Alyssa (ImportantNobody) vs. Farkis (Farkis Marisant)

[ImportantNobody]

Alyssa had enough and this man had his warning. She decided on doing a quick surprise attack, not enough to kill him but enough to knock him out long enough for her to leave with him following her. She lunged forward with her right foot as she swung the blunt portion of her weapon toward the side of his head. Meanwhile the Ruby Dust formed a defensive swirling pattern along her front side while some of it was diverted toward her head to wrap around it, kind of like a tin foil cap but actually useful for stopping physic attacks.

[Farkis Marisant]

It was pretty damn smart of Farkis to have kept some buffer space between the two of them.

Not once did he come within ten feet, but kept a good proper social distance for two strangers.

It seemed the female had decided to go on the offensive with a sword slash or something like that? Fortunately because this was the first time anyone had moved sense Farkis had stopped ten feet away it seemed plausible that they were still ten feet away right before she lunged. Either way it gave the titan plenty of time to react.

As Alyssa brought her foot forward she'd find that the ground was no longer there. Instead she was now stepping into a foot deep hole. Her sword swing toward his head would most likely get completely thrown off and hit his bicep or shoulder, maybe lower. It wouldn't matter though.

The psionic bubble collapsed inward. Wind, particulates, moisture, and earth all parted around the fiend as it rushed toward the female. The ground rose up around her and in seconds Alyssa would realize what horrible magic the monster had been weaving. His essence, his energy had saturated the world around her. Now that essence was moving the world, moving it to her, forcing it to condense. From all directions layers of water, air, dust, and earth would move in to press against her, condense into a smaller and smaller sphere. Temperature would spike to autoignition points, the atmospheric pressure shooting up a dozen bars,

As the end of the implosion finally came, Farkis would remain where he had previously stood, now floating above a thirty foot crater. If all things had gone according to his plan the woman would be dead. Her mind, her body, her soul, and her ruby dust trapped in a psionic field packed with rocks, soil, dust, rain, and all other conceivable matter in the area roughly the size of a small gumball. Crushed to death by huge amounts of pressure, incinerated by inconceivable temperatures.

Even if the ruby dust could protect her from someone messing with her brain, even if it could protect her from the psionic energy controlling her body, could it protect her from being crushed by pressure alone?

[ImportantNobody]

As Alyssa stepped down, somehow the earth had given under her feet or perhaps it wasn't even there in the first place, but she fell forward awkwardly and her strike barely even glanced off of his forearm. After yanking her foot back out, she could feel participles of water and dirt beginning to condense on the surface of her skin and the feeling of wind pushing inward on her from all directions. Thinking fast, she imbued all of the Ruby Dust with her energy and formed it into a protective sphere around her body, pushing against the inward pressure with outward pressure. The pressure was now off of her and on the rubies, which she noticed beginning to crack and press inward, but whenever a weak spot appeared she would assist it by sending more of her energy into it. She knew that she couldn't hold off for long, so as this was occurring she controlled all of the rubies to fly away from her opponent as quickly as possible so that she could escape the psychic sphere that had surrounded her. That put more pressure on the side of the sphere in which she was heading, but it allowed her to cut some energy off from the backside in the process.

This was all very tiring and not how she had wanted to start a battle, but at the moment she was able to match her opponents inward pressure and was gaining progress in her escape. The outside world was being clouded with debris as things began condensing on the ruby shell, making it hard to see, but she'd simply need to keep heading in the same direction and would be able to feel it when she managed her escape.

[Farkis Marisant]

If the female thought that the attack was going to last for a minute or even a dozen seconds she was sadly mistaken. The abruptness of the onslaught would last but a couple of seconds. That's right the entire 113097.335 cubic feet of matter and energy would be compressed into an area of less than an inch in only two seconds. Fortunately for Alyssa this meant that she didn't have long to deal with the compounding pressure. Unfortunately for Alyssa this did mean she had to deal with significantly more pressure than she probably intended.

As the opposition flew from the area of effect, Farkis' eyes would settle up the small gumball sized sphere of hyper compressed energy. It appeared as a single aphotic mass, all of it's wonderful energy so thoroughly contained that the light produced from the matter converting into energy due to rapid compression, could not escape. In that instant Farkis broke the shell of control he'd generated casting away half of his mental essence.

The implosion exploded.

Alyssa would find herself facing a three fold attack. In the form of a constantly expanding cone, shaped charge, she would be faced with overwhelming amounts of light, unbearable heat, and another pressure wave. The beauty of the explosive pressure wave would be its ability to absolutely destroy the rubies. While diamonds were arguably the hardest material known to man, they easily shatter. Crystals that have an organized structure such as glass, diamonds, and rubies are susceptible to sound. Powerful resonance waves cause the molecules that construct the crystals to shift which results in them shattering.

While there might be some doubt that the overpressure may not shatter the rubies there is little doubt of it's lethality for humans. But who knew, some people were just serendipitous.

[ImportantNobody]

The inward pressure vanished quicker then she thought, causing the sphere to jolt forward at a massive acceleration without all of the intense pressure that was holding the movement back. She slammed against the back of the ruby sphere and hurt her head a bit, but luckily she didn't suffer any major injuries that came with this almost unbearable change in momentum. This momentum was changed yet again when there was a mighty flash and a wave of heat. She instinctively flooded the ruby sphere with loads of her energy, but even so the back of the ruby shattered and she crashed through the badly cracked front of the ruby, sending her tumbling to the ground within a hail of ruby shards. She felt as if she had just been hit by a truck and was on the verge of blacking out, but she was still alive and functional, albeit exhausted due to over 75% of her energy now gone with the wind. Luckily her normal attacks didn't take too much energy to use, so she'd just have to refrain from using her better attacks or intense physical exertion unless it became absolutely unavoidable.

After a moment of rest she managed to push herself onto her feet, using her weapon as a sort of cane to lean on. A normal human might have at least lost consciousness, but luckily she was someone special. Observing her surroundings, she estimated herself to be around 100 feet away from the center of the blast. After such a devastating first attack she wouldn't pursue her enemy by heading over there. If she wanted to escape then she could control the ruby dust in the belt to send that flying over to her, causing her to only lose her jacket and shoes, which were completely expendable given the circumstances. Of course, this is all assuming that they weren't caught in the previous attack. For now she would pause a bit to see what her opponent was doing and to regain some of her lost strength.

[Farkis Marisant]

The titan's left arm slipped up into the air, crossing over his chest as he placed his digits on his right shoulder. His right limb rotated as he stretched it out, his gaze settling on the destruction. A long drawn out whistle slipped from his lips as he marveled over the collateral damage. "Damn, you're resilient."

The titan's words drifted through the air effortlessly crossing the gap between the two. "That was pretty dick of you, smacking me in the arm like that."

Shifting his weight Farkis began his trek toward the female. Each step causing the distance between to the two to drop what seemed like an insignificant amount. Slowly and surely he made his way toward her, and soon the insignificant steps accumulated into a significant reduction in separation. Essence continued to ebb from his body as the tendrils of thought manipulated their way through the environment coiling around debris like deadly serpents. "I think I'mma enjoy rending your soul from your body."

[ImportantNobody]

(At the request of Farkis, this battle is over. I'll consider it a draw because you fought honorably and it was fun. For the sake of the story, lets say that Alyssa was able to retreat by hitching a ride on her ruby dust)