A Tale Of Magik

[Raleigh]

Been a bit of time since someone played that routine with me. I think just last Tuesday. Nah, we can sit here and stare at each other if you want. In fact I was going to ask exactly what it is you wish to know from me. It is obvious you know enough to know at least some of what I can do. The boredom was in the poor sport it is to simply smash constructs since they can't fight worth anything and I don't have to hold back on nonliving objects. Do please not interpret it to mean I'm over all bored so far. I'm actually enjoying this little bit of word play as meaningless for both our sides as it is.

[Blaze]

Okuni slumps to her knees, clearly exhausted while even Logos looks winded. Lucy tries to holds the golems back with blasts of wind, but that isn't likely to help. Now that they're surrounded, Blaze has even less reason to try explosives.

Suddenly, Jean stands up! Her whole body seems to glow with an otherworldly light as she crosses herself.

In nomine Patris, et Filii, et Spiritus Sancti. Amen

Suddenly, lightning strikes down from the skies! They focus on the golems, and as though they were guided by some force, strike at their runes!

[Knight Errant]

Dact casually walks onwards, batting the stone spears aside with his hammer. "Dum dum dum dum... dum dee dum dum... dum dum duuuuum!" He hums idly.

[Zoey]

In the motion that Dact has completely extended his hammer after a swing a spire of pretty hard reinforced rock jets front the ground and impales into his armored waist!

The lightning summoned by Jean strikes the golems in the runes! In a flash of light some of the golems melt due to the high temperatures of the lightning and explode. However Jean would notice the lightning itself wasn't damaging the golems of earth, in fact a few golems dug their feet into the ground and grounded the lightning attack suffering even less damage. Half of the golems were destroyed noticable by their rune locations being destroyed. The other half that were damaged plucked their feet out of the ground and started absorbing their fallen comrades to regenerate the damage! Mima looks to the tiring exorcists especially Jean with a bit of fear, but mostly amazement. "We have to destroy them completely or they'll... guys?" she says before noticing the girls were getting exhausted. Jean especially after that display of power would find herself extremely drained out. There were 6 golems left and they were stationary as they regenerated.

The bunny girl smiled and sat back down crossing her legs. "Thank you Raleigh" she says with a small smile. "And yes, as you have probably assumed, I do. In fact, you are a bit famous from the exploits I've heard about you... well from the small group of people I've managed to contact through inter-dimensional travel" she says putting her hands together on top of her knee. My biggest question to you Sir Raleigh, might come off as something silly, but... What do you know about other worlds?"

[Raleigh]

*The gnat that had been flying over the group dissolves into sprinkles of energy that flow into the exorcists. They should feel their wounds healing and energy returning to them.*

Do you mean by their rules, the differences, the races that occupy them, the ratio of carbon based life as opposed to silicon, or something else exactly? I know there are infinite universes each containing myriad galaxies each containing several star systems that contain several worlds that themselves play host to numerous worlds such as the spectral, astral, physical, and so on realms of which there are numerous differences. Even then there is any number of alternate timelines for each existence in each eventuality so it leads to a lot of data to sum up. And that isn't even including places that are only realms and not proper worlds in the sense of being planets in space, Chaos itself, the afterlifes, the realms of that which doesn't exist yet, that which did but was removed from history, and the like. I do know I can travel to any of these at whim with little expenditure of energy save for a handful which I have to pass through the Gate to access.

[Blaze]

Jean slumps to her knees, her breathing ragged and her eyes unfocused. Blaze, having done nothing however is still on her feet.

"Okay, only nine left, and destroying the runes stops them. I can handle the rest."

An AW50F anti material rifle appears in her arms. Loading a magazine of armor-piercing explosive rounds into it, she takes aim and fires at one of the golem's rune! Ejecting the spent round, she takes aim and fires again and again! After five shots, she pulls out the empty magazine and loads a new one, firing at the last four!

[Knight Errant]

Dact was rather not expecting a stone uppercut! Dact tumbles back a bit, rolling and coming to his feet... "Ugh... that wasnt very nice."

[Zoey]

The stone spire slowly returns and melds into the ground. Dactylos chest plate was slashed to the side, but the knight did not suffer any wounds. "So how does it feel 'knight errant'? To be alone and powerless?" said the woman teasing Dactylos, her voice echoing all over the chamber hiding her location. "I'll make you pay for leaving us behind to rot..." she said now more threatening and serious as 2 giant stone hands erupted from the ground going to grab Dactylos and they moved quite fast for being earth constructs!

The energy released by the gnat as it feel seemed to vanish. Barely a 30% of the energy managed to go into empowering the exorcists only enough to briefly stop their slowly diminishing powers. The bunny girl looks to the side as Raleigh speaks, almost looking distracted before turning her gaze back to the man. "I'm sorry. I couldn't help but notice your energy over there to the west disappearing" she said not mocking Raleigh but her gaze was that of being surprised. "You came here unprepared didn't you?" she said with a raised eyebrow. She legitimately looked confused, baffled even. Shed thought that with Raleighs speech just know he'd know better.

Jean would momentary feel much better and the other exorcists aswell. Almost as if that weight over their shoulders had been lifted for a second, but slowly but surely it still slightly lingered. The golems quickly dodged, they were more than smarter to stay still. Their feet quickly melded into the ground and they started moving around. However Blaze's expert marksman ship managed to inflict 3 deadly shots to the golems and destroy them easily. However the golems were now in melee range. The last 6 each picked an exorcits, 2 ganging on Blaze. Each stormed forth and went in for golem punches.

[Blaze]

Blaze scowled and slowly backpedeled, still firing.

"It should be against the law for these things to move so fast!"

The other Exorcists star tot get up, slightly recovered from Raleigh's help, but it's not enough to to fight the golems. It's all they can do to rapidly try to escape!

[Raleigh]

My dear I'm never unprepared. My contingencies have backup contingencies and even when I fail my main task I achieve a secondary goal. Even from here it could be as simple as using a true word style spell to invoke death on all those golems they are currently facing, banish those golems to oblivion, or for me to carve 'dead/death' into them to cease the animating magic. *Is already tracing back along his energy path to tag the exorcists in preparation for summoning them to himself so they are safe.* Still, best to let them fight it out if possible. I wouldn't want people to become solely reliant on deus ex machina like me interfering all the time. Besides, they are human and that is enough. Such an amazing race that achieves god slaying powers in the right situations and the capacity to add yet more to the ever expanding reality that hides itself as being harmless by having neither claw nor fang. If they work together they can achieve yet more. Say they were to create a barrier around just the feet of the golems to hold them in place long enough to run. How inventive is that? *That last sentence can also be heard by the exorcists.*

[Knight Errant]

"Keep talking, crazy lady..." Dact says as he leaps backwards to avoid the hands! Getting to his feet and clenching his fist, which begins crackling brightly with electricity.

[Zoey]

A large earth hand appears behind Dact going in to the grab the knight. "Don't underestimate me!" shouted the woman as the hand grabs Dact!

The bunny girl chuckles extending her arm and her middle and index finger before making like a scissors and closing them. Raleigh would feel that the connection he was trying to establish was cut! "I do agree, its best to let them fight alone" she said turning to Raleigh with an innocent smile and lets Raleigh finish her speech before raising her own voice. "Shame they can regenerate with any stone around so that wouldn't help" she says after Raleigh using his same method of commutation, before brushing some hair behind her ear. "Please, I thought this was going to be between you and me and no one else. So please... lets keep it like that, kay?~" she says again with the innocent smile.

The golems give chase and the first they grab is Blaze who is trying to buy time! As the golem raises Blaze about to smash her into the ground Mima jumps in and with a punch shatters the golems arm and Blaze falls on her butt free'd. Mima lands between then and rubs her knuckle cringing as she blows into it. "Ouch ouch ouch that huuurt ;__:" The other golems close the gab with the exorcists!

[Blaze]

Blaze yelped as the golem snatches her up! The others were already too far away to help her and could only watch as the golem raises it's arm. The gunner closed her eyes and prepared herself... when she is suddenly saved by Mima! She falls back on her butt, hurt but alive!

"Thanks Mima! Now let's get out of here!"

Ignoring the pain, bot hers and Mima's, Blaze grabs the younger girl by the wrist and drags her away, the other Exorcists leading the way!

[Raleigh]

They can regenerate obviously I agree but how that helps escaping from being bound is questionable unless you are meaning to say they can just reform from other stone around themselves leaving that husk bound in place. You seem to have a habit of leaving out a large portion of what you are trying to say leaving me with having to interpret the intention of half statement. As for this it has been between the two of us. I haven't really projected this conversation to anyone who wouldn't be hearing it anyway. Naturally my familiars such as Ebony are hearing everything as it happens though since they hear what I hear unless I explicitly block it.

So what was the aim of the question about if I know about other worlds? You still haven't followed up on that question to explain it popping up.

[Knight Errant]

Dact is grabbed! And lets out a huge lightning storm! Which is very effective against ground if you go by Naruto rules, and totally noneffective if you go by Pokemon rules!