Felix's pov
I had decided to place the most support on Lucas, Lucas and the water spirit had exchanged thousands of blows with both of them receiving copious amounts of damage Lucas had made it through the water spirits guard over a dozen times bathing it with several cuts at different places but the water spirit had managed to returned them, only he did so in a way that didn't make sense, his blade never reached him yet Lucas had needed repetitive healing from me over the course of his fight, the others were doing quite well on their own, after Jesse had bombarded it with her bow the fire spirit had been too damaged to attack with her former precision Jesse had realized that but she had also found that the spirit was worse at close range than she was so she pulled out a kitanna and rushed it while in the air, the fire spirit responded with her fan but ended up on the back hand due to Jesse's superior blademanship,
Desmond was probably having a blast, he tried not to show it but he was obviously grateful that he got the dumbest and probably weakest of the four to fight, the earth spirit hadn't managed to land a hit he could redirect, this had infuriated the spirit who overextended during one attack a fatal mistake, Desmond took the opportunity and clad his blade in heavy amounts of ki before performing a martial skill
"Dervi axe arts FULL MOON"
he spun his weapons while ducking under the arm, a wheel of ki had appeared and spread out from them, a small chasm had formed due to the attack and on one side with its back on the ground was the earth spirit and on the other was Desmond standing right next to the spirits severed arm,
"ah, ahh, ahhhhhhh"
although their limbs were phantoms and made of mana they were still connected to their existence losing one was like losing a peice of their souls, the pain was undoubtedly unbearable
"ILL KILL YOU, ILL RIP YOU LIMB FROM LIMB AND GUZZLE YOU BLOOD FROM YOUR LIMBLESS CORPSE I SWEAR IT I FUCKING SWEAR IT"
"Dervi axe style MUTILATE"
Desmond responded to the spirits mad tangent by crossing his blades in front of him and letting loose a barrage of ki blades that proceeded to shred the spirit putting him in an even sorrier state.
I continued to watch Lucas and the water spirit exchange attacks a stalemate only due to my healing magic, I just couldn't understand, how, how was he attacking like that, I closed my eyes and spread my senses out looking his means of attack. That, was when I felt it, the spirits existence which seemed to shift uncontrollably was infact extremely controlled as every once in a while some form of energy would slip out of his blade and attack a vital but unguarded area Lucas's body, it was like he could manipulate its body turning slight bits of it invisible and attacking with them like it was manipulating its...huh, realisation dawned on me I cried out
'essence, its making its essence invisible and attacking with it'
the distorted image of the spirit broke away to reveal a handsome figure with a shocked expression Lucas on the other hand smiled brightly saying
"I thought that was what you were doing but I couldn't figure out how to counter it until now"
the energy on his blade began to flare up cascading in waves that kicked up dust and made us all shiver, just when I thought he would loose control of it and blow up his sword the ki began to wrap around him tracing up his arm covering him in a splendid blue light
"Ki enhancement armor, I can't stop your attacks I can't even see them coming but I can make them useless, try and cut through this"
he said smirking
"try me you bastard"
the spirit bellowed and swung his sword violently at Lucas at a speed I couldn't follow but Lucas didn't move, his armour not only blocked the attacks but created a sort of repulsive force around him that caused the water spirits attacks to bounce back but still the deadlock continued for several more seconds before Lucas said
"that's should be enough to adjust"
the water spirit jumped back by several metres as if it sensed what was coming next, little good that did him as Lucas appeared in front of him before his feet touched the ground and swung his balde, the sprit blocked but was sent flying again this time into several trees and boulders crashing through the forest at a speed difficult to track before landing a deep trench of its own making, it got into a sitting position only to find that it long light blue blade was a mess with cracks climbing from end to end
"it seems I'll be ending this soon"
said Lucas as he dashed towards his opponent once more.
Jesse had made it apparent that she didn't like the fire spirit, the woman was barely regonizable with arrows made of ki sticking out at odds and end of her body, especially her face, she chased her down with a Kitana in hand swinging furiously while the fire spirit did her best to dodge
"Lunar style ENDIMIYONS KISS"
she cried as a massive half moon of ki spread out from her blade blanketing the spirit's veiw, the spirit responded by gathering waves upon waves of fire using them to cover her hands, she knew she couldn't dodge this attack so she faced it head on using her flames to catch it , after a few seconds of struggle and an explosion of blue and orange she managed to tear the attack in half with minimal damage to her hands, as all the ki cleared up she probably expected to see Jesse behind the attack cautious but a bit drained so prepared an attack of her own but she wasn't there
"advanced bow arts NEEDLE OF HEAVEN"
Jesse had places herself directly above the spirit and taken advantage of the spirits distraction to charge up an attack with her long bow
"looks like I'm done"
she said as she let the attack fly, the fire spirit looked on despondently as her entire body was blanketed by a white tower that vaporised everything it touched, heavy winds stretched on forcing me to erect a barrier as the air filled with the smell of scorched earth for a few seconds but when it was over the fire spirit was nowhere to be seen, she had taken too much damage and would need to go back to the spirit world to rest or else she might end up endangering her existence.
Desmond was already finished,burying his axe in the earth spirits chest as it lay on its back probably lamenting the loss of all its limbs and the varying cuts all over its body as it faded it motes of light, it turns out the water spirit wasn't as good a swordsman as it let on, once it couldn't harm Lucas anymore the latter easily broke its sword and split it in half diagonally with a focused ki strike
"looks like we're all done"
he said still armored in ki, we turned to look at the Don who stood silently with his eyes closed, we didn't want to fight anymore both Jesse and Desmond were probably low on stamina and not only was lucas worse off in that aspect he still had a few injuries from the spirits last struggle, I was the only one in a decent position but that didn't count for much since everyone here could probably beat me in a fight, yet we all looked to him, the Don who had given us this challenge waiting.no praying that we had impressed him enough to change his mind and spare us but we all knew that was an impossibility that's probably why we weren't surprised when he said the words
"ventus kill them"
"BANG SFX"
I watched my life flsh before my eyes, the little boy spirit had charged at me with his hand extended in order to burst my skull open and was only an inch from doing so luckily proximity warp was still active so I was transported to a safety point while he went crashing into the ground behind me digging a crater and kicking up dust and debree
"dammn I missed"
Lucas was on him in a flash his sword clad in even more sword ki he had likely been saving his mana for a moment such as this, he swung with force but the form within the dust simply stepped back watching the stream of sword ki flow directly in front of him but missing him entirely, his little leg flashed and Lucas went flying into the air spinning from the kick that went into his face Jesse and Desmond had appeared at both his sides and swung their weapons but he kicked off the air gently and with a side ways twirl he dodged both their attacks then spread out his hands before landing and from them a massive blasts of wind sent both of them flying into the trees, above him I had placed a magic circle before screaming my spell
'9th teir magic FALLEN DOWN'
and with that a massive gravitational force pressed down upon him, I spread my senses hoping to see him if not damaged then at least immobilised but no dice, he stood within it unbothred or rather he stood underneath a barrier that was blocking my spell like it was nothing
"not bad children"
he said with a slight smile on his face
"let's see if you can do more"