The Illusion of Destruction(Temple of the Seal!)

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(No posting here until after Gathering Hope is complete! Only for Temple of the Seal participants.)

In the middle of the wasteland where the Temple of the Seal of Sight had once stood, something gleamed in the light.

Floating about 20 feet above the ground was what appeared to be a large cube made out of mirrors. Each side was a square mirror, and it measured five feet on each side. It spun in place, sending light all around it and reflecting the light across the ground. The light beams flashed brighter and scorch marks made a large circle around the Heartless.

The Reflection was here.

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The darkness streamed out of the sky, as if instead of being the smoke it was, it was instead the absence of light, sucking the light out around it. It swirled towards the Reflection, encircling it before being sucked into the mirrors. A transparent image of the Bloodhound in its full hunting pounce briefly appeared on one of the Reflection's sides before disappearing.

[Akito]

His leg was at top form again, the wounds and fatigue from his last battle barely weighing down on him despite the quick succession. It was the convenience of magic, Alexis had never claimed to be a capable healer but at least this much healing magic (his was but a small wound) was possible by him. He'd need at least to be this much to face his next adversary.

The lone sorcerer, blue haired, red eyed, strode through the wasteland in search of his next target. It had been long since he walked with such purpose. It was hard to miss the beast this time, since the light shining off its surfaces was clear even from quite a distance away. Really, it was too suspicious to be anything else but the enemy Alexis sought.

So, in his right hand, he began charging the same spell that defeated the first beast. The light spear that made no distinction who what enemy or defenses it faced. It would pierce them all. Alexis had come to challenge the Reflection.

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The Reflection shifted its attention towards Alexis. Even though there was no visible change, there was a palpable sense of being watched that could be felt by Alexis. Suddenly, a green, fan-like beam of light shot out, hitting Alexis at his feet. It went up his body, scanning him as it did with an audible hum. The light returned once it finished, and then the Reflection shimmered, disappearing.

A green circle appeared on the ground, raising itself up and leaving a trail of grid lines behind in the form of a person. The circle disappeared as the grid lines resolved themselves into a form, color and appearance shifting in order to match the scanned target.

Another Alexis stood there, a perfect match for the sorcerer currently charging up a spell. It gestured, and a magic circle appeared behind Alexis, about 10 meters behind him, and a Excelia laser fired from it towards him.

[Akito]

The Aegis shield reacted immediately to block the Excelia blast by his copy, however, instead of stopping it; Alexis allowed the Aegis rather to keep the driving force of the blast. So, in essence, Aegis prevented him from getting hurt, like a plank of steel between himself and gushing magma, but the copy's own Excelia drove Alexis forward at breakneck speed.

His goal was not his copy, which would find Alexis' suitcase and all its black arms extended out in a wide net in front of it (impairing its vision of Alexis, hopefully) in an attempt to grab the copy.

Meanwhile Alexis would power towards the location of the 'Mirror' Heartless (last he saw it), and when he reached a sufficiently close distance, he would purposely swing the Spear of Destruction in wide arcs in the general vicinity it was last seen. Hoping more or less to strike gold.

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The other Alexis opened up its own suitcase, which reached out its arms and grabbed Alexis's arms, 'disarming' both of them of that tactic and halting it. It then jumped back and summoned the eight balls of destruction that had been so effective against the Bloodhound. It sent them forwards towards Alexis, from many different directions.

Meanwhile, Alexis would find that he had hit nothing but air, as the Reflection's invisibility was such that there was no possible way of detecting it. Even wide arcs can be predicted and dodged easily, which was presumably what the Reflection was doing.

[Akito]

The wide arcs were deceptive. Meant to divert attention from Alexis' real target...his copy. Suddenly, the wide arcs became charging spins, building up momentum for the throw. And what a throw it was. Without any indication he was aiming at the copy, Alexis suddenly twisted and hurled the Spear of Destruction straight at the copy. Even Aegis was vulnerable to the shield breaking, piercing properties of this spell.

Then, to counteract the approaching Gallia spheres, Alexis activate two Gallia spheres. Two. He spread them out to cover the approaching enemy Gallia and activated their magnetic powers first and in doing so, attempted to draw in his enemy's Gallia spheres. Using the least resources to disable the enemy, keeping your own resources in reserve; that was his intention.

Alexis would leap up airborne and prepare himself.

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The Alexis copy began to move, but it wasn't nearly fast enough or moving early enough to be able to dodge anything but a killing blow. The spear caught it in the side, taking out a large chunk of the clone's body. As the spear shot past, green light spilled from the wound in spasms, acting almost like electric arcs sparking out of a broken circuit.

Meanwhile, the Gallia spheres shot out around the two spheres, using the pulling motion to create a slingshot effect. The pull was enough to completely remove any chance of actually reaching Alexis with the balls, but as they neared each other, the copy activated Gallia Tsar, the balls merging into a large wrecking ball of destructive energy, floating an equal distance between the two Gallias, the two pulls canceling each other out.

[Akito]

Alexis unleashed Limstellia on his injured copy, reasoning mobility would not be in the copy's favor with a wound like that. The two magic circles fired an array of missiles at the enemy...and Alexis followed them. He came in -among- the plethora of missiles, flying towards his enemy and mindful to avoid the Gallia Tsar.

In the midst of the chaos, if the missiles did not get him, Alexis would cut his enemy down...or his two 'Servants' would.

The Suitcase, battling with the other, grappling and being grappled, began to whirl, began to draw in, as a Blackhole was in development.

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Three magic circles appeared in the air around the Alexis copy, and two more appeared on its arms. For one brief moment the time itself seemed to slow down, before all the circles fired large Excelia lasers forwards. All five of them flew towards Alexis and his cover of missiles, breaking through all in their path. It wouldn't destroy all of Limstellia, but a good portion would be annihilated in a meeting of magics.

Meanwhile, the grappling copy suitcase also began to grow a blackhole, the exact same size as the true suitcase. This seemed like a very even match at the time.

[Akito]

Alexis reeled back, firing a single Excelia to the side in order to violently send his body flying off to the left, away from the path of the five Excelia blasts. And, in doing so, he would get a clear sight of the copy. His Fi Selice was already poised and ready to fire, shooting off blades like Crossbow bolts, multiple ones at the head, chest and stomach of the copy. Alexis was aware that it had the Aegis defense and this was the reason he sent multiple attacks against it.

He waited patiently for the Mirror monster to make its move...

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A large magic circle appeared, and both the remaining shots of Limstellia and the blades that Alexis flung were deflected as the Second Aegis took effect.

The clone's eyes had been completely emotionless so far. Now that it was standing completely still as it held up Aegis, it could be clearly seem that the eyes were not merely emotionless, but empty: There were no pupils, nor irises. The whiteness of the eyes accentuated the copy's unreality. The wound in its side continued to arc out green energy.

[Akito]

Alexis still had six Gallia spheres left, right?

These he made appear and wait just before the Aegis shield. Not penetrating through it, no, that was an impossible task. Just floating there, right at the Second Aegis' doorstep and as near as it was physically possible just before the magic shield. Aegis could not be formed very far away from Alexis, after all. The minute that shield went down, those spheres would tear into the copy's head, arms and legs.

This was where the difference in 'resources' used to nullify each other would truly come into effect.

Meanwhile, the real Alexis himself used the time the copy went into defense to fly himself even higher, readying his Si Felice for the firing of more bolts at the copy.

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The clone quickly used Si Felice to begin destroying the Gallia Spheres systematically. A couple got past, destroying chunks of its arms. Once again, green energy began to spurt forth erratically. At this point, almost the entire body of the copy was cloaked in a green aura of released energy. Eyes flashing, it destroyed the spheres as they tore into its body, lifting up and firing the blades from Si Felice through the air towards Alexis.

[Akito]

Alexis conceded. He had hoped to keep his copy in a weakened state and find and deal with the Mirror, the root of this power...however...It was him. It had too much power and though the copy had been wasteful, that power may come back -very- soon. The real Alexis could not risk that.

So he chose to end it.

Alexis did what the copy had before. He fired all Five Excelias all at the copy, an attack that would overwhelm the Si Felice blades easily.