[center][h2][u][b]The Tip of the Iceberg[/b][/u][/h2][/center][hr]
Blade reaching 700 degrees, with his leg armor having charged for quite awhile (6 preps)--wing armor for just as long, Raelis' only moved as his opponent neared him. With the trails of energy no longer altogether locked to the man's form, the Asaran waited till the man attempted to plant his foot down to execute his planned maneuver. The air pressure behind the man would suddenly become a wall of air and 500 degree heat/light energy. The blinding flash would be at least distracting as the man saw it in his peripheral vision. However, that was hardly his attack for all the heat within the area, aside from his own blade, suddenly dropped below zero, particularly the heat of the ground around him. Raelis had lifted himself slightly as he preformed the maneuver, the nanites on his feet likely dissolving a space of the slime so as to afford him traction Raelis, at the exact moment that his feet touched down properly, froze all of the slime within an 8 meter radius of himself. He used the heat around his body to allow himself to not freeze the ice that would have inconvenienced him.

Any traction the man would have had would be disrupted and should his nanites bore down into the ice, it would freeze as fast as it was thawed. The actions would happen swiftly enough that Raelis wouldn't have been able to keep up if he hadn't executed them himself, and considering that his opponent's ability to follow the course of the battle appeared to work at around the same speed as his own, well it was unlikely that Khazna would be able to do anything about it. Especially since he had waited till he was committed to his swing. 

Of course, Raelis was hardly done, in fact, he made a point of extending the tip of his wing towards the slash as it came down. However, milliseconds before they would have made contact, the armor on his other wing ejected off, moving faster even than Khazna's blade swing, where they would create layers of deflective shielding from various locations around Raelis' right side, which was where Khazna was attacking. The plates would continue their movement, not attempting to block the attack, but instead striking it from multiple angles and destroying its momentum outright.

Meanwhile several of the armor pieces, not a full millisecond after the positioning of the first set of armor plates, fired off, some curving outwards to Khazna's left and right, while four others aimed at both of his arms. Raelis made a point not to extend his now unarmored left wing, which was furthest from Khazna's form.

Since none of Raelis' attacks, aside from the wall of air, were magical in nature, the stalhrim would be entirely ineffective against them. Meanwhile, Raelis armor had hardened to its highest durability due to the automatic function of his nanites. THe layer of nanites on top of Raelis' continued to become denser throughout.

It was too bad for Khazna that this wasn't the end of his tactics.

He'd see if the man could predict [i]this[/i] far.