vora blasted down out the air heading in the direction jolly was pulling himself in with a purple glowing fist. soon as jolly got out the way she was there to meet him with a punch to his stomach that sent him flying with an explosion and crashing into a mound of rock.
bronco attempted to charge at her just before she landed but with vora's literal explosive speed he wasn't fast enough.
jolly sprung to his feet as he felt his stomach area. his leather armor had a fist size hole and was burnt in that area while his abdomen had slight burnt marks.
Jolly got back focused and raised his arm creating three long red thorns. the same attack he used capturing the orc. he held one while having a vine whip in his other hand and two hovering above his head. the reason vora's attack did less damage to his body this time was because he had 50 more attribute points and once he figured out his physical defense would raise with vitality he added 30 points to it giving him a total of 45 points, his status now read.
Strength~22/1000
Agility~32/1000
Speed~34/1000
Stamina~26/1000
Vitality~45/1000
Dexterity ~12/1000
Charm~0/1000
intelligence~36/1000
now with his physical defense up higher his body was stronger and was able to deal much better with vora's power.
vora was slightly confused, she had seen how much damage she did to him with her first successful attack and put more power into the one she just performed and seeing it didn't do as well but that didn't phase her confidence as multiple purple roses sprouted around jolly on the ground and multiple purple orbs formed in the air above him.
Jolly released the two long thorns which looked like a lance at vora but two of the the orbs glowed silver and they both changed trajectory like they were being sucked in crashing into them exploding on impact.
"shit, I forgot her orbs could also pull certain attacks towards them." jolly thought while moving out of the way.
he had witnessed vora use the same tactics against wade before he jumped in the battle.
he then launched two more thorns but this time without the red pulsing energy around it. one almost hit its mark while the other missed completely. this was just a test, he was trying to get a grasp on how vora's ability worked.
the purple orbs didn't react which made him think of a few things as vora blasted in throwing a strike which jolly blocked with the thorn lance and snapped the whip towards her but one of the purple orbs that was near pulled the whip in its direction. with jolly having a firm grip on the whip it yanked his arm and shoulder which also created an opening.
a high kick to Jolly's ribs that exploded on contact pushed him back while making him drop his vine whip that was destroyed by the ball pulling it. vora pressed jolly quickly with several more kicks and no matter if he blocked or not, if her kick had a faint purple glow to them an explosion was followed with it seconds after contact.
these explosions were much smaller than her using the purple rose or marble orb. it was as if everything she did could be used with her explosive power in some way.
Jolly noticed not all of her attacks caused an explosion. "it's strictly her energy that explodes besides her using the roses which is giving her energy a physical form. she laced her physical attacks with a thin layer of the same purple explosive energy that sounded like automatic shotguns going off with each hit.
Every hit was like two in one and jolly had to be prepared not to be fased by the small impacts and lound bangs coming from her hits. looking around while defending himself jolly purposely backed up to an area that had more black mounds of rock releasing thick steam while the bottom of his feet began glowing red.
The steam was so thick in the area it became difficult to see as jolly slipped out of vora's view like a ghost. the ground was quickly turning to ash but it couldn't be seen clearly as the steam went upwards and slowly back down covering the rocky ground. it was like thick mist the hid the ground and jolly planned to try and use it to his advantage.
He created two lance thorns without the red pulsing energy as he commanded multiple dark roots within the ground to search for any slight of vibrations such as footsteps. this was part of his plan but it proved to be more difficult than he thought.
vora on the other hand began cursing calling him a weasel and a rat because he was hiding within the steam as she felt a slight shift Within the ground. jolly focused harder as he searched for her movement but quickly realized something was up as it suddenly felt like multiple people were running in and from many directions.
He suddenly saw a large beast arm that was covered in black fur with a purple tint slicing through the steamy air. vora pushed her claws together in a jabbing motion stabbing into Jolly's shoulder. everything happened too fast for him to react as he let out a painful scream. vora then twisted a couple of her fingers yanking her arm back taking flesh and muscle tendons along with her.
"playtime is over." vora says with a growl as her full body was now in his view towering over him. jolly stumbled back,he was still holding on to both thorn lances but with one of his arms he barely had a grip on it as the feeling of his arm that now had a large hole in began feeling numb.
he was bleeding heavily as he tried to regain his composure.
"an arm for an arm." vora says aggressively with her piercing purple eyes that looked cold hearted. standing in front him was vora in her werewolf form but one thing caught him off guard and that was the fact her entire forearm was damaged heavily. patches of fur and flesh was missing but she could still move it but not well enough to use it in battle.
jolly had stopped receiving energy from her seconds before she attacked. he didn't know it but while transforming into her werewolf form vora finally ripped off the vine saw by digging underneath it which also ripped a lot of her flesh and fur off as well. she waited until she was in her beast form to do this because she could handle the pain much better than in her human form.
"you're finished." vora shouts swinging her claw once again. jolly barely managed to dodge and returned an attack as well thursting his vine lance towards her chest as a counter but hit nothing but air.
he recived a motion signal from the roots in the ash like ground as vora appeared behind him readying an attack. he swung his lance backwards while making the roots shoot from the ground at her legs and once again he hit nothing and while his vines missed as well.
"This form of her's is just too fast, but I cannot worry. I still have my trump card." he assured himself focusing his eyes.
he was in pain and his arm just hung their like a rag doll at first but soon dark roots twisted and covered his entire arm and hands as he backed away in a crouched manner while still looking around waiting for vora to attack again.
the roots slithered and partially dug into his wound acting as a plug and scab for the blood he was losing while in seconds it also stretched and covered his arm manipulating his hand and fingers as well. the roots were tougher, thicker and stronger than his vines and so once they twisted together spiraling around his arm it looked as if his arm had turned into dark tree bark. his fingers and hand as well.
one of his arms looked like jax's arms from the game mortal combat but instead of a strong metal it was dark strong roots that joined together turning into tree bark. his fingers were thicker and bulky looking like he had some huge wooden gauntlet that reached up to the top of his shoulders.
Jolly was surprised he was simply trying to use the roots to slow down the bleeding and also use them to control his arm to move since he couldn't feel it or move it on his own. he could now command his newly crafted arm with his mind. even though his arm had been covered and protected he was still unable to move it as his arm wasn't healed.
Shield smiled seeing this while giving jolly credit mentally on his quick thinking and creativity.
vora finally swooped in again holding onto a purple orb coming from behind him attempting to push it into his back but was surprised as jolly swung his arm grabbing a hold of the orb in vora's hand. Jolly's new arm was bigger than vora's wolf claws and so when grabbing onto the orb his bulky fingers also clasped on to her hand as well.