Playing With Time for Fun and Profit
After I entered the training simulation, I asked Perfect Storm to give me a single, large, stationary target.
After getting a good feel for the target area, I ascended into the air, over 100 meters above the target.
Then I cast Temporal Sludge, pushing it to slow time as much as I could manage.
I had been thinking recently about the Endbringers, given one was due in a few weeks I felt my concern justified. The thing was, I wasn't sure the firepower I had at my disposal would be enough to actually kill one, hurt one sure, but kill?
So I tried thinking up ways I could up my damage output, and came up with a plan. It probably wouldn't work, it'd require the Endbringer to be stationary through the setup, but if someone made one immobile long enough...
The temporal field formed, a 20 meter diameter of time moving at just under 1/3 speed. As it formed, I has Perfect Storm start a countdown to when the spell ended, and started firing.
I fired as many Flare Shooters as I could, as fast as I could, set to lethal and to travel in a straight line slightly slower than my normal shots.
As I fired, I moved around, spreading the shots out so they'd all pass through the time field and converge as close to the center of the target as I could.
As each shot hit the time field, it slowed to a crawl, and soon the entire time field looked like one giant ball of glowing death, hundreds of Flare Shooters caught in it's effects.
As Perfect Storm gave the 5 second warning to the time field's collapse, I stopped casting Flare Shooters, and started charging up Solar Wrath as much as I could, while backing further away from the target.
The Flare Shooters continued to move slowly through the time field, collecting at the bottom, one or two popping out and blasting the target as they escaped the field.
At 1 seconds remaining, I fired Solar Wrath, set to move as fast as possible.
The Solar Wrath blasted through the space between me and the target, just as it ht the time field, the field collapsed, releasing the all the Flare Shooters, which blasted off at full speed, at once. The Solar Wrath was faster.
As the Solar Wrath encountered the mass of Flare Shooters, packed far closer together than I could ever hope to manage normally, I looked on eagerly; this was the make or break moment for my plan...
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Path A
The spells collided in mid-flight, their energies merging and forming a greater whole.
The Solar Wrath pulled the Flare shooters in, the glow of the flare shooters now visible as hundreds of tiny specks flowing around erratically inside the larger beam.
Just as the massive collection of spells impacted the target, I activated Burst on ALL the Flare Shooters.
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'Wow, these simulations are really realistic,' was my first thought as I regained consciousness 30 seconds later, my ears ringing. Apparently 300 meters was still FAR too close to a blast that size.
I looked around, trying to figure out what happened.
The result was..... More than I imagined.
The target was gone. So was the area around the target.
I looked at the destruction in shock and awe. What else was I to do when I realized I was in the middle of a crater of over a mile diameter...
I smiled widely, "the Endbringers are fucked."
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Path B
The spells collided mid-flight.
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I look around, wondering what happened.
"Perfect Storm... What am I doing out of the simulation?"
"I'm sorry, When the spells collided, there was a cascade failure in their mana matrices, resulting in a catastrophic mana breach. you were dead before you even fully realized the spells connected. It was a good idea, it just didn't work out."
Well shit. Back to the drawing board.
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Path C
The spells collided mid air, the mass of Flare Shooters absorbing the Solar Wrath, growing exponentially in power, they also managed to pick up the remaining remnants of the Temporal Sludge spell as well, freezing in the air as they were about to hit the target for a moment.
I smiled, and shouted out the name of my new attack.
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Target's PoV
I glance around at all the glowing orbs of death hanging int he air around me in trepidation, knowing these all are going to be blasting into me in short order, suddenly I hear Calamity Witch shout out the name of this attack.
"HELLZONE GRENADE!!!"
I could only say one thing to my self as the orbs took off at me again,even faster than before.
"Oh man... it's even got a cool name."
Then I knew oblivion.
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If it earns a point, I was going for Temporal Sludge (obviously), but just realized it just got maxed... So I'll throw it on Shell Barrier.
I wonder how many will get the reference from Path C... Probably everyone, lol.
You're going to love a certain future scene assuming you guys don't fuck it all up.
