Rosey (1)
It has been 2 hours and 20 minutes since the time Tongqiu blew Teary Rose's body away from his sudden, 'cruel' surprise attack. Through all this time, Teary Rose started acting more proactively as time passed by, and not only did she no longer used Purloin, she even kept on using Bloodline every 10 minutes or so.
Teary Rose also became more frenetic, Tongqiu even HAD to learn how to imbue his Mental Power onto both, his arms, his hands and even fingers from his body as well as the swords' hilts, blade and even a strange, type of aura surrounding the entirety of his gladiuses; so as to face off Teary Rose without getting blown away to any direction a couple dozen meters and still receive damage.
While Tongqiu was glad he more or less learned to do such a thing, he also had no way at all to know what benefits it gave him, what it allowed to accomplish by imbuing his Mental Power like that since Teary Rose was just way too over his own power levels to even notice a difference from when he was casually parrying her attacks before.
Now, he could only block her attacks as even the gust of wind that was 'projected' from mere movements of her body took a solid form to which seemed to be even more majestic and dangerous as a whole, in a greater scale than that of his Sunfacing Brilliant Gladiuses! Not only that but there was an additional 'little/mini' gust of winds which would flow along with her limbs, accompanying her all the time as she struck. Whenever Tongqiu had to dodge her, he had to start 'dancing' here and there, utilizing all that he learned at the Courtyard of the Heroic Souls, yet in a harshly, tormenting manner as it was like NOTHING that he has ever faced before, even the attack/skills of great speed like that 'Deathly Spear' from before were far below in any aspect to each of the 'frenetic' movements of her body.
As for Teary Rose?
The so-called 'frenetic' style that she was in, was merely her taking Tongqiu seriously, a little bit. Since she felt that he wasn't someone to play around with to her whim, she decided to abstain from giving this big brother of hers an easy time. And it was the truth, she by no means made it even 'slightly' difficult for Tongqiu, she made it EXTREMELY harsh for him to survive.
If it wasn't because he managed to learn that strange Mental Power imbuing ability he would have already bitten the dust from all that residual shockwaves and tremors as he 'blocked' her attacks before being mercilessly blown away.
The only thing bad for her was, she could move but only to the extremes of a Heavenly grade BOSS and as such, she felt miserably every time her eyes darted here, there and all around as she watched Tongqiu with his utmost tranquil yet ferocious concentrated gaze parry her strongest attack once more as she was then sent into a daze... again.
Feeling helpless, she tried combining even three skills at the same time, which to even more so fuel up her helplessness, found out to be extremely resourceful consuming as she actually entered into another dazed effect, again, thanks to her Heavenly-trash grade; which allowed Tongqiu to barrage her with his dual gladiuses Sunfacing Brilliant Gladius to no end.
As for the skills she used, A Thousand Roots, Proliferate Growth and Bloodline; she first used Bloodline so as to bait Tongqiu into his dual gladiuses before abruptly separating from an extremely dire close-combat fight -for Tongqiu- as she sneakily used Proliferate Growth to form a small, wide tower of indestructible-like trees intertwined between each other and strangely soft bushes which deflected his attacks without a single scratch.
As Tongqiu found himself played by a little girl, he was about to jump from one tree-wall to another over and over so as to get out of there tree-tower when suddenly, more than a dozen long vines went ahead and took him by surprise by harshly pinning him to the ground. As he went 'uh-oh' Tongqiu tried to pull away his Sunfacing Brilliant Gladiuses when he found out he couldn't!
Reason? Because some veins were adamantly sending themselves to their deaths (?) by getting snapped in two every second, for the system, this was the same as fighting and not as having his weapons in resting mode while still handling them. Unless he was a Battlefrenzy or a similar class, or at least had a passive-trigger skill that allowed him to change gears even as he was constantly hitting an enemy or building, then it'd be totally impossible for Tongqiu to change his equipment.
At this moment, the already in the waiting tricky Teary Rose was diving down fast at Tongqiu from the very top of the tree-like tower. Tongqiu, as if sensing something really damn scary looked up, only to find the most gorgeous yet deadly being in his life.
Rapidly, he moved as he let go of his Sunfacing Brilliant Gladius on each hand as he apologetically uttered inside his mind 'm'sorry babies, I'll come pick you up real quick, just one second'; while also letting his essential weaponry materialize as the same eye-catching, unique and fearful 'transformation' pervaded over his arms all the way to his shoulder blades.
'Uh-Oh'
This time, it was Teary Rose's time to go dumb as some of her blood left her face to make an even more pure-like silver color of her skin become more attractive and genuinely illusory.
She tried escaping by moving all the fucking way towards her right, trying to pierce through her own Proliferate Growth, to no avail...
BONK!
But then she bounced back, giving Tongqiu the cutest yet charming of scenes for his eyes to delight at.
'Ah, that's right. I'm merely a Heavenly grade'
With that thought in mind, poor little Rosey went 'boom' as she was sent back into the skies, this time with a pouting face as clear annoyance dominated her entire expression. Even wideshots in his 'abnormal' state wouldn't hurt her at all, merely, she was pushed backwards a bit too humiliatingly which made her lose face in front of her big brother, fatal.
After suffering an unforgettable lesson, she no longer tried to take on Tongqiu with puny little tricks; as only true power would remain victorious in the end!
Meanwhile, Tongqiu...
His heart was basically about to implode inside his chest when he saw her coming down at him with those fury-filled, smarty eyes! He acted by instinct and as always, he didn't failed to save his little ass...
Finally learning his lesson of never allowing his enemy to calmly scheme and execute such schemes under any excuse, even if he was sure to be able of easily dispose of them, never, never, never!
...Maybe it was the fact that Rosey, essentially a little girl, almost nailed his ass to the death zone which he has had never the chance to visit in this game.
As such, with Tongqiu's newly learnt counter-scheming battle tactics and Teary Rose's combat style of pinning him down into an almost perpetual close-combat battle, their battle became that of a peaceful yet intense to the extremes; duel.
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From the 160 or more minutes that transpired as they endlessly exchanged blows to no end, only 40 minutes of them were spent by Tongqiu in actually dealing damage in his attacks directed at Teary Rose.
Apart from having used Tongqiu's Rain Showdown every-single-damn-time it was out of cooldown, he actually spent around that of 15 minutes in total of him successfully dealing damage by using his essential weaponry. He however, couldn't use them much and could only do so whenever he jumped up, backwards, to the side in a manner where it was perfectly balanced with Teary Rose's charge, dashes and the like so that he'd be moving an inch while she moved an inch too for a second and a half, which was enough for Tongqiu to materialize his bow and arrow before majestically shooting at her in a demoniacal speed to which she would never dodge just for the sake of a couple of arrows. That along with the fact that Tongqiu's use of essential weaponry had a greater effect against higher graded and leveled, allowed Tongqiu to have many more of his attacks to accurately hit his target, as well as the grater damage he would deal with Combustion instead of with Transient Divine Burst, it somehow made up for all of the wasted time he could not use them.
As for the damage he dealt with his dual Sunfacing Brilliant Gladius, along with Transient Divine Burst; he spent around that of 25 minutes or so in actually dealing damage at her; though it was lesser in quality in terms of numbers, with the crazy number of attacks he executed each second made it so his dps wouldn't be THAT lower than with his essential weaponry and combustion; Unparalleled Angle did nothing worth though, even its Stun inflicting status was completely useless in the face of a Heavenly grade BOSS. At least for now.
It was quite simple and easy to understand, but if going by actual numbers in between each source of damage, it was like this:
Tongqiu's Rain Showdown made around 14 attacks per minute, since its cooldown was that of 4.5 seconds, he could do 2 attacks every 10 seconds so as to say. Which allowed him to do a total of 560 Tongqiu's Rain Showdown for a final result of 2,279,200 damage dealt towards Teary Rose. Making its position as the third greatest source of damage from this dueling of theirs.
Combustion, along with his essential weaponry, made it to second place in source of damage dps though and not first- that of course was without taking his 'abnormal' wideshots into consideration. Though he had to make some extra shots here and there; his speed at shooting arrows was quite lower than striking out with his dual gladiuses. Even then, from 7-8 wideshots he'd do, at least 6-7 of them would accurately hit, much better in comparison towards that of his melee combat attacks. Out of those 7-8 wideshots, 14-16 arrows would shoot off while 5-9 arrows would accurately hit, making it for a final result of 3,496,500 damage dealt towards Teary Rose.
Transient Divine Burst's aid with his every swish, slash of his dual gladiuses and the like, allowed it to be the main, principal source of damage in this dueling of theirs all the way to the top with a whopping 5,250,000 damage dealt. Even then, it was also the most tiresome source of damage to accumulate, and though it made his entire body churn in both mental and physical pain, he nonetheless never gave up on Rosey's dreams.
Of course, all of those are but numbers and even though it is supposed to make sense scientifically, it was quite different from real combat and awareness of opportune moves and slight mistakes, or downs, in the middle of battle. Those were merely approximates of his expected DPS for each source of damage, while only Tongqiu's Rain Showdown was probably the only solid number being authentic.
In any way, Teary Rose's HP bar went low, low, low. Yet still extremely high in number.
Teary Rose HP: [1,111,367/18,000,000]
'End it?' Tongqiu thought.
Sure, he could end it. He has already used his 'abnormal' state to shoot 15 wideshots to which Teary Rose ever so gracefully and skillfully learned how to avoid such impossible to miss attack or even block it with a heavily charged Proliferate Growth, hidden underground.
Now that he was capable of causing his 'abnormal' shots to be each separated without flinching a little bit, Tongqiu had a hopeful feeling in his heart to be able of easily downing her remaining HP with several consecutive 'abnormal' wideshots even if it meant to be mentally exhausted for the rest of the day and probably the next.
But then, Tongqiu's head flinched backwards as his eyes flashed with understanding... after a second, he decided against it and merely waited for another of their almost 'perpetual' exchange of blows to inspect Teary Rose, in a careful and scrutinizing manner. With her grade being exceedingly 'low' and Tongqiu's exceptional Mental Power, it should be as easy as taking a quick walk in the park with your dog and return without getting robbed, right?
And so, they met, face to face once again.
Whoosh~ Wfuwfywfywfuwfu~
As the typical projection-like gust of wind came, Tongqiu had already started twisting his body with extreme weirdness and precision as he easily dodged Teary Rose's right foot as he right after began dancing around the little gusts of winds surrounding her leg.
Whoosh~ Wfuwfywfywfuwfu~
Without an ounce of intention of allowing him to take even a miserable nanosecond of a break, her left hand came right at his low neck area.
Fu-tann~~!!
He however, parried it!
Shock overwhelmed the extremely gorgeous, heavenly and ethereal Teary Rose as she thought to herself 'how can he parry that?! The first couple of movements are supposed to be unblockable even to Universal beings, even in this form!! Yet this big brother of mine did it without flinching... so cool~~!!!'
As she was utterly shocked to the core, Tongqiu had instead jumped back a meter, separating himself from her colossal body barely a little more than a meter as he almost instantly and ever so skillfully materialized his essential weaponry, triggering his 'transformation' on his arms once again yet with much more of a profound solidification, he aimed at her belly!
MPI-SVING!!!!
PUK-BKOM
-333,666, -333,666.
Teary Rose HP: [444,035/18,000,000]
Clink~ Smash!!!
Two weird, unexpected sounds came out as soon as Teary Rose HP went lower than 1,000,000. The still flying backwards Tongqiu was looking at the bizarre scene unfolding before him in awe and natural respect!
When the sound of glass starting to break as if glass against glass started dismantling each other slowly, so slowly... Tongqiu felt that the entire reality surrounding him was being forcibly molded with, by... 'something' due to Teary Rose's doing, which he could, by no means, understand what it was- or what it meant.
Then the sound of actual glass shattering was heard, accompanied by dead-white colored creaks, all surrounding Teary Rose's body.
At first, it was only four cracks of of those each placed to a different angle of her body; but as they became larger and larger, so did more and more cracks started to 'become'. Each of those new cracks started as little, incredible small to the point that the naked eye could even see; if it wasn't because of Tongqiu's innately flawless Mental Power, he would also not be able to even see it were it to actually be larger. With each tic passing, they became larger and larger!
At some point, the entirety of 170 meter radius with Teary Rose as its epicenter became a web of deadpan-white colored cracks extended through the entire area.
When each of the cracks achieved a certain length, they would become slightly thicker and thicker every two tics instead of one. But with a mere few moments, they had already turned the entire 170 meter radius area completely plastered with such life-less white cracks, into some not-even-appearing-to-be cracks yet at the same time still being so.
Tongqiu had already realized that he stopped moving, or rather that the entire of his surroundings ceased to be real and hence, his moving speed was also non-existent. Understanding such a fact, he decided to simply examine such an unique event in front of himself without a care for anything else, he was also frowning from time to time due to Rosey's unknown whereabouts.
Then, it happened...
Claaank~~~~
A high-pitched yet soothing clamorous sound resonated from the epicenter of such unique 'cracked' extension of reality.
Instantly after, Tongqiu felt his surroundings and that of the entire world's to regain their lost created laws as a long, slender yet human-sized female leg came out from the center of the 'cracked' area.
A gorgeous, heavenly, ethereal and fiery body came out from there ever so slowly.
Encompassed by a luscious, furry-like clothing made of leaves with some of her body parts being covered by the most exotic, prepossessing red petals; the top of her head had a cute, small stem that held upon its body a wonder of the universe, a rose as a crown, formed by nine petals.
"R-R-Rosey!!"
Tongqiu's shocked and excited exclamation reached the heavenly being's tender-looking, unusually large pointy ears as a reality-bending, captivating, attractive yet pure smile formed on her exquisite, unearthly face.
However, when she looked at Tongqiu, besides her expression being that of adorableness and affection, they were also playful as... they suddenly became deep-blood red, as alluring as those of her crown made of petals yet dangerous, godly and hellish!
*PING*...Teary Rose's bloodline innate talent has been triggered, 'Great Petal of Destruction' has been successfully executed.
*PING*... Teary Rose HP has been restored to 3,333,333 HP.
'W-w-what?! Is this a second phase?!?!' Tongqiu's eyes went wide as his pupils clearly constricted, new information popped up as the system endearingly reminded him.
[Great Petal of Destruction, Teary Rose]: Type: Existence(innately born at the apex), Grade: Heavenly, Level: 50, HP: 3,333,333/18,000,000. An existence whose origins are totally unknown, except for the Main Kingdom's Leader, which was the one who gently and carefully carried along her 'embryonic' seed with him. When it was about to be born into existence, he decided to allow her to grow in strict, light education before allowing her to experience life itself on her own, with his family and his people. It was all for naught, as the most brutal of wars erupted into existence... to obliterate life. Left with nothing but only encouraging words and a cruel yet honorable strategy, the Main Kingdom's Leader gave the task to protect her to her Masters, his humble subordinates. It has now been given a name, instead of making one for herself as intended, and given out her Teary Rose Petal; which reduced her initial grading to a negligible level. Dominates the Core Elements: Water and Earth Elements.
Hidden Skill: Great Petal of Destruction
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Author's Note: I hate math.
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