> The buzzing of tiny machines grew louder in volume, as the presence of the arcane killing machines rapidly amplified. More and more souls seemed to enter the area, as if an entire army had gathered itself before Kevin. He could feel them in the air, surrounding him, hundreds of lifetimes, whispers driving into his mind. Flashes of white rooms, great black ships, a group of blue humanoids, singing in strangely melodic tones. Stories of another place and time, collected, being shown to you through the sheer psychic power of these souls' combined might. And even as he began to realize the true nature of the opponent he would face, it manifested before him.
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> Billions of tiny devices locking into one another, forming large structures powered by Soular energy. legs formed, before an abdomen and chest took shape. Arms extended from the central mass, skin and clothing rapidly covering the mechanical insides. Last to form was the face, covered by Kevin's own mask. He stood before a carbon copy of himself, resonating with unfamiliar power. Kevin had of course heard of the schools of Soular magic, as many mages utilized it across the universe. It took many shapes, concentrated into many different forms, and given many different names. But there was one story he'd heard he was about to personally verify.
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> The most aggressive form of Soular energy is lightning.
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> Pulsing in each hand was a ball of crackling energy, as if ball lightning had been captured within them. One bright green, the other bright red, both puled to completely different rhythms, and yet complemented one another perfectly. A flow of energy across the entire form, the unity and balance of Soular frequencies, the highest level of Soular manipulation. Fused with the art of force manipulation, the power that flowed through other living things. 'You should not have come here. Your happiness to fight, your anger, it will be your downfall. Your past will return to haunt you, I would know.' It was Kevin's very own voice that spoke.
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> Bolts of lightning struck near Kevin, the massive sheets of ice cracking and melting, telekinetic and electric power intertwining into a single blow, launching Kevin several meters back and covering him in burns, making use of the temporary surprise. This was no normal lightning, it was the manifestation of Soular energy. And in it he could feel... love? It was as if even as his flesh had been scarred, he had been injected with happiness, a weight lifting off of his mind. Paradoxically in this situation, he felt.... safe.
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> Toguro didn't move an inch, as the hammer hurtled down towards him. He simply looked up as Asura joined the fray, not speaking a word, steady pulses of power still emanating from him. Then the bright red hammer struck his head.
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> With an explosive burst of power, the hammers enchantments boosted the force of the blow a hundredfold, the weight of a house smashing down upon Toguro. With a deafening crack, the ice split and smashed beneath his feet, slanting and compressing. In a space smaller than a second, Toguro was pushed down through the surface of the ice, a great crater forming around the point of impact, shattered pieces of ice being pushed upwards around it to form a rim of frost.
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> Toguro still stood straight, his head slightly tilted, the hammer on what would have been his temple. he hadn't moved an inch. At the top of his skull, moving down and barely visible, was a single crack. 'useless'
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> With explosive force, Teo hit the ground, his hammer flying off into the distance, skidding over the ice. Teo struck the ice and stuck, gasping for breath, his face contorting as he could feel the pressure mounting, his throat being squeezed closed, his heart being squished into a pulp. Even as his cartoon physics activated, he could feel his own energy draining away, fighting to support him, his body flattening into a physically impossible pancake. With sustained force, it would take mere minutes for Toguro to simply overcome Teo's power reserves, crushing him.
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> And all occured without a smirk, without a grin, without a boast. Toguro simply stood, and watched, and destroyed.
"Well, now that's out of the way," Asura chimed in "let's get down to business."
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Kaos watched on. Having already hidden her soul wavelength perfectly before joining the fray. Not that 5 would've discovered her before the damage was done, but every bit counts. She held up the device lilith had designed for just this occasion, and with the perfectly timed press of a button, sent a large jolt of soular energy directly into 5 halfway through its preparation. A moment when, based on kaos' predictions, 5 was not only at its most vulnerable, but incapable of handling a sharp increase in soular energy. Resulting in most of the nanomachines falling from the air, utterly destroyed. The other nanomachines, few as they were, had taken enough damage to at least prevent them from being as destructive as before. With that, Kaos left. Though she had not destroyed the swarm like she had been sent to do, she saved a dude from instant pwnage, severely handicapped the enemy, and just like she predicted, no one had noticed her.
((Sorry Matt, but 5 could pretty much instakill the entire group on its own. Just evening the playing field. And before you try to prevent 5 from taking severe damage, let me remind you that kaos can see the future, so she would know how and when to get the job done, and would have set up plenty of failsafes in order to account for every other variable. Such as decoys, science-based forcefields designed to disintegrate anything that tried to get in, dimensional locks, stuff like that. Besides, toguro is still up and at full power, genocide is still alive albeit wounded, I left them because 5 had taken cosmos' place as the annoying one, and was the only champion of omega who could only be defeated with the help of mia, who is pretty much untrustworthy and sent the group to genocide's location without sending a way to deal with 5 or at the very least, render its soular energy based attacks ineffective, meaning she already failed to help defeat 5. Just saying...))