[Noctis fights with a reckless ferocity that's rare for him. He's typically wild to some degree in a normal fight, but it's tempered by years of training and countless battles where he danced his way around death enough times to know better. Now he warps around the beast's head in short bursts, left and right and back again, trying to keep it occupied while Pyra takes apart its legs. It snaps wildly at him with broken teeth, throat gurgling, though no melting spray comes out just yet. Must be a cooldown on that one; it needs time to re-gather more acid in its throat, or something.
He'll take advantage of that; he's warping too much, brushing up against Statis and needing to recharge, so better to do that now and save his magic for when that acid's ready. One last dodge and he lands on its vertebrae, digging his blade in and dragging it down the neck to its back. That same black ichor spills over the bones, staining it and the vines beneath. His smaller sword isn't big enough to tear through the neck, something that had been a challenge even with Somnus' help, and the way it's thrashing around makes the slower, sluggish Mystic too dangerous to use yet.
He casts a quick glance over in Pyra's direction, and she seems to be holding her own well, so he switches Ultima out for his shield and swings back, slamming the edge down with all the force he can muster on its lower back, trying to snap the bones of its hip. It shrieks and hunches over, shaking about and trying to buck him off, and he has to release his weapon back to the armory to hold on.]
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He'll take advantage of that; he's warping too much, brushing up against Statis and needing to recharge, so better to do that now and save his magic for when that acid's ready. One last dodge and he lands on its vertebrae, digging his blade in and dragging it down the neck to its back. That same black ichor spills over the bones, staining it and the vines beneath. His smaller sword isn't big enough to tear through the neck, something that had been a challenge even with Somnus' help, and the way it's thrashing around makes the slower, sluggish Mystic too dangerous to use yet.
He casts a quick glance over in Pyra's direction, and she seems to be holding her own well, so he switches Ultima out for his shield and swings back, slamming the edge down with all the force he can muster on its lower back, trying to snap the bones of its hip. It shrieks and hunches over, shaking about and trying to buck him off, and he has to release his weapon back to the armory to hold on.]