Chapter 88: 80. Team Noir: Battle Arena

Jay started with one of the gravity duo's riskiest maneuvers. If the Yoroachian Warriors had been watching and learning, then they would assume Kleo only offered support and utility. They would attack him up close and take turns striking at her while she was being supportive. Jay removed such notions by [Sling Assisting]… KLEO!

He hurled her with a bunch of rocks as covering fire. But he did so while using the [Eye of Venerated Madness’s] future-predicting perk.

For a whole second, he saw where the most skilled warrior would move. He aimed Kleo to strike at a weak point the [Faerie] could abuse. At the same time, Kleo packed on [One Heavy Step], a couple of [Weighted Touches], [Dance Floor Relativity], and [Grav Kick]. Her little body was a streaking purple bolt with her feet pointed at her target.

She slipped past a slashing scythe and struck right where Jay wanted her. She landed with a compact but destructive purple blast. It was a critical hit!

Kleo disemboweled the warrior, nearly splitting the creature in half. It fell with its torso and legs held together by strings of flesh. Even with that gross level of injury, it tried to crawl after Jay with its lower arms to keep fighting.

The [Freak] ignored the dying warriors as he [Gravity Grasped] Kleo back to his side. Three warriors tried to dash in to interrupt their reunion. Kleo punished them by dropping in [Graviton Wall]. She inserted the Skill where the warriors were going, catching two warriors while one retreated just in time.

Back in the Junkyard last week, Jay had considered [Graviton Wall] as an ability that didn’t seem to mesh with the rest of the gravity duo’s Skills. Some testing this week had proved him wrong. [Graviton Wall] meshed very well.

Incredibly well, really.

[Graviton Wall (Familiar), Level 7]: You and/or Kleo can bring down a square and thin wall of gravity magic. Anything that passes through this wall will undergo the effect of intensified gravity scaling with your magic capacity. The wall will fall parallel with the direction of gravity you or Kleo are subjected under. Kleo can manipulate and intensify the wall further by distributing more mana. Forming the wall is slower for the Faerie Master. Variable mana costs range from moderate to very high. Leveling up this Skill improves magic scaling for you and enhances Kleo’s control.

Even while getting yanked to her master under his application of [Gravity Grasp], Kleo was helping that along with her application of [Dance Floor Relativity]. She manipulated gravity to fall toward Jay. By using [Graviton Wall], she created a purple screen of gravity magic falling in the same direction as her descent.

The purple gravity screen FLUNG both warriors like ragdolls, their Poise overridden by Kleo intensifying the wall using Jay's monstrous magical capacity. The cost was enormous because of the warrior’s higher level faced against a low-level Skill, but Jay was willing to pay the price. Seeing this as an opportunity like no other, Jay shifted to the side. He tilted his centric [Sling Assist] rings at different angles and accelerated them as fast as possible.

Before the warriors could flap away, they collided with Jay and his debris belts. It was more of a messy, armor-crunching, roach blood-spraying mess than Jay’d hoped. They didn’t die clean. His highly manipulated power tore apart limbs, gouged their fleshy bellies, and screwed them up big time. The cost was his mana dropping faster and losing a bunch of rocks. He would need to work on that maneuver with the help of Kleo’s [Gravity Mastery] to make it better.

At least Kleo returned to his side in time to face four of the injured warriors ganging up on the gravity duo. The last three standing stayed back to watch. Or plot out something evil. Jay couldn’t focus on them too much even with his spatial-g keeping track. He had to start getting weirder as the warriors tested his shrinking debris belt defense. Jay threatened a painful clash by hovering aggressively and having the rings rotate around him,

Like a gravity gyroscope. 

That gave him the precious few seconds Kleo needed to start extending a curse. [Weighted Touch] could affect people, things, and themselves by touch or magic. It worked way better through Kleo if they went for the more costly magic approach. She focused on one warrior, broke through their magical defense, and multiplied their weight. The sudden increase of gravity on the unlucky victim gave Jay an opening. He rammed his gravity gyroscope tactic against the burdened warrior, tearing it apart with accelerated rocks rotating all around Jay.

The other warriors struck at his gyroscope tactic directly. Magic energy glinted across their blade arms and swept through his debris rings. Kleo held back on using [Weighted Touch] again as the gravity duo started considering their mana reserves carefully. At the same time, they still had six warriors to face. But that stopped being an issue when Kleo smacked her Master’s forehead and gestured all around her. [Faerie Master] helped explain the rest.

Oh, yeah.

He was a Gravity [Freak].

Jay fell into the air and out of the warriors' reach. Just in the nick of time, too, because his gyroscope tactic had been smashed for good. Instead of shooting everything he had left, which would probably deliver garbage damage at this point, Jay concentrated his remaining rock ammunition into one ring. He moved that ring to his left hand, contracting it into a tight and edgy circle about a foot-and-a-half wide. In his right hand, he still had his basic short sword.

He pointed the sword at the warriors.

They didn’t like that.

The remaining six fanned out their wings and shot up to fight him in aerial combat. Truthfully speaking, Jay had no idea how to fight in the air. But his spatial-g paid closer attention to the warriors while they were up here with him. They had nothing holding them up other than their wings resisting the pull of gravity, and that seemed to improve his spatial-g awareness. He could see their movements, their insides, and even the split-second transition between potential magic to real overt magic in higher definition. Gravity had them etched and detailed from head to toe so closely Jay could almost predict their moves based on a twitch.

Jay closed his eyes.

Four injured:

[Injured 1]: Damaged legs.

[Injured 2]: Burst organs.

[Injured 3]: Broken upper shoulder.

[Injured 4]: Missing eye. 

Jay found his first target.

Jay arced to the right, drifting with the fall of manipulated gravity. He couldn’t actually fly. He couldn’t change directions on a dime without something pushier than [Moonwalker] and [Dance Floor Relativity]. The warriors sensed that. They maneuvered around him from different directions. They created a net they closed on him gradually.

Kleo waited until Jay’s next target got too close. Then Kleo changed gravity on herself before invoking [Graviton Wall].

On Jay.

She shot them both at the warrior missing a right eye. Jay swung his sword at its blind spot and scored a cut on the shoulder. It was not good enough damage to kill it, but the attack angered the warrior. It chased, even if that was ill-advised against him.

Kleo used another [Graviton Wall] as they both shifted gravity around. They hit the wall like hitting the wrestling ring ropes in WWE. The wall slingshot them back at the warrior with the missing eye. The monster swung out its scythes.

Jay used his tightly bound [Sling Assist] ring like a shield. Magic-coated scythes versus freaky gravity manipulation created sparks on contact.

Jay won out.

His impromptu shield knocked the scythes out of his way.

Jay didn’t go unscathed, though. The warrior’s lower arms had workable and dangerous claws. The lower arms slashed Jay’s undefended gut multiple times, robbing him close to -150 HP.

And it hurt like hell, too!

It eviscerated him!

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 If Jay didn’t have Conviction as one of his highest Attributes, his [Omen Bearer of the Apocalypse] Title, and the other ridiculous Titles or Talents helping him right now, he might’ve frozen up from the pain. He pushed through the horror of his blood and guts splattering him and flying in gory red ribbons into the air.

“Fuck!” the [Freak] roared. “You!”

Jay stabbed his sword multiple times through the warrior’s chest before sheathing it into her soft neck with gusto. He twisted the blade around without removing it, incapacitating the monster. He didn’t leave it to fall. Gravity magic lashed on. Just like that, Jay turned the dying warrior into his gravity surfboard.

The five remaining warriors (three injured, two healthy) dove at him from above. Jay could tell through emotional-g they were pissed by his constant trick plays. They hadn’t learned of these maneuvers. And they’d been waiting, watching, letting their smaller sisters die in droves for this opportunity. So, yeah, Jay could understand why they were pissed off.

But that wasn’t his problem.

He aimed his Yoroachian surfboard at the left entrance. Kleo facilitated their transfer from air to the ground with a [Graviton Wall] for a sudden boost of speed. Then she called on another [Graviton Wall] like he was driving over dash panels in Mario Kart–lots of that at Mike’s house since Mike was more of a Nintendo Fan Boy.

“Focus, Master!” Kleo grouched, sensing Jay’s moment of distraction.

“I got gutted, give me a break!” Jay complained as they plummeted toward the front of Noir Parade entering the left tunnel. The gravity duo couldn’t slow down. The Yoroachian warriors were behind them with a second of difference.

Good.

Jay [Sling Assisted] Kleo off the edge of his spiraling gravity shield.

She flew to Tim where she latched onto him with [Orbital Mastery] to thwart her own insane velocity. She still revolved around the very confused and concerned [Fighter] to fling herself up to meet her master right above Noir Parade’s heads.

Then she [Sling Assisted] him and his Yoroachian surfboard around her personal globe of gravity. That ended with her shooting Jay and the surfboard back up without him losing any velocity. Only adding more, way more. 

Jay smashed his surfboard into a healthy warrior leading the Yoroachian dive. The lead warrior couldn’t tank the impact. The surfboard had a few [Weighted Touches] applied already before Kleo’s [Sling Assist].

In an explosion of roach gore crunching both monsters, Jay ditched his surfboard. He shot a few pebbles at the face of the next healthy warrior, distracting it. Then he pushed his [Sling Assisted] shield into its unprotected belly.

His [Sling Assisted] ring stopped being a gravity shield.

It became a great ripping and tearing gravity buzzsaw.

He hacked the monsters in two. The lower body fell away from the upper body. Roach blood was sprayed in a mist that slapped against Jay’s rising form.

The last three, all injured from the start of the battle, slowed to a halt. They scattered in three different directions before Jay reached them. He could sense their fear of him. Their broken Conviction gave room to levels of doubt they’d never experienced before.

Jay erupted into laughter as his ascent slowed.

His stomach was ripped open. His face was coated with a mixture of his and the enemies' blood. His divine eye lit up most of his face with silver-gold light that grew brighter. His Chance rose and exceeded the high Chance base of the Yoroachian warriors.

It brought to the surface a question. Was this Champion, this [Freak], more of a monster than the monsters?

The remaining warriors looked past Jay. As if to seek backup. But none would arrive. At this point, the other Yoroachian Warriors had been defeated by the Noir Parade and Emily’s death powers.

Hell, rather than receiving help, eight big kiddies that were formerly warriors rose into the air. Their cursed bodies left trails of black and red in the wake of their flight. They attacked the still-living warriors.

Jay helped out with brief uses of [Gravity Grasp] to yank on the living warriors. He also used up the last of his [Sling Assist] rocks. They killed all three after losing one big kiddie. But they gained three new big kiddies, a stroke of luck for the curse.

Jay saw Emily in an empty pocket inside of [Mist of Death]. She waited in front of the left entrance when he came down.

Kleo was with her. Two big kiddies, as well. She welcomed him with a big grin. Jay and his escorts landed within the bubble of deadly mist. From there, Emily took over escorting. She stripped the life from a captured grunt with Feast of Flowing Life and healed Jay. His stomach and Health returned to normal. A bunch more grunts got sacrificed to help him recover mana as Kleo used [Manasinger] and sang her heart out for her master's mana regen.

“You deserve some rest, Jay,” Emily said.

“No,” Jay said. “Get me to the front, please. Now.”

They did just that. His Conviction pushed him as his Discovery surfaced more than he’d felt before. Discovery was a strange Attribute, and Jay was pretty sure it worked in tandem with his meta-g ability. It felt like getting carried by zany energy that was constantly on the verge of making a great or terrible… Discovery.

He was so absorbed by it that he didn’t fully appreciate another look of shock from Malcolm or the twinkle of amazement in Tim’s eyes. Jay got to the front. The warrior that had gotten blasted nearly in two by Kleo’s surprise attack stood as the vanguard. Its torso was fused to its lower body through a horrid amalgamation of parts robbed from the grunts.

It waved merrily at Jay, smiling with a human-like female face of dark brown. The ridgy insectoid teeth behind its lips were a reminder of what this formally evil and now questionably good creature would do to people for its hunger and pleasure.

Jay waved back not to be rude and bounded forward.

Up ahead, a dry, rocky, mushroom-filled tunnel rose gradually upward with a rightward curve. More fleshy vines appeared hanging from the ceiling and covering the walls. Through his spatial-g, Jay could spot cracks and openings large enough for grunts or warriors to hide in.

Jay knelt and focused on his spatial-g to scan the way forward. It wasn’t as big as the cavern. But it had forty feet between the floor and ceiling. And fifty feet between the walls. He scanned every nearby inch as closely as his Intellect and Conviction could get him to do.

He found nothing for the next three hundred feet.

“For every football field we cross, I need to scan the way ahead,” Jay said.

“I’ll send out my [Spooky Friends] to search every nook and cranny,” Emily said.

“There’s a draft,” Tim said. “I can keep sniffing around.”

“Alright,” Jay said. “Let’s crawl.”

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