Yumi made her way through the halls of Oak, marching down its paved streets. She was dressed in her usual kimono, hands tucked into the sleeves, obi sash bound tightly around her waist, waraji shuffling along the stone pavement and her jacket secured on her shoulders. Her hair was tied in its tight bun; pin pierced through the middle as her pearl earrings dangled from her lobes. The old woman was making her way through oak, heading in the direction of the front gate. With the old lady, like always, was her familiar Venom. The creature known as a Duskull with its robes like body, skull-like mask and single floating eye, which made it look like a child Grim Reaper, resided upon her right shoulder. Venom sat there happily allowing itself to be carried by its partner, the old woman who took care of it and seemed to cause bloodshed and destruction where ever she went.

Yumi was not planning to travel from Oak to another town, village or city, no she was looking for a place to train. For some time now the old woman had been devising new spell ideas to enhance her arsenal of attacks. As a khornite she was to favour close quarter combats, these new spells would be designed for both. Yumi would easily be able to fire them from a distance for maximum carnage or up close. One of the spells she was planning to create today, however, would be an area of effect spell, one that she would release from her body when surrounded to encompass and area and hopefully obliterate her opponents.

Yumi exited the front gates leaving oak behind her and turned down the path, making her way up the hill that Oak resided on, moving to the top. She had been out of Oak before, having explored it previously for a quiet place to train. The old lady had found a large forest atop one of the hills that seemed to be left alone by man, so she would be heading there to train. Yumi had ideas for three separate spells, one her Area of Effect spell while the other two would be offensive spells. The spells she would be making would both be classed as sustain as they would continuously use up magic to be fired off. They were both similar in effect, but with one key difference, one was a singular attack the other would unleash multiple attacks able to strike a single foe or multiple foes. The spells she were making would be called the Desubīmu or Death Beam and Renzoku Desubīmu or Barrage Death Beam

They names were relatively simple and described the two spells perfectly. With the Desubīmu she would be condensing magic and fire it off as a beam of magic. The Renzoku Desubīmu would be used to fire off multiple magical beams, eight in total was the plan. She would be aiming to shoot eight beams of mana either at, a single opponent or at eight opponents. The idea was to condense mana into the palm of her hand, before compacting it into the fingertips. Yumi would then aim a finger in the direction of her target and release the concentrated mana as a narrow beam of magical energy.

The old woman tracked up the hill, the sun beating down upon her. The sky was clear of any clouds, and there was not another human in sight just what she had wanted for the day. She did not want to be running into anyone else, merely wanting the day to herself so she could train in privacy. No need for others to spy on her and see her new spells. These new spells would also be useful for the event that was to come in a few days time. The old woman could not help but release a malicious laughter at the thought of what was to come. She just hoped her colleagues would be ready. The old lady drifted out of her thoughts as she pushed foliage aside and made her way through the thick forest, the shadow of the tree tops consuming her. Yumi marched through easily tearing off branches as she arrived at a large clearing easily 10m3. The grass was green as could be and not a single human or animal was in sight.

Yumi licked her lips as she made her way to the middle of the clearing. She began to look around studying the area before she removed her hands from the sleeves of her kimono. Her arms slid out into the air before they fell by her side. The old woman inhaled deeply calming and focusing her inner core. The mage, or Witch as she preferred to be called, focused her magical energy and tugged on it. Her mana began to rise from the centre of her body and flowed slowly, like a trickle, throughout her body. She was allowing it to trickle through to reignite her body; it had over a week since she last exercised her magical energy, no doubt it would be strained. Yumi exhaled as mana flowed through every fibre of her being before it reached the surface. Small flickers of black mana, appearing like flames, rose from her skin. In seconds Yumi was engulfed by her magical aura making it look as if she was encased head to toe in black demonic flames.

Yumi's kimono fluttered in the wake of her magical energy as it fluctuated all around her. Yumi raised her right arm clenching and unclenching her fist, her eyes watching her fingers as mana coursed through her body. The old woman narrowed her eyes as she began to roll her shoulders releasing the stiffness that had began to form in the last few days, it was time to release a little steam and a bit of her anger. Yumi growled lowly as she tugged onto the mental seal that she had placed on her emotions. The jar opened as the lid flew off and her bottled rage was released. All the rage she had bottled away over the years, storing it for when it was needed, rushed to the surface. Her Khorne tattoo lit up like a Christmas tree as her mana spiked growing exponentially in size.

Yumi released a battle cry as her mana continued spiking growing to its limit. Yumi turned towards the nearest tree and slowly lifted her right hand. Mana flowed into the palm of her hand, her aura dying down in the process. Magical energy in the form of black tongues of fire formed in the palm of her hand, before it flowed onto her finger tips. Magic danced at the tips of her fingers as the old woman pointed her index towards the tree twelve metres from her location. Yumi focused her mana condensing the magical energy waiting for it to be perfect. She continued compacting the magic making it as tight as possible before she released it. The magic flowed forward shaping itself into a wonky beam of black magical energy that coursed through the air at high speed. The beam of mana collided with the tree slamming into it hard enough to shake the tree, but not collapse, break or destroy it. The beam had only grazed the bark.

Yumi frowned at the sight, it seemed the spell hadn't been strong enough. She would need to build up more mana into it, further condensing her energy. She would also need to work on her control so she would achieve a straight beam of magical energy with enough force to pierce through the trunk of the fifteen foot tree.

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Yumi tsked in mild annoyance; it seemed her first attempt at the use of her Desubīmu had ended in complete failure. The spell when fired had been in shambles and had lost a significant amount of power in the release weakening it incredibly so to the point it barely had any impact on her intended target, she would have to correct this mistake. Yumi raised her left hand this time and began to focus on her magical reserves. She shut her eyes and reached deep into her magical core, tugging on her reserves allowing them to trickle through, before bursting open like a dam. Mana flooded through every crevice of her body as she directed and channelled the flow into her left hand. Wisps of magical energy like tongues of black fire sprang to life dancing around her fingertips and palm. The flames danced like a wild unwavering flame that could not be tamed; it seemed majestic and beautiful; it held the true chaotic nature of Yumi's magic.

The old woman reached into her anger to further increase her own strength. Rage tore through her being with ferocity, and the old lady allowed it to overtake her. Anger poured throughout Yumi's ageing body adding fuel to the fire causing the mana like flames to grow in size. Yumi began to control her mana funnelling them to her fingertips. She raised her hand pointing it towards a tree ten metres away. Mana spiralled like a whirlpool in midair flowing into her index finger where it began to condense, compressing tightly with one another. Yumi began charging the spell pouring as much mana as she could into her fingertips. She could feel her mana heating up her skin just itching to be released. The mage's eyes narrowed as mana flickered wanting to escape but she held it firmly in her grasp not letting a single drop go.

Yumi's magic was like a wild, energetic child that just wanted to run about untamed, but Yumi kept it tightly on its leash. The senior inhaled deeply drawing in oxygen before she slowly exhaled, using her control over her reserves to compress further and stretch her mana, all the while thinking in her mind how the spell was to go. Yumi inhaled once more as she finally released the build up magical energy. The old woman felt her feet being forced back as the build up of mana was released. Her feet dug into the ground as black magical energy surged into the air with such force her body trembled. Magical energy launched forth in the shame of a long straight beam that darted through the air cutting it like a knife through hot butter. The beam of death struck hard and fast into the tree with enough force the entire tree shook violently, roots rising as the tree began leaning backwards, but it did not fall. The beam of magical energy dispersed on contact shattering to pieces allowing mana to fall to the ground.

Yumi fixed herself straightening out her kimono as she eyed the disappointing effects. The spell had been slightly stronger than before, but it still did not have the effect that she desired. Yumi moved her neck back and forth before lifting her left hand once more. She aimed her index finger towards the tree and allowed her mana to flow around her being once more. Mana poured through her tiny frame encasing it in a pitch black aura that appeared like flames. Yumi funnelled that mana is channelling it into her fingertips. Mana curved as it flowed to its designated spot, beginning to gather before condensing into itself, allowing more mana to join it. Yumi inhaled slowly allowing herself to focus as she continued the funnelling magic. Once she had the spell power and ability down she could work on forming speed.

Yumi exhaled and released the spell. Mana shot from her fingertips coiling around itself into a long beam of magical energy. The black beam of death cut through mid-air bursting forward with new found speed. The beam struck its intended target and cleaved right through the bark of the tree slicing through it like rice paper. The beam carried on slamming into the next tree. The beam had little resistance as it cleaved through the bark and the thick tree sending the second collapsing to the ground with a loud thud. The beam of destruction continued through two more trees before striking the fifth where it dispersed. A short path could be seen as the result; four trees had fallen backwards in the same direction.

Yumi liked her lips in excitement at the sight of the destruction. The old woman brought her right hand up pointing her right index finger at a new tree. Immediately the old woman began gathering her mana, increasing the rate of flow. Mana flooded into her fingertip at an astounding speed condensing before she released it. Another black beam of magical energy burst to life, cutting a stream through the air a whizzing noise erupting from it as it cut through the wind. The beam of death struck home hitting a tree dead on before it exploded decimating the tree completely. Without batting an eyelash Yumi turned to the next tree, mana continuously pouring into her finger as she released another beam of magical energy.

The priestess of khorne began to laugh as she moved firing off beams of magical energy one after the eye. Her eyes looked on with glee as the beams of magic cut through the air decimating the forest, hitting trees with deadly accuracy knocking them down or blowing them apart. She would catch sight of a moving target, a wild animal, and would lock onto the beast firing a lone beam in its moving path. The woman would look with sadistic glee as the beam of death tore its target to pieces blood raining from the sky from impact. It truly was a sight to behold.

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Yumi tapped a finger to her wrinkled chin; she needed a proper moving target one faster than the pathetic critters in the forest. The old woman turned her gaze to her companion Venom, the Duskull, who sat on her right shoulder. Yes, he would make for a perfect target to fire upon. The old woman shook her shoulders waking up the familiar up causing him to float up into the air blinking the tiredness from his eyes, "Venom fly out and avoid my spells." Commanded the old woman in a no-nonsense tone of voice. The familiar bobbed his head in a yes and flew out into the air making his way towards the tree line; he didn't seem too worried about being used for target practice, knowing if he took to much damage he could simply rest and recover.

The old woman watched as her familiar floated away making his way to the tree line. This would be perfect for testing out her new spell and the future spell ideas she had. Yumi raised her right hand the moment Venom was ten metres away from her current location. The Khorne worshipper planted her feet in the ground to keep her body to stable while she charged up her spell. Particles of magical energy began to gather at the tip of her right index finger spinning into the formation as they began to create a sphere of black magical energy. Yumi condensed the sphere causing it to shrink only to expand as more mana flowed into it. The sphere continued to condense and expand as Yumi funnelled her magical energy into the spell. Her mana poured like a free flowing river descending down the length of her arm, wrapped tightly around it. She could feel mana tickling against her skin and moving beneath her skin, moving directly from her inner core.

The old woman locked onto her familiar having finished preparing her spell. Yumi levelled her fingers aiming for the centre of her familiar, "Desubīmu!" Echoed the old woman's words as she fired the fire, her arm springing back from recoil ever so slightly. A beam of black magical energy erupted from her fire tips and raced spinning through the air as it hurtled towards Venom. The familiar Venom looked at the incoming beam of death, feeling the compressed magical energy washing over its body as the beam closed in on it. The familiar quickly moved flying to the right in order to avoid the beam, allowing it to fly past him and crash into a large stone rock. The beam struck the rock and drilled into it sending bits of debris flying through the air as it cut through like a power drill. The beam caused the rock to crack before it shot right through and out the back leaving a large hole in the centre.

Yumi showed no reaction to her spell missing, nor did she show a reaction to the destruction it caused in its wake. The problem with the spell was it was so linear moving in a straight line making it easy to predict and avoid. The only perk was she could fire it off in a succession with a recharge but she would have to predict the movement of her enemies in order to do so. The Desubīmu was best to be used in close quarters where she had a zero percent chance of missing her opponents instead of using it as a long range spell. But that is where the Renzoku Desubīmu would come in, once she had the spell active after first creating it how she desired, she could bombard moving enemies with multiple, yet weak, beams of magical energy to corner them into allowing her to strike them with her Desubīmu.

Yumi levelled her arm once more pointing her finger towards Venom who had begun to move about. The familiar was floating back and forth forcing Yumi to attempt to predict his movements. Her eyes darted back and forth watching him as he moved back, right, left, back, left, right, up, left, down and repeat. He seemed to be moving in a particular pattern one that Yumi memorised and caught onto it. Now she waited patiently as she began charging her spell up once more allowing black magical particles to gather at her finger tip. The sphere of condensed magical energy formed once more as she powered it up preparing to use her Desubīmu again. The old woman angled her arm intending to fire the beam at an angle, lowering her arm down ten degrees to a three hundred and fifty-degree angle.

The moment Venom moved up and began moving left Yumi fired at the intended path. The beam of death coursed through the air as Venom began moving down. The familiar's lone eye widened as the beam shot towards him at great sped. The rare companion quickly moved moving his body off course and down right on a diagonal angle. The beam flew past his head just narrowly missing his mask as it soared on. The beam hurtled into a tree striking it with great force the Oak shivered and shook as branches fell with loud snaps. The beam pierced deep into the bark of the tree making it groan in resistance before it began to fall backwards. The beam sliced through tearing the wood apart and out the back, the force of the beam caused the tree to fall backwards. The great oak hit the ground with a loud bang that echoed through the forest.

Yumi tsked at her attack having failed to her hit familiar again, it was time to change things up and start working on her Renzoku Desubīmu. The old woman raised her left arm this time pointing her index finger towards Duskull. Her spell idea was to fire up to eight beams of magic energy, but first she would start with two and work her way up. The old woman began channelling magical energy into the tips of her finger beginning the process of the Desubīmu. She compacted the magical energy then began to split it apart inside the sphere into two separate entities. Once she had she concentrated hard on her familiar and fired. A single beam was released first cutting through the air as her familiar moved to avoid it. The moment Venom moved a second beam was already moving with enough force to force Yumi sliding back an inch. The second beam followed suit narrowly missing the top of Venom's head as the Duskull towards.

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Yumi eyed her familiar as it continued floating back and forth. The old woman lifted her left hand once more and began to channel her magical energy into her left index finger. Small black particles of mana formed in the air and flowed to her tips moving swiftly. Lines of magical particles spiralled into the shape of a sphere of magical energy that condensed decreasing in size before it expanded as it absorbed more magical energy straight from Yumi's core. Mana flowed through her body and under the old woman's skin as she directed it into the sphere. This time she would attempt to fire off four beams of magical energy. This, of course, would cause the strength of each beam to be cut in half, but it would double the previous number and with four would offer Yumi more attack patterns.

Yumi locked onto her companion as she aimed the sphere towards it. Her eyes narrowed as she separates the magical energy into the sphere splitting it up. She took the first bit and fired it releasing a thin beam of black magical energy. Immediately she repositioned her finger as her familiar moved and fire the second. The two beams sailed on as her familiar dodged them striking a tree behind him. Yumi quickly moved her hand launching the third beam of death and lastly the fourth. The two final beam's soared through the air narrowly missing the familiar venom who managed to avoid being hit by just inches.

Yumi looked at her familiar somewhat impressed by his ability to dodge. it was time to step up her game and this time bring out the full eight beams like she had originally intended for this spell. She would be jumping the gun but she had enough control over her magical energy that she could miss a step or two if needed. She was in a bit of rush to get her spells ready for a certain event that she would soon be partaking in, alongside some of her fellow guild members of Grimoire Heart.

Yumi readied her hand again bringing it up and pointing her index finger towards her familiar. Magical energy erupted from the old woman bursting forth like a dam as black magical energy poured out from her tiny body. The energy spun around her like a fierce black tornado. The magical energy spiked causing the trees to sway. Yumi could feel her magical energy growing significantly stronger, it surprised her slightly but she ignored it in favour of focusing on the task at hand. The old woman continued to release her magical energy directing it all into the tiny sphere at the tip of her index finger, allowing her mana to funnel into it, charging the spell up to its maximum peak. She wanted to ensure the spell did as much damage as it could with the desired effect she wanted.

Yumi brought her hand around aiming at her familiar who had sensed the buildup of magical energy. Yumi's eyes narrowed as she condensed the magical energy again before she began to separate it into the sphere, splitting it into eight different segments. She was going to try and fire them all at once. She inhaled and released the moment she did a large explosion rang out through the clearing sending the old woman flying backwards. Yumi slid across the terrain erupting from a large dirt cloud. Her kimono was covered in dirt, tears in the arms around the left sleeve. She coughed and hacked up dust from the explosion her magic had caused. It seemed the spell hadn't bee completely stable.

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It had been busy days, so right before Christmas. The town was busy. Nastasya was busy, everyone was busy. And that busy-ness annoyed her very much. Even the people in her hotel were buzzing around like a huge beehive. She needed to get out of this place. Even though it was nice to hang around in her room and do nothing.

She got dressed in a proper attire for being outside and went down the stairs. She had a place in mind. It was outside the town and Yumi had showed her that place. There was a bench and it had a view over the city. It was a perfect place to go. So that's where she was headed. However when she arrived, the buzzing from the city was still there and she clenched her jaw to avoid screaming out in her annoyance. That's when she thought she heard an explosion not far away from this area. Well it must be magic and she was a rather curious person, to adventure it was.

Before she could see the mage that caused the magic, she saw something familiar, it was Venom. That made it very easy to know who was here. "Don't shoot Carnage. It's me, Shadow." She said with a grin as she stepped away from the trees. It seemed as if the old lady was training new magic spells as she had done with Black and Lucifer last week. "Are you training? Need a hand?"

Yumi grumbled as she rose to her feet and began to dust her kimono off. She had not expected such a violent reaction from her own spell, rarely had any of her spells blown up in her face. Yumi straightened her clothing out and examined the damage done. A reasonable crater had formed where she once stood with scorch marks all around from the backlash of her magical energy. Her arm was slightly bruised with a few pieces of skin flaking off, the tips of her fingers slightly charred and burnt. The entire left sleeve of her kimono was gone, with burn like markings at the edge of what remained. There were thin markings all the way up her arm from the backlash, her magical energy had caused multiple slight burns and a few cuts, deep enough that blood dripped to the ground. Yumi flicked her arm testing it, making sure she still had feeling. The old woman was lucky she had not blown her arm off. That was the issue with spells that fired from the body, if they exploded the backlash could be devasting.

Yumi tsked in annoyance as she raised her injured arm, ignoring the pain. She could easily live through it but she needed to strap it. So the old woman tore off the sash that coiled around her torso and shoulders, the one around her waist kept her kimono bound. She then tore up the sash and used it to wrap up her arm like bandages binding it from the fingers all the way up to the elbow. Yumi then flexed the muscle making sure it was tight but not to tight. With her wounds bandaged the old woman refocused on her training.

Yumi levelled her left arm and allowing her magical energy to burst open like a dam engulfing her entire body. Her magical energy fluctuated as she dug deep into her core grabbing what energy she had left. Mana coursed through her entire being before it was directed into her index finger on her left hand. Yumi concentrated the energy allowing a black sphere to form. Yumi's brow creased as she focused on the energy controlling it, not wanting it to explode again like it had earlier. Yumi focused on her familiar as she separated the energies within the sphere. She felt the energy begin to buckle so she released it firing off eight black beams of magical energy. The beams moved off course colliding with one another creating another explosion just centimetres in front of Yumi.

The old woman raised her arms protectively in front of her as the backlash sent her skidding backwards, her feet digging trenches in the ground. Yumi sneered in annoyance and released a frustrated cry, why was this spell not working how she wanted. The old woman breathed in deeply calming herself down when she heard a noise. Yumi turned to the spot lifting her right hand and charged up a regular death beam. She stopped when she realised it was shadow. Yumi eyed the younger woman as she stepped out of the tree lines and approached, asking if the old woman was training and if she needed a hand.

Yumi exhaled and lowered her hand allowing the mana in her fingers to die down, "I am attempting to use some new spells of my own creation, however..." Yumi raised her bound left arm, "It is not going according to plan. The first spell works but I am having issues with the second, it continues to fail and explode." Spoke the old woman as she lowered her injured arm. She brought her right hand to her chin and stroked seeming to go into thought as if attempting to think just why the spell was failing, perhaps she should not channel all her mana into it at once but do it gradually after firing each beam. Sure each beam would be weakened but it would stop the backlash.

"I do have an idea to stop it. If you'd be so willing to lend me a hand by being a moving target for me to test my spell, I would be most grateful." Beckoned the old woman requesting the youth to be a target for the old woman to fire upon.

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It was a good idea that she had warned Yumi that it was her or she would now be pulp among the trees. She hadn't really expected for Yumi to accept her helping hand but apparently she was interested since her one new spell didn't work the way she wanted. She looked Yumi up and down when she explained that the spell did backfire.

She wondered if she would be fast enough to avoid the damage from Yumi her spells but she would do her best to dash as fast as she could. It was a difficult place to run around but it was a good training for herself. "Sure let's do it." she would have asked to go easy on her but it was a good training, so she just skipped that part. Besides, she doubt that Yami would do that. She would start to move as soon as she felt that Yami was chanelling mana.

The moment Nastasya, who went by the codename of Shadow in the organisation accepted, Yumi went to work. The old woman creased her brow as she tapped into the wealth of reserves that was her magical energy. She reached deep into her core and tugged on her magical aura. She felt a rush as mana began to flood through her entire body transversing on an invisible pathway that travelled throughout her being. Yumi could feel her mana flowing beneath her skin, it almost felt like thousands of tiny ants crawling beneath her flesh, but it was not an unpleasant feeling. She felt euphoria as her mana began to rise off her body in the form of black tongues of fire. Mana expanded engulfing Yumi's form in a blazing glory. She began to draw the mana back into her body ceasing the blow before she funnelled it through her left arm. Mana travelled beneath her skin and along her muscles to her left index finger.

Carnage raised her index finger in the direction of her colleague as she manipulated her mana. She had theorised that the reason her spell had failed and exploded was due to, too much magical energy coursing through at once that she was unable to control it when separated into multiple states. To correct this she would be constantly funnelling magical energy into her index finger and firing it immediately in order to fire off multiple beams of magical energy. Yumi concentrated as a sphere of black magical energy formed at her finger tip. The sphere glowed with a black light that cast a shadow over the old woman's forms as eight thin rays of light split off from the sphere and spiralled around it like a mini sun. Particles of black magical energy were pulled from the air, remnants of Yumi's own magic.

Yumi then fired her spell but the sphere did not die down. A beam of black magical energy that had a diameter of fifty centimetres travelled down from Yumi's finger and cut through the air like a hot knife through butter. The air seemed to part as the beam of black magic absorbed the surrounding light causing a shadow to fall around it. Immediately after the beam of magical energy had fired Yumi had already allowed more mana to funnel into the sphere and she fired again moving her arm in the direction of Nastasya's movements. A second beam of magical energy was fired the moment the first was already ten centimetres from Yumi. The beam spiralled down the length of the first beam.

Magical energy spun around the old woman with such ferocity the pearl needle in her hair came loose allowing the bun that held her hair together to fall and release. The needle fell to the ground as Yumi's long grey hair cascade down her back reaching the old woman's knees. The old woman ignored it as she fired off a third beam of magical energy immediately after the second, aiming it again towards Nastasya. The old woman began to move her left arm in a pattern of a triangle firing off three more beams of magical energy in a triangle pattern that flew towards the woman known as shadow.

With six beams having been fired the old woman concentrated on Nastasya's movements. The old woman took aim attempting to predict where Nastasya would move and fired in accordance. Yumi released the final two beams together letting them propel through the air. All eight beams travelled through the air in the formation Yumi desired almost as a rising ladder with a triangle in the mix. Each shot had been aimed at Nastasya's torso, aiming for the area that would do the least amount of damage. Luckily the strength of these beams was equal only to a D rank spell and would not cause significant damage individually, but together they rivalled an A rank spell in power.

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Maybe it wasn't the smartest thing Nastasya had done in the last couple of months. There were no walls or otherways that she could protect herself from the powers of Carnage. She had only seen small parts of it during their afternoon in the maid cafe. But however the maids had pissed of Yumi good enough to enrage her and she had felt that amount of mana. This time that amount of mana was more and directed at her.

She had to use her surroundings to avoid the spheres that were created yet only coming to her when there was a total of eight. Shit. She had been dashing and turning but that wouldn't make her able to avoid everything. However she was taking this as a training as well and instead of totally panicking she was grinning. She knew how to avoid one, tried to turn and made a back flip, she didn't even know she was able to do that, to avoid a second. Was too slow to avoid the third but jumped behind a tree and got hit by the fourth before she was able to get up again and dash away for the other four. Again she had to move to the other side since the orbs seemed to be able to catch up with her. She knew to avoid the fifth, got hit by the seventh and tried to catch her breath while hiding behind a tree again for number eight. She wasn't sure where number six went.

Ooc: I hope I got the idea of your spell correct.

Yumi kept channelling mana into her index finger allowing it to overflow with magical energy even after firing off her eight beams. Yumi concentrated her energy in order to increase the speed of firing and the speed at which her beams travelled at. The old woman could feel her magical reserves draining rapidly she had used up quite a lot of mana during her training session. The old lady was usually spare with her mana conserving it as long as possible in combat, but when it came to training she let it all loose. Her reserves poured open as her magical circuits began to burn from the overflow of mana that surged through her ageing body. Yumi's brow creased in slight pain from the overload of magical energy that flooded through her body. it had been many years since she exercised her magical energy like this and it was taking a toll on her old body. Yumi was seventy-five and not as spry as she used to be. Her old body had its faults and had not exercised such excessive amount of mana in a long time was putting a strain on that body. If it had been her younger form then she wouldn't be feeling any pain at all from overusing her reserves like she was now, one of the curses of growing old.

Magic swirled around the old woman in the form of a violent black twister that grew rapidly in size as Yumi continued to tug on her reserves, soon she would be running on fumes. A small bead of sweat formed on the old woman's brow from the overuse of her mana. Her entire body burned from the inside as her mana was focused to her fingertips. Yumi could feel her left hand going numb from all the mana flowing through it. The old woman ignored it in order to focus back on her training partner, the young woman called Shadow. Nastaya had managed to avoid her eight beams, managing to avoid eight of them but had gotten hit by number seven. One beam on its own would not do significant damage. With Nastasya cornered behind a tree, Yumi would focus all eight magical beams on a single target to see the tree destructive power of her spell, but she was beginning to overload the spell with her mana.

Yumi pulled back her mana allowing it to flow into her body, allowing a little to remain inside her fingertips. Yumi concentrated and released the first beam of magical energy. Instantly mana flooded to her fingertip and she fired seven more consecutive attacks. All eight beams travelled together coiling through the air as they flew towards the tree Nastasya was hiding behind, aiming to not only smash the tree to pieces but the young woman as well.

In the mean time while the beams sailed to Nastasya, Yumi could feel her magic beginning to go wild. The old woman needed to expel it quickly or else it would blow up and take her with it. Yumi brought her right hand up opening her palm wide. The old woman focused her influx of magical energy into her hand creating tongues of black fire. The magic in the appearance of black flames wisped through the air gathering into Yumi's palm forming an orb of black mana. Yumi poured all her remaining magic into it allowing her mana to calm down, but she could feel a great strain in her own body from forcing too much mana through her body at once. She really should have done it slowly and let her body get used to the feeling once more.

The old lady turned focus back to the orb noticing it was beginning to go hay wire. Yumi clenched her hand forming a fist and crushing the orb of mana with her fingers. The mana flooded back into her body rapidly before it erupted, exploding outwards into a mass dome of black magical energy. The dome expanded over the terrain consuming a five metre three area around Yumi. The dome reached high into the sky as the ground was blackened from the effect of her spell. As the magic dome died down the old woman stumbled slightly and placed her hands on her knees panting softly, little bits of sweat dripping down the sides of her face. Yumi inhaled catching her breath and allowing her mana to slowly reform. She would need a little rest before continuing. Yumi felt however that she had finally mastered her Renzoku Desubīmu and Desubīmu two of the three spells she was going to attempt to make today. The release of magical energy in the form of a dome had been the start of the three.

WC: 798

(OOC: Btw there beams not spheres)

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Yumi hobbled over to a tree, her familiar venom flying towards her as the old woman made her way over for a rest. Her body was exhausted from the release of her magical energy, it had put a tremendous strain on her useless old sack of flesh. The old woman approached the tree on the far right of the area, ignoring her training companion Nastasya who was doing her own thing after avoiding her attacks. The old woman placed a hand against the bark of the tree and used it for support as she lowered her body to the ground, allowing her to sit on the green grass beneath her feet. She crossed her legs over and brought her hands together taking a meditative pose. Once she was in position the old woman shut her eyes, ignoring her familiar, Venom, who opted to sit beside her. Yumi began to cultivate what little mana remained in her body, allowing it to flow through her veins slowly.

Yumi reached into the air drawing in what little magical energy she could, particles that had been left over from her spells were drawn in towards her entering into the old woman's body. Yumi inhaled deeply slowing down her heartbeat bringing it to a crawl. Her eyelids fluttered ever so slightly as she went into a deep meditation to regain her lost mana. Yumi could feel her mana slowly regenerating, it was like a tiny trickle of water flowing through a pipe attempting to reach its final destination. The old woman exhaled slowly allowing the air in her lungs to leave her body, before she inhaled once more her chest inflating like a balloon as she slowly drew in air, allowing her lungs to reach maximum compacity. She then held the air there allowing it to circulate before slowly exhaling once more. The old woman repeated this process calmly and slowly breathing in before breathing out.

Yumi could feel the breeze of the wind coiling around hr body, gently caressing her flesh as it fluttered on by. Still, she did not come out of her meditative state. Yumi remained in her position not moving an inch, if one were to look at her they would think her dead if not for the occasional rising of her chest to indicating breathing. The old woman could feel her mana rising at it regenerated swiftly as she cultivated what she had throughout her entire body to increase the rejuvenating process. She wanted to gather her mana quickly so she could return to training. Yumi was so close to finishing her training off; she had already completed two of the three spells she was looking to test today. The third once she had shown briefly when her mana went haywire in the form of the magical dome of energy that she had released momentarily destroying some of the terrains. That magical dome she released was to be the third spell called Zenmetsu or Extinction an Area of Effect spell designed for taking out multiple opponents at once if she was surrounded.

Yumi was pleased with the effects of her death beams and looked forward to testing them out against capable opponents. The old woman slowly opened her eyes, her mana had recovered to a point she could play a little with it, while it was nowhere near full it was about twenty percent. The old woman remained seated turning to her familiar where she raised a hand to pat the duskull on the head briefly before raising her hand up into the air. The old lady tugged on her reserves reaching deep into her core and forced her magical energy to the surface allowing an aura of black magical energy to form around her being. Unlike before where it rolled off in waves, it came off as a trickle, barely engulfing her in a dark aura. Yumi funnelled her magical aura into her right arm, watching it flow down like a slow trickling river. Mana flowed into her open palm where it began to gather as wisps of energy. Yumi moulded her mana shaping it into the form of a black energy sphere. Yumi concentrated condensing the sphere making it shrink in size before she allowed more mana to pour into the sphere.

YUmi's eyes narrowed as she manipulated the small amount of mana in the sphere and began to force it to expand. Yumi then crashed the sphere with her hand absorbing the magic back into her body before rapidly expelling it. Yumi released the tiny amount of mana from her body creating a small release of energy that forced grass from the ground and dug a small trench around Yumi a metre from her body. Yumi inhaled deeply her mana reserves had dropped ever so slightly from the small usage of her Zenmetsu. Yumi leaned back against the tree allowing her mana to rebuild itself. She would rest now waiting for all her mana to regenerate before she attempted to make a larger version of her spell. From the earlier Zenmetsu Yumi had released from the pent up magic that had occurred, the old lady guessed it had consumed at least a five metre three area around her, making it large enough for her needs. Yumi after finishing this spell off thought she would have to start devising more hand to hand combat spells for battle to go with her Apocalypse Fist.

The old woman rested for an hour, allowing her mana to finally refill itself to maximum level. Yumi placed her hands on her knees and began to rise. Yumi held back a wince of pain, her entire body was stiff from having sat for so long. She used the tree for support to help her stand. Her familiar floated over offering help as Yumi rose to her full four ten height. Yumi dusted her clothing off deciding it was time to get this spell out of the way and finish up for the day. She was almost finished not long left to go now.

Yumi raised her left hand this time and reached deep into her magical core. The old woman tugged on her mana allowing it to flood through her body. Magic coursed through every part of Yumi's being, before she funnelled it down her left arm. Mana trickled along her flesh and beneath, she could feel her blood boiling from the feel. How long had it truly been since she let go like this? Yumi inhaled deeply as her mana took shape encasing her in a jet black aura. The magical aura fluctuated around Yumi forming tongues of black fire that glistened in the sun. Yumi's magic poured out like a dam that had burst. Yumi released a battle cry as her mana flowed right into the palm of her outstretched hand. Mana coiled in the air spiralling down into her palm where Yumi shaped it, manipulating it with raw skill and using the control she had formed over the years. If there was one thing Yumi prided herself on it was her almost perfect control of her mana allowing her to make it do what she wanted for her spells.

Yumi concentrated harder as her mana shaped itself into a sphere like object. Wisps of mana were released from the sphere flowing up into the air where the mana then dissipated. Yumi's fingers twitched as she continued to let her mana flood into the sphere, before condensing it make the sphere shrink down to half its original size, then it shrunk against by another half. The sphere suddenly expanded as more mana was funnelled into it. Yumi was forcing as much mana as she could into the sphere in order to maximum the size and power of the spell. She wanted it to be as strong as it could be.

Yumi then brought her fingers down around the sphere. Her fingers coiled around the mana sphere before crushing it. Mana burst outwards before it was sucked back into Yumi's body as she stopped it from escaping. Mana flowed throughout Yumi's body encasing her in a dark glow. Yumi held the mana in tight before throwing her arms out to the side and releasing it. Mana exploded out with excessive force in the shape of a dome of black magical energy. The dome expanded consuming a five metre three area destroying everything in its path tearing up rocks, dirt and tree leaving a crater around the old woman.

Yumi smirked at the sight, she had finished with her training. Yumi turned to face her companion, Nastasya. Yumi bowed and thanked her for her help before turning around and began making her back down to town. Her familiar, Venom, flew after the old woman catching up where he rested on Yumi's right shoulder enjoying the right back to town.

[EXIT]

WC: 1483

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