With the entire battlefield cleared Adam made his move. He started running towards the old man. As he ran his essence burst out of his body and started taking shape. After running for a few seconds he jumped as a giant snake head appeared under him and he landed gracefully on it. As the snake slowly materialized the bones on the battlefield started shifting.
"That was amazing Ragon. You truly are powerful however, am not so easy to take down." The old man said
"The dead were raised, their skin ablaze
Ash and bones, were all that remained
As off this moment they're dead again
But the one who killed them's life remain.
Ashbone sacrifice: Tormented storm of bones." The old man said.
The bones all over the battlefield rose into the air, each of them rotating like a blade. Then they all started spinning around the entire battlefield slicing anything in their way. Seeing what was happening Adam created an energy shield around himself.
Back on the ground Nathaniel lay injured. Noir immediately moved to his side as the crystal in its chest started to shine, creating a shield around them.
Due to the sudden storm orochi wasn't able to materialize and disappeared dropping Adam onto the ground. Soon enough Adam's shield started to crack ready to shatter at any time. Adam gathered his essence once more but instead of reinforcing the shield, he channelled the essence into his right arm. Waiting for just the right moment, he split the essence stream in two and started his summoning ritual. A giant snake head appeared under him again as it slowly lifted him up. It was at that moment that the old man intensified the storm causing the shield to break. Adam acted immediately, the snake materialized for just a second which was enough time to fling Adam up and out of the storm. Up in the sky Adam aimed carefully and fired of a giant golden beam of energy similar to the one the old man uses at him. The old man was not expecting that but reacted nonetheless with his own beam to cancel it out. From directly in front of the old man a black beam of energy appeared and made contact with the old man. The beam sent him flying, and ended the storm.
"Damn you Ragon, damn you. Cough, cough." The old man survived but coughed up a bit of blood.
"I'll kill you Ragon!" The old man yelled as his essence leaked out.
All the bones in the battlefield rose and rushed to the old man's side as they begun to form the ribcage again but this time something was different.
Adam quickly started his summoning process again as he tried to summon orochi as fast as possible. As he tried it however, the skeleton ribcage that the old man created grew an arm that started to extend in his direction. He was out of reach so another arm grew out of the first one just to slam him out of the sky and into the ground.
The second arm disconnected and went to the other side of the ribcage, then a shoulder formed for the two arms to be properly connected. The arms then grabbed the ground and started pushing similar to how someone would push themselves out of a sinkhole. The bones slowly started to form the finer details of the body with more and more body parts being created. After some time, a full fledged skeleton giant was created. In its right arm a samurai sword and in its left arm a shield. On its shoulder the old man sat.
Adam recovered from the impact to see a gigantic skeleton giant running towards him. Noir fired of another of its powerful beams but the giant blocked with its shield. When it got close enough it stopped abruptly while swinging its sword along the ground to create a surface slash with all the gathered momentum.
"Oh come on, now you're just doing random things." Adam complained as he ran towards Nathaniel and Noir. The sword narrowly missed him, the momentum throwing the skeleton giant off balance. This gave Adam the few seconds he needed.
The old man's skeleton giant caught its balance quickly. He started looking around the battlefield but he couldn't find Ragon. Suddenly, the skeleton froze. It couldn't move its arms or legs, it was stuck in place. Out of literal thin air Orochi appeared fully constricted around the skeleton giant as it opened its mouth wide. Wider than any living thing of that size should. It lowered its head. The old man quickly jumped off the shoulder of the giant skeleton, straight into an energy beam fired by Noir as it sent him flying again. The old man recovered in time to see the snake swallow the giant skeleton whole. After a few seconds, the skeleton broke down in the snake's body as it moved swiftly to its next target. The old man was too injured from the energy beam to even move as the last thing he saw was a wide open snake's mouth.
Nathaniel had his own problems to deal with while all this was going in.
A few seconds after the golden explosion.
"Urge." Nathaniel groaned as he got up from the ground. He was injured and bleeding from the explosion but that wasn't what he was worried about.
"Alsvid. Where's Alsvid?" He asked as he looked around the battlefield.
"Where is he, Alsvid." He kept looking desperately.
It was at this moment the storm begun. By the end of the storm he had all but given up on the search.
Now.
"Where's Alsvid's body." Adam asked Nathaniel who had already broken down with tears in his eyes.
"Adam, I didn't see him after the explosion. The entire area then got shredded by the storm. Am so sorry." Nathaniel said.
Adam didn't say anything after what Nathaniel said. Instead he wordlessly comforted the kid before they both continued on their journey into the forest.
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Rule 2: The power of an apparition is decided by how much essence the user has and does not change no matter how much the user thinks they're training it.
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