The chill invaded his hooded visage, his hand raised as he walked & kept the winds of this blizzard at bay. Erebus navigated through Pergrande in lone travel— navigating a track towards one gigantic black mass in the sky. One of three now, with more sure to follow. It was not until one arrived at the base of the mountains, could the portal truly be seen, suspended with the clouds rocks hovering upward below it. They were a welcoming force, inviting the strangest or most maddened adventurers to penetrate the unknown. Erebus carried a large backpack, inside he was equipped only the basics needed to camp and survive, what he might need to survive that is, in dangerous landscapes. The rogue peered across the cliff side, as he encroached upon the entry point.

In no time at all, he had arrived, and a long spiral vacuumed his cloak to the sky. The nearer; or closer that Erebus got to the portal, the more it seemed to lower before him, until it hovered only a measly two meters off the ground, close enough to throw oneself through. The sight of it seemed to defy this third dimension as Ere’s desire heightened. He was entranced by its promise, but the view alone beckoned one to throw caution to the wind. It has both a depth and a width, and then stretched inward as length of the sky itself now had a cave to walk through, such a strange a concept, cave inside of an aurora. This wasn’t Erebus’ first experience with the anomaly of the Void, so he did not take time to think that all over before he ran inside and jumped through the air, pulling back his knees so that he flipped in a loop through space and time into the realm of the void, allowing the magic to pull him like a string expanding into a ball of yarn, to pull his body through this rift was to transport one to a place outside of everything at once, and to what this cavern held inside, astonishing Akashi Records, an endless plateau of spacial matter and worlds to siphon off of. The colors around him as he spun were in presence shifting from pinks to purples, magentas only accentuated by the black wisps of what was pure darkness in this world— collapsing upon itself, yet even so— his attention was trained forward. He walked until he came upon a large tunnel, as it’s form bled through the walls, Erebus understood that past this point— he would probably have trouble finding his way back to the giant hole— his window into Earthland.

He could only hope to escape by getting to the treasure now— a loot hardly worth the risk; but in theory, the journey would be entertaining and a reward itself. The Don presses through the winding tunnel ahead, routes to take him deeper, and just before the first phase of this Void— he must track his way to the others— champions called by the void. Even if Erebus doesn’t like it, he assumed ahead of time he might not be the only one inside, hoping for a quick payday.

Nonetheless, he agitates his fate, the endless tunnel at some time started to curve, and the matter which was collapsing upon itself shifted atop and hid that world from before behind himself, the doubt of safety had long crossed Ere’s thoughts. Then again, he had been called to this mission and wouldn’t turn around without a success or failure anyways. His dreams and aspirations rested on the other side of this world’s power, and only then could he desire to go back. To expel his hunger, he was in a death-race for whatever fortunes awaited.

“You will show me some of your secrets Void.” His lips pursed, as he drew upon a hollow cavern— straight walls expanded to the infinite sky; markings upon the walls were ancient, expanding further up to the infinite— with paintings and artwork from a time forsaken to man etched into it.

Erebus wondered what civilization could keep working for an infinite amount of time on these walls— that seemed to raise for eternity… This world. Wherever it was, was beyond old. Perhaps billions of years older than Earthland. Erebus he paid this place it’s fair observation, his attention to clues this place could provide back to him on the lore of it all his priority— the walls ignited around him by fire-lit torches, which added to his viewing pleasures of the cathedral segue murals, divinely engineered canvas that gave life to this empty place, at the base-floor level of this dungeon.

The endlessly tall reaching walls, which allowed Erebus to see the endless expandings of artwork and paintings— soon diminished as he walked a great distance, and winded around the cavern yet further… He marched with a drum to his step, forward across this great empty prairie— empty void…

After hours— Erebus came before a new crossroads. Both a figurative one and a literal fork in the road, among these things he might see other figures at the end of this passage grow into figment, if they appeared forth to Erebus, they would draw him closer to their place or the end of the entry marker, at most— the start of his search through the Void’s tunnels.

Upon arriving to the crossroads, a group of frost giants would immerge and surround everyone. The frost giants roar with chaotic energy boosting the bass in their chest, the reaction seems to shake the area all around the characters, the giants advance. They hover a few meters over the ground, chilling the air. Erebus could feel the temperatures dropping the longer he remained nearby, soon— they lunged— one after the other, to catch and interrupt the players where needed, hoping to attack each player this turn.

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1-50: Attack is successful and the giants land damage on the player.
1xS DMG (Avoids Resistance, Armor Pierces)

50-100: Attack is a failure and player can respond by killing their assailant knight this turn by dealing 1xS damage or higher.

Rolling to determine the sequence of events within post.
1-50: Frost Giants will carry out their attack and posted actions will reflect a response and/or retaliation if feasible.
51-100: Frost Giants will fail in their attempt to attack and posted actions will reflect a response and retaliation.

The member 'Astrid' has done the following action : Spin

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'Dice 100' : 5

The member 'Kanna Kusanagi' has done the following action : Spin

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'Dice 100' : 48

1-50: Frost Giants, unleash a pulse of ice mana towards you— 2xS frost magical damage.
51-100: The player avoids, they can return damage and kill a Frost Giant thus turn.

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• Astrid kills 1
  
• Kanna kills 1
  
• Erebus arrives to the frame of battle
  

8/10 Remaining.

As Erebus pulled into the frame of the fight he saw a witch reflect the force a colossal punch. It seemed the monstrous sized golem could only do so much. It had roaring offensive strength, but was encumbered by damage— shattering as a block of ice would naturally.

The void bled the crossroads into a hellscape of dark crimson reds and browns, and Erebus realized that the matter in the void would soon augment their foes as well should they not run from the chaos all around them. Then again, perhaps it was the void — crawling the walls of this dimension, that entice him so.

As he arrived Erebus equipped his things, namely it was his (saber) Loadout, he dispersed in a flicker of smoke to arrive atop the back of a Frost Giant. Erebus begins to unleash his anger, relenting if not until he was at the bottom of the creature’s end, eating the concrete up from the other side with his own weapons.

As he realized his foe was defeated, he took to a kneel, the rest of this bunch loomed, one could hear their steps shake the air as they neared— ten total giants. Were now setting in around two others. First it was Astrid. Who recovered well and fine.

Then after her, a guild member of this witch’s brand. The phantom lord guild seemed to have reopened its walls, and Erebus had yet to meet many of these dark mages. While his hands had certainly affected lots of exchanges in Oak— he still hadn’t set foot in there since leaving Eternal Nightmare to Jin. Even moreso, since being caught in the politics of Joya and its treasures, then prison, Erebus just hadn’t the time of day for his hometown roots.

Now you have the very mages taking care of his hometown, in the thick of it. Here! Nothing can go wrong with a killer in the void, Erebus reconciled to himself. He then adjusted for his greeting.

“Delighted.” He said first, so as to break the air for the others. “Fortunate that we would meet in this place— wouldn’t you say?” Erebus said pursing his lips with a pinch at his eyes— a childlike wonder beyond the monster— always a treasure Hunter at his very core, despite that— one could not see it. Erebus kept a draping cow over his face, and beneath that, a visor with a computer screen. It read and remembered things for him later to analyze and pool over. Through his visor, his warrior tone was traded for the vectored bass of a demon. This voice booming, was further raised when in a strange world such as this. Seeming to bounce off invisible walls in this strange altered dimension, until it found its way back to one’s ears.

“Don’t waste your time looking back, you aren’t going that way. We must choose a path— right ? Or left.” Erebus pressed, nodding towards the large, and elongated caverns opposite his direction in bud running path. A creepy, lengthy, bent and rusted sign stood erect behind Astrid, had she not noticed this world turning so hellish? Or was the Void simply a place of own one’s mind, Erebus wondered.. The sign in question, while out of place, was also nothing of clue to worth, it had blurred two out names (strange) for its opposing path routes, so that seeking to know where they led was still left in the unknown, a trick of fate, in this Void Cavern.

Meanwhile, as the portals ripped and tore holes to Oddr Mountain, so too did Frost Giants spawn, suckling the elements of the ice and the snow from the portals and materializing as beings. The Void— as it was, seemed to take life from the natural world, and curse it. It was a hauntingly chaotic thing, and the more Erebus thought on it. The less “natural” it continued to become.

In Erebus’ case, he would spread his own chaos when that was to balance the universe, but too much of it? — That evoked a different idea. It was, for a lack of a better term, agitating. Yet even so, without his foot in the door, the Void would not show him its secrets. He has to continue sacrificing, and in turn, fighting — to see the other side of these worlds.

The member 'Erebus' has done the following action : Spin

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'Dice 100' : 32

Rolling to determine the sequence of events within post.
1-50: Frost Giants will carry out their attack and posted actions will reflect a response and/or retaliation if feasible.
51-100: Frost Giants will fail in their attempt to attack and posted actions will reflect a response and retaliation.

The member 'Astrid' has done the following action : Spin

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'Dice 100' : 90

[quote="Erebus"]

1-50: Frost Giants, unleash a pulse of ice mana towards you— 2xS frost magical damage.
51-100: The player avoids, they can return damage and kill a Frost Giant thus turn.

The member 'Kanna Kusanagi' has done the following action : Spin

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'Dice 100' : 14

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1-50: Astrid destroys a third Frost Giant with Eldritch Dragon’s Roar as it travels its max distance, some meters behind the first giant to be wasted, the blast shatters another.
51-100: Astrid’s roar misses, she successfully vanquished the other 2x Frost Giants, no other frost giants are destroyed by her round.

1-50: Erebus will be unsuccessful after being blasted, he takes another 2xS Frost Beam.
51-100: Erebus destroys a frost giant— evading the second beam of damage.

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Erebus - 1
Astrid - 3 (+1 if the roll modifier is successful, if the roll modifier is successful the tally is 5/10 at the start of this post)
Kanna - 1

6/10 Frost Giants Remaining

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As the words left her lips, Erebus wagered they do exactly as Kanna said, go right… However, as more monsters spawned, and fused their broken shattered pieces, yet more Frost Giants were overwhelming the group.

Erebus himself summoned his gauntlet into his spare hand, turning only slightly, he realized the exceptional speed of these monsters, to which you could almost consider god-like— or as close too it as Erebus has reached in his lifetime, the magic of the monster spanned a twenty meter distance with his frost beam, nigh instantly— perhaps traveling at 40m/s. The beam flash froze Erebu, causing his monitor to go off before a reboot warning appears hovering in his face. The beam was more than just damage, it had knockback potential as well, and sent the cloaked one flying from the frame of the scene, back on Erebus— it was in a way, quite fortunate he was blasted. It moved him out of the way as the power of an Eldritch Roar sung a story of horror against the enemies.

However, as his body bounced and ragdolled against the ground; an eerie fusion of both Hell and Oddr Mountains, Erebus gripped the clutch, and quite literally, teleported in a flash of black smoke.

Right back to the creature’s eye level, if Ere was awarded lucky enough, he was to land such devatastating damage that the monster would bust into flakes of stalagmite. If he could manage this before it shot him again that is.

At point blank, Erebus was a monster too— even so, these things were proving to be more difficult than other creatures he’d faced in the Void so far. It was in this moment a light burst was seen and heard— Kana had transformed with Henrich and Erebus would have been invested in figuring out what kind of power that was; had they not been wrapped up in a’ intense situation. She too had succumbed some damage, but her mode appeared to add to her defenses. That was good, then she was clearly ready for the challenge. Erebus on the other hand, was noticing the strength of his targets, and was trying to recover

Are the… Aberrations getting stronger?! — the thought certainly passed his mind.

Upon throwing a jab, Erebus moves with grace as his body pivots at the waist. He rotate his knuckles as they touch the surface of ice, and he snaps his wrist back to lamd the lethal knock-out punch, the first move the Adventurer ever learned.

Momentum was now thrown with a force, his weight his best weapon, in and out like a boxer, he threw a straight— upon entry; Erebus teleported to the side of the monster’s head— which would mean he dropped to the ground after, scaling four meters from the ground with a hard landing on his knee, he figures he will be okay if he can catch up now. If possible— he’ll break into a full on sprint and hauling his ass after Kanna and Astrid down the RIGHT path, but if he is unsuccessful, he will linger and respond to the whims of these giant aberrations.

“May be so, yet with time here— we learn that these things.. Memories of their forsaken worlds, the invaders of Earthland— they are called, just as we invade into their troves? The allure of darkness has been a flytrap for the unworthy, in their greed they ignore the consequences. Remember the path. It will take you home.” he finalized. Still running, or if he had been blasted, lagging his departure, the words would somehow bounce off and echo through the caverns to the ears of the others.


EDIT:

Upon teleporting, the Frost Giant blocked with his arms, creating an X-shape guard as it backed away from Erebus. Moving its hand, it blasted him again.

It was then that Erebus got serious and spoke (dialogue above). He drops assumed a defensive stance, with more Giants hanging up at the entry point. He will buy his time to get away if Kana and Astrid press forth.

— — —
Chaos Controller
CD: 2 MP: 250
Effect: The user teleports, leaving a black smoke like after image, up to the maximum range of the spell. The time it takes for the user to reappear is the time it would take them to dash to that location. What makes this spell different from other teleportation spells is that it allows the user to attack after teleporting, though the user can only attack with Chaos Claws. Otherwise the user cannot attack immediately after teleportation in the same post.
MANA: 4250/4750

The member 'Erebus' has done the following action : Spin

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'Dice 100' : 37, 29

Rolling to determine the status of additional enemies within post.
1-50: An additional Frost Giant will appear before Astrid. They will be granted an attack to which Astrid will be able to react and respond to.
51-100: No additional Frost Giants will appear within the post. Astrid will be able to interact and engage as though her pathway is unimpeded.

The member 'Astrid' has done the following action : Spin

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'Dice 100' : 13

1-50: Frost Giants, unleash a pulse of ice mana towards you— 2xS frost magical damage.
51-100: The player avoids, they can return damage and kill a Frost Giant thus turn.

The member 'Alisa' has done the following action : Spin

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'Dice 100' : 49

Erebus coughed, sputtering and patting his chest as he needed the air to come back to him, the force behind these blows were some of the strongest he had ever experienced. He smashed and skidded atop the cold ground— enough force in that beam to dizzy & disoriente even a dragon. This blast also left a mark in his armors, especially the helmet under the veil of the cloak. There was an occasional electrical static popping from the right side of the helmet, showcasing a wide crack in the visor. Another one of those blasts, and Ere was sure it short-circuit he Apex.

Now having received more than half of its durability in damage— Erebus was in doubt whether he could go forward— without first being able to assume the challenge ahead. Across his face, there was bleeding, his left orbital felt smashed— even weakened, a fracture could have been left by the beam. His chest plate was now washed in white sleet; blue ice, which smeared like cake-icing against the frontside annd backside of his armor.

It was then that the frost giant tilted its head and echoed a booming and malicious laugh, it had turned slightly— staring upon the others— who were a pretty long distance from where Erebus and his Ice Giant were, it realized what Astrid had done as the spell crashed into other Ice Giants first, volleys came and decimated numerous giants. But not this one— it responded with a defensive barrier.

The strength of these Giants were high, but they had not quite felt the power of a Z-rank mage. His brethren were being torn apart, and thus angered the giant, as he was forced to watch the others meet unbecoming ends to the Earthlanders.

Thrusting pointy fingers against the rocks, the Giant held— and clung, to his placement. Conjuring forth a large, numerous meter height iceberg that surrounded and coiled around itself— the giant cube would match the explosion of the volley— turned coalesced arrow, an ate the brunt of the spell. The spell would crack and rupture the defensive but it appeared it came just cut of piercing the entirety of the barrier.

As well as this, snow and glitter now glinted over the air around her person, as one last Frost Giant was coming forth into the Void around them— staring down upon both Astrid and Kanna. Due to not stepping against the ground before first attacking, it was up to fate really whether the two would survive the beam about to drop on their heads, no touching the ground meant the sonar senses possessed by the Phantom were null— albeit, there was the case of the danger sense still providing some level of awareness. That is— if Astrid and Kanna were not distracted by the same Giant facing Erebus at the other side of the map.

The last Giant over Astrid and Kanna, braced it’s body for the impact of it’s spell beam, which it would fire down on their backside, and with just enough time to strike with its power before it surfaced fully. The attack would do staggering damage to at least one of the two.

Back to Erebus, the scene has only intensified. He loosely uses his sword to as a lever, balancing himself back to the feet. Realizing now that he broke a toe and could feel it sting with his steps, another consequence of being ragdolled by that first beam of ice at point-blank.

Two eyes— one filled with blood— hung and watched with a foggy curtain at the monster ahead. Whether his constitution showed otherwise, Erebus was holding themself awake and alive off of willpower alone— and yet, if that helmet was ripped off his face; you would see only the deepest hatred in this one, eyeing the storm.

The iceberg itself seemed to crack and break upon eating the Eldritch’s spell, which fumigated against the side of it with black mists and pink lavender static, as it moved across the cube— Erebus wondered if it would breach through… Decimating the cube, it did.

But the Giant broke free of its defensive spell. Ensuring that the spell had wiped most, but not all of these things from the map.

Crossing an X-shape with its large blue arms— the form of the monster began to glow and vibrate rapidly. The snow on the mountain shifted in direction, moving upward in reserve gravity, returning to the heavens at beyond the highest peaks. Soon, snow was followed by rocks, plants, dirt and gravel from different parts of the mountainside— funneling upward, fused by the void, and levitating with other debris into the sky. Large, megalithic ice chunks ripped and torn from different areas of Oddr Mountains, when the Void portal first opened— it was clear it ate a bit of the plane they had came from.

Erebus could do little in the time he was given, his eyes widened—a lightbulb had gone off for him as he realized the worst of things, he had seen something like this— long ago, and knew that the next spell was going to be like nothing else the others have seen yet. This thing wanted to level the area— a large kill zone that was going to erase all of them when finished. Wondering if an ice giant could actually go nuclear, he didn’t want to take his chances frozen either.

“The Void demands from us… sacrifice.” his words would echo through the realm. “The mountains that it stole from us… they are clearly not enough to open the path.” Erebus bit his tongue; until it was bleeding down his lips— something to take his mind off of his only real fear, Death. Yet even after so long, and so much pushing. He was the weakest and he was not yet the perfect monster to create the perfect warrior, from what he could decipher— he was a tryhard and even the lower ranked mage was fairing better at the hands of overwhelming odds. Therefore, he has the least to lose. This makes him the most dangerous. He smiles, with hate in his eyes at this world, and the world he was fighting from its erasure.

“There is no more time to prepare, even less time to plan for what is after.” Erebus said, haunting powers charging into his body, as it pushed mana into a choke, and focused on bringing the sickly feeling, pure fever and ailment up to the surface to tapa into his most taxing power.

With a disgust for his fate on his curling lip, he dug his boots into the ground and propelled. “Return us to darkness..” Erebus finalized, provoking his last move.

Erebus moved towards the Giant. In one launch from his starting point, he simply put everything into getting him down that direction— ignoring the cracks and pains of his body and bones giving out, his pace soon picketed to a sprint. He knew he could only act so fast, his abilities would only warrant him so much.

Just before the ice giant would blow itself up, hoping to return 2xS to all three of them in a 50m radius and bring down the mountain, Erebus places his hand against the giant’s leg. He gives one last look towards the Phantom mages, shaking his head at the thought of them stealing his treasure.

Yet, he was not in a moment to double think or rationalize— defeating this bastard was the priority. Erebus, who was still holding his sword, would stab it deeply into the icy corrosion holding their surface, the ground, together. Erebus pokes the hook rough into the crack— shattering a larger gaping hole, and rotated with his wrist, levering the crack to splinter and grown— until an avalanche was beneath them— it poured from beneath and filled the cavern he had tracked his way up  to get here in snow— and the cliff side where the battle was raging to s screamed for a quaking boom.

He along with the creature in his hands, phase. And at this moment, the monster would be transported with Erebus to limbo, causing his spell to be seen, however the detonation would be useless— traveling out but rendering it ineffective at best.

A blue dome-like wave (imagine a pulsing shockwave) would move through the area— past Astrid, and past Kana, for hundreds of meters. If able, the entire mountain would have glossed and frozen over. However, as Erebus faced the spell, he was at the whims of the enemy, and the enemy at the whims of Erebus.

What had happened was unique, and quite literally a mystery to the Giant. Erebus had stolen the blast’s power and taken it straight with him into a 5th dimension, Astrid and Kanna would see the bomb, but would not feel it at all— passing over them harmlessly, but would likely see Erebus fall in this process as the side of the cliff would go down in a huge natural disaster.

His last attempt to aide the others, was only partly efficient. The giant picked a frozen stiff Erebus up and landed a walloping elbow to his left temple— then front kicked him away with a force, so much that it throws him over the cliff-side of the Void just as the Frost giant lunges backwards and grabs the cliff-hanging over the side— staring into a black nothingness beneath, enough strength that it’s body can hang with one arm over the side, even if sight was obstructed from vision.

He turns to look up, and climbs his way to the surface in order to stare Kanna down and Astrid.

The malevolent fusion of Oddr’s peak, and the void hellscape changes again, as it turns the surface of the ground pure black and the final giant, fuses the mana the Void has been consuming (Astrid’s) and uses the charged power of Astrid to undergo a transformation.

Astrid and Kanna would be looking upon a purple frost elemental— coated in pulsing black smoke, the last of the Frost Giants, and empowered by the Void with the engagement of Astrid’s magic, a product of her own horror.

Meanwhile:
Erebus is flung through the air, his vision is going out and in as the Apex is losing electricity. Leaving the others to finish the last Giant, finally his consciousness would go under. Segregating him from the known path, his way home.

The Frost Giant targeting him prior, moved in a flash to run, a juggernaut of strength and speed, to deliver a physical strike to both Astrid and Kanna independent of each other, and switching between each between landed strikes or successful evasions.

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Info Log

> Erebus leaves the field of view. You can assume he is beat.

> Frost Giant to attempt physical dmg against both Kanna and Astrid.
x1 S physical, resistance ignored.

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Enemies Active:

1x Eldritch Infused — Last of the Frost Giant
x5 S-rank durability
501 STR
501 SPE
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Dark Frost Beam: 1-25
2xS ranged magic dmg (The Frost Giant deals ranged magic damage)
Glacier Cube: 26-50
2xS defensive (The Frost Giant Survives)
Physical DMG — ignores resistance: 51-100
1xS physical (resistance ignored when running in for melee DMG)

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Spells Cast:

Nihlatak's Limbo Lingering:
-250MP CD: 2
Effect: Even though the user cannot directly enter limbo, they can do it temporarily. This allows the user to let moves phase through them. It costs a certain amount of mana to let a certain amount of damage phase through. The cooldown applies in general. This means that during the cooldown, the user cannot use this spell at all.

• S - 500MP to let it phase through, 4 cooldown.
  

Rolling to determine the status of additional enemies within post.
1-25: Eldritch Frost Giant uses Dark Frost Beam. Astrid responds accordingly.
26-50: Eldritch Frost Giant uses Glacier Cube. Astrid responds accordingly.
51-100: Eldritch Frost Giant commits to melee attack. Astrid responds accordingly.