[center] [h3][i][color=red]Eclipse Princess vs Phantom Regality 3 2 1 Begin Duel! [/color][/i][/h3] [url=https://youtu.be/Xl2C28hMN2U]BGM[/url] [/center] Realizing exactly who he had just challenged to a duel, Phantom Regality gulped visibly. He did, however, know that he had to follow up with the challenge, and drew a shining sword from his belt, along with a black grimoire. In a sense, this powerful yet unnamed book was the source of power for most Necromancers. Well, the ones he knew anyway. Without thinking fully, as Phantom summoned forth six bright green wisps, he initiated the fight. The wisps flew directly past Eclipse Princess and into the mound of bodies, pulling out six level one Duelists and raising them as his thralls. [color=tan]"Alright, let's do this."[/color] He spun his sword in his hand, the black book suspending itself beside him. It was right around now that he realized how screwed he was. [color=darkorchid]"Tsc, I was waiting for a more impressive opening from a mage, but so be it."[/color] Eclipse Princess said, a hint of disdain coloring her voice as if she were really expecting more of someone who had the guts to come and challenge her. [color=darkorchid]"Then again what did I expect of a Necromancer?"[/color] Eclipse Princess scoffed. [color=darkorchid]"Brace yourself!"[/color] those were the last words to come out of Princess' throat, before she fell deadly silent. Kicking the ground with enough force to crack the place where she was standing, Princess charged at Regality, using the same opener she used against Stark Zealot, though, Eclipse Princess expected that someone who wasn't as skilled with a blade wouldn't see the obviously avoidable move for what it's. And if he did? That's when Eclipse Princess would start to get fired up. Lucky for him, Phantom Regality was a decent swordsman, and dodged to the side just as the tip of the blade reached him. Taking the opportunity, he made a quick slash at Eclipse Princess, managing to clip a loose piece of cloth from her armor. Without a solid connection, however, no damage was done at all. A defensive fight it would be. He called his thralls over and formed them up around him, providing a weak barrier that he could at least fight from behind effectively. Eclipse Princess smiled, it looked like Phantom Regality wasn't all that worthless, after all, even then he had much to learn about swordsmanship. Before the undead could flock around him and force Eclipse Princess to waste one attack to take them down, she countered Regality's attacked by locking his returning sword hand between the hilt of her own sword and her gauntlet, in a hook motion. Using the left-over momentum of her swing, Eclipse Princess spun around and let Regality's hand go, throwing him against the wall. Eclipse Princess though about commenting that a sword is much more than just its blade, the hilt, pommel and crossguard are all parts of the weapon and must be used properly, by any well trained swordsman. Yet, the image of Stark Zealot came to her mind, the pride she have being the main reason she lost that fight, a lesson Eclipse Princess would do well to remember. The feeling of a real fight coming back to her filled Eclipse Princess with joy, though this certainly spelled doom for her foes, Princess seemed more enthusiastic than ever, her very footwork now was like dance steps, certain and firm, but at the same time swift and gracious. Without any skills to avoid the crash (and even further away from his undead), Regality would be in for a world of pain in a couple moments, but Princess wanted to end this duel soon enough and she followed the throw by running after Regality. After he crashed on the wall, Eclipse Princess would run up the side of it with a couple powerful kicks and flip around in the air. An Icarus Attack when Regality had little to no way of dodging would do the trick, Princess thought. Right as she kicked off the wall, Phantom Regality knew exactly what was about to happen. She was gonna end this in one hit, and there was no way he could stop it. No matter what, he was likely about to die and face a respawn, unless... [color=tan]"Oh goddammit!"[/color] With an audible shrink, his sword was off of the ground and raised directly up at Eclipse Princess, held firmly in both of his hands. She could easily follow through with her attack, but at the cost of being impaled on the blade. Either way, she would be winning, it was just a matter of how much health she would have at the end of the duel. If a longsword going through your stomach is survivable, that is. [color=darkorchid]"Hmm?"[/color] Eclipse Princess was surprised by Phantom Regality's desperation move, she didn't had much time for any reaction, not that she would react in any way to begin with. After all, Regality had forgotten two things that Eclipse Princess was about to remember him of in less than one second. First, Eclipse Princess' sword was longer than his, meaning that she could reach out and hack his health bar away, dropping him to barely above ten percent (winning the duel by damage), before she had to even worry about the sword. Second, any amount of damage was acceptable on DGO as long as it wasn't lethal, after all this is a game. With that in mind, Eclipse Princess grabbed Regality's sword with her right hand, gripping the blade firmly, if it were on the real world, Eris's hand would have been ruined forever and the effort would be useless anyway, but since it's the virtual one all that Eclipse Princess got of this was a five percent health down, a mere scratch that would be healed in a few minutes, but enough to Regality a look of respect. [color=darkorchid]"..."[/color] Silence was all that Eclipse Princess left behind as she walked away and sat besides the gate, only now noticing the many notifications popping on her HUD. She deleted most messages, but made sure to reply to one: [quote] [b]From:[/b] [color=darkorchid]Eris Reinhardt[/color] [b]To:[/b] [color=darkorchid]Shiro Kawabata[/color] [b]Subject:[/b] [color=darkorchid]Reply.[/color] [color=darkorchid] Greetings. If you are sending me this message, I believe that you must be in league with the Sweepers in Deep Group, right? Either way, I'm willing to attend your demands, however, I'm on the game as of now, as I'm pretty much sure you know. Rest assured, I plan to not keep on my murderous spree. It was funny, but eventually one grows tired of such fruitless labors. I'm waiting for someone, right now, if you really insist on meeting face to face we could do it this evening, at 19:00, on the food court of the Shopping Arcade closest to Purple Crown. You may know my name, but not my face, thereby lookout for a person holding an original copy of Thus Spake Zarathustra, I never go out with it. Beware that, since your message mentioned no secrecy, I plan to bring a friend, after all we have no plans for tonight, anyway. Farewell.[/color] [/quote] With that said, Eris sent a message to Cassandra, who had just logged in right about now, to ask about her plans for tonight. [quote] [b]From:[/b] [color=darkorchid]Eris Reinhardt[/color] [b]To:[/b] [color=darkorchid]Cassandra O'Shera[/color] [b]Subject:[/b] [color=darkorchid]Are you busy tonight?[/color] [color=darkorchid] Greetings. I hate to impose on you, Cassandra O'Shera, in fact, I believe that my growing dependency on you may impact both of our lives in way we can't yet foresee. Thereby I'm asking you first if you have any plans for the evening, before laying out my own personal agenda. Even so, we can play for a couple hours before I have to worry about last minute appointments. I'll be waiting for you by the Black City's Gate, so that we can decide what to do, personally. Farewell.[/color] [/quote] An then, she just sat, reclining her back against the gate as she waited for Nies Hellum to arrive. [hr] [@TheWindel], [@Lucius Cypher], [@Caits], [@Jedly], [@Mega Birb].