*Interloper yawns.*

*Another yawn*

Oh, you sound really tired, like you haven't slept in a long time.

So... From what I know, there are vacancies for a night watchman at a metal plant. Does it suit you or should I look for more vacancies?

*Mr. Zer0 can hear Interloper drinking something from a cup, before setting the cup down.*

Have a nice tea or what are you drinking there?

So, let me put you in this position until I find something better, okay?

*Audible sound of Interloper fainting due to exhaustion. And waking up immediately after.*

I'm a little worried about your health... Are you okay? Is there anything I can do to help you?

Well... You can start today if you want.

*He takes another sip.*

Maybe I'll give you a potion of regeneration so that you can add it to your drinks? This will at least help you somehow

Well, I have taken this potion many times and it has often saved me from death. The only thing is that it causes diarrhea.

Good question, by the way, I did not specify this. Good thing it is written on the back of the bottle

*you hear the sound of glass breaking against glass on glass (Zer0 does not carefully take the bottle out of the freezer). After a while, you hear the sound of disgust and vomiting*

*Zer0 didn't answer for a while, but soon got up*

The composition is natural... That's all the information you need to know

To be fair, this potion is very effective and can even help with the loss of limbs or organs... *coughing*

Yes, let me now print out the contract, in which everything will be written, I will give it to you through the portal. You'll read it, sign and in 40 minutes I'll open the portal again to pick it up.

*Interloper takes out a pen.*

*a portal opens on your right, through which Zer0 gives you a contract*

*Interloper takes it, and starts to read.*

* From the main: the work shift starts at 23:00 and ends at 7:00. Salary: 30 gold coins per hour*

*Interloper kept reading about the details of the job. Where, what, equipments, the fine print, everything.*

*You will be given a security uniform, flashlight, walkie-talkie, baton and a key to the checkpoint. Your task: sit at the checkpoint, and watch through the cameras so that no one goes inside at this time. At the checkpoint there is heating, TV, coffee car, toilet, sink, air conditioning, table, chair and locker for personal belongings*

*He checks to see if there's any fine print.*

*Fine print: There is one camera at the checkpoint in the main room*

*Interloper signs the paper before giving back through the portal.*

Thank you very much

*he gives you a map of the area where he marked the factory with a circle*

Good luck at work. The salary will come twice a month, on the 13th and 28th, by the way.

*Interloper checks the time, it's 22:30.*

*You look at the map and see that the factory is located on the side of a mountain, somewhere 2 kilometers 400 meters from your house*

*3 and a half minutes later...*

*Interloper finally reached the factory, panting and tired.*

*He approched the factory.*

*The factory was large enough, but not too large and it was not fully painted in some places. Around there was a fence of a high 2 mert with an entrance only through checkpoint*

*the checkpoint was large enough and there was a bright light inside*

(hi, i go to bed right now, sorry. I wish you all the best!)

*Zer0 falls to the ground and does not have time to defend himself from the arrow*

(just for clarification, a "firebolt" is a small magical projectile made of flame)

*The firebolt impacts him, probably not doing a lot of damage though as it's fairly small*

*as Zer0 fell backwards, the firebolt flew over his forehead, only hitting his skin*

*Gobbo runs at Zer0, now getting into melee range and throwing a punch at him*

*Zer0 creates a portal and you end up punching yourself in the face*

*at this time, Zer0 gets up and starts walking towards you*

(ooc: By the way, for the sake of balance, he can use portals only 3 times per battle)

*Gobbo punching himself seems to temporarily confuse him, giving you an opportunity to strike*

*Zer0 throws an elbow stab enhanced by Holy Damage to Gobbo's chest*

*The elbow stab hits Gobbo pretty hard, but behind you appears a second Gobbo, throwing a kick at your head*

*the hit hits Zer0, but he manages to do a forward somersault to cushion the attack a bit*

*he lands on his feet and turns in the your direction *

*The first Gobbo (the one you hit) disappears, and the other one seems to be in a defensive position, waiting for you to attack*

*Zer0 creates 15 plasma balls and throws them at you. Upon touching any surface, they explode *

*Gobbo murmurs an incantation and 15 portals appear, one in front of every ball. 11 of them just lead to the void of space, but four lead back to you, so that one plasma ball is coming at you from the front, one from the back, and two from left and right*

*since Zer0 controls these balls, he stops them and moves them away from him*

*he draws his blade*

*You go to draw your blade and realize it has been replaced by a very large carrot*

Looking for this?

*Gobbo is holding your sword*

Hey, give it back!

*Zer0 swings and throws this big carrot at you*

Alright alright, fine!

*Gobbo throws the sword to you and catches the carrot*

Thank you very much

*Zer0 strikes and a slash flies at you*

*Gobbo dodges and runs towards you, armed with the carrot, trying to close the distance*

*Zer0 continues to create slashes and also starts firing plasma balls at you*

*Gobbo simply disappears, then reappears directly behind you, stabbing towards you with the carrot*

*Zer0 does not have time to react and the blow hits him, knocking him back several meters*

Come on, you've got more than this, right!

*As he says this, Gobbo appears above you with a comically large mallet, striking down at you*

*Zer0 has a hard blocking your attack with his blade. But you see that you are overpowering him"

*Just as Gobbo is about to break through your defense, he disappears once more, and you are rapidly lifted about 20 meters into the sky*

*Zer0, while in the air, tries to see where Gobbo is*

*Gobbo is leaning against a nearby building, and makes a hand motion downwards, sending you falling towards the ground*

*Zer0 creates a portal before falling to the ground and appears on top of you. He hits Gobbo on the head *

*he has one portal left*

*Gobbo gets hit in the head pretty hard, so he tries to make some distance between him and Zer0. He speaks a short spell, and the ground beneath us moves on its own, positioning us about 10 meters away from each other again*

*Zer0 jumps up and seems to be preparing to attack*

Righteous punch!

* he hits the air approximately in your direction. The shockwave began to destroy everything in its path, not even thinking of being scolded. Buildings were destroyed to dust by such force. It seems to be one of those attacks that can destroy a city, and you also saw that he didn't buff it with holy damage*

Alright, now that's what I'm talking about!

*Gobbo doesnt make an attempt to dodge or block the attack, he apparently wants to take the full force of it himself*

*Zer0 himself flies back due to such a force of impact, but pushes off the wall with his feet and lands on the ground, after which he creates a barrier*

*He did this because when the shockwave reaches something she can't overcome, it will be reflected back and then again and again until her energy runs out. It resembles an echo, but instead of a sound wave, it is a shock wave*

*Gobbo spreads his arms and stands in front of the shockwave, which then absolutely obliterates him, he is destroyed like many buildings in the showaves way*

*Moments later Gobbo reforms, standing where he stood when he was hit by the shockwave, seemingly unharmed, but holding the large carrot from earlier*

Okay okay, that was a great attack, got anything more powerful?

*He says as he hurls the carrot towards you like a spear*

*The carrot breaks on the barrer, after which Zer0 removes it*

Powerful? Hmm.... What temperature can this room withstand?

@the-mighty-dalob

*From above*

Well the Room has an interior Shield made out of triple layered Battleship shielding. It can withstand the absolute coldness of space and considerable amounts of heat as well as it was made to absorb Close up solar flares and Plasma shot even just when in a single layer.

Additionally it can hold up against fire from ember. I let them play in the room sometimes so I'd say it's pretty temperature resistant

Then I'll do something here. Thank you for your answer

*Zer0 creates several barriers. After that, gigantic lightning begins to strike throughout the room, as well as the temperature and radiation level rises*

Manipulating the environment, huh... Not so flashy, but I can get behind it.

*Gobbo encases himself in a protective barrier that holds off the environmental effects, but would likely shatter under the force of a direct attack*

No, you didn't guess right!

* Soon, in the middle of the room, a tiny burning ball with a gigantic density is formed, and from which the same temperature and radiation emanated. This little ball grows fast enough*

You could say that I created a star right here

OH shit, that's impressive! Is it gonna do anything though?

*Gobbo appears in front of you and throws a dagger at your chest*

Unless it explodes, but i will create portal in cosmos in this moment.

*dagger hits Zer0 but does not touch vital organs, so he is still functional*

Well then, I suppose it's nice ambient lighting

*Gobbo jumps at Zer0, but you notice he's going to miss you if his trajectory remains the same*

*Zer0 creates a chocolate cake right in front of your face. Due to the temperature, the chocolate instantly boiled and began to evaporate, and the cake layers burned*

*Gobbo remains frozen in mid-air as the boiling cake passes through him, he is probably an illusion. You see the real Gobbo standing dangerously close to the star you created, seemingly observing, investigating it*

*the star slowly increases, but stops at one point*

Raigo!

*the star begins to turn white and its light becomes brighter and brighter*

Hey, I'm going to open a portal to space soon, be ready!

*He shouts over to you*

OH WHY WAIT? LET'S EXPERIENCE THIS GLORIOUS MOMENT TOGETHER!!

*Suddenly, you, the star and Gobbo are transported into space, with just the empty void around you, but you don't seem to have trouble breathing or dying because of the vacuum of space*

Hey... It's beautiful here... Well, I'm starting

*Zer0 moves the star away from itself and Gobbo, after which it begins to expand sharply at a speed close to light, and a moment later an explosion occurs. It was indescribably beautiful. More beautiful than any fireworks or any other show*

*some kind of space stone flew towards Zer0 at 2/3 of the speed of light, but he reacts and dodges by tilting his head*

Sick, I haven't seen one of those in a while!! Anyways, let's get back to the fighting

*Both of us reappear in the training room*

*Zer0 had spent a lot of energy on past tricks, but was ready to continue*

*he begins to think about how he can win*

*As you ponder your options, you notice two buildings beside you start to close in on you rather rapidly and threaten to crush you*

*Zer0 easily slices through these two buildings with his blade with little to no effort*

*The buildings crumble, and Gobbo dashes through the wreckage towards you once again, as he taunts you:*

Are you getting tired?

Yes.

*he kicks you, then takes a knife out of his chest, which you stuck in him and throws at you*

So how do you wanna end this? *He smirks* Think you can win this?

*He catches the dagger, and it disappears in his hand*

*Zer0 created a plasma ball in the dagger before throwing it, and now it exploded in your hands*

*Gobbo's entire arm holding the knife explodes, and seconds later reforms, although it cost quite a lot of mana*

*He then holds out his fist towards you and you feel there is power building inside it. You can also feel that you seem to be heating up, seemingly from the inside*

*Zer0 tries to use magic to lower the temperature his body and starts wait Gobbo atack*

*While you're focusing on cooling your body, a duplicate of Gobbo attacks you from behind, aiming to punch you on the back of your head*

*Zer0 anticipated this and dodged, then threw a copy of Gobbo at Gobbo himself*

*The Gobbo copy impacts the other Gobbo, and both of them disappear in a puff of smoke. A third Gobbo appears a couple meters away from you, hands raised*

Alright alright, you win! I admit, I couldn't defeat you without killing you, and that was a pretty sick performance you pulled off in that fight!

Huh? Hey, you're still full of energy, and I'm at the last percent of my strength. Why would you end the fight with such a moment, also giving the victory to me?

Because he would kill you otherwise, just like he said. Remember this is a Sparring match not a Duel to the Death.

Exactly! @mr--zer0, you are a formidable foe and that was a fantastic spar!!

I could endure... Okay, you know better

Thank you probably. But I had the feeling that I was a punching bag for the whole battle.

Well I tried to put some pressure on you, of course, but you landed a couple devastating hits on me too, I had to reset my body like three, four times!

Do you wanna go to the common room and discuss the spar with @the-mighty-dalob ?

Oh yes? Well, I tried not to use lethal techniques like "Kaishuken", which amplifies my punches by about 5 times, as it makes them directional, which of course makes them less destructive, but much stronger. Well, he used "raigo" 100% and did not use his strongest attack at all

Yes, let's go, but first I need to visit the medical compartment

Alright, I'll see you in the common room then!

*Gobbo makes his way there*

*You find me sitting there already, once again, tapping away on my Console*

Hello again, have you got any useful information out of that spar?

*Zer0 comes in about 8 minutes*

James, please serve 500 ml of apple jelly. Thank you in advance

*he sits down at the table*

Yes, it will be interesting for me to listen too.

Certainly sir. But i am not sure if we have a suitable substitute for "Apples" on site.

Well then... Again, Zer0 i know a lot about you and your Fighting techniques already but it was good to see them from an outside perspective for once. I did notice that you did not have the speed to react to some attacks so there is a definite area of improvement. You however Reacted Quickly to changing circumstances, i am pretty sure most people would have reacted a lot more confused or Stunned to suddenly wielding a giant Carrot. And to use the momentum of your Induced fall to your advantage by portalling yourself on top of your Foe is also a good reaction to that circumstance. One thing i am going to say however, please do not cause a Supernova in the Training room. Not unless i am near to deal with the heat at least. The Room can withstand a lot but that would be to much. Well in general don't cause any more supernovas if you can avoid it, even out in space as they are quite noticeable and no star around here is set to blow for a few hundred million years to come. Unwanted attention and so on you know? Also, finally i didn't need to tell you to get treatment afterwards for once, good.

For you Gobbo. It was quite... Informative seeing you fight. You have proven my assessment of you right. You have a lot more going on behind that head of yours then you lead on. And a way larger Power pool as well. Some of your Techniques are quite a bit above the level of an apprentice, above the level of a regular Wizard even.

For an evaluation of the Spar itself, you fight dynamically and fluidly. Seamlessly transitioning from one attack to the other and being on the aggressive side more then the defensive one. But, that also lead to you needing to keep a large amount of your Energy, or Mana, in reserve to deal with needing to repair yourself. If you instead focused more on evading and blocking then you could use that energy on the offensive too. Your Use of portals to divert attacks it also well thought out, having a multitude of Portals with varying exit points requires a good amount of very quick thinking and casting, not many Magicians can do that so dynamically, this proves my first point as well. Additionally you have a good Grasp on Illusions and how to seamlessly use them to your advantage, it was practically unnoticeable when you cast one and removed your proper self from the location. Furthermore you had a good use of telekinesis to use the environment as a weapon. We might need to have a chat about that as well, proper Telekinesis is one a field i have little to no knowledge in, maybe you can teach me something for once.

Thank you very much!

Yes, for me, Gobbo's movements were like teleportation. I react well to attacks and poorly to my opponent's movements. Okay, I won't do that. That's why I asked about the temperature, but it seems that I misunderstood the answer.

I just realized that I had received serious wounds, and therefore I went there, heh.

(good work! You very good rp player!)

There are definitely more training opportunities for both of you.

So, what now?

@goblin-wizard-in-the-making

Yes, it was definitely great to see what can be improved upon, for both of us!

Personally, I need to get back to a project of mine, so I'll be taking my leave, if you need me again, I assume you know where to find me?

@mr--zer0

Bye, see you later!

Good luck to you

I can find you yes, i have no idea where i found you but i can find you.

You need help to get back then i suppose?

@goblin-wizard-in-the-making

Oh yea if I dont have to get back myself that would be very helpful!

Think you can find your way from the Lair?

I actually have no idea where i picked you up i just honed in on you as a person...

Oh yea the lair is close enough, I can find my way once Im on wizard island island!! Thanks a lot!

*A portal opens, on the other side you see a very surprised looking skeleton with a shovel full of dragon refuse*

There you go!

Alright, I'm off then!

Bye bye!!!

Later, I'll find you.

What about you Zer0? Whats your next course of action?

@mr--zer0

Now I'll eat jelly, drink something hot and go to bed. Maybe I can at least sleep here.

Do you like jelly? Just Curious

You can sleep here, the room is yours for the time being and i would be very VERY surprised if anyone found you here lest get to you unimpeded.

And i don't know. I don't think i ever ate any. I usually go for the more hearty options as they give more to my body to bulk up with and keep energized.

I believe in you and in the protection system, so I don't worry. Thank you very much!

I love jelly, it is delicious, healthy and easy to prepare.

hmmm, we might have different definitions of Jelly, i know it as a wobbly cube of sugary dessert

Same thing, but it doesn't have to be dessert. I sometimes make meat bouillon jelly. It turns out delicious, as for me.

The only harm to jelly, if you have no contraindications, is sugar and all sorts of dyes with preservatives. But since I do it myself, all this is not there.

Jelle is rich in calogen, which has a positive effect on the skin, bones, sutavas, organs, and so on. And also it is very low in calories.

That kind of sounds like a Nutrition cube to me. Basically just a block of things to get you going

Yes, it sounds similar.

Thank you for your answer, by the way. Yes...

*Zer0 falls silent and seems to be thinking about something*

You alright?

Oh? Yes, yes, I just thought about something nonsense ...

What training do I need now?

Thoughts rarely are nonsense. Sometimes they can tell you things about your subconscious and your motivations that you don't think aren't there.

On the Topic of Training, speed. You should try to become faster, you already have a good grasp on how to react to your opponents but sometimes you aren't fast enough to do so.

Furthermore, as this ties in to the speed aspect, illusions seemingly get you time and time again, you should try to become more observant, well observant is the wrong word, but you need to keep an eye out for these things, maybe see if you can learn to glace into the magical to spot an illusion when it is created.

Yes, it may be so.

I fully agree with this. Do you have special workouts for this?

I mean, the Training hall can just throw things at you from different angles have them vanish and hit you from somewhere else at the last minute. Things like that. That's the easiest way for the speed and reaction side of things.

For illusions it would need someone that is skilled in Illusions and that wouldn't be me to be honest.

Sounds very good, and I'm sure you'll find someone who's good at illusions! I am very grateful for your help

But we'll continue training tomorrow, and for now I'll go to bed. I wish you all the best and a good evening!

*Zer0 falls to the ground and does not have time to defend himself from the arrow*

(just for clarification, a "firebolt" is a small magical projectile made of flame)

*The firebolt impacts him, probably not doing a lot of damage though as it's fairly small*

*as Zer0 fell backwards, the firebolt flew over his forehead, only hitting his skin*

*Gobbo runs at Zer0, now getting into melee range and throwing a punch at him*

*Zer0 creates a portal and you end up punching yourself in the face*

*at this time, Zer0 gets up and starts walking towards you*

(ooc: By the way, for the sake of balance, he can use portals only 3 times per battle)

*Gobbo punching himself seems to temporarily confuse him, giving you an opportunity to strike*

*Zer0 throws an elbow stab enhanced by Holy Damage to Gobbo's chest*

*The elbow stab hits Gobbo pretty hard, but behind you appears a second Gobbo, throwing a kick at your head*

*the hit hits Zer0, but he manages to do a forward somersault to cushion the attack a bit*

*he lands on his feet and turns in the your direction *

*The first Gobbo (the one you hit) disappears, and the other one seems to be in a defensive position, waiting for you to attack*

*Zer0 creates 15 plasma balls and throws them at you. Upon touching any surface, they explode *

*Gobbo murmurs an incantation and 15 portals appear, one in front of every ball. 11 of them just lead to the void of space, but four lead back to you, so that one plasma ball is coming at you from the front, one from the back, and two from left and right*

*since Zer0 controls these balls, he stops them and moves them away from him*

*he draws his blade*

*You go to draw your blade and realize it has been replaced by a very large carrot*

Looking for this?

*Gobbo is holding your sword*

Hey, give it back!

*Zer0 swings and throws this big carrot at you*

Alright alright, fine!

*Gobbo throws the sword to you and catches the carrot*

Thank you very much

*Zer0 strikes and a slash flies at you*

*Gobbo dodges and runs towards you, armed with the carrot, trying to close the distance*

*Zer0 continues to create slashes and also starts firing plasma balls at you*

*Gobbo simply disappears, then reappears directly behind you, stabbing towards you with the carrot*

*Zer0 does not have time to react and the blow hits him, knocking him back several meters*

Come on, you've got more than this, right!

*As he says this, Gobbo appears above you with a comically large mallet, striking down at you*

*Zer0 has a hard blocking your attack with his blade. But you see that you are overpowering him"

*Just as Gobbo is about to break through your defense, he disappears once more, and you are rapidly lifted about 20 meters into the sky*

*Zer0, while in the air, tries to see where Gobbo is*

*Gobbo is leaning against a nearby building, and makes a hand motion downwards, sending you falling towards the ground*

*Zer0 creates a portal before falling to the ground and appears on top of you. He hits Gobbo on the head *

*he has one portal left*

*Gobbo gets hit in the head pretty hard, so he tries to make some distance between him and Zer0. He speaks a short spell, and the ground beneath us moves on its own, positioning us about 10 meters away from each other again*

*Zer0 jumps up and seems to be preparing to attack*

Righteous punch!

* he hits the air approximately in your direction. The shockwave began to destroy everything in its path, not even thinking of being scolded. Buildings were destroyed to dust by such force. It seems to be one of those attacks that can destroy a city, and you also saw that he didn't buff it with holy damage*

Alright, now that's what I'm talking about!

*Gobbo doesnt make an attempt to dodge or block the attack, he apparently wants to take the full force of it himself*

*Zer0 himself flies back due to such a force of impact, but pushes off the wall with his feet and lands on the ground, after which he creates a barrier*

*He did this because when the shockwave reaches something she can't overcome, it will be reflected back and then again and again until her energy runs out. It resembles an echo, but instead of a sound wave, it is a shock wave*

*Gobbo spreads his arms and stands in front of the shockwave, which then absolutely obliterates him, he is destroyed like many buildings in the showaves way*

*Moments later Gobbo reforms, standing where he stood when he was hit by the shockwave, seemingly unharmed, but holding the large carrot from earlier*

Okay okay, that was a great attack, got anything more powerful?

*He says as he hurls the carrot towards you like a spear*

*The carrot breaks on the barrer, after which Zer0 removes it*

Powerful? Hmm.... What temperature can this room withstand?

@the-mighty-dalob

*From above*

Well the Room has an interior Shield made out of triple layered Battleship shielding. It can withstand the absolute coldness of space and considerable amounts of heat as well as it was made to absorb Close up solar flares and Plasma shot even just when in a single layer.

Additionally it can hold up against fire from ember. I let them play in the room sometimes so I'd say it's pretty temperature resistant

Then I'll do something here. Thank you for your answer

*Zer0 creates several barriers. After that, gigantic lightning begins to strike throughout the room, as well as the temperature and radiation level rises*

Manipulating the environment, huh... Not so flashy, but I can get behind it.

*Gobbo encases himself in a protective barrier that holds off the environmental effects, but would likely shatter under the force of a direct attack*

No, you didn't guess right!

* Soon, in the middle of the room, a tiny burning ball with a gigantic density is formed, and from which the same temperature and radiation emanated. This little ball grows fast enough*

You could say that I created a star right here

OH shit, that's impressive! Is it gonna do anything though?

*Gobbo appears in front of you and throws a dagger at your chest*

Unless it explodes, but i will create portal in cosmos in this moment.

*dagger hits Zer0 but does not touch vital organs, so he is still functional*

Well then, I suppose it's nice ambient lighting

*Gobbo jumps at Zer0, but you notice he's going to miss you if his trajectory remains the same*

*Zer0 creates a chocolate cake right in front of your face. Due to the temperature, the chocolate instantly boiled and began to evaporate, and the cake layers burned*

*Gobbo remains frozen in mid-air as the boiling cake passes through him, he is probably an illusion. You see the real Gobbo standing dangerously close to the star you created, seemingly observing, investigating it*

*the star slowly increases, but stops at one point*

Raigo!

*the star begins to turn white and its light becomes brighter and brighter*

Hey, I'm going to open a portal to space soon, be ready!

*He shouts over to you*

OH WHY WAIT? LET'S EXPERIENCE THIS GLORIOUS MOMENT TOGETHER!!

*Suddenly, you, the star and Gobbo are transported into space, with just the empty void around you, but you don't seem to have trouble breathing or dying because of the vacuum of space*

Hey... It's beautiful here... Well, I'm starting

*Zer0 moves the star away from itself and Gobbo, after which it begins to expand sharply at a speed close to light, and a moment later an explosion occurs. It was indescribably beautiful. More beautiful than any fireworks or any other show*

*some kind of space stone flew towards Zer0 at 2/3 of the speed of light, but he reacts and dodges by tilting his head*

Sick, I haven't seen one of those in a while!! Anyways, let's get back to the fighting

*Both of us reappear in the training room*

*Zer0 had spent a lot of energy on past tricks, but was ready to continue*

*he begins to think about how he can win*

*As you ponder your options, you notice two buildings beside you start to close in on you rather rapidly and threaten to crush you*

*Zer0 easily slices through these two buildings with his blade with little to no effort*

*The buildings crumble, and Gobbo dashes through the wreckage towards you once again, as he taunts you:*

Are you getting tired?

Yes.

*he kicks you, then takes a knife out of his chest, which you stuck in him and throws at you*

So how do you wanna end this? *He smirks* Think you can win this?

*He catches the dagger, and it disappears in his hand*

*Zer0 created a plasma ball in the dagger before throwing it, and now it exploded in your hands*

*Gobbo's entire arm holding the knife explodes, and seconds later reforms, although it cost quite a lot of mana*

*He then holds out his fist towards you and you feel there is power building inside it. You can also feel that you seem to be heating up, seemingly from the inside*

*Zer0 tries to use magic to lower the temperature his body and starts wait Gobbo atack*

*While you're focusing on cooling your body, a duplicate of Gobbo attacks you from behind, aiming to punch you on the back of your head*

*Zer0 anticipated this and dodged, then threw a copy of Gobbo at Gobbo himself*

*The Gobbo copy impacts the other Gobbo, and both of them disappear in a puff of smoke. A third Gobbo appears a couple meters away from you, hands raised*

Alright alright, you win! I admit, I couldn't defeat you without killing you, and that was a pretty sick performance you pulled off in that fight!

Huh? Hey, you're still full of energy, and I'm at the last percent of my strength. Why would you end the fight with such a moment, also giving the victory to me?

Because he would kill you otherwise, just like he said. Remember this is a Sparring match not a Duel to the Death.

Exactly! @mr--zer0, you are a formidable foe and that was a fantastic spar!!

I could endure... Okay, you know better

Thank you probably. But I had the feeling that I was a punching bag for the whole battle.

Well I tried to put some pressure on you, of course, but you landed a couple devastating hits on me too, I had to reset my body like three, four times!

Do you wanna go to the common room and discuss the spar with @the-mighty-dalob ?

Oh yes? Well, I tried not to use lethal techniques like "Kaishuken", which amplifies my punches by about 5 times, as it makes them directional, which of course makes them less destructive, but much stronger. Well, he used "raigo" 100% and did not use his strongest attack at all

Yes, let's go, but first I need to visit the medical compartment

Alright, I'll see you in the common room then!

*Gobbo makes his way there*

*You find me sitting there already, once again, tapping away on my Console*

Hello again, have you got any useful information out of that spar?

*Zer0 comes in about 8 minutes*

James, please serve 500 ml of apple jelly. Thank you in advance

*he sits down at the table*

Yes, it will be interesting for me to listen too.

Certainly sir. But i am not sure if we have a suitable substitute for "Apples" on site.

Well then... Again, Zer0 i know a lot about you and your Fighting techniques already but it was good to see them from an outside perspective for once. I did notice that you did not have the speed to react to some attacks so there is a definite area of improvement. You however Reacted Quickly to changing circumstances, i am pretty sure most people would have reacted a lot more confused or Stunned to suddenly wielding a giant Carrot. And to use the momentum of your Induced fall to your advantage by portalling yourself on top of your Foe is also a good reaction to that circumstance. One thing i am going to say however, please do not cause a Supernova in the Training room. Not unless i am near to deal with the heat at least. The Room can withstand a lot but that would be to much. Well in general don't cause any more supernovas if you can avoid it, even out in space as they are quite noticeable and no star around here is set to blow for a few hundred million years to come. Unwanted attention and so on you know? Also, finally i didn't need to tell you to get treatment afterwards for once, good.

For you Gobbo. It was quite... Informative seeing you fight. You have proven my assessment of you right. You have a lot more going on behind that head of yours then you lead on. And a way larger Power pool as well. Some of your Techniques are quite a bit above the level of an apprentice, above the level of a regular Wizard even.

For an evaluation of the Spar itself, you fight dynamically and fluidly. Seamlessly transitioning from one attack to the other and being on the aggressive side more then the defensive one. But, that also lead to you needing to keep a large amount of your Energy, or Mana, in reserve to deal with needing to repair yourself. If you instead focused more on evading and blocking then you could use that energy on the offensive too. Your Use of portals to divert attacks it also well thought out, having a multitude of Portals with varying exit points requires a good amount of very quick thinking and casting, not many Magicians can do that so dynamically, this proves my first point as well. Additionally you have a good Grasp on Illusions and how to seamlessly use them to your advantage, it was practically unnoticeable when you cast one and removed your proper self from the location. Furthermore you had a good use of telekinesis to use the environment as a weapon. We might need to have a chat about that as well, proper Telekinesis is one a field i have little to no knowledge in, maybe you can teach me something for once.

Thank you very much!

Yes, for me, Gobbo's movements were like teleportation. I react well to attacks and poorly to my opponent's movements. Okay, I won't do that. That's why I asked about the temperature, but it seems that I misunderstood the answer.

I just realized that I had received serious wounds, and therefore I went there, heh.

(good work! You very good rp player!)

There are definitely more training opportunities for both of you.

So, what now?

@goblin-wizard-in-the-making