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[H3]Valley of Ruin[/h3]

[b]Word Count:[/b] 639
[b]Level 5 Roxas:[/b] 24/50
[b]Exp:[/b] 1
[b]NEW EXP Balance---[/b] 25/50[/center]

The sight of a thousand machines was unnerving, but only for a moment. After that, it sparked a familiar memory deep down in Roxas' heart... a memory that wasn't his own. The seemingly distant memory of his Other Half rushing headlong into an army of one thousand Heartless in order to the defend the town of Hollow Bastion allowed Roxas to steel himself for what was to come. He didn't say anything to the other Seekers, largely due to them springing into action of their own accords. Instead he brandished his two weapons and broke into a full sprint toward the first cluster of machines he could spot.

The Nobody already had a strategy in mind for mitigating the threat of the machines, but it required him to last long enough for his MP to recharge. And since he had just used it up to heal Pit only a moment ago, that meant Roxas had a ways to go before he could start using his magic again. Thankfully, he could still use Flowmotion. That allowed him to swing himself around the clunky machines, lamp posts, or traffic lights in order to empower his attacks with momentum to strengthen their damage. One, two, three bipeds cut down, followed by a leap upwards that allowed him to perform a circular aerial slash that cleaved through an entire trio of medium fliers. Without missing a beat he slammed the tips of his weapons into a ground as he landed, unleashing a small shockwave that took out two more medium bipeds.

Nearby, a goliath was lumbering forward with a big telegraphed swing that would hit the Keybearer hard, but Roxas was simply too quick for it. He slid left to avoid the swing and then dashed toward the giant, jumping up and kick himself of the goliath's other arm and putting both keyblades into a diagonal slash against its head. It toppled and even fell on top of a pair of quadropeds, crushing them. Another flier swooped in for an attack, but only caught the boy's keyblades. Roxas then hurled both weapons in opposite circular arcs around himself, taking out the flier in addition to two bipeds that were trying to sneak up on him from behind.

After that Roxas leapt from the ground level and used Flowmotion to zip between five different medium fliers to cut them down in midair. Then before he landed he hurled both Keyblades at the head of another lumbering Goliath walking in his direction. He had to immediately dive out of the way of an incoming attack from a multilegs machine. He recalled his Keyblades to his hands and used them to block the machine's followup attack and then swung at it response. Then he had to whirl around and instinctively slash at yet another flier trying to swoop at him from behind.

[color=Gold]"Come on... just a bit longer."[/color] Roxas muttered as he used flowmoton to swing himself around a lamp post and out of the way of a Goliath's giant swing attack. He dashed toward it, having to cut his way through two bidpeds and two quadropeds along the way before he was able parkour up the machine's body and attack its head, similarly to what he did to the first goliath he had toppled. Unfortunately, this one didn't crush any other machines when it fell over. Oh well, at least it was down. After that Roxas did another circular throw of his keyblades to take out four bipeds that had tried to surround him. He just had to make it a few more seconds, then he could [i]really[/i] start dismantling this machine army.

[u]13 Bipeds, 9 Medium Fliers, 3 Goliaths, 4 Quadropeds, 1 MultiLegs[/u]
Total = 30 enemies