[PP-21] Rooks on the Seventh <<Betrayal of the King>>

[Freyd 0]

"He's already in a church," Freyd called back to Wulfrin, drawing attention to the scattered sculptural remains and iconography embossed into the surrounding worn and faded stone.  "Well... kinda.  I don't really know what any of it means, but Bob here got uppity and tried to steal the show from his former boss.  Looks like some agreed with him while others disapproved of his behaviour."  Quickly jerking a thumb over his shoulder to the similarly dressed and intermingled skeletons strewn all over the chamber and outer courtyard, the likelihood of some sort of coup seemed high.  

The monstrous armored figure of The Forgotten Time King had used its momentary reprieve to good effect, pulling itself out of the walls and reassembling the few bits and pieces that Freyd had managed to detach on his last pass.

"Nothing wrong with looking pretty, ladies."  The compliment intended for Nymeria and Ciela was equally meant to let them know that he was keenly watching their role in the melee.  Despite having run these types of escorts dozens of time, Freyd never presumed that Cardinal couldn't change its own rules on a whim - nor its master.  Wulfrin swept in to do his part, the novice in red valiantly demonstrating how he was well on his way to becoming a veteran.

"Nicely done!  Now, if I can't actually shatter him, then I guess we only have one option left: break him outright."

Dipping the tip of this cowl downward, Freyd receded deeper into its depths and closer to the void behind the veils of shadow that wrapped and roiled around his ephemeral presence.  To the rest of his party, the activation of his sword art was akin to the donning of a spectral mantle, the man's form slipping in an out of visibility.  Flitting from shadow to shadow across the battlefield, Freyd reappeared on the King's left to be greeted by a heavy steel guard.  Vanishing just as swiftly, only an inky vestige remained to receive the mob's massive strike.  Out of position and overreaching left it exposed as the Whisper rematerialized on the opposite flank and drove a screeching fist straight into the thing's ribs.  Hands like vortices devoured digital undead flesh, disintegrating a large swath of 'Forgotten' torso and spraying fractal shrapnel across the throne - those few being the few fragments not wholly swallowed by the void guided by the Whisper's fearsome touch.

"This may sound familiar, Bob."  A second strike spun the king's helm like a top, eating away half the face guard and sending the rest skittering away along with half the thing's jaw. "But I think it might be time this place again considered the potential for new management."

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Spoiler

Freyd regains +4 EN
CD 4 (No REC proc) ID #223175

Post Action | ST-B (x20, 20 EN): 20 EN - (Stamina) = 18 EN.  Charge (CD 0/3, +8 EN)
Free Action | Activate Crystal of Divine Light

ID #223174 | BD:7+5-1=11 (hit, Fallen +24, Charge +3).  DMG (20*51=1020-100=920)

Freyd takes double damage until his next turn.

FTK takes 32 damage from TXV.

ID #223175 | MD: 4+3-7=0 (miss)

Freyd | HP: 1334/1334 | EN: 119/154 (133+4-18-8) | DMG: 24 | MIT: 105 | EVA: 7 | ACC: 5 | BH: 73 | LD: 6 | FLN: 16 | HLY: 16 | TXV 32 | REC: 8 | V.D.: 146
Wulfrin | HP: 490/490 | EN: 44/64 | DMG: 20 | MIT: 66 | EVA: 3 | ACC: 5 | BH: 4 | LD: 2 | BLD: 36 | REC: 3 | TXC VNM: 24
Nymoria | HP [200/200] | EN [36/38] | ACC [3] | DMG [9] | MIT [34] | BH [+6] | +2 EN | -2 EN
KnightessCiela | HP: 290/290 | EN: 40/44 | DMG: 8 | MIT: 91 | ACC: 4 | FL. THRN: 4 | THRNS: 36

(8,3,0,2) The Forgotten Time King | HP: 728/3000 | DMG: 275 | MIT: 100 | ACC: 3 | TXV 32 (2/3) | (1680-920-32)

• Forgotten King's Authority | This boss is immune to debuffs and disablements

 

Edited May 4 by Freyd