<strong>Jeong Soo-Jin</strong><br/><strong>Location</strong>: Inside the school<br/><strong>Tag</strong>: Neela<br/>Fight roll: 50 (http://elliquiy.com/forums/dicebot.php?r=49864)<br/><hr/><br/>Maybe she was going crazy - or even crazier, rather - but Jin could have sworn that the monster in front of her bowed as if they were having some sort of honorable duel or something. She didn't care, though, she was only thinking about slaying it and saving herself.<br/><br/>The sword materialized in her free hand just as the next attack came, and exactly according to plan she blocked with the shield before lashing out with a counterattack. Jin swung with more conviction than skill but still found her mark, slashing her foe across the arm and making it screech dreadfully as it attacked again, this time bringing both clawed hands down on Jin from above.<br/><br/>Already she felt empowered by a new knowledge and strength. Everything that she'd seen in movies, read in books or done through an avatar in a video game, she suddenly felt like she could do for real. Fluidly, her big shield melted into a smaller round buckler which she swung upwards, parrying the monster's deadly claws before using her momentum to also swing her sword up across its belly, slicing right through the shiny carapace. A dark green, almost black ooze starting bubbling out of the wound, but Jin didn't stop, not taking her victory for granted just yet.<br/><br/>Swinging her shield arm, she managed to toss the buckler like a disc right into the creature's face just like one of her old MMORPG characters had been able to do, sending it reeling back and dazing it for a moment. It was long enough for Jin to go in for the kill, her sword extending into a two-handed version even as she charged and swung it in a large horizontal arc with far more force than her small body should have been capable of.<br/><br/>With a barely audible crunch, the nightmarish thing fell into two halves on the floor before each piece started glowing a dark blue. They looked like they were being swallowed up by some sort of crystallized blue flames, which had to be the most beautiful and mesmerizing thing that Jin had ever seen, and then they...jumped at her. Or into her. She didn't really know what had occurred or how, but she now possessed an intrinsic knowledge about the thing that she'd just vanquished, and she also knew that she'd be able to make it appear and control it from now on. That could probably be useful if more impossible things that wanted to kill her appeared.<br/><br/>Just now she realized that she was panting heavily and that it was extremely difficult to breathe through the heavy fog. The only thing that Jin could really make out was a bright light somewhere off in the distance, so she hurried in that direction, calling out for the others. "Hello? Are any of you there? Neela...?"