S-s-she's moving!"It matters not how strait the gate."As Alice would pass Icarus, she'd feel her hand grab her ankle.
"How charged with punishment the scroll"Rising from the ground, Icarus eyes flicker back on, one of them immediatly shorting out again and bursting with a small bang.
"I am the master of my fate."First a bit shakey, but snapping into a fighting pose, Icarus extends her blade.
"I am the captain of my soul."A loud mechanical hum can be heared through the ball room, as Icarus redirects energy to her blade. The familiar light blue glow the blade gets when it is charged quickly becomes blindingly bright. But even as small arcs of lightning shoot out from the blade towards the ground, there is still no end. With another pulse of energy, Icarus chest armor bursts, then the shoulder of her sword arm, the upper arm, the lower arm, the hand burning up completely. Her right sensor burst into fire, quickly extinguished again by internal extinguishers. Her entire arm, covered in entirety in white-blue electrical flame resonates so strongly that the vibration can not just be heared, but be felt in everyone, resonating in their lungs like the bass at a concert.
As Icarus takes her first step, the blade has brief contact with the ground, sending such a shock through the entire building, the already weakened structure is hit by an earthquake. Cracks move through the ground, pillars collapse and the ceiling is already falling in small parts. As the shock goes through the building, it also goes through Icarus, sending mechanical parts flying, losing her complete controle over the arm flailing around wildly. Without hesitation, Icarus grabs it with her other arm to hold it under controle, then sprints towards Selkhim. Unable to still properly swing her arm at him, Icarus spins her entire body, to send the blade diagonaly upwards in a wide arc towards Selkhim. For all that it's worth, she tries to align her attack in a way that Araceli is also within the line of fire. The resulting shockwave would cut through the entire castle and the sky behind it like butter.
Health-Perk: Unbreakable. Once during a plot, if Icarus health would fall to 0 or below, her health falls to 5 instead. 8 Mana is refilled, and all limitations are lifted from the overdrive.
This is not an asspull, this has been approved by Smurf months ago. Just had no opportunity yet to showcase it.
Icarus increases her strength by 250% (-20 mana, +40 damage. Don't forget the +5 from the weapon, the existing chance of a crit, and mostly, the epic implications of a category 11 spell), and ends Selkhim with Close Combat Manouver Omega-3: Sky Splitter.----
Meanwhile, on the international space station ISS.
"Dude, did you see this? There was a blue light flashing over australia! Look, there is even some sort of crescent shaped hole in the clouds. Damn, this hole must be a hundred miles across.."
"Do you remember the time you insisted you saw aliens waving at you through the window?"
"What? This has nothing to do..."
"Do you remember it?"
"But I swear I saw.."
"Yes yes, you swear you saw..."