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[H3]The Under[/h3]
[u]Temple of the Black Egg ~ The Radiance[/u]

[b]Word Count:[/b] 791
[b]Level 5 Ganondorf:[/b] 41/60
[b]Exp:[/b] +4
[b]NEW EXP Balance---[/b] 45/60[/center]

And just like that, the battlefield shifted. The circular pillar looked almost the same, but the skies and terrain around it was not. That didn’t change the fact that this was the dream world yet again. As with Robin Goodfellow, Ganondorf was unmoved and unfazed. Whether here or in the waking world, it made little difference. Victory would still be his in the end. And then the sun-like beacon approached, and fast. It then also took the shape of a silvery-white being, angelic and alien-like at the same time. And this was when Ganondorf visibly grimaced in displeasure. Light. Pure, radiant light. This creature practically reeked of it.

All the more reason to kill it, he reasoned. The warlord wasn’t going to wait this time like he had earlier. No, this time he would be the first one to get a taste of what this wretched creature of the light could do. He summoned Moblins who readied their bows and fire arrows, but did not fire just yet. Ganondorf summoned one of his strikers, Riptor. And only when she lobbed the fireball from her mouth did he give the order for the Moblins to loose their arrows. What Ganondorf didn’t expect was the Radiance summoning a wall of light that she sent shooting forward like an oversized projectile. It easily tanked the fireball and fire arrows, but dissipated after it traveled halfway across the arena.

And then swords began to rain from above like a storm of razor-sharp pain and death. They came in 18 columns of twelve that almost seemed to shift around their positions. The only options were to either hope one was skilled enough to deflect the swords above them, or fast enough to keep to the occasional safe spots that showed up as gaps among the columns. All the while, the Radiance teleported herself about - making it all but impossible to try to attack her during the rain.

[color=797979]”Steel thyselves!”[/color] Ganondorf warned, knowing that the rain of swords endangered everyone and not just himself. He was able to use his trident to deflect away many of the swords coming down on him until he could bullet jump himself over to one of the safe spots. It wasn’t a clean getaway though, he was nicked and grazed by a few blades along the way. Riptor had vanished before the rain of swords began, and the Moblin archers weren’t nearly as skilled or fortunate as their master was. They were skewered and wiped out in moments by the falling blades. A horrific demonstration of the fate that awaited anyone who failed to avoid the attack.

[color=797979]”Curses!”[/color] Ganondorf said sharply. But he refused to be intimidated by this creature. He launched up and then jumped again in midair so that he could then catch the Radiance in a series of serial sweeps with his Trident. He intended to try and slam her down to the ground of the pillar where he could then call down a lightning bolt strike, but the Guardian had other plans. She suddenly shot out several beams of light around her from her face. Ganondorf tried to twist his body in a way to avoid them, but they caught him anyway and he was sent careening back to the ground.

That landing and the hard hit from the beams took Ganondorf to his knees. But the warlord pushed himself back to his feet with a scowl, [color=797979]”Damn you!”[/color] he grunted. Instead of going on another direct assault, he instead summoned Blast Hornet. The reploid used its search attack to launch the wasp-like drones to fly toward the Radiance and explode upon colliding with her. Or they would have if she had not fired off a volley of swords from her face that struck the wasps and destroyed them before they could reach her.

And then she summoned a trio of orbs that flew down and attempted to home in on Ganondorf. Thankfully he managed to avoid taking this hit, by batting two of the orbs with his trident and managing to dive out of the way of the third one, resulting in it striking the ground instead. Ganondorf gave the boss a frustrated glare. Whatever this Radiance was, she was doing a right good job of pissing him off. But Ganondorf hadn’t used up all of his tools just yet. He still had a trump card he could play. But that would have to wait for the time being. And besides, he didn’t want to waste the power of his true form until he had exhausted all of his other options.