Chapter 16: Tripping Balls
"You're wasting your effort, your attacks can't break through my barriers! Just surrender and accept your fate, Commoner!" Snapped Junne, as she blocked a barrage of incoming blood projectiles with a barrier wall.
"Heh, that's rich coming from someone who's been completely on the defensive this whole time," Taunted Colt with a smirk, before firing out a pressurized slash of blood at her from the side of his hand as he swung his arm across in her direction.
A shallow cut appeared across the barrier wall as the bloody slash slammed onto it, but failed to break through, before Junne took down her barrier and swung her whip towards Colt with a sharp crack.
Colt took a couple of swift steps back, getting out of the whip's reach, before raised his right arm and letting the tip of the whip graze his forearm, a smirk spreading out across his lips as trickles of blood ran down his arm.
"Did you just deliberately...? You sick freak..."
"Music to my ears," Laughed Colt, before firing out blood needles out of the cut Junne's whip had inflicted, before she quickly formed another barrier wall to block his attacks.
"Like I said, it's futile...your attacks are too weak!" She exclaimed, before swinging her whip at him again, but he was out of reach.
"Yeah, she's right...her Barrier Magic is fairly high level, more durable than any I've encountered before. None of the Blood Magic Spells I've mastered have enough penetrative power to break through her barrier...this has been fun, but I should probably bring this to an end now," Colt thought to himself, before raising his hands and chanting, "[Blood Mist]!"
Bursts of red erupted from his palms, obscuring the area in a crimson haze, Colt vanishing from Junne's sight as the smell of blood permeated the air.
She quickly backed away in response and surrounded herself with a barrier dome, scrunching up her nose as she inhaled some of the bloody mist.
"That damned Commoner...he may be a masochistic pervert, but he isn't stupid. He was careful to keep his distance, I could've used an obstacle Spell like Horizontal or Vertical Razor Slate and sliced him in two if he'd come blindly charging in, but he didn't give me any opportunity to use those Spells. Tch, it's at times like this that I really wish I'd awakened an Attack Magic Class instead, I-...," Junne thought to herself, before her train of thought was interrupted as a sharp pain burst out across her left calf.