Zelriane scoffed and tightened his stance as Bruce approached. He took two steps back slowly, and then faded from view. He appeared above Bruce for the briefest moment, dropping down silently with his foot extended, but disappeared again by pushing his body towards the ground behind the stone circle of clones. He landed heavily and changed the positioning of his hands so that they were sideways, vertically paralleled with the ground over one another, and flattened. [i][color=007236]"Akari"[/color][/i] Zelriane disappeared, and in a swift motion, he dashed right through three of Bruce's clones with a cloak of energy sharpening to a point in front of him as he moved. The stone figures were not only split in half by the attack, but visibly [i]disintegrated[/i] by the force of his strike. He stopped just next to Bruce and pivoted through another 3 sentinels, destroying them in the same fashion. The movement though, the only part of it that didn't appear as a stream of refracted light was the point in which he turned in roughly 0.4 seconds.

	He appeared several feet to Bruce's left side afterwards, and spun in place, clearing the dirt around his feet with a small burst of wind. He postured himself in a similar fashion again, his hands in front of him, vertically parallel with the ground. [color=007236]"Hrmph,"[/color] he grumbled irritably. Something about that last attack was off. He wasn't physically worn out from it, not in the same fashion that his Zenpou affected him. But he also didn't attempt to strike Bruce with it directly, either. It was a curious charge. Was he holding back?