Reignor by Aer-ki Jyr

Author:Aer-ki Jyr [Jyr, Aer-ki]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Archon Lore
Published: 2021-02-18T22:00:00+00:00

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His nameless opponent sneered at the Neofan as the Ren’mak flew up and hovered behind him chirping away at him in warning. “I was going to send you back to cause trouble,” he said, slowly raising a hand. “But you’re not worth the effort.”

Plausious grabbed the Ren’mak and shoved him back so fast it looked like he was fired as a projectile. He sent a firm and fast order to him to run…then after that he had no time to focus on his friend as an Essence wave hit him and cascaded over his nullification shield, rippling with the concussive impact while mutually disappearing along with Plausious’s outer layers of his defense. The nullification shield was the easiest defense possible, but also the most costly in terms of energy. It also had the advantage of being able to counter all types of Essence attacks, and not knowing what was coming his way, Plausious had chosen wisely.

He felt his barrier get chunked by the attack, then another and another followed it in rapid succession, with him knowing his opponent was trying to wear him down rather than overpower him. Plausious delved into his stored energy to reinforce his shield, letting his opponent hammer him with multiple types of attacks, each of which he was able to see and catalog, with only one being new to him.

His opponent stood with his arm raised, throwing the invisible energy towards him while taking a few slow steps to begin closing the distance between them…and in that moment Plausious realized something. The disgust and hate emanating from his opponent did not match the reserved attack pattern he was using. This patient, attrition-based technique was something a calm opponent would use, not someone so irate their emotions were spilling over into their telepathy for all to sense.

No. His opponent was not using strategy. He was throwing as hard of attacks against Plausious as he could manage, one after another in a rage.

And Plausious could absorb them all.

Essence generation was not a simple as draining a container…not when that container was your body. The rate of drawdown was dependent on skill development, with new users only able to remove a small, steady flow at the beginning. Massive power dumps required practice and temperament of the body, otherwise such power could not be unleashed so rapidly. When it was drawn out too fast, as in the case of the apocalypse monsters, it ripped the body apart, which was why there was natural inhibitors against Essence drain. If there were not, one could conceivably drain their full lifeforce in a single moment.

The amount of Essence being thrown at Plausious, in a cumulative sense, was impressive, but each attack seemed capped at a certain amount, as if his opponent could not summon more than this amount, no matter what form he sent it in.

But the Reignor’s cap was heightened greatly by his time spent in spontaneous battle where he did not have the luxury of slow, methodical combat, and he knew he could generate more than that.

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