Aoina watched carefully as the area around her filled with smoke from her fireball. She hadn’t expected him to take the hit directly nor did she expect him to make the fireball disperse like so. [i]I at least hoped that he would have taken a bit of burn damaged from that. I guess I’ll have to take another approach, then.[/i] The mage thought to herself as she looked back and forth carefully, expecting to receive some sort of attack from the guy. She didn’t have to wait long. Soon a gust of slashes and stabs came her way and she attempted to avoid the attack but it was nearly impossible, especially with the slower casting times that she had for her skills.

When the smoke and dust finally cleared, Aoi could be seen standing but her body was coved in various gashes and cuts. As she glanced up, she noticed that it had nearly wiped out ¼ of her health, leaving her with only 3/4 of the original amount and Aoi grimaced slightly. If he did another attack that was similar to that one, the he could potential end the duel before it ever really started. However, the mage was determined to keep that from happening. So she soon began to mutter another chant but this time, clumps of stone began to pry itself from the ground and wrap itself around her opponent’s legs. As soon as it touched him, the stone hardened, making it really difficult to move. 

The casting time for this skill was longer than the first, but she did not have to wait for the casting to be over to see the final results of her skill: by the time she made it to the middle of her casting, she stone would be up to his thighs, keeping him rooted to the spot. Just imagine where it would stop if she had not run out of MP. Cursing silently to herself, Aoi shuffled as quickly as she could until she was standing behind the guy and rummaged through her bag for a MP potion. Of course, her spell was incomplete, but the effects were still there. Aoi just hoped that it would last until she was ready to strike again.