I ran close to Zeus with my left arm held out, ready to reach for his neck. He, of course, dodged, but Shima made the jump from my body and over to Zeus, quickly wrapping around his neck like a scarf.
Zeus pulled me by my collar and threw me toward Fuki. I felt ridiculous flying through the air at a speed I couldn't perceive but was soon caught by Fuki and put back on my feet.
"What can she do to him?" Fuki asked me, presumably talking about Shima.
"I'm not entirely sure, but I'm down for anything. Whatever she can do to him, that's enough." I told Fuki.
I threw him another health potion and panted heavily as I drank my own.
"That was an insane hit you put down on him. I couldn't even land one that fierce, looks like you are on my level. So, what are you thinking now?" Fuki asked me.
"If I'm thinking out loud, he's waiting for somebody, for sure. Papiya, a girl I met in the village with all of the other people, apparently had the power to give people their memories back. Also, she talked a big game. Pretty similar to Zeus, but she might actually have the attack power necessary to take us out... so we have to end this fast." I told Fuki.
"Your Limit Breaker, how wide of a range do you need to shoot it off? Why haven't you used it yet?" Fuki asked me.
"I need an absolute certain hit. If I get weak from my Limit Breaker and Zeus can possess me, then we lose and he has access to a whole arsenal of attacks that you couldn't even fathom. Tell me, what other skills do you know that could be of use?" I asked Fuki.
"I haven't learned a lot of skills, I only know the Fire Triangle of Ember, Ashes, and Ignite, and then some small stuff here and there..." Fuki commented.
"That's not an issue. Use anything you can on this next charge, as soon as I see an opening from Shima." I told Fuki. We sat, regenerating our health, stamina, and mana, and watched as Zeus struggled to get Shima off of him.
As soon as Zeus grabbed the marking of a face that stood on Shima's gelatinous body, he grabbed her and threw her to the ground. Before he could stomp on her, Shima traveled quickly to my body, latching to my left arm and restoring my mana completely... along with surging it past the maximum capacity.
"What the... Where is all of this mana coming from?!" Fuki said out loud.
"You got some for Fuki as well? Man, I wish I knew that sooner, Shima." I said with a smile.
"Fuki... everything you have, throw it at Zeus. NOW!" I yelled out. Fuki and I broke out into a sprint and Zeus began his dodging phase again.
Swinging my staff as if it was a sword, I began.
"[EMBER]!" I shouted out. My staff's orb on top sparked with flames and just like particles of dust, they blew in the wind toward Zeus. This exactly mimicked Fuki's skill. Fuki even mimicked the skill I just used with a surprised face.
"[ASHES]!" I shouted out again. The small flames that looked like dust homed in on Zeus's chest and he was left dodging both Fuki and my skill that was initiated at the same time.
"[Dismanip]!" I shouted out again. The dust flames all swapped momentum and trajectory with Fuki's and turned into a huge ball of dust that looked hard to dodge from Zeus's perspective.
"Keep it going, Fuki. I'm going to get behind him again." I told him. As soon as I jumped away from Fuki, Zeus finally launched a skill at him... and Fuki couldn't block it.
Or so I thought.
From the collapsed building and pillars that surrounded, blood shot out of Ken's mouth as he completely blocked the fireball attack that mimicked Joro's [Cannon] skill that once almost killed me.
"There's more of you?!" Zeus shouted out. I ran toward his back while Ken stole his attention and smiled.
"There's a lot more than that!" Ken shouted. He held his sword down by his hip with two hands and closed his eyes as a blue orb started to form on the very tip of it. Then, Ken reopened his eyes to reveal two completely blue eyes that didn't even have irises or pupils in them anymore. What kind of powerup was that?!
"[Replace]" Ken muttered.
My entire world flipped upside down as I blinked and my position was replaced with Ken's.
"Eh? How did I...?" I turned my head back to look at Zeus and there Ken was. He changed our positions?! I want that ability!
"[Shift]" Ken said next. I waited in amazement for his next cool ability, but nothing happened... not at first.
Then, out of nowhere, Ken swiped his sword downward with the blue orb on top, and Zeus's body cracked like a pane of dropped glass.
"Anima! Take it from here!" Ken shouted out toward me, but how do I follow up on a skillset that cool?! Ken really had a ton of latent power I hadn't known about! I'm kind of scared of him now...
I aimed [Beam] at Zeus and before I could even charge it up, the skill shot out toward Zeus and Fuki made the final use of his triangle of skills. As I shouted out '[Beam]', he shouted out '[Ignite]' and Zeus was thrown into tons of flames and piercing shots of my skill combined with Fuki's. I wasn't sure where Ken went, but continuing the onslaught from attacks with Fuki was finally bearing fruit, as blood could be seen leaving Zeus's body.
"You leave me no choice!" Zeus shouted out.
The words began to leave his mouth and I recognized the skill that was going to be used based on the first activation of it. Mana swelled up around Zeus's body, just as it did with Joro's... and ice started to illuminate under the sun.
He was going to freeze everybody... and I have no defense for it.
The range was wide and I narrowly escaped the first use of the skill, but by using a Limit Breaker... he would be ending his own life.
I charged [Beam] up and started to aim for his face. If I were to be frozen, just like Lolo and the others within Zyphilia, I would at least want him dead. When I unmelt, if I'm dead or alive, I would be happy either way if Zeus were to die here.
I came to this realization and it wasn't for nothing. I could use this to end this suffering for all.
Just as the skill shot out, I blinked and shot off [Beam] right at his head... but for no reason.
I was transported about fifty feet behind Zeus and dodged the charged skill completely, watching everything freeze over.
Ken?! He transported me again?!
"Where did that damn idiot go," Zeus said to himself, turning his head and eventually finding me.
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Has nothing changed?