The soft melodious sound of giggling was accompanied by a sudden pair of bullets that transformed into beams of energy that tracked down onto her movements. Meanwhile around the same time she had started to force the trees away with her titanic strength, she could feel a sudden burst of energy sear into her right arm, causing her to instinctively draw upon the power of her regeneration. Although the attacks had done their mark, searing into the flesh and even exposing some of the muscle tissue underneath it, a soft sizzling sound came from the arm as it already started to regenerate from the injuries.
A daredevil move, yet one thing Esperia had learned during her time as a tactician and advisor in the Sentinel Syndicate, then it was to always plan three steps ahead.
The same moment she had risen onto her feet, she brought her elbow upwards and forwards, to some it might had looked similar like as if she was about to swat a pesky fly that crawled onto the back of her neck. Was she being too slow? It seemed to be the case, as by the time her hand reached the nape of her neck to react to the pesky feet she felt climbing onto the back of her body, the Titan's hand had been too late. The two gundaggers sliced into hardened flesh, but it was in that same moment the hand finally covered her escape route as well.
The same sissling sound from before resounded from the nape of her neck, around the spot the two gundaggers were descending to, but this time it was not flesh being restored, no this time it was skin opening like a cocoon, but what was inside was likely not what the nightmare had expected:
A collective of paper sheets rose from the opening in the cocoon, heading straight for the woman and attempting to cover her entire body, and with the way the giant hand had blocked off the outside, it would be quite hard to escape backward in a swift enough motion. There was barely any space between the fingers of the Titan and the bottom of her hand where her wrist pressed down onto her neck, meaning she had essentially tried to create a cage to trap the Nightmare in.
With her bind cast, whether the Nightmare was strong enough to break through it, or overcharged the mana in her body to forcefully dispel it, it was that moment of opportunity Esperia intended to take as she was found lunging out of the cocoon, fist raised and a swift jab being aimed at Nana's torso.
"Dunno who told you about my Magic's weak spot~ Eternal Nightmare shouldn't be aware of it yet... Not that it matters much I guess~" She giggled softly, attempting to make another jab, this time at Nana's throat to restrain her rather than inflict truly some damage.
"Pity, you look like the type of mischievous vixen I could get along with splendidly if she picked her company better~"
A final second attack was made in the form of a knee strike toward the woman's abdomen. "So let's start with proper introductions, shall we? I am Esperia~"
Although she might have left her open for a counter-attack by exposing herself like this, it seemed she still was scheming something judging from the paper sheets that were floating around them in this hand-made cage.
- Attacks:
After releasing her Titan's transformation Esperia cast:
Name: Bind of the Shikigami
Rank: A
Mana Cost: 200
Requirements: Shikigami
Type: Supplementary
Element: Nature
Range: 20 Meters
Cooldown: 4 Posts
Duration: Sustain
Effect: The user extends their arm and points at a target with their index finger. The cloak then flutters and releases numerous sheets of paper that chase the appointed target. The pieces of paper, while chasing the target, move in a box size that is about 2 meters high and wide. This allows the spell to be interrupted before it reaches the target, however, it cannot be interrupted via physical attacks as the pieces of paper will simply evade any stabs and slashes aimed at them. Once the paper reaches the target, it wraps itself completely around the body of the target and binds them.
Considering her arm had 6 S-rank endurance and 7 S-rank constitution left, her hand is essentially functioning as a cage to try to bind you at the same time you swing your gundaggers at her nape.
Esperia made a jabbing punch toward Nana's torso which will inflict 1 S-rank damage (before resistances) if it hits. then proceeds to try to lock Nana in place with a grab for her throat, and then tries to deliver a knee strike to her stomach area (both likely covered by armor~) (201 Strength)
Mana Costs: 24,012-1,263 (transformation)= 22.749 - 1000 (0.5 seconds regeneration) (Using coil's ring mana for this) - 200 (Bind of the Shikigami) (using coil's ring mana for this) = 21.549
Esperia Health: 5 S-rank
Esperia Status: -1 Weakness increase till end of next turn
Titan Health: 8 S-rank - A (minor resistance) - A (minor resistance) = 7 S-rank
Titan Endurance: 6 S-rank - 2 S-rank = 4 S-rank + 2 S-rank from regeneration = 6 S-rank
Titan Status = Will dissolve into skeleton form at the end of my next post.