Zak's Advanced Battle Course

[Beware Ye Who Enter Here]

Hey! Alright, let's kick some ass!

Its me, Zak, btw, you know the short blond kid with anger issues? Yeah him!

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Now you get to harness that anger. By the end of this battle, if you can't defeat Hikaru in a real SP battle, you fail the class and have to continue your training. I assure you though, by the end of this class, you will be able to defeat Hikaru in a real SP battle. At the very least, you will be an even match for her, and the battle will last a significant amount of time, and be fairly epic. Let's get started, then.

To start off, I want to assure you that the most important aspect you will get from this class is to use your brain, and the second most important aspect you will get from this class is to have fun. If you can master both of these, you're already halfway to victory. The majority of fights are lost on SP because the victor outsmarted the other party. You have to learn how to do that. It's actually quite simple.

A battle works with situational cause --> effect --> cause --> effect. Your opponent casts a ball of fire at you, the effect is that you counter it with a ball of water, the cause is that you throw a ball of water at the ball of fire your opponent casted, the effect is that both are canceled out and become nothing but steam and smoke, assuring a draw, and making sure your ass isn't handed to you.

The trick to a battle is creating a cause that your opponent doesn't know how to react to, thus breaking the chain by making the effect in your favor. If your opponent doesn't know how to react to a ball of fire being thrown at them, at the effect/cause they come up with in response isn't good enough, you win. It's as simple as that.

In all of my battle classes, I like to do a preliminary fight to help me gauge your response levels and the like, so please fill out a character template, any template, just need rough details.

[Beware Ye Who Enter Here]

Yessir!

Character Name: Teage
Age: 222
Race: Zarethian
Magic lvl: 4
Weapons: powered sword and an uzi
Appearance: Tall, dark and grim. Pale face and broad shoulders.

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Alright, let's do it.
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The rugged terrain on Sochiaru, the desert country on the planet Durreen, made for the best of places for the Zarethian Empire's trading convoys to land when they came to the planet to do trade with the Sochiaru Rebels. The rebels had been holding their own government hostage at the gun of anarchy for years, and did trade with various groups like the Zarethians to obtain weapons to fight the former regime's communist tyranny. Little did the Zarethians know, the Anrufe had arrived in Shociaru two days ago, and were raiding incoming cargo ships. The remote desert where today's trade was scheduled to go down made the raid all that much easier.

Zere, the Anrufe agent in charge here, stood under the hot desert sun, looking up into the sky at the black dot quickly approaching. They were here... And when they got here, they would all die. The grin of a maniac was spread across Zere's face as he waited for his guests to arrive.

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It was just another day for Teage. He was a caravan guard, hired by the private corporations and trained by the military. He sat on the side of one of the hover carts, smiling into hot summer air. They passed by the figure without taking much notice. Teage, however, eyed him suspiciously and wrapped his hand  around his sword.

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Just a few feet after they passed by Zere, the convoy met a large wall that was seemingly blocking their path. Of course, it was not just any wall. It was a wall of... Of red energy, as tall and wide as the eye could see, going up and on for miles.

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Teage growled. "Oh thats just perfect." He grumbled, stopping the caravan. "Go on, try to find another way out." He told another guard who teleported to the distance.

"Hey, do you know what this is?" Teage asked the seemingly innocent bystander.

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"Oh, that?" Zere replied, walking up to Teege, glancing at the wall thoughtfully. "I think..."

He held out his hand, reaching straight towards Teege's throat. As he did so, the ground around Teege began to become very, very muddy, ought of a sudden. Zere's laugh showed his obvious psychotic instability as he screamed at the man.

"It's your death!!!"

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Teage reacted quickly, surprised, broadening his stance and encompassing his hands in fire as he took hold of the man's arm, twisted behind his back, burning him and bringing his leg up to knee him in the groin. It would be effective against any normal opponent.

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Only Zere was far from normal. The moment fire appeared in Teage's hands, the mud that was forming around the two reacted harshly, its current like that of an ocean, pulling Teage into its embrace like two lovers who had not seen each other in many days. Before Zere's hand could be twisted behind his back, a black tattoo, a simple circle in design, lit up, right on the skin where Teage's hand now had grasped. The tattoo would literally start eating Teage's skin off his hand.

This gave Zere more than enough time and energy to focus on the knee coming towards his crotch, which he quickly dodged by forming a portal, just between the legs of the two. His knee would no doubt go through, and he would end up kneeing his own ass. And when he did, he would, of course, likely fall forward... As this was so, Zere created yet another seal right in front of Antonio's face. One move forward and Antonio's entire face would be sucked off.

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Teage wasnt surprised when his first attack failed, he teleported away as soon as the mud began to react, teleporting twenty feet away from Zere, shaking his hand in pain. The first thing he did was create a gaping, fiery dragon, almost alive it would seem. The enormous beast roared and flew towards Zere, its immense wings flapping and turning the sand to pools of melted glass below. Teage then formed a circle of  swords, shining steel flashing as the suns rays hit. There were almost a hundred of them, all flying after the dragon. Teage then formed a portal behind Zere, hoping he would step through it and go to the system's sun.

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The moment the sand began to turn to glass, much of it surrounded Zere, wrapping around the sage to form a glass box which protected him. On each dimension of the glass box, black text in some foreign script of writing could be seen, a slight, blueish glow to this text. The moment a glass box appeared around Zere, a matching glass box began to form around Teege.

Around the dragon and swords, shadow like figures began to appear, though Zere and Teege would only see brief glimpses of their dark form. The shadows were literally consuming the swords and the dragons, dragging them into the shadows. From one of these shadows, a large arm, made literally of smoke, began to expand, down towards the portal. The smoke arm literally reached into the portal, and into the planet's sun, as if it were grabbing something from the sun.