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Martin’s actions had been simple. A pivot, right after a beheading would follow. Martin always stayed true to his beliefs, and what is better than the belief in one’s own self? Especially one’s own senses.
’Hmm…?’
Martin’s senses felt something… Odd.
While Martin’s ability to sense Reiryoku is not the best, it’s quite high. But what is higher is the fact that Martin had long since trained for a day like this. The ability of playing a hide and seek with incorporeal beings - such as the hands, as well as the spirits that Martin had befriended. His senses in that regard was possibly even beyond what a master could have - a skill derived from his own life’s experiences and attuned senses in regards to his interaction towards spirits - especially those that loved to hide from him. And so, today, Martin’s senses had saved him. Was it just the fact that his senses could feel the existence of those incorporeal snakes? The answer is no. What allowed him to save himself from the hand’s grasp, was the fact that he - after years of being an assassin - could sense bloodlust. Specifically he could sense both active and passive bloodlust. Active bloodlust is the bloodlust someone feels towards someone the moment they go in for the kill, or fight against them or just dislike someone. Passive bloodlust is the sixth sense one can have that - for example - states that if you go this way, something bad will occur. Martin’s senses in those two factors had been quite enhanced, but between the two - bloodlust and incorporeal sensing, he could sense bloodlust the most.
And so, it was time to showcase what free aerial maneuverability truly meant.
Martin’s body left the place he was at the moment. It dived towards the earth. If someone was watching, all they would see was but an afterimage - a result from Martin’s overall speed.
Martin’s focus was to lower himself enough so that the sensation of danger he had felt would dissipate. And so, he reached one spot that screamed at Martin that it’s safe. Oddly enough, the spot was moving - a result from those snakes, the hands, moving around in order to guard Chain Top’s body. Martin weaved through them. His wind barrier never left him, the hands always unable to come in contact with him. Would they be a spiritual effect - a blast of energy - then they could pass through this shield and damage Martin’s body. Luckily, they weren’t.
Martin’s blade is currently within the body of Chain Top. Due to how the wind barrier works - granting its wielder the ability of being frictionless, all the while disallowing them to interfere with the world around them - that does not equate to the blade being unable to be within Chain Top’s body, a result that has already occured. Martin weaves his weapon around, following the path of his sensations, his speed such that makes it both impossible to be caught and - in the off-chance one of those incorporeal snakes is around, he can throw it away due to the hands being unable to touch him - resulting in their movement away from Martin’s body. His weaving around leads him to the vicinity of the area where the heart exists.
‘Hmm… What if…?’
An idea has filled within Martin’s mind. What if he could make a safezone within this area of danger and then… What if?
He smiles. He capitalizes on his speed, as well as something he has yet to so in an offensive manner. Clypeus This ability - that fills the area in front of Martin with the energy of Wind, creating a ring of wind that anything that passes from within it, has their speed doubled, as well as granting absolute friction removal abilities - is not a defensive ability. No. On the contrary to what has been used until now, it is an ability meant for offense. And so, it’s time to change from defense to offense.
Much like how Chain Top earned his nickname, so does Martin act. He begins to do the same action, moving his body around - though unlike what Chain Top did by moving its body in a circle and using the chains to produce damage - Martin utilizes his own body, as well as wind barrier to force the hands to simply get out of his way. Martin is on a taller side. One meter and seventy five centimeters, or five feet and nine inches - without having extended his arms. Doing so, due to the arms being between around one third to half of one’s body, Martin’s arms are around twenty centimeters, or around eight inches. This allows Martin to create a safe zone around the area of Chain Top’s heart of around one meter and ninety five centimeters, or six feet and four inches.
This safezone is huge - if compared to the speed capabilities Chain Top has shown, as well as how slow it acts. For Martin to create this safe zone, he needed around one second and some more, but less than two seconds. He has also assured that his own body passed by all the area around.
And so, there is one thing he needs to do.
The moment that Martin is assured that nothing is around, that no sensation of danger still linger, he immediately changes the Element he is focusing.
Fire.
It’s embrace was the last thing Martin remembers from his childhood. It was the very first element he had unlocked and utilized. Martin smiles. He needs but one thing to do. Simply let the blade penetrate deeply the body of Chain Top. And so, before his Wind Element is changed to his Fire, the blade is currently deep within Chain Top’s body. Currently the tip is outside - around one palm away from the body of Chain Top.
And then, what is seen is Fire. Chain Top’s body has been engulfed in it.
‘This was it.’
Martin’s thoughts are as such. He hopes this is enough, but he doesn’t stop. At that moment, it begins.
It’s true that the Hellfire that Chain Top has lived in until now is stronger than the Fire that Martin has called. Would the Fire be enough to kill it? Unknown. Only Chain Top would know, whether the existence of its screams of pain exist or not. What is sure though, is the fact that - unless explicitly trained, something doubtful - Chain Top’s insides would work as any normal spiritual entity’s insides. If they were on Fire, they would burn.
Alas, Martin did not stop there.
Once more, the force that existed only moments before the insides of Chain Top started to be on Fire - starting from its heart - Martin’s body was, once more, clad into the wind barrier. The pause for the barrier to come back being but a mere moment. One can even liken the time it turned off to be turned back on to be instantaneous.
One could ask how. Well, the answer is simple. Martin’s Fullbringing ability has a form that Martin calls Complete. In truth, it’s far from being a truly complete form, but that is something Martin will come to know in the future.
And so, the form that Martin calls Complete is just him focusing his Reiatsu within all four channels of his Orbis - the ring that channels forth Martin’s Fullbringing energy.
Code:
A w a k e n
Red, Green, White and Blue. The colors of all the elements that Martin can utilize.
It is now that the prison takes effect though.
As the prison begins to shake and the air continues to grow thinner and heavier an explosion of force, coming from the floating ball of debris, produces a shockwave enough to topple buildings as it ripples through the air.
Through the explosion and the dust the four colors breakthrough. Their strength is enough to cut through the barrier of dust and shine their splendor upon the world.
At the same moment, Martin is found with his own weapon still deeply within Chain Top’s body. Unlike before though, the blade lacks any color of any essences upon it. That does not mean that it is no longer clad with an element. No. It’s clad with all the elements at the same time and the same is true for Martin. In this state, the one Martin calls Complete, he can freely control the four Elements’ abilities and bring them forth as he likes - provided his own Reiryoku is enough to keep this up. Last time Martin used it, he counted around five minutes of actively using abilities, as well as this state. If he just has the state active, he can go for around thirty minutes.
Martin’s body is clad in all four Elements. From each Element, Martin has summoned the abilities to assist him with what he is about to do.
From Fire, he has summoned the ability Coniunctis, which is energy of Fire that is focused above Martin after which It takes the shape of an asian dragon and is able to follow the path of Martin's movements. Specifically it follows the broad direction of where Martin’s body moves and not fine tuned movement. Martin is able to only order a direction, the dragon follows and then Martin moves his body once more in order to give another order. This means that Martin has to do big movements in order to control this.
Martin’s body - since the moment this has formed - doesn’t stop moving. The Fire dragon moves forth, as Martin guides it to surround the area of the explosion. In doing so, he hopes that the heat of the dragon will be enough to incinerate the debris, as Martin’s fire is capable of melting metals that come in contact with it - provided those metals are from the World of the Living. In order to melt metals that come from the World of the Unliving, he would need to insert far more Reiatsu within his Fire.
What Martin uses as well, is the known power of the Wind, the Wind Barrier that grants his safety against the snakes is also constantly used. In the case that Chain Top, at any moment, decided to actually come in contact with Martin’s body, the result would be a big no. It would be impossible.
Furthermore, what ensures Martin’s vulnerability in regards to the snakes is Martin’s utilization of Water. Icicles have formed around Martin, also following his body’s movements, always remaining at a fixed distance away from him - likened to how an extra limb would work. These ensue that the hands will come in contact with the icicles first and then they would proceed to come in contact with Martin’s body - if they even managed to bypass the Wind Barrier, something impossible unless they were a fully spiritual entity - such as a blast of Kido, or a Cero. Alas, they are not.
And lastly, around where Martin’s Fire dragon has coiled - its circumference being at around two steps away from the explosion at the time - a film of energy is formed. This film of energy is made by utilizing the Earth Element, allowing it to encompass the entirety of the blast area. While this technique is one that creates half a spherical barrier, this time two of such abilities are cast in order to form a sphere that is capable of withstanding the explosion - of stopping it.
As mentioned, Martin’s body never stops moving. His utilization of his skills is such that - in theory - will lead towards the very best outcome. Only one flaw exists in this plan. If Martin’s chokuto is clad with the Wind Barrier, then any damage from his moving around - as the chokuto is deeply stabbed within Chain Top’s body - will be nulled. And in order for that to not occur, two effects exist at the same time. Specifically, the first effect now circumvents Chain Top as well. More precisely, its insides. Martin had utilized his own chokuto as a way to focus the Wind Rings that grant the frictionless state within Chain Top’s own body. Two beings in this state can interact with each other, as seen from how Blacky could be held by Boomy previously.
And so, all the while Martin’s body moved, Chain Top’s insides were currently both slashed apart, as well as becoming faster. This ensured two things.
Firstly, Martin would be immune to the hands.
Secondly, the blood flow from within Chain Top’s body became faster - two times faster exactly.
Due to these two reasons, Chain Top would come to bleed to death, unless it could heal itself.
As for the second effect that is utilized at the same time, it’s the one brought forth when the chokuto is clad in Water. Vestitus of Water. When using this, Martin's foldable Chokuto is clad with the energy of Water, changing the way the weapon works. While the metal itself remains exactly that, a metal, it gives Martin the choice of choosing if his weapon will act like water or not - that is to say if something will pass through, or if it will be met with resistance similar to what one would feel if they were to be hit with a tsunami.
Through the utilization of those two, Martin has placed a secondary assurance that his own ability - even if he was unable to actually cast the Wind Barrier using his chokuto as a means of focusing the Wind Rings that bring forth the frictionless state, this way Martin can now assure the fact that the insides of Chain Top will be blended all together.
As time passed, Chain Top’s body would feel more and more dead - if no counter to the above was actualized.
If Chain Top ended up dead, then Martin would feel tired. He had used his abilities extensively. He hoped for the best.
After Martin has been sure of Chain Top’s demise he will move towards the direction of where Blacky and Boomy skid away. Or at least, he hoped he would be able to do so.
At that moment, he felt an odd sensation, as if something passed from within him.
‘What…?’
Martin wondered. He felt something similar to the barrier of Earth that he can create. It felt… Familiar? He was unsure. Nonetheless, he would later feel something more.
Danger!
Martin would sense the attack produced by the entity named Higen - the Captain of Eleventh Division - and Martin would immediately cease this ability of his, the one he calls as Complete even if it isn’t truly complete, and only focus on avoiding this sudden attack. In the case though that the attack reached him, his own frictionless Wind Barrier would save him from any damage. Sadly, the same would go for Chain Top in the case it was still alive.
“Stop! I am on your side!”
Martin’s voice was the last action he could do, waiting to see what the reaction from the other parties would be.