>>5675023“Tch! BARRIER!” you shout, throwing your arms wide and activating your shield. Your ki hardens into a spherical shield twice as large across as you are tall before the fire slams into your shield. Thankfully your shield holds as the fires continue to spread, preventing you from being fried as they consume the world of gray around you all. However, the flames continue burning your shield, quickly enveloping you within a ball of fire as the energy you'd invested is burned away. You can feel the energy dwindling rapidly, you'll only have seconds before the shield is consumed completely and the fires fall onto you.
With limited options you focus, pulling the side facing the helmet Nabu open. Only to see that the fires have passed, the room returned to normal there. So you take your opportunity, throwing the shield open and stepping through as the last of your energy is burned to nothing behind you. You look over towards Chilli, seeing your son simply parting the flames and stepping through, not even marked by the fire.
“I tried to take this battle elsewhere, but if you want to risk your friends' lives as collateral damage, so be it.” Chilli says, a hard edge to your son's tone as he clearly disapproves. “Or do the lives of these mortals mean so little to you?”
“I shall eradicate you!” Nabu declares, not engaging. The empty eye sockets of the helm flash golden, dozens of his symbols like the one he'd thrown at you earlier now hover in the air. From them you see the points of dozens from each pointed down at you both, realizing what's about to happen. “Rain of Judgment!”
Thousands upon thousands of the symbols, these ankhs as he calls them, fire down from the symbols overhead. Your eyes widen in surprise, then with a though activate your second defensive ability. You draw you ki inward, hardening it into your Energy Body. Your energy solidifies an instant before the attack connects, the tiny ankhs piercing into your ki. Not deep enough to actually hit you, but after a few seconds you're stuck with tens of thousands of the piercing magical symbols.
“DAD!!” Chilli shouts in panic, you feeling his ki suddenly vanish. And looking over, you see that he's no longer there. At least, his body isn't. Instead he's gone, replaced with that ephemeral, dark shadow-like being. “HRRRR! KAIO-KEN!!”
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