The Worst Game of Hide and Seek (DP-Hard)

[William O, Creed]

Surprisingly for thre next several moments neither of the entities inside of the morgue made a move on one another. Irina was speaking to the work in the hopes that it wouldn’t just understand her, but that it could be reasoned with also. Nothing really was impossible in reality however this worm wasn’t a sort of Hollow that may have at one point been able to speak. This was something that someone had crafted in order to be used against others. It didn’t make another move on her though which definitely was strange. It wasn’t until Irina pulled the fire alarm that the worm appeared agitated. Whipping it’s head back and then forward it spit out a handful of teeth at Irina. These teeth as she had seen earlier though weren’t small nor dull. Large sharp objects the size of short swords that more than likely could cut through the walls of the morgue and Irina easily. So what was she going to do about them and the creature that possessed no individuality.

Kazura much like Irina was keeping a cool head at least for the situation that he was in at the moment. He was successfully repairing a good portion of the hospital sections that had been damaged. Now that the Battle-Bugs were on him though he showcased that he could do more than just cast some nice spells. His assertion on the Battle-Bug in front of him was dealt swiftly. Accomplishing to slice through the dark exoskeleton of the insect and through the internal workings. As he stopped from executing movement he’d feel the tug on the back of his legs from the Battle-Bugs behind him. Their pincers around his ankles while they attempted to drag him backwards. Whether or not they succeeded Kazura would immediately notice that this wasn’t going to be easy. From the flesh of the now deceased Battle-Bug crawled dozens of Bomb Bugs just like what had been on the walls less than a minute ago. These ones though leaped from the deceased into Kazura’s helmet and would detonate only a moment later in a small compressed blast.

Bomb Bug OS: 650

[Irina Davayte]

The worm definitely didn't like the sound Irina had caused, and hurled its teeth towards her. Irina, giving up on discussing the matter with it, dodged out of the path of the teeth, using Bringer Light to get to the other side of the room, still on the same side as the door. Irina wasn't particularly concerned about whether the wall was damaged, because she figured it was probably not load-bearing since it was relatively close to the perimeter of the hospital anyway. Probably not, but she had never built a hospital, and had abandoned the idea of studying architectural engineering early on in her major, so she wasn't really sure.

She quickly considered her options. Slicing at the worm with her sword wasn't going to work; it was too armored for that. Based on what she had seen when she threw a snowball at it, she didn't suppose she would be able to freeze it, but she could probably confuse it for a moment again if she had an actual plan. What would she do with a normal bug? She supposed she could try to drop something on this thing to try to squish it. She looked around. The same cart of instruments. Too small. A cooler. Too big to move, and also probably attached to the wall. The ceiling. Yeah, none of those things seemed like a good idea. The Squish idea was out.

What did this creature want? Wild animals, she knew, were generally only motivated by being safe or getting something to eat. This worm didn't particularly seem interested in either of those things. So Irina decided to try to test whether it was really interested in her. She used Bringer Light to get to the doorway, to see if it would follow her. "Heeeere Fluffy," she called cautiously, waiting for the worm to attack her again. If they were going to get acquainted with one another, the creature was going to need a name.

Remaining reiatsu: 3400 - 100 x2 (Bringer Light) = 3200
Fullbring level 1: 4/10 posts

[William O, Creed]

Evading the onslaught of massive sharp teeth from the equally big worm wasn’t something that many individuals would have been able to accomplish. Although Irina was far from normal even by spiritual standards it seemed she still had to rely on the use of a movement enhancing technique to evade. The sharp teeth continued through the wall and door of the morgue slicing right through the material of the body into the next room leaving hole that Irina would easily be able to fit one of her fingers through.

Now though as Irina moved once again positioning herself towards the door once again the worm changed the direction it was looking to obviously stare down Irina. She would be able to easily tell now that this worm was giving her all of its attention. What Irina was able to accomplish and what she would need to do in order to kill the worm though was unknown. It definitely wouldn’t be easy which she was finding out for sure. The longer this continued the more she would see about the worm and perhaps learn of some way, an opportunity to take it out. Whipping it’s upper body from one side to another once again, the same as it had done just a few moments ago when the worm flung something out from its body. This time though it wasn’t the massive teeth. A massive ball of green fluid went towards Irina at a speed of 300. It would splash across the area burning everything it touches, Irina included if she didn’t evade.

[Irina Davayte]

She noted the holes in the wall that the teeth had left behind, so instead of dodging the worm's attack again, Irina used Soul Dominance to pull an Irina-sized bit of ground and floor tile in front of her, forming a sort of shield. It seemed that Fluffy wasn't going to calm down, so she decided to attack it again. The outside of the worm was too tough to cut, but what if she could get to its mouth? Did it have a nice, squishy tongue? It was worth exploring, she decided.

Irina used Bringer Light to get close to the poisonous, toothy worm, trying to get her sword into its mouth. If she succeeded, she would send a 2-foot long icicle into its body, hopefully poking at something vital and squishy, then she would branch two more icicles off of the first one. Everywhere they touched, 2 inches around it would freeze. She would disengage her sword from the icicles, and step away, using Bringer Light again. "Sorry, Fluffy," she said apologetically.

Remaining reiatsu: 3200 - 150 (Soul Dominance) - 50*3 (icicles) - 50*2 (bringer light) = 2800
Fullbring level 1: 5/10 posts

[Kazura Uzaki]

Out of the severed corpse of the Battle-bug came more bomb bugs. Great. They attempted to jump up into Kazura's helmet while the other two Battle-bugs dragged him backwards. Nope. Not happening. Nope that nope. These appeared to be wild animals, controlled somehow, but wild nonetheless. They would submit to him. Bow to him. Flee from him. Gate faded for now as he channeled his energy into the Martial Discipline Ken instead. He couldn't use any other spiritual abilities while utilizing Ken, but it was necessary at this moment. Surrounding his body in a field just larger than a quarter inch and extending past that in a larger aura came a deflection effect. The bugs would find it impossible to enter into his helmet no matter how small they were as they were pushed aside.

Not only that, but in the entire room there would be an intense Intimidation aura. Stronger than that of Willpower's Cog, which doesn't work on unintelligent beings, this aura effects wild animals much stronger. The creatures may find it very difficult to stay in Kazura's presence. The bomb bugs wouldn't be in his helmet, wouldn't be through his aura nor his armor, the battle bugs wouldn't be pushed completely off of Kazura due to their strength but they also wouldn't like being around him, most likely. Sure, they were probably being controlled and were slightly more intelligent than wild animals, but even hardened warriors not using Ken would feel intimidated by it.

"Go tell your master I'm coming for them. I grow tired of this." Kazura's day was not going well, and he was being honest. He was growing tired of it. With his nanobots finished with the repairs on the walls, he recalled them to his titanium right arm and looked around for an entrance into a basement or an underground tunnel or a ventilation system he could fit into... Anywhere that would take him deeper into the nest. He'd have to deactivate Ken to move around again, but that would be okay if the bugs had fled him. If they had resisted somehow, he'd let go of Ken just after they had been pushed out of his helmet then would carve them up with his 1,000 cutting power sword.

Remaining Reiatsu: 4,125/10,000 (-200 Ken)
Complete Fullbring: 4/13
Secondary Fullbring: 3/8

SPOILER: Click to show

{Ken}

Technique Name: [Martial Discipline: Ken]

Class: [1]

Technique Type: [Human World Dweller Technique]

Usable By: [Bount, Fullbringers, Mod Souls]

Technique Element: [None]

Technique Description and Effects: [Insert Below]

Think about it this way. Most any human with spiritual powers should know the four basic techniques of the human world: Willpower, Output, Movement, Energy Generate. Any who fails to know these is simply a low class combatant. To be a true contender, these techniques are necessary.

Well, likewise, knowing Ken is what puts a human world dweller in the upper echelon of the human world's spiritual abilities scale. Let's explain. Martial Discipline refers to a mental or physical discipline, or both. In this case, it means disciplining one's soul. It is tempering the soul to achieve a certain effect. This is where Ken comes in. That's what this technique is. Confused? What this technique does can be located below.

Ken is the next step from Willpower, Output, Movement, and Energy Generate. Ken focuses the user's soul into an aura around their body. What this technique does is utilize the spiritual aura of its master to create a glowing field of energy around the user. The field extends a quarter inch off the skin for every 100 reiatsu strength the user possesses. What this field does is repel incoming attacks by utilizing the current physical strength of the user combined with the current reiatsu strength of the user. That's the strength of the aura. It repels them, but doesn't destroy them. It simply deflects them or blasts them away. Simultaneously, the user produces an intense feeling of intimidation which would cause even the most tempered of warriors to feel extreme fear. Wild animals will flee instantly from this aura. The aura can, if the range of the user is wide enough, actually be directed at and focused straight onto a certain target or group of targets.

How to use technique: [Insert Below]

Simply activate it at will. The reiatsu cost to activate it is 200 reiatsu per post active. The user must know all four HWD main techniques to learn this one. This is considered an extension of all four.

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc) (Insert Below)

The aura of intimidation can be resisted completely by the use of an opponent's Ken, regardless of user stats or class. Otherwise, if the opponent does not know Ken, then it can be resisted by those of superior class. This technique can be broken by techniques of superior class, or by opponents of superior class. It is also extremely fatiguing to use, especially in consecutive posts. The user must remain immobile when activating this technique, and cannot use any attacks, other defenses, or other spiritual abilities while Ken is active. Luckily, to those who have mastered the technique, it can be switched on and off in a split second as long as previous conditions are met. The user burns up more stamina in a single post of Ken than if they were going all out with movement the post before. Therefore, knowing and using this technique both require built up stamina.

Made By: [Kento]

Reserved? (Yes/No): [No]

[William O, Creed]

Irina had the right idea now as she blocked the acidic ball of green goo by utilizing soul command. When you can’t kill something from the outside, the inside is always a good next step. She pretty much knew at this point that this worm wasn’t fast enough to attack her while she utilized Bringer Light so using it again seemed to work no problem. Shoving her Fullbring down the throat of this giant worm! A good portion of people would claim such a thing to be downright crazy, Irina though was right and in the moment that followed her icy attack managed to pierce through and cause quite a bit of damage internally to the worm.

Stepping backwards and putting some distance between herself and the worm Irina would realize a moment later wasn’t really needed as she had actually managed to freeze the creature’s heart. Dropping to the floor of the morgue the worm was finished although Irina hadn’t claimed victory without a cost. When she had shoved her Fullbring down the throat of the worm some of the teeth had somehow changed angle. The backside of her forearm was sliced almost the entire length, bleeding quite a bit now although immediately life threatening it was not.

Once again Kazura was having quite a harder time in his situation as he fought off far more insects. His choice to side on defense instead of offense was something that hadn’t been calculated and though as the insects retreated Kazura was left completely fine. Able to easily get back on his feet and collect his thoughts as the insects didn’t seem to struggle against the influences of Ken at all. Perhaps it would take him a moment to realize the direction in which all of the insects seemed to flee? Maybe he was to mentally exhausted to even pick up on it? Either way all of the insects that Kazura had just scared off, the Bomb-Bugs and Battle-Bugs were all headed right for Irina!

[Irina Davayte]

When she was sure Fluffy was done for, Irina took a deep breath and tried to collect her thoughts. Whatever was going on here certainly wasn't natural. They were going to have to get to the bottom of this insect situation. Where was Kazura, anyway? With the adrenaline from that experience wearing off, she felt a drop from her right elbow, and realized her upper arm was bleeding. Were those teeth poisonous? Like she had with Yuri, Irina used Soul Command to pull whatever liquid was on the surface of her arm away, directing it to a sink. She was no doctor, but as someone who had gotten herself injured a lot of times as a kid, the wound in her arm reminded her of one that would need stitches. If Klava, her childhood neighbor and a nurse who had patched up Irina many times, were here, Irina figured she would want to get the bleeding stopped.

She found some gauze and tape and, without cleaning the wound first, wrapped the arm without any sort of finesse. In fact, she thought, it kind of looked like a first grader had slapped them on there. Also, blood was still seeping through it. Maybe it just needed some ice. She produced a softball-sized a snowball, and slapping that on top of the gauze, then using a trash bag to hold the snowball on. She was not convinced this was the most healthy option for her raw flesh. She was going to need a medical professional. Irina opened the door of the procedure room, hoping to go find one, only to be greeted by the sight of a cloud of bugs rushing toward her. She shut the door again, and, not convinced that the door would hold them (especially because of the holes produced by the worm), made a beeline for the exit door, which had a nice ramp since it was intended for wheeling bodies in and out of.

Remaining reiatsu: 2800 - 25 (snowball) = 2750
Fullbring level 1: 6/10 posts

[William O, Creed]

Irina had the right idea once she opened up the door and saw that the two different breeds of bugs were swarming towards her. That was a sight that frankly she handled quite well by shutting the door once AND then hauling ass. She’d managed to get out of the morgue through the other door and then find she was out in the hallway of the first floor. The same floor that Kazura was on yet on the other side. She’d be able to tell that it was much different than when she walked in. The aroma was completely different after the explosion and most of the walls and floor around her were both crack and scorched black. She’d have to make a choice where she was going to go though. The bugs weren’t far behind her so she’d have to choose either straight, left or right.

To the right was a door that opened into a stair well which would allow Irina to climb up to the other floors. Left was the way over towards Kazura who might be able to help her although converging with one another now would be a good idea. Straight was the main hallway of this floor which looked like a stage for a horror flick, but wasn’t she in one already? Whatever she decided to do it would have to be done fast because the bugs were already getting out of the morgue and catching up to her.

[Irina Davayte]

Zipping down the hallway, Irina found herself at a fork in the road. She read a sign that said there was a stairwell to her right and the main wing of the hospital was straight ahead, but using her limited reiatsu sensory, she focused to try to determine from which direction Kazura's energy was coming from. Seemed like left. Left it was. Let Kazura try to figure out what to do with these things. She ran that way. Whilst running, she decided it was probably a good idea to try to get back in communication with her boss.

"Hey Google?" she prompted her watch. "Text Kazura 'Where are you? Yuri stuck in closet. Big bug tried to eat me. It's dead. More small bugs following me though. Where are you?" The watch dutifully followed the instructions. "Got it. You want to send a message to Babushka-" "No no no no! Don't text Babushka! Cancel that!" "Got it." Irina repeated her message, and the Smart Assistant patiently transcribed the words as it heard them, and texted Kazura: "Where's fruit? Earache stuck in Carfax. Big butt tried to eat me, I'm dead. More smallpox traveling, though. Where are fruits?!"

Remaining reiatsu: 2750
Fullbring level 1: 7/10 posts

[Kazura Uzaki]

Kazura took a deep breath. For now, the bugs were gone. He looked around, trying to find any sign of the source. That’s when his smartwatch gave him an alert of an incoming text message. "Where's fruit? Earache stuck in Carfax. Big butt tried to eat me, I'm dead. More smallpox traveling, though. Where are fruits?!" Fruits? Butt? She’s dead? How is she texting me if she’s dead? Smallpox??? This made no sense. That’s when Irina came barreling down the hallway, followed by a bunch of battle bugs and bomb bugs. Kazura sighed and put his face in his hand.

”Really? Butts? Fruits? Stay out of the way.” Kazura Willed his nanobots to burrow into the walls, floor, and ceiling of the hallway they were in and spread their filaments. The bomb bugs that were chasing Irina had done a number on the room Kazura had just walked out of, and even though he had repaired that room, he wanted to provide protection to this hallway, that could potentially be load-bearing. The nanobots fortified the structure with Kazura’s spiritual pressure, 1000, more than enough to protect them, unless the bomb bots had somehow gotten stronger since they lsat exploded. Unlikely.

Once Irina had passed him, Kazura took a deep breath in, Soul Commanded all the air in his lungs into a pure form of oxygen, then spewed flames, having mastered this technique, Energy Generate: Conflagration, he controlled it into a smaller vortex. Usually a cone measuring fifteen feet wide, he let out a blast that spun just one foot wide at its largest point. The technique generated both flames and wind that could rip and shred the bugs that got too close.

”Where’s Yuri? Why is there a garbage bag on your arm?”

Remaining Reiatsu: 3,725/10,000 (-400 Conflagration)
Complete Fullbring: 5/13
Secondary Fullbring: 4/8

[William O, Creed]

Showcasing why he was the boss it seems Kazura wasted no time expelling a potent attack of fire and air towards the bugs that had been tracking down Irina. Of course it wasn’t exactly as he planned and the people left in the hospital would still be under the impression that they were under specific attack. The reason being that as the bomb bugs burned the substance inside of them detonated. Causing the same sort of explosions that scarred the room Kazura had been in.

The explosions didn’t accomplish anything really though due to being set off by Kazura and not executed correctly. Although Kazura would likely be able to surmise something about them further now. The explosion they could execute wasn’t completely spiritual, it was at least to some degree physical. Likely chemicals within the bug that when mixed together caused the blast.

The Battle-Bugs managed to last a lot longer, nearly making it to Kazura holding out against the onslaught of fire and cutting air. However, even the toughest of them only managed to make it a foot from Kazura before its internal workings had been boiled. Now the hallway was littered with corpses of these bugs yet nothing else was happening in sight. It wouldn’t be until about thirty seconds past. Suddenly Kazura and Irina would feel a massive spiritual pressure. Something far larger than any of the other bugs. A warning or perhaps a promise was felt through the pressure. The sensation of being watched, hunted . . . devoured. (Class 1 Spiritual Pressure. Not using Gravitational pressure.)

[Irina Davayte]

"What do you mean, 'butts' and 'fruits'?" Irina asked as she zipped by, looking at Kazura as if concerned that he was losing it. She was not, however, concerned enough to attempt to stop him from burning the place up. The bugs reacted to the fire, each fizzing and combusting relatively neatly. "Thanks," Irina said in response to Kazura's burning the things up. "Do you have any idea where those things are coming from?"

Her watch buzzed merrily. She had an incoming text from her grandmother. "Better just get a taxi, my love. Go home and take an aspirin and a nap. I don't necessarily recommend getting into the habit of Day Drinking, but we can talk about that later if you'd like." Irina groaned inwardly. "I specifically told you to cancel that, Google," she muttered, casting a glare at the screen. She checked out her recent history. Sure enough, she had sent a text to her Babushka: "Where are you? Car key stuck in closet. Big bug tried to eat me. It's dead. More sponsored bugs following me though. Where are you?" She scrolled a bit more and got to the message she'd sent Kazura, which somehow had come through even less clearly. "Ah. I see. Fruit, butt. I don't know why it does that sometimes. It's really gotten better at understanding my Japanese since I moved here. And anyway, I barely have an accent now." She believed this sincerely, but it was absolutely not true; her Russian accent was still quite thick, especially when she was under stress.

Irina approached close enough to kick at one of the grounded bugs gently. It looked inactivated, at least. "I stuck Yuri in a closet and froze it pretty tight. I think she's probably okay, but we should go get her as soon as we can. I got bit by a giant worm that came through the floor, and I thought I should probably put some ice on it. I'm pretty sure I haven't given myself frostbite, but I don't know. I think the rule for ice is 20 minutes on and 20 minutes off."

Irina felt something big and nasty exert its spiritual presence. A shiver went down her spine. "Know anything about this?" She figured Kazura must have gotten some kind of information while he'd been running around the hospital.

[Kazura Uzaki]

Kazura unfortunately had no more information than Irina had at this time. "I'm not sure where they're coming from, no. And maybe you need a better interface for your texting... Some sort of neural uplink? Or at least a pair of smart glasses that can show you your texts before you send them?" Kazura was starting to get a little snarky as he smirked. There was a little bit of tension released from his burden as he started to breathe a little easier. This was good for him. He ignored Irina's comment on her accent, as he didn't want to poke at it at this time, but her accent was definitely not anywhere Japanese. Maybe that's why the phone couldn't send her texts appropriately.

"Let's head for Yuri and get her fr-" Kazura froze as the large presence made itself known. Irina had been close enough to right on the icing of her injury, wanting about 15-20 minutes per hour on it so he hadn't said anything about that either. But this feeling of being watched and hunted. It was unpleasant and gave Kazura ill feelings. He steeled his stomach and addressed Irina very formally this time. "It's better for us to leave Yuri safe there for now. Come, let us end this." And with that, Kazura started moving through the Hospital towards his best guess as to where the source of the spiritual pressure was coming from. His Energy Sensory was average, so pinpointing an exact location would have been near impossible especially if it was just trying to let loose as much of a presence as possible.

Regardless, he trusted that Irina was following him as he moved past the scorched bugs through the hallway they had come through and towards whatever center of the presence he could guess at with his expert Analysis abilities.

Remaining Reiatsu: 3,725/10,000
Complete Fullbring: 6/13
Secondary Fullbring: 5/8

[William O, Creed]

The presence that had made itself known throughout not just the hospital but the nearby surroundings was potent, moving throughout the internal workings of the hospital wouldn’t be the same. Trying to track down the source of the reiatsu would be like swimming through sludge. It’d feel as if it were everywhere with no definitive spot feeling like the source. After about a minute passed though suddenly the presence would almost revert backwards. As if a water puddle could move inwards to a single point. Whatever was causing this now had just given Kazura and Even Irina its exact location.

It wasn’t hiding, it was showing them right where it was like a dot on a radar. In the basement of the hospital several floors down. Not moving yet all the same the sensation of being hunted didn’t fade. It would feel as if this presence was just behind him constantly breathing down their necks, always gazing over their shoulders. Maddening was the feeling of being hunted by something that obviously was not there. If they didn’t wish to damage the hospital anymore they could utilize the elevator to get down to the basement where it would open up into a large tunnel like hallway. One end leading to the janitorial office while the other led directly to the insect creature standing in the tunnel waiting for its prey.

static.wikia.nocookie.net/solo-leveling/images/3/37/Ant_King_.png/revision/latest?cb=20191226012308

[Irina Davayte]

"Mm, neural uplink? I don't know about that. Are you saying you want to put wires in my brain? I'm not so good with that. Especially with you not being a real doctor and all," Irina replied lightly, recalling the time she'd refused to let Kazura give her stitches after she'd gotten into a scrape with a raging monster in a zoo, and instead, waited for five hours in an Emergency Room to get it taken care of. "Ugh, no. My reading glasses are enough, thank you very much. Have you ever tried running around with glasses? They slide down your nose when you sweat, and bounce all over, and nope," she shot his second idea down promptly. "I think I just need to get into fewer of these situations with a bunch of excitement and background noise. But then again...Where's the fun in that?" Naturally, she regretted her words instantly.

Unable to determine exactly where the overwhelming presence was coming from, Irina was content to follow Kazura. She couldn't shake the feeling, though, that she ought to be watching her back. So she walked at an angle, keeping eyes in the direction they'd come from, just in case. She considered putting a hand on Kazura's elbow to make sure she kept pace with him, but didn't want to deal with the potential of him thinking she was trying to hold his hand. Pretty agile due to the stepping drills she frequently incorporated into her workouts, she managed to not trip over her own feet. It didn't matter though: the threat wasn't behind them; instead, it became apparent that it was below.

"Find some stairs, then?" Irina proposed, no longer feeling chatty. She'd follow Kazura's preferred method to get to the creature.