up, an electrified body running up to grab the Shroud from behind, but-
---For you, this battle might as well be over.
COMP pushed to the limit, it seems like this is as far as you can really go with the level of your opponent, and-
---can't see.
---can't see.
---can't see.
---can't see.
---can't see.
---can't see.
---can't see.
---can't see.
Your head starts to hurt as the world begins to fade out...
Like a migraine, or someone just hammering on it from the inside with a sledgehammer, and-
'Hey.'
-a voice appears, it's like your own, but not really.
Not really.
'Hey'
Not really.
'Hey'
Not really.
'Let me fight.'
'Let me fight'
'Let me fight'
'Let me fight'
'Let me fight'
'Let me fight'
'Let me fight'
'Let me fight'
Dolls can't be allowed to rebel like this...
I'll break it for you.
A heavy presence that you can't escape no matter how hard you try, it...
You...
"..."