Arc 1, Thread 2: Through A Mirror Darkly (Lucifer)
((Defense: 10, 7, 6, 5, 5, 4, 1 & 1
Float 5-5-1
1 Metal Chi on Swinging Bell Defense
1 Metal Chi, 1 Solar Chi on Eternal Temple's God-Armor
1 Chi on Chi Aura if damage >0 after Toughness
Block: 17+15+10+5-5 = 42 vs 79; 2 Ripples + RR. Toughness 35; Will Reply if damage 0.
Attack: 10, 6, 6, 5, 5, 5, 5 & 1
*Holy fucking shit
*ok let's do this
*1 Metal Chi, 1 Solar Chi on Black Tigers Hunting
*1 Metal Chi, 3 Chi on Iron Buddha's Disapproval
*2 Water Chi on Devastation of Black Ice
*2 Chi on Ice Cracking the Willow
*Flood 1 to ignore armor, Max Chi Aura -1
Strike: Flowed 65+20+20+10+5 Laughs = 120; Dodge -15, Block -10; Extra Ripple if hit; -10 Toughness if RR; Damage +50
Knockback to Abaddon's Zone w/Might: 26+25+10+5 = 66 ))
Kumiho's attack is precise, skillful, surprising and altogether too fast for Abaddon to block. The knife slips past his arms when he's barely begun to move and lodges squarely in his chest.
Despite his best efforts at an ambush, she'd gotten in the first blow. No question about it; Despite his high expectations, he'd still underestimated her.
However, it was quite possible it was also her last.
A suffocating miasma ripples out from where the Lunar's knife had struck him as he takes the hit head-on, mitigating it with raw Essence. A rasping, booming voice vibrates through the corridors.
"New tricks?"
The knife, or Kumiho's extended arm, do not retract after the hit. He has grabbed it.
He yanks her with titanic might, intending to slam her into the next airlock with enough force to crack the bulkhead.
While she's momentarily dazed by the impact, Abaddon points his weapon at her point-blank and starts ripping out and pooling Essence. More Essence. So much necrotic Essence that the simulation struggles to keep up; lights flicker, textures ripple and glitch, sounds become clipped and distorted, cacophonic screeches and screams.
"NEW TRICKS."
The resulting blast seems to come at a delay; like setting off too much explosives, the shockwave expands in chopping motions, twisting and breaking everything nearby and absolutely disintegrating the bulkhead behind her along with swathes of the area behind it. It was more than overkill; it was beyond doubt THE most powerful attack he'd ever made. So much so that he wouldn't have even considered it were it not a simulation.