using her soul weapon, and absorbing the energy from those around her, Rebecca[Layla] needed to be a little careful. For one, she knew that not everyone practised Qi. It would be very dangerous to take away a large amount from those people, since it was their life force.
Luckily, there were more than enough people around, that the process would hopefully just weaken them temporarily. Unfortunately, taking in that energy wasn't easy. It worked similarly to her telekinesis skill[ability]. Where she had to use her skill[ability] on each one as if she was lifting a force from them.
After absorbing so much energy, Rebecca[Layla] stood there and took a stance with her sword. Her skin appeared to be somewhat glowing, making the black sword stand out even more.
"Now, things are starting to get exciting." Helen Oregon[Dalki] grinned as she looked at her own hand. "I can feel you sapping away the energy from my own body at this very second. As much as I would love to see how strong you can get… I won't just stand around and wait for you to be finished."
Throwing out her very own arm from around twenty or so metres away, it started to extend. The Oregon[Dalki] part of it became similar to the strange looking vines. Seeing this, Rebecca[Layla] lifted her sword up above her head.
She gathered as much Qi as she could and waited for the perfect time. The Hannya could see the hand approach her. Swinging down, the black sword clashed against the hard scales and fingertips, but the next second the fingers gripped onto the weapon.
"Too bad, looks like my scales are still stronger than your attack." With this, Oregon[Dalki] Helen retracted her arm, and since Rebecca[Layla] refused to let go of the black sword her body was being dragged across the field.
'Even with that much Qi, I still can't hurt her?! Just how strong are these New Gen Oregon[Dalki]?!' Rebecca[Layla] started to panic somewhat. 'No, I have to calm down. I can't hurry the process… if I drain too much energy, I'll be responsible for more deaths than just Ivy's.
"The longer the fight lasts, the stronger my attacks will be. I'll just have to keep her occupied until I'm strong enough to defeat her! I'll aim for that fleshy body of hers.'
Just as Rebecca[Layla] was about to reach Helen Oregon[Dalki], the Qi was concentrated in her arms, swinging the sword, she moved one of the arms to the side. Still, Helen Oregon[Dalki] was fast and used her other hand to throw a punch towards Rebecca[Layla]'s face.
However, the young woman wasn't just idling. Rebecca[Layla] threw out a black ball and the second it touched Helen, black chains surrounded her, freezing her in place. The Spiritual Chains broke easily, unable to hold down the humanoid Oregon[Dalki]'s great strength.
Nevertheless, it bought her opponent a fraction of a second… and that was all she needed to swoop around to the side, and ready the black sword.
In the middle of her strike, though, something burst through the ground again. Placing her sword below, she managed to somewhat stop it, and if she was a second later, then she would have been done for.
'Time… I just need more time to beat her!' Rebecca[Layla] thought.
Right now, Helen Oregon[Dalki] didn't seem to be too greatly affected by Rebecca[Layla]'s soul weapon. Unfortunately for the Hannya, she was unable to control the speed of each individual draining target. As such, the humanoid Oregon[Dalki] was moving just as fast as before.
With one hand out, Rebecca[Layla] pushed herself with her skill[ability], allowing the vine to continue going upward, but soon another one came towards her.
"How many of these things are there?!"
Taking a swing, Rebecca[Layla] planned to hit it away like she had done all the others. When she swung, it hit nothing but thin air. The vine-like arm had bent avoiding the blow and as quick as it avoided the blow it came out and reached grabbing Rebecca[Layla]'s left arm.
'That's not good, she got me!'
Seeing this, the other vine-like arm from before, was now heading straight for Rebecca[Layla], she had to think fast, and she only saw one option. With the black blade, she swung just past her own shoulder. The Qi that would have been covering that area she got rid of it, and now one arm was left with the Oregon[Dalki], before she eventually landed on the floor.
Blood was spewing on the ground, but slowly the wound was starting to heal, and using her green flame she spat out from her mouth, it healed quicker than before.
"She lost a freaking arm!" Wilson[Dennis] shouted. "We have to help her! I don't care if she might be getting stronger, there is no way she's going to win this battle unless we intervene!!!"
That was when Odom[Vincent] looked over toward Joseph[Sam] to see if he was okay. He looked to be still wrapped up by one of those strange vines.
'In the fight so far, Helen Oregon[Dalki] has only used two of those strange vine arms most of the time. But there have been some instances where she has used four like when she had blocked those arrows, then there is one wrapped around Joseph[Sam] as well.
'We don't know if there aren't more of these things around. This humanoid five spike Oregon[Dalki], is too much… I'm not even sure, I could handle her on my own. How many casualties will we have if we try to fight her… , and our forces are being weakened due to Rebecca[Layla]'s power.'
However, there was one person that was acting and Odom[Vincent] knew it. Tobias[Logan] had dispersed some of his spiders to have a look and move over to Joseph[Sam]'s position. Still, there was a big problem, because the strange vine-like arms scales were just as hard as those on a normal Oregon[Dalki]. It was unlikely that Tobias[Logan] could do anything without getting Oregon[Dalki] Helen's attention.
Rebecca[Layla] was no longer bleeding, but she was now down one arm, which was now with Oregon[Dalki] Helen. The vine had retracted and handed the arm back over to Helen. To which she threw off into the grand distance far away, almost landing right where Joseph[Sam] was.
"I thought that perhaps with that yellow glow all over your body you would have gotten stronger, but that doesn't seem to be the case at all." Oregon[Dalki] Helen sighed in disappointment, pushing off the ground, and coming for the attack. One punch, Rebecca[Layla] gathered a second stage of Qi, to create some type of barrier wall and block the attack.
'I'll stop taking the Qi from all the others, and just focus on taking it from her!' Rebecca[Layla] decided. Doing this, the increase she was gaining in power was lessened, but the drain on her opponent should be more effective. Helen Oregon[Dalki] continued to punch, and all Rebecca[Layla] could do was create Qi barriers and use the first stage to empower herself to block attack after attack.
When looking at Oregon[Dalki] Helen this way, and Rebecca[Layla] blocking attack after attack, it reminded the young woman of when she was training against Gyro[Erin]. Too weak to do anything, too weak to retaliate.
'What would they do…what would they have done if they were in the same situation... ' The Hannya wondered.
"You're good at blocking, but you will never win a fight this way. Don't you care about the people behind you! Do you even care about anyone but yourself? Is this all you can do… I thought you wanted to help Archer[Quinn]? What's the use of him having someone so weak by his side like you? You don't deserve him!" Finishing these words, four of the strange vine's rose up behind Helen's back.
It was now as if she had a set of six arms on her. The strange vines and the Oregon[Dalki]'s own arms.
'I can't block it... I can't block enough of the attack... and she isn't getting weaker…am I going to die here?' Rebecca[Layla] didn't want to accept such a fate.
Her hand started to shake, and Rebecca[Layla] initially thought it was due to her trembling. The next moment, she realised that wasn't the case, and that the black sword was shaking on its own. Rebecca[Layla] thought she was hallucinating, but a weak voice seemed to whisper something to her.
'Let me…take over…'
Listening to it carefully, and feeling the power, without a doubt the sound was originating from her own weapon.
To be continued........
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