55 Jack of all trades, master of none 1 (1/2)
Hell has no fury like a woman scorned. Laura or I would rather call Kriemhild was currently preparing to tear me to shreds. I did not expect anything different, but I really did underestimate her.The limit of her versatility is hard to grasp because I do not know how many people she might have copied.
My body was currently getting repaired as fast as possible but yet it was not enough as she would attack before I was fully healed.
The battle began, as a wave of blue flames covered the whole sky. There was absolutely no need to face those flames head on, so I just hid under the earth. Instead of wasting my time dwelling underneath I left my cover and ran through the sea of flames navigating towards my target.
I did not have to wait long till the next wave of attack came. I was bombarded by many small fireballs. Though dodging a single one was not that hard, it was next to impossible dodging the whole number. I could just back off without a problem, but that way I could never even close in on her.
That means its the same procedure as every other fight. Hit and get hit.
Strangely the sensation felt different to the flames I got hit with before. While its potency was many times stronger it did feel much more impure than before. It just looked like the same kind of flame, it did not have the same kind of feeling to it, my cells were not afraid of them. That did not diminish their effect though, I still felt like a cooked shrimp.
After passing through the wave of fireballs I was finally at a range, which I could use to deal a lot of damage. Still, those planes were cut short, as a gigantic wall of flames blocked my sight. Seems like she intends to use that wall as a strategic method to reposition and gain distance out of my attack range.
While I was moving around trying to find her new position, I taunted her in my head to see if there was some kind of reaction that would give her away. But there was no reply, I doubt she would be able to calm down fast enough to not react to such things. Her temper is not exactly good.
If she can only use one kind of magic at a time, then It is a lot easier then expected.
”Sadly, it is not that easy”
A stream of fire hit me right in the chest, as I was caught completely off-guard. It was a diversion, she got me good there. While my skin was currently full of blisters and the smell of flesh filled the air, I peeked at the direction, where the magic came from. And to no one's surprise, she was already gone.
My assumption has been proven to be incorrect, at least she would want me to jump to that conclusion. If she had not given her plan away by directly speaking to me, then it would have been just a hypothesis.
While it may seem like the fire and her thoughts were used simultaneously, there is no doubt in my mind that she used her telepathy to distract me. If she spoke to me directly, while she threw the fireball I would have been able to see her.
The second thing that gave her away was her choice of words. The words sadly it is not that easy refer to my prediction of her powers. Her response would have been different if she had heard about my former thoughts insulting her. A person who loses control of herself just because some taunts does not learn self-control in mere seconds.
And right now she is calm listening to my thoughts, thinking about how she can turn all that knowledge I just gave her against me. I have not moved for several seconds now and I still did not get attacked. Her next thoughts would be, maybe I can keep him occupied by talking to him and use that time frame to deal several more wounds to him, or are you thinking about keeping your silence to make me doubt it?
The next wave of fireballs came right at me, how uncivilized she truly does not have any kind of manners. I dodged them with ease and kept moving in a random pattern to see how the angle would change when I reacted in certain ways.
Regardless of what I did the attacks landed on my current position. I had thought, that she would try to adapt and aim for spots, where I might go to. But everything she did was reactionary. That seems a bit of character, the way I got to know her was as a schemer, right now she seemingly turned into something totally different.
If her aim was to lead me into a trap, then she would change her attacks to force me to enter it, but right now she did neither. If her goal was to gain information, then she would have switched her tactics as well, the same would have happened if her target was to keep me busy so she could think about a strategy.
The only effect my constant dodging had, was that the number of fireballs kept on increasing without end. Does she not realize that all her effort is futile? Is she trying to vent all that pent up stress, by making me run around? Why does her character not make any sense all out of the sudden?