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Knowledge of the shadows....

@@Fractured, Falza heard and listened to the intercom shout out that he won. Seeing through his haze's transparent view point,... Sleight disappointly showed no futher sign of resistance,... knowing she could've fainted from the combination of fatigue and lack of oxygen. Falza uncasted his spell, but all this time he was disguised as a large rock within the batches of rubble from exactly where he once landed inside the giant pit before. A bazzare trick that used dust itself as cover with help from haze's coloration technique, which is why the dust cloud was seen to seemingly engulf around him then it would had. So the Falza she had fought was no more than haze. It truely have been really tough for him trying to keep up with haze and Sleight at the same time,... especially vibrating haze to create specific sounds for fake Falza's moves to continue to deceive her (a pretty hard technique for him to use). His intentions of using that plan are simply to rest and recover some magic while drawing her closer to strike, aslong she would be deceived, drawn of her energy and tested for any traps planned against himself. Falza walked a few meters closer towards the mare "Impressive abilities... "​, he then soon left the arena after a while.

@@Fractured, As Sleight shot a single beam at the rock... it deformed into a purple cloud. The haze cloud from earlier haven't really dispersed, but it simply played a optical illusion by forming into that fake large rock. As for the other 2 to her left and right, they both have done the same dust dispersal. Haze could be thickened/controlled to block out any gas/loose particles from passing through its formed stature... aslong it have enough required focused magic energy. (snow, dust, sand, poison, oxygen, etc...) So sleight might never know which cloud Falza could be in with just low mass of dust. The fake rock's haze remnants continued to rush towards her, then started to engulf her entire front body... giving almost no space for oxygen and very little field of vision.

@@Fractured, From Sleight's reasonable perspective, she would see the middle right cloud seemingly disperse and uncovor a large rock, which glowed with transparent magic same as Falza's aura color... telekinesis spell perhaps? It was might've probably taken from the debris pile back where he once stood. The large pony sized rock was lifted above infront of Sleight, then tossed at her. During the rock toss... 1 cloud from each end rushed around to her left and right side.

@@Fractured, Right after landing, his ghastly dark aura grew larger... producing vast amounts of purple light-smog around the area. Real soon a thin haze dome was envoloped over his entire position, then it bursted into 6 smaller clouds... which arced over the surrounding swords when they was ready to attack, leaving no sign of Falza. The cloud blobs smoothly but swiftly crawled around Sleight's position and stopped a meter behind her back... muffeling his foot steps. Each of them was side by side slowly moving even closer towards her, seemingly as if Falza was going to strike at any moment. (Magic consumptions left: 2 moderates and 2 smalls)

@@Fractured, Falza expected Sleight would now try her hardest to strike,... as he saw the magical objects shift around into position during his first quick backflip. Next... Falza continues onto his second flip. Before he could touch the ground.... he lunged Fezor downwards to lift him up directly over the two swords behind him,... then very soon after he strongly swung his bottom half -following the backflip steps- while pressuring his front hooves on Fezor's handle to create a quick mid-air dash towards the ground a few meters away from the swords. Falza is getting quite close to the crater's lower edge and over lapping debris. (Sorry If it has bad sentence structures,... just trying to make it simple as possible.)​

@@Fractured, He took a large dash back under the diagonal slash's un-covered space, giving enough momentom to further back flip away from her next move. Nice area sword traps, but its going to take more than that to hit Falza. Its best for Sleight to create a powerful un-avoidable attack or else.

@@Fractured, Falza hyper actively focused his mind to make very quick decisive moves. He lightly but quickly dashed backwards with simple shifting movements, dodgeing the first attack while still close to ground... theres no need for jumping. Secondly, the stallion makes another body shifting dash to Sleight's left, dodgeing the screwing sword lunge. Falza stands ready for any other moves she'll try next.

@@Fractured, Having to stop a few meters away, Falza stabs and hold Fezor into the ground. It was looking pretty dull from that explosion.... might not be sharp as before, but still have equal chopping power of an axe through out its length. "Take... first move... lets see your STAMINA" spoken a rashed steamy voice,... its either take action or be hunted down by 6 relentless blasters within the next lingering moment... knowingly Falza has slightly risen his aura.

@@Fractured, "Sending clones to fight... even though they're weak?... This only means shes buying alot of time" Falza senses some activity below ground, but its too faint. Most likely he would expect... large amounts of ice spikes, walls or even pillars to surprise attack him at any given moment right now, but thought wrong as he suddenly knew it was something way bigger and extremely violent ​"Must be a massive magic spell of some sort, she wouldn't dare go small after all that had happened". Falza used speed boost the second time reaching max speed of nearly 175 mph, then covered 70 meters in 1 second... being nearly half way out of the blast radius while blue light kept bursting from the ground. (decreasing attack strength) Soon after the explosion took place, he only had another second to un-sheath Fezor in-front of him while he had turned around and casted guard. Wind rose ferociously and the blast's outer magic rushed against Falza until the actual hardened wave layer instantaneously struck. Large slabs of rocks was being lifted from under levering him upwards and tilting his weight back by little,... so he jumped slightly into the air. While Struggling, Sleight's work of art had already pushed Falza further away from where he once was, letting this happen was his idea of blast surfing. (Lowering magic pressure strength between the explosion and guard) Good thing Fezor's thick dynamic blade heavily reduced and mostly moved the blast around Falza while his dark magic skin-like barrier took the rest..... soon Falza lower back to ground pressing against it once more while the blast makes its final breeze. He took some breaths without his helmet for 10 seconds while forcefully raising magic, then after finishing he speed boosted all the way back reaching the crater's edge within 7 seconds... before skidding down inside leaning on Fezor like a skating blade. Hitting piles of ground fragments below,... sends dust flying all over as he walks nonstop towards Sleight. Hes nearly low on neural energy, so his body slightly shakes from using speed boost multiple times. (Speed boost....only 1 left, Magic consumptions left: 1 finisher {he had 2 moderates, then added 2 smalls from that 10 second charge^[1 each 5 seconds], after using guard -moderate-})

@@Fractured, ".....pssk" Looked away as the flecks collide agaisnt his armor, but mostly his thick Robed cloak. Knowing Sleight is still hiding carrying out her next attack, Falza side stepped out the way with an arm grab to throw Sleight onto the ground meters away. After that he would continued trying to sense and focus around himself and forcefully charge his magic for a moment. (1 small spell consumption recovery per next turn or per 5 seconds in RP time,.... his body must stay mostly calm.) (Speed boost... only 3 left, magic spell consumption capacity.... only 1 finisher.)

@@Fractured, He Sheathed the heavy blade, then real soon Sleight strucked Falza's cheek turning and kepted his head sideways. Letting this happen, the dark mage starred at her coldly with radiant red eyes for a short second before raising his right arm to hold her's, then would release powerful lightning shocks into Sleight's shoulder long enough that could cause total body nerve disruption.