Great Petal of Destruction, Teary Rose (1)

 

 

"Alright, just one last thing. Before we continue, do we really have to fight it out? Is there even a reason? We may as well surpass this eh... 'tribulation' in other non-aggressive ways, no?" Tongqiu flung around his arms in exasperation to the previous awkward, uncomfortable moment as he asked with utter hope.

Gently shaking her head, Rosey answered to his 'last effort' question: "Mmm, nope! This is the only way, If I go out or even wait for more time then I'll probably be sacrificed as a tonic in some beverage; the only way, and most efficient one, is to beat me up harshly so that I may follow you."

'Sacrificed?! Yeah, I feel like I won't let that happen... wait!' Tongqiu's thoughts from the new information he's just received made him frown and worry for Rosey. But then, almost losing out on such vital information, Tongqiu's eyes went wide and his head suddenly flinched as he looked at the enormously gorgeous Rosey.

"D-do you mean, you'll be coming with me?!" Tonqiu's surprised, excited voice made Rosey cheer up as she responded: "Hehe! Yes, yes~~~! Otherwise, what am I supposed to do here, all alone? You wouldn't leave me here right, big brother?!"

"A-a-ah, haha... of course not, hahaha..." Out of a little of embarrassment, Tongqiu scratched the back of his head as he looked up again.

By now, enough time has passed so that the mist fully disappeared, as such, when Tongqiu lifted his head once again as he was then able to see more of her head. She had unusually large, thin pointy ears; and on top of her head, there was a beautiful, delicate verdant stem that held a beautiful rose the size of half of Rosey's head.

With her unusually large, pointy ears and such a crown-like rose, she became the cutest kind of mature, charming ethereal beauty he's ever seen in his entire life!

"Oh Rosey... hmph, ah-wait, beat you up? Harshly?" After Tongqiu softly exclaimed and involuntarily snorted, he once again realized that Rosey's words were quite... specific.

"Mhm, that's the way it has to be. So don't hesitate, big brother. AH! Ugh- this... is beginning... big brother, yes I... I trust you. Hghfggg-!" Rosey's response was altered midway as her expression and body language abruptly turned serious and nervous. However, as she was speaking some heartwarming words, she was abruptly cut off instead by a feeling of a excruciating obstruction at her throat.

Slim, small and sneaky shadowy hands appeared at this moment, it was as if a female assassin hidden within the dimensions took this opportunity to take away Rosey's life!

As if not capable of taking her away to turn her into a beverage, the only option left was to slaughter her here and now!

Before Tongqiu could even raise his left hand though, an all familiar and relieving sound emerged from above Rosey.

Tret-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr-tr~

KA-CHA!!

A pair of blinding lightning strikes which, in effect, blinded Tongqiu for some seconds; to which he used his Mental Prowess to gain 'sight' once again of the happening events, allowing him to see both- a safe yet injured Rosey in front of him.

When the lightning descended, it was already too late as Rosey's neck took a greater deformation and as slender hand prints entwined around her neck appearing so viciously bloody on her skin.

More lightning started pouring out from above Rosey as they went down towards her, enveloping her entire body but mainly her affected neck area. Some cracking sounds were heard, as if little whispering, trying to both- comfort Rosey and cast a type of healing spell.

It seemed to work as the shadowy hand prints on her neck were replaced instead scar-like lightning all over her neck, as if irreparable cracks had formed on her skin.

"This... Rosey?" Somewhat afraid yet extremely nervous, Tongqiu asked her as he brought his body closer towards hers. He was an ant compared to her but such an image still showed an incredible care from him. That along the white, violet lightning flooding the floor, made it even more eye-catching and such a beauty of an image.

Rosey, with obvious tears dropping down her eyes, turned her head slightly up, just enough to see his face.

That's when Tongqiu knew something went definitely wrong.

He immediately tried probing around with his senses -instinctively- as he soon 'found' out the reason of his utter unease...

She couldn't speak. The lightning had come way too late and by the time the slim and slender shadowy hands were eviscerated to nothingness, the damage dealt upon her neck, initially, was already spreading through her entire body.

By the time the white, violet lightning started recovering Rosey, her body went back to a safe, healthy state, yet her neck was utterly 'shattered'.

Tongqiu took a deep breath... then he let it out, his eyes- once again extremely calm, yet horrendously fierce!

"I'm ready, little Rosey."

To the sound of her voice, a tear dropped from her face towards him as he was tenderly encompassed by it. Immediately after, his eyes went through a rare, unique change to which he also received a system's notification.

*PING*... received 'Fallen Teary Rose Petal'. You now thoroughly perceive the owner of this being tear's information. You can now feel the emotions and thoughts of the owner of this being's tear; forever and even after you are both separated by existences.

'Oh... Rosey.' Tongqiu felt a slight warmth in his heart, extend towards the middle of his chest, then his entire body.

'No more games.' Thinking that he should stop taking this on a lazy, easy-going manner. Tongqiu first opened his quest window before dotingly looking towards Rosey.

*PING*... Main Quest: [Finding The Ancient]. Quest Type: Main Quest, Quest Time Limit: 50 days, Quest Reward: ???, SP+5,000, Fame+5,000, Mind Power+5 (since AP can't be given to the player, you may receive other reward in compensation) and random ??? grade weapon.

Quest: [Finding The Ancient], time left: 15 days.

***

[Great Petal of Destruction, Teary Rose]: Type: Existence(innately born at the apex), Grade: Heavenly, Level: 50, HP: 18,000,000. An existence whose origins are totally unknown, except for the Main Kingdom's Leader, which was the one who gently and carefully carried along her 'embryonic' seed with him. When it was about to be born into existence, he decided to allow her to grow in strict, light education before allowing her to experience life itself on her own, with his family and his people. It was all for naught, as the most brutal of wars erupted into existence... to obliterate life. Left with nothing but only encouraging words and a cruel yet honorable strategy, the Main Kingdom's Leader gave the task to protect her to her Masters, his humble subordinates. It has now been given a name, instead of making one for herself as intended, and given out her Teary Rose Petal; which reduced her initial grading to a negligible level. Dominates the Core Elements: Water and Earth Elements.

Skills: A thousand roots, Purloin, Proliferate Growth, Bloodline. 

[A Thousand Roots]: Commands the every foundations of life by creating from nothing, endless amount of vines, trailing plants and the like, to root the selected targets or all the targets of an area of 500 radius meters for 25 seconds. Use rate: Common. Cannot be interrupted, cannot be stopped and cannot be avoided.

[Purloin]: Ascends into the air for about 250 meters before channeling the lifespan of all beings, even non-physical forms, to her calling before mercilessly destroying it altogether. Usage rate: Very Rare. Cannot be stopped, cannot be interrupted and cannot be avoided.

[Proliferate Growth]: Calls upon the surrounding's every molecule to grow any type of flora. Can either form cages, entrapments and any other type of defensive/aggressive structures. Use Rate: Common. Cannot be stopped and cannot be interrupted.

[Bloodline]: Stirs up one's own potential and bodily evolution to increase speed and nimbleness in battle. Also grants elemental bonus damage to one's attacks. Duration: 5 minutes. Use Rate: Extremely Rare. Cannot be stopped and cannot be interrupted.

'Mn, sorry for taking too long, it shouldn't have happened. Sigh...'

If Tongqiu hadn't taken his sweet time; if he hadn't gotten immensely ill and if he didn't lazily disconnected from the game whenever he saw the almost endless amount of enemies... but it didn't matter now, nor whys, he only had to make it right for everything from this moment forth.

Which he will.

***

"Mn! Let's dance!" Tongqiu spoke those silly, embarrassing words with sheer determination that it even sounded quite heroic, in a way.

He used his quite used Self-Harming Dagger.

*PING*... you've used 'Self-Harming Dagger', effect: Hit Rate+15% and Attack Power+5%.

The attack power bonus was useless when facing a Heavenly grade BOSS, but its Hit Rate bonus was always welcome, and it has always been a huge help in his BOSS battles the most!

He got close in, he pulled out his Sunfacing Brilliant Gladius to each hand, as he then arrived in front of Rosey and swung in quick yet with all his might at her shins.

Combustion!

-555, MISS, MISS, -555, MISS, MISS, MISS, -555, MISS, -555, -555, -555, MISS, -555, MISS, MISS.

Teary Rose HP: [17,996,115/18,000,000].

That was his total single damage with Combustion, and all of those strikes were sent in that of a second. For him, striking out 16 times with such light, small swords was extremely easy; even at perfect precision at that!

If this continued; having less than half of his attacks hit correctly like now, 7 out of 16, then he'd around an hour and a half spent on dealing damage to take 'Teary Rose' down. With his abilities and skills, he may take less, but those weren't what he was after here. His main focus was to dodge, whether by the system or by himself, so as to farm up some Battle Frenzy stacks instead!

Once he reached a higher and higher amount of stacks, the more damage he'll do and the less time he'd need to take so as to finally free her!

Free her; that was Tongqiu's only thought and anchor, for as the thought of fiercely slashing out at such a beautiful goddess didn't made him flinch, the fact that it was Rosey did.

Whoooosh~~

A slight yet threatening gust of wind headed his way as Tongqiu smoothly arched his body backwards, avoiding it and even having time to inspect it, he was shocked.

Rosey had a very unique way to attack... what he previously thought was her basic attack was instead the result of her strength being way too influential to their surroundings; as that wind was merely the 'projection' from her right arm with a blade stance that had formed because her arm barely started to swing at his head.

Though it was a 'projection', it as real wind and were he to be hit by it, he'd suffer great damage and even her 'real' attack would also naturally land on him.

He however, avoided the gust of wind created by the mere aggressive movement from her body, but did not know at that moment, about the 'real' attack...

Pang!~

...and got hit by her right arm in a blade stance from his head to his upper torso, as the only thing he heard was the sound of his flesh and bones colliding in brutal, savage motions.

Fuuuuu- PUTONG

-6,222!

As he landed on the floor with an utterly miserable appearance, his face turned pale not because of the pain he felt but rather, of the humongous numbers resting his total HP to almost zero.

Tongqiu's HP: [148/6,370].

Tongqiu: °Д°

'Holy... Rosey!! And that was merely your main basic attack? Just ho--' As Tongqiu was trying to stand up straight, another gust of wind headed his way, also aiming at his head.

As his eyes abnormally, abruptly dilated and went back to normal right away, Tongqiu bent over before placing both his gladiuses in front of his chest in a parallel, vertical manner as he brandished them with full force and with an strange inertia inducing effect- he moved towards her incoming left leg.

Fu-Tann~!

A parry! A perfect parry!

Tongqiu didn't gave one single though to the occasion and simply rolled towards the other leg which wasn't left in midair thanks to the perfect parry he did, as he simply let swords slash here and there to no end.

MISS, -555, -555, MISS, MISS, -555, -555, -555, MISS, -555, -555, MISS, MISS, -555, -555, MISS, -555, MISS, -555, -555...

After 4 seconds of freely attacking her, respectfully, he jumped backwards in retreat as he felt that if he stayed there, she would've made some crazy area type move attacks that he wasn't fully aware of, meaning, with how high her grade was- Tongqiu wouldn't be able to survive.

He downed a Kindness Low-Potion as he alertly watched out for any of her movements.

+955, +150...

'Here she comes- a combo?!' The frowning Tongqiu had no room for thought once she started acting, he now understood that as he decided to let go of his retraining nature as he let his instincts course through his entire body.

Suu~

Taking another deep breath...

Haah~

...which he then let out.

Right as he did so, Teary Rose finally arrived at his side! She wasn't using a fast moving speed to move towards him, rather, she was merely using that fast, quick and intangible form of attacks only when she was infinitely close to him, at close combat.

With her body being extremely large yet simply beautiful, her extreme, fast speed was a sight to behold. But the real eye-catching figure here was the still weirdly dressed Tongqiu perfectly parry each and every single one of her attacks.

Whenever the blades of his gladiuses made contact with her skin, he felt that were he not to be parrying her attacks, they'd break without a doubt.

'A Heavenly grade... after all.' Indeed, this BOSS fight was his first true, genuine Heavenly grade BOSS with full HP and without advantageous events, a full, solid and genuine fight!

Fu-Tan~~!

As her final, strongest attack from her left arm -this time- arrived and Tongqiu effortlessly parried, he jumped as fucking high as he could, barely reaching her lower knees before starting a crazy, fastest barrage of slashes and hackings with his gladiuses.

-555, MISS, MISS, MISS, MISS, -555, -555, -555, MISS, -555, -555, MISS, -555, -555, MISS, -555, -555, MISS, MISS, MISS, -555, -555...

Teary Rose HP: [17,982,795/18,000,000]

Tongqiu: "..."

'This is gonna be so infuriatingly intense...' Although such a horrifying 4 MISS's in a row were disheartening, it was nowhere near enough to make Tongqiu even slightly depressed. He then spoke out towards the system: "Hey thing, notify my maids that I'll only be going for dinner... and that it may be a bit too late in the night. Also, let my girls know I'll be engrossing myself for a 'good cause' again!"

He then moved forwards to continue parrying, and attacking, and parrying to then barrage at her shin again...

Tongqiu's Rain Showdown!

-370, MISS, MISS, -370, MISS, MISS, -370...

A total of 4,070 damage was made with this skill of his... it was really downgraded to the worst, he could only depend on his stacks for the long run. At least he could use Tongqiu's Rain Showdown twice every 10 seconds or so, which was more or less some nice extra damage at the very least, he didn't wanted to try his luck and see if his 'abnormal' state would also ignore her defenses and deal that whopping 333,666 damage though.

***

It's been a little over 25 minutes since they started 'dueling', Tongqiu had spent 5 minutes attacking her while the rest of the time was spent merely by drawing a long distance between each other every now and then when she was about to do the AOE-type basic attack around herself.

He'd then either dash towards her at max speed and try to parry her first few attacks into a dazed effect rather than waiting for her final last attack, or just simply wait for her to come to him and leisurely parry each of her astounding, quick attacks until her strongest move was then executed and decisively parry her then.

This could give either 2-3 seconds of a dazed effect after being perfectly parried or 4 solid seconds of the same; it was accomplished by parrying her sooner or with her strongest main basic attack respectively, give or take. For him, it was more about taking different 'strategies' rather than brainlessly moving in the same way, who knows if she'll get bored and start improvising? He had to make the 'dance' last longer...

He also used Tongqiu's Rain Showdown as soon as its CD ended.

After taking 4 Kindness Low-Potions, which took him a minute and a half to do so, Tongqiu's HP was fully restored. And as for the constant use of Tongqiu's Rain Showdown, his even more abundant in number Benevolent Low-Potions, he would down one whenever he finished a barraging of his gladiuses at her as his MP and Stamina were downed by more than half; and with the intervals between surviving her quick 'double' attacks and parrying her into dazed state, before FINALLY having a few seconds to barrage her in slashes and the like, he'd already have 90% of his MP and Stamina restored if not full.

At the end, he would have used 30 Benevolent Low-Potions, thanks to his MP/Stamina Regeneration instead of much more of those.

Now, he was left with 292 Benevolent Low-Potions and 76 Kindness Low-Potions, which were mostly consumed during his stay at the Courtyard of the Heroic Souls.

Even then, he felt that the amount of Benevolent Low-Potions he had was unbelievable low, he'd have to abuse of Transient Divine Burst and exhaust his mentality in the hopes of not getting hit even once. A sob story, who told him to go and face an actual, solid Heavenly grade big BOSS all by himself? Crazy!

Teary Rose HP: [17,531,395/18,000,000]

After some time, Tongqiu calculated that he'd be able to use at most, 18 to 21 'abnormal' state, double arrowed wideshots in total. With his body increasing health overall, he had obviously much more 'stamina' overall too when it comes to his available mental expenditure. He was much more confident of being able to take such a hit and not regressing into a relapse of sorts now.

As for how Rosey was acting?

She was basically bored and apologetic at first, but then, as they kept on 'dancing' in coordination, she felt more and more into it as her face became wide eyed and pretty relaxed.

With how naturally calm her face turned since some minutes ago, Tongqiu bitterly shook his head as he gave her a few rebuking glances. In response, he obtained a nice, cute slight smile with her eyes narrowing into a crescent moon shape, easily melting his annoyances in a jiffy.

 

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