ShefShef: 5, Hyper[3]
Mellifluent Skirmisher: 5
Inimical Attorney: 3, Hyper[4]
Unflappable Shinobi: 5, Hyper[3]
You portal the Attorney upside down and immediately snap open another cache in reaction to the kunai sending them slamming right into the guy's chest. Looks like that hurt. Maybe, you'll need a good baseline to compare it to. What better one than your RAM? Hmm, looks like the RAM still hits harder, though the kunai are still enough to pose a potential threat to you. With that in mind you snap open a second cache as a second volley bursts out from another angle. Then you put a bullet right into the Attorney's eyehole. It would appear that the guy's main defensive assets consist of durability and sheer overwhelming pressure. Neither of which helped him out here, neither of which could prevent his bleeding head wound. You weave up your enchantment letting it layer up itself just how Stella instructed you an with a roaring
BRRRRT the new expulser round detonates, an explosive wrecking ball of force that smashes a gaping hole in the front of the fort and pulverizing its way out the back. Fading smoke billows from its depths.
The Attorney's fist slams into the ground. Ripples spread over his visage, like waves rippling through a reflection of a lake. The wound is gone.
"<I DEMAND RETRIAL!>"Healing magic? No, that wouldn't let him stay in a duel. The moment you drew blood he was "dead" for the purposes of the duel. That's how it works normally. Meaning, for him to continue, it would have to be something else entirely, something that could defy death. Reality alteration you surmise, he made it so that the wound never happened. It just, didn't count. No "death", no loss.
"<I call my first witness>"He's behind you again. This time he's not alone. The Unflappable Shinobi makes his close range debut, irises glowing red. You spy a thin ring around each of his pupils, a tomoe marked upon it.
"<Earth Release - Mud Wall>"Righto, so a wide wall of earth of rising up in front of you. You'd imagine your foes are about to crash through with the Shinobi readying to cover any attempts to disengage with those kunai of him.
Shef
Status: Fine, 1 cached portal
World Line: 5 5 6 6 6 6 5 2 6 3
Alterations: 5
Resolve: 3
Mellifluent Skirmisher
Details: Doing fuck all
Status: Fine
Inimical Attorney
Details: Reversing his injury, teleporting himself and the Unflappable Shinobi right behind Shef
Status: Critical, bleeding from the head
Unflappable Shinobi
Details: Being teleported behind Shef and deploying a wide wall
Status: Fine, unmasked
Fluffed Shef's action a bit more to hit the Attorney with the kunai. Shef used more portals to fully avoid all kunai as per discussion with Strider
MinatoMinato: 5, Hyper[5]
Thousand-Faced Bodhisattva: 3
Halberd comes crashing down but you catch the shaft against Gandiva, twisting to guide the blow down and away from your body. You slide one hand off, conjuring a dagger as you move to deliver your riposte. The Bodhisattva's fast however they shift backwards to delay your stab and- SHIT! That damn jacket! It's caught on the halberd! Shit shit shit, you can't move, not fast enough with your foe's beam about to fire. You run your blade across the jacket and detonate it, blasting you back, your torn jacket left stuck to the halberd. You loose your arrow right before you hit the ground, but well, to be honest, you're more of a fencer really. You've only really just gotten this fiery bow and it's not exactly easy hitting a moving target when you've just been blasted backwards. You miss. Arrow goes short, ignites the jacket and manages little else. The ricocheting beam blows past your head.
Huh, that missed? It's almost as if those laser eyes can't handle smoke too well. It's almost as if you planned this right from the start, but nah, that'd be overthinking it,
right? It's just a lucky coincidence,
right?Five new forgeries flash into existence behind you. Another healing potion loads into your suit's autoinjectors.
The earth next to the Bodhisvatta explodes upwards and a stone cylinder slots into its left shoulder slot, quickly shifting into the shape of an arm and twisting into metal. At the same time a porcelain vase explodes up from the ground and it strikes it with an open palm. You can see the force of the impact ripple through it, you can see the cracks beginning to form, not at where they struck it but at the side opposite it, the side opposite you. You can see the water, and you can tell it is Guanyin's vase. Or at least, a watered down simulacrum thereof.
Which means that it contains a massive amount of water, a massive amount of water that is probably about to explode out at you very soon, half shotgun blast, half sledgehammer blow.
Minato
Status: Fine, Gandiva, 5 stockpiled units, 3 healing potions
World Line: 4 6 1 4 5 4 6 4 4 2
Alterations: 3
Resolve: 1
Thousand-Faced Bodhisattva
Status: Very badly hurt