[center][img]https://i.gyazo.com/5f31dd59d26c08531fc7e3dc9239ce33.png[/img] [h3][color=9e0b0f]Ana Einnashe[/color][/h3] [i]The Youthful, Ganymedean and Odd Heir of the Lonely Forest Family[/i] [i]Lucus.[/i] [/center] Oh, his connection with the tree was cut off. “[color=9e0b0f]That’s inconvenient,[/color]” Ana mumbled, legs crossed on his focusin’ stump. He ran his hand through his hair, and shut his eyes once more. Establishing a connection with his own creation was easy enough, a matter of moments for one such as himself. It was a game of mentality, and that was one he was (probably) good at! As quickly as his connection with the land (tree) was cut, it was soon reestablished. It wasn’t even hard on the relative scale of similar tasks, due to all the work which made the initial connection still being in place. Now to see what happened in the few moments he was gone -- [hr] [center][img]https://i.gyazo.com/a254fc69bb9798ab241c819d6118e821.png[/img] [h3]Prime Elemental Lifeform Kurozome[/h3] [i]Microcosm The White Forest/Wild Lands[/i][/center] Fire damage - negligible. Accessing Composite Flame Element. Effected sub-units, acting. Assimilating flames. Converting flames into magical energy. Beginning repairs on sub-units. Action queued: fire resistance plus. Foreign unnatural entities detected within bounds. Designation… ‘Familiar’. Consuming. Action complete. ... Empathic suite alert. Hostile action detected. Development cessation confirmed. Ad hoc point defence active. Queued process ‘Improve Defense Systems’; place, second. Time until hostile action success… Four seconds. Three point seven. Hostile agent identified -- spiritual body confirmed. Hostile agents identified. Spiritual body count, two. Prioritising… Three point five. Complete. Inorganic wave-form targeted. Trajectories calculated. Damage sustained to core… uncertain. Risk-reward… uncertain. Action confirmed. Firing port formed. Accumulating energy. Three point two. [i]A hum filled the air of Fuyuki, like a power generator near to the ear of the residents. A brief noise, followed by a distracting glinting in the sky, like newformed stars coming into being around the trunk of the looming tree. A daunting sight, a prelude to the second after. [/i] Accumulation complete. Firing. Two point one. [i]A reverberation in the air, enough to shake those even vaguely close to the Prime Elemental’s territory to their core, went through Fuyuki. And then, light. A concentrated, searingly bright burst of light. It shot out beneath the Elemental Lifeform’s canopy, illuminating the entire city with its pure radiance. It was not the hopes of man, or concentrated grudges, nothing so glamorous. The principle of it was simple, recreatable even, but the output was not something anything in modernity could hope to recreate. Short of maybe one or two things, that is. It was magical energy, thousands of degrees hot with its condensed intensity. A simple expression with no grand history behind it, no legend to colour it beyond the inherent Mystery belonging to its source. And it shot directly towards its attacker at shore, obliterating the dark with its travel. It was only the natural response for any lifeform to respond to aggression with aggression.[/i] Firing process complete. Accumulating magical energy. Impact in… Point three. [hr] “[color=9e0b0f]Oh, well that’s not good,[/color]” Ana said, to which the Guest just nodded, leaving its comment to itself this time. He looked in the direction of the tree in the distance, at the edge of his territory and imposing on what was once the flame-ridden foreigner district. The fire that had threatened to spread within the Lifeform’s domain had been handled. The sentient ‘sub-units’, he noted them as, were more than capable of shifting and adapting their consumption to handle a fire that seemingly originated from a form of magecraft. Damaged, but repairable. He had also felt the familiars trying to move in on Kurozome’s territory, quickly dealt with. From what ‘vision’ he could get from the Lifeform, they appeared to be insect-like, but disguised in bodies of once-living creatures. The principle was one he understood, but the execution was wrong. Such is why they simply died, ‘consumed’ by the forest for what little power they held. The tree itself would not figure it out, but he did. He’d have to keep an eye out for ‘natural’ bodies entering the forest, in case they tried again. So that was two issues dealt with. But, there was one more which seemed far more daunting -- The cannon fire. He shut his eyes, laying back on his Focusin’ Stump. The tree had responded instantly to hostile action in all cases, and if it survived, well… At least he knew how its ‘weapon’ system worked, now.