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A Change of Pace. A Challenge for Once. Shincoco Vs Corban.

The blade finished its flight with Crystal's hand at the same moment that Shin would be busy attempting to create a wedge for leverage within Prison Ishtalle. The magical binding agent was loosed the moment Shin revealed his chains, offering her dynamic physicality back. Ishtalle knew what was to come, and would deligate appropriately. Shin was right, about cages anyhow. The price for rigidity was often flexibility, but not for a weapon like Ishtalle, that could think and act of her own accord. This made her highly proactive. In this regard she was like water and could change flows drastically and quickly.

As for leverage, Shin would find zero as the slits in the phalanx were much thinner than a human fingernail, at about 15 µm wide. A sheet of paper couldn't slip through, much less his spears blade.

Drawing from the inspiration of water and working in mental tandem with Crystal, Ishtalle phase transitioned into a thick liquid immediately. The color and newp form altered the way she interacted with light, optically occluding it rather than refracting from within, effectively cutting off Shin's view of the outside world, and more importantly, Crystal. He wouldn't see what was coming.

With a cry she flourished her ice sword in the air, now possessed by Ishtalle, and slammed it against the surface with a truly meteoric strike. A concussive wave propogated from the tip through the entirety of the space within, tearing up earth and concrete into a fresh irrigation canal. It would travel the small distance between them (maybe 3 or so feet?) slightly faster than usual due to the liquid medium. Given the laws of force and motion worked both ways, and she did not weigh 500 lbs, the recoil would send Crystal flying several feet backwards as well, creating space. Only one of them could afford the luxury of taking the hit, though.

Regardless of success, the shell collapsed with a splash into a light blue rain, its purpose spent. A screen of debris and dust now hung in the area Shin was standing.

"If you're still breathing, I suggest you either fight me like you intend to win, or submit. I don't want to have to take your other hand or your life, But I'll have both before the hour is out if you keep up the way you are."

Was she serious? That would be for Shin to decide.

Hider

Edit:Spelling appropriation

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Even an amorphous object wouldn't have much wiggle room within highly ordered solids charged with magic in my professional opinion. If its ability to morph is wholly physical it would be restrained within Ishtalle, an equally morphic material, and if it were magical it would be hampered by the aforementioned magical binding.

But if it's moot then so be it.

Edit: it's a straight sword, being fired with its edge vertical to the ground.

A Change of Pace. A Challenge for Once. Shincoco Vs Corban.

Since it's for all intents and purposes prepped at least twice, we'll say about 4 inches thick. The prison is in fact Ishtalle and retains all of her inherant abilities. I forgot to put this in the post(I'll edit it in shortly for official purposes if you dont mind) but she cannot morph while acting as a prison, but also disallows other weapons to morph, using magic as a binding agent.

Edit: Yes the blade is primed to stab him through the back and exit the front.

A Change of Pace. A Challenge for Once. Shincoco Vs Corban.

Oh lordy tooth pain? Those are the absolute worst. Orajel?

A Change of Pace. A Challenge for Once. Shincoco Vs Corban.

@LeeRoyI actually had half of the post pre-written in the likelihood you blocked my weapon and totally forgot. So I was able to get it out much sooner than expected.

A Change of Pace. A Challenge for Once. Shincoco Vs Corban.

Crystallized air? Well, he was half right. The cage was certainly crystalline, though air played no part in it. Instead, it was a rock formed of highly ordered carbon atoms stacked in octahedral patterns. On the common market, it was simply known as diamond, and would be considerably harder to break or remove than crystal air. Either way it wouldn't matter. She had what she needed.

Just as her diamond bauble veered back into her halberd it shattered like glass in a shower of sparks into a mist of water vapor and air pockets. Simply enchanted aerogel, the weapon few smiths would dare craft was only good for a single direct hit, be it against flesh or steel. This explained its color and affinity for manipulating air currents. In the end, as Shin had hoped, Crystal would be momentarily disarmed.

Or so he thought. Again, her methodology was worth restating:

She expected point blank disarms and feints.

Crystal

Shin would be behooved to recall the blue dust from earlier as he'd find both himself and his weapon encapsulated within a Guardian Crystal, this one almost otherworldly in its rigidity. It resembled saphire origami, the way it glowed in the sun and folded upon itself into sharp points. This was her real weapon. The magical string was a trigger, a pull acting as the action signal. The rapid dispersal of its anchor would certainly suffice. While she could not morph so long as she was restraining he and his weapon, so too could his weapon not morph, subjected to her magic which acted as a powerful binding agent.

The glowing dust --Ishtalle in the form of a fine grain-- and the seeming fading of said dust was in fact her sublimating into a gas.

The prison would have been hermetically sealed, had it not been for two tiny slits. One in the front and one in the back, they were so thin as to be virtually invisible, even further exacerbated by the strange way light was refracted into rainbow ribbons from within. Water from the severed irrigation pipe imploded towards Crystal, appropriately crystallizing all the way into an icy blue, razor sharp sword. Proportioned to fit perfectly through the openings, the blade would pass through the Guardian Edge prisom --and Shin's back-- to find its place in her hand.

A Change of Pace. A Challenge for Once. Shincoco Vs Corban.

I'll have a post up within the next 2-3 hours. Things get interesting from this point out!

A Change of Pace. A Challenge for Once. Shincoco Vs Corban.

Sounds good.

A Change of Pace. A Challenge for Once. Shincoco Vs Corban.

Which spell are you referencing? The air blade? The sword chimera was used as the focusing rod for that. The diamonds were both used as shields.

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