Flat-Brim Samurai Chapter 73 - Devan meets Mertoph
,"Who are you?" A man, standing around 5' 5 asked a particular young man with an afro and a boombox. He was an older man with a grey beard, he wore a deeply embroidered deep red and black cloak with black embroidered bracers. ,"Devan, who are you?" ,"Mertoph, I'm glad to finally meet you for real. Shall I teach you why they call me the volcano mage." ,"Why not, gramps." Mertoph laughed and then looked down once more ,"I have not met one to defeat someone such as I, I should give you a little test." He raised his hand ,"Shall this magma rend your flesh charred."
A wave of lava shot out from the ground and was directed right at Devan, Art: Lava. FWOOSH ,"Nice dodge, but can you deal with this." The lava spread out above Devan, Art: Lava Supernova, then it collapsed. The lava then dispersed into a circle FWOOSH ,"Nice try but my training's been much harder than that." He had imbued Wind into a kick where he spun on his hands called Art: Tornado Kick.
,"Very well done, but that was just the beginning," He kept flooding him with wave after wave of lava FWOOSH FWOOSH FWOOSH. But devan just kept dodging, he then felt a rumbling under his feet, he attempted to jump away but got caught up in a blast. Art: Lava Geyser sprung up from the ground. Devan got swept up into the air, the hot liquid melting his back and legs. He tried to use Wind to negate as much of the attack as possible but his skin was searing away, by the time he was at the peak of this geyser the man raised his hand up and slammed it down as hard as he could. His Telekinesis slammed Devan onto the ground, breaking most of his ribs. Devan used a blast of ki and Recovery to repair the damage.
By the time he was done and got up he noticed he was surrounded by magma in a square Art: Magma prison. The temperature kept climbing but due to his increased resistance he was alright. ,"That should do i… Wait, he's not dead yet? What a tenacious kid." He slammed his newly reinforced boombox into the wall and broke it. ,"Don't count me out yet, you haven't even seen half of the new shit I learned. I'ma bout to merk yo ass." He dashed in many different directions creating after images of himself in front of the man. ,"Such elementary skill should not be used here," He opened his hand and blasted at the real Devan. Except there was no contact (Did I do the spell wrong) then he sensed a presence behind him.
Devan proudly said ,"All wrong answers!!!" and bashed Mertoph in the head with his beatbox KABOOM. His head flung to the side. ,"What the hell?!?" Devan continued to pelt him with blows. His body flailed around and around until a carapace of magma covered Mertophs body Art: Magma Carapace. He then raised his hand and called his staff to his hand VOOM, a shockwave of ki bursted outwards, he converted his ki directly into lava above his head and slammed it against Devan KABOOM. He was again burning and had to recover but he was more used to it than last time, adapting to the heat and understanding how to deal with it more and more each time he was attacked.
Wind enveloped his body and spun, Art: Vortex Barrier. The magma flew right off of him, he dropped to the floor and walked on his hands while kicking at Mertoph's shins BAM BAM BAM BAM. He then rolled backwards and jumped into a front flip and kicked right down on Mertoph's head KABOOM. Although the noise was loud, it didn't do as much damage as he thought it'd do. Magma Shards spawned around Devan ,"Aww shit," he could tell that this would hurt if he didn't dodge it. He focused all of his energy into his speed (Using Arts such as Wind, Telekinesis and Reinforce which he'd already been using) and sensed for the attacks (Right side of the head, Abdomen, Knee, Thigh…). Mertoph witnessed Devan dodging each blow getting dodged just barely, what he thought would hit didn't.
Magma Prison once more trapped Devan, inside of it spikes from the wall caved in on Devan but he knew what to do. An elbow destroyed one, a kick destroyed another and another and another and soon not only was everything being dodged but he strategically destroyed what he knew what was going to hit him. ,"I haven't seen talent like this before," with a headspin from Cias with Wind imbued into his movements he broke his confinement ,"Talent? This ain't nothin but hard ass work. YOU SUCK HAHAHAHA!!!!!" Devan screamed, laughing at the confused mage.