~ The ground flooded in a thick crimson hue, as if the world itself was bleeding from an open wound, circling around a young fox boy who slowly picked himself off the ground, the blood like liquid parting around his feet and that of another fox boy not too far off in the distance, who could on watch in horror of what was unfolding before him. "No, this is not right" Denzel growled out as he gazed upon the now standing Ion, though his sight was more ghastly, as dark aura emenated from him, his open wound now spilling out tendrils of his own blood, "how are you even standing? How do you have any Aura left? What sort of Psynergy is this?" Ion cracked a smile at his confused foe, "oh there is just so much you don't understand about our world" Ion said, his voice sounding a bit different from before, more stoic and like an elder statesmen, more profound, "who and what we are, the secretes placed on our very being, we are at different level where it comes to all this" Ion continued as Denzeld stared angrily back. "Don't act like you are some sort of sage" Denzel countered back, "you are no different then me, we are at the same place!" "Oh we are quite a bit different, at least right now" Ion interjected, "but it is pointless to get into the reeds right now with you, those who know nothing can understand nothing, it is beyond who you are." "Who I am? Then who are you to make such claims? What makes you an arbiter against me?" Denzel cried out but Ion paused for a moment in a thought. "Who am I? That is an intriguing question" Ion started saying, "I guess if 'he' is Ion then I am Yggdrasil but we are still one and the same" Ion continued to a confused Denzel. "What do you mean? What are you talking about?" Denzel answered back as no answer came, only a powerful attack of multitude Psynergy, the power of combined elements pushed the already exhausted Denzel back onto the ground as he was defenseless against the sudden attack, "as I said before, those who know nothing, can understand nothing."
"Cheap trick!" Denzel angrily growled out as he tried to get himself off the ground with no avail, "oh I don't think so" Ion casually said as he continued moving forward, "we are in a fight after all and we were both still standing, as I see it our duel is still commencing" Ion continued as the still weakened Denzel struggled to get to his feet. "Think about it this way, if you were the same as me as you said, on my same level then you could of repelled the attack or at least endured it" Ion continued though his voice now becoming more unhinged, as his eyes became intense, more murderous. "You are no better then me!" Denzel angrily cried out once more as he finally was able to stand back on his feet, though still a bit shakey, "at worst we are the same! And have you forgotten I have the advantage!" he continued as his Aura powered up, waves of Gaia swirling around him in a higher edict with his spell seal emanating from behind him, ground pillars formed under his feet lifting him up from the blood red river flowing among the ground. "So a desperation attack, very well" Ion said in a snarly voice as blood red spell seals formed around his feet as the ground also protruded him up out of the river of blood, lightning swirled around his legs as the primary elements of Lightning, Fire, Wind, Water and Earth enveloped around him as Ion cast out his spelldeck. The sky darkened into a starry haze as an aurora borealis glittered across the sky, with time almost freezing in a radius beyond the centre of the two boys, showcasing Ion's control over the secondary elements of Space and Time combining into his attack, a full scale elemental masterpiece, one that Ion worked hard on during this first semester of the Guild Sect, though now tainted by his descent into the ichor. "Lets see how you handle the 'Shores of Imagination'! Ion called out in a snarky snarl, his fangs dripping with blood as the cut on his face seared away, his blood tendrils eminating from his gut wound wildly whipping in the air as his spell seal emanated from behind him, stained in that blood crimson hue as well, "I will show you why we are of different worlds....." ~
