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'Would you like ta know why you could never possibly win?'

Gideon smirked.

"Funny you should ask."

With that, a vacuum formed on the inside of the fused titan simultaneously pulling all the air out that was being used inside the being's body while allowing the fusion to get a feel for to location of the man's vitals specifically the many beating hearts the titan would have from being part Rajaka.

"50 Blade… Butcher.” he said as the giant blade that was still piercing the titan split and cut through the vacuum to eviscerate Zelraka from inside out.

While this was happening, Gideon’s hand changed to stone, particles of sand shifting around under Zelraka’s grip to loosen the titan’s hold and free himself.

"Like you were saying, it's been fun.”

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Gideon briefly reflected on the nature of Zelraka's barrier. Reminiscent of Rajaka's 'anti-Ki' ability, the primary difference was that it seemed more or less equally effective against magic and Ki. Rajaka's resistance had, to Gideon's memory, been largely a result of his massive Ki taking physical form and repelling foreign Ki.

It also was most prevalent when he lost his temper. Whether or not that information would prove useful, he didn't know, and may not have time to discover.

Gideon didn't even glance at the slowly shrinking ring of ordinance.

"We've all got places to be." He said, voice still riding the wind and confusing detection.

Gideon sliced his cover in two and sent one section spinning furiously toward Zelraka. He thickened the sandstorm around his fused opponent

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”Maybe a little.” Gideon's voice rode the wind and echoed throughout the atmosphere, leaving his location less than obvious.

The sand shards that Zelraka blasted away flew into the wind Gideon had been brewing. The sandstorm grew in mass, ever more violent with each passing moment. The razor-edged granules circled around and aimed to swallow the large brute. Hardly random, the tens of thousands of minuscule blades whipped such that they aimed with precision for Zelraka’s physical weak points- eyes, joints, ligaments.

It did leave the question- how did Gideon find the material for such an endeavor? Could he not only manipulate Earth, but like Jeff with wind, create it? Or something else?

’Let’s see how much that barrier of yours can take.’

Gideon flickered again, sweeping beneath the platform Zelraka floated over. He thrust his blade in a hard slashing motion to bisect it again from below while aiming to slice the titan's legs. Gideon then flickered to another platform that had titled sideways for cover from the fusion’s line of sight with a foothold he forged out of clay beneath him.

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The blade wielder watched as the fused ‘God’ laughed off the suffocation technique. To be fair, he did not exactly expect anything to come easily, but at the very least it could guarantee he'd eventually have to move with a quick enough to velocity to escape or otherwise voluntarily endure the pain of burning lungs. If he were even vulnerable to such a thing.

Then Zelraka vanished.

’That’s one question answered.’

“Oh so you kept Zelriane's speed after all.” The fusion smirked as the blades from before dissipated into thin air. The fused Sage used the wind to predict where his opponent would appear. His prior knowledge of Zelriane and Rajaka’s battle habits and personalities damn near made it obvious.

He glanced back to see the shock-wave coming and swiftly advanced forward. His light frame and mastery over the air let him clear longer distances, and the earth he manipulated let him form new platforms until he’d cleared the blast radius.

The sage fusion then followed through his advancing motion with a jab of his armored elbow, forming another blade. A flying, slashing wave burst forth, faster than those prior, and angled just around the shock wave aiming to pierce the fused giants side.

Once outside the immediate danger the shockwave presented, Gideon spun around to face his foe and dispelled the blade from his elbow. He stirred the wind anew and dissolved the platforms he’d used, the particles whipping through the air on the wind.

”Good. Gods forbid this fight be over too quickly.”

Banter, it seemed, was a habit Gideon shared with the parts that made his sum.

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"Yeah pretty much everything...." Jeff responded, following the line Bruce said to Zelraka earlier as he closed in to Bruce and drew his blade once more.

He then proceeded to stab his left hand with the blade and draw blood from it in much a similar fashion that Bruce had done and then place his hand outwards to meet Bruce's as his magical energy flowed through the blood and prepared to make contact with Bruce. ".. and then some."

As the two made contact with there hands clasping together, there blood began to form a magical connection between the two, one which would envelope them both in a bright light as the wind surged around them and all the platforms shook for a brief moment.

Then out of nowhere a blade shot out of the light shot of the glowing sphere that enveloped the two sages, flying out several yards away and almost effortlessly pierced through one of the tower platforms and kept going several yards further till it stopped suddenly.
"Whoops."
It then in a split second shifted though the air slicing the platform like it was made out of paper as it went for Zios and within a couple seconds sent a flurry of strikes at the orb that contained him while making sure to avoid slashing into his friend as he did so. The resulting flurry would either disperse the attack or at the very least weaken it enough for the Zios to break free the rest of the way. A platform of wind once more formed under Zios ready to catch him.

"So this is the power to cut anything..." The being muttered. The light then dispersed with an outward expulsion of wind that came back in on itself as the new figure stood. Long hair, silver tinted blue, hung down to his back and sat up in short spikes at the crest of his forehead.

His figure, while firm, was lithe and corded with muscle rather than bulk. His posture, the sheer determination he exuded denoted his reserves of power.

When he opened his eyes to reveal white irises that absorbed everything calmly, anyone who looked at him knew- his was a confidence founded on the knowledge he'd been born from a fusion of elements that nature had not intended to inhabit one body.

"Gideon." He said simply, christening himself. "He who cuts."

He looks toward Zelraka.

"That is who I am."

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"Oh" Jeff muttered as he stared blankly at Zelraka as the ordinance attack manged to completely cut off the storm he was drawing power from and revealed him back to everyone. In most situations this would have probably annoyed him, but considering the situation and the status of his allies he had begun to consider other options. "Hey Bruce, I hate to admit this, but we might have to resort to that trump of ours..."
The sage muttered using the wind once more to make it so only his allies could hear his words.

The sage floated down closing in towards Bruce slowly while keeping his eyes on the fusion. "I know the plan was to save it for helping Jenso with Yziera, but I'm worried we might not be able to pull out of this otherwise. At least not in time."

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Jeff grumbled slightly as his attacks once against seemed to do jack shit against any of the orbs that were obviously part of a super attack ment to most likely trap the entire room and seeing Zios' body go slack from what he could only guess to be an invisible paralyzing shockwave similar to the one he was captured by with his fight against Rajaka earlier, well it could be best said his confidence was beginning to drop once again. Still not one to let his comrades die in front of him quickly shot his hand forward and released a barrage of 20 ultra compressed wind bullets with the first few aiming to strike from behind and others following short after to aim at the fusions arm and legs joints. 'hopefully this will at least hold him back long enough.'
While this attack was going down the sage then formed a platform of wind under Zios and carried him a several platforms back at high speeds aiming to clear him out of the range of any close range attacks meant to strike him down.

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After that attack Jeff instantly dove back into the storm where he once more began to build up power and observe what was going on while beginning to make various compressed pockets of wind which circled the arena that Zelraka created with his massive power. Out of curiosity the sage also took a moment to fire a barrage of wind bullets into the center of each of the four spheres that went to the side of the room attempted to see if it was possible to disrupt them.

"Something Nexus' did huh?" Jeff responded back to Bruce mentioning what happened to him. "This just keeps getting more problematic."

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As Zios and Zelraka started to clash, Jeff took a moment to fly up into the whirling storm where he just let go of himself, letting the storming wind swarm around him and following the course it took while simultaneously using it the avoid the attacks launched out at him. Soon enough him and the storm began to synchronize, allowing him full control of the wind direction and how it chose to rage. Thus the form began to circle around there battlefield in a controlled manor as Jeff formed a blade in his left hand and took note of the deadly blast being prepared to blast Zios directly in the face.
"Nope!" The sage muttered to Zelraka as he almost literally blinked past him with a storm boosted wind dash, grabbing Zios with his right hand and positioning him on a platform a couple feet back while simultaneously sending a Naplam Slash and the fusion's legs attempting to slice them open with an explosive slash. "This storm should play into our favor, I feel as I can truly be One with Wind here, Hahaha!"

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Jeff cringed when he saw his bullets get deflected entirely by the strange energy Zelraka produced but overall figured this was going to be the case. Seeing how the focus fire wasn't directly aimed at him yet the sage took the time to hide his crates outside the tower and leaving them suspending in the air on the lower outside portions. "Considering he blocked my piercing bullets, setting up the thing I used might be a tad more difficult, but we'll see." Jeff's voice spoke through the wind back to Zio's and Bruce's traveling in a way to make the sound muffled to anyone else. "Regardless if you have a plan I'm all ears."

The sage prepared the wind to send Bruce and Zio's voices back and forth the same way he projected them, making sure to keep there voices away from the fusion's ears.