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[i]This one.  The one I killed.  Talks too much.  Something about his power was disrupting my abilities. I should break his neck again.[/i]

Zigmund was invited to make the first move and he took the invitation, but not before walking right up to Clive until they were a mere 2 feet apart.  The armoured ninja was a bit taller and his visor covered his face, but there was no doubt that they were looking eye to eye.

Without moving a muscle, Zigmund used the rainfall to create a blast that knocked Clive stumbling backward.  Clive came back with a gut punch that Zigmund covered up to block. It did not send him flying, but the armoured agent slid back in the wet dirt 8 feet.  Again he felt that kinetic force ripple through his body and disrupt his lifeforce.

[i]Strange.  But merely a tickle.[/i]

Zigmund moved back into martial range and threw out a jab to test Clive who batted it away and threw a counter.  Zigmund caught the man's fist in his palm and squeezed down metal-clad fingers to hold Clive's hand in place.  In spite of the kinetic force once again bothering him, Zigmund let the rain soothe him and held his vice grip.  "That entire speech... for [i]this[/i]?"

Now Zigmund ramped it up.  He pulled Clive into a powerful body shot, then Zigmund span around, summoning a water sword and came around to deliver a slash that Clive managed to weave, only to be sent flying to the ground by a powerful follow-up punch.  As Clive got to his feet, Zigmund had already turned to water and dropped into a puddle.  It was so hard to see in the rain - to see the fast moving puddle position itself behind Clive.

Zigmund was up and back in physical form behind Clive and drove his water sword into the back of the unaware ma-

Well, he would drove said sword into Clive's back if it wasn't for Barracker's timely [i]Barrier Spell[/i].  Zigmund calmly looked to see the vampire coming towards him, then used a foot to shove Clive effortlessly out of the way so that he could meet the next weakling.

[i]This vampire has been an annoyance.[/i]

The Zig-Zag motion was enough to draw Zigmund into an attack - a swipe of his sword, but as Barracker dodged around, Zigmund saw the swing of the Claymore and did something he would never do in ordinary combat...

The Elite Agent's shoulder formed a water barrier that upgrade-transformed into [i]Earthbone-Diamond[/i]: the hardest substance in the world.  Earthbone-Diamond: found only in the deepest places of the world and so rare a substance that Kings and Queens of the [i]Underdark[/i] and [i]Dwarven Realms[/i] would start full-scale wars over a SINGLE INGOT.  The magic and lifeforce required for Zigmund to upgrade-transform his water into Earthbone-Diamond for even a second was ridiculous.  Indulgent, to say the least.  It weakened him greatly.

[i]Hubris.  Ego.  I want to see the hurt in his eyes.  The rain will replenish my power quickly enough.[/i]

Barracker's Orichalcum Claymore struck the Earthbone-Diamond shield - on impact the blade chipped, cracked... then broke completely.  And suddenly the Earthbone-Diamond was gone, and Zigmund used two open palms to fire Water Domain Energy Blasts at both Barracker and Clive to blow them away - swat them like inconsequential flies.

[i]Speaking of swatting flies... where is she?[/i]

He looked around for Fenna.  Adam and Fenna had been the objects of his hatred since their 1st encounter.  Both had been the two biggest factors in his failures and humiliations thus far, as far as the members of Second Chance were concerned.  The man had been dealt with.  Now for the woman.