#summonarcana

 ✞  ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  It was a good thing the other didn’t know Takaya well, for Takaya’s sake. Perhaps they’d be able to pick up on the unusual amount of hesitation in the usually so silver tongued and confident orator if they did. He hasn’t seized up like this since his lab days before the scientists... what two questions he knew immediately needed asking are unbearably close to heart. And to a stranger-- a child, no less.

But with how the two heads of Erebus were practically clawing at his ribcage... this first one may not be an option on his part.   ❝  ...I thank you. ❞   He solemnly responds. This is the most humble he’s been in years.

“ In our   FIRST   match in the new and improved battle arena, we have an all blue match up! The emo messiah with a killah’ playlist, Velv, versus... the cold weathah’ women with a burnin’ tempah’    Vivi ! Now without further ado... ”

Ready?   FIGHT!

✞  ✧ ✧ ✧ ✧  IT WAS CLEARLY  rare for the slender and pale man, currently lazily draped in a very loose and white kimono to ward off the sun, to be approached so willingly. Not without reason, he assumed, which was why their encroachment was greeted immediately with a raise of his head from his deep thought and matching eye contact with those gilded yellows. Perhaps that may have startled some, but his expression was far from aggressive, no, he never opened with aggression. Eye contact was merely polite   and it makes people pay attention. A truths he learned as a public speaker.

Once at a suitable height, wings spread out, setting off some harmless flashes of energy around him as the Wheel of Fortune appeared once more. This time, the positioning is different. It appears flat, below him, and he stands at it's center point, with it being him that spins this time. So a flurry of feathers with a single sword go around as the wheel lowers slowly to the ground.

And once it lands, he stops with a pose, even a little smirk as black feathers float down around him and the wheel, before looking at where it landed. A single, pure-white panel, thinner than the rest. And the shadow boy stared in panic at that, composure lost quickly.

"...Ohhh no no that's not--"

.....And he then just... blows up from a backfired Almighty damage. All that... and not a speck of damage to the actual enemy.

So much for his little show.

They were both caught in a spell at the display, the magician and the preacher both. It certainly looked like something to be worried about, the priest stunned by what looked like a black winged angel and the magician simply very awed by the slight of hand required to pop into view such a large object! Though the magician gave his little clap, the preacher was scared like an omen was hanging over the both of them. He kept a hand on his cross necklace and the other raised at the magician like he was bracing to pray for them.

And then it backfired.

And for a moment they simply stared. And the preacher slowly raises a hand to draw a cross on his chest for them... and the strangest thing happened to the shadow's face. The otherwise utterly featureless shadow... slowly began to form a slit where a mouth would be, curving upward into a smile until it opened to show grinning teeth. And he covered that mouth, like he was clearly failing to stifle a laugh, but the only sound that came out was like a distant bell. Like a very far off memory of a laugh.

But the magician mimes an upset posture at it's ally, hands to his hip. He snaps his fingers and makes a single rose to toss on top of the poor failed attacker.

He seems to relate to being laughed at for messing up a trick....

So, once up again in the air, though not all too high up, pointing towards the Black shadow with his sword sets off a blast of Bufudyne!

The Bufudyne deals heavy ice damage, but still seems to have no distinctly different effect on the stubborn and armored shadows.

The ice freezes to it's surface, but breaks away as it begins to move again. It raises it's shield to cast a Blue Wall, a wall for resisting electricity for it's next 3 attacks, on it's currently crouching White Shield twin.

Ah, but the sword seems to glow as he attacks, a boost to it's damage! Right, Thanatos did have a passive ability to boost such a thing.

The recently risen White shield was attacked with a multiplied slash damage!

The shield golem didn't seem to like that very much, turning all it's attention onto the other and storming after them with thundering steps until it used a Sonic Punch.

So he has a message that he kindly asks his NPC navigator to let be heard by everyone.

“It looks as if they can protect themselves when they bring their shields up. For now I’ll assume one who’s protecting can’t attack without being vulnerable again, so make sure to keep track of which one can be damaged! This goes for my own team as well as all the others! If anyone discovers more, please be sure to inform everyone!”

What comes next is Agidyne, boosted thanks to Fire Amp.

Well... It could have been worse.

With the shadow up and able again, it was back to being light on it's feet with it's naturally high evasion, but even still it was not quick enough to avoid the boosted Agidyne and it's heavy fire damage.