Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliche' [PvP]

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Thread Title: Not Good Enough for Truth in Cliche'
Participants: Camila Adaronde vs. Lagos Oscuras
World: Human World
Death Setting: Non Death Enabled
Rating: R
Location: Karakura Town, Japan. Late night.
Special Conditions: N/A.
Circumstances: Camila, having spent the night tearing though Hollow, Shinigami, and Humans alike, attracts the attention of the newly inducted Noveno Espada. Violence ensues.

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Ah, Karakura town. A place of spiritual awareness, enlightenment, and turmoil. A perfect place for the young girl to take the time to test out her own abilities against those that had unfortunately spent the time out in the dead of night. Quite a few people were going to meet the unfortunate side of her blade for the night, and in truth she was more than okay with that. She'd needed to take the time to further make sure her combative abilities were where they should've been, and taking down numerous foes was the perfect place to start; she didn't care if they couldn't effectively defend themselves, she wanted to know just how effectively she was going to be able to cleave someone down.

Having left her apartment with her Shikai active, Camila did very little to suppress her reiatsu; she'd need it active as much as she could in order to attract others to the area around her. She didn't care who arrived; so long as she had someone to fight, she was happy. Starting things off for the night, Camila willed a simple katana of blood into existence, and kept it at her side. Walking up to a poor, poor soul that had been walking the street during the night, she quickly drew her blade, slashed horizontally through the man, and once again sheathed her sword. Within a simple flash of crimson, the man was bisected. With that, she continued onward.

Finding yet another Human, Camila seemed to repeat the process. Draw her blade, slash, and sheathe. She had very little care over who might've seen her, or who might've been alarmed from the attacks themselves, she was simply in it for the carnage at this point. Waiting a few short moments as Hollows began to flock to the scene, Camila did what she could to make quick work of them. Taking to the air for a quick maneuver to slash straight through the hollow's mask, Camila dispatched one and immediately started sprinting over toward another. Aiming for the beast's legs and slashing straight through, Camila pulled her blade back and made a singular upward strike through the now-crippled Hollow, continuing to send the monstrous entity back into the Soul Cycle without purification.

Taking a deep breath, Camila continued to look around. Anything and everything she could afford to fight currently, she was going to damn well try to. She didn't want much of anything to say they could stand in her way, and whether or not that was her or the splitting headache she had talking, even she didn't know. Gripping tightly at her forehead, the young Shinigami simply bided her time before another, hopefully stronger entity showed up. Perhaps it'd be a Shinigami Captain? Gods, how she'd love to tear Ludwig down a notch where she had the opportunity to. She wasn't even going to dream of letting an opportunity like that get away from her.

Shikai: 1/10

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{Stats & Skills}Type: Spirited

Strength: 50
Speed: 400
Spiritual Pressure: 400 [600] -> 600 [900]
Reiatsu Strength: 250 [375] -> 50 [75]
Instinct: 200 [130]
Senses: 100 [65]
Energy Sensory: 0
Healing Expertise: 0

Light Aura: 0
Dark Aura: 100

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Skills

Weapons - Blood Weapons: 3
Mental Incantations: 2
Damage Recovery: 2
Strength of Will: 3
Pain Tolerance: 3
Hakuda: 3
Kido: 2

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{Reiatsu Pool & Blood Counters}Reiatsu Pool: 4,825/9,000
-200 for Shikai.
-300 for Reiatsu Strength -> Spiritual Pressure.
-675 for Combat Cutback activation, 900 Strength.

Blood Counters: 11
+10 for releasing at 100% reiatsu.
+1 for passive generation.

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{Combat Cutback @900 Strength}Technique Name: Combat Cutback

Class: 4

Technique Type: Reiatsu

Usable By (Technique is available to which races?): Anyone with 300+ SpPr

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Affects: Persons with high spiritual pressure are known for their large reiatsu pools, but they also tend to be known for their weaker reiatsu strength, which means they have a ton of reiatsu, but not that much to actually use it on. This techniques entire purpose is to take that sheer volume of reiatsu and turn it into a viable, dangerous weapon.

The user builds up a pool of reiatsu internally, increasing the internal pressure, before channeling it towards a set of limbs, such as the hands or feet, discharging it as a weapon. By doing this the user can harness their reiatsu into physical striking power, allowing them to match a physically stronger opponent blow for blow, or possibly even beat them. Upon initial use the user pays 75 reiatsu per 100 strength, maxing out at their spiritual pressure, but afterwards the per post upkeep drops to 25 per 100. The amount of force generated can be changed once per post, going down merely drops the upkeep, but going up, the user must pay the initial upkeep as well as an additional 75 reiatsu for every 100 strength they add to the technique.


How to use technique (How is it activated?): Building up internal reiatsu before focusing it on a set of limbs such as hand hands or feet (or other applicable appendage like a tail). Before mastery of this technique only a single limb, such as one hand or foot, may be selected at a given moment, after master is obtained both may be used at once.

Technique Drawbacks (Limitations, repercussions for use, etc): Besides a fairly large initial cost and a moderate per post upkeep this technique only has one major drawback; reiatsu burns. When using this technique the user is forcing a large amount of reiatsu to be funneled through a relatively small area, so extended use can be dangerous. 1st degree burns begin to form after about 3 posts, 2nd degree after 5, 3rd after 7, and finally after 9 posts the chosen limb becomes borderline useless and the technique can no longer be used in that area. Healing, specifically of the burns, will reset the timer of this technique.

[Lagos Oscuras]

Lagos was now the Noveno Espada. Powerful enough to be deemed one of the strongest in Las Noches, and yet, she had not yet felt fulfilled in any capacity. She had desired for more to say the least, and that was evident when faced with the fact she was in the world of the living. She was here in this cursed country, in this damned town. There was always a fairly rich source of spiritual energy here, and with that spiritual energy there were many fledgling Hollows. Hollows that were able to be indoctrinated, cultivated, and molded.

Not to say there were not these in Las Noches, but usually the ones there had more self awareness and consciousness; were already individuals that had their sense of self. It was easier to take in new Hollows. Mold them and train them than the others. So, spending time in the world of the living, she had come to prepare for such an event. Yet, it seemed that there were interruptions. She could sense such when feeling that energy. 

The atmosphere as the presence of a Shinigami's release was present. Yet, something felt off. Almost perverted. Though even Lagos couldn't put her finger on it. She hopped from rooftop to rooftop until presented with her image down in the street below. The image of black hair with a darkish crimson weapon. A powerful spiritual presence that made Lagos tilt her head in curiosity. She didn't say anything when looking down, a cool breeze blowing through her silvery hair, and with it, icy blue eyes gazed down below with a malice.

A scowl was on Lagos' face. Then again, she had been doing that quite a bit hasn't she? From said rooftop, she firmly swings her right arm outwards, clenched in an almost claw like motion as she declares, "Cero." The yellowish sickly energy gathers and builds at a surprisingly fast speed, and with it, launches forth as an incredibly large beam. Cero, much like Bala scaled in size to the caster. For some, their Bala could be as small as a basket ball. For an Arrancar like Lagos? It was the size of a truck.

So, the Shinigami might have been surprised when faced with the massive sized pillar blast, looking to oppress her person. The searing heat looking to engulf, swallow, and incinerate her while also pressing with an almost malicious weight to the movement. The blast ripped through the street, swallowing the ground. At the end of it, the fox waits, her eyes keen, sharp, her smoking right hand clenching before she brings it to her side, her left hand resting on the hilt of her Katana. 

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Stats:

Strength:300

Speed:400

Spiritual Pressure:400x1.5=600

Reiatsu Strength:400x1.5=600

Light Aura:50

Dark Aura:50

Instinct:235x.65=152

Senses:165x.65=107

Energy Sensory:0

Wound Expertise:0



Total:1900







Skills:

Analyzing:2

Learning:2

Weapons*:2[Swords]

Martial Arts*:2 [Brawling]

Battle Analysis:2

Pain Tolerance:3

Damage Recovery:2

Acrobatics:1

16/16 SKP

Reiatsu Remaining:

5800/6000

-200 Cero.

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{Have some Music}

Clearing through her fair share of humans and hollows alike, Camila turned to eye down another hollow when she'd heard it; the iconic roar of reiatsu smashing into itself and condensing, the feel of the flexed spiritual energy from directly behind her, and the words exclaimed from the Arrancar preparing to launch it. Without hesitation, the Camila turned to face her, and began to conjure up one of her weapons of blood. Rising up from the ground and bursting through the cracks of concrete, a stream of what appeared to be blood quickly found its place in the air in front of the Vizard. From there, this stream quickly formed into that of a large shield, big enough to reasonably cover most of the girl's body.

Tucking herself up against it, Camila both watched and felt the reiatsu of a Cero washing over her location. The beam coursed around her, doing what it could to utterly incinerate everything behind her, sans for a streak of the sidewalk that had remained shaped solely due to the fact that she had her own defensive measures up and standing. After the beam had been fired and dissipated, Camila caused the shield to decrease in size into something much more manageable, and caused another stream to flow from the shield in order to strap around her arm, securing it in place. Drawing her sword in her free hand, Camila pointed the edge at the Arrancar now standing before her.

"Oh fucking finally," she practically shouted, a sort of sadistic smile rising to her face, "someone who seems to be an actual fucking challenge." Assuming an offensive stance, holding her blade close to her, Camila focused her eyes on the girl, much like a lion staring down an injured gazelle. "Do me a favor and try not to be a bore, 'kay sweetheart?" And with the end of her words, Camila took a step forward and vanished. Almost immediately closing the distance between herself and Lagos, Camila swung her blade toward the girl at a speed ever so slightly above her own natural ability. If Lagos had been able to get a good look into the girl's eyes from here, she'd see a being functioning off of pure and absolute malice; a being that had long since been broken, and reshaped into the incarnation of chaos. Even the energy signature she'd given off was much more akin to that of a Hollow's, with only faint traces of Shinigami when up close. Particles that had looked like something similar to bone had gathered around her left eye; nothing significant, but still a precursor to those that had been familiar with Vizard.

If Camila's strike had come in contact with the girl or her weapon, Camila was prepared to sacrifice her own reiatsu in order to steal an extra of the girl's own vitality; nothing serious enough for Lagos to make note of, but just enough that'd likely leave her feeling as though a part of her being had just been sloughed off. Whether or not her strike had managed to land, however, Camila would take a step back, not quite pressing herself against the edge of the building, but coming rather close to it. Seemingly lowering her guard, Camila held her free hand behind her back. "Soooo," she said, "'the fuck is an Arrancar like you doing here? Why'd you look to pick a fight with little ol' me~?"

Shikai Duration: 2/10
Rhythm Beat Speed: 450

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{Reiatsu Pool & Blood Counters}Reiatsu Pool: 4,000/9,000
-150 for Bloodweapons creation.
-50 for Shunpo.
-400 for tentative Blood Counter generation through Bloodweapons, refunded if attack did not land.
-225 for Combat Cutback upkeep.

Blood Counters: 16
+1 for Passive Generation.
+1 for tentative generation for landing a hit, lost if attack did not connect.
+3 for tentative generation for Bloodweapons, lost if attack did not connect.

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{Bloodweapons}For 150 reiatsu, Camila takes the time to shape her reiatsu into whatever melee or ranged weapon she'd like for the time. This weapon takes on a deep red appearance, much like that of blood, and has a durability equal to her Spiritual Pressure. These weapons use Camila's Spiritual Pressure in order to deal damage. At any point, Camila can change the form of this weapon for 100 reiatsu. While she has this weapon created, any attack Camila makes with this weapon is able to generate an additional Blood Counter. Ranged attacks with these weapons travel at a speed equal to her Spiritual Pressure, but cost 100 reiatsu each and every time they're made. When these weapons come in contact with either a living being or someone's release weapon, Camila is able to spend any amount of reiatsu in order to gain an equivalent number of Blood Counters, with each Blood Counter costing 200 reiatsu. In Bankai, this cost is reduced to 100 reiatsu per Counter, and the durability of these weapons are increased to double her Spiritual Pressure.

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{Rhythm Beat}Technique Name: Rhythm Beat

Class: 6

Technique Type: Hakuda

Usable By: Shinigami, Beast-Clan, Escudo

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Effects:
A stance-type technique, this one requires the user to slip into a state of automatic combat. Automatic combat is a mental state in which the user continues at the exact same pacing of their previous blows, creating a rhythmic pattern that allows them to fight without focusing on it. During this, the user becomes accustomed to their own movements, flowing into the same speed and rhythm of attacks until it's no longer required to think about it. That's when this technique truly begins to shine; upon that point, the user can speed up or slow down that rhythm suddenly, creating a pattern of attacks that suddenly alters in speed. Slowing in speed takes no effort, merely the conscious decision to hold back a blow, but speeding up is another story.

When speeding up, the user must do so gradually; as they become accustomed to their movements at a set pace beyond their normal limit, they can slowly push themselves further and further. With each post of consecutive rhythmic attacks, the user can adapt and push their muscles so that they move an additional 50 speed faster with their consistent attacks. This can be continued up until the maximum of the 3x limit on speed boosts. However, if speed is dropped at all, it caps at the speed dropped to or the user's maximum speed, whichever is higher, and can only regain 50 speed per post. Example, if the user has 300 Speed, after one post they can have 350, and after two their attacks come at 400 speed. However, if they drop down to 300 for a slowed move to surprise a foe, they cannot just go back up to 400 speed, and instead have to work up at 50 per post again. If they dropped down to 200, however, they could immediately make the next blow 300, as that is their natural cap.

How to use technique:
Begin striking in a consistent, consecutive rhythm of blows, adapting to it over time and adjusting speed as able.

Technique Drawbacks:
Stamina. Aside from that, the biggest drawback to this technique is its predictability; the user does have to build up a rhythm of strikes, and because they are fighting almost off-handedly, even if they have control over how they strike, there is a pattern in the motions that can be countered by an analytical foe. Note that this counts as a long-term buff if used for more than two posts (i.e. after the first post of increased speed); otherwise, it is counted as a short-term buff. Requires at least a 1 in Martial Arts: Hakuda.

[Lagos Oscuras]

To say that Lagos was impressed would be a lie. To say that Lagos was interested at the very least could be deemed acceptable. After all, it was not every day that there was a Shinigami that was capable of withstanding the force of her Cero. The oppressive beam blasted against her shield and would part, and or wash over, blasting the concrete behind her, raising the ambient temperature as the ground before her was incinerated, vaporized. Yet, at the end of it all, the Shinigami girl stood still where she was. However, Lagos was not amused.

Instead, she was contemplative, looking at that odd ability of hers. That was until the step had come into play. Lagos was very much a fighter that didn't waste movements, but was the kind of person that tended to play with her food. So, as Camila comes swinging towards the fox Arrancar, she might have found her shift of balance suddenly gone as Lagos' foot slams against the flooring, shattering the concrete utterly and entirely, looking to displace her and interrupt her, as Cami might find herself falling to the lower floor. 

Assuming Lagos was successful in causing her foe to fall below, she raises her right fist and sends downwards a Bala. An attack that itself wasn't meant to destroy or harm the Shinigami itself. No. If the Shinigami could withstand her Cero, then to stand against her Bala was a definite. No. Instead, it was for the speed and mass it had. That, and its size. For soon enough, a truck sized Bala comes crashing downward in its sickly yellow shade. Lagos was looking to study that ability of her opponent. Not just of her sword, but of that other power. That spiritual bath that seemed to press against her.

Assuming Cami lifted her shield to brace against the Bala, she'd find of course her Shikai would have no problem enduring against the impact, even as it pressed down against her. However, the floor she rested on? A different story, as she'd likely find herself being smashed down several stories. Lagos had done so to gain distance, as well as to better observe the power that this confident striker had. She gave an offputting aura. Something that made Lagos narrow her eyes.

"So...you know what I am and approach me all the same." That was a revelation to say the least. Most Shinigami understood, even of the lower ranks that an Arrancar was usually the superior version of any Hollow. Beings that held abilities that were similar to Shinigami and Hollow alike with their own Hollow powers and forms locked behind a release, a sword. Some would say a perversion of the Shinigami. So, it was most curious that the reaper came to face her with such a level of confidence.

It either meant the Shinigami was incredibly skilled, brave, overconfident in their abilities, or stupid. Perhaps all of the above. However, Lagos would not actually answer any of her questions. She was speaking at Camila, but not with her. It was as if Lagos was observing a beast, or perhaps some sort of odd anomaly. As Lagos watched the fragments of white gather along her face, she had come to question if this was truly what she thought she was. The Hollow Reirokyu was an intoxicating sensation. It was a disgusting feeling.

Spiritual pressure would begin to wash over the area, bathing almost, causing cracks along the rooftop as Lagos flared her own spiritual pressure, causing it to rise slightly, but halfheartedly. She didn't want her opponent to know much about her, and she wanted to maintain her cool. After all, once Lagos got heated and truly into the thick of battle, there was little stopping her from releasing rampant destruction all about her. She was spiteful, hateful, and she brought rapture to those she came across. The question was if this Cami could bring Lagos to that level. 

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Reiatsu Remaining:
 
5750/6000

-50 Bala

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As she closed the distance between her and Lagos, Camila quickly felt the ground beneath her begin to crack and crumble, giving away to the floors below.  She'd need to act quickly in order to accommodate with the fact that the ground beneath her had been forced away. While she hadn't expected it, she'd be able to think quickly enough to get safely to the floor below her. That was, if she wasn't quickly retaliated against. As the bala had been launched straight toward her, Camila prepared her own little counter-maneuver in order to assure she wasn't going to take a strike from the Arrancar that seemed a bit overly-arrogant in her words.

When the bala reached a point before where it would've normally come in contact with the girl, Camila split off into what was effectively a swarm of bats, allowing the bala to fly straight down as these bats flew straight up, four feet higher into the air than she was at the time of the split. Almost right back where she was before, with that same look of anger in her eyes, and those same fragments of bone growing ever larger on her face. A faint ring of white began to grow around her eye, about as thick as the plastic frame on a pair of glasses. The red in that same eye had taken on a small tint of yellow. In the Vizard's hand, which was currently pulled back, a spear of blood had been formed using the same reiatsu and blood from her sword.

Launching her arm forward to throw the spear into Lagos' abdomen with a speed of 800 at what was effectively point-blank range and still following the rhythm she'd established for herself, Camila was once again prepared to reap the girl's vitality from her if her strike had connected. From there, gravity began to act upon the girl, as she started to fall through the floors that had been blasted through with Lagos' own strike. Allowing herself to fall, Camila held her palm up to the air toward Lagos, as small lacerations began to open on her palm. It wasn't anything hindering, especially given the girl's tolerance for pain. As this occurred, reiatsu and blood began to swirl around the palm of her hand, with each one fusing with one another. 

“Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws; Hado #33: Sokatsui!”

As she finished speaking, a red-tinted flare of reiatsu and blood launched from her hand, and aimed straight for the Arrancar that she'd hoped was incapacitated from the strike she'd just made on the girl. Thanks to Camila's previous blood sacrifice, the raw potency of her spell had been much more effective than it otherwise should be; instead of being concise and as small as Sokatsui normally was, this spell would be different; more aggressive, much more "raw" than the spell would've otherwise been. As such, the orb of what was now effectively pink flame soared through the floors, if it came in contact with anything it'd immediately detonate.

As she fell to the ground, Camila braced herself for impact against the ground, Camila held her shield in the air above her to help her against the wind as she fell. After a short period of time, when she eventually made contact with the ground floor, Camila rolled in order to break the force of her fall, and ran out through the front door, turning back to face Lagos who was in the air. "Dirty trick," she said, "I'm interested to see what you've got next." Stretching her shoulders, Camila made sure to keep her view on the girl where she could, as to not get caught off-guard by anything the girl might've had prepared for her, lest she wanted to die.

Shikai Duration: 3/10
Rhythm Beat Speed: 500

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{Reiatsu Pool & Blood Counters}Reiatsu Pool: 3,525/9,000
-100 for Bloodweapon reshape.
-225 for Combat Cutback upkeep.
-150 for Sokatsui.
-400 for tentative Blood Counter generation through Bloodweapons, refunded if attack did not land.

Blood Counters: 12
-2 for Scatter.
-3 for Sacrificial Spellwork.
+1 for Passive Generation.
+1 for tentative generation for landing a hit, lost if attack did not connect.
+3 for tentative generation for Bloodweapons, lost if attack did not connect.

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{Scatter}This technique is more of a “counter” in a sense. Camila spreads her physical form to twenty bats, each containing a twentieth of her reiatsu. These bats take a physical form, and can be attacked. Activating this technique costs 1 Blood Counter minimum. These bats can fly anywhere in a 2 feet radius per Blood Counter. Every Extra Blood Counter spent for this technique increases the range of the technique by an additional 2 feet. This technique has no reiatsu cost. The bats spread apart from Camila's physical form at a speed of 600, and move at Camila's normal speed to their destination(s). Since this technique is a counter, it can only be activated in response to an attack, whether it be physical or reiatsu. It cannot be activated any other time. In order to get anywhere, more than one Blood Counter is likely going to need to be spent. Because each Bat is made up of one twentieth of her Reiatsu, if a Bat is hit by an attack and effectively killed, Camila loses one twentieth of her Reiatsu for every bat killed. If more than 5 bats are killed, Camila loses a limb, and begins to bleed as if it was cut off when she reforms. Limb loss is prioritized with arms first, then legs. Only one limb has the potential to be lost per usage of Bat Scatter. This wound can be healed using Hypermetabolism with 15 Blood Counters, however. Even if Camila has minimal limbs left, as well as Reiatsu, the bats will always separate into 20 separate bats, giving ample targets for the opponent. While in Bankai, the range of this technique is increased to 4 feet per blood counter, and the speed of the bats are set to a static 800 for separation and movement.

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{Sokatsui @ 831 OS w/incantation}Class: 5

Technique Type: Kido

Technique Element: Fire

Technique Description and Effects: This technique is a more powerful version of Hado #31, releasing a fireball of blue flames that’s about half as large as an average person in size. The impact of this fireball leaves first-degree burns upon impact, and has more impact force than Hado #31.

How to use technique: Speak the spell and point hand towards the target.

Incantation and Effect: “Ye lord! Mask of flesh and bone, flutter of wings, ye who bears the name of Man! Truth and temperance, upon this sinless wall of dreams unleash but slightly the wrath of your claws!” With the incantation, this spell gets a 20% increase in Reiatsu Strength (i.e. if Reiatsu Strength is 100, this is treated as 120 with incantation).

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{Sacrificial Spellwork}Sacrificial Spellwork is a technique that's purpose is to help power up her Kido wherever possible. This technique is activated alongside the use of any Kido, and can only be activated once per post. In order to activate Sacrificial Spellwork, Camila needs to sacrifice a number of Blood Counters equal to the Class of the Kido above 8 (a Class 7 Kido would cost 1 Blood Counter, while a Class 2 Kido would cost 7 Blood Counters). What this technique does is infuse her raw spiritual prowess with her spells, allowing them to be strengthened by quite a bit, sacrificing precision in order to power them up. Instead of functioning off of solely Reiatsu Strength, a technique boosted through Sacrificial Spellwork will benefit from 25% of Camila's Reiatsu Strength, and 75% of her Spiritual Pressure. While in Bankai, this is increased to 100% of her Spiritual Pressure instead. Additionally, releasing into and refreshing Bankai will always cost 100% more reiatsu.

[Lagos Oscuras]

As Lagos looked down into the hole, she could discern something was wrong. As her Bala flew downwards, shattering floors and destroying foundations, her keen eyes allowed her to realize that there was the many skittering of shadows present through the shine of her Bala, something her keen battle analysis allowed her to notice from centuries of battles and being hunted. A predator as well as the hunted pays close eye to the field. It would pay off. The fox was a cunning predator. So would Lagos.

As the bats coalesce and the spear is thrown at Lagos, hurled like a bullet, Lagos blurred. Blurred as a loud booming sound fills the air. Sonido. Cami's spear would fly to hit nothing but air, and likely arc downwards, or if not that, then stop short before flying back down into the dark pit, Lagos reappearing from her blur as the spear drops in the relative same location. Lagos, as strong as she might be, as confident as she might be, she wasn't foolish. That was the one thing she refused to allow herself to be. Brazen.

She was the Espada number nine. That meant something. That, and she had a bit more general understanding of that ability of Cami's. The ability to manipulate and change the form or substance of her weapon. Incredibly dangerous, especially if she could do it at will, which as far as Lagos saw, she could. To have a weapon embedded in her would be mortal. That was excluding any other powers said weapon could have. It wasn't that Lagos wasn't concerned. No. She was fairly so. It was simply that she wouldn't have her face betray emotion in that regard. 

However, Lagos did not have the time to linger long in observation. Not as she saw the bathing flames heading towards her. Powerful flames. As they washed upwards, Lagos could have just stepped another time. As a master of Sonido, she could have done so fairly easily. However, instead, she decided to instead move her top speed. Though there was purpose to this. As she steps aside, just narrowly out of range, she looked downwards, her fox mask looking down towards her as her eyes were dull and cold.

In a way. Cami might have seen frustration that Lagos had seemingly avoided every attack, but if anything, she might have recognized that Lagos used Sonido to avoid her attack because she was forced to. Yet, as she lands, seemingly eager to see more of what Lagos had, she might see the remnant flames as they fly upwards to the sky illuminate the area in a radiant pink as her flames land about the ground, setting the area alight, especially as the flames caught on the leaves of trees on the ground or in their branches.

As they land, and as the wind blows, she might have seen indeed, a portion of said flames seemed to cover Lagos' trench coat. As it burned at the fabric, Lagos had no particular look of pain, nor frustration on her face as she brushes it off. Along her right shoulder, engraved in bold black ink was the number nine. Nine. The singe of slight sizzling skin from the remnant embers as Lagos seemed to have yet to even truly engage. Instead, she seemed to play a game of tag, a game of studying Cami as the Hollow mask seemed to gather and form ever more along her person.

"Disgusting." A single word said, as she let the Shinigami below her perhaps feel a sense of worry, concern, perhaps even...despair? With it, her Reiatsu began to flare, incredibly largely in an aura like state, a menacing effect as a special feature, and with it, if Cami's hollow had any particular sense of self preservation, perhaps it would have noticed that aura taking on the form of a flame like fox about her, roaring in a hideous grotesque manner as if looking to devour her whole with a snap of its jaws. With that said, Lagos would speak firmly.

"I am the Espada Number Nine. Lagos Oscuras."

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Reiatsu Remaining:

5650/6000

-100 Sonido

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Camila watched from down below as the Arrancar had swatted away the burns on her shoulder, only to reveal some dingy tattoo. Camila scoffed as the girl seemed to flex her rank. "I am the Espada Number Nine. Lagos Oscuras." Breaking out into a cacophonous laughter, Camila reformed her shield into a simple longsword, and pointed the blade at the Arrancar. "The Noveno? Don't make me laugh, sweetheart. I've held my own against three other Espada of higher Rank than you. Familiar with a Miss Ailene Haschiro~?" As she finished speaking, Camila vanished into thin air. If Lagos was at all familiar with Shinigami and their techniques, she might've picked up on the fact that she disappeared via a Shunpo at 5,500 speed.

Almost instantaneously, Camila reappeared in front of the Arrancar, and launched an attack at a rather intense speed of 5,500 via the use of Shunpo Karin. Much like she'd made a habit out of doing up to this point, Camila was fully prepared to sap the Arrancar's vitality with not only this strike, but with another assisted strike at 5,500 speed through the use of the Hakuda technique Different Tempo. As she launched her arm back the other way, creating a sort of "X" pattern across the girl's chest that she'd likely have quite a difficult time dodging, Camila hopped backward, taking her off the building once more and back onto the ground where she'd originally killed the humans and hollows below.

Grabbing one of the hollows by the leg, Camila held the beast up a bit toward where Lagos was. "You think you're hot shit?" she shouted, "You think you've got any more of a chance than these damned hollows over here? Humble yourself, sweetheart, because I think you'll be in for a rough time otherwise." Still holding onto the hollow leg, Camila began to forcibly siphon out the dying beast's last bit of reiatsu reserves, and consumed it for herself. Smiling and dropping the beast's leg, Camila once again readied her blade, Prepared to tear the girl down wherever she might've been able to. Ultimately she was waiting to see just what the girl was planning on doing, but to say that she wasn't going to go on the offensive otherwise was an absolute lie.

Taking the time to think to herself, Camila began to look around at anything and everything she could've found useful for the fight to follow. While ultimately she likely couldn't find anything of use, she made note of the fact that there were still corpses scattered around that she'd left; she'd have to capitalize on those at some point, lest they simply die. While she had been focused on looking around the area, Camila gripped at her left eye and let out a verbose shout in nothing but pain. With a pant as she let go of that eye of hers, she'd quickly revealed that the mask fragment was ever-growing and had been a bit thicker as it was.

Shikai Duration: 4/10
Rhythm Beat Speed: 550

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{Reiatsu Pool & Blood Counters}Reiatsu Pool: 4,200/9,000
-225 for Combat Cutback upkeep.
-100 for Shunpo.
-150 for Shunpo Karin.
-400 for tentative Blood Counter generation through Bloodweapons, refunded if attack did not land.
+1,050 for Vampiric Touch.

Blood Counters: 0
+1 for Passive Generation.
+2 for tentative generation for landing a hit, lost if attack did not connect.
+3 for tentative generation for Bloodweapons, lost if attack did not connect.
-14 for Vampiric Touch.

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{Different Tempo}Technique Name: Different Tempo

Class: 5

Technique Type: Hakuda

Usable By: Shinigami, Beast-Clan, Escudo

Technique Element: None

Technique Description and Effects:
With the Rhythm Beat stance, the user is put into a specific pattern and rhythm of blows that can only increase or decrease in speed, while remaining in an almost constant series of predictable motions. Different Tempo shakes up that pattern, allowing the user to tense their muscles and completely redirect the momentum of their body, provided that they were the origin of it. A punch might suddenly jerk to the side instead of being a straight blow mid-strike, or a strike might be withdrawn to avoid a slashing blade that would cut them even if it was mid-attack. This technique is stand-alone and can work without the use of the Rhythm Beat stance, but it is most effective when paired with it, allowing the user to shake up a predictable pattern while maintaining the momentum necessary for high-speed combat.

How to use technique:
Tense the muscles and redirect the momentum of one's blow, even in a completely opposite direction.

Technique Drawbacks:
The main drawback to this technique is the muscle fatigue that comes with it, varying based on the reversal of momentum. Complete reversal is obviously the most straining compared to a redirection, and the higher the speed, the higher the risk of muscle and bone damage. Repeated use of more than three times in a post even at lesser amounts of stress can also cause this damage. Requires at least a 2 in Martial Arts: Hakuda.

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{Vampiric Touch}Through a physical touch, Camila has the ability to siphon the life force from the opponent. Upon touching an opponent with an open hand, Camila can spend a number of Blood Counters to siphon Reiatsu from the target. This Reiatsu siphon is based on the number of Blood Counters spent. For every 1 Blood Counter spent, Camila can siphon 75 Reiatsu from the touched opponent. For every Blood Counter spent, she regains a small amount of stamina, inversely equal to the amount of stamina spent for the amount of Reiatsu she siphons (i.e. if she siphons 600 Reiatsu, she'll gain stamina inversely equal to spending 600 Reiatsu.).

Inversely, Camila can spend a selected amount of Reiatsu in order to drain the target, and gain Blood Counters in return. This drain is inversely equal to the gained amount of Reiatsu in the first part of the ability. 600 Reiatsu spent will grant Camila 4 Blood Counters in return. If this effect is used, she will still suffer from stamina drain for spending Reiatsu. This technique can only be activated through physical touch, making it rather hard to activate to begin with. This could lead to some possibly dangerous situations. While in Bankai, Vampiric Touch can also be activated when Camila lands a strike through her Bloodweapons.

[Lagos Oscuras]

Shunpo. The booming sound echoed, and with it, there was no doubt that Camila was fast. However, such a step was straight forward. Predictable when spot on. What wasn't however was the sheer speed Cami had whipped out her own blade, in which Lagos could only step back ever so slightly to avoid being completely gutted, instead a deep gash forming along her stomach. As the blade cuts through the fabric of her trench coat, rising upwards through her left breast, she presses inwards, as the opposite strike comes. 

A gash spray of blood along her chest, and with it, there was a momentary pause as Cami made her retreat. The searing, burning pain of the blades ripping through her body would have made any normal person inebriated with pain. However, Lagos had endured far worse than what this Shinigami was deeming to offer. So, as she looks to hop backwards, she might have been surprised to see Lagos stomach through the pain as she instead lashes outward with Sin Sonido. A blurring motion of Sonido as a loud boom fills the air.

As Cami fell, Lagos would close the distance between them, so closely that their faces were mere inches apart, and deciding to return the favor, would utilize Sonido Gaara to accelerate her knee, looking to slam her in the stomach to send her soaring towards the ground in a crash, utilizing her full strength to send her speeding like a bullet towards earth. Assuming she was successful in sending her in that crashing endeavor, the fox like Espada does a somersault in the air with her right leg raised towards the girl, timing her kick so that it would land not long after Camila's crash.

"Huph!" She yells out, utilizing her acceleration and immense strength to deliver the most destructive power possible on top of her blunted skin. Regardless if Camila was in the crater or not, assuming Lagos' foot landed, the concrete would crack, shatter, and fly about in a devastating display of monstrous strength. Lagos proceeded to wonder. It seemed that technique her opponent was using was putting a strain on their body. How long could they maintain such a technique? How high was their tolerance for pain? It seemed Lagos was to discover that soon enough.

After the blow is delivered, Lagos enters crouch before leaping high into the air, standing atop an air platform, her arms crossed over her chest with a...malevolent look in her eye. Lagos was not happy, and it seemed as if her eyes were far more focused this time. Taking a more defensive stance, one hand slowly lowers for her blade. The other, slowly held out in front of her, just a few inches apart as she focuses. Speed was Cami's one vantage other than her evasiveness. However, if that was all she could rely on...Lagos would not falter. 

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Reiatsu Remaining:



5400/6000

-100 Sonido
-150 Sonido Gaara.

Relevant Skills:

Analyzing:2


Battle Analysis:2



Pain Tolerance:3



Damage Recovery:2



Acrobatics:1

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As she fell, she genuinely didn't expect Lagos to chase after her. As such, she was blindsided pretty quickly from the Espada's strikes, and with good reason. She simply wasn't fast enough to dodge them. The first one landing in Camila's stomach, the girl was, as Lagos had expected, sent rocketing toward the curb due to the Espada's own striking capabilities. Though, the Espada was in for an awfully nasty surprise due to simply landing a hit on the Vizard; she likely hadn't accounted for the natural phenomenon known simply as Cutback.

Due to the vast difference between Camila's Spiritual Pressure, and Lagos' Reiatsu Strength, the Arrancar was not going to be looking good not only after the first strike she landed on the girl with her left knee, but after the kick with her right as well. After Camila had hit the ground, she naturally was forced to take the brunt of the strike against her from the Arrancar, forcing the girl to deal with the strikes she'd just been forced to endure. Luckily, she had a way to heal. From what she'd seen thus far from her opponent, Lagos hadn't been so fortunate. The raw difference in spiritual prowess alone was going to be enough to render the girl's legs useless, especially when considering the girl had put as much force behind her strikes as she did.

Reeling from the strikes against, her, Camila forced herself to stand, using her blade to prop herself up and staring up at the Espada now. She spat blood down to the ground, which had quickly seeped into the now-desolated concrete beneath her feet. Camila smirked, as her mask fragment grew ever larger. "We're finishing this. Now. Drain them of their essence and consume it all, Gouge de Sang." As the Vizard finished speaking, the blade she'd created from blood was quickly absorbed into her own arm. With that, a wave of her own spiritual pressure was released outward from herself, as she entered the peak of Shinigami power; Bankai.

As she released into Bankai, Camila allowed her own reiatsu to flow over her body, healing the injuries she'd just retained from the Espada. Aside from a few bruised and/or cracked ribs, she was looking to be as good as ever. Even the burns on her arms from keeping up Combat Cutback had restored themselves. And even then, with her absurdly high tolerance for pain, she was fully ready to fight through the rib wounds. She wasn't about to go down quite yet if she could help it.

Forcing her own blood through her back, Camila formed a single wing made of her own vitality. The wing looked to be made of blood, while it splattered out across the area like that of a roaring flame. Turning to Lagos, Camila waited to see if the girl was going to be able to move. If the answer was no, then she was going to clean up the fight before Albin was able to fully take over. She didn't have a desire to outright kill the girl, but if Albin reared his ugly head, she wasn't sure how long that was going to last for. As such, she wanted to wrap things up as quickly as she'd be able to.

Bankai Duration: 1/10
Rhythm Beat Speed: 500

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{Reiatsu Pool & Blood Counters}Reiatsu Pool: 2,825/9,000
-225 for Combat Cutback Upkeep.
-800 for Bankai.
-200 for Hypermetabolism.
-150 for Bloodweapons.

Blood Counters: 0
+9 for releasing Bankai at 45% reiatsu.
+2 for Passive Generation.
-11 for Hypermetabolism.

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{Hypermetabolism}By taking three seconds to activate this technique, Camila can spend 200 Reiatsu in order to sacrifice any amount of Blood Counters. An effect is activated based on the amount Sacrificed. This technique can be used on allies by adding an additional two Blood Counters as a cost, increasing by an additional two counters as the strength of the effect increases.

1-5 Blood Counters: Camila feels refreshed, giving her a small stamina boost. This is enough of a stamina boost to bypass the stamina drain for this technique. This also closes miniscule wounds, and fixes any small bruising. Wounds that are larger than an inch in length are not fixed.

6-10 Blood Counters: Camila is granted the benefits from sacrificing 1-5 Blood Counters. On top of that, larger wounds are healed, and all bruising is fixed. Wounds that are larger than 5 inches in length are not healed.

11-15 Blood Counters: Camila is granted the benefits of sacrificing 1-10 Blood Counters. On top of that, she's able to repair a fair amount of potentially lethal wounds. All cuts and bruises are healed, and Camila can restore small parts of her limbs (She can restore a lost hand or foot, but not the entire arm or leg).

16-19 Blood Counters: Camila is granted the benefits of sacrificing 1-15 Blood Counters. On top of that, she can restore damage to entire limbs, though only one limb can be healed per use at a time. She also gains 2 points in Poison Resist, but loses them after 1 post. These points are treated as though she had them since the beginning of the encounter, in terms of resisting poison-based effects.

20+ Blood Counters: Camila is granted the benefits of sacrificing 1-19 Blood Counters. On top of that, she can restore organ damage. This is limited to organs that will not almost immediately kill her if damaged. If her heart or brain were to take severe hits, these cannot be restored. Though, intestines, lungs, etc. can be restored no problem.

This technique is used to heal wounds. It is not meant to restore stamina. It only helps to prevent limbs from being useless through breaks, or to prevent blood loss. Camila will still tire normally. This technique requires at least 1 Blood Counter to activate, and cannot be activated with any less than 1 Blood Counter. Camila must remain stationary during the three seconds this technique requires to activate. If she is hit out of this channeling effect, all Reiatsu and Blood counters spent for activation will not be refunded. While in Bankai, this technique has no reiatsu cost, and instead only costs Blood Counters.

[Lagos Oscuras]

Pain. It was substantial. The realization of the pain her body was enduring from the difference of their offensive powers was evident. However, it did not mean that Lagos was incapable...Not in any conventional sense. Her physical blows were by all means still capable of causing trauma and internal damage. Even as she felt the flesh along her legs rend, she could still move. That. That was enough. The bruising that was released was an aching presence, and she could feel her blood boiling with malice.

As the mask fragment grew, so did Lagos' disgust. She had expected the Shinigami to press her assault. One could only imagine her surprise when instead she heard that word. A word that was so rarely experienced, and was the first Lagos had heard it. Bankai. It was in that moment, Lagos grimaced, and with it, she began to exert her own spiritual energy, bathing it about her as she clenches her fists. Did this Shinigami think that such a word as Bankai, that such a power would deter her? Her hatred was now invested.

Nubra Negra


With a draw of her blade, she calls out loudly. "Sly. Vulpecas!"  It was there, that her fox skull helmet's eyes would glow, the jaw seeming to open as if in laughter, before it grows, extending over her face further. A sickly yellow spreads across her body as her limbs begin to warp, her arms and legs contorting and twisting almost as they become white and claw like, her trench coat could not stand her transformation as it rips off of her person, showing a white tanktop that stops just above the bellybutton. Lagos was seemingly lithe from the external glance with her jacket. However, she had rippling abs of steel and a toned muscular figure. Fitting considering her monstrous strength.

The turquoise handled blade of warps, becoming longer at the handle, becoming heavier at the front as the blade arcs and becomes more weighted, showing she now wielded a halberd. More accurately, a Naginata. The bladed edge nearly a foot and a half in length as its extended shaft rested around Lagos' own height. Yet, that was not the end of the transformation. The back of Lagos' pants rip open at the base of the tailbone to expose nine, long, flowing tails that seem almost fluid in nature with their bounce.

The fur along them was sharp, pricked, and with it, seemed to wrap closer to Lagos, as she looked ahead. Lagos, whilst her legs were still damaged had morphed, and in her released state, she felt more powerful than ever before. Regardless however, even if her legs were destitute, her tails would suffice. The Noveno Espada was not the talkative sort, nor did she enjoy monologues. Besides...Lagos was not in the mood for wasted time.

In this particular instance. In this instance, Lagos' time was more precious than Cami's was. So, she would take the initiative. As Cami bathed herself in blood to heal her wounds, Lagos would instead caress her left hand smoothly over her breast, let her life essence run along her palm, before her hand then sparks with seeming electricity. She fully intended on making the Shinigami dance, or if not that, then to at least level everything in the nearby area. Extending her palm outwards, she'd lull almost, as if going limp and letting her power intoxicate her. Rule her.

"Gran...Ray Cero!" As she calls forth, a devastating Cero ripples outwards at incredible speeds, a truly gigantic beam of devastation as it zig zags, erratically, first seeming to go straight, but then bend to rip through several buildings, going back and forth, before then rippling straight towards Cami at a downward angle. Whether or not it slammed upon her, the resulting explosion would be devastating. So large that it would ripple outwards in a massive blast that would level the entire block to little more than a ruin. A blast that would make the area around it flattened in an aftershock as it moved nearly everything into oblivion.

The Noveno Espada challenged the Shinigami to survive such an assault. For with it, Lagos had altered the field of battle. Naginata's edge stomped into the earth, she stood resolute, awaiting her opponent.

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Reiatsu Remaining:

-300 Sppr to RS Conversion. [200 Points]
-400 Primera Etapa


3000/3000

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Reiatsu Owed After Release:

Gran Ray Cero x1: 400

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Primera Etapa: 1/12

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Gran Ray Cero O.S: 1800

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"Sly. Vulpecas!" These words forced a substantial smirk to rise on Camila's face as she quickly realized what was going on; those were the words to an Arrancar's release! Lagos was finally deciding to take this seriously. Oh, this was getting good. As Camila wounds were healed, she watched in anticipation as the girl before her took her time to transform; she wasn't even going to think about interrupting, her even if she was going to take the time to prepare against her. Jamming her wing into the deceased human to siphon out every last drop of blood they owned, Camila turned the corpse into nothing more than a shriveled mess by the time Lagos was done transforming.

Before her, stood a new type of beast altogether; Resurrection. Camila could feel the residual reiatsu pouring over the area; such a power was beginning to grow intoxicating just to simply be around. No matter how this fight turned out for her, she was going to get quite an amount of enjoyment from the coming moments, that was for sure. She was more than ready to prepare for an incoming attack from the Arrancar, and was going to make sure she could defend herself properly before engaging the girl. As she began to completely coat herself in a suit of armor, designed to protect her and leech off of anything and everything that came her way, it seemed like Lagos was preparing a treat of her own as she held out her hand.

"Gran...Ray Cero!" The moments to follow were simply ones of interest for Camila. She watched clearly through her suit as tremendous waves of reiatsu burst from the girl's fingertips, and launched itself in ever-growing waves at her. Her eyes widened as her grin only continued to grow; as the cannon of reiatsu began to approach her, Camila did little to get out of the way of the blast radius. No, her plan was to take the best head-on; to show that she was capable of her own amounts of strength against the girl. Even with that said, though, Camila herself was far from prepared for the torment she was undergoing at the time of impact; it seemed Albin was done waiting around.

As the blast wracked through the sidewalk, buildings, and everything around Camila, the girl stood, holding a defensive stance, and doing what she could to power through the blast. It seemed her armor was faring much better than it otherwise would've, breaking down and absorbing the hollow reiatsu that had infested the Cero. Though, even with that said, it seemed she wasn't going to get out of the blast scot-free. In fact, her entire helm had been quickly evaporated and lost to the incoming Cero, revealing not only her face when the dust had settled, but the exact reason as to why she had been able to even hope to withstand such a powerful blast.

The mask fragment that had been growing on her face was at its fullest point; it completely coated her left eye, which had now upheld the signature hollow black and gold motif, as her right eye threatened to do the same. Upon the end of the blast, Camila stood up, and threw her head back into a cacophonous laughter. "Now, this! Is! Interesting!" she exclaimed, her voice overlaid with another deeper, more masculine tone as it boomed through the air, "Seems the vixen thinks she's got the power to stand up to a hunter! Well, sweetheart..." As she paused, Camila stepped forward, and vanished into melee distance from the Arrancar. If Lagos had a good view of the girl's face, she'd she was absolutely riddled with reiatsu burns; burns that were easily linked to the blast she'd just endured, and had been slowly patching up.

"...Let me show you just how wrong you are!" Lowering her shoulder, Camila didn't bother to artificially boost her speed; no, instead, she let Albin's own ability take over, succumbing to the power she'd now been granted. With a backing of 800, Camila launched her wing toward the Arrancar's midriff, looking to pierce straight through the girl if she didn't have a way to directly defend against it. She had reached the point of no-return, and wasn't going to let herself be backed into a corner while this Arrancar thought she could walk all over her. She was going to do everything to prove this girl wrong; to show her just what happens when a fox backs its prey into a corner.

Bankai Duration: 2/10
Bloodied Fortress Duration: 1/10
Hollow Takeover: 1/2

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{Reiatsu Pool & Blood Counters}Reiatsu Pool: 2,675/9,000
-500 for Bloodweapons generation.
+400 for Bloodied Fortress regeneration.
-50 for Shunpo.

Blood Counters: 3
+2 for Passive Generation.
+2 for landing a strike via Overall Ability.
+1 for landing a strike with Bloodweapons.
+5 for Bloodweapons generation.
-10 for Bloodied Fortress.
+2 for landing a strike, lost if attack misses.
+1 for landing a strike via Bloodweapons, lost if attack misses.

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{Bloodied Fortress}This technique doesn’t quite work like the name implies. Instead of creating a fortress, she essentially becomes her own fortress. Camila sacrifices any amount of Blood Counters, and 1000 Reiatsu if that amount is less than 10 Blood Counters. For the duration, any attack against her, whether physical or reiatsu based, drains the reiatsu of either the attack or user of the attack. If she’s hit with a physical attack, she’ll drain 30 reiatsu from that person per Blood Counter spent originally. Every point in Bleeding Tolerance that someone has will reduce this amount of reiatsu per Blood Counter by 10, negating it completely at a 3 in Bleeding Tolerance, and also being negated if someone possess a Strength superior to Camila's Spiritual Pressure. If she’s hit with a reiatsu-based attack, she’ll drain 100 reiatsu from the attack per Blood Counter spent; this does not drain from the person that had made the attack, but the technique itself. This can only drain reiatsu up to the original cost of the technique.

This technique works similarly to Hierro, though it uses her Spiritual Pressure instead of her Reiatsu Strength, and the “wearing down” effect that Hierro has is also reduced significantly (Instead of 8 posts reducing the armor to 80%, it’s now 2 posts. Instead of 12 posts reducing the armor to 60%, it’s 4 posts. Instead of 16 posts destroying the armor, it’s 6 posts. The amount of attacks required to wear down the armor is now halved, reducing these numbers to a minimum of 1 attack). The duration of Bloodied Fortress lasts for 1 post per 2 Blood Counters used to activate the technique. If Bloodied Fortress is active, it can be activated again, extending the duration by 1 post per 4 Blood Counters spent towards it, and restoring the Hierro-like effect of the armor to the original duration if 5 or more Blood Counters are spent while the effect is active. This technique can be used on allies by adding an additional two Blood Counters as a cost. This technique has an extremely hefty cost, no matter how you go about it. As soon as the duration of Bloodied Fortress ends, the technique is put onto a 10 post cooldown. It essentially punishes the user for purposefully not maintaining the effect to spend less Blood Counters for a longer duration. While in Bankai, this armor's duration is 1 post per Blood Counter spent on activation, and the duration is increased by one post for every two blood counters spent on the technique after activating it instead.

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{Takeover Stats}
Strength: 50 [100]
Speed: 400 [800]
Spiritual Pressure: 900 [1,800]
Reiatsu Strength: 75 [125]
Instinct: 130 [260]
Senses: 65 [130]
Energy Sensory: 0
Healing Expertise: 0

Light Aura: 0
Dark Aura: 100

[Lagos Oscuras]

When her bathing blast of destruction had ripped outward, destroying the entirety of the block of Karakura Town, rippling through multiple buildings, quite possibly killing hundreds of people in its wake, she saw the being...No, creature before her. To call this being Cami was false. To call it a Shinigami was also false. It was an abomination more like, a monstrous manifestation and horrendous creation. It was neither Hollow, nor Shinigami. Ironically, it was hated by both. So, with that noted, as Lagos looked upon it?

She was not surprised. She expected nothing less of a Bankai. Nothing less of a being that expressed and manifested powers of both Shinigami and Hollow. However, that said, Lagos in that moment gave a low growl, her fox mask giving a distorted growl in turn. However, in this moment, this very moment. This was the point of time where the masked being had made its greatest mistake. It had become bloodlusted to the point of clouding judgement. The rationality it had was little other than the pleasures of battle.

Lagos had once been the same. However, for a morsel such as this? Instead of intercepting with any particular weapon, she had dedicated herself to ending this battle with one decisive blow. So, as "Albin" closes in with that burst of speed, thrusting forward with its wing, Lagos would shift her stance and intercept it. She would allow for her arm to be utterly pierced, but with her incredibly strength would twist, wrenching it to the side, and therefore Cami's own shoulder at an odd angle, likely causing the shoulder to tense, if not break from the lock and the differences of their strength. With a shadow under her eye? Assuming her lock was successful?

Lagos then clenches her right hand as her tails fold inwards to prevent the vampire Shinigami from backing up, in fact, pressing against her as a yellow beam blasts forward, straight into Cami's side, piercing through her, and into her kidney region. It would pierce and elongate, and with it, all through Cami's insides would they steam and cook from the energy, a skill Lagos had kept hidden until this point. With the blade lingering for a few moments, she'd then drag it upwards before ripping upwards in such a manner to carve her in a circular motion, attempting to cut off one of her arms off with it.

"Cero. Hojas." She'd call out with a pained expression, and with it, the fox proceeds to use her tails like extended limbs, rapidly beating at Cami at incredible speeds, pelting her down as Lagos attempts to give her no time to rest, no time to think as Lagos herself uses her Cero blade to rapidly thrust repeatedly as if to riddle her with holes. Luckily, as Lagos was released, there was no need to worry about such a pesky thing as cutback, and Lagos' strength was likely more than enough to beat the monstrous being into submission as a hate filled grimace was upon Lagos' face.

Lagos, assuming she was successful in this barrage of blasted assaults would look to slam her right hand into Camila's face, letting the Cero Hojas dissolve, sending her flying out of Lagos' tail entrapment, to send her onto her back and along the ground. Hopefully. While Lagos could have simply avoided this all together and used her tails to snap the girl's neck like a twig, she wanted to keep her for study, learn what she could of this bondage, and ultimately bring a rare specimen for observation. Especially since it was a Shinigami with the power of Bankai...

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Reiatsu Remaining:


3000/3000



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Reiatsu Owed After Release:



Gran Ray Cero x1: 400 Reiatsu

Cero Hojas x1: 600 Reiatsu

Total: 1000
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Primera Etapa: 2/12



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Gran Ray Cero O.S: 1800

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Technique Name: [Cero Hoja]



Class: [2]



Technique Type: [Hollow Technique]



Technique Element: [None]



Technique Description and Effects: [Cero Hoja (Cero Blade) is very dangerous technique. This creates a Blade made of Cero Energy, meaning reiatsu that has been converted into a Cero. As a result, this can be used similarly to an energy blade. While it isn't as strong as the steel of a zanpakuto, it can cut through non zanpakuto weapons, such as shurikens, or metal staffs.]



How to use technique: [The user creates a cero, then manipulates the composition of the cero using a high degree of focus and concentration to stretch the destruction energy around their hand or weapon, thus changing it into cutting blade-like energy.]



Drawback: [To activate, it costs the normal 600. Additionally, 50 reiatsu per post is required to keep this technique active.]



Made by: [Kazamaru]

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As her wing jammed into the girl's shoulder, "Camila" simply smirked as she began to siphon the girl's vitality straight from her own body; blood had begun to flow through the wing and into Camila's own form, as her wing was quickly ripped from the girl's shoulder with relative ease. Damn it, she really didn't have much of an effective choice here. Instead, she pulled back the wing, and tried to take a step back when she made quick note of the fact that a strike was coming from Lagos; one she didn't particularly want to deal with. As such, she moved her arm through a Hakuda technique designed to transfer momentum to a different location; Different Tempo, and cast one of the most basic Shinigami techniques she had access to in order to send the girl's arm away; Hado #1: Sho.

As the girl's tail was sent away from Camila, she hadn't been able to prepare for the rather massive onslaught of strikes from her other tails going straight for her own body. Unfortunately, while she didn't have much of an option against what the girl was forcing upon her with her tails, her armor posed to be a rather nasty surprise for the girl; every strike was working to significantly drain her vitality, leeching off of the girl in order to continue to fuel Camila's own rage toward her. Due to the sheer difference in strength between the girl's makeshift lightsaber and Camila's own armor, that laser sword piercing through her wasn't a massive worry as with every strike Lagos made against her allowed for the girl to continue to leech reiatsu from each and every blow thrown at her.

Soon enough, Lagos was going to end up knocking herself out. Nobody was going to be able to withstand that much drain on their body; Camila included. Unfortunately for her, though, she wasn't far from passing out either. While under the Espada's assault, Camila held her hand out toward the girl, and fired a simple crystal of blood into the girl at 1,800 speed; something that was bound to be impossible to dodge at such a close distance. With that crystal fired, Camila began to spend her newfound reserves into siphoning more blood from the girl, though not quite looking to bleed her dry. She merely wanted enough reiatsu in order to give both of them a heal.

As the girl's mask cracked and began to fade, Camila couldn't help but smirk. Seems as though an onslaught like that was more than enough to break down Albin's influence over her. "Tch," she scoffed, barely able to keep herself standing, "you're... you're pretty strong, huh..?" Assuming Lagos was likely to be out cold by this point, Camila washed over her own body with reiatsu, allowing herself to heal each and every wound she'd retained over the battle. Within seconds, she quickly collapsed in turn, making sure to rest a hand somewhere on the girl in order to churn her own reiatsu through Lagos before she was out; enough to cover the girl's injuries as well before blackness took over her.

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{Reiatsu Pool & Blood Counters}Reiatsu Pool: 0/9,000
-25 from Sho.
Assuming 10 strikes from tails, +3,000 from Bloodied Fortress regeneration.
Assuming 10 strikes from Cero Hoja, +6,000 from Bloodied Fortress regeneration.
-100 from Bloodweapons ranged attack.
-4,700 from Bloodweapons generation.
-400 from Hypermetabolism x2
-the rest from Hollow Takeover ending.

Blood Counters: 0
+2 from Passive Generation.
+2 from strike landed.
+1 from Bloodweapons bonus.
-2 from Sacrificial Spellwork
+47 from Bloodweapons.
-20 from Hypermetabolism on Camila.
-30 from Hypermetabolism on Lagos.

[Lagos Oscuras]

Regardless of how good Camila's armor was, it was still that. Armor. Armor could not ever fully or truly nullify the damage that was sent to it, more so mitigate the impact it had to lessen the effect it had on the wearer. This was a true and undeniable fact. However, what Lagos wasn't fully aware of was the effect this said "armor" had, for it was the first time she had contacted it with her own body. As she first launched her tailed assault, it was almost instantaneous, the feeling of drain. However, instead of pulling out from it, Lagos had already committed. She had swung with blade of burning energy and had assaulted with battering assault after assault of her tails in rapid succession, the rhythm barraging Cami with powerful blows that few could tolerate. However, its toll was massive, to the point where even in Ressurecion...

Regardless! Push! Continue the Rapture! Could Camila bear the feelings of the shockwaves that were rippling through her body underneath that protective layer? The feeling of rupturing organs and shattered bones? Eventually, the onslaught comes to an end, with Cero Hoja vanished, her own bloodied. The crystal of blood that ripped into her back had burst through the other end, and she wasn't sure if it had hit something fatal. Frankly, Lagos scant cared. It was a battle that she had experienced here in the truest sense. There were no monologues. There were no formalities or grace. There was ferocity, death, a struggle that had devolved into a bestial confrontation. That was the kind of battle that Lagos was familiar with. That was what Lagos knew.

Kneeling, her Naginata's edge resting along the ground, she had lingered for a moment. Resting her opposite hand along the ground, her tails swayed, her hands clenching so defiantly as her claw tips dug into her flesh. So this was the power of a Shinigami's Bankai was it? Disturbing...To be brought to this state. By a Shinigami. Even a mock Shinigami, it was one all the same. That was something that Lagos could never forgive. However, as she collapsed onto the ground, and as that healing aura seemed to wash over Lagos as Camila herself collapsed. Or rather, the Camila that was being possessed by the Hollow Fragment. Lagos would eventually come to rise, perhaps a few minutes after losing consciousness, her Ressurecion making her resilient, and with it, during that brief period, she had considered something. Where she was, perhaps even questioning if she was alive or dead for a few moments.

The remnants of a ruined and destroyed part of Karakura rested before them, and with it, she had confirmed that she was alive. However, looking ahead, she saw that thing. That Shinigami was still alive. Rising on her haunches, the fox Espada would acknowledge that this opponent was powerful, and it was something that was worth keeping alive. Keeping for study. After all, there nowadays were so few Shinigami capable of this ability of Bankai that one could count them on one hand. In addition to that, she had never found one of the masked before. The Vizards. However, deciding to capitalize before release's end, she had decided that seeing both she and the masked would need time in the recuperation tubes, she ought to make the most of now. She had decided to release hellish destruction upon this place, more so than one could have imagined. Cero, and Gran Ray Cero from herself and her tails, and before long? Garganta. A whistling roar would echo as the dark cracks form by the summon of a Menos Grande. One that she would summon forth to swallow Cami and herself alike.

They'd head for Las Noches, to Lagos' domain in order to begin their...recuperation under that damned slimy bastard Horasel.