>>5247332“Hmph. You stupid child, you know nothing!” the woman snarls, and with a flourish, Abyssal flames shroud the blade while you take a worried step back. In this phantom form, Abyssal magic hits incredibly hard and you can't really defend against it. So if she hits you, you'll be in serious trouble. “<span class="mu-i">I</span> summoned them here, with this!”
As she says this she draws what looks like the soapstone that sun-adorned, jolly knight you'd helped weeks ago gave you, except this one is red. Just like those stupid Darkwraiths' phantom forms.
“I can summon killers by touching their signs written by these, and lure stupid Blades like you here to die.” she says, putting the stone away and taking up her weapon in both hands. “And now, that you're here, it's time to take back what's mine! Get her!”
“Huh?” you say, confused, then you hear it! At least two people are sprinting up from behind you, and you realize that she's been stalling! Distracting you, and allowing her fellow Darkwraiths to get the drop on you! You sense they're only a couple steps away, no doubt within weapon ranges, so you do the only thing you can. “HAAAAAA!!”
Unleashing your ki out in all directions with an Explosive Wave, you blast the three Darkwraiths back from you. Then before any of them can recover you whirl, spear-first and thrust it at the strongest ki. You see a familiar suit of armor, the heavy stone suit of the Havel knights, and realize immediately that a one-handed thrust won't penetrate that heavily-armored warrior. So you change the direction of your attack, instead of glancing off his armor you instead stab down into the ground between his legs, the blade missing him easily. You then grabbing the crossbar with your left hand before he can get up, and with this grip on the weapon heave and <span class="mu-i">throw</span> the knight straight up into the air!
“Out of my WAY!” you shout, throwing your left hand forward and firing off a powerful wave of golden ki directly into their chest. Your attack isn't strong enough to pierce that armor, but that's exactly what you were hoping for. Instead of damaging him directly, your wave instead sends the heavily-armored warrior flying far, far away.
“Got you!” the Darkwraith woman shouts, you looking back over your right shoulder in time to see a line of black flames bursting up out of the ground towards you! So you leap aside to your left, narrowly dodging the Abyssal flames just as the other fully-skeletal Darkwraith swings his Dark Hand at your head!
“Haaa!” you shout, desperately back flipping up and over the crimson phantom to barely dodge the life-draining attack. Then before the fighter can recover you swing your right knee into the back of their head, bone shattering with a crunch.
