"It has me just doing the basics, nothing else," Temur shook his head. "That's what I've been doing. Practicing with different weapons all through. I have no real technique. This might just be my first real one to try."
Kaidos stretched out his left hand and started to construct a shield in front of himself. He felt something dangerous from what Temur was trying.
Temur used his fingers to start rotating the sword on his left hand, quickly and efficiently, and it began to spin with wind of its own. "Windless slash!" He jammed his right hand against the sword.
Then he thrust forward at the same time, and a tornado of jagged aura jumped out; it filled the air and lit up the room in a shower of red; it moved quickly towards its target, gaining more power the more it speeds.
"This bastard...." Kaidos braced himself, grinding his teeth together and scolding himself for feeling fear. The attack howled like a natural disaster in front of him and filled his vision.
He blinked just before it swallowed him whole the the force of a speeding train. 'Did I just see the faint image of a dragon in that attack?' That was his last thought before everything turned upside down.
Beside Temur where his Codex stood hovering, something happened. The Codex that looked like the image of an old Khantari smiled when he saw that last technique and the beast imprint in it– so it begins.
Temur was unaware of all this as he was breathing hard; his inside felt wrung out and twisted as all his aura was used. He supported himself with his sword as his whole body trembled.
Even though his weapon was speared, it molded back to a liquid and formed into a band around his hand. Temur fell to his knees then. "Jael...it...seems...I'll have to leave the rest to you."
"See about Litha, Temur," Jael said quietly. "Attend to her, I won't let anything pass me by. You have my word."
He looked towards the beastman where Temur's attack had driven him into the cracked wall. "You can stop pretending now. You want me? Come and have me."
Even though Jael brought Hermit out, it was still all speed so when Kaidos moved. He moved with him and the streak of red and green collided in the middle.
"Bam!"
"Twack!"
"Twink! Twink!"
They moved backward and met again, sword and fangs colliding. A flashing flare of two colors so fast all they left behind was their streaking images.
There was no need for words; their weapons did all the talking. This wasn't a strength contest. It was for speed and they were both evenly matched.
Jael sent an occasional bolt of unholy magic out, and Kaidos answered with ruddy energy of his own, causing a small blast of shockwave.
But among evenly matched fighters like this, one thing will always set the scale higher. In this case, it was– endurance!
The life force that Kaidos was using is like fuel. He's burning it the more he fights, and if he takes a big damage, then the fuel will burn faster. Right now, he's taking small but numerous damages, which equals a big one that's accumulated.
In short– Kaidos is about to finish using his remaining fuel. He has to finish this at once!
He sent a double bolt of raw scorching energy between them and created space. Kaidos was breathing faster than he expected. "My ultimate final move. It's uncompleted but that's the good thing. It'll take less power!"