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Four invaders came next, right as Tian-Gui readied his armaments. Even at this distance, he could read their intent, and struck summarily. Rather than hold his ground, the Striker lunged forwards instead, his halberd swinging out in a horizontal arc to catch the one on his right side. Fully extended, the sheer centrifugal force generated by the swing would be more than sufficient to carry through the first invader to fatally damage the second, right as Mavis did her superhero landing and crushed the third. Not sparing a moment, the golden monolith dropped his halberd next and pitched his arm back, before throwing a fast ball at the one invader that managed to get away. It was nothing more than a misshapen lump of poorly put together Flamestone, but the lack of structural integrity worked favorably this time, the cannonball dissolving mid-flight into grapeshot instead, punching countless holes into the lupine invader.

Kicking up his halberd once more, Tian-Gui caught it and turned to the most potent threat of all: the big boi himself, the Invader your girlfriend told you not to worry about.

[b][color=ed1c24]“Glad you’re feeling so energetic, Mavis,”[/color][/b] he replied, a chuckle echoing through his helm, [b][color=ed1c24]“Think best course of action’s gonna be to clear out the trash first, so could you give me a hand? I gotta stick near my team till these small invaders are taken care of.”[/color][/b]

As he spoke, the titan skipped back a couple of steps, grabbing the shattered bodies of the invaders before summarily hurling them at their brethren, doing as much as he could at a range without leaving Fiore and Cellica out of his nebulous zone of protection.