“While being reborn from the ashes! Ignite my sword as you do so, allowing me to strike down my foes with your blazing hot flames!”
Fire noises!
The blade of her claymore is slowly ignited with fire as she begins her incantation, getting fully ignited right at the “end” of it. These flames really are blazing hot flames, easily being above 1200 degrees or in other words, it can almost melt anything that dares to come in contact with them. And yet, the claymore more than seems fine as if not only is used to these temperatures but, it can also withstand temperatures far hotter than these ones and I mean it. That’s quite the feat especially by something that was created by her very own original magic but, that might as well be the reason for this feat. Either way, just as her claymore slowly bursts into flames, the monsters around her panic with it, some of them recoil back a few steps, others stand still but in a defence position, while the rest are mere moments to launch themselves at Kiana in a pitiful attempt of stopping her from whatever she will do.
“Phoenix Dance – Talon!”
Slash! Fire noises!
By spinning around and with her claymore stuck in a slightly diagonal position, she cuts down in three parts everyone that the goddess of luck decided to forsaken them. Talon is a precise strike where two other strikes above and below follow the main one. Of course, these three strikes are covered in fire, the same one that ignites the blade of the claymore. Yes, as you can expect, these strikes easily cut down the monsters in a way that almost makes them seem like they are made of butter, one that has been left in the sun on a hot day in the summer from how little resistance the claymore got from the monsters' not so fragile looking bodies. The main strike is slightly wider and longer than the claymore itself, while the other two, although the same length, are around half the width of the first one. The other two have around half of the strength of the main one but don’t get it wrong, even in these conditions, they can still do quite the damage, even though the temperature of the flames might be half, around 600 degrees, those two small strikes are still strong enough by themselves to cut down the monsters in half.
With that single strike she sliced down ten monsters, only the B rank ones though, but still, a good effort nonetheless. There are no words to describe what she just did, at least that is how both Anne and Karls feel. They are amazed, surprised and even excited at Kiana's masterful display of magic usage, how easily she ignited her claymore, how her magic flow was so calm, smooth and yet, the magic spell that she produced is extremely powerful. The colour of those flames have a bright orange colour with a few shades of dark red, reminiscent of a Phoenix itself. Yes, the name she said for the spell does represent it quite well. Charles on the other hand, he has his tired eyes wide open, his jaw also doing the same thing, to him, this magic stuff means nothing or close to it, and while he can recognize how powerful magic spells can be, what Kiana did however, it’s something that he never expected her to do, in fact, in all of his life he only saw one person do something similar to what she did, his master.
“She used Sword Arts… Not only that, she mixed it with magic... How’s that possible!? Just who is she!?”
He almost screams at the top of his lungs as he cannot contain his shock, however, he’s able to somewhat remain calm and only ends up letting this out into the world in a slightly higher tone of voice but still with the same shocked look on his face.
Anne- Wait, wait, wait! Are you sure about that? Are you telling me that, not only she just used a Swords Arts, she also mixed it with magic? Is that what she did!? No way…
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Karls- That’s exactly what he just said, and that’s also exactly what she did. Although the Swords Arts stuff to me, they just seem like a sword’s combo or something like that. A combo from those new arcade games, you know?
Anne- Why are you talking about games now? What she just did is way beyond those stupid games!
Karls- Oie, no need to call them stupid!
“Phoenix Dance – Kasun!”
The monsters that were not struck down by her first attack, they back off right after that however, they are still surrounding Kiana but with much more distance from her than before, much more. But that matters not for Kiana, as she simply and quickly, keeps on going with her combo, using her next Sword Art.
Swoosh!
It’s a simple swing however, those hot blazing flames in the blade of her claymore, they barely miss the monsters in front of her, but nonetheless, she missed all of them. Or at least, that is what it seems to everyone with a pair of functional eyes, but ones that are far too ignorant or far too inexperienced to actually see what she’s doing and what will happen next.
Fire noises!
With the simple swing, a line of flames follows it. From there, that line of flames “moves” forward a meter or so, consuming and decimating anything or anyone that is in their path, leaving absolutely nothing behind. These flames are easily the same temperature as the flames of the blade of claymore itself; however, once they are in the open per say, their temperature decreases drastically in a span of moments, but they still are hot enough to burn anything that is unfortunate enough to come in contact with them. With this, three monsters were burned alive, only thirty-seven are left now, and as you can see, in a span of 30 seconds she disposed of thirteen monsters.
Anne- Oh my, I sure wouldn’t want to be those monsters! Just imagine, they were burned into a crisp! Damn, not even a magic stone was left behind! Unbelievable… she’s unbelievably strong!
Karls- Yeah, you’re right but, I also think it was another Sword Art, isn’t that correct Charles?
Charles- You are correct, what she is showing truly makes her an A rank adventurer if not even higher than that! What she’s doing is something that I can only dream off, and yet, here I was treating her like a child a few moments ago… No wonder my instincts were telling me to trust her.
Groar!
The horrifying beast finally reacts to Kiana, letting out quite the intimidating growl at the same time. It was a deep growl, one that is easily able to be felt even a few meters from him as the sheer deep sound vibrates throughout the very air as it travels to the ears and souls of those that are far too unfortunate to be near him. However, at the same time, he also increases the amount of magic energy he’s letting out into the world, showing to those that dare to defy him just how strong he really is. A fraction of it I would say as otherwise, he might be a piece of cake for our lovely Kiana.
“Hum! Hum! That’s more how I like it! Although, it still is nowhere near enough for me, so can you keep at it?”
A smile creeps on her rather voluptuous lips as she says this, as her tone of voice starts rather high but quickly transforms into a mischievous one halfway through it. Her golden eyes shine with a darker shade of golden and her platinum-silver hair sparkles like the stars in a clear sky at night. An overwhelming aura gently surrounds her entire body, one that shows a fraction of just how much magic energy her body is currently emitting to the world but one that can only be sensed or seen by those that either have Magic Sense or Magical Eyes skills. Ah, she sure is enjoying the battle, just like a Magical Girl would, I think… However, as if they could understand Kiana's taunt, they shout back at her with screams and roars. The only one who didn’t do anything of that sort was the beast itself, the boss I will call it from now on as it seems to be leader of them. Instead, he backed off a few meters, it seems he will do something, in better words, he’s getting ready to do something. Though, that does not matter for Kiana as she simply gets ready for her next move, her next deadly attack. Ah, the smile on her face somehow gets even wider as she foresees what will happen, how her elegant claymore will be covered in blood from those monsters, even though it will only be for brief moments as the moment they are defeated, everything with the exception of their drops, it will disappear into nothing almost as if they never existed in the first place.
