Ivan stepped back as the second burst of plasma approached, glancing uncertainly between it and Luffy. Shouldn't they be trying to get out of the way? But by that point it was too late, and though he braced himself against it, he almost lost his balance in the ensuing shock wave.
The thick cloud of smoke it kicked up set him coughing into the crook of his elbow, and he was honestly surprised to see Luffy still standing there when it cleared. Without so much as a scratch on him, either. "O-okay!" he shouted in reply. It wasn't as easy to follow; he landed squarely on his feet when he jumped from the building, but one of them continued to hurt after he'd run off the ache in the other.
He was sorely outclassed here; he'd known that from the beginning. Being a Jupiter Adept didn't grant him immunity even from his own lightning, much less this, and nothing stood to protect him from either debris or the monster's feet. He wasn't a demon, he wasn't a warrior, he was just ... just Ivan.
But he had to try.
Elsewhere, he noticed, the others were starting to arrive. Some just blurs of speed he didn't recognize, but one he would have known a mile away; Laharl had firmly made his entrance. That lifted Ivan's spirits, and he looked ahead to Luffy, who was pretty easily outrunning him.
It didn't matter. He didn't have to do this alone. It was like facing the Doom Dragon again, but just like then, he would face it with his friends.
Still a decent distance away, he skidded to a stop, gathering his power around him. If he could Bind the monster's Psynergy, even for a short time, that'd remove a lot of the threat it presented (he reasoned), but he had to act fast. Ideally before it got another chance to fry him. To anyone but an Adept, the Psynergy would be invisible as he cast it, but in his mind's eye, the seal he was trying to set shone clear as day.
A gamble, maybe, but it was the best gamble he had.
[ooc: If successful, this would make it temporarily impossible for Sin to cast Psynergy and stuff. Whether it is successful (it tends not to be, esp. in boss fights), and if so, for how long, is up to thee, Sin-mun. ♥]
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The thick cloud of smoke it kicked up set him coughing into the crook of his elbow, and he was honestly surprised to see Luffy still standing there when it cleared. Without so much as a scratch on him, either. "O-okay!" he shouted in reply. It wasn't as easy to follow; he landed squarely on his feet when he jumped from the building, but one of them continued to hurt after he'd run off the ache in the other.
He was sorely outclassed here; he'd known that from the beginning. Being a Jupiter Adept didn't grant him immunity even from his own lightning, much less this, and nothing stood to protect him from either debris or the monster's feet. He wasn't a demon, he wasn't a warrior, he was just ... just Ivan.
But he had to try.
Elsewhere, he noticed, the others were starting to arrive. Some just blurs of speed he didn't recognize, but one he would have known a mile away; Laharl had firmly made his entrance. That lifted Ivan's spirits, and he looked ahead to Luffy, who was pretty easily outrunning him.
It didn't matter. He didn't have to do this alone. It was like facing the Doom Dragon again, but just like then, he would face it with his friends.
Still a decent distance away, he skidded to a stop, gathering his power around him. If he could Bind the monster's Psynergy, even for a short time, that'd remove a lot of the threat it presented (he reasoned), but he had to act fast. Ideally before it got another chance to fry him. To anyone but an Adept, the Psynergy would be invisible as he cast it, but in his mind's eye, the seal he was trying to set shone clear as day.
A gamble, maybe, but it was the best gamble he had.
[ooc: If successful, this would make it temporarily impossible for Sin to cast Psynergy and stuff. Whether it is successful (it tends not to be, esp. in boss fights), and if so, for how long, is up to thee, Sin-mun. ♥]