10/11 2:51 (Autumn, Day, Midrar)
Luna maintained the momentum of her previous movement, smashing into the Human with her shoulder, adding in both the minor force caused by her mass, a relatively negligible amount when considering the physical strenght of the two involved, and the much greater force caused by her Black Blood and Divine Power working jointly.
Mark was sent flying back only briefly before Luna grabbed him by the hand, pulling him towards her and striking fast with a merciless knee to his face.
As the Human retreated, an hand rising to cover his wounded face, the Lunarian continued on her assault, her already extended limb stretching out in a kick that struck the Human between the neck and shoulder, spiking him downwards, the blonde smashing against the ground and bouncing once.
Luna continued on, slamming on the blue eyed one's chest with the total amount of force she could bring to bear with her weight and her Black Blood, her left hand rising up high towards the sky above as some of her Black Blood accumulated within it before bursting ablaze, becoming vivid red flames with a much darker core, an Altered Attribute called Blood Flame.
The fire mixed in within the Lunarian's Aura, being condensed first in a fireball as a rough imitation of the way that her Amber used fire like an extension of herself, the sphere expanding to form a long spear of flames that she thrusted downwards.
Mark's eyes opened wide in alarm, pulling as much Mana as he could with his Spirit's help before blasting it outward as fast as he possibly could, sending himself away just in time to evade being impaled to the ground.
Before he could even rise on his feet, he found himself crossing his arms, Luna's previous spear, now rendered a mostly solid javelin, being immediately thrown at him, piercing his left arm before he forcefully deflected his arm and the spear to the side, saving his head, before concentrating his Aura and Vital Energy together to fight back against the flames that slowly caused his own blood to start boiling from inside his body.
Joules joined in their own Aura to his efforts, helping to stiffle to blaze from growing even more by devouring his blood, while Mark himself ran forward, meeting Luna's rush half way there with his own, his Aura condensing in a mostly solid layer around him, an armor that helped him fight back against the Lunarian's much greater physical might.
Mark's wounded arm, precisely held together by the Spirit's own manual control over the Human's Vital Energy blurred forward at once, trying to smash into Luna's forehead in a punch, punch that the Lunarian deflected away from herself with a pale right arm and a brief burst of Vital Mana, continuing on her way to grab the Human's shoulder.
Before the blonde could react to her action, Luna forced him down by at the same time pulling herself up, her legs rising from the ground in a flash and violently slamming against the avenger's chest, one at heart height while the other at the height of his stomach, spinning in mid-air to slam him in the ground violently.
Luna soon landed on her feet easily, her back to the time traveler currently laying down on the ground, a single one of her red eyes peeking over her shoulder down at him, disappointment clear in her gaze, almost as if she wanted to ask 'Is this all that your hatred and thirst for revenge amount to? Is this really where your endless hunt for a way to slay me will leave as the place for your grave?'
The abomination waited no further, content by having stoked his hatred even further, launching over her shoulder a bright scarlet gem and a casual Blood Flame bolt, their trajectory meeting right before his head.
His blue eyes could barely widen, his death now but a breath away, before a force collided with his body, sending him flying away from certain death even if not saving him from slamming in the ground, being briefly left deprived of breath.
Mark pulled himself up, observing Luna and more specifically the way she was quite casually studying the pink-covered stones that constantly moved to block her way to himself, being somehow even able to resist a couple of her probing attacks despite they normally being more than enough to destroy the rocks currently harrassing her.
He concentrated on speeding up his recovery even faster, fighting back against the flames that even now were burning him from the inside out, his and Joules Aura concentrating on extinguishing the Blood Flames currently within his body, forcefully suppressing it.
With an heavy breath, he turned his full attention back towards the Lunarian, just in time for her to use her Innate Skill "Presence: Charm", causing the rocks to tremble in mid-air before falling back on the ground, Rose's "Magic Eyes of Psychic Might" being overwhelmed at once without even a fight.
Thing that didn't surprise Mark at all as he himself warned her, maybe even excessively to be honest, to never actively fight back against the Lunarian, and as he warned her, she did not fight her nor use her Magic Eyes on her body.
After all, he knew very well that an active use of her Magic Eyes upon an enemy would entail a contest of will between the two of them and thanks to the memories of his previous Times, he knew well that said contest would end terribly for his pink-haired friend.
Mark was barely able to rise his guard as the Lunarian's moved towards him, body currently enveloped in a thin layer of her Skill, a thin layer that chaotically expanded before contracting back, ensuring that her way would be free of any telekinetically-controlled obstacle.
Luna's right punch was deflected away from Mark's body by his left arm while his own fist was easily parried away as well, their legs meeting between the two as their kicks connected with each other mid-kick, their hands blurring between the two in an instant as punch after punch was launched.
Quickly the Lunarian, even without using her Aura to her fullest, was able to gain the advantage, landing punch after punch on the Human's chest and arms while constantly pulsing her Presence Skill all around both of them, assuring that the psychic one would not interfere in their fight without entering in a contest of will with herself.
Bruise after bruise formed upon the Human's body before healing, until finally his Cooldown was done, activating immediately his "Time Walker", the World graying and slowing down to a crawl.
He breathed in deeply, immediately noting his inability to move caused by thin tendrils of Black Blood that locked all of his limbs in place, without allowing him to move at all in any direction, incredibly thin, to the point that he was incapable of seeing them without actually serching for them, strings of Black Blood a centimeters from his body that he could break without even noticing them.
Strings that because of his own Unique Skill, now served as both an impenetrable barrier to keep him in place even during his absent time and as an alert system to identify when he used his Unique Skill in the first place.
Immediately he shut off his Unique Skill's effects before it reached the two seconds mark as otherwise he would have wasted even more time, especially considering that his Cooldown would be derived from the time it was actually active and so better waste a single second than two.
Before he could even confirm that he shut off the Skill in time, a punch crashed into his face, sending him flying back into a briefly created panel of Vital Mana and in so doing Mark found himself open for Luna's following attack, a pair of chops that fell right on his shoulders and bringing him down to his knees.
Mark could not even begin to deal with the previous strike that the following blow homed in on him, a spin kick that sent his face crashing down on the ground, immediately turning around to cross his arms before his body, rolling with the punch to make distance between the two before forcefully jumping to his feet.
In so doing, the Human thankfully was able to dodge the low kick sent by the Lunarian, landing fully on his feet before turning around and launching a great lightning bolt with Joules support towards his hated enemy, trying to either injure her or force her back.
Neither of his intention worked as Luna not only didn't hesitate but also accelerated until she was a breath away from his attack, only to pulse, the Spell unraveling before her, leaving her way completely free for the Lunarian to cross.
Luna's whole body pulsed once more, her "Counterspell" using her "Presence" Skill to function as an enhancement towards the influence of the first of the two, as she rapidly closed the distance towards the blonde, her right hand lenghtened in a spear, trying to pierce her opponent's heart.
Just before she could end the fight right here and now, however, a great boulder created entirely out of solidified Earth-Attribute Mana enveloped in a light pink glow shadowed her form, falling upon her from on-high; Without any hesitation her Counterspell ripped the glow and the boulder itself back into harmless ambient Mana, leaving behind only the magmatic core hidden deep within, magmatic core that unlike the boulder was actually a physical material and not a fabbricated one.
Luna's eyes opened slightly more in surprise as a wave of rapidly cooling magma fell upon her.
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