Calrex

With only one target remaining in front of them, there wasn't really much else to do but hopefully burn down the segment's health as quick as possible to open up the main body for damage once again, "Still, we haven't had much luck with locking down and taking out the water crystals fast enough to prevent the boss from healing. That thing's speed if really in another level, even when I'm using my maximum possible Accuracy with Martial Arts..."

Rushing forward Calrex leapt skyward as the Grand Legionbane glowed with Sword Art energy, preparing to use his most powerful single-target attack with the weapon. Coming down on the segment he chopped through with a single slice, light blue energy leaving a scar in the air that remained for a brief second before the space around it visibly seemed to get sucked in for a moment, the wind scar doubling the damage from the single cut.

Hefting his weapon back onto his shoulder the bluenette took note that his Quick Change had just completed cooling down, meaning that should they be able to attack the main part he would be able to quickly change to his gauntlets and maximize the amount of damage he could contribute.

With the final sahagin taken down Calrex gave a small sigh of relief. The only thing that remained at this point was to take down the segment and make Leviathan targetable again. However he was more focused on the fact that Jomei was being put on the defensive from the Leviathan's jet attacks, "Nice work dodging the water jet Jomei, I'll take it from here!"

The Grand Legionbane swirled with his light blue energy, building up to a dense aura around the head of the weapon before the bluenette brought it around, slamming it into the sand beneath him. The booming roar from the impact was directly targeted at Leviathan, the Focused Howl technique taking its effect. As he hefted the massive axe back onto his shoulder the Ultramarine Knight noticed the boss' face orient itself towards him, meaning that he had taken the highest Hate, "Good I was  not that far behind then. That should allow the others to focus on it for a bit. Hopefully once it's vulnerable we can all capitalize without another crystal popping up beforehand."

"Tch...I'll try..."

Hearing Jomei and Hestia designate targets for him to focus on, Calrex gave a small sigh. His arms were still shivering from the continuous Frostbite effects, so he felt that while his strength had returned, he might not be as consistent in terms of accuracy. He turned to face the mobs that were still on the field, readying the Grand Legionbane as he began to glow with his Sword Art energy. Rushing forward his eyes locked onto his opponents, the massive battle axe coming around.

The first two strikes flew, just barely missing each of their marks: The water crystal and remaining red sahagin respectively. However, the remaining final attack made up for these by getting two of the lesser sahagin at the same time, immediately smashing both into the ground as the bluenette gave a small sigh of relief, "Two at least, instead of just one. Still they're the least of our worries. Plus with every miss that wastes the focused DPS fighters on cleaning up. Maybe I need to look more into other armaments that might compliment these evasive monster situations again. My old Aegis Armament was designed for this, but it's way too outdated now to be useful. Might be time to upgrade it and the Ichor Armament."

As the Frostbite wore off Calrex gave a small sigh, catching his breath as he quickly surveyed the battlefield. During his temporarily lapse of judgement it seemed the floor boss had spawned even more mobs to distract the players. In addition to this, yet another water crystal had appeared on the beach as well, meaning that they had an even more problematic target to strike at. Looking down at his right arm, still shaking from being recently defrosted for the nth time this fight, but after a moment he grit his teeth, clenching his fist as some of the remaining ice in his palm shattered.

More freezing droplets descended over the battle field, but this time around the bluenette managed to easily shrug them off, "No time to be getting frozen again. Achilles debuff or not, this battle isn't over. I can internally yell at Cardinal all I want, like the system is even listening up in whatever ivory tower Aincrad has it."

Extending his arm the Grand Gauntlets III vanished from his forearms, reforming back into the Grand Legionbane as he lowered his stance, "I'll do something about the sahagin! Keep focusing on the crystal and get the head vulnerable again!"

Rushing forward he felt his body being carried by his Sword Art, eyes locked onto his targets. His body rotations brought the massive axe around again and again, directed at each one. However, at the end of his attack it appeared he was only able to connect with one target out of the four he had intended, and it was one the lowest in priority. He gave a heavy sigh, grip tightening around he weapon as he lowered his stance, "Tch guess that one was the warm up then...gotta do a lot of that to work the cold off."

"What what was I just..."

As the frost particles fell over the battlefield once again Calrex had a lapse in his focus, likely from so many of the past Frostbite effects. Unfortunately, it was the most inopportune time to lose attention. A single snowflake landed against his paundrol and immediate began to cover his entire armor with a layer of frost. Cursing under his breath the bluenette glanced up into his peripherals, seeing the Frostbite effect solidify underneath his health bar once again, "Come on that was a terrible time to lose focus...Especially with the current situation..."

His eyes locked on the sahagin that were spawning once again, peeking at his cooldowns to see Quick Change had just become useable again, his mind considering his next move, which was likely going to be switching to axe and activating an area of effect Sword Art to hopefully clear out majority of the mobs. "I guess it was still basically a tossup on whether or not I would have been able to dodge that frost effect again."

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As he felt his paralyzed effect seemingly wear off before the timer was supposedly set to expire Calrex looked around for a moment, "Guess the boss' death let me off the hook early. Guess that's good."

He could hear people talking about assisting the other players in there fight, specifically the tier two players that were having to deal with the boss' hordes. With a small sigh he stretched his arms, glancing at the safeguard effect he had consumed for the fight, "Well I hope that thing stays intact since it wasn't triggered. Alright then, better get moving before the situation there takes a turn for the worse."

"Also kind of hoping I'll be healed up the by the time I get there. Nonetheless if it's mobs we're dealing with then I'd better switch to axe now, rather than waste Quick Change trying to switch at the battle."

Swiping on his menu the Grand Gauntlets III vanished from his forearms as his massive battle axe formed in his right hand. Placing the majority of the weight onto his shoulder the Ultramarine Knight gave a nod to the others that were heading over, "Better not keep our tier two teammates waiting then."

As his health slowly gained a bit more health, Calrex watched as his green bar climbed to...almost full. There appeared to be a pixel width of space between, meaning he was just about there, "Well at least the Burn is wearing off this round..."

Looking forward it looked as if Hestia needed to take a break, most likely from having to focus on healing and lending people energy this whole time. "Guess it's still rough being a healer tank, especially because of the constant energy consumption. Maybe I'll have to see about becoming more self sufficient in that aspect somehow, at least as long as I've got the reserves to do so..."

Watching Jomei rush forward the blunette's eyes locked onto the Leviathan's own as it appeared to target the ginger-headed duelist, "Can't let that happen."

Lowering his body he felt <<All Might>> quickly build to maximum strength as his arm seemed to look almost like he had strapped a jet engine to it, from the amount of Sword Art energy being blasted out from the top of his gauntlet. Shooting forward he quickly climbed up to the massive serpent's segment, arm drawn back before slamming it dead on into the piece, a red number flashing by signifying a critical hit, "Hopefully that does the trick."

Leaping back he gave a small sigh, looking over as he watched the floor boss' gaze travel onto him, "That's right, better keep your eyes on me."

As the water crystal clung on to life Calrex gave a small sigh, seeing both the hot and freezing attacks be emanated from the boss once again. Seeing the Burn effect appear on his status bar he gave a small sigh of relief, as at this point it was the lesser of the two evils. Charging his punch he tried to rush forward again with the aim of taking down the crystal. However, as it shifted rapidly to the side he saw that his punch was not going to connect, his attack stopping early as a result, "This thing is going to be the main pain with this fight, especially since a lot of us are not having any luck with taking it down."

Turning to face the segment he gave a calming breath, centering his focus, "If that thing goes down we'll need to really focus down that segment as quick as possible to make the creature vulnerable. At lest at that point I should be able to charge the main body again and hopefully lock it down with a charged attack."

Glancing around he surveyed the battlefield as he allowed himself to try and take in what was happening, "We're still not in the best situation, and things still have the chance of changing for the worse. At the least it seems the boss has presented everything that it has in terms of attacks."

So far he was listening to his teammates commands as they were thinking on the fly for strategy. To some level the battle was being turned around in their favor. However, it seemed the Leviathan wasn't going to go out without a fight. Another water crystal appeared, with Neo being the one to nearly take down the crystal. However it still remained standing. Since Jomei had tried and missed the strike the bluenette gave a small sigh, "Guess we really need to take this thing down..."

Seeing his Quick Change had finally come off of cooldown he charged forward, the massive battleaxe vanishing in lights as it was replaced with his reinforced gauntlets once again, "This boosts my accuracy, so let's see if this lands a hit."

Lowering his body his right first became coated in his Sword Art energy, readying All Might as he shot forward. For a moment it looked like he was going to hit as his empowered right hook came within inches of contact. However, at the last moment once again the crystal shifted just enough to escape his strike, the attack breaking through the air next to it, "Okay this is really starting to feel like someone slid the scale up on difficult unnecessarily. I swear if Cardinal is listening to players complaining in private about the raids being too easy it really needs to stop listening."

"Come on...any second now..."

The sound of ice shattering rang out as Calrex was freed once again from the constraints of Frostbite, the massive double-sided axe crashing into the sand as he gave a few deep breaths to help refocus, "Alright, out of that thing again...now for the next thing..."

On cue Leviathan unleashed yet another freezing attack to try and hit him, especially after pushing him around with a jetstream that took some of the aggro off of him. Unfortunately, this wasn't the time for him to Howl as he prepared to be frozen again, "Guess I'll need to...wait hold on..."

As if on perfect timing he had recalled the one skill he hadn't used in a very long time, "Well better give it a try now, worth a shot!"

His form blurred for a moment as he took on the form of one of the players that was recent ousted from the fight. Black armor took over his form as he temporarily assumed the appearance of Zandra, the Grand Legionbane not requiring much to take on the form of her own two-handed battle axe. Seemingly this surprised the creature long enough for him to narrowly avoid the frost particles in the air, rolling to the side as the sand where he was standing became frosted over.

Returning back to his original appearance the bluenette gave a small sigh of relief, "Alright at least that worked. Now let's see if I can attack."

Attempting to prepare <<Screw Dimension>> Calrex raised his weapon, but felt his virtual muscles struggle to heft up the weapon before it collapsed back onto the sand again, "Geezes I really don't appreciate how many times I've been frozen. I'll have to switch to Martial Arts again soon..."

Moments continued to pass as Calrex's frozen form remained in place, stuck by the extended effects of Frostbite. If people passed by his avatar they could hear mumblings escaping from the small cracks in the icy surface that coated his armor, most of them being not really relevant, or would compare to a sailor that just stubbed his toe. Occasionally a condensed exhale escaped from beneath the helm of the Grand Chariot III.

More cracks developed as time continue to progress, the status effect slowly starting to wear off as the bluenette could feel his limbs starting to loosen up, slowly breaking free. He could feel his arms and legs responding to his mental synapses, each small pulse of his muscles slowly shedding more and more ice off of his armor. It would only be a matter of time before he was free to move again. His eyes could scan across and lock onto the remaining creatures on the field, and should they still be around once he was free he could immediately act.

"As long as the Leviathan doesn't freeze lock me again..."

It seemed like the tide (pun intended) of the battle was starting to shift in their favor once again as Neo was able to follow up on the bluenette's missed AoE to destroy the water crystal, seeing the similar symbol for the Hydration effect appearing, "Good, higher energy regeneration for a bit will help with allowing us to continue using our strongest attacks, not like that appears to have really been an issue."

Looking over as Jomei recommended he perform cleanup on any of the remaining mobs Calrex gave a nod as he placed both hands on the handle of the Grand Legionbane, lowering his stance, "Alright then, on your..."

In the corner of his eyes he noticed the familiar reflective light of the snowy frost that the Leviathan put out onto the battlefield so many times before, "Oh you've gotta be kidding me..."

Glancing upwards, hoping that the Burn effect was still in place, he gave a small sigh seeing that symbol was gone, already used up. With each second he felt his avatar locking up once again as a thin film of ice covered the exterior of the Grand Chariot III. The symbol for Frostbite appeared under his health bar once again as the Ultramarine Knight became frozen for another time this battle.

As more sahagin spawned Calrex gave a small sigh to himself, seeing his health climb a very minuscule amount from the Burn damage lessening his Battle Healing effects, "At least that torrential rain doesn't seem to be a factor anymore. Nonetheless those sahagin are going to be a problem, especially if the tidal wave is going to be a regularly occurring attack again. The wave in itself may not be that bad because it's scaling damage, but to add on flat damage from the mobs and the Leviathan's main attacks is going to eat away at the others' healths very quickly."

Hearing Hestia request the bluenette glanced over for a moment, hesitating before giving a nod. He had initially planned to Howl and gain the attention of two of the sahagin plus the red sahagin, but in the end the newly appearing water crystal was going to be an issue, since it will lessen the overall damage they can deal to the creature, "Alright then, that thing's moving pretty quick though!"

Rushing forward his Grand Gauntlets III vanished once again before shaping into the form of the Grand Legionbane, already blazing light blue with <<Explode Catapult>>, the sand being kicked up from the massive speed boost from <<Charge>>. His eyes locked onto four targets: One sahagin, two red sahagin, and the water crystal. The first seemed to have been knocked pretty hard as a red critical number flashed by, the Ultramarine Knight not taking a moment to pause and confirm. His Bull Rush mod was activated this time around, so even if the creature didn't go down he wouldn't have to worry about it attacking.

Next came the two stronger mobs as his attacks registered against both, leaving only the final target. Leaping upwards his eyes remained tracked on the floating crystal as he came down with his axe, the impact of the weapon kicking up a bunch of sand. Kicking the weapon onto his shoulder he cursed under his teeth: The crystal has shifted to the side out of the attack as he came down, his final blow whiffing on the highly mobile target.

"Well I got three of the four, unfortunately that thing is moving way too fast for me to keep up with using the axe."

"Alright, better use it now that it's off cooldown."

As Focused Howl was ready to be used again, Calrex squared his stance, arms separated as light blue energy swirled like tornadoes around his forearms as he prepared to use the skill again. Bending at the elbows his hands were about to make contact when suddenly he felt his entire body lock up, the energy immediately extinguishing as his hands remained inches apart, "What in the..."

His eyes looked over at the Rain King as he felt his body seem to take the better of his mind, refusing to move. It was a strange contradiction of thought and action. He knew there was no reason to be scared, no reason for him to be afraid, as he had fought many much tougher creatures in the past. But it seemed, as he glanced at his health bar, that he had been paralyzed, and what was worse was that the newly discovered debuff that Achilles took make the effect last twice as long, "This...is not very indicative of an Invincible Warrior title is it? What in the world was Cardinal trying to accomplish with this change? If Tristan was still around and using this thing these changes would have meant nothing because he never had to actively act outside of using Howl during a fight in the first place."

The bluenette grit his teeth beneath the expressionless helm of the Grand Chariot III. There was nothing he could do now other than wait for the effect to wear off, and hope the boss' ability wouldn't go off cooldown right when that happened.

"Oh no...here it comes."

As Calrex watched the first segment drop to a sliver of health his eyes saw the small droplets of the super-heated rain that descended down onto the field, "This is that double attack it did for how many rounds that god me into a freeze lock. Guess I'd better be ready to..."

Looking over at his health bar the familiar effect of Burn appeared, and for the first time ever the bluenette was glad to have been affected by it rather than Frostbite, "Great, at least I can still move! My Battle Healing should be able to outpace the damage over time, so all that matters is that I don't get hit by the Hydro Jet."

Unfortunately it was fairly bittersweet as he saw Mars take his leave. Nonetheless the young man lasting and participating for a long as he did was much appreciated to the Ultramarine Knight, or else they likely wouldn't have gotten to the point that they did in the fight. Hearing Hestia call for him to take over tanking again he gave a nod, "I would wait, but with Mars gone better solidify this now!"

His arms blazed with the swirling light blue energy of <<Focused Howl>> as he slammed his fists together, the direct point aggro-gaining sound blast that shot from his strike point beelining at the Leviathan to make him the main focus.

"I've still got my Parry defenses at the ready as well, so even if I fail at dodging the jet I'll be able to at least return some of the damage back, and at the same time if I dodge it and the tidal wave comes in again, hopefully that will reflect some of the damage back at this creature."

"Tch...guess this one's also immune to Stun and Paralyze. Looks like Mack's stunlock strategy won't see the light of day for quite some time again, heh."

Trying to ride the momentum he had gained from his initial attack Calrex quickly rushed forward, aiming to strike again. Unfortunately, it seemed this around he wasn't able to land a hit, his strike hitting empty air between two tentacles. He was able to kick off one to backpedal from his failed attack, but that was the end of his window of opportunity to strike, sliding across the wanter until his momentum gave out and sank partially back down.

It looked like his teammates were able to land strikes, which made him automatically think to prepare Howl once he gets the chance, "If any of them get a critical strike that means they'll be one successful attack from evening up our aggro. I'll need to make sure I put a large enough gap back in place so that we don't have to worry about that."

As he had guessed, Calrex watched as the tide retreated further and further before a massive wall of water rose up in front of the two parties, the Leviathan reemerging behind it as the massive wave picked up each of the players, throwing them against a wall. Kneeling down he had slammed his right arm into the sand as far as he could and held on for dear life, but after the attack concluded he noticed that the only thing consumed was his Safeguard, "So this thing is a one-hit attack, alright then..."

Glancing up at the health bars of his teammates he felt a bead of sweat form on the side of his head. In relation to whatever health they had before, it had been reduced by exactly half of the total amount, "So this thing has a scaling attack based on how much health you have remaining. That's probably good and bad, depending on where your health is at. The lower it is, the less damage you should supposedly take overall, but it also leaves you more open to falling against its other more conventional attacks."

Hearing the DPS fighters rush forward the bluenette pulled his gauntlet out of the sand and quickly assumed the stance he uses to activate <<All Might>>, "No time to be wasting. We need to get an opening to strike now, or most likely that attack will be coming again soon."

Rushing forward his right fist lit aglow with light blue energy before he slammed it into the respawned segment assigned to their team, adding some more damage to the already hurt part of the boss, "Now come on break already..."

Hearing Hestia the blunette gave a small laugh to himself, "I would, but unfortunately I didn't get any prepared. I wasn't expecting another debuff to happen to Achilles right before the battle, or else I probably would have made as many of those as possible."

"This is definitely not a good sign though. I hate it when my suspicions are right, especially because a tidal wave will likely be an AoE attack and no amount of Hate will make focus on a single target. Most likely going from our current circumstances we'll have to hunker down. Getting to higher ground would be the normal recommended course of action, but it seems like that would eject us from the battle."

"Unfortunately it doesn't look like anyone has anything to temporarily boost our mitigation further, and unless someone has a mass block ability they discovered the best we can do is heal up and wait for the boss to be in range of our attacks again. Hopefully if you're DPS focused your evasion may help with reducing some of the potential damage, but this is a new technique I can't recall being used in previous boss battles."

Crossing his arms for a moment his forearms ignited with swirling blue energy before bringing them apart, a brief blue glow encapsulating his form as he activated <<Parry>> to prepare for any damage that might come that will preemptively trigger his Safeguard, "At least if it does do something sneaky like bringing back that damage dealing rain effect again I'll be able to send some of the damage back at the Leviathan."

With his initial Hate gain completed Calrex watched his other teammates took opportunities to strike at the creature. However, going from the mixed results the blunette was able to recall previous battles with similar issues, "Looks like this one has some form of natural armor to make it more difficult to hit us. Great, well at least it's health is almost down. Only problem is we don't know if this is just a phase of the battle or the entirety of the thing."

"In either case it'd be better overall for us to accelerate us so we don't waste too much energy on it. This seems like a fast one, but I don't think this is the entirety of the fight, not if it is locked to players of tier three levels."

Looking over at the others he gave a nod before throwing his arms to the side, "Doesn't look like Thorns damage is going to work anyway. Better off going on the offensive then."

His shield and spear vanished in a flash of light as his familiar heavy armored gauntlets covered over his already guarded forearms. Immediately after his right fist began to burn bright with his Sword Art energy, <<All Might>> charging to a peak before he shot forward, accelerated by his <<Charge>> skill and almost seemingly sliding over the surface of the water before kicking upwards to reach the boss' face...or what at least appeared to be the closest thing to a face that it had. Driving his right hook into the side of the creature his attack connected, but Calrex did feel his strike needed to require more precise control than normal  as he landed back on the ground. Glancing up at his energy he recognized that a more significant chunk of his remaining amount had vanished, meaning that subsequent attacks would also be likely to drain just as much.

"Going from that amount I've got maybe a little more than five attacks of the same Sword Art skill level before I'm drained. Better be careful to watch it and keep some left to spare for using Howl when needed.

With the Leviathan's retreat, and the lifting of the constant environmental conditions that were plaguing the battlefield for most of the fight, it did seem like things were finally over. There was even a clearing of the skies as the seemingly calm beach environment was restored. However, since he had been in so many battles previous, Calrex had already known better than to judge this as the conclusion of the battle. No experience was rewarded, and no raid items seem to have been distrubited amongst the players.

Other veterans like Jomei seemed to echo this sentiment, and the bluenette agreed, "Don't take it easy, this fight isn't over. Take this moment to get your defenses back up. Whatever's coming next will likely be even more powerful than it's previous attacks. Especially with its health so low I wouldn't but it past the game devs to have a massive final attack coming next, like some kind of tidal wave or other technique that will target both parties at once. I know it's rare now, but if you have any Safeguards on you, use them. If it is a big attack we need to survive it."

Pulling out one of the five safeguard potions he had in his quick slots Calrex crushed it against his armor as the silvery aura flashed over his avatar briefly, ready to intercept the next incoming attack.

Time passed after the Ultramarine Knight accepted the items that Zandra handed him and other participants in this fight. Unfortunately he didn't think about consuming them at the moment before he heard the sound of the event boss coming close enough to the shore to be in striking range. The emotionless ehlmet of his armor turned to face the creature as his spear and shield began to glow with fiercely swirling blue energy, a pattern that many regular companions he fought alongside could already recognize.

"Guess it's time to go to work..."

Slamming the head of the Grand Skypiercer against the Grand Guard III <<Focused Howl>> activated on the massive creature, the directed roar-like impact noise seemingly causing a near visible distortion of sound, giving Calrex the highest aggro of his team as per standard for the tank of the party.

"Now to see what this thing has up its sleeve. We don't have any prior info on this creature, meaning it could well likely have some rather dirty tricks in its programming. Let's just hope it doesn't decide to start off with all that and get worse as the battle goes on"

"Really hoping this thing doesn't have some kind of repeating stun mechanic..."

The sound of metal bumping against itself could be faintly heard as the blunette arrived at the gathering area for what appeared to be an event fight, already clad in the Grand Chariot III. Going from his movements, it didn't even seem like he had taken it off from a previous encounter before this. Having receiving the message from Zandra he had made his way over, already prepared with his defensive array of weaponry. A brief sheen could be seen as he applied one of the Safeguard potions from his inventory.

He gave a brief nod to the people he recognized that were present before giving a small wrist flip of the Grand Skypiercer javelin in his hand, looking over at the monster in the distance, "So first it was actual fantasy and looking like the game is now delving into Cthulu mythos for its bestiary."

"Let's just hope this isn't everyone that is planning to participate in the event. We've got barely enough people to form even a single floor raid party."

"Great, more mobs spawned this time."

As Calrex felt his body finally starting to overcome the chilling from the repeated Frostbite effects he gave a small sigh, surveying the battlefield as the raid continued to rage on. With the six minions now in front of them the bluenette clenched both of his fists while he heard Mars shoot ahead to take advantage of the opening destroying their segment created, "Best keep these guys off of the main damage dealers."

His arms swirled with light blue energy as <<Howl>> built up to a head. Slamming his fists together the energy shot out with a loud roar, grabbing the attention of the third and fourth regular sahagin, along with the two stronger red creatures. Lowering his arms to his sides the Ultramarine readied himself while hearing Zandra call out from the other side to Hestia, "Let's just hope that opening comes and we're able to get a full round of attacks. By the time it happens I think the boss will have it's Frostbite skill ready to cast again."

The sound of chunks of ice hitting the ground as the Frostbite timer finally expired on the Ultramarine Knight as his frozen form returned back to its darker blue hue, bits of snow-like pieces softly falling off of him, "Geezes I really want to get off this ride..."

Dusting off the remaining pieces of ice stuck to his armor the bluenette looked around the area. More people had left, namely Sey and Ariel, meaning that the battle just became exponentially harder. Luckily enough there were still two players left in the third party, but that meant they couldn't afford to have their segment go down and the boss be still alive. However his team wasn't exactly in the best straits either. Excluding himself and Hestia, the others' health bars were too low to consider safe. Looking down at his hand he clenched it into a fist, but the long period of being frozen had caused a chill to course through his body, to the point that even his breath was condensing outside of being under the status effect. His arm shook as he tried to stabilize long enough to go into the stance for triggering <<All Might>> 

The Grand Legionbane flashed into ether before reforming back into the Grand Gauntlets III as he glanced back at his teammates, "We need to finish this in the next few turns. It looks like both segments are almost down, so we'll have two opportunities to strike. I hate to say it, but if we drag this out any further past that we run too close of a risk of losing people...especially with the room effect not lightening up anytime soon."

Shooting forward his eyes locked onto the segment, but as he was about in striking range the chill overtook his posture as the light from his attack sputtered out and he stumbled to a stop, cursing under his breath before leaping back, focusing on bringing his senses back to center, "There's still a window of opportunity for our victory, but it skirts very close with the chance of us losing people. Hestia has enough hate to keep Leviathan's direct jet attack from targeting the other's now, but we really need to get that main body targetable and have our best hitters land their hits."