Village of Chea

"Man's fault is their greed to desire that which they do not need. Wouldn't you agree?"

He would smile as he watched his opponent with a cautious eye. His arms would shift out to both of his sides, his palms open to face him as a faint crimson aura would emit from him, making his body seem to glow like it were on fire. From the 'light' pieces of red crystal would form in the air around him. Small marble sized Aer particles forming around his body. First only a couple would be shown, but right after the number would increase from 2, to 3... 5... 10... the number seeming to multiply and increase faster and faster with each passing second as the Aer particles were formed around his body.

"What's the word again Cowboy? Draw?" He smirked as he would close his right fist, the Aer particles on his right half, numbering at five now would spiral around his right arm, turning from red to glow a faint black aura dispelling the light around them, their shape shifting from marbles into jagged needles, his hand drawn back as a fist.

Iliza's eyes trailed to the guns which fired, a devilish grin followed as he would hold his fist in the air, letting more crystals form as the bullets found themselves almost freezing to a stop in the air before him, nearly ten feet away from his body. They would still move forward at a mere fraction of their normal speed. From this he would use the opening to punch his right fist forward, the five crystals launched forward, at a similar speed to the bullets, finding themselves also stopping to the crawling speed right after moving in front of his fist.

His body crouched closer to the ground as he would press up, jumping into the air above the trajectory of the bullets, performing a back-flip as his body tilted to allow his left hand to flow under his body and towards Phantom, as the remaining eight crystals would shoot forth like throwing knives at Phantom's body from above. Though as he prepared this, the bullets would resume their march unhindered, in fact seeming to move about 50% faster then before, as the crystals covered in the black aura would also move at the same increased speed towards Phantom. The needles surrounded by PE, the energy forcing apart whatever they touched to pass through effortlessly. But as they went further the energy weakened, causing the area of effect to shrink (so they would enter with a half an inch hole, and leave on the other side with a pinpoint sized hold pretty much)

"Draw!"

He added in for the sake of comedic value as he would fall back towards the ground after the initial barrage had passed.

Feeling the ripple of energies from the opponents body, his eyes turned to looked to his right in order to see the man on the return. His opponents body motions finding themselves slowed in mid-air for a moment as Iliza twisted around, though his opponents consciousness and senses remained unaffected. With his body twisted around he lashed out with his right hand as if he was grabbing the blade, the man's restraints vanished as his sword swing would feel itself go even faster and stronger then before, but only to be caught within Iliza's grasp as a azure aura began to radiate from him. His hand firmly held onto the blade and stopping it in it's track as blood could be seen dripping down from Iliza's hand and down his arm, showing that even though it had stopped the blade, he had cut the flesh. But the wound seemed to be unnoticed by Iliza as his eyes widened at the sight of the gun shooting at point blank range, impulsively activating his temporal ability as what appeared to be a clock like design glowed with his eyes, 12 ticks like the marks on a clock as one slowly faded away leaving 11 to go before they faded away. The bullets could be heard going off, but they would not be seen exiting their chambers.

During this the crystal knives would impale the ground on the other side of the bridge, creating holes nearly an inch thick digging into the ground.

With his hand on Phantom's blade he would pull the blade towards him to change his bodies momentum, swinging his legs in and kicking off Phantom's chest in mid-air, doing a backflip off his body as he released the blade, the cut shown deep into his hand now as he attempted to land on both feet on the bridge.

His arms would brace themselves in front of his body to stop the shrapnel and debris from entering his eyes, wooden splinters digging into his clothing, tearing his suit but failing to penetrate his skin, hardened in density and strength with the power of NE being channeled through him.

His body hitting the water below him as he was submerged underneath the waters surface. His body submerging itself for a moment as he swam back up to break the surface as the guns began to form and charge. His body waving his arms from side to side to keep a float as he looked around. His eyes seeming to show concern and worry at his dire situation, as he twisted within the water and would begin to swim ashore as fast as he could, making a break for land in order to feign helplessness as the guns erupted and fired in on the man.

As the beams "collide" with his body as he pulled himself onto the shore, he would use his accelate ability to compress his flow of time, too a flow of 250%, enhancing his speed and reaction time by 2.5x their normal level. The sound of gun shots echoed in the air above Phantom as the two bullets he shot from before in an attempt to hit him in the back would reappear and go through the air, almost as if their existence and action had been delayed.

His body pressed with his right hand on the ground, dashing out with the enhanced speed to avoid the strike as he rolled upon the ground out of the way, his eyes fixed on the new weapon as he pretended to feign exhaustion, panting and weaving as if catching his breath. All while checking the cut on his hands with his "sense of touch" in order to see if his opponent had done anything to his energy or body with the sword that might harm him in the future.

OOC:The NE sense for him pretty much allows him to feel through disturbances in the energy flow around him, It is basically checking for abnormalities on a heightened level within his body.

Iliza would look down at his leg as he felt the disturbance of his energy dissipate within his leg. His calm posture, the feigning weakness and exhaustion would quickly evaporate as a dark glare descended from his eye's upon Phantom, his voice full of malice and hatred.

"I was hoping to see more of this fight, to enjoy this encounter. But if you really are going to go all out in the battle at the very start..."

He spoke, his eyes would lower to the ground as he would stare up at Phantom, his body would radiate a bright blue aura. The soul strings which tore from his leg could be seen now even on the physical plane for all as the dark killing intent washed over his facade. The ground glowed azure as if the spirit world itself was merging into the world around Iliza.

The strings which bound his soul to his body would become visible, his body glowing brighter and brighter as the specks of blue light floating like fireflies in the sky.

"Release restraints on the Animus network..." He spoke to himself as his Astral form would merge into his physical form, causing an immediate flood of all his energies he had access to would crash immediately into his body, soaking every drop into his physical being. These energies would slowly intertwine strings of mana around the sould strings, thickening it's bindings and slowly repairing the damage as his leg came back into use slowly.

His appearance changed only slightly, as his veins were now noticeable underneath his skin due to a powerful glow which radiated from him, his skin, muscles, senses and reflexes maximized due to the flood of stored energies now pushed into his body as he activated his Astral Drive, fusing his astral senses in with his physical senses.

Iliza would take in a deep breath as he would clear his mind of the frustration.

"I just hope you are still edible after this is over."

His glare continued to fall on Phantom as he would progress a very slow walk towards him.

Iliza greeted the man by picking up his own pace, trying to keep his speed at match with his opponents. His arms sent back for a moment as the Astral body finished the fusion into his flesh, sealing his access to a majority of his powers while maximizing the ones he could access. Each foot step bring him much more swiftly to his opponent.