"%*@!.... "

Umi could not evade or block the attack fired at him, sending the huge club-like staff colliding with his barriers, as a cleric, his barriers could block out nearly everything a mage could produce, but the sheer magnitude and weight but on with the mace shatter and collapsed his barriers, and Umi with it.

From underneith the Daemon Soldiers staff, Umi appeared, in full spirit mode. No longer powered by the Ultimate Spirit of Water, Umi lost almost all his magic power regenerating from that attack, with only a small amount of magic left, he transformed his watery hand into a demonic claw, and enlarged it as he aimed to attack the Daemon Soldier.

"Sorry Yoko, it was my bad..."

"Shinmeiryuu Ougi!... Hyakkaretsu Okazan!!"

Yoko did not hesitate, his blood boiling from the attack one Umi, he aimed right for the Daemon Soldier's neck, but was stopped by the creature large barrier, sending Yoko falling back to earth but caught himself on the tip of Umi's broom as they lifted both of them up, to engage the creature head on.

"Time to break out the Shinmeiryuu Exorcism Tactics against this spirit, right?"

Yoko, having not practiced the Shinmeiryuu exorcism tactics, has to resort to using his artifact to defeat his opponent, but something of that size might be hard to capture with just this artifact

"Water Body Spirit Claw"

With his extended water claw, Umi sent it flying at the face of the monster, with the sheer speed at which he was doing it it slammed into the summon's magic barrier and began to use the claws innate ability to destroy the barrier. Thanks to the effects of water magic, Umi was able to staunch magic power in the area and cause it to decay until the barrier was destroyed. Now that the barrier was down, Umi would allow Yoko to finish of the summon, as he was already out of magic.

"My body is.... dripping?......I think im falling apart!...."

Umi's body, magical in origin, was starting to liquefy as his magic was no longer able to keep him together.

The daemon soldier stopped moving for a moment holding its right arm out in front of it as if in prayer while its left arm hung at its side keeping the staff verticle. A small sphere formed on the tip of the daemons massive fingers and began expanding, it was recreating its barrir as fast as it could.

Somehow the creature had already assertained the danger it would be in if it allowed a direct attack from Yoko to hit and was taking counter measures. The sphere was still expanding, rapidly now, if Yoko wanted to defeat this creature he would need to do so as fast as possible, before the daemons barrier covered its vital areas. Unbeknownst to Yoko was that the creature could still move, and if he did attack the creatures left arm would rise up as a fulcrum to knock him out of the sky. What was the shinmei-ryu using swordsman to do?

"Taima Senjutsu: Sabaku Kishin!"

Yoko activated his artifact, releasing hundreds of chains, locks and bonds to surround the Daemon Soldier, restraining its hand and collapsing the barrier it was forming all in one moment, thanks to the tremendous effort it took for Yoko to release the bindings, they began to break and falter almost immediately, acting fast, Yoko went straight got the jugular, literally.

"Shinmeiryuu Ougi Hyakkaretsu Okazan!"

"Yoko! Finish him quick, im think im dying!"

Umi was starting to liquefy at a horrible rate, he was already virtually a puddle by the time he finished his sentence, hoping he was not gonna die. He could regenerate, but that would require offering up his body again, the last thing he was gonna do, instead he exerted whatever magic he had left and tried to reform himself.

"Come on, Come on, Come on..."

Just as Yoko swung his sword the giant being disapeared, as quickly as it had come. Looking down, Yoko would have seen the two men, one tall and wielding a handgun, the other of average height and a virtul adonis staniding over Umi with glowing hands. The two arena fighters had withdrawn their trump-card it seemed, no use in letting their most valuable asset being destroyed.

The two men were both charging fire attacks at the steadily melting body of water which was Umi. Looking up at Yoko the grinned and said in unison "YIELD OR YOUR FRIEND GETS IT!"

Yoko snapped, the one thing he hated more than weak opponents were ones that took hostages, especially if the hostage was Umi. His inner demon was brought out, the sheer mass of Ki he emitted was enough to scorch the sand underneith their feet he drew his sword, ready to unleash an attack that would kill both of them in an instant.

"Give up now, or i will kill you, in the worst way possible!"

Wincing as their feet started to heat up but still not breaking their positions the tall one yelled up at the floating Yoko "Don't give me that shit. You attack us here and your friend becomes another unfortunate stain on the arena floor. Now yield before your friend gets evaporated." The mans bracelet seemed to glow red. The man seemed prepairing to shoot a fireball at the melting body of Umi.

Yoko did not even bother to hear him finish, he used Shundo and sent his nodachi directly into the mans stomach, while his palm landed square on the others face, with the force that could have broken his neck if he was not about an inch to the left of the palm strike.

"......."

The two men lay dead as Umi seemed to be dying, still partially melted the crowd gave a great cheer. Over the years it had become even more bloodthirsty.

The medics rushed out on the field trying to see if they could salvage the fighters. They could only amble around the melting Umi, unsure of what to do with his water-body.

Yoko passed out from the levels of Ki he output when he went all crazy, he lay on the floor with his body all messed up from the battle.

"Yoko you idiot, i was fine by myself! How could they kill me? Im made of water..."

Umi, partially reformed from his little puddle, was able to generate enough magic to remake his head and most of his upper body, save for his right arm.

I think we need to create a training ground to limit this sort of thing, but of course we'll be vulnerable when we do it.. maybe a Phantasmagoria...

OOC; DOne here?

Yup

Rewards

Umi: 2 SP, 1 MP and 100,000 Drachma
Yoko: 2 SP, 1 KP and 100,000 Drachma

Alberio: (You get less for NPC'ing, but you still get some...) 1 SP and 30,000 Drachma