Fusion. Merging. The unison of two or more things come together to form a single unified unit. This is the best way a combatant can sync with their weapons without huge drawbacks.
Emergence. Like people who have cores, weapons like magic artifacts or relics also have have cores. Their wielders can merge their cores temporary to increase their combat capability.
Ryuga is using the technique. Slowly, his ohra merges with that of the resemblance. The blue colour fades, replaced by oozing and imposing purple energy.
"Ash, go and find Ryukka. She was going to the library. I can't sense her ohra, meaning she's badly injured. Everyone else ,,,,,,, stay back." Ryuga raises his blade and points it to the horseman.
A wave of blackness surges on the horseman's back as he prepares to leave for Netherworld. But Ryuga teleports behind him and slashes the darkness in half. They engage in another heated exchange of blows which send shockwaves around them. The ground cracks. The air becomes heavier. The energy in the atmosphere becomes thicker, almost suffocating.
"Ryuga appears to be adapting faster than both of you. He is in perfect sync with the resemblance. And his skills. I would say he was holding back quiet a lot against Irla." Rouchefort comments while healing Irla 's wounds at a distance. "He is a lot more accurate, more in control but agitated to some extent. His attacks are not organised. He's like a raging sea. Could something have happened?"
"He's angry." Allura answers him walking out of the safe room.
"Angry? I don't get the reason he would be."
"I also don't. But one thing's for sure. That's not my brother's fighting temper. Heavens know he never merges with his weapon unless he intends to kill."
They continue to watch until Irla finishes healing and gets up. She takes he swords by the hilts."We have to help him. We can't just stay here and watch him while twinkling our thumbs."
"It's useless, we won't be able to get anywhere close to them. Brother is neutralising the shockwaves himself. Any intervention will keep him from going all out." Allura stops her.
"Look at that. Ryuga is able to damage him." Katie notices that the horseman is unable to avoid taking damage from the resemblance. Even though he is blocking Ryuga's physical attacks.
"Not if the space between us is being utilised well." Irla extend the length of the space but the moment she steps forward, a blade of compressed air cracks the ground infront of her. She raises he eyes to find Ryuga parrying the horseman with his eyes looking intently at her.
The terrifying gaze sent shivers down her spine that she unconsciously took two steps back. In a moment, she blinked and came to her senses.
Ryuga swung his sword and forced the horseman to the ground but sent him to the ceiling with a kick before he hit the ground. He smashed him into the ceiling with a single punch. And with a huge roar, he punched him through the ceiling and sent him to the surface. He followed him to the surface through the hole they made.
"Hahahaha... I'm ashamed that I am losing to a Necromarc, but Lady-Zephra will surely bring your doom. I can tell by your skills alone that I'm no match for you." the horseman gets up with his wounds not healing.
"Bring the book of spells or I'll take it from your corpse. You were someone I admired, I would hate to kill you." Ryuga walks towards him. He sends ohra to the resemblance with the intention to end the battle.
"What a disappointment,
Ryuga stabs the resemblance into the ground, spins around it to delivers a kick to the horseman's chest and sends crashing into the corner of the cage.
"Spirit Swords." black swords shoot from the horseman and Xicor casts a spell and raises an
"My my my, it appears you're a true Necromarc, having affinity of elements. But it's time to die
"Shining Lunar -a moon like orb that generates light with the caster 's magic."
" Farewell Necromarc, For a kid you fight well." The box starts shrinking as the horseman gets up and opes a hole to leave. The box absorbs light and makes more souls.
Ryuga jump from the stone wall and cuts the string tying the grimoire to the horseman and catches it in the nick of time before it is out of the box.
Allura, Katie, Irla and Rouchefort come running out of the Church and see the horseman Ride away. Katie senses Xicor's Ohra from the shrinking black Box.
"Xicor seems to be trapped in that Black box. I can only assume it's the horseman's handwork since a surprising amount of dark magic is in there." Katie runs to it and listens closely. She senses a build up of energy on the inside and takes slow steps back.
" I suppose light spells are out of the equation, damn it all to reverse heaven. This box is absorbing the light. So I'll just adapt it to physical attacks. Mare Hudōr." water fills the box and spins like a swirling torrent. "Infinite Splash" Ryuga swings his sword down and the Black Coffin is covered in cracks. His ohra blows out of him and blows it to pieces, destroying it. Katie who was closer is thrown back, falling on her back.
"He broke that box with that kind of strain on his body!?" Ryuga wasn't obvious, but Rouchefort could still see he was a bit exhausted.
"His Ohra is,,,,, disappearing." Irla runs to him.
Ryuga falls down holding unconscious with the gate breaker in his hand.
"We have to get him to the castle for healing, with that spell book. The horseman my have failed to get the book but, he absorbed some of the power from it. This means Zephra may or may not be able to leave Netherworld soon." Rouchefort orders the other two necromarcs who just arrived behind him.
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[The Netherworld]
Zephra is in her underground room admiring the two beings before her. She walks close to one of them and sinks her hand into the chest of one of them. Like sinking ones hand into drying mud, her hand slips into it's chest smoothly.
She transfers her magic into it and it aches and wriths almost as if in pain. It goes immobile and falls to the ground. The sound echoes across the room. Zephra looks down at the man with an authorative gaze of superiority.
She pierces the other and as if in response, it glows with dark magic and black smoke fills the room.
The one lying on the ground gets up and kneels to Zephra. The one she just awoke also kneels down to her.
"With the coming of the four horsemen of Apocalypse, the world shall reach its end. And a new world shall spring forth." Zephra slowly walks to them and caresses their heads. "Come now. It's almost time to conquer." She walks out with them following her.
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[Astron- Imperial Castle]
Ryuga is lying on the be in sleep. He is heavily sweating and moving his head side to side, as if having a nightmare. He abruptly opens his eyes and sits up breathing heavily.
"We need to talk. And I think you have a lot to tell, don't you think so?" Ash speaks with a smile while sitting on the chair on the side of the bed. He pulls out a book with a brown cover and puts it near Ryuga.
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