Shore Battle: The Clash For Akranes [Iceland Conflict Event Mission]

Chikara watched again as she imitated his style. He slumped his shoulders, holding the blade up at a level where he could easily grab it and parry an attack, then let out a sigh. "You know, imitation can be considered flattery. I am not entirely sure of what your game is here, Miss, but frankly, I am tired of it. Why don't you just go ahead and fight me as your real self? It might make for a more interesting match." To demonstrate his point, he would feign a yawn.

He did grimace at his attack being blocked, although it came at little surprise. A being such as her was bound to have a few tricks up her sleeve, and that would make this battle much more interesting than it already was.. It was slightly sad to see, however, that she had good defensive qualities, although maybe not as well as he did. Although, at least she did take the bait, thankfully. His gambit was allowing her to strike at an unprotected section, mainly his side, to maximize the amount of damage he could deal and minimize the amount he took in return. He had used an overhead slash, and she had tried to exploit it by going for his ribs, and that was when the gamble worked out in his favor.

His sword was steel while he was in his base form. In Genkakuna Maito, though, all of the equipment he used was made of pure spiritual energy, manifested from either his own spiritual pressure, or Kyoryu's. The burnt armor and ancient sword, this time, was made out of his own spiritual energy, and he smiled as he glanced down and saw, perhaps, a look of surprise on her face. Maybe, at least, as much as this emotionless warrior could muster. If that was her only trick, then there would be nothing else she could do. His armor was strong enough to absorb nearly any attack she could produce, and if she had no way to get past his armor, then she could no longer do damage to him, and then the fight would simply come down to attrition; who would be the first one to fall.

He would take the blow, which would be absorbed into the armor, diffuse through the spiritual energy that danced around between it, the chain mail, his draconian scaling, and then finally the stone skin underneath. He could at least admit she had the upper hand, but only while he was in his Base form. Now, when he went into Joushou, she had no real advantage, as it was all claimed by him. The electric shocks that she was so fond of delivering would simply be dispersed, since there was nothing there to conduct it down to his body. The thought of that would make him let out a slight chuckle.

The kick was delivered, much to Chikara's delight. Before she flew too far out of his reach, though, he attempted to hit her once more with a spiritual energy-infused attack, to send her down into the ground and thus have her still be relatively close to him. If she couldn't get out of the way, then she would be stuck in the earth. He didn't know how exactly her teleportation ability worked or whether or not it required any kind of somatic component, but he was operating on the assumption that some kind of trigger activated it. But if it didn't, then he would be easily vulnerable to a quick teleport above and a plunging attack downwards.

If she did go down to earth, then he'd step up and hold her at sword point, and wait for some kind of yield. Then, he would assist her up, easily pulling her out of the earth, and set her back down again.

But if she didn't, then Chikara would move backwards, away from her, and take a defensive position, as knights are ought to do. When she readied herself, he would run at her again, collecting his spiritual energy into one blow, like his last attack. Although, she could easily block it like she did last time, and he didn't honestly have any clue as to how much more that ability worked.

If she was a spiritual being like he was, then he should at least be able to sense her spiritual pressure. But even from the beginning of the combat, he had felt nothing. Even using her abilities, there was no kind of pressure at ALL emanating from her. Could she be hiding it somehow? And why hadn't she reacted to his own pressure? Surely it would have been strong enough to warrant even a comment, but there had been no such thing.

This creature, if she could be called that, warranted at least a set of questions. Perhaps after that, he would turn her over to Kyoryu. Or maybe not. He was eager to see how she would react, now that she is in the disadvantaged position

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