Jomei

Jomei took quick, heavy breaths as he popped back up onto his feet. He slid his back foot in a crescent motion so he could pivot around to face the zombie he was fighting against once more. His energy was starting to dwindle a bit now, and he would need to follow Mac's path and retreat soon to recover. However, before he could do that, he had a zombie to kill. Dragging the tip of his blade through the dirt, Jomei quickly flicked his rapier upwards to fling a small cloud of dust towards the zombie. Jomei then followed up, pushing through the dust with Over Radiation, this time striking true. After his attack had finished, the final zombie erupted into a plume of data fragments that rained to the ground. "Alright.. thats that. Any more?" Jomei looked around to see if he was still in any immediate danger.

As another wave of Battle Healing washed over the ginger, Jomei let out a small sigh of relief. A small ping of a bell noted that he had reached another achievement in his bingo book, which had to do with his health recovered. Jomei chuckled, "Guess those two were a given... now to just hit one of these tough ones." Spinning his rapier in his hand, Jomei slowly strafed to the side, keeping an eye on one of the zombies that remained in front of him. The undead went for an attack, which Jomei was able to easily dodge out of the way with some expert maneuvering. With the zombie's back to Jomei, he pulled his arm back to strike with Over Radiation. However, his elbow met with the ribs of a zombie, who's upper half was mostly bones and hanging skin at this point. It turned to look at the ginger and hissed at him, bringing an arm up to swipe. "[censored]." the ginger cursed, diving forward and rolling to get out of its way.

With one last look over his shoulder, Jomei saw that Macradon was gone. Out of his sight, and definitely out of sight of the zombies. "Alright then.. looks like its just us." Jomei said with a smirk, looking between the two undead that remained. The first of the two leaned forward towards Jomei, a sickening groan escaping its lips as its decaying jaw opened wide. Thinking quickly, Jomei dodged under its outward extended arms, leaving his leg extended so the zombie would trip over his leg and be out of his way for a moment. The second zombie proceeded to follow a similar attack pattern, nearly catching Jomei off guard. Dropping to a knee and leaning backwards, Jomei performed Over Radiation from that position, his blade piercing into the zombie at an upwards angle. The multiple strikes lifted the creature off of its feet, before the entire entity of the zombie exploded into bright fragments of data. "One down, you're next." Jomei said, raising back up to a standing position.

From what Jomei could assume, one of the zombies seemed to have completely lost track of Macradon, or at least didn't care about him anymore. The other two, despite having most of their focus now on Jomei, still kept shifting their sunken gazes towards the other player. Jomei, now with an angered scowl dressing his face, took a few steps backwards to allow the zombies to move towards him and away from Macradon. "I'll take out these two first, since it seems you can't shake them." Jomei said, his olive eyes shifting between each of his three targets. The moment one of the zombies turned its head to take another look at Macradon, Jomei gave up on his retreating step and advanced forward. His shining blade pierced through the chest of the zombie multiple times, activating the tendrils of light that did the same. After a moment of rapid thrusts, one of the zombies erupted in a rain of crystals. One of the other undead took this opportunity to lurch forward, grabbing each of Jomei's arms and sinking its teeth into his bicep. Jomei roared, keeping an eye on the third that also moved forward to attack. Quickly throwing his arm to the side, Jomei used the leech of a zombie that was biting into him as an extension to knock the undead creature away.

Jomei chuckled at Macradon's attempt to run, "Yeah. Me neither. Its tough when there are eyes looking at you from every direction." The ginger attempted to push himself up off of the ground so he could go for another attack. The feeling of heavy footfalls on his back stopped his progress from getting up, and only pushed him back into the ground. One of the zombies from before took notice of Mac still trying to escape, and decided to move forward to try and get one more attack on him. With a few swipes from its decaying, bony fingers, it scratched into the heavily armored player yet again. The other two, dropped to the ground and tried to do the same to Jomei. It was like something out of a nightmare; two zombies hovering over him, slowly lowering to the ground. Their moans and hisses got louder, the closer they got to Jomei's face. "Oh hell no." the man said through a grunt, and he threw his legs back over his head to do a back roll out of a possibly dire situation. "What the hell is wrong with me?" Jomei said with a grunt.

Jomei watched as Macradon rushed towards the back, trying to make an escape from the zombies. Jomei could tell he definitely needed a chance to catch his breath before heading in for another round of attacks. Their foes, however, had other plans. They latched onto the man, trying to pull him back into the fray. However, thanks to Mac's strength, he was able to break free. The third zombie however, had a bit of a tighter grip on him. "I got you!" Jomei called out, hopping back to give his Charge some extra distance to be effective. Using the skill, Jomei shot forward towards his target. In the last moment, however, one of the other zombies pushed past the two and swiped at Jomei, followed by the second zombie. Both decided Mac was no longer a person of interest, and that Jomei was their new threat. The unsuspected attacks caused Jomei to stagger and crash into the dirt. "Dammit." he cursed. Meanwhile, the third zombie pulled Macradon closer, clawing into his armor and doing some damage.

Bursting from the crowd came Macradon, right behind all of the zombies and slicing through them with a sneak attack. All were left standing, but all were knocked under half health. That was just enough for Jomei to be able to avoid using his strongest Sword Art and conserve a little bit more energy. As all of the zombies turned around to face Macradon, Jomei charged forward and riddled one of the standing zombies full of shining red holes. The body of the undead monster fell to the ground and ceased to exist. The other three continued forward, all clawing and biting at the heavily armored man who had just attacked them. Jomei grunted, taking a few steps away to avoid the possibility of catching Mac's sword as he cleared all of the zombies from in front of him. "We need to fall back soon to regenerate some energy, then we can go back at it. I've still got some fight left in me to cover you."

Jomei took a quick step back as Macradon released another powerful swipe with his sword, bringing one's health into the red and wiping out a second. The other two zombies, and one that soon entered the fray to keep it at a constant four, remained unscathed. Jomei nodded his head, "Yeah. I've got a bit left in me too. Probably more than you at least." Using a weaker sword art, Jomei thrust his rapier forward in a blaze of golden light, as he landed another critical hit to destroy yet another zombie. "Alright, I'll wait for your go." Jomei said to Macradon as his person seemed to disappear from existence in the crowd of undead. Jomei turned to the other three zombies, their focus now on him. The man smirked and took a defensive stance, "Alright.. lets see what you can do." The three zombies lunged forward, one stumbling as it reached out towards him while a second managed to trip over its own fallen comrade. The third, however, moved a bit faster around the pile of squirming bodies and bit into Jomei's arm, leaving a large, red gash to be seen through his green sleeve. "Ah, lucky hit." the man grunted before shoving the creature off of him.

Jomei's energy was trickling down a little bit faster now that he needed to rely on his strongest sword art to wipe out these zombies. However, he knew of the cost Macradon mentioned with AoE attacks. It took a lot of extra energy to slash through multiple opponents, and he could only imagine how quickly that number would deplete in situations like these. Jomei's build was meant to last on energy for a bit, however, judging by the status of his own energy bar, he knew he had about eight or nine attacks left in him before he needed his own recharge. Now with a clearer mind, Jomei heard Mac's plan before rushing in to finish off a zombie, "Got it." he responded, picking out one that was just over half health. Rushing forward, Jomei's blade began to shine gold yet again, and his rapier struck true to finishing off yet another undead creature.

Jomei chuckled, keeping track of his own slain zombies, "That it is. You have one up on me with those area attacks. If I had enough damage output to one shot one of these guys, then you'd have something to worry about." Jomei teased back, adding in a bit of competitive flair. The two of them were able bodied front liners, even though the horde of zombies had, what seemed like, countless numbers over them. The two of them had enough experience and skills to cut down these enemies for quite some time before needing to retreat. That being said, a little bit of friendly competition while they each tried to fill their bingo books was not uncalled for. Making a wide rush around their small battlefield to flank his zombie of choice, Jomei used his Charge skill to up the ante. The man vanished in a blur of green appearing again just behind the zombie, his knee driving into its back. The zombie let out a groan as the sound of some bone's snapping could be heard while the zombie lurched forward. With a quick pivot with his foot in a 360 degree turn, Jomei dragged the tip of his rapier through the dirt, causing it to erupt in another bright, golden glow. The normal green in his eyes took on the same color, and once his body faced the zombie yet again, Jomei's blade followed. Oathkeeper, and four spears made of light pierced the undead creature fourteen times, causing bits of its body to blow off and shatter into crystals with each devastating hit. With one final, simultaneous blast, from all five points, the zombie erupted into crystals, shooting off into the crowd. Jomei's spectacle drew the attention of two of the zombies that Mac had missed, and they began to swipe and claw at the cloaked ginger. "Like I said, if you need to switch out, I think I can evade enough of their attacks long enough for you to heal up."

Jomei nodded his head, still feeling a bit bad that he had gotten caught up in the moment, "Right." Following the same patterns as before, Macradon would cut, Jomei would finish one off, and repeat. After Mac took out yet another zombie with lingering health, Jomei squared up with a heartier one, one that he should have focused on before. Digging his boot into the dirt, Jomei shot forward. In a blur of green and orange, Jomei appeared before the undead creature, driving his elbow into the jaw of the zombie, unhinging it and causing the skeletal remains to separate and shatter. Oathkeeper, glowing a brilliant gold, thrust forward and, due to its rapid speed, created multiple similarly colored tendrils that took turns piercing the decaying body of the zombie. With one last piercing stab, Jomei rid the circus tent of another zombie. Jomei took a heavy breath as he jumped back, another zombie joining the fray, swiping its hands at him through the rain of crystals from its fallen brethren. "If you want me to set any up for you to get a multi kill, let me know. I've been taking a lot of these last hits for myself. Can't do much in terms of AoE though."

Things were starting to get a bit hectic, at least more hectic than it was to begin with. Fighting was going on all around them in this more than packed circus tent. Jomei's eyes shot towards the entrances to the tent, which were all packed with zombies trying to shove their way in. Shadows of oncoming undead could be seen hugging the outsides of the canvas surrounding them, and NPC show goers continued to get cut down as they tried to escape the ferocious horde. Jomei took in a few deep breaths, looking around at some of the other players who were stuck fighting. Telrenya and Hestia, who were each supposed to be part of their group, had gotten separated from Jomei and Mac and were fending off some of the undead on their own. Jomei had never seen chaos like this.. From behind him, he heard the groaning of an approaching zombie. With a quick advancing step forward, Jomei spun around and thrust his blade forward with a single, ultimately powerful thrust that caused the head of the undead to burst like a balloon, fallowed by the rest of its body. In the same moment, he heard Macradon request that Jomei take out one of the heartier zombies, to allow him a chance to recover a bit of energy. "I'm so sorry." Jomei replied, "I didn't hear you.."

From a spot unknown to him, and the zombies, Macradon appeared, charging right past Jomei and cutting deep into all four of the zombies. Two, with he cleaved in half, fell to the ground in two separate parts each, lifeless. The other two staggered, but their health deeper than half, leaving the perfect opportunity for Jomei to pick them off. Jomei nodded at Mac's words, though he knew that if he had the focus, he would be able to at least avoid most of their attackers onslaughts. Mac, on the other hand, was just taking the hits, and hoping his armor would mitigate most of the damage. Jomei launched at the first of the zombies with rapid stabs to its chest, leaving it once again with just a single point of health. "[censored]." he cursed to himself. Two other zombies pushed through the crowd and wrapped their arms around Macradon, one biting into his shoulder, the other clawing away at his armor. The third, which he had attacked previously, bit at his opposite shoulder. "Spoke too soon." Jomei said with a distressed look on his face. "Hold on!"

"Its alright" Jomei said as he maneuvered over the fallen body of a zombie before it shattered into fragments of data, "You've already been doing a hell of a lot better than I have." Performing a quick infinity spin and turning his body in a 180 degree motion, Jomei ended his flourish by thrusting the point of his blade forward, stabbing straight through the skull of the slippery undead. Seconds later, the body erupted into crystals that fell beside Jomei and his blade. Jomei frowned when he turned to see the remaining two zombies were searching for Macradon. "Hey! Why don't you pick on someone else!" Jomei shouted at them to no avail. "Damn... that usually works when Hestia or Calrex do it... I need to get my hands on that skill." Jomei sucked his teeth, "Sorry Mac, I'll keep picking them off as much as I can. If you need to switch out to heal up at any point, let me know." From the crowd behind him, another figure reached out to attack Jomei, only putting a temporary, tear-like red mark in his green coat. The zombie, which was more of a walking skeleton with no flesh, looked at Jomei with a cocked jaw, and eyeless, sunken sockets.

Jomei's eyes went wide as Macradon's blade shone a holy white yet again, this time holding that light as it cut through multiple bodies at once. Most of the zombies dropped deep into the red, one of them being eviscerated by the powerful slash. Jomei caught himself staring for a moment before Macradon called out to him. The ginger shook his head, "Got it!" he called back before picking his target. Rushing forward with a simple sword art, Jomei used his Quadruple Pain attack, which would focus on the zombie's four limbs, as he did earlier. While both of its arms fell to the ground with alternating thrusts, only one of its legs seemed to take any sort of effect from his attack. The zombie continued to limp forward, dragging one dead leg through the dirt of the center ring. It found its way to Macradon, digging its teeth into wherever it could to deal maximum damage. "Dammit." Jomei cursed under his breath, as another tried to get the jump on him. Jomei quickly pivoted and pushed the zombie out of the way, watching as it recuperated and prepared to attack the two players yet again. "All three are yours! I'll take out this last one if you hit it first!"