[@floodtalon][hider=Exam] The door rumbled angrily but otherwise remained silent after he left. Now it seemed he had two sets of doors to deal with, one set at either end of the hallway.[/hider] [@TheUltimatum][hider=Exam] The Lich carried through with his swing seamlessly, keeping with the momentum of the swing as he turned to follow Apollo's movements. His eyes narrowed at the wave of heat and energy and he deftly moved his mountain of a shield into the way, the powerful attack slammed into the shield futilely. The Lich anticipated Apollo's movement into the air and swept his axe in a cleaving crescent at him. The powerful axe slammed into the wave of light- and absorbed it. The light entered the battle-axe and shimmered inside, seemingly adding to the axe's power, which was still headed directly for Apollo. Unless he had some sort of trick that allowed him to move in midair Apollo would be taking a devastatingly powerful attack from a weapon bigger than he was.[/hider] [@Slendy][hider=Exam]"[color=green]Yay yay, I'm sure you had a great childhood cause you were a child genius and could figure out everything you wanted with ease. You gonna take my offer or not kid? Last chance.[/color]" Belle asked, seemingly growing bored of this. She was close enough to engage in cqc now if either of them take the opportunity. [/hider] [@TheHangedMan][Hider=Exam] "No respite!" The voice bellowed and even as Meruin flew backwards and the puppet shot a crossbow bolt from its head as soon as the runes activated and immediately charged forward wildly swinging its weapons as its headpiece had another bolt appear in it magically and reload. At the same time the man began weaving runes of his own, what's more another pair of puppet hands had extended from his cloak and were also creating runes. It seemed the man had found a way to increase his casting speed, the puppet had already finished turning the ground underneath Meruin into quicksand, and was rapidly creating more runes. Would Meruin be able to keep up with the frenzied combat? [/hider]