The situation quickly became more favorable to the boy as Kanna opted to instead turn and leave, refusing to help. This could lead to any number of scenarios but at the very least it was one less variable for the boy to consider. Particularly in that his fellow kumo nin revealed themselves to be less then clear minded as they seemed to now be enamored towards the count in an almost desperate manner. Whether this was a byproduct of having died and came back... due to the lack of blood from that which was spilled... or if it was part of the counts power was not clear. Shinoskay spent time around medicines and medical practices but he knew more about the actual chemicals then he did about the human body.
Unfortunately, in response to the boy humbling himself he was met with the counts disdain... sensed through the boys jutsu. of which, the boy was starting to feels the effects stress on his body as he had been using it through most of this event. It wasnt the most demanding jutsu but it still took chakra. His body felt heated and it was clear to him that he was almost to that strange state he felt when he over exerted his chakra supply.... almost like a runners high but less logical.
And then the unthinkable happened... an immense surge suddenly began across the center of the room as chakra seemed to have gathered in a foci point before funneling into a seal that looked exactly like a summoning seal. Most of the common principles of summoning was their but it also had some strange changes to it. Like it was meant to constantly circulate chakra to sustain the summoning rather then just to facilitate an anchor for temporarily calling something to the Array's point. As the seal finalize a strange energy tendril'ed its way from the seal to into the room, The boy could sense that nothing had changed in the ground below the seal and could clearly feel that it was just ground... but as soon as the boy tracked his sensory to the seal itself, pushing his senses into the seal to reach into wherever the strange substance came from, he found new space that contradicted what he sensed in the ground under the seal. This suggested to Shinoskay that the seal was warping the space it interacted with to create some kind of fold or connection between space. He lacked the skill and understanding to see this was an alternate dimension but he could at least tell it was not a normal summons.
Based on the hand made of skulls, however, and the talk of Count Volseig having cheated the entity, he could surmise it as only one of a few things. This was either; somehow the counts wife, death, or some great and powerful entity the count had recently fled from. It made no sense for him to have gone somewhere and fled from someone recently, this was the least likely but still possible. The other two where the most likely, though the count said his wife had been dead a great deal of time now and this thing indicated it was aware of the count having purchased that strange crystal meant it was watching the count... suggesting it was second least likely to be his long dead wife because the count wouldnt have purchased the crystal if it was connected to his wife. This means the most likely option was it was death, which made the most sense both because the count presented he was immortal and had lived many generations and because it made the most sense for why it would have a connection to some strange crystal that could draw it to the count.
He didnt understand why the two knights turned on the count, however, as he was not present for hearing the skeletal doctor explain that things were reanimated by peoples souls... that would have explained the situations perfectly considering they had to pass to deaths domain before they could return and if they were in death's clutch first then death could have some how caused her servants, or guessed who was going to pass to the knights, in order to have the turncoats where she wanted them to be for this occasion.
As the boy contemplated this, the time required to run these thoughts through ones mind being mere seconds, he would take a step back from the knight that had turned to face him. His strategy for maximizing his protection backfired as he was now squarely alone and the closes to this knight whos counterpart had already bested the Kumo jounin. Kanna was already at the room exit, putting her the furthest, and Yomi would have the other puke knight to deal with. The boy's options were so limited he could almost feel the life drain from him a third time.... he was actually starting to piss himself off, feeling hopeless over and over again. He couldn't fathom any way to fight this thing that now faced him and it almost pissed him off enough to just scream at it. This anger, thankfully, pushed him into action finally. In tandem, Shinoskay would immediately send the 228 he still had and that he had been harboring and forming all this time while he form the seal of Kamizuru while drawing chakra forth to; form 70 bee's (20 with large senbon like stingers that in itself dwarfed any one of the other 50), while drawing chakra to his through as it swelled slightly before he would spit it vigorously at the knight.
Desperate moves, at best, but it was all he could do... the burn of his chakra flared to greater intensity as his body scrambled to find any fuel it could to meet its present demand. The moment he released the sticky mess from his mouth, at the puke knights sword arm to bind the arm against the suits body before the knight could draw it or even if it is already drawn... the boy would also send 70 to join the 228 bee's out at once... swarming them out from every sleeve, hole, and passage of his clothing to clear them as quickly as possible before swarming around the knight. The 20 with large senbons would be directed by shinoskay so that 4 would go for its eyes, two for each eye, and the other 16 would join the rest to act as a sort of bee smoke screen before to be ready to act as needed. All the massive swarm except for the 4 would feint in, acting like they were intent on attacking, but would actively move to avoid any counter attacks or any contact at all with the knight itself.
The boy himself would then run to his right, towards the count, as if to try to move to the counts aid... to reinforce this he used a trick he learned in the academy where for the duration of the run... until he reached the steps just before the throne... the same steps the crystal podium was just after, he would truly make that his intent. He would scan for obstacles while aiming to make his way towards the count until he reached the stares. Just as he dashed he would switch his hand seal into a half tiger seal to activate body flicker, he knew deception was out of the question and so there was only a desperate rush to move, a desperate fun for his life, once again in tandem with the change in hand seals he would enter into a flight or flight (in this case flight) instinctual sense as his mind went numb and all there was for him was his desperate charge to reach the top of the stairs... no sooner then he activated body flicker would he then quickly surge chakra to his feet to propel himself ever further, ever faster, for the top of the stairs.
The moment he leapt, 198 of the bee's would switch from harassing the knight to joining the boy wherever he was at... moving slightly faster then he did. 100 of the bee's would would instead go to the glyph in the center of the room to begin biting upon it while suckling themselves on the chakra being fueled into it.
The repelling force of his chakra would aid him in catching the spot he wanted to stop at without just fumbling onward past it, and as soon as he was stopped he would turn, losing all of those speed boosts, to then activate body flicker again to dash himself towards the crystal to stop just before it as his bee's caught up to him. Grabbing the crystal and quickly throwing it down to smash it against the ground before his remaining deadly stinger bee's would burst... popping like balloons... to create force for launching their senbon like needles at the location the crystal would land to insure its destruction.
- ooc:
Strength: E
Constitution: D
Stamina: D
Speed: E --> D for kamizuru hand seal --> C (+30m/s) for leap for the stairs.
Coordination: C
Intelligence: D --> E tier
Perception: D
ooc costs:
I have made about 378 Apis Cerana bee's throughout this event.... its .5 per 50 so thats less then 4 chakra but I am going to round it up to 4.
then spent 5x2 for body flicker, 3 for honey sticker river, 3 for twenty deadly stinger bees, and about have been using sensory for 3 rounds more then the number of posts I made bees so 5.5 for sensory but I want to round that up to 6 because I choose to.
thats 13 out of 50? wow, spent less then I thought.
24 chakra points remaining
jumping at 45 m/s.
278 apis cerana bee's presently
20 deadly stinger bees