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

Hm? I was under the impressiom that the staff was literally composed of his soul, and that's what gave it its physics defying morohic power. If it didnt just liquify or disappear, wouldnt it just stop functioning?

To close it would require conscious control, and my lightning was timed with the opening of the shield. This early on, the trap wouldnt have been properly set up as I recall the timing. At least not to the degree that she'd be in any real danger.

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

I try to maintain logic to a point that ones suspension of disbelief remains suspended as I push the limits. I try to bring all of my higher dimension attacks down to a real world, relateable source. In this case, its that the ethereal charge would destroy whatever metaphysical (which encompasses both psychic and spiritual planes) bonds allowed the weapon to manifet and do what it does, in the exact same way plasma or fire destroys things.

I like to term it metachemistry.

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

It would not neccessarily destroy the link, but its physical form. Granted this is magic so it cannot be wholly dissected, but we can follow common themes. Most people agree that spiritual attacks and buffs help effect incoroporeal beings such as ghosts and angels. I.E. ghost blades that strike on a spiritual level and such.

Using this logic, one can assume the staff, a wholly spiritual object given form, would be susceptible to equally spiritual attacks, since virtually no physical attack can stop it reliably.

Edit: I never second guessed its physics defying power. But I also assumed it follows some vague semblence of logic. Even if it exists in the material world, it is still spiritual.

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

It states she can dual-cast as well. The lightning is not something only limited to her. Its ethereal because she knows that it would destroy whatever metaphysical glue was holding it together. Crystalle could have casted this herself. Ishtalle was simply more active.

Edit: In simple terms, the lightning was a spell cooked up by ishtalle based on information gathered through interactions with the staff, and not wholly based upon her Adaptive Edge ability.

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

She does not require several thousand strikes from an individual weapon. After thousands of interactions, she simply has a vast library of enchantments to rely upon. She has interacted with the staff on at least 8 occasions. Usually three is the number I use.

Edit: Earlier in the fight, she even says she'll need a 'few' more tastes. This is after she had already interacted with it.

Edit 2: I never enforce my laws upon other people. That means I will never outright declare my weapon is superior to another. Corban merely deems his superior. Besting enhanced weapons is entirely a process of her interacting with them and nothing more.

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Of all his carefully made mistakes, he made a single correct assumption; she was certainly probing. Had he not morphed his weapon in close quarters when he stole her expensive contact lens? Did he not morph his weapon against her blade barrier? Did he not examplify its morphic strength with this Hydra beast? She had found a series of patterns - of rules that Shin preferred to play with. Furthermore, she never forgot details.

She expected point blank feints

Crystal

With the world ticking slowly by like the hands of a grandfather clock, she witnessed the barrier dialate and open like a blooming flower in a surprisingly high definition that plasma screens could only immitate. This would be no matter. All of her stores were still stocked, and they would be released like a spear into the Kraken regardless.

The moment the tip of her sword passed through the opening the ghostly blue charge would be released in wide, reaching branches that would lash out at all of the space beside and afront of her before fizzling out in a brilliant burst of violet starfire. No matter how careful his eye, most humans --ascended or not-- had trouble reacting to stimuli within a fraction of a fraction of a fraction of a second. That spoke nothing of his Hydra, which contained far more surface area than the measly Shin by comparison.

This action would once again leave them free falling, as originally intended. His staff arm, which was fused with his shield would be destroyed by the same processes that stopped the Hydra, given it was the object closest to the discharge. the rules still applied; if he did not let go, he would be subject to the ionized wrath as well. In a seccond flat, she'd be upon him like a bat out of hell.

In mid-air, and subject to the laws of a free-floating environment, Shin would find himself assaulted by a total of nine Guardian Edge Claymore's, and nine accompanying strikes. They would come to perform his enneasection infernally quick, so quick that she disappeared between each cut and stab. Instead of a single warrior assaulting with a single weapon, Shin would instead see the faint flicker of her apparition over each sword as they cut. It would all come to a head when she'd reappear a final time above him with an overhead, two handed cleave downward. The blades would reappear with her, alligned into elegant blade-wings. From this position, her back would be to the sun, but staring directly into Shin's eye.

If he saw her sillhouette, she may have truly appeared to be an angel of death.

Hider

Edit: Grammar

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

This is quite tame compared to my other mishaps. This fight has had an amazing progression and build-up. I wouldn't ruin it with petty squabbling, anyhow. But I get your issue. I had to get all 4 wisdom teeth, plus a fifth, removed at once. I was a child of Satan for the weeks I was healing.

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

That's fine. If the same result can be achieved then go for it. I'm not inherently confrontational but I felt that was an important factor of my attack.

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

Edited previous post with other concerns.

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

Im a bit confused as to how 'severing his connection' to the staff would help against my attack. I was under the inpression this weapon was in fact his soul. Even severing his connection to it, would it not still be a wholly spiritual construct given shape? I don't imagine this is a polearm infused with his soul, but literally an extention of it. I cant imagine severing it would both rid it of its magical conductiveness and still be able to exercise control over it.

Edit: This is also happening at lightning speed literally, since this ethereal lightning moving through his staff is equivalent to electricity coursing through a metal. On that note, if one were to send an electrical current through a bar of metal, cutting the metal in half would not sever the current. Youd just end up with two electrified bars. Unless youre arguing that you cut off the metal before the current passed through the rest, and that's what I'm getting from the post, I don't see how the technique would work. And that's a huge stretch even by pc standards since it was channeled on contact thus nullifying any form of believable preparation for it.